AMERICA BETRAYED - Brain & Mind

America BetrayedIn 1994, he was again dispatched from the U.S. to help Osamabin Laden: “In 1994, after an attempt to assassinate Bin Laden, Iwent to the Sudan to train Bin Laden’s bodyguards.” After completingthis mission, he reported to FBI agents (36).Ali Mohamed also reported to the CIA. According to hisneighbors, in California, where he lived during the 1990s, everyone“took for granted that Mr. Mohamed was helping the CentralIntelligence Agency in its proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.At the time, the anti-Soviet jihad was a worldwide cause amongMuslims. Everyone in the community knew he was working as aliaison between the CIA and the Afghan cause, and everyone wassympathetic” (37).Indeed, for five years he was moving back and forth betweenthe U.S. and Afghanistan, making contact with Osama bin Ladenand collecting and providing information as well as engaging infinancial transactions on bin Laden’s behalf—and he reported allthis activity to U.S. intelligence agents.In 1995, he was given another important mission. He madearrangements and helped Osama’s “lieutenant” al-Zawahiri to travelfrom Afghanistan to the United States (36,37).When his connections to al-Qaeda were inadvertently andaccidentally revealed, Ali Mohamed was arrested. However, he wasthen “held” with his permission for almost a year without charge,waved his right to a trial, pled guilty to five counts, but was neversentenced.THE BIN LADEN BROTHERS IN THE USAIn 1995, two of Osama’s brothers, had also established themselvesin the United States. In 1996, one of them, Abdullah binLaden, had come to the attention of the FBI. FBI field agents werecurious about the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) - asuspected terrorist organization which Abdullah bin Laden directed.India, for example, was claiming that WAMY was funding a terroristorganization that had conducted bombings in Kashmir. ThePhilippine’s military accused WAMY of funding Muslim insurgencyand terrorism. As detailed in the British newspaper, TheGuardian (38) WAMY “was named as a discreet channel for publicand private Saudi donations to hardline Islamic organizations.One of the recipients of its largesse has been the militant Students398