In Dollars for Terror, Swiss journalist Richard Labévière lays out a convincing case that the United States, through its proxy, Saudi Arabia, guided the evolution of Islam, cultivating radical strains of Sunni Islamism to combat the modernizing and stabilizing trends of Arab nationalism which threaten US domination of the Middle East.
Written in 2000, Dollars for Terror predates 9/11 and calls into question the premise that Islamic terrorism against the United States is a spontaneous expression of Muslims “hating us for our freedoms.” Labévière instead sets out to demonstrate that radical, political Islam is a calculated tactic used to facilitate Saudi hegemony and American mastery over the oil-rich region stretching from North Africa through the Middle East and across Central Asia.
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Dollars for Terror: A Review
Eyewitness Overhears Rebel General Discussing Chemical Attack in Damascus
There’s plenty of reason to think the rebels used chemical weapons in Syria on August 21, not Assad. I’ll be talking about this on the air Sunday. Here is an interview with a free lance journalist who was held captive by the Syrian rebels and overheard them discussing the chemical attack. This witness says he … Read more
FOX News Accidentally Shows Evidence of Syrian REBELS Using Chemical Weapons
While talking about Assad’s chemical weapons yesterday, Fox News mistakenly showed footage I hadn’t seen on mainstream media before–it was footage released by the Syrian government that showed its soldiers finding a stash of chemical weapons and antidotes in a rebel hideout. The Fox footage below shows that the antidotes were made by a Qatari-German company, and of course the Qataris are supplying the rebels not the government. You can see the dirty containers on the chemicals, the cellophane covers tied on – definitely not government issue!
Be sure to watch the Fox News video, but also the video below that one, which shows the complete footage released by the Syrian government. This is just one piece of the wealth of compelling evidence that the rebels have used chemical weapons – so why aren’t we turning our Tomahawk Missiles on them?
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Check out the original video released by the Syrian government…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGz_LCGg2TI
Hillary Mann Leverett Eats MSNBC's Cruise Missile Liberals for Lunch
I just bought Leverett’s book Going To Tehran – can’t wait to read it! I’m also reading and hope to review soon: Dollars for Terror A Modern History of the Islamic World The Looming Tower