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A brief history of the Muslim Brotherhood We kept the Muslim Brotherhood on our payroll. Here's how the story began. In the 1920s there was a young But the Egyptians became nervous. Nasser ordered all of the Egyptian named [Hassan] Al-Banna. And Al-Banna formed Muslim Brotherhood out of Egypt or be imprisoned and exe- this nationalist group called the Muslim Brotherhood. Al- cuted. So, during the 1950s, the CIA evacuated the Nazis of Banna was a devout admirer of Adolf Hitler and wrote to him the Muslim Brotherhood to Saudi Arabia. Now, when they frequently. So persistent was he in his admiration of the new arrived in Saudi Arabia, some of the leading lights of the Nazi Party that in the 1930s Al-Banna and the Muslim Muslim Brotherhood, like [Dr Abdullah] Azzam, became the Brotherhood became a secret arm of Nazi Intelligence. teachers in the madrassas, the religious schools. And there The Arab Nazis had much in common with the new Nazi they combined the doctrines of Nazism with this weird Islamic doctrines: they hated Jews; they hated democracy; and they cult, Wahhabism. hated the Western culture. It became the official policy of the Everyone thinks that Islam is this fanatical religion, but it is Third Reich to secretly develop the Muslim Brotherhood as the not. They think that Islam—the Saudi version of Islam—is "fifth parliament", an army inside Egypt. typical, but it's not. The Wahhabi cult has been condemned as When war broke out, the Muslim Brotherhood promised in a heresy more than 60 times by the Muslim nations. But when writing that they would rise up and help General Rommel and the Saudis got wealthy, they bought a lot of silence. This is a make sure that no English or American soldier was left alive in very harsh cult. Wahhabism was only practised by the Taliban Cairo or Alexandria. and in Saudi Arabia—that's how The Muslim Brotherhood began extreme it is. It really has nothing to expand in scope and influence . 4 to do with Islam. Islam is a very during World War I. They even Everyone thinks that Islam Is peaceful and tolerant religion. It hada Palestinian section headed by this fanatical religion, but it is always had good relationships with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, one . the Jews for the first thousand years of the great bigots of all time. not. The Wahhabi cult has of its existence. Here, too, was a man...the Grand been condemned asa heresy ; For the Saudis, there was a ruler Mufti of Jerusalem was the Muslim . in charge of Saudi Arabia, and they Brotherhood representative for more than 60 times by the were [providing] the new home of Palestine. These were undoubtedly i i the Muslim Brotherhood. Fascism Arab Nazis. The Grand Mufti, for Muslim nations. It really has and extremism were mingled in example, went to Germany during nothing to do with Islam. these schools [the madrassas]. And the war and helped recruit an inter- national SS division of Arab Nazis. attention: Azzam's student was They based it in Croatia and called named Osama bin Laden. Osama it the Handzar Muslim Division, but it was to become the core bin Laden was taught by the Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood there was a young student who paid of Hitler's new army of Arab fascists that would conquer the who had emigrated to Saudi Arabia. Arabian Peninsula and, from there, on to Africa—grand dreams. The CIA and Al-Qa’ida At the end of World War II, the Muslim Brotherhood was In 1979, the CIA decided to take the Arab Nazis out of cold wanted for war crimes. Their German Intelligence handlers storage. The Russians had invaded Afghanistan, so we told the were captured in Cairo. The whole net was rolled up by the Saudis that we would fund them if they would bring all of the British Secret Service. Arab Nazis together and ship them off to Afghanistan to fight Then a horrible thing happened. Instead of prosecuting the the Russians. We had to rename them. We couldn't call them Nazis—the Muslim Brotherhood—the British Government the Muslim Brotherhood because that was too sensitive a hired them. They brought all the fugitive Nazi war criminals name. Its Nazi past was too known. So we called them of Arab and Muslim descent into Egypt, and for three years Maktab al-Khadamat al-Mujahidin, the MAK. trained them on a special mission. The British Secret Service And the CIA lied to Congress and said they didn't know who wanted to use the fascists of the Muslim Brotherhood to strike was on the payroll in Afghanistan, except the Saudis. But it down the infant state of Israel in 1948. Only a few people in was not true. A small section of the CIA knew perfectly well the Mossad know this, but many of the members of the Arab that we had once again hired the Arab Nazis and that we were armies and terrorist groups that tried to strangle the infant using them to fight our secret wars. State of Israel were the Arab Nazis of the Muslim Azzam and his assistant, Osama bin Laden, rose to some Brotherhood. prominence from 1979 to 1989, and they won the war. They Britain was not alone. The French Intelligence Service drove the Russians out of Afghanistan. Our CIA said, "We cooperated by releasing the Grand Mufti and smuggling him to won—let's go home!", and we left this army of Arab fascists in Egypt, so all of the Arab Nazis came together. So, from 1945 the field of Afghanistan. to 1948, the British Secret Service protected every Arab Nazi it The Saudis didn't want [them] to come back. The Saudis could, but failed to quash the State of Israel. started paying bribes to Osama bin Laden and his followers to What the British did, then, was they sold the Arab Nazis to stay out of Saudi Arabia. Now the MAK was split in half. the predecessor of what became the CIA. It may sound stupid, Azzam was mysteriously assassinated, apparently by Osama it may sound evil, but it did happen. The idea was that we bin Laden himself. The radical group—the most radical of the were going to use the Arab Nazis in the Middle East as a coun- merge of the Arab fascists and religious extremists—Osama terweight to the Arab communists. Just as the Soviet Union called Al-Qa'ida. But to this day, there are branches of the was funding Arab communists, we would fund the Arab Nazis Muslim Brotherhood all through Al-Qa'ida. to fight against them. And lots of secret classes took place. Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, Ayman Al- Everyone thinks that Islam is this fanatical religion, but it is Not. The Wahhabi cult has ; not. more than 60 times by the ° Muslim nations. It really has nothing to do with Islam. The CIA and Al-Qa’ida In 1979, the CIA decided to take the Arab Nazis out of cold storage. The Russians had invaded Afghanistan, so we told the Saudis that we would fund them if they would bring all of the Arab Nazis together and ship them off to Afghanistan to fight the Russians. We had to rename them. We couldn't call them the Muslim Brotherhood because that was too sensitive a name. Its Nazi past was too known. So we called them Maktab al-Khadamat al-Mujahidin, the MAK. And the CIA lied to Congress and said they didn't know who was on the payroll in Afghanistan, except the Saudis. But it was not true. A small section of the CIA knew perfectly well that we had once again hired the Arab Nazis and that we were using them to fight our secret wars. Azzam and his assistant, Osama bin Laden, rose to some prominence from 1979 to 1989, and they won the war. They drove the Russians out of Afghanistan. Our CIA said, "We won—let's go home!", and we left this army of Arab fascists in the field of Afghanistan. The Saudis didn't want [them] to come back. The Saudis started paying bribes to Osama bin Laden and his followers to stay out of Saudi Arabia. Now the MAK was split in half. Azzam was mysteriously assassinated, apparently by Osama bin Laden himself. The radical group—the most radical of the merge of the Arab fascists and religious extremists—Osama called Al-Qa'ida. But to this day, there are branches of the Muslim Brotherhood all through Al-Qa'ida. Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, Ayman Al- 18 = NEXUS been condemned as a heresy www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2005