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Nada Management (Al Taqwa): Italian police detain two Egypti

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Nada Management (Al Taqwa): Italian police detain two Egyptian financiers for alleged al-Qaida links
by Gabriella Brioggi
Associated Press Writer
November 17, 2001

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CAMPIONE D'ITALIA, Italy – Working in concert with the United States and Italy, Swiss police on Wednesday detained two Arab financiers allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and an Egyptian fundamentalist group.

Youssef M. Nada and Ali Himat were being held for questioning in Lugano, Switzerland, just across the border from their homes in Campione D'Italia, said Italian police Lt. Francesco Rapino.

The raids in the Italian enclave were conducted as the Bush administration moved to crack down on bin Laden's financial network worldwide.

Washington froze the terrorist mastermind's assets in at least nine countries including the United States and added 62 entities and people – including Nada and Himat – to a list of suspected terrorist associates.

While Swiss and Italian authorities identified the men as Egyptian, Himat was identified on the U.S. Treasury list as holding Swiss and Tunisian citizenship.

Officials say Nada and Himat are the managing director and executive director of Nada Management Organization in Lugano.

U.S. authorities say the organization is part of an unregulated financial network – sometimes called hawala – that is used to funnel money to bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist group through companies and nonprofit organizations.

Nada and Himat are also senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist group that wants to establish an Islamic state in Egypt, a leading Brotherhood member told the AP in Cairo. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the group is outlawed in Egypt.

Egyptian police have recently cracked down on the group. On Tuesday, 21 Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested. Lawyers said interrogations did not touch on the Sept. 11 attacks or funding for militant groups.

Tuesday's sweep was the third mass arrest in recent months in Egypt.

Nada and Himat have homes in Campione, a gambling center and tax haven known for "post office box" companies incorporated there for tax purposes but with no real presence. The Italian enclave on Lake Lugano is completely surrounded by Swiss territory.

Nada Management had recently changed its name from Al Taqua Management Co. That company was also named on the U.S. Treasury Department list.

The U.S. government list also seeks to freeze assets in Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein and the Bahamas, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

Officials at the Bank of Italy and the Italian Treasury Ministry told AP that they had been monitoring Al Taqua's operations for some time.

The Muslim Brotherhood member in Cairo said Al Taqua was set up as an offshore enterprise several years ago by group members and friendly businessmen to provide banking services to Muslims. Islam's prohibition on charging interest has been the impetus for an Islamic banking industry.

The senior Muslim Brotherhood member said Al Taqua was liquidated last year because of losses incurred in the Asian financial crisis and because of what he termed harassment by several unspecified governments.

The bank had a committee that included several prominent Egyptian Muslim clergymen responsible for The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, is the Arab world's oldest fundamentalist Muslim group. The Egyptian branch inspired similar groups in Jordan and elsewhere. It is officially banned in Egypt, but is believed to be the largest Islamic organization in the country.

The Brotherhood's activities are tolerated in Egypt to an extent. Leaders issue statements from offices in Cairo and its members, running as independents, won 17 seats in parliamentary elections last year. The victories made the Brotherhood the largest opposition bloc in the 454-member legislature.

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Nada Management (Al Taqwa)
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FTR#342—Al Taqwa—(Two 30-minute segments) (Sources are noted in parentheses.) (Recorded on 1/6/2002.)

Note: FTR#’s 260-315, FTR#325 and succeeding programs are streaming on Real Audio at www.wfmu.org/daveemory. FTR#’s 01-270 are available for download only, also on Real Audio, at http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/DX/.

1. Nada Management and Al Taqwa are an important element in understanding the role of what Mr. Emory calls “the Underground Reich” and its apparent role in the events in, and around, the events of 9/11/2001. This broadcast further develops this connection. (For more discussion of the terrorist blitzkrieg of 9/11/2001, see FTR#’s 325-341, 342. For more on Nada Management/Al Taqwa, see FTR#’s 335, 336, 338, 340.)

2. Beginning with discussion of a fellow traveler of the German neo-Nazi NPD, the broadcast highlights the connections between Ahmed Huber and the milieu of Osama Bin Laden. (“Far Right Has Ties with Islamic Extreme” by Hugh Williamson and Philip Jaklin; Financial Times; 11/9/2001; p. 4.)

3. Huber has met members of Bin Laden’s organization, but denies that the Al Taqwa management group and the related Nada Management firms were involved with funding Bin Laden’s organization. (Idem.)

4. Like Horst Mahler (discussed in FTR#333), Huber is an associate of the NPD, as well as Islamic extremists. (Idem.)

5. A doctrinaire anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, Huber was closely associated with a Nazi émigré milieu in Nasser’s Egypt discussed in numerous past broadcasts. (“Les Amis de Faurisson: Ahmed Rami” by Gilles Karmasyn. (For more about Third Reich influence in the Middle East, see, among other broadcasts, RFA#’s 3, 4, 22, Miscellaneous Archive Shows M19 and M21, as well as FTR#’s 70-72, 185, 216, 221, 237, 270, 306, 332, 333, 340.)

6. In particular, Huber was associated in Egypt with Johann Von Leers, a Goebbels assistant for anti-Semitic propaganda. (Idem.)

7. In Egypt, Von Leers ran an anti-Semitic propaganda institute for Nasser, and became associated with a milieu that included the notorious Swiss Nazi Francois Genoud and the Grand Mufti. (Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International; by Kevin Coogan; Autonomedia; Copyright 1999 [SC]; ISBN 1-57027-039-2; p. 585.) (For more about the Grand Mufti, see also: RFA-22, L-7, FTR #’s 2, 147, 159, 161, 237, 270, 328, 329, 330, 332, 333. For more about Genoud, see Miscellaneous Archive Shows M19 and M21, as well as FTR#’s 333, 335, 341.)

8. Wealthy Saudis have been a primary source of capital for the Al Taqwa organization (later reorganized as Nada Management, part of the Al Taqwa Group). In an interview with Richard Labeviere (author of Dollars for Terror), Huber stressed the importance of the feudal nature of the Saudi state in preserving the secrecy of Al Taqwa’s benefactors. (“Rich Saudis Said to Back Bank Linked to Bin Laden”; The Boston Herald; by Jonathan Wells; 11/8/2001.)

9. Youssef Nada denies the charge by the U.S. government that his organization is involved with Bin Laden’s terrorists. A number of facts lend credibility to the charges, including the fact that the Bin Ladens are among the wealthy Saudi contributors to Al Taqwa apparently referred to by Huber. Six members of the Bin Laden family are among the original contributors to the Nassau, Bahamas branch of Al Taqwa, founded in the late 1980’s. (“The Scattered Case against an Alleged Terror Accomplice”; Roger Thurow; Wall Street Journal; 12/27/2001; p. A6.)

10. Much of the broadcast consists of discussion and analysis of a recent Swiss article detailing some of the diverse and powerful elements involved with the Bin Laden terrorist milieu. (“Im Wunderland des Hasses”; by Johannes von Dohnanyi; Weltwoche; Ausgabe 01/2002.)

11. Of particular significance in the analysis of the Al Queda milieu is the presence at its core of members of the Bin Mahfouz family, (like the Bin Ladens) one of the most powerful families of Saudi Arabia. (Idem.)

12. Like the Bin Laden family, the Bin Mahfouz family was represented in North America by James R. Bath, an original investor in Arbusto Energy, George W. Bush’s first energy company. (The Mafia, CIA & George Bush; by Pete Brewton; SPI Books; Copyright 1992 [HC]; ISBN 1-56171-203-5; p. 221-222.)

13. Closely connected to the BCCI, Khalid Bin Mahfouz is reportedly married to Osama Bin Laden’s sister! (“Im Wunderland des Hasses”; by Johannes von Dohnanyi; Weltwoche; Ausgabe 01/2002)

14. The Bin Mahfouz and Bin Laden families have a number of business operations together, including the Cambridge (Massachussetts) based Hybridon firm. (Idem.) (For more about Hybridon, see FTR#334.)

15. The Weltwoche article highlights alleged connections between Bin Laden’s terrorist milieu and Somali banking interests and the Kosovo Liberation Army. (Idem.) (For more about Al Queda/KLA links, see FTR#341.)

16. Further developing links between Al Queda and the Chechen rebels, the broadcast sets forth the activities of Sakina Security Services, an apparent Al Queda front with an alleged training base in the United States. (Idem.) (FTR#’s 329, 341 discuss Al Queda and Wahhabi activities in Chechnya, as well as the possibility that intelligence elements associated with “the Underground Reich” and the petroleum industry may be involved with the guerillas.)

17. The Sakina trainers were described as having backgrounds with “the SAS and the U.S. Marines.” (Idem.)

18. Of primary significance in the discussion of Weltwoche’s analysis is a series of interlocking connections between powerful Saudi financial and philanthropic organizations and Bin Laden’s terrorist activities. (Idem.)

19. These organizations are, in turn, allegedly connected to Al Taqwa. (Idem.)

20. These institutions include: the Faisal Islamic Bank, Islamic Investment Company of the Gulf, the Dar al Maal Al Islami and the International Islamic Relief Organization (the primary Saudi vehicle for the propagation of the Wahhabi brand of fundamentalism.) (Idem.)

21. The latter resides at the same address as the Bin Mahfouz-owned International Development Foundation, and it has allegedly received money from Al Taqwa. (Idem.)

22. Next, the broadcast reviews many of the Bush family/Bin Laden family business connections, such as the Carlyle Group. (Idem.) (For more about Carlyle, see also: FTR#’s 329, 334, 337.)

23. The Weltwoche article makes the important statement that the connections of Islamic terrorism to powerful centers of financial and industrial power in the West and Saudi Arabia must be interdicted if the menace is to be successfully dealt with. (Idem.) Analysis of the complicated events in, and around, the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 will be undertaken in FTR#344.

24. Next, the program sets forth the connections between Youssef Nada, Saudi Prince Alwaleed (one of the world’s richest men) and Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi. (For more on Berlusconi see: Miscellaneous Archive Show M-61, FTR #’s 28, 94, 95, 113, 196, 217, 229, 252, 262, 267, 306, 307, 320, 321, 322.) Alwaleed is involved with Mediaset, one of Berlusconi’s many media companies. (“The Alms of Monsieur Yousseff Nada” by Peter Gomez and Leo Sisti; L’Espresso; 11/22/2001; p. 48.) Once again, the connections between the power centers of the petroleum industry and fascist elements in the West is central to an understanding of the events in, and around, the 9/11/2001 attacks. (A member of the fascist P-2 Lodge, Berlusconi’s government includes the fascist National Alliance and the xenophobic Northern League.)

25. Next, the program reviews suspicions that the Al Taqwa firm (Nada Management) was associated with the stock market manipulation discussed in FTR#’s 327, 331, 335. (“Stock Trades Probed for Ties to Bin Laden” by William Drozdiak; Washington Post; 9/18/2001; p. A08.)

26. Among the companies whose stocks were involved in the “short selling” are Swiss Reinsurance and Munich Reinsurance. (Idem.) Both companies have liability in the World Trade Center bombing. Allianz was another insurance company whose stock was (according to some) suspiciously. Mr. Emory has detailed his suspicions that the stock manipulation was performed by the Bormann group (probably including the Al Taqwa Group.) The economic and political component of a Third Reich gone underground, the Bormann organization controls corporate Germany and much of the rest of the world. [It was created and run by Martin Bormann, the organizational genius who was the “the power behind the throne” in Nazi Germany.] The Bormann group is a primary element of the analysis presented in the For the Record programs. For more about the Bormann organization, see: FTR#’s 87, 90, 99, 102, 120, 122, 123, 125, 127, 134, 145, 152, 155, 158, 177, 179, 180, 187, 189, 193, 194, 195, 200, 215, 216, 218, 219, 224, 226, 232, 233, 234, 235, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 245, 248, 250, 251, 261, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 278, 283, 286, 292, 293, 294, 298, 299, 300, 302, 303, 305, 309, 313, 322.)

27. One of the primary elements of the Bormann organization is the Thyssen-Bornemisza organization, headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland (the base for Youssef Nada’s operations.) (Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0-8184-0309-8; P. 237.) Mr. Emory speculates that the Nada/Al Taqwa organization may very well be part of the Bormann organization.

28. The program concludes with a look at the responses of two contemporary Nazi organizations to the terror attacks. Ahmed Huber is, as we have seen, associated with the NPD. Horst Mahler, a key member of the NPD, arguably Germany’s top neo-Nazi group, applauded the attacks of 9/11. (“German Right-Winger Applauds Terrorists” by Toby Helm; Daily Telegraph; 9/25/2001. (For more about Mahler, see FTR#’s 331, 333.)

29. The NPD is closely associated, in turn, with the National Alliance. (“Far Right Violence Soars in Germany” by Martin A. Lee; San Francisco Bay Guardian; 3/19/2001.) The National Alliance is the publisher of Serpent’s Walk, the “Turner Diaries” of the Bormann organization. (See, among other broadcasts, FTR#’s 212, 331, 335, 336, 339.)

30. The National Alliance has also endorsed the 9/11 attacks. (“U.S. Groups Have Some Ties to Germ Warfare” by Jo Thomas; New York Times; 11/2/2001; p. B8.)

31. The last item in the program is an analysis of Islamic fundamentalism as a form of “Islamofascism.” (For more on “Islamofascism,” see FTR#’s 329, 340.) “ . . .Our societies are in crisis. They’re illiterate, impoverished, jobless. That makes it easy for religious leaders to exploit people at the bottom. It enables fascism to come out of the closet. What we’re seeing here is that fascism wears religious cloaks.” (“For Muslims, Bin Laden’s Star Is Fading as Quickly as It Rose”; by David Lamb; Los Angeles Times; 12/31/2001; p. A7.) (Recorded on 1/6/2002.)
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FTR #370 Dutch Treat: More about the Thyssen/Bush Banking Connection
Posted by Dave Emory
July 29, 2002

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1. This program supplements previous discussion of the Bush family’s Nazi financial heritage. Specifically, the program revisits the Bush/Thyssen-Bornemisza connection. Like Al Taqwa/Nada management and the overlapping Banco del Gotthardo, the Thyssen-Bornemisza operations are based in Lugano Switzerland. This program poses the question of whether the Thyssen-Bornemisza and Al Taqwa milieu may be linked, and whether the Nada/Banco del Gotthardo is part of the Bormann nexus.

2. Various Al Taqwa subsidiaries were recently placed on a list of individuals and institutions viewed by the Justice Department as supportive of terrorism.

“Attorney General John Ashcroft asked the State Department on Monday to list nine foreign groups and companies as terrorist organizations. The listing would prohibit any noncitizen members from entering the United States. . . . The groups proposed for by Ashcroft for listing: Al Taqwa Trade Property and Industry Co. Ltd.; Bank Al Taqwa Ltd; Nada Management Organization; Youssef M. Nada & Co. Gesellshaft . . .”

(“Other Developments: ... Terror Groups” [Chronicle News Services]; San Francisco Chronicle; 7/23/2002; p. A4.)

3. The program reviews the significance of Lugano for the Nada operations.

“While establishing its headquarters in a tax haven, the Brothers’ bank opened a branch, Al Taqwa Management Organization S.A., in Italian Switzerland, in Lugano. Lugano, a discreet frontier banking locale, is a stone’s throw from Milan, a major financial center, and above all the Islamist groups’ entry point to Europe.”

(Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam; by Richard Labeviere; pp. 139–140.)

4. Nada has been less than forthcoming about the true nature of his organization. It should be noted in this context that the Underground Reich/Bormann Organization also maintains a rigorous, and secretive infrastructure.

“Al Taqwa is situated on the top floor of a small glass building, right in the center of Lugano, in the banking district, a district where overly curious journalists are immediately denounced to the police who then conduct American-style identity checks in the middle of the street . . . In Lugano, bank secrecy is no laughing matter. Several times we tried to meet Mr. Nada, who eventually responded by mail, ‘We allow neither you nor any other journalist, nor publication, to speak about us -- positively or negatively -- without our written permission.’ Signed, Yussef Nada.”

(Ibid.; p. 140)

5. One of the questions concerning Nada’s possible affiliations with the Underground Reich derives from his past. Nada himself is alleged to have been an agent of the Abwehr, the military intelligence service of the Third Reich.

“But Yussef Nada is even better known to the Egyptian [intelligence] services, who have evidence of his membership in the armed branch of the fraternity of the Muslim Brothers in the 1940’s. At that time, according to the same sources, he was working for the Abwehr under Admiral Canaris and took part in a plot against King Farouk. This was not the first time that the path of the Muslim Brothers crossed that of the servants of the Third Reich. The founder of the Fraternity himself, Hasan al-Banna, served as an intermediary between those who went on to become the ‘free officers’ (in particular Anwar al-Sadat) and the agents of Nazi Germany.”

(Ibid.; pp. 140–141.) Al Banna is listed as a director of Al Taqwa (see FTR#‘s 359, 369.)

6. As discussed in past programs, Lugano, Switzerland is the center of operations for the Thyssen-Bornemisza family. (The Thyssens, in turn, are long-standing intimates of Martin Bormann and the Underground Reich.)

“Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza runs his private Dutch-based investment group from Lugano, Switzerland, and his cousin Count Federico Zichy-Thyssen, grandson of old Fritz Thyssen, exercises control over Thyssen A.G. from his base in Buenos Aires.”

(Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; p. 237.)

7. Much of the program consists of a reading of important article on the Thyssen-Bornemisza/Bush connection. (“How the Bush Family Made its Fortune from the Nazis” by John Loftus; accessed at www.john-loftus.com/Thyssen.htm .)

8. This article documents the fact that a Dutch bank served as a pivot-point for the Thyssen industrial interests and that, through this Dutch connection, the Thyssen-Bornemisza branch of the family held the reins of economic power that (ultimately) guided the Bush family’s fortune.

9. “For the Bush family, it is a lingering nightmare. For their Nazi clients, the Dutch connection was the mother of all money laundering schemes. . . .Thyssen did not need any foreign bank accounts because his family secretly owned an entire chain of banks. He did not have to transfer his Nazi assets at the end of World War II, all he had to do was transfer the ownership documents -- stocks, bonds, deeds and trusts -- from his bank in Berlin through his bank in Holland to his American friends in New York City: Prescott Bush and Herbert Walker. Thyssen’s partners in crime were the father and father-in-law of a future President of the United States.”

(Ibid.; p. 1)

10. “It was a secret that would lead former U.S. Intelligence agent William Gowen, now pushing 80, to the very doorstep of the Dutch royal family.”

(Idem.)

11. “Under the rules of the Allied occupation of Germany, all property owned by citizens of a neutral nation which had been seized by the Nazis had to be returned to the neutral citizens upon proper presentation of documents showing proof of ownership. Suddenly, all sorts of neutral parties, particularly in Holland, were claiming ownership of various pieces of the Thyssen empire.”

(Ibid.; p. 2)

12. Allied investigators focused on the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, the Dutch financial institution that served as the pivot-point for the Thyssen-Bornemisza/Bush family dealings at the center of the discussion.

“Their suspicions focused on one Dutch Bank in particular, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, in Roterdam. This bank did a lot of business with the Thyssens over the years. In 1923, as a favor to him, the Rotterdam bank loaned the money to build the very first Nazi party headquarters in Munich. But somehow the allied investigations kept going nowhere, the intelligence leads all seemed to dry up.”

(Idem.)

13. Next, the program highlights the role of Allen Dulles in helping to stage-manage the investigation of the Dutch/Thyssen connections.

“If the investigators realized that the U.S. intelligence chief in post¬war Germany, Allen Dulles, was also the Rotterdam Bank’s lawyer, they might have asked some very interesting questions. They did not know that Thyssen was Dulles’ client as well. Nor did they ever realize that it was Allen Dulles’s other client, Baron Kurt Von Schroeder, who was the Nazi trustee for the Thyssen companies which now claimed to be owned by the Dutch. The Rotterdam Bank was at the heart of Dulles’ cloaking scheme, and he guarded its secrets jealously.”

(Idem.)

14. Although he distances himself from the Martin Bormann aspect of Paul Manning’s investigation, Loftus goes on to develop the relevance of the Manning observations concerning the Thyssen-Bornemisza branch of the family and its operations on behalf of the Third Reich.

“Several decades after the war, investigative reporter Paul Manning, Edward R. Murrow’s colleague, stumbled across the Thyssen interrogations in the U.S. National Archives. Manning intended to write a book about Nazi money laundering. Manning’s manuscript was a dagger at Allen Dulles’ throat: his book specifically mentioned the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart by name, albeit in passing.”

(Idem.)

15. Without casting aspersions on either Loftus or Manning (Mr. Emory views them both as heroes whose work is invaluable), the program digresses briefly to review an aspect of Manning’s investigation of Bormann, per se. When Manning reviewed the FBI’s file on Martin Bormann, it found some interesting information.

“When the [FBI] file (now in my possession) was received at FBI headquarters, it revealed that the Reichsleiter had indeed been tracked for years. One report covered his whereabouts from 1948 to 1961, in Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Chile. The file revealed that he had been banking under his own name from his office in Germany in Deutsche Bank of Buenos Aires since 1941; that he held one joint account with the Argentinean dictator Juan Peron, and on August 4, 5, and 14, 1967, had written checks on demand accounts in First National City bank (Overseas Division) of New York, The Chase Manhattan Bank, and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., all cleared through Deutsche bank of Buenos Aires.”

(Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; P. 205.)

16. As Loftus points out, both he and Manning had uncovered different ends of the Thyssen-Bornemisza/Bush connection.

“American investigators had to be sent anywhere but Holland. And so the Dutch connection remained unexplored until 1994, when I published the book The Secret War Against the Jews. As a matter of historical curiosity, I mentioned that Fritz Thyssen (and, indirectly, the Nazi Party) had obtained their early financing from Brown Brothers Harriman, and its affiliate, the Union Banking Corporation. Union Bank, in turn, was the Bush family’s holding company for a number of other entities, including the ‘Holland American Trading Company.’”

(“How the Bush Family made its Fortune from the Nazis” by John Loftus; p. 2–3.)

17. It was a matter of public record that the Bush holdings were seized by the U.S. government after the Nazis overran Holland. In 1951, the Bushes reclaimed Union Bank from the U.S. Alien Property Custodian, along with their ‘neutral’ Dutch assets. I did not realize it, but I had stumbled across a very large piece of the missing Dutch connection. Bush’s ownership of the Holland-American investment company was the missing link to Manning’s earlier research in the Thyssen investigative files. In 1981, Manning had written: ‘Thyssen’s first step in a long dance of tax and currency frauds began [in the late 1930’s] when he disposed of his shares in the Dutch Hollandische-Amerikanische Investment Corporation to be credited to the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, N.V., Rotterdam, the bank founded in 1916 by August Thyssen, Sr.’”

(Ibid.; p. 3)

18. “In this one obscure paragraph, in a little known book, Manning had unwittingly documented two intriguing points: 1) The Bushes’ Union Bank had apparently bought the same corporate stock that the Thyssens were selling as part of their Nazi money laundering, and 2) the Rotterdam bank [had bought them]. Far from hindsight, Manning and I had uncovered different ends of the Dutch connection. After reading the excerpt in my book about the Bushes’ ownership of the Holland-American trading Company, retired U.S. intelligence agent William Gowen began to put the pieces of the puzzle together.”

(Idem.)

19. “In 1999, Mr. Gowen traveled to Europe, at his own expense, to meet a former member of Dutch intelligence who had detailed inside information about the Rotterdam bank. The scrupulous Gowen took a written statement and then had his source read and correct it for error. Here, in summary form, is how the Nazis hid their money in America.”

(Idem.)

20. After establishing the Rotterdam bank to mask his assets from the Allies in World War I, August Thyssen determined that it would never happen again.

“One of his sons would join the Nazis; the other would be neutral. No matter who won the next war, the Thyssen family would survive with their industrial empire intact. Fritz Thyssen joined the Nazis in 1923; his younger brother married into Hungarian nobility and changed his name to Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza. The Baron later claimed Hungarian as well as Dutch citizenship. In public, he pretended to detest his Nazi brother, but in private they met at secret board meetings in Germany to coordinate their operations. If one brother were threatened with loss of property, he would transfer his holdings to the other.”

(Idem.)

21. “To aid his sons in their shell game, August Thyssen had established three different banks during the 1920’s -- The August Thyssen Bank in Berlin, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam, and the Union Banking Corporation in New York City. To protect their corporate holdings, all the brothers had to do was move the corporate paperwork from one bank to the other. This they did with some regularity. When Fritz Thyssen ‘sold’ the Holland-American Trading Company for a tax loss, the Union Banking Corporation in New York bought the stock. Similarly, the Bush family invested the disguised Nazi profits in American steel and manufacturing corporations that became part of the secret Thyssen empire.”

(Ibid.; pp. 3–4)

22. “As soon as Berlin fell to the allies, it was time to ship the documents back to Rotterdam so that the ‘neutral’ bank could claim ownership under the friendly supervision of Allen Dulles, who, as the OSS intelligence chief in 1945 Berlin, was well placed to handle any troublesome investigations.”

(Ibid.; p. 4)

23. When the manager of the Dutch bank attempted to alert the allies about the truth of the Thyssen affairs, he died.

“In 1945, the former Dutch manager of the Rotterdam bank resumed control only to discover that he was sitting on a huge pile of hidden Nazi assets. In 1947, the manager threatened to inform Dutch authorities, and was immediately fired by the Thyssens. The somewhat naïve bank manager then fled to New York City where he intended to talk to Union Bank director Prescott Bush. As Gowen’s Dutch source recalled, the manager intended ‘to reveal [to Prescott Bush] the truth about Baron Heinrich and the Rotterdam Bank, [in order that] some or all of the Thyssen interests in the Thyssen Group might be seized and confiscated as German enemy property. ‘The manager’s body was found in New York two weeks later.”

(Idem.)

24. A Dutch journalist also experienced a sudden bout of mortality when he attempted to unearth the truth about the Thyssen-Bornemisza empire, nearly fifty years after the death of the Dutch bank manager.

“Similarly, in 1996, a Dutch journalist Eddy Roever went to London to interview the Baron, who was neighbors with Margaret Thatcher. Roever’s body was discovered two days later. Perhaps, Gowen remarked dryly, it was only a coincidence that both healthy men had died of heart attacks immediately after trying to uncover the truth about the Thyssens.”

(Idem.)

25. “Neither Gowen nor his Dutch source knew about the corroborating evidence in the Alien Property Custodian archives or in the OMGUS archives. Together, the two separate sets of U.S. files overlap each other and directly corroborate Gowen’s source. The first set of archives confirms absolutely that the Union Banking Corporation in New York was owned by the Rotterdam Bank. The second set (quoted by Manning) confirms that the Rotterdam Bank in turn was owned by the Thyssens.”

(Ibid.; pp. 4–5)

26. “He [Manning] was very close to uncovering the fact that the Bush’s bank in New York City was secretly owned by the Nazis, before during and after WWII. Once Thyssen ownership of the Union Banking Corporation is proven, it makes out a prima facie case of treason against the Dulles and Bush families for giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war.”

(Ibid.; p. 5)

27. Loftus goes on to demonstrate, from Thyssen-Bornemisza company records, that the Netherlands bank was the key to the Bush/Thyssen money-laundering connection.

“In 1979, the present Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza (Fritz Thyssen’s nephew) prepared a written family history to be shared with his top management. A copy of this thirty-page tome entitled The History of the Thyssen Family and Their Activities was provided by Gowen’s source.”

(Idem.)

28. “Thus, at the beginning of World War II the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart had become the holding of my father’s companies -- a Dutch firm whose only shareholder was a Hungarian citizen. . . Prior to 1929, it held the shares of the August Thyssen Bank, and also American subsidiaries and the Union Banking Corporation, New York. The shares of all the affiliates were [in 1945] with the August Thyssen Bank in the East Sector of Berlin, from where I was able to have them transferred into the West at the last moment. After the war the Dutch government ordered an investigation into the status of the holding company and, pending the result, appointed a Dutch former general manager of my father who turned against our family. . . In that same year, 1947, I returned to Germany for the first time after the war, disguised as a Dutch driver in military uniform, to establish contact with our German directors.’”

(Idem.)

29. “‘The situation of the Group gradually began to be resolved but it was not until 1955 that the German companies were freed from Allied control and subsequently disentangled. Fortunately, the companies in the group suffered little from dismantling. At last we were in a position to concentrate on purely economic problems -- the reconstruction and extension of the companies and the expansion of the organization. The banking department of the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, which also functioned as the Group’s holding company, merged in 1970 with Nederlandse Crediet¬bank N.V. which increased its capital. The Group received 25 per¬cent. The Chase Manhattan Bank holds 31%. The name Thyssen-Bornemisza Group was selected for the new holding company.’ Thus the twin U.S. Archives, Gowen’s Dutch source, and the Thyssen family history all independently confirm that President Bush’s father and grandfather served on the board of a bank that was secretly owned by the leading Nazi industrialists. The Bush connection to these American institutions is a matter of public record. What no one knew, until Gowen’s brilliant research opened the door, was that the Thyssens were the secret employers of the Bush family.”

(Idem.)

30. The Loftus article deals with the Bush family’s awareness of the Thyssen-Bornemisza connection and its implications.

“But what did the Bush family know about their Nazi connection and when did they know it? As senior managers of Brown Brothers Harriman, they had to have known that their American clients, such as the Rockefellers, were investing heavily in German corporations, including Thyssen’s giant Vereinigte Stahlwerke. As noted historian Christopher Simpson repeatedly documents, it is a matter of public record that Brown Brother’s investments in Nazi Germany took place under the Bush family stewardship.”

(Ibid.; p. 6)

31. “If Union Bank was not the conduit for laundering the Rockefeller’s Nazi investments back to America, then how could the Rockefeller-controlled Chase Manhattan Bank end up owning 31% of the Thysssen group after the war? It should be noted that the Thyssen group (TBG) is now the largest industrial conglomerate in Germany, and with a net worth of more than $50 billion dollars, one of the wealthiest corporations in the world. TBG is so rich it even bought out the Krupp family, famous arms makers for Hitler, leaving the Thyssens as the undisputed champion survivors of the Third Reich. Where did the Thyssens get the start-up money to rebuild their empire with such speed after World War II? The enormous sums of money deposited into the Union Bank prior to 1942 is the best evidence that Prescott Bush knowingly served as a money launderer for the Nazis.”

(Idem.)

32. “A fortune this size could only have come from the Thyssen profits made from rearming the Third Reich, and then hidden, first from the Nazi tax auditors, and then from the Allies. The Bushes knew perfectly well that Brown Brothers was the American money channel into Nazi Germany, and that Union Bank was the secret pipeline to bring the Nazi money back to America from Holland. The Bushes had to have known how the secret money circuit worked because they were on the board of directors in both directions: Brown Brothers out, Union Bank in. Moreover, the size of their compensation is commensurate with their risk as Nazi money launderers. In 1951, Prescott Bush and his father-in-law each received one share of Union Bank stock, worth $750,000 each. One and a half million dollars was a lot of money in 1951.”

(Idem.)

33. Further developing the subject of the disposition of the post-war disposition of the Bush/Nazi assets, the program highlights the placing of the Bush/Third Reich assets in a blind trust for George H.W. Bush’s heirs, including the current president.

“According to classified documents from Dutch intelligence and U.S. government archives, President George W. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an heir to these profits from the holocaust which were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush.” (“Heir to the Holocaust” by Toby Rogers [Clamor Magazine]; accessed at www.john-loftus.com/Thyssen.htm .)

34. Much of the conclusion of the program focuses on the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company, in turn controlled by the Bush/ Harriman venture called The Harriman 15 Corporation. (For more about this program, see, among other broad¬casts, FTR#361.)

“Averell Harriman and Prescott Bush reestablished a holding company called The Harriman 15 Corporation. One of the companies Harriman had held stock in was the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation. . . On March 19, 1934, Prescott Bush handed Averell Harriman a copy of that day’s New York.”

(Ibid.; p. 6)

35. Because of its proximity to Auschwitz, the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation was one of the firms that utilized the camp’s slave labor capabilities. Prescott Bush allegedly helped to manage some of the Auschwitz labor force.

“Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation was located near the Polish town of Oswiecim, one of Poland’s richest mineral regions. That was where Hitler set up the Auschwitz concentration camp. . . The prisoners of Auschwitz who were able to work were shipped to 30 different companies. One of the companies was the vast Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation. ‘Nobody’s made the connection before between Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, Auschwitz and Prescott Bush,’ John Loftus told Clamor. ‘That was the reason why Auschwitz was built there. The coal deposits could be processed into either coal or additives for aviation gasoline. . . A portion of the slave labor force in Poland was ‘managed by Prescott Bush,’ according to a Dutch intelligence agent.”

(Ibid.; p. 7)

36. The program concludes with review of the connection between the liquidation of UBC and the genesis of George H.W. Bush’s business ventures.

“That money enabled Bush to help his son, George Herbert Walker Bush, to set up his first royalty firm, Overby Development Company, that same year. It was also helpful when Prescott Bush left the business world to enter the public arena in 1952 with a successful senatorial campaign in Connecticut. On October 8th, 1972, Prescott Bush died of cancer and his will was enacted soon after. In 1980, when George H.W. Bush was elected vice president, he placed his father’s family inheritance in a blind trust. The trust was managed by his old friend and quail hunting partner, William ‘Stamps’ Farish III. Bush’s choice of Farish to manage the family wealth is quite revealing in that it demonstrates that the former president might know exactly where some of his inheritance originated. Farish’s Grandfather, William Farish Jr., on March 25th 1942, pleaded ‘no contest’ to conspiring with Nazi Germany while president of Standard Oil in New Jersey. He was described by Senator Harry Truman in public of approaching ‘trea¬son’ for profiting off the Nazi war machine. Standard Oil invested millions in IG Farben, who opened a gasoline factory within Auschwitz in 1940.”

(Ibid.; pp.8–9)
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Nada Management Organisation
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The Federal Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday confirmed it had ordered the accounts of the Nada Management Organisation blocked on suspicion that the firm had possible links to the September 11 attacks. No details were given about the amounts frozen or the banks concerned. The move comes after the United States asked Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein and the Bahamas to block all assets belonging to the Nada Management Organisation, which was previously known as al-Taqwa. Two of the company’s bosses were detained by police for questioning in Lugano on Wednesday, as part of a coordinated operation by Switzerland, Italy and Liechtenstein.

Youssef Mustafa Nada and Ali Ghaleb Himmat were taken into custody after Italian police raided their homes on Wednesday in Campione D’Italia, a tiny Italian enclave in Switzerland, surrounded by canton Ticino. They were later released. Another Nada official, Ahmed Huber, was questioned about al-Taqwa’s activities by Swiss officials in Bern before being released. The Swiss federal prosecutor, Valentin Roschacher, said the investigation was likely to take several months. “We now have enough information to open an inquiry. We seized a lot of documentation on Wednesday, some of which is in Arabic, and it will take a long time to follow the paper trail.”

The US authorities say al-Taqwa is one of several informal cash exchanges – known as “hawalas” – which funnel millions of dollars to terrorists outside the traditional banking system.

Investigators suspect that hawalas also help terrorists acquire material and supplies by acting as front organisations. They believe bin Laden has made use of them to acquire and distribute funds.

Nada Management, founded in 1987 under the name al-Taqwa, is one of the world’s largest financial institutions dedicated to Muslim clients and Islamic business activities. One elemental service these groups provide is the hawala exchange system, by which small amounts of money — usually less than $1,000 — are transferred to other hawala agencies around the world. A sum of money or valuable can be brought to a hawala agency in Europe, for example, where a phone call to a network office in the Middle East or Asia will free up a corresponding amount at the desired destination.

The transaction is almost immediate, based entirely on trust and requires no certification that might leave a paper trail. Western antiterror experts suspect such unregulated transactions allow millions of dollars to be funneled to Islamist groups engaged in terror.

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Youssef Mustafa Nada, Leading member of Nada Management
Abdullah Al-Qaradawi, Leading member of Nada Management
Mariam Al-Sheikh A. Bin Aziz Al-Mubarak, Leading member of Nada Management
Ahmed Idriss Nasreddin, Leading member of Nada Management
Nada Management Organisation, Linked to Al-Taqua Bank
Ali Ghaleb Himmat, Linked to Nada Management
Ahmed Huber, Linked to Nada Management
Ahmad Idris Nasr al-Dill, Linked to Nada Management
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Re: Nada Management (Al Taqwa): Italian police detain two Eg

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Terror suspect sues Swiss government
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June 1, 2006

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Italian police and journalists in front of the villa of Nada Management in Lugano at the start of the investigation (Keystone)

The founder of a now-defunct Muslim firm suspected of al-Qaeda links is suing the Federal Prosecutor's Office for financial damages.

Youssef Nada said he was suing because of financial losses incurred resulting from a three-and-a-half year investigation that was dropped exactly one year ago.

"It was all wrong," Nada, the 75-year-old founder and former managing director of Nada Management, formerly known as al-Taqwa, said at his home in Italy near the Swiss border on Thursday. "Switzerland was mistaken and misled."

The Swiss began investigating the company shortly after the September 11 attacks on Washington and New York. The US government says al-Taqwa helped fund Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.

But Switzerland was forced to drop the case against top officials of the company on July 1, 2005 because they said authorities in the Bahamas had failed to provide essential bank records by a court deadline.

US officials accused al-Taqwa of sending al-Qaeda money through Malta and Switzerland to bank branches in the Bahamas.

Nada confirmed media reports in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino that he was seeking "tens of millions of Swiss francs", but would not specify the exact amount.

Hansjuerg Mark Wiedmer, spokesman for the prosecutor's office in the Swiss capital, Bern, declined to comment on whether a lawsuit had been brought.

No charges

Nada and a Syrian born associate, Ali Himmat, 67, founded al-Taqwa in 1988, according to Swiss officials. The company was based in Ticino until it was liquidated in December 2001, soon after the investigation began.

A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo has said al-Taqwa was set up to provide banking services in Europe according to Islamic principles, which forbids the paying of interest.

The company has been listed by the United States since late 2001 as an organisation accused of helping fund terrorism. Nada, Himmat and three Swiss citizens on al-Taqwa's board were listed individually.

After the publication of the list in 2001, police raided the firm's headquarters in Lugano and hauled away vanloads of documents. They also searched the homes of Nada and Himmat in Italy.

Swiss authorities blocked the accounts of the company and the personal accounts of board members, while neighbouring Liechtenstein froze the accounts of an affiliate firm, the fiduciary company Asat Trust.

But the prosecutor's office never filed charges or made arrests. Company officials have repeatedly denied links to terrorism and accused Swiss authorities of taking part in a US-led anti-Muslim campaign.

Although the prosecutor's office removed its block from the bank accounts of the company and its officers, they remain frozen because of UN sanctions targeting those on the US list.

Court criticism

In May 2005 the Federal Criminal Court ruled that prosecutors should have given further reasons for the allegations made against Lugano-based Nada Management and its director in 2001.

It added that Nada, who had been demanding an end to proceedings since 2002, should have been advised of specific charges.

The court also said there was no reason for the prosecutor's office to have taken so long to decide whether to hand the case over to a tribunal.

It also criticised prosecutors for claiming late in 2004 that they were about to launch judicial proceedings.

The prosecutor's office was ordered to pay SFr3,000 ($2,514) in damages to Nada.

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Key facts

September 15, 2001: federal prosecutor launches investigation following the attacks in the United States.
October 24, 2001: investigation is extended to include the activities of Nada Management.
November 7, 2001: Swiss police raid the company's premises and seize documents.
May 2004: investigation still in its preliminary phase, with no judicial proceedings launched.
May 2005: Prosecutors are given until the end of the month to decide whether to pursue the case.
June 1, 2005: Prosecutors halt investigation due to lack of evidence.
June 1, 2006: Nada sues Federal Prosecutor's Office for financial damages.
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Swiss Probe: Anti-U.S. Neo-Nazi Suspected Financial Ties to Al Qaeda
by Jay Bushinsky
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March 12, 2002

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(03-12) 04:00 PST Bern, Switzerland -- At the behest of President Bush, Swiss law authorities are investigating an alliance between Islamic militants and European neo-Nazis who have allegedly been providing financial support to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.

Experts say Islamic militants and far-right movements -- a coalition they call the Third Position -- share common hatreds: the United States and Jews.

"Extremists manage to find ways to put aside their differences and find common cause," Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said recently.

The central figure in the probe is Ahmed Huber, a 74-year-old Swiss convert to Islam who says the "Zionist Israel lobby controls the U.S. government and mass media and shapes U.S. policy."

Nada Management, the Bern company Huber helps direct, has been singled out publicly by President Bush.

Huber, a gregarious and outspoken former journalist who spent three decades covering the Swiss Parliament for a socialist newspaper, is a strong supporter of Germany's neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) and such extreme-right politicians as France's Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Huber serves on the board of directors of Nada Management. Founded by a Swiss Nazi and formerly known as al Taqwa Bank, the consulting and management firm is part of the international al Taqwa group, which the United States believes has long acted as a financial adviser to al Qaeda.

"Al Taqwa is an association of offshore banks and financial management firms that have helped al Qaeda shift money around the world," Bush said on Nov. 7. The U.S. government has frozen Huber's assets and is pressuring the Swiss government to arrest him for his alleged role in the al Qaeda money network.

Swiss investigators say Huber's travels on the Muslim lecture circuit in Western Europe and North America brought him into contact with bin Laden's followers. Huber has admitted to meeting with associates of the Saudi exile, describing them as "discreet, well-educated, very intelligent people." But he denies that Nada Management underwrites al Qaeda activities.

During an interview in his study, lined with books and portraits and photographs of Adolf Hitler, Richard Wagner, Ayatollah Khomeini, Haj Amin al- Husseini (the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem) and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Huber expressed his views to a Chronicle correspondent.

"The U.S. is the ally of 15 million Jews against 1.3 billion Muslims; it is allied with 5 million Israelis against 200 million Arabs," he said. "We will bring down the Israel lobby and change foreign policy. We'll do it in America. When it happens, you'll understand."

Huber minimizes his role on Nada Management's board of directors, saying he is a minor player who receives only $1,500 annually in compensation. He says the company's sponsors are mostly wealthy Muslims from Malaysia and the Persian Gulf states who specialize in projects "beneficial to Third World countries -- like new roads, clinics, agricultural development."

But Hansjuerg Mark Wiedmer, a spokesman for the Swiss attorney general, disagrees. His office has been investigating Nada Management's activities in Switzerland, Germany and the United States for the past six months.

"There have been indications that al Taqwa could have been financing al Qaeda," he said. "Since Sept. 11, we have been seeking criminal connections. We had been on their trail before but did not have enough evidence to open criminal proceedings. This has changed."

Wiedmer says the data he has gathered have been made available to U.S. authorities, but he specified that if charges are eventually filed, the "culprits" will be tried in a Swiss court.

Three other Nada Management board members have also been questioned by Swiss, Italian and U.S. authorities: Youssef Nada, an Egyptian expatriate who has Italian citizenship; Ali Himmat, a Syrian national; and Mohamed Mansour, a Zurich resident.

Nada lives in Campione d'Italia, a tiny Italian enclave and tax haven near the southern Swiss city of Lugano. Three months ago, Campione police raided Nada Management's local office and confiscated records and documents.

The Nada Management board is assisted by a committee of Muslim scholars headed by Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian linked to his country's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. The committee's purpose is to make sure Nada conforms to Islamic doctrine such as a ban on interest rates.

Huber's longtime Swiss nemesis is Jean-Claude Buhrer, a correspondent for the prominent French daily Le Monde. Buhrer recently cited a column published in Morgenstern, a newspaper read by surviving former members of Germany's wartime Waffen SS, in which Huber said Muslims and Nazis were involved in the same fight.

"This is tantamount to a marriage between the swastika and the (Islamic) crescent," wrote Buhrer.

Buhrer also assailed Huber for denying the scope of the Nazi Holocaust and for being a faithful disciple of Francois Genoud, a Swiss lawyer who funded Hitler and served as a German agent during World War II.

After the war, Genoud underwrote the clandestine Odessa organization, which,

according to famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, enabled such notorious Nazi fugitives as Adolf Eichmann, Alois Brunner and Klaus Barbie to escape to South America and the Middle East.

Authorities believe Genoud founded al Taqwa Bank and allocated its resources to support international terrorists such as Vladimir Ilich Ramirez, alias Carlos the Jackal, and bin Laden.

Genoud committed suicide in 1996, shortly after Jewish leaders and Swiss banking officials announced an unprecedented agreement to set up a commission to examine secret bank and government files to search for funds deposited in Switzerland by Holocaust victims, according to Buhrer.

Over the years, Genoud paid French attorney Jacques Verges to defend Ramirez and Barbie and also covered the legal expenses of Eichmann before an Israeli court in 1961. He also subsidized Khomeini's prolonged exile in France when Iran was governed by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.

Genoud's admiration for Khomeini is shared by Huber. "'He was a fantastic man," Huber said.
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