Power Elite (PE) agent
Lord Herbert
Samuel was one of the first to refer to the establishment of a “new
world order” (House of Lords, May 16 and August 7, 1918). As a member of the
Milner Group that controlled
British foreign affairs from the beginning of the 20th century until
WWII, Samuel in 1921 appointed Hajj Amin
al-Husseini as
Mufti and head political administrator of Arab Palestine. Lord Alfred
Milner, who was in charge of executing PE member Cecil Rhodes’ secret
“scheme to take the government of the whole world,” on June 27, 1923 in the
House of Lords said regarding Palestine that there “must always remain not
an Arab country or a Jewish country, but… an international country in which
all the world has a special interest—I think some Mandatory Power will
always be required.”
While al-Husseini was in
Palestine, Hassan
al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt in 1928, and it
has been from this organization that radical Islamic groups such as Hamas,
Islamic Jihad, and al Qaeda have come (Mark Hosenball and Michael
Isikoff of Newsweek have reported connections between al Qaeda and
MB members Mamoun Darkazanli and Youssef Nada). Former CIA agent Robert Baer
in Sleeping With the Devil explained how the U.S. “made common
cause with the [Muslim] Brothers” and used them “to do our dirty work in
Yemen, Afghanistan and plenty of other places.”
In the 1930s, the MB supported
Adolph Hitler (distributing his Mein Kampf), and by 1936 with only
800 members began to oppose British rule in Egypt. By 1938, the MB’s
membership had grown to 200,000, and by the late 1940s to at least a
half million.
In 1933, when Adolph Hitler came
to power in Germany, Young Egypt (Green Shirts) was also founded in October
of that year by Ahmed Hussein who had been greatly influenced by al-Husseini.
Young Egypt supported Hitler and the Nazis, and one of its early members was
Anwar Sadat who helped the Nazis during WWII. In a September 18, 1953 letter
to the Egyptian news daily Al Mussauar, he expressed his admiration
for Hitler.
During WWII, President Roosevelt
was no real friend of the Jews. In Secretary of State Edward Stettinius’
papers, he wrote that during FDR’s meeting with Stalin at Yalta (February
4-11, 1945), Stalin asked FDR if he intended to make any concessions to
King Saud of Saudi Arabia. And then Stettinius wrote:
“The President replied that
there was only one concession he thought he might offer, and that was
to give him the 6 million Jews in the United States.”
The outrageousness of this
remark by FDR is perhaps rivaled only by the hypocrisy of his “Day of
Infamy” speech regarding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,
1941, because two weeks earlier (Nov. 25) he had talked with Secretary of
War Henry Stimson about how they “should maneuver them [Japan] into the
position of firing the first shot”! This quote comes from the diary of
Stimson, who was a Council on
Foreign Relations member as well as the
Skull & Bones member
who initiated George H.W. Bush into the same Yale University secret
society.
After WWII, Gamal Abdel Nasser
(a leader of Young Egypt) led the July 1952 coup against the monarchy in
Egypt, becoming president in 1956. At first, the CIA indirectly supported
Nasser. In The Game of Nations, CIA agent (in Egypt) Miles Copeland
revealed the agency subcontracted more than one hundred Nazi specialists in
security and interrogation techniques to help Nasser. However, as Nasser
grew stronger, CIA director
Allen Dulles saw him
as a threat who could ally Arabs and Muslims far beyond Egyptian national
boundaries.
Copeland said Dulles told him,
“If that Colonel [Nasser] of yours pushes us too far, we will
break him in half.”
The MB had originally supported
Nasser, and the 1952 revolt, but they became disenchanted with him when it
became apparent he would not establish an Islamic state. They were blamed
for an assassination attempt on him in 1954, and according to Copeland,
interrogations of MB members after the attempt revealed they were merely a
“guild” that fulfilled the goals of western interests:
“Nor was that all. Sound
beatings of the Muslim Brotherhood organizers who had been arrested
revealed that the organization had been thoroughly penetrated, at the
top, by the British, American, French and Soviet intelligence services,
any one of which could either make active use of it or blow it up,
whichever best suited its purposes.”
On the book jacket for
Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
(2005) by Robert Dreyfuss, one reads:
“Among the hidden stories
of U.S. collusion with radical Islam that Dreyfuss reveals here are
President Eisenhower’s 1953 Oval Office meeting with a leader of the
Muslim Brotherhood, and the United States’ later alliance with that
group and their Saudi patrons against Egypt’s President Nasser. Dreyfuss
meticulously documents the CIA’s funding of the Iranian ayatollahs
in the coup d’etat that restored Iran’s shah to power, the
United States’ support for Saudi Arabia’s efforts to create a worldwide
Islamic bloc as an antidote to Arab nationalism, and the
longstanding ties between Islamic fundamentalists and the leading
banks of the West. '
"With clarity and rigor,
Dreyfuss also chronicles how the United States looked the other way when
Israel’s secret service supported the creation of the radical
Palestinian group Hamas…. Devil’s Game reveals a history of
double-dealing and cynical exploitation that continues to this day—as in
Iraq, where the United States is backing radical Islamists, allied with
Iran’s clerics, who have surfaced as the dominant force in the
post-Saddam Hussein Iraqi government.”
The Saudis were opposed to
Nasser and became the primary supporters of the MB on the Arabian Peninsula
and beyond. According to author Martin Lee in Razor Magazine
(2004), MB members were
“employed as teachers and
imams in Saudi mosques, schools and government agencies,
where they promoted the extremist doctrine of Sayyid Qutb, the
Brotherhood’s leading scribe and theorist… [who] provided a Koranic
justification for violence… [against] corrupting Western influences….
One of [Osama] bin Laden’s instructors in religious studies was… the
exiled brother of Sayyid Qutb, who taught classes on the imperatives and
nuances of Islamic jihad…. Muslim Brotherhood veterans have played a
prominent role during every phase of bin Laden’s terrorist odyssey.
© 2011 Dennis
Cuddy
Dennis Laurence Cuddy, historian and
political analyst, received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill (major in American History, minor in political science). Dr.
Cuddy has taught at the university level, has been a political and economic
risk analyst for an international consulting firm, and has been a Senior
Associate with the U.S. Department of Education.
Cuddy has also testified before members of
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or edited twenty books and booklets, and has written hundreds of articles
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