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Zawahiri, came from the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Yes, these guys are raising money all across America and Brotherhood—the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the result of a shipping it to Syria to go down to Palestine, the Palestinian Palestinian Islamic Jihad. areas, and hire suicide bombers to kill Jews. They sent me the There are many flavours and branches, but they are all videotapes. There was Professor Al-Arian on stage and one of Muslim Brotherhoods. There is one in Israel. The organisa- his friends gets up and says, "Now, who will give me $500 to tion you know as Hamas is actually a secret chapter of the kill a Jew? There are people standing by in Jerusalem who Muslim Brotherhood. When Israel assassinated Sheik will go out in the street and stab a Jew with a knife, but we [Ahmed] Yassin a month ago [March 22, 2004], the Muslim need $500." And he said, "All of this money will go to the Brotherhood published his obituary in a Cairo newspaper in Islamic Committee for Palestine." And that is the front group Arabic and revealed that he was actually the secret leader of in the United States for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza. So [had all my friends in the FBI and CIA send in these So the Muslim Brotherhood became this poison that spread files. throughout the Middle East, and on 9/11 it began to spread I said, "Why haven't you prosecuted this guy? You've around the world. known about him since 1989." I know this sounds like some sort of a "We'd love to. We've tried to prosecute sick fantasy, but go to your computer and him but we were told we couldn't touch him type in the words "Banna" and the word because he gets all of his money from the "Nazi", and you will see all of the articles Saudis, and we are all under orders not to come up. Those are all the pieces of do anything to embarrass the Saudi information that the CIA was trying to hide Government." from its employees. It did not want them I said, "I don't mind embarrassing them." to know the awful past. In 1984, when I ooas You know what I did? I donated money was exposing European Nazis on the CIA The organisation to the charity that was the terrorist fund, ayroll, at the same time they were trying because under Florida law that gave me the to hide from Congress the fact that they you know as right to sue the charity to find out where my ad Arab Nazis back on the payroll to fight Hamas Is actually money was going. It was hilarious. the Russians—a stupid and corrupt asecret chapter In early March 2002, I drafted a long rogram. lawsuit exposing Professor Sami Al- of the Muslim Brotherhood. So, when Bob Baer studied his files, e was just stunned. A whole generation...the current CIA people now nothing about this. And believe me, the current generation CIA are good and decent Americans and I like them a lot. They're trying to do a good job, but part of their problem is their files have been shredded. All of these secrets have to come out. Arian, naming all the crimes he'd com- mitted, all the bombings in Israel, the fundraising in America linked with ter- rorism. I mentioned how his money got to him from the Saudis and how the Saudis had convinced our govern- ment not to prosecute him for political reasons. Because of my high-level security clearances, everything I write is sort of classified material and has to be sent back to the government before publica- tion, for censorship. So I sent my long Saudi charities exposed So, of course, my clients in the intelligence community said, "Well, what are you doing?" lawsuit complaint to the CIA, and they loved it. They gave me an example. They said, "Here's how the Saudis They said, "Oh, great. We don't like the Saudis, either. Go finance these groups. The Saudis have established a group of sue them." charities on a street in Virginia. It's 555 Grove Street, Three days later, two FBI agents showed up at my door, Herndon, Virginia." saying, "You know, there are only 21 people in the US So I said, "Okay, the Saudis are terrorists, so what?" government that knew some of this information, and now "These charities fund Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, you're twenty-two. How did you find out?" Hizballah, Al-Qa'ida. The Saudis are getting tax deductions I said, "I'm sorry, I can't tell you: attorney-client privilege." for terrorism. They have set up front groups so all the terrorist That's why my clients pay me $1.00 each. groups in the US and the front groups get the Saudi money as a The day before I went to file the lawsuit, I got a frantic charitable donation." phone call from the United States Department of Justice. They I said, "You're kidding me." said, "John, please don't file the lawsuit tomorrow. We really "Nope." are going to raid these Saudi charities. We're going to close And they told me that right near where I lived in Tampa, them down. Just give us more time." Florida, was one of the leading terrorists in the world. There "Oh yeah, you're going to raid them. That's what you told were these two professors at the University of South Florida. me in January, and again in February, and now it's March. One had just left and was now in Syria, and he was the world You want more time? I'll give you until 4.00 o'clock tomor- head of Islamic Jihad. His number two, the head of Islamic row. I'm filing my complaint at 10.00 am, so that at 4.00 pm Jihad in the Western hemisphere, was Dr Sami Al-Arian, who I'm going to release the address of the Saudi charities." is still employed as a professor at the University of South Back to tomorrow. I filed my lawsuit at 10.00 o'clock, and Florida. told the press I was going to hold something back for a little "You've got to be kidding. This can't be true." bit. The organisation you know as Hamas is actually een a ean nee a secret chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood. NEXUS +19 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com