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THE IMPERIAL ANATOMY OF AL-QAEDA ANATOMY THE IMPERIAL QAEDA In response to the CIA's need for more discretion, the Safari Club intelligence network was formed and went on to finance and organise an international conglomerate of terrorist groups including the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. This is part one of a three-part series, "The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda: The CIA's Drug-Running Terrorists and the ‘Arc of Crisis", which examines the geopolitical historical origins and nature of what we today know as Al-Qaeda {Al-Qa'ida], which is in fact an Anglo-American intelligence network of terrorist assets used to advance American and NATO imperial objectives in various regions around the world. The Safari Club n 1976, a coalition of intelligence agencies was formed, called the Safari Club. This marked a discreet and highly covert coordination among various intelligence agencies which would last for decades. It was formed at a time when the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was embroiled in domestic scrutiny over the Watergate scandal and a congressional investigation into its covert activities, forcing the CIA to become even more covert. In 2002, the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Turki bin Faisal, gave a speech in which he stated that in response to the CIA's need for more discretion, "a group of countries got together in the hope of fighting Communism and established what was called the Safari Club. The Safari Club included France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Iran {under the Shah]".' However, "(t]he Safari Club needed a network of banks to finance its intelligence operations. With the official blessing of George H. W. Bush as the head o he CIA", Saudi intelligence chief Kamal Adham "transformed a smal Pakistani merchant bank, the Bank of Credit and Commerce Internationa BCCI), into a world-wide money-laundering machine, buying banks around he world to create the biggest clandestine money network in history".’ As CIA Director, George H. W. Bush "cemented strong relations with the intelligence services of both Saudi Arabia and the shah of Iran. He worked closely with Kamal Adham, the head of Saudi intelligence, brother-in-law o ing Faisal and an early BCCI insider’. Adham had previously acted as a “channel between [Henry] Kissinger and [Egyptian President] Anwar Sadat” in 1972. In 1976, Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia formed the Safari Club "to conduct through their own intelligence agencies operations that were now difficult for the CIA". It was largely organised by the head of French intelligence, Alexandre de Marenches.* The "Arc of Crisis" and the Iranian Revolution When Jimmy Carter became US President in 1977, he appointed over two dozen members of the Trilateral Commission (TC) to his administration. The TC is an international think-tank, formed in 1973 by Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller. In 1978, Brzezinski gave a speech in which he stated: "An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with © Global Research, Montreal, Canada, 5 September 2010 Web page: http://tinyurl.com/39vpfqy NEXUS ¢ II by Andrew Gavin Marshall OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com