Curtains On Al Qaeda and Western Imperialism

by Winsip Custer CWP News Service

     Former Minnesota Governor, Jesse Ventura, isn’t sure that Osama Bin Laden was killed by his former fraternity of Navy Seals.  On a recent CNN news cast from Minneapolis he said if he cannot believe what his government tells him about Pat Tillman, or Jessica Lynch, or about the reasons why we invaded Iraq, why would he believe that Osama Bin Laden was killed?"  Ventura wants to see the pictures....photos of the dead Bin Laden that the CIA has managed to keep classified while groups work to unveil them.

      Ventura’s remarks raised an even bigger question now that a wave of democratization exposing U.S. and European abuses in the Middle East no longer flys under the radar.  If Egypt, Syria and Libya were secret renditioning sites for U.S. covert operations where torture was routinely conducted, Ventura and others are wondering what other Iran-Contra-style operations are carried out in our name as we at home naively wave a flag of support and praise?

        Expert on American and Middle Eastern religio-political-symbiosis is Donald Sterling Curtains of the Hammond-Aegeh Institute in Washington D.C. .  Curtains asks “What if like the disillusioned sons of America’s leading industrialists, William Ayers or Joseph Lasater Maher, Osama Bin Laden was the disillusioned son of Saudi Arabia’s oppressive Royal family’s leading builder?  The Saud/Faisal family’s brutal, dictatorial rule is well known. It is  under girded by their unimaginable oil wealth which keeps them in power.  They wield this power as the protectors of  Islam’s holy shrines... Mecca and Medina.  A concordat exists between them and the faithful.  They keep the shrines open to pilgrims.  The pilgrims give unconditional support.  The normal quid pro quo of political-religious arrangements not unlike the power elites of the U.S. and Britain who give their people support, but manipulate their religious leaders as tools in the quiver of their arsenal of influence and political, religious and societal agenda-shaping?  Did young Osama Bin Laden  emerge from Saudi Arabia like Ayers or Maher emerged here in the tumultuous 60's...fed up with the status quo?” asked Curtains.

         I asked Curtains if this wouldn’t assume that while the CIA was using Al Qaeda to do its dirty work in the Middle East, as many CIA operatives now charge that it also assumes that Bin Laden jettisoned the manipulation of the American/Euro/Faud/Faisal compact and the Al Qaeda name with it?  What do you do with all those videos of him talking about Al Qaeda doing this and that and taking credit for it?”

         “I'll answer that,” said Curtains, “but on July 7, 2005 in London, England, we were given a very interesting clue to the possibility that the theism of Islam was taking on something much less than the whole of Western Christianity.   Islam may not see Jesus Christ as the world’s Messiah, but there are examples of Islam embracing him as ‘the Great Physician’, a prophet and healer.  They are confounded by those claiming to come in peace and healing, just as Francis of Assisi's mission of mercy and love was confounded by the brutality of the Christian crusaders. So we wave weapons and power.   How does that influence any human being anywhere?   You have to remember that the legalism of Judaism and Islam arose, as American Jewish comedian Lewis Black has joked, out of despiration to control our primordial animalistic instincts.  Christianity said that the fulfillment of the minutae of law was the greater law of love.  Christianity claims to be irrestible apart from the politicized variations attached to it or predestinated relieving them of inquisitions or anything other than the need to live graciously.  Christians live side by side with Muslins and Hindus in India, Malaysia and in other regions, but not in Saudi Arabia unless in compounds permited by the ruling elite.  So who controls that policy there and if Osama was a truly conservative Muslim, why not seek asylum near Islam's holy shrines with the protection of its dutiful followers?  The Royal family whose policies are supported by the Western power elites are there, that's why, and as Whitman or Ayers and Maher were brought down in America, so would the Saudi Royals reel in Osama.  Would democracy in Saudi Arabia change that?  What else would democracy in Saudi Arabia change?”  asked Curtains who believes that Saudi Arabia and its minions, Bahrain, the UAE and a few other nations are the last bastions of tyranny to stand in the region. 

     Curtains wonders whether Osama Bin Laden was a misguided dark knight of the brewing democratic movement working as Al Qaeda within Al Qaeda….those who were tired of being used and abused in the conduct of covert operations that ultimately prolonged their oppression...a type of Saudi/Yemeni abolitionist John Brown.  Even John Brown had to be careful not to initially alienate his support base in the the North just as Bin Laden depended on his support from the Sunnis in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.  A spoiled rich kid like Ayers or Maher who identified as a plaintiff's lawyer with the oppressed against the powerful and who had the money and connections to act.  Bin Laden wouldn’t likely have changed the name of Al Qaeda to “Christ Killers” or “Infidel Assassins” or “Great Satan Hunters” .    Al Qaeda, after all, was working in Afghanistan against the former godless Soviet Union…or so Curtains believes and as Charlie Wilson's War has asserted.  “We are hearing everywhere that the democratic movement spreading like wildfire across the region is not so that the oppression of the Saudi Royals can be mimicked, but reformed,” he asserts.

     “The word Qaida comes from the root verb q-'-d  which means to sit down, remain, abide, stay.  Some believe that  al-Qaida's   There is some justification for saying that, but there is also justification to see the words associated with the English word for ‘foundation’.  So that in the same way that the American Anti-War movement of the 60’s would tune in to songs like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s We’ve Got To Get Ourselves Back To the Garden, there is a yearning for a return to something lost….to some foundational belief or value.  Granted, the Western and Middle-Eastern versions of this longing look different in many ways, but that yearning is, in my opinion, and as the recent rebellions across the region appear to support, universal.  People everywhere want to be free and when freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose, even suicide bombing is not beyond comprehension.  Just ask Americans Charles Whitman or Jared Lee Loughner or countless others who kill to make some deeply rooted pathological point…well, forget that, they’re mostly dead except for Loughner, you can’t ask them, which would have been a good reason to keep Bin Laden and even Saddam Hussein alive to tell us what they know.  Dead men can’t talk only living ones do.  The July 7^th bombers may not have organized in such an extensive and destructive way, nor were their deeds so powerfully etched in our psyche as was Bin Laden’s after 911.  The July 7th, 2005 body count numbers were only a fraction of 911, but I’m telling you that the principles may be the same,” said Mr. Curtains.

     So what happened in London? I asked Curtains.

     “Something that may have at its center the same concerns within the monotheistic Muslim community as there would have been in the monotheistic Christian West," he said.  "Remember that Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses was given asylum in Britain.   On July 7, 2005 men claiming to be Al Qaeda detonated bombs in London.  There were four, but two were of special interest and were at the center of the linearly arrayed explosive charges.   One explosion was at Tavistock Square.  Another was at Russell Square.  When you look into the importance of these two locations they are as important to England as the explosions at the World Trade Center was to 911.  The Russell family’s American power and influence had congealed in New York from its various whaling, shipping and financing centers along the Eastern Seaboard….Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia but most importantly, New York,” said Curtains.

Tavistock Square and Russell Square at the center of the July 7, 2005 array of detonations.

     Before the American Revolution the Russell family beginning with William Russell , the 5^th Earl of Bedford, would solidify the family's connection with Tavistock.  Today the heir apparent of the Russell family in England is Henry Russell, Earl of Tavistock.  

     In America, the Russell family created with Alphonzo Taft the leading covert assemblage of American power elites at Yale in 1833…Skull & Bones.  In as much as this was well after the Revolution and given their deep-seated alliances with the British Empire, this was not a movement to further the American Republic and its democratic experiment as had been the Revolution itself.  It was a usurping of the American Republic as it matured, reverting to its Trans-Atlantic ties and to power assets in Europe with the vision of the American experiment as cover for its continuing ambitions.

     “The Tavistock Group is now a multi-national corporation headquartered in London.  Before World War II it began importing to London the leading European mind-science researchers, especially from Austria and Germany, which included Sigmund Freud.  At stake was understanding what motivates people and how to exert power over the individual and the masses.  Given the Tavistock connection to the Royal family and the Royal family’s connections to Austria and Germany, they had a significant investment in learning how to control their British subjects world-wide.   With Lord Hamilton’s connection to British Free Masonry and the Knights Templar's, I believe that what had begun as a type of labor union of European skilled masons and tradesmen, evolved over time into a merger of these skilled artisans, resistant as they were to the tyranny of the European Royals, but willing to concentrate their own form of power and influence which Adolf Hitler recognized as a potential Aryan ally,” Curtains explained.

       “Freud was ushered out of Germany with the help of Princess Marie Bonaparte the Great Grand-Niece of Napoleon the Great.  Living in England, she provided Freud with a home in the Tavistock district of London where his work in mind science continued.  A mind science culture evolved around the work of Freud and others and Tavistock’s mission served the British Empire and the long emerging American-Anglo Alliance….an alliance that survived the American Revolution,” Curtains asserted.

Sigmund Freud and Princess Marie Bonaparte in 1938

        “One has to look no further for this Trans-Atlantic union than to Charles Joseph Bonaparte of Baltimore, the most influential member of this historically powerful French family in the U.S. .  Charles’ mother was the daughter of one of the founders of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad with its ties to Alexander Brown, progenitor of the powerful Brown family of Britain and the U.S. with it intermingling with the Russell family also of Britain and the U.S..   Another of the Al Qaeda July 7, 2005 explosions in London was at Russell Square.   Charles Bonaparte’s father, Jerome, had opted out of marriage with a European royal, and selected Charles’ wealthy American mother instead,” said Curtains.  The B & O Railroad's thrust was always West toward the opium field of Turkey, Pakistan, India and Afhganistan Curtains asserts.

      Charles Joseph Bonaparte would be appointed by Theodore Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy, which has long been co-joined with Yale’s CIA fraternity as the powerful intelligence gathering branch of the U.S.A..   This connection dates to the co-dependence of the New England Puritan Protestant families’ investments in whaling, shipping and the China Trade with its lucrative opium supplies, diversifying over time into other businesses and centralizing on Wall Street and Madison Avenue in New York.  Being great pragmatists, they valued both the French spirit of independence and the British imperialism that insured their trade routes and continuing good fortunes.  With the French and their ongoing ties to Roman Catholicism, the New England Puritans would maintain a nervous relationship with Catholicism that would prove advantageous in the push for Manifest Destiny into French Catholic and Spanish Catholic regions of the American Southwest.   The conversion of CIA Director, Allen Dulles’ cousin, Avery Dulles to the Roman Catholic Church in the 1940’s underscores this uniquely Western cross-Christian-tradition and alliance. Indeed, when John Henry Brown of Texas saw the dire prognosis for the Texas Revolution without the importation of English speaking Catholic priests to the region to help avoid a split between Anglo Catholics and Protestants  with desertion to Hispanic Catholics,  he appealed to the Roman Catholics of Charles Joseph Bonaparte and Alexander Brown’s home city of Baltimore for help.

     “Charles Bonaparte was appointed the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the FBI.  It was a convoluted Gordian knot of international alliances with its potential for many unintended consequences that led to a push by the 11th Congress in 1810 to seek passage of an amendment to the Constitution stripping American citizenship  from any citizen claiming a title of nobility from a foreign nation as Charles Joseph Bonapart’s father, Jerome, had nearly done,” said Curtains.

     “So Freud moved from Austria to London in 1938 with the help of Princess Bonaparte.   Given the House of Saxe-Gotha's connections to Germany, the Saxe-Gotha clan renamed itself as the 'House of Windsor' to soften the British distaste for imported German royals. George V whose son abdicated the English throne to marry American divorcee and Nazi spy, Wallace Simpson, had a problem with the British people, as would the French with the Germans for invading them during World War I. Winston Churchill. the great defender of Western Democracy with FDR, didn't trust the German royals and after Rudolf Hess attempted to forge a union between Hitler and the Duke of Hamilton and the Marquis of Tavistock with his Messerschmidt flight to England on May 10, 1943  the intrigue continued,” said Curtains. 

     Churchill pressed FDR to remove Joseph P. Kennedy, father of JFK, as Ambassador to Britain for being a German appeaser.  The Tavistock Group did the most to incorporate Freud’s mind control methods in their work through the MI-5 and then MI-6 British intelligence communities.  The Tavistock Group was supported by the Saxe-Gothas, but also by the French  Rothschilds,” said Curtains.

“ Its’ been said that ‘The only Rothschild to die in a Nazi concentration camp was the estranged ex-wife of Baron Phillipe Rothschild of the Chateau' Mouton Rothschild of France. There has been much speculation about that sad loss to a family that was able with its money to handle many liberating bribes. After the war the Americans, through their CIA, imported Germany's leading mind scientist including their top psychiatrists and mind control experts whose work continued in the United States through the CIA's MK-Ultra program where it merged with Tavistock’s leading tacticians.  The MK-Ultra mind control program was fully documented through the findings of the Church Commission.  At the center of that investigation was concern that covert operations were gone amuck and not serving the American vision of  liberty, freedom and republican and democratic values, ’” said Curtains.

     “Rudolf Hess’ flight to England was for the purpose of connecting Germany with Lord Hamilton the Marquis of Tavistock.  The British intelligence officer in charge of Hess’ interrogation was future 007 novelist, Ian Fleming, who attempted to bring Alistair Crowley, an occultist with ties to Berlin prior to World War II, and friend, Christopher Isherwood, whose novel Cabaret was made into a popular movie about Germany's sexual permissiveness in the 1930's.  The movie does not explore Crowley's satanic connections," said Curtains.  Curtains quoted from Jonathan Fryer’s Isherwood: A Biography (Doubleday & Co., Inc., NY 1978 pg. 107)

“… Christopher met Berthold in the Cosy Corner, an unpretentious, almost homely place, often overheated by a big stove, and lacking in distinctive decoration, except for a few photographs of boxers and cyclists pinned up over the bar. Christopher later took several of his friends and acquaintances there, including the practitioner of the occult, Aleister Crowley, who declared on entering: “I haven’t done anything like this since I was in Port Said.” Crowley then walked up to a very tough-looking youth in an open shirt, standing by the bar, and scratched the boy’s chest deeply with his nails. Only a sizable gift of money succeeded in restraining the boy from beating him up on the spot.”

     ‘Winston Churchill refused Ian Fleming’s request to allow Hess to meet with Crowley, but when one thinks about the impact of Fleming’s 007 imagery in influencing a rejuvenation of American/British ties in the face of the Cold War threat, it is not difficult to see a sinister agenda aligned with the continuation of a world-wide empire, albeit the West's.  Later, Isherwood would have close ties in America with Alduous Huxley, author of Brave New World, whose work both in America and Britain was associated with the Tavistock Group…another way of saying the British Saxe-Gotha-German-Royal-family with its ties to the Austrian/German heritage and Nazi Germany's fascination with the occult which the CIA's Allen Dulles employed in America with his connections to the British intelligence community and the importation of Nazi Germany's scientists to America through Operation Paperclip.  That operation was accomplished with the help of the Roman Catholic Church  in Italy and with Allen Dulles' cousin Avery Dulles, the American Roman Catholic Cardinal.  The connections came full circle,” Curtains continued.

Ian Fleming, Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Hess, Salman Rushdie

     Freud’s mind sciences had yielded the power of traumatic experiences to split the human psyche and to vivisect the personality into mailable compartmentalizations.  From these experiments in mind manipulation came the novel The Manchurian Candidate which spun the origins and interest in mind sciences to the outer reaches of the globe and not closer to home in America and Britain.  Indeed, Richard Condon, the book's author, was proven to have plagiarized portions of the book from the work of one of Tavistock's most notable authors Robert Graves.   In America, Alduous Huxley would become a part of the MK-Ultra experimentation conducted primarily in San Francisco at the U.S. Navy base, The Presidio. The work there incorporated the attention of occultist/satanist and U.S. Army Col. Michael Aquino.

     “In the post war years, Winston Churchhill’s daughter-in-law, Pamela Churchill, would divorce the Prime Minister’s son to marry American business tycoon and Brown Brothers Harriman mainstay, Averill Harriman.  In England, occultist/satanist Alistair Crowley’s home would be sold to Led Zeppelin guitarist, Jimmy Page, as an increasing number of Tavistock critics argued that Tavistock influenced everything from the drug culture to pop music as tools of their mind science experiments and mission of world-wide domination,” said Curtains.

     “Christopher Isherwood would befriend American author Hunter S. Thompson whose interests,  writings and death lead many to believe accusations  that he had participated in the ritual murder of a boy from Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska.  This may indeed be accurate given Thompson’s bizarre interview with American television talk show host, David Letterman.  The event which allegedly included a child from the Franklin Cover-up case in Omaha took place at the Bohemian Grove north of San Francisco.  The Bohemian Grove has long been associated with the East Coast power elites of the Yale Skull & Bones fraternity with its backing of the CIA’s MK-Ultra project,” Curtains believes.

     The loci of the July 7, 2005 suicide bombings in London at Russell Square and Tavistock Square, were not in Curtains’ estimation, an accident.  “As with the World Trade Center, terrorist acts of this magnitude are not planned without meticulous attention to the importance of the place of detonation so as to provide an unmistakable message,” said Curtains.