The Darkened Hour

Bin Laden Declares War: The 1998 US Embassy Bombings In Kenya & Tanzania

In this episode, i talk about the motivations behind the US embassy attacks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, which were authorized by two islandic fundamentalist groups, Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, led by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri. The bombings are widely believed to have been revenge for U.S. involvement in the extradition, and alleged torture, of four members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad who had been arrested in Albania. According to Bin Laden, it was in response to the US military invasion of Iraq in 1990 and Somalia in 1994. The discussion involves the motivations and political aspirations of Al Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and the aftermath attributed to the attacks. 

An Interview With Anthony Shaffer (Operation Encore & The Canestraro Documents)

Anthony Shaffer is the President of the London Center for Policy Research, a New York Times bestselling author and CIA trained intelligence operations officer with 35 years of experience in global and national security. In his think-tank work he is an advisor to senior members of the White House, the Intelligence Community, Pentagon and key members of Congress.  He also works with National Geographic as an Advising Producer and Co-Producer of the series “Chain of Command”. In 2017 he became the Homeland Security Advisor to the Stafford County Sheriff’s Department in Virginia and works as its member of the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau’s expanded task force. 
His New York Times (NYT) and International bestselling memoir, Operation DARK HEART: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan – and the Path to Victory, provides an unprecedented look at intelligence operations during a period in the Afghanistan war, in 2003, where a small number of operators were able to effectively control this large country. In recognition of successful high risk/high gain operations. In our talk we discuss the 2021 declassification of the FBI's Operation Encore" files, and the latest release from Donald Canestraro from the Office of Military Commissions. London Center For Policy Research Center:https://londoncenter.org/Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan -- and The Path to Victory:https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Dark-Heart-Frontlines-Afghanistan/dp/031260369XDonald Canestraro Document:https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23787466/att-b-2021-07-20-donald-canestraro-declaration-dated-20-july-2021.pdfOperation Encore files:https://vault.fbi.gov/9-11-attacks-investigation-and-related-materials/9-11-material-released-in-response-to-executive-order-14040

An Interview With Elizabeth Miller (September 11th Families For Peaceful Tomorrows)

Elizabeth L. Miller is the Project Director for September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a nonprofit 9/11 family member organization that promotes peace. Miller earned an MA in Middle Eastern Studies (2020) at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Her research has focused on the complexities of women’s involvement in terrorism, and examination of human rights abuses in a post-9/11 world. Elizabeth lost her father, firefighter Douglas Miller on September 11th 2001. She appeared in dozens of broadcast interviews and panels, in the U.S. and abroad, around the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Elected in 2021, she currently serves on the city council of Port Jervis, NY. In our discussion, Miller talks about her father, how she became emotionally driven to understand what Al Qaeda is, and how she ultimately became the Project Director for the September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows:
https://peacefultomorrows.org/

Genesis Of The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing (War Against The United States) (Part 2)

We continue off of Part 1 of the episode, as NYPD and the NY-JTTF investigate the assassination of Jewish radical firebrand, Rabbi Meri Kahane at a downtown Manhattan hotel. His killer? El Sayyid Nosair, who also has ties to a radical cleric from Egypt from the fundamnetlist sect, Gamma Islamiyyah, known as the "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman. Investigators find incriminating items at Nosair's home which went ignored, which would have showed a brewing arab fundamentalist problem. 
Meanwhile the FBI begins a sting operation at Rahman's inner cell in two mosques located in Brooklyn and Jersey City, where they employ a former Egyptian military officer to act as informant, Emad Salem, Who uncovers a massive terrorist conspiracy involving bombing of NYC landmarks. operated by Nosair and Rahman.
The FBI suddenly removes Salem as its highly valued "confidential source "with a dire warming from Salem. Ramzi Yousef, a Baluchi citizen, with ties to an Israeli Mossad asset, Ahmed Ajaj. Replaces Salem, and begins assembling a bomb which would be used in the World Trade Center. 

Genesis Of The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing (Birth Of Jihad) (Part 1)

In this episode, i will be giving a very lengthy and quite descriptive talk about what led up to, and what took place, on February 26th 1993, which was the bombing of the World Trade Center. Speaking from various sources, all of which i will give dates for, as well as from books and the historical record, it will give a clear and broad picture of US Foreign Policy, The essence of the Abu Nidal Organization, the issue of Israeli-Palestine in the 1980's, the meaning of Jihad and Takfir, the CIA's history involving arab mujahid in it's "Operation Cyclone" program and the individuals involved in the genesis of arab fundamentalism and it's organs. This will be the first of a two part program where i will concentrate on the multi-faceted stages and historical events leading up to the formation of the radical cells operating in Pakistan and over inside the United States with help from the intelligence services. 

An Interview With Richard Rotanz (FDNY Captain And OEM Deputy Commissioner)

President and CEO Richard (Richie) Rotanz has over 45 years of experience and expertise in the fire service, emergency management, operations, research, training and academia. His eclectic career has had him functioned as program manager in New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; co-developed and performed as the Executive Director of the Applied Science Foundation for Homeland Security; co-developed Adelphi University’s graduate degree in Emergency Management; and performed as the first Commissioner for the Office of Emergency Management of Nassau County, New York. 
Prior to his tenure in Nassau County, he served in the New York City Fire Department, working through the ranks and special divisions such as the Safety Command and with Special Operations Command.  After such an assignment, he was detailed by the Mayor’s office as Deputy Commissioner of New York City's Office of Emergency Management, located in World Trade Center 7. In this detail, he was responsible for research & planning, and to organize and manage the emergency operations center during major events.
During the September 11th attacks upon New York City, and after digging his way out of World Trade Center 1 with his staff, he re-instituted and relocated the destroyed emergency operation center to Pier 92, and managed the multi-organization response of over 120 agencies, organizations, and businesses, to the 9-11 tragedy. 

An Interview With Ray Nowosielski & John F. Duffy (The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark)

Ray Nowosielski is an Emmy-nominated non-fiction filmmaker, producer, and writer. Nowosielski worked on many successful projects, one in which he personally directed, 9/11 Press For Truth" where the film surrounds the lives and activism of widows of husbands who were killed in the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001.John Duffy is a writer and activist. He wrote and produced the critically-acclaimed documentary Press for Truth, His 2011 Who Is Rich Blee? was among the first podcasts to explore the true crime investigative genre, three years before Serial, exposing an alleged human rights abuser inside the CIA and resulting in a well-publicized threat of prosecution from that agency. collaborated with Barbara Kopple on 8 films. With John Duffy he created the iHeart BLM true crime podcast After the Uprising, nominated for a 2022 NAACP Image Award. The Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald later dubbed that work “fantastic” and “brave.”Both Nowosielski and Duffy would co-author an Amazon best selling book, The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror" which covers the US intelligence failures and publicly names certain CIA officers who embarked on a secret operation of hiding information from the FBI regarding two Al Qaeda operatives who would later hijack American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon on September 11th 2001. 
The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror:
https://www.amazon.com/Watchdogs-Didnt-Bark-Crimes-Terror-ebook/dp/B06XSXQ3PD
Ray Nowosielski website:
https://www.raysfilmfest.com/
John F. Duffy website:
https://www.johnfduffy.com/
Ray Nowosielski & John Duffy Website:
https://www.doubleasteriskmedia.com/

An Interview With Sean Russell & Darin Harvey (Beyond Ground Zero)

In todays episode i invite Sean Russell and Darin Harvey, two geopolitical 9/11 researchers, writers and online activists who have created a newly formed podcast which delves into the various histories involved with the September 11th 2001 terrorists attacks. The podcast, "Beyond Ground Zero", is currently hosted at Odysee. Both Russell and Harvey have taken a passionate interest in studying the intelligence services along with domestic and foreign politics that are entwined with this event .Both Sean and Darin have come a long way, and i couldn't be more proud to watch them grow as responsible and historically accurate independent investigators over the last 4 years. During our conversation we went over Sean and Darin's initial beginnings into this subject and covered various areas, including, the Bojinka transatlantic airline bombing plot, the 1993 WTC Bombing and the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. 
Beyond Ground Zero - 1993 World Trade Center Bombing:
https://odysee.com/@skrussellak:e/01-BGZ-1993-WTC-Full-Edit:1
The Lost Brooklyn Subway Bombing Plot of 1997, article published by Darin Harvey:
https://911skepticsvstruth.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/1997-brooklyn-subway-bombing-plot/
Sean Russell YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@skrussellak/videos
Darin Harvey YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@darinharvey9186/videos

An Interview With Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Guantanamo Diary)

Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini was born in Rosso, Mauritania, the ninth of twelve children of a camel herder. His family moved to the capital of Nouakchott when he was a child, where he excelled in school and earned a scholarship to study electrical engineering at Gerhard-Mercator University in Duisburg, Germany. In 2001, he was living and working in his home country of Mauritania when he was detained and renditioned to Jordan, beginning an ordeal that he would chronicle in his internationally bestselling Guantánamo Diary. The manuscript, which he wrote in his isolation cell in the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, remained classified for almost eight years and was finally declassified, with substantial redactions, in 2013. It was first published in the United States and United Kingdom in January 2015 and has since been published in 25 languages.
After 15 years of detention, Mohamedou was released on October 17, 2016, to Mauritania. The following year he published a “restored edition” of Guantánamo Diary, filling in the U.S. government’s redactions, and in 2021, his first novel, The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga, is being published by Ohio University Press. In 2021, a theatrical film was released, entitled The Mauritanian, which is of course based on Slahi's detention and torture, in which actor Tahar Rahim, played the part of Slahi in which was nominated for two Golden Globe awards and five nominations at the British Film Academy Awards as well.
In todays episode, Mohamedou extensively talks about his upbringing in Mauritania, his life in countries such as Canada, Germany, his experience in Afghanistan and training in an Al Qaeda camp (Al Farouq), his extradition to Jordan and his kidnap and torture by US authorities while to Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
Guantanamo Diary: 
https://www.amazon.com/Guant%C3%A1namo-Diary-Mohamedou-Ould-Slahi/dp/0316389250
The Mauritanian:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4761112/

The Gerald Shea Memorandum: An Israeli Intelligence Sting Involving The Monitoring Of 9/11 Hijackers And Associates

In todays episode, i go over the near obscure written memorandum from retired corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea, who also once the District Attorney for San Luis Obispo County, California from 1998 to 2013. Shea had penned an extensive memo for the 9/11 Commission which was drafted on September 15th 2004. It is a 13 point summary regarding Israeli Mossad agents which were hiding under the guise of “art students” thru-ought most of the metropolitan cities of the United States. Selling cheap art to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and even to these employees personal homes. The Israeli DEA Groups were comprised of 125 or more Israelis, and had collected sensitive data about the details of the September 11th attacks before the event happened and did not share this information with any agency inside the United States.
It also goes into great length about the daily investigations of the 9/11 operatives in NYC and Florida. Operations of both the Israeli New Jersey Group and the hijackers of the Pentagon Plane which were centered in Hudson and Bergen Counties in New Jersey. The chapter in today's episode will concentrate on chapter 4 from the memo, "The Israeli DEA Groups", where i read directly from and add some additional information in between. 
The Gerald Shea Memorandum:
https://adamfitzgerald911.wordpress.com/2019/09/01/the-shea-memorandum/

What Did They Know? The NSA Signals Intelligence Operation Of Osama Bin Laden & Al Qaeda Network

The comprehensive report detailing the National Security Agency (NSA) and their signals intelligence operation of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. This operation allegedly began in 1991-1992, that extended up until and even after the terrorist events of September 11th 2001. Over the course of these long years, the NSA had amassed upwards up to a million pages of transcripts which were gleamed from Bin Laden satellite phones from 1991-1998, and from an Al Qaeda communications hub in Yemen, from 1996-2002. What exactly did the NSA hear from Bin Laden and other top Al Qaeda officials? Well, that information is deemed "classified" and the public won't know anything about it, unless they acknowledge the extent of the operation the NSA were conducted and are being afforded protection by the CIA and White House.  

An Interview With Dave DeCamp (The Yemen Crisis)

Dave DeCamp is the News editor of of Antiwar.com and Host of "Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp". In today's episode, Richard Cox and myself join Dave DeCamp to talk about the current crisis in Yemen. How the war started, the terrorist Al Qaeda affiliates involved, how the United States got involved by aiding weapons to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the future prospects of peace in the region. The conflict has witnessed many horrors, including the approximate deaths of over 400,000 people, and over 1.2 million Yemeni's displaced which has caused a massive overhaul of immigration problems in nearby cities. DeCamp also speaks on the World Health Organization which talks about the violence in the country and the close proximity to the health facilities, impeding their ability to function and restricting the movement of health staff, patients and ambulances and how the military industrial complex continues to benefit to the tomes of billions as the conflict rages on with full support of the Trump and Biden administrations.Dave DeCamp articles at Antiowar.com:https://original.antiwar.com/author/Dave_DeCamp/Antiwar News With Dave DeCamp:https://www.youtube.com/@antiwarnews/videos

A US Government Standstill: How The September 11th Terrorist Attacks Were Successful

As American Airlines Flight 11 steered directly into the World Trade Center's North Tower, the response by mostly everyone watching or hearing about it was unsurprising, many were in shock and in a state of paralysis. As United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower, however, many people believed the nation was under a terrorist attack. What was the government response? In this episode i specify the actions and inactions made by certain officials and the complete and utter incompetence of specific people who seemed to have either been caught "off guard" or simply just paralyzed to undertake any action that could have prevented attacks on the nations capitol and in Pennsylvania at the very least.

Urban Moving Systems Rewind (The Complete Version)

One of the most infamous and maligned conspiracies involving the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks has been the story of the Israeli moving company, Urban Moving Systems, and the three Israeli employees that were found celebrating the attack of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. When the East Rutherford Police Department later detailed these individuals, there seemed to be much more to their backgrounds than what was originally suspected. When the FBI field office in Newark. New Jersey became involved, it was led by Kevin Donovan (Special Agent in Charge) (SAC). Over the following 71 days until they were deported, the FBI and East Rutherford Police uncovered what seemed to be, a large illegal foreign intelligence operation, which are from Israel, which may have obtained specific data regarding the hijackers involved with the terrorist attacks. I read from, the FBI and East Rutherford redacted reports and fill in some of those blanks to the best of my knowledge using articles and archives of documents as well as media reports from the days after the events of September 11th 2001.
Dancing Israelis Police and FBI Reports 9/11/01:
https://archive.org/stream/DancingIsraelisFBIReport/fbi%20report%20section%202_djvu.txt

The Genesis Of Arab Fundamentalism (Abdullah Yusef Azzam & Maktab al-Khidamat)

When the Soviets invaded the capitol of Afghanistan in 1979, Kabul, the Islamic community declared a fatwa against the secular communists from the North. Inn doing so, hundreds of thousands of Arabs from all over the world heeded the call. Making up less than 10% of the fighting force, they hardly made an impression. All except for two individuals, a Palestinian imam, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and a wealthy Saudi, Osama Bin Laden. Both men served as examples for the Afghan and Arab Mujahedeen fighters who battled long and heavy against the Soviets. By the near end of the conflict, Azzam had fell out of favor with the Arabs who gravitated towards the silent but stout, Bin Laden who by now had the full protection of Egyptian militants from groups like Egyptian Islamic Jihad under Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was let out of prison for his suspected role in the assassination of the Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat. By 1990, Azzam was assassinated, and Bin Laden and the Arab Mujahedeen had returned back to their native countries. Some, went to the United States, and continued the jihad there. Years later, many terrorist attacks in the country and outside of it, were precipitated by their years of training and funding from the intelligence services who gave them money, weapons and logistical support to defeat the Soviets. Now the war was against the very country who assisted them, in the United States. Had the CIA and US State Department not realized that the very monster they unleashed against the Soviets would return to haunt them?