Visas for Al Qaeda Quotes

“dollars”
― J. Springmann, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider's View

“Langley recruited the Arab-Afghans so clandestinely that the terrorists didn’t know they had been recruited. They thought that they had found a battlefield on their own, or through the Internet or through Twitter or through television.”
― J. Springmann, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider's View

“The president and his staff have successfully hidden or kept unavailable his significant school and university records in a manner that is unprecedented in modern times. His and his family’s passport and similar records are unavailable…The vast bulk of Dunham-Obama family records from a variety of institutional archives are reported as lost or sealed… In general, however, declassified CIA records and other authoritative sources illustrate a long-standing pattern of Cold War recruitment of personnel from precisely the schools Obama and his family favored: the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School…Was [Elliott] Haynes… [correct] in describing Barack Obama’s future employer [Business International Corp.] as a CIA front? Probably.”
― J. Springmann, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider's View

“By 1953, Operation Mockingbird had a major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies, including the New York Times, Time and CBS. Wisner’s operations were funded by siphoning of funds intended for the Marshall Plan.”
― J. Springmann, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider's View

“While at INR, I attended an Agency briefing at Langley. Of the Agency’s four chief divisions (Intelligence, Operations, Science and Technology, Administration), the largest portion of its invisible budget goes to Operations (clandestine activity). The CIA refuses to obey one of the most basic tenets of the Constitution: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. Article I, Section 9. Its budget is never published and its funds are, for the most part, hidden in the accounts of allegedly legitimate agencies. This voodoo bookkeeping helps deceive the American people and their representatives in Congress about the Agency’s real activities. No numbers are ever available for its “front” companies’ resources.”
― J. Springmann, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider's View

“Confirmed by CNN, the al-Nusra terrorists have also been trained in the use of chemical weapons by special forces on contract to the Pentagon.”
― J. Springmann, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider's View

“Salvador.”
― J. Springmann, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider's View

“In a Global Research article,179 Chossudovsky recalls past CIA covert operations such as those in Central America, Haiti, and Afghanistan. Illicit dope funded the so-called “Freedom Fighters” Langley sponsored in those areas. As an example, Chossudovsky noted that Iran-Contra rebels and the Afghan “muj” got their funds through “dirty money” being transformed into “covert money” by way of shell companies and the lending structure. Weapons and drugs and money flowed across the borders of Albania with Kosovo and Macedonia. For hefty commissions, “respectable” European banks, far removed from the fighting, dry-cleaned the dirty dollars. The drugs went one way, and the greenbacks another, helping pay the fighters and their trainers. Writing in Global Research,180 Prof. Chossudovsky added to our knowledge of the sources of support for the Bosnian Muslim Army and the KLA—opium-based drug money direct from the Golden Crescent (Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran). Mercenaries financed by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait had been fighting in Bosnia.181 And the Bosnian pattern was replicated in Kosovo: Mujahadeen [sic] mercenaries from various Islamic countries are reported to be fighting alongside the KLA [Kosovo Liberation Army] in Kosovo. German, Turkish and Afghan instructors were reported to be training the KLA in guerilla and diversion tactics.182 Worse, The trade in narcotics and weapons was allowed to prosper despite the presence since 1993 of a large contingent of American troops at the Albanian-Macedonian border with a mandate to enforce the embargo. The West had turned a blind eye. The revenues from oil and narcotics were used to finance the purchase of arms (often in terms of direct barter): “Deliveries of oil to Macedonia (skirting the Greek embargo [in 1993–94] can be used to cover heroin, as do deliveries of kalachnikov [sic] rifles to Albanian ‘brothers’ in Kosovo.”
― J. Springmann, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider's View

“Throughout this section, we’ve seen how the US government, which increasingly resembles a terrorist organization, worked with extremists, including its then-asset Osama bin Laden, to destabilize and then destroy Serbia. According to John Schindler, professor of strategy at the US Naval War College, the American Department of State and President Clinton sought to bomb the Serbs to help the Muslims, “following the lead of progressive opinion on Bosnia.” Thousands of Arab-Afghans (Saudis, Yemenis, Algerians, Egyptians, Tunisians, Iraqis, Libyans, Jordanians, and others), with extensive combat experience gained fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan on behalf of the Americans, opened a new front in the Balkans. They had weapons procured with help from the US government, as well as money from the Saudis and Americans, including that passed through the al-Farooq mosque in Brooklyn. They had the assistance of the Maktab al-Khidamat (Services Office), set up to recruit, train, and aid fighters for the Afghan war. Richard Holbrooke, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, wanted a repeat of the Afghanistan model in the Balkans, using Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan to send arms to the combatants. Front companies, secret arms drops, and Clinton’s National Security Council all played a role. The result was the creation of a larger and more capable cadre of murderers, war criminals, and human rights violators. They enabled the United States to topple a socialist opponent of its policies in Yugoslavia, tap the natural resources of the region, and control the routes from and access to oil and natural gas in Central Asia. American propaganda that flooded the media about murderers, war criminals, and human rights violators was particularly effective in gaining support in the United States and abroad. Like actions against the USSR, the United States trained fighters, supplied arms, and provided financial aid to rebels seeking to overthrow their government. Washington and NATO applied economic sanctions to Yugoslavia, hastening the country’s collapse. The KLA, directly supported and politically empowered by NATO in 1998, had been listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organization supported in part by loans from Islamic individuals, among them allegedly Osama bin Laden.”
― J. Springmann, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider's View

“America’s financial support for ‘Al Qaeda’” also tied the Clinton Administration to backing al-Qaeda training in Bosnia and Kosovo. Rahm Emanuel, at the time assistant to the president for political affairs, was deeply involved in Clinton’s foreign policy machinations in Bosnia and Kosovo. Emanuel asserted that Clinton went to both regions to handle al-Qaeda instruction. (Certainly, Clinton supported al-Qaeda training in both areas.) Madsen added that there were believable Serbian reports that fugitive financier Marc Rich (later pardoned by Clinton) had been engaged in arms smuggling to Bosnian Muslims.178”
― J. Springmann, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider's View

“and the First Austrian Bank.177 “America’s financial support for ‘Al Qaeda’” also tied the Clinton Administration to backing al-Qaeda training in Bosnia and Kosovo. Rahm Emanuel, at the time assistant to the president for political affairs, was deeply involved in Clinton’s foreign policy machinations in Bosnia and Kosovo. Emanuel asserted that Clinton went to both regions to handle al-Qaeda instruction. (Certainly, Clinton supported al-Qaeda training in both areas.) Madsen added that there were believable Serbian reports that fugitive financier Marc Rich (later pardoned by Clinton) had been engaged in arms smuggling to Bosnian Muslims.178”
― J. Springmann, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider's View

“Not unlike present-day actions in Syria and Iraq, there was a massacre at a market in Sarajevo designed to show that the opponents of “regime change” were responsible. When an explosion killed sixty-eight civilians, wounding over one hundred, unlike today, the intelligence services of Canada, Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, and Holland independently concluded that the Muslims had blown those people up to put the Serbs in a “bad light.”159 Yet, years later, no one acknowledged that it had been US policy to allow al-Qaeda into the Balkans and to provide unofficial American diplomatic and military support. How Osama bin Laden’s boys got to the region “were questions no one in Washington seemed eager to ask or have answered.”160”
― J. Springmann, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider's View