We might as well dig out any corruption out there.
US State Department sponsors training of would-be
terrorists

By Al Martin

HUNTSVILLE, AL, Sept. 7, 2001—The US State Department
sponsors the training of would-be terrorists at the
Redstone Arsenal's Hazardous Devices School, which offers
"explosive ordinance disposal training."

This is the most exclusive explosives school in the
United States. It's where firemen, policemen, and
municipal bomb squads are trained. It also provides
training for the US armed forces, FBI, CIA, as well as
foreign army and intelligence personnel. This is the most
elite of the munitions schools in the United States and
it's part of the Redstone Arsenal complex.

This facility is not run by the US Army or by the
military. It is technically run by US State Department
employee Ray Funderberg, who's been covertly in charge of
it for about 20 years. An added note—although Funderberg
works for the State Department, he dresses in a US Army
Colonel's uniform. Official records indicate that he
supposedly works for the FBI

According to a reliable source, one of the Iranians
involved in the bombing of the World Trade Center in New
York, took training courses at the Redstone Arsenal's
school of explosives. He enrolled in this course under
the guise of a Pakistani military officer with Pakistani
uniform and credentials. This is important to note
because Al Martin Raw has previously reported that many
hostile nations have a visible presence at the US
Redstone Arsenal. Evidently "terrorists," as well
as regular armed forces and intelligence officers, are
also being "trained" at the Redstone Arsenal.

In other news, five new shipments of
"marshmallows" (anti-personnel land mines) have
left the Redstone Arsenal. And last week the Friendly
Colonel wass once again doing business under the
"Gulf Coast Trucking and Receiving" moniker.

An inside source wants the Friendly Colonel to provide
the State Department employment forms necessary to bring
more people in. One of the arms merchants has a deal with
the Russians to bring Palestinians into this explosives
training program.

For instance, Palestinians would be brought
in—technically as members of the Chinese (Taiwan) Army,
even though they are Palestinians. They would hardly pass
as "Chinese," but since nobody cares, it's a done
deal. Al Martin Raw readers should understand that no one
asks any questions about any thing at the Redstone
Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.

In fact, there are two Palestinians being trained there
now in "explosives." As mentioned before, none of
them are who they appear to be. It's all just convenience
for paperwork. In case the Redstone Arsenal gets
investigated, they will claim, "No, these people are
legitimate; here's the paperwork."

Suddenly an Afghani guy named Mohammed Habib winds up
being a Colonel Sven Larssen in the Swedish Army. This is
an actual case. And it shows just how ridiculous it is.

This deception at the Hazardous Devices School is really
another School of Americas story. The Friendly Colonel is
being offered a $12,000 fee per person to fill out the
appropriate State department documents to allow people
into the United States on green cards for short
stays—30-, 60-, 90-day stays—and to enlist foreign
nationals into this program. What they're doing is using
this program as a cover to bring people in to be trained
at the explosives school. The US State Department is
actually conspiring with foreign arms merchants and the
governments they represent to allow hostile foreign
nationals to come to the United States using false
documents to be trained at this facility.

They're asking the Friendly Colonel if he would
"hire" these people as "trucking agents."
(See previous story, Marshmallow Business Is Booming). To
make this offer even more appealing, the Colonel is
guaranteed that "there will be no heat"–because
the US State Department is complicit. This is a standing
offer to him from the State Department–to provide false
documents for these foreign nationals for $12,000 each.

Aiding in this enormous illegal covert operation of the
United States Government, the Colonel expects to make a
million dollars by this time next year.

It is our opinion that these illicit operations at the
Redstone Arsenal and adjoining facilities—US Missile
Command, etc.—now exceed the volumes of money and
egregious conduct of Iran-Contra itself. Now there are
thousands of people involved making millions of dollars.

At lunch, the brigadier general and others involved were
all licking their chops at the new F-22 Raptor program.
They can't wait for that to get scaled up. There will be
many Chinese arms merchants who will supply fraudulent
spare parts that don't work as usual. They're looking at
this program as "a fresh source to defraud more
billions with the Department of Defense with the
complicity of senior officers through a complex offshore
network of arms dealers, not only foreign arms dealers,
but cutouts for American corporations that are producing
components and systems for this aircraft.

The bottom line is that we are training individuals and
foreign military personnel who are hostile to the United
States.

Al Martin Raw readers should also understand how the
fraud is systemic, how the fraud is all inter-connected,
and how conspiratorial the fraud is, namely that it's all
being controlled by an elite group that runs through
foreign governments, the Department of Defense, and
defense contractors.

Their agenda is clear—terrorism is good for business.
Terrorism pumps up everybody's budgets, especially
defense, law enforcement, interdiction, etc.

As long as we can keep "foreign terrorism" alive,
everyone benefits—the Department of Defense, the CIA,
Department of State, the National Security Agency and
many others. They can all ask for more money in their
budgets by pointing to the "terrorists." We are
in effect augmenting that threat, making sure it stays
alive and healthy, so that federal agencies can be funded
with ever-increasing amounts of money, especially those
agencies that do not have to account for the expenditures
of those monies.

They don't have to account for the missing monies because
even if they're nominally supposed to account for their
budgets they don't. Witness the missing $1.1 trillion
from the Department of Defense (See
www.insightmag.com/archive/200109031.shtml)

The brigadier general who's in charge was actually
concerned because he and his associates (higher-ranking
generals in the Department of Defense, who are committing
these frauds) have been notified by the foreign banks
where they have deposits that their deposits have grown
to such enormous amounts of money that they are
unmanageable. They are being asked to transfer their
money into other offshore illicit accounts. Some of the
banks they're doing business with are very small and
obscure offshore banks that simply can not handle such
enormous flows of money.

But you can understand the enormity of the fraud, when
you're talking about trillions of dollars. This fraud is
deep and systemic and involves a conspiracy of thousands
of high ranking military officers, high ranking State
Department officials, Department of Justice officials,
CIA, National Security Agency officials, etc. and their
"foreign counterparts."

This is the "Very Real Vast Right Wing
Conspiracy," which has never been called to an
accounting

Now the Russians are coming on board with the ABM missile
treaty. It can be predicted that the Russians will drop
their objections to our development of an ABM system in
exchange for advanced US military technology, with which,
by the way, we are already supplying the Russians and
covertly rearming them. That was just an offer on the
table, yet we are already supplying the Russians with US
highly advanced technology.

Like the notorious School of Americas which trained
foreign nationals in American torture, interrogation and
warfare techniques, the US State Department trains
"terrorists."

In the final analysis, though, nothing is new. The United
States Government has covertly sponsored these activities
in the past, especially during "Iran-Contra" and
"Iraq-Gate." We virtually built the Iraqi
military and there are many past correlations. For
instance, the US did not stop supplying Iraq with illegal
weapons systems until three days before the beginning of
the Gulf War.

During "Iran-Contra," the US allowed the
Sandinista regime to deal in narcotics so they could
generate revenues to purchase more East Bloc weapons in
order to become a greater threat to the US, so we could
counter that threat by building the Contra Army in which
all sorts of fraud against the American taxpayers,
corporations, security firms, and banks could be hidden

It is interesting to note that the Sandinista regime used
two of the same companies to purchase weapons for the
Contras as well as the Sandinistas. These companies were
TransWorld Armaments Corp, based in Quebec City and owned
by the infamous Immanuel von Weigensburg and Defcon
Industries of Lisbon, Portugal, a CIA-controlled arms
merchant cutout also controlled by Major General Richard
V. Secord, as noted in the famous Lake Resources lawsuit
(United States v. Richard Secord, cv 1202-A 1991 Eastern
District Court of Virginia) . [See "The Conspirators:
Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider"]

Iraq Gate and Iran Contra are perfect examples of how
similar these two operations are compared to what's going
on now.

We are creating an enemy and we are also supporting
existing enemies for the purpose of enriching a small
clique of defense contractors, senior military and
intelligence officers, and politicians on the right. We
are financing terrorism against us as well as attempting
to rebuild Russia and then build China into a new power
under the concept that covert wars are very profitable.

The "Fight Against Terrorism" has done an awful
lot for the Republican Party. And it has enriched a lot
of people and corporations.

The drumbeat against "terrorism" continues full
speed ahead.

AL MARTIN is America's foremost whistle-blower on
government fraud and corruption. A retired US Navy Lt.
Commander and former officer in the Office of Naval
Intelligence, he has testified regarding Iran-Contra
before Congress (the Kerry Committee and the Alexander
Committee).