The Darkened Hour

Today is the 25th anniversary of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks upon the United States to which the aftereffects of which still reverberate to this day and forever after. The United States government immediately put forth various narratives and speculative thoughts on the culprits in the ensuing hours and days. Soon, the loved ones of those tragically murdered that day began asking questions backed by an inquisitive public which put enormous pressure on the White House. Meanwhile in the shadows, the federal government and the intelligence services began working, around the clock, without garnering any attention as to what they were exactly working on. The legacy press however began constructing the vague implication that a Saudi extremist, Osama Bin Laden, was the mastermind of the attacks. All without using a shred of actual evidence besides past threats of wanting to attack the United States.
By 2002 however, two Congressional Inquiries began to look into the data from various agencies, institutions and individuals who had past and present information regarding the information missed, and even, ignored regarding the threat to the security of its interests here and abroad. Much information, however, was intentionally with held by the State Department and the intelligence services. Foreign intelligence was complete ignored altogether. By 2004, the final reports were released to the pubic. Hardly any of the more sensitive questions were even remarked in the hundreds of pages published. Hope was beginning to wain and over the years the numerous fringe conspiracies took over. And the mere notion of even having a rational conversation regarding 9/11 was ruined by the public's dismissal of having anything to do with rationalizing the irrational.
This episode today will be from the legacy networks, news bulletins, intelligence reports and data points i have took notes on over the last 12 years that i was going to make for a  book in the future. Instead, it will be used in this 24 hour podcast which will most likely be the most thoroughly comprehensive history of the 9/11 attacks ever published to date. Complete with dates from the points raised in each summary that will encompass various areas such as, US foreign policy, the intelligence services involvement in that history, the creation of Islamic extremism, the Israeli state and its interests in the Middle East and its intelligence divisions involvement in that history, the summaries of the 9/11 hijackers and their associates, the profiles of terrorists and the intelligence agencies investigations behind their operations and much more. 
This podcast is dedicated to the memories of all 2,996 victims and to their relatives and friends of those killed in the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks.Timeline:
Hour One: The US-Saudi Kingdom Alliance, Israeli Zionist Organizations Birth, The Six Day War, Egyptian Islamic Extremism & Pan Arabist Conflict, Hour Two: Soviet Union Communist Influence In Afghanistan, CIA Funding Afghan-Arabs In Pakistan, Creation Of Maktab al-Khidamat, KSM Takes Classes In US Universities, Osama Bin Laden OriginsHour Three: Philippines Intelligence Infiltrate Jihadist networks In SE Asia, Afghan Warlords Conflict Against Soviet Armies In Kabul, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam Killed, Western Governments Strategy Against The Future Of Islamic Terrorism, AIPAC Influence In US PoliticsHour Four: Bin Laden Moves To Sudan, Emad Salem Infiltrates Omar Abdel Rahman Cell, El Sayyid Nosair & Ramzi Yousef In NYC, 1993 SWTC Bombing Planning Begins, Israeli Spy In Bombing OperationsHour Five: Netanyahu Likud Party Rise, Manhunt For Ramzi Yousef, Landmarks Plot Sentencing, KSM Connections With Pakistan ISI & Government, Egyptian Islamic Jihad OperationsHour Six: Hijacking Of Air France 8969, US Aviation Threats By Islamic Jihadist Groups, Intelligence Operatives In Terrorism OrganizationsHour Seven: The Bojinka Plot, OKC Murrah Bombers & Ramzi Yousef, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa Connections To Bin Laden, Al Qaeda Informants, Ali Mohamed & Connections To Terrorism And IntelligenceHour Eight: Bin Laden Satellite Phones Tapped By US Intelligence, Alec Station Creation, Anti-Taliban Resistance In Kabul, Unocal-Taliban Oil Cooperation Agreement, Ramzi Yousef Sentencing Hour Nine: East Africa Al Qaeda Cell, Taliban- Bin Laden Troubles, Saudi Government-Taliban Proposals Over Bin Laden, Marmoun Darkanzali Associations With Al Qaeda, Eats Africa Embassy BombingsHour Ten: Mohamed Atta & The Hamburg Cell Origins, KSM Meetings With Bin Laden & Airline Plots, Wiretaps Of Mohamed Haydar Zammar, Marwan al-Shehhi & German Intelligence, The Origin Of Ziad JarrahHour Eleven: Boston Al Qaeda Cell, The Malaysian Summit Meeting, The NSA Wiretaps Al Qaeda House In Yemen, Khalid al-Mihdhar & Nawaf al-Hazmi Origins, Israeli Spy Ring Inside The NSA-CIA Withholds Intelligence In Malaysia Meeting, Omar al-BayoumiHour Twelve: Israeli Drug Operation Under Jacob Orgrud In The US, Ramzi bin al-Shibh Visa Applications Denied, 9/11 Hijackers Enter The US, Flight Schools Notice Suspicious Arabs, The Able Danger ProgramHour Thirteen: Khallad Information Problems, CIA Refusal To Share Intelligence With FBI On USS Ciole Bombing & Khallad Connections, Hijackers Training In US Flight Schools, The Millennium PlotHour Fourteen: The Phoenix Memo, The Saudi Visa Express Program, Shayna Stenger Approves Of Most 9/111 Hijackers Applications, 9/11 Hijackers Open Bank Accounts, CIA Test The FBI On al-Mihdhar-al-Hazmi, The USS Cole BombingHour Fifteen: FBI In Alec Station, Doug Miller Cable Cannot Be Shared With FBI On al-Mihdhar Us Visa, White House Officials Downplay Al Qaeda Threats, Sibel Edmonds Conspiracy Of Arab Complicity In 9/11, Robert Baer Warns CIA Of Saudi Funding Terrorist GroupsHour Sixteen: Israeli Nations In Stolen Ryder Trucks, Hanjour At Multiple Flight Schools, August 6th PDB, Zacarias Moussaoui FISA Warrant Problems, FBI Search For Khalid al-Mihdhar, JUSS Cole Investigation Problems, Abu Zubaidah US Terrorism Plot, KSM-Zubaidah ConnectionsHour Seventeen: Ziad Jarrah Cryptic Letter To Aysel Senguin, Ahmed Shah Massoud Assassinated By Al Qaeda, 9/11 Hijackers Stay In Motels, Ali Soufan Finally Sees The Truth Of Malaysia Summit Meeting 7 9/11 Hijackers 
 

When the United States government ended the longest war in the nation's history on August 20th 2021, the ruling Afghan government was now in the power and influence of the Taliban. Under the guidelines laid under the, Doha Accords, the Taliban pledged to prevent any militant group from staging attacks from Afghan territory against the US and its allies. However, the Afghan government was not a party to the deal and rejected its terms. Coinciding with the withdrawal of troops, the Taliban launched a broad offensive throughout the summer of 2021, successfully reestablishing their control over Afghanistan,
What made the withdrawal even more disastrous was that the US military left behind an estimated $7 billion in military equipment and weapons that had been supplied to the former Afghan National Security Forces but are now in the hands of the ruling Taliban. The United States military training of the Afghan Army, was deemed a complete and total failure due to internal incompetency and corruption (most likely from Taliban influence). Meanwhile over the course of 4 years, the Taliban have secretly allowed for terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda, Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and Jamaat Ansarullah to fully operate training camps and madrassas.
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, are the US government making the same mistakes previous to the 9/11 attacks once again? 

During the Ottoman and British reign in mandated Saudi lands and Israel, it was the United States government with direct sponsorship from European Jewry and the prospect of billions in oil dollars waiting in the Southern Arabian land is where poignant decisions were made. Back the influence of Theodore Hertzl and King Abdulaziz ibn Abdul Rahman Al Saud. Both of these men were to formally lead their countries with the sole backing of not Britain but of the United States. Within a short amount of time, turmoil and sectarian violence led the way to the future destabilization of the Middle East, and ramifications "unforeseen" that would terrorize the world over, most specifically the United States with the 9/11 attacks. This episode will detail the brief history of how that happened. 

Robbyn Swan has co-authored three bestselling books. The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 & Osama bin Laden, was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History and won the prestigious Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. Swan contributes to Vanity Fair and has written for The Daily Telegraph, Salon, The Observer, The Daily Beast, MSNBC, The Irish Times, The Sunday Independent [Ireland], the London Independent, Defense News, and The National Journal. 
She and her husband, Anthony Summers have both contributed a large number of articles for Florida Bulldog and Dan Christensen regarding the 9/11 attacks and the CIA-Saudi roles that played in the attacks themselves. Today we will talk about how she and Summers began their careers, the motivation on writing the book, her articles on Florida Bulldog and more.
Florida Bulldog Website:https://www.floridabulldog.org/The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden:https://www.amazon.com/Eleventh-Day-Full-Story-11/dp/0812978099

Thomas Drake is a former senior executive with the National Security Agency, a UnitedStates Air Force and Navy veteran, computer software expert, and whistleblower. During his career at the Air Force, Drake was an Airborne Voice Processing Specialist, with fluency in German, and went on ELINT (electronic intelligence) missions. While at NSA he became a senior-executive holding top security clearance and later he blew the whistle on multi-billion fraud, loss of intelligence, wrongdoing and a secret dragnet electronic surveillance and data mining program conducted on a vast scale by the NSA after 9/11. The name of the program was called Trailblazer. This program violated and subverted the Constitution as well as individual sovereignty and privacy, while weakening national security and fundamentally eroding civil liberties. 
In April 2010 he was charged by the US Department of Justice with a 10 felony count Espionage Act indictment facing 35 years in prison, until the government's case against him collapsed in June 2011. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to "plea bargain with the truth". He eventually pleaded to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth Telling while also awarded the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award and the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award.

In this episode i speak on the current US foreign policy framework and how the terrorist networks such as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Taliban in Afghanistan, are working with other Arab fundamentalist organizations to coordinate a response to the tragedies in Gaza, Yemen and North Africa to which the United States government plays a part. The reports from the United Nations Security Counsel as well as terrorism experts have all reported that the current threat matrix coming out of Afghanistan and the Arabian Peninsula is now far ahead and plans for a international terrorist operation is heading underway. The question is, how can we prepare accordingly. 

Robert Wright Jr. was a former FBI counter-terrorism agent out of the Chicago Field Office who once spearheaded an intricate investigation into suspected money laundering of terrorist groups by Islamic relief charities, code named "Vulgar Betrayal". By the time the investigation started, Wright noted how top brass at the Chicago and FBI headquarters in Washington DC looked to upend Wright's investigative team, by not providing him with the necessary financing or manpower to further their operation. 
Wright would later complain that "FBI management intentionally and repeatedly thwarted and obstructed my attempts to launch a more comprehensive investigation to identify and neutralize terrorists." Information about the Holy Land Foundation, BMI Inc, and their ties to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and Hamas were intentionally thwarted or mismanaged which led to the abrupt end of the "Vulgar Betrayal" investigation. 
Afterwards, Wright would author a detailed book, to which, the FBI prevented him from publishing with threats of criminal prosecution. By 2006 a court ruling would approve of the book's release.
The FBI's PRE-9/11 VULGAR BETRAYAL Volume 1: The TRUE STORY of the FBI's Negligent Closing of the FBI Terrorism Investigation That Could Have Prevented 9/11:
https://www.amazon.com/FBIs-PRE-9-VULGAR-BETRAYAL-Investigation/dp/B0F844KD1Q

In this episode i talk about the raw intelligence and data that the US intelligence services had which could had prevented the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, from being an operational success. But because of internal grievances, malfeasance and nefarious agendas, the intelligence was not shared with each other. Even when the attacks were taking place, the national defense failed us. I read from numerous media sources, and play congressional inquiry audio, to give you a brief look into the malfeasance, conspiracy and coverups involving various facets of the intelligence agencies, media and department of defense. 

Mark Rossini, served as an FBI representative to the CIA’s Counter-terrorist Center (CTC) at CIA Headquarters and he was one of the founding executives of the National Counter-terrorism Center (NCTC). He was then situated in the 1997 NYC joint terrorism task force where he served under the I-48 counter terrorism unit which investigated Hezbollah, which was the unit next to the legendary I-49 unit which was the team investigating Al Qaeda.
In todays episode, Mark returns to discuss the FBI's investigation of the 1998 East Africa Bombings of two US embassy's, the lack of any congressional inquiry in the aftermath, how Bin Laden and Al Qaeda judged the Clinton White House afterwards, and the Office of Military Commissions latest findings in the Canestraro document.Mark Rossini Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JzbBB8bH4747gQ808BPTG3yj5RhdWsy3/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

In this episode i cover the initial entry of a known radical cleric from the Egyptian fundamentalist group, Gamma Islamiyyah, Omar Abdel Rahman, into the United States. Also known as the "Blind Sheikh" due to the effects of blindness from an early age, Rahman had been linked to the assassination of Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, but later released under house arrest. However he escaped, and would later be given residency into the United States, while on a terrorist watchlist approved by the CIA.
This discussion involves the years of Rahman's initial entry into the country, the CIA's close relationship with Rahman and other radical Islamists including Ali Mohamed (a triple agent for CIA, FBI and Al Qaeda). By 1990 the collapse of the Soviet Union with the assistance of the agency and Pakistan ISI thru the program, "Operation Cyclone", The hatred for the West would come in the form of guerilla terrorism warfare which was seemingly born out of either malfeasance or a more nefarious conspiracy to later engage in an endless war on terrorism abroad.

In this episode, i read from the various files from the FBI's Newark office and their 9/11 investigation code named "PENTTBOM", which involved an investigation of the Israeli nationals who were operating out of moving companies such as Urban Moving Systems in the United States. The FBI reports detail an intricate intelligence operation that concentrated out of Weehawken, New Jersey and Hollywood, Florida. Incidentally, these areas are also where some of the members of the Hamburg Cell (the 9/11 pilot hijackers) were living as well.
In a previous episode, we spoke on the infamous East Ruthersford police report and the FBI's own report on the Israeli operators. These reports however concentrate on the FBI agents interviews of the employees and eyewitnesses who saw the Israeli nationals in the days prior and post 9/11 attacks.
However, lacking specific details we cannot say for certain on what the Israeli intelligence operators knew. But, we can surmise that they knew an Al Qaeda attack was imminent. In the weeks after the attacks, all of the Israeli nationals were deported. Taking with them whatever intelligence they had collected between the years 2000-2001.FBI PENTTBOM File:file:///D:/September%2011th%202001%20Files%20&%20Documents/911%20&%20Israel%20Connection/911%20Dancing%20Israeli's%20PENTTBOM%20Investigation.pdf

In the aftermath of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), along with the Department of Defense (DoD), began the process of perusing the terrorists and their associates involved. In the timeframe between 2002-2006, the CIA's "rendition program" was given a green light while Pentagon and State Department officials hired CIA psychologists who implemented the "enhanced interrogation program" called SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) on those captured. 
Reports were leaked about secret CIA prisons in the Middle East and Europe that used barbarous torture methods to extract information on subjects they believed were behind the 9/11 attacks. In 2006 a Senate Committee was formed headed by Senator Dianne Feinstein (United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence), and released it's findings in a 6,700 page report entitled "The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program". In the many pages of the report, the Committee investigated the CIA and its torture of many inmates which showed the results of their brutal practices.
In this episode i speak about the Committee's final conclusions of the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques, the FBI's report on what they saw in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the laws that were changed in the days after September 11th 2001, that led to the creation of the agency's program that was universally condemned  while the CIA tried to coverup their involvement. 

With us today is "Guido" and Sarah Adams. Guido, of course is a cover name, for he is an undercover operative. After 9/11 he found himself in a Mossad safehouse, where he uncovered a critical internal leak within the Dutch intelligence agency, AIVD, and spearheaded their first cyber operations. His expertise quickly drew the attention of the CIA, who approached him with a highly unconventional mission: to go undercover in Pakistan as a convert.
Over the course of more than 20 years, he has developed an unparalleled understanding of Al-Qaeda’s inner workings. His ability to digitally infiltrate the organization not only helped thwart a major attack on U.S. soil, but also granted him a vast network of sources deep within the group. His covert operations and intelligence-gathering efforts within Al-Qaeda, which continue to this day, have positioned him as one of the Netherlands' foremost experts on the terrorist organization.
Sarah Adams is an award-winning targeting officer and global threat advisor with extensive domestic and international experience. With a career spanning the government, private, and non-profit sectors, she has worked overseas on behalf of the U.S. Government's intelligence mission in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Presently, she oversees Department of Defense's (DoD) research and development projects, aiming to discover, develop, and deploy innovative solutions to address complex national security challenges. Previously, she served as a Senior Advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives after being recruited as an executive appointment from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). She is also the co-author of Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy, a cold case, open-source investigation into the al-Qa'ida terrorists who attacked the U.S. Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi in 2012. She holds a Master's Degree in International Relations from the University of San Diego and a Bachelor's of Science in International Business from the University of Central Florida.
Today we will talk about their compact laden book, which they contributed much of the information to author William Archer, 'Al Qaeda 2.0 The Upcoming Attack On The United States & Europe Unveiled'.Al Qaeda 2.0 The Upcoming Attack On The United States & Europe Unveiled:https://www.amazon.com/Al-Qaeda-2-0-Upcoming-Unveiled-Understanding/dp/B0DG564RGM

In December 1999, NSA analysts working on a covert signals intelligence operation on an Al Qaeda network hub in Sana'a , Yemen, pick up an important phone call from Malaysia. The caller tells someone by the name of "Khalid", to tell the two others, to come to a meeting in Malaysia. The caller was identified as someone by the name of "Khallad". 
The CIA, which heads all international operations, had then asked Malaysian authorities to conduct a surveillance team from the Special Branch, and take photographs of anyone at this meeting. Afterwards, two of the meetings occupants, 'Khalid' and 'Nawaf', who possessed US visas, were coming to the United States. NSA and CIA then blocked the FBI from sharing this intelligence from being shared with FBI headquarters. Question is why? 
In this episode, we will go over the factual information regarding this meeting, where some of the information comes from Chapter 1 of  Bob Graham's excellent book, "The CIA, The FBI, Saudi Arabia, And The Failure Of America’s War On Terror"
Bob Graham's book: https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Matters-Arabia-Failure-Americas/dp/0700616268

Richard Kammen is a criminal defense lawyer with his office in Indianapolis, Indiana. He concentrates his practice in serious felonies, white-collar defense, complex crimes and death penalty defense. He is of Counsel to the law firm of Kammen and Moudy. He has defended over three hundred homicide cases including approximately forty death penalty cases in both State and Federal courts. No client that Mr. Kammen has represented at trial has been sentenced to death.
Until October of 2017, Mr. Kammen served as “Learned Counsel” in United States v. Abdul Rahim Al-Nashiri who is charged before a Military Commission at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Al-Nashiri is alleged to have been a central figure in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in 2000 in Aden, Yemen. He is also the recipient of the Pro Bono Award given by the Indiana Bar Association and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indiana Public Defender Council. Richard is also the author of two books, one in which we will speak at some length today, "Tortured Justice: Guantanamo Bay"
Tortured Justice: Guantanamo Bay:
https://www.amazon.com/Tortured-Justice-Guantanamo-Richard-Kammen/dp/1614938717