September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

henchman of Osama bin Laden or a rival.” [A thug who will stop at nothing to create pure Islamic zone
in Middle East, Ewen MacAskill and Rory McCarthy, The Guardian, September 23, 2004]
By executing three American hostages – Nick Berg, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley
- on videotape (the killing of the British hostage, interestingly, was not video taped), he
gained as much international recognition as Osama Bin Laden, to whom he reportedly
later swore allegiance and loyalty. If funding is a prerequisite to the level of activity
supported by terrorists, one is forced to conclude that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is funded
from some unknown source. One is also forced to conclude that al-Zarqawi had access to
passport forgery capabilities, and that he had significant connections for the purchase of
weapons, explosives, chemicals and more. More simply, the newer, more public Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq represented a mature, sophisticated intelligence operation.
In retrospect, it seems as though the videotaped executions attributed to al-Zarqawi were
nothing more than an extremely vicious publicity ploy. The kidnappings never really
entailed any negotiations around conditions for release, as if the intent all along had been
to execute the hostages. A careful review of the facts which surround these executions
suggests that little is at is appears. An alternative interpretation of the events is
suggested:
1. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is most likely a Mossad counter-espionage front (Whether
this group is the original al-Zarqawi, or someone assuming his identity becomes
immaterial.) This front was probably established under the direction of General Meir
Dagan, current head of the Mossad who was responsible for setting up an Israeli
intelligence network in Iraq after the Iraqi-Kuwait War;
2. The executed hostages of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi were probably not innocent
bystanders and victims, but rather players in the world of espionage. To that point, a
number of other, less publicized beheadings were broadcast as the executions of CIA
agents. (In passing, one should note that no “Israeli” agents have been publicly
executed by this group, although it is reported that Dagan did set up a network in
Iraq.)
3. The hostages executed in Iraq were most likely executed by the Mossad for five
reasons: 1) to create publicity and credibility for their Muslim front in Iraq, 2) to
create American support for Israel against the Muslim threat to Israel’s existence, 3)
to clean-up loose ends in their own intelligence world, 4) to send a message to other
operatives and intelligence trespassers that the Middle East belongs to the Mossad,
and that Mossad deals with its enemies harshly, and 5) to foster divisiveness amongst
the Iraqi Muslim population, ultimately resulting in break-up of Iraq into smaller
countries – a Balkanization of Iraq.
4. There are, in all likelihood, two arms to the Mossad: one of which is patriotic and
public-service oriented, with another that is a more-or-less a rogue operation, heavily
infiltrated by Russian mafia, ex-KGB and ex-Israeli Special Forces. This latter side is
the ‘dark side’. This group has extensive connections to the international black
market in armaments originaring from former Soviet republics. It is linked to the
conservative right wing of Israeli politics: Sharon and the Likud Party. The different
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