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The Darkened HourPost 9/11 Terrorism Resurgence: Our Foreign Policy Helps Create The Fundamentalist ThreatIn 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...2025-08-0337 minThe Darkened HourA Vulgar Betrayal Of FBI Agent Robert Wright Jr.: How The Agency Maligned It's OwnRobert 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 t...2025-05-301h 02The Darkened HourMalfeasance,, Conspiracy & Coverup: How Were The 9/11 Attacks SuccessfulIn 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.
2025-04-2551 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Mark Rossini (The US Embassy Bombings & The Congressional Investigation That Never Was)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 th...2025-03-311h 11The Darkened HourThe CIA & Omar Abdel Rahman: Terrorism ConjoinedIn 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...2025-03-2235 minThe Darkened HourThe FBI's PENTTBOM Investigation Into The Israeli Nationals Of September 11th 2001In 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...2025-02-011h 11The Darkened HourInvestigating Torture & White House War Powers: The FBI's & CIA's Final ConclusionsIn 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...2024-12-2855 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Sarah Adams & Guido (Al Qaeda 2.0: The Upcoming Attack On The United States & Europe Unveiled)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 or...2024-11-0957 minThe Darkened HourPlanning Terrorism: The 2000 Al Qaeda Meeting In MalaysiaIn 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...2024-09-0935 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Richard Kammen (Tortured Justice: Guantanamo Bay)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 G...2024-08-051h 08The Darkened HourAn Interview With Alka Pradhan (Lawyer For 9/11 Defendant Ammar al-Baluchi)Alka Pradhan is an American human rights attorney who has represented Guantanamo Bay detainees, civilian drone strike victims, and other torture victims. She currently works for the U.S. Department of Defense, Military Commissions Defense Organization and represents Ammar al-Baluchi in the case of United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Pradhan also works as a defense attorney at the International Criminal Court.
Additionally, she is an active participant in the UN human rights mechanisms, with submissions or presentations on behalf of clients to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the UN Committee Against Torture, the Hu...2024-07-281h 02The Darkened HourNew Evidence For Saudi Government's Alleged Involvement With Two 9/11 Hijackers While Inside The United StatesAccording to breaking reports from 60 Minutes and Florida Bulldog, video footage shot by a Saudi government employee, Omar al-Bayoumi, which was obtained by news outlets shows a group of men driving around a neighborhood and sometimes pointing out landmarks like the White House, the Washington Monument and the Capitol building. Also, a cell phone linked to a top Saudi prince was also used to contact two future 9/11 hijackers which was never used again, shows that there very well could be a direct connection between certain individuals within the Saudi Kingdom and the 9/11 hijackers and the attacks.
Investigators...2024-07-0756 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Seth Hettena (The CIA, FBI & The Guantanamo Defendants Charged For The 9/11 Attacks)Seth Hettena is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a freelance journalist. He reports on politics, organized crime, and international affairs. From 1997-2006, Hettena was a reporter and correspondent at The Associated Press in Detroit, Sacramento, Baltimore, and San Diego. Prior to that, he worked at two small newspapers in Iowa. He is the author of two books, Trump/Russia: A Definitive History and Feasting on the Spoils: The Life and Times of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, History's Most Corrupt Congressman. He is also runs a Weekly column at SpyTalk where we will discuss two of his articles at...2024-05-1958 minThe Darkened HourAn Illicit Confession: The Capture, Rendition & Torture Of Khalid Sheikh MohammedIn this episode, i talk about the capture and eventual torture of the man alleged to have operated and planned the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Mohammed was captured while hiding in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on March 1st 2003. While in CIA custody, Mohammed underwent various torture methods, also known as, the enhanced interrogation techniques. Mohammed was subjected to punching to the face and stomach, sleep deprivation, rectal rehydration and waterboarding. He was transferred to various countries where secret CIA black sites were held including, Poland, Lithuania, Afghanistan and Romania.
As of September 2006, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a...2024-02-1759 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Cole Bunzel (Wahhabism: The History Of A Militant Islamic Movement)Cole M. Bunzel is a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian and Arabist, he studies the history and contemporary affairs of the Islamic Middle East, with a particular focus on violent Islamism and the Arabian Peninsula. He is the editor of the blog Jihadica and has written widely on the ideology of Sunni jihadism. His current book project, "Wahhabism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement" which draws on an array of rare manuscripts and other primary sources in Arabic, provides a new account of the history and doctrine of Wahhabism, the puritanical Islamic revivalist movement...2024-01-2549 minThe Darkened HourThe 9/11 Congressional Inquiries: A Comprehensive BreakdownIn this episode, i conduct a detailed report on the two 9/11 congressional investigations, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9/11 Commission and the The Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. I will be speaking in regards to the various failures of the state and federal levels of government and our domestic intelligence services between the Clinton and Bush administration. This will be a comprehensive breakdown of those failures and also i add some additional information in between making it clear that we still have...2024-01-081h 56The Darkened HourGuantanamo Bay Prison: Where Truth Goes To DieAfter the terrorist events of September 11th 2001, the Bush White House, led by its legal counsel, drafted memorandums that would not only infringe on the rights of detained foreign prisoners, but also deny them any protections afforded to them by the Geneva Conventions. The State Department also authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to implement a strategy at obtaining information "through any means necessary". So in 2002, the CIA would hire Mitchell, Jessen and Associates, to conduct a method on detainees entitled the SERE program where acts of torture would be implemented by captured prisoners to elicit information. Most of...2023-12-2048 minThe Darkened Hour9/11: The Unscripted History Past & PresentIn this special episode of the Darkened Hour, i bring a very laid back attitude and offer some personal and direct thoughts on multiple facets of the 9/11 attacks before and after that i never entertained before! The conversation centers on various areas that include the intelligence services, radical arab fundamentalism, Israel and Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 truth movement. Who, What, When, Where, Why and How, i offer many differing thoughts on these questions while also explaining how i become involved with 9/11 and what we need in the future to open a new criminal investigation.
2023-11-233h 18The Darkened HourAn Interview With Ray Holcomb (Endless Enemies: Inside FBI Counterterrorism)Ray Holcomb has over 30 years’ experience as a law enforcement and intelligence officer. He served for 23 years as an FBI Special Agent; 8 as a Strategic Planner with the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC); and 4 as a state Homeland Security Advisor. Ray’s FBI career included 15 years investigating foreign espionage, major drug trafficking organizations, organized crime and National Security matters. He also served as a member of the FBI’s New York office SWAT team and was appointed Commander of the team from 1998 to 2001. Under Ray’s leadership, the NY SWAT team assumed an expanded role, being involved in high risk domestic...2023-10-1032 minThe Darkened Hour1996 Afghanistan: The Taliban, Bin Laden & The Intelligence CommunityIn this episode, i cover the period of Afghanistan between, 1992-1996, and the Taliban's war against the Northern Alliance while giving refuge to Osama Bin Laden, and Al Qaeda which became a brewing cesspool that would later shape the Middle East for decades to come and the rest of the world forever. Were the CIA and Pakistan ISI partly responsible for facilitating the fundamnetlist problem while arming them against the Soviets ten years prior? Or was this a case of willful ignorance and malfeasance which led to the predicament of international terrorism that simply reacted to US foreign policy? 2023-09-171h 17The Darkened Hour9/11 Special Edition Collab With Sean RussellWith the eve of the 22nd anniversary of the SEptember 11th 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States coming up Monday, myself and 9/11 researcher and co-host of the "Beyond Ground Zero" podcast, Sean Russell talk about various topics relating to 9/11. They include, US-Israeli Foreign Policy, 1993 WTC Bombing, the aftermath of the Soviet-Afghan war, Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, CIA-NSA surveillance of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the mid 90's, the Al Qaeda communications hub in Yemen, and addressing the false conspiracies pushed by certain mainstream media and the fringe elements of the 9/11 Truth Movement. This episode is dedicated...2023-09-102h 36The Darkened HourAn Interview With Tom Parker (Avoiding The Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism)Tom Parker is the Project Coordinator for Counterterrorism Programming in Nigeria at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). He is also the author of “Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism.” Parker is an experienced counter-terrorism practitioner, having formerly been Chief of Party of a European Union project providing assistance to the Office of the National Security Adviser in Baghdad, Iraq and also previously serving as an adviser on human rights and counter-terrorism to the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF).
Avoiding the Terrorist Trap...2023-09-041h 14The Darkened HourAn Interview With Michael Scheuer (CIA Chief Of Bin Laden Issue Station)Michael Scheuer is the former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit. He resigned from CIA in November 2004 after nearly two decades of experience in covert action and National Security issues related to Afghanistan, South Asia, and the Middle East. He is the author of the book, Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq. He also wrote Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terrorism, and Through Our Enemies Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America.
Scheuer holds a B.A., two M.A.’s, and a Ph. D. Sc...2023-08-131h 48The Darkened HourAn Interview With Mansoor Adaiyfi (Former Guantanamo Prisoner & Author Of ’Don’t Forget Us Here’)Mansoor Adayfi born in Sanaa'Yemen was held without charge in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba from February 9, 2002, to July 11, 2016. On July 11, 2016, he and a Tajikistani captive were transferred to Serbia. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 441. Al-Dayfi came to prominence in 2022 when he alleged that Florida governor Ron DeSantis oversaw beatings and force-feedings of detainees at Guantanamo He now lives in Belgrade, Serbia where he writes, creates artwork, and advocates for prisoner and detainee rights. His memoir of his time at Guantánamo, "Don’t Forget Us Here", was published in 2021 by Hachette Books.
...2023-07-241h 25The Darkened HourAn Interview With Brett Eagleson (9/11 Justice)Brett Eagleson is the son of the late John Bruce Eagleson who worked for Westfield Management Corp. on the 17th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center whom perished on September 11th 2001. Brett Eagleson is currently the CEO of 9/11 Justice, a grassroots movement made up of the 9/11 community, which consists of 9/11 survivors, first responders, family members of those lost, and all volunteers and lower Manhattan residents, students and workers who are now suffering fatal illnesses due to their exposure to Ground Zero.
Today Brett, and other 9/11 victim family members, have hired law firms Motley R...2023-07-1150 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview with Carol Hellermann (The Attempted Hijacking Of American Airlines Flight 1)Carol Hellermann is a former American Airlines flight attendant for Flight 1 in which 3 arab men who argued about not having to fly on September 11th 2001 when the flight could not take off due to a ground stop. Meanwhile 4 days after 9/11, Hellermann found out that those men were planning to crash into the Sears Tower in Chicago.. Hellermann is speaking out about how there were likely a dozen more planes and targets than the FBI or anyone has ever admitted. Because of employment contract restrictions
Hellermann could not speak out about what took place, and since retiring from...2023-06-2456 minThe Darkened HourBin Laden Declares War: The 1998 US Embassy Bombings In Kenya & TanzaniaIn 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...2023-06-041h 42The Darkened HourAn 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 Counter...2023-05-131h 07The Darkened HourAn 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 th...2023-05-0744 minThe Darkened HourGenesis 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 t...2023-04-232h 26The Darkened HourGenesis 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...2023-04-091h 50The Darkened HourAn 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 Y...2023-04-0243 minThe Darkened HourAn 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...2023-03-141h 22The Darkened HourAn 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...2023-03-131h 44The Darkened HourAn 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 Guantána...2023-02-191h 53The Darkened HourThe Gerald Shea Memorandum: An Israeli Intelligence Sting Involving The Monitoring Of 9/11 Hijackers And AssociatesIn 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...2023-02-0639 minThe Darkened HourWhat Did They Know? The NSA Signals Intelligence Operation Of Osama Bin Laden & Al Qaeda NetworkThe 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...2023-01-231h 00The Darkened HourAn 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...2022-12-2052 minThe Darkened HourA US Government Standstill: How The September 11th Terrorist Attacks Were SuccessfulAs 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...2022-12-0434 minThe Darkened HourUrban 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...2022-11-251h 26The Darkened HourThe 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...2022-11-2041 minThe Darkened HourThe Bush White House War On The Constitution: How 9/11 Gave Unchecked Authority To Bush, CIA And The NSAIn the immediate aftermath of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, US President George W. Bush, along with members of the White House Legal Counsel, went to work on circumventing domestic laws and the Constitution on two programs. The bypassing of the Geneva Convention for those suspected or labeled "enemy combatants" and the NSA warrantless wiretapping of Americans. On September 14th 2001, the Senate voted unanimously, 420 to 1, to expand on more unlimited War Powers for the President. John Yoo, Deputy Chief of the Justice Department, and Timothy Flanagan, lawyer for the White House Counsel Office, began to draft legislation by passing...2022-11-0538 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With James Corbett (False Flags: The Secret History Of Al Qaeda)James Corbett is an award-winning investigative journalist, who has lectured on geopolitics at the University of Groningen's Studium Generale, and delivered presentations on open source journalism at The French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation's fOSSa conference, at TedXGroningen and at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. He started The Corbett Report website in 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics. Since then he has written, recorded and edited thousands of hours of audio and video media for the website, including a podcast and several regular online video series. His latest series "False...2022-10-171h 04The Darkened HourAn Interview With Ben & Erik (The Podcast For The New American Century)Ben and Erik, created a 9/11 geopolitically themed podcast where the public can learn about the obscure anomalies that are found in the "pre-intelligence" operations of September 11th 2001. Along with discussions surrounding US foreign policy, national security, Israel-Saudi policy issues, and foreign intelligence, Ben and Erik tend to bring a "lighter" attitude in these very tenebrous subjects. Relatively new, the PNAC duo are quite learned in their geopolitical discussions which give their listeners a full education on the many various subjects entwined with the terrorist events of September 11th 2001. In today's episode, we speak about Ben and Erik's journey into...2022-10-161h 41The Darkened HourOperation Encore: The FBI’s Investigation Of Saudi Arabia And The September 11 2001 Terrorist AttacksImmediately after the terrorist incidents of September 11th 2001, the FBI conducted the largest criminal inquiry in it's history. Thousands of leads started to come into the bureau, and the Saudi link was impossible to ignore. The operation's code name, PENTTBOM, it's name stands for "Pentagon/Twin Towers Bombing Investigation". The investigation was launched on September 11, 2001, and involved 4,000 special agents and 3,000 professional employees. On September 27, 2001, the FBI released photos of the 19 hijackers, along with information about the possible nationalities and aliases of many. Among the many affiliates and others who assisted logistical and financial support to the 9/11 operatives, were Saudi o...2022-10-091h 23The Darkened HourFacts From Fiction: The September 11th 2001 Terrorist AttacksIn this episode, former guest of the show, Ed Brotherton (WeAreChangeLA) joins me in a laid back discussion of revisiting old stories of how we were led down the path of 9/11 and what we once had believed while studying the geopolitical aspects. We also speak on the actual anomalies involving the single most divisive issue that has literally created a "sectarian" divide of sorts on the 91/1 Truth Movement, the incident over what happend at the Pentagon. The signals intelligence operation involving the National Security Agency (NSA) and their foreign and domestic operations of two Al Qaeda terrorists, Khalid al-Mihdhar...2022-09-092h 01The Darkened HourAn Interview With Ben Howard (The Intelligence Community Involvement In Malfeasance And Coverup Pre-9/11)Ben Howard is an independent researcher. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and daughter. You can follow Ben on Twitter: @housetrotter. Howard has been an ardent, often anonymous, 9/11 and geopolitical writer and student. Just last year he would so-author a 3 part series entitled "The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11" along with Aaron Good and Peter Dale Scott. In this episode, Ben and i discuss the NSA monitor of Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, the Yemen Hub, CIA operations involving surveillance of the Yemen Hub, the high level terrorist summit in Malaysia, the intentional withholding of pertinent information from the...2022-08-301h 26The Darkened HourDying One Thousand Deaths: The Assassination Of Ayman al-Zawahiri21 years after the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington DC, the United States government had announced it assassinated the elusive Egyptian radical cleric and emir of Al Qaeda, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, on July 31st 2022. According to a senior administration official who said "The United States conducted a counterterrorism operation against a significant Al Qaeda target in Afghanistan." That target was living in Kabul City, Afghanistan. However, just how definitive is this report? And what evidence does the US government have to share with the public that it indeed killed the elder statements of the Salafist terrorist orgznaition...2022-08-121h 05The Darkened HourAl Qaeda In Yemen (The USS Cole Bombing Operation)In 1996, Osama Bin Laden's brother in law, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, has started funding a militant group in Yemen called "The Islamic Army Of Aden", named after the port city Aden. By mid 1998, the group starts operations and making political statements and carries about kidnappings and assaults on local law enforcement, similar to what was transpiring in the Philippines, in which Khalifa also runs small businesses and funds the Islamic militant group affiliated with Bin Laden, Abu Sayyaf. US Intelligence however, are quite familiarized with what is happening in Yemen, as the NSA and CIA have begun monitoring an Al...2022-07-3038 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With John Kiriakou (CIA Whistleblower On The White House Torture Program)John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News. He was responsible for the capture in Pakistan in 2002 of Abu Zubaydah, then believed to be the third-ranking official in al-Qaeda. In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program, telling ABC News that the CIA tortured prisoners, that torture was official U.S. government policy, and that the policy had been approved by then-President George W. Bush. He became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act. In 2012, Kiriakou wa...2022-07-2357 minThe Darkened HourThe Case Of Shayna Steinger: How The 9/11 Hijackers Got Inside The United StatesShayna Steinger, was a US visa official working in the Jeddah, Saudi Arabia US consular office, who issued visas to 12 of the 19 hijackers blamed for the attacks of September 11th 2001. The 9/11 Commission Report does not mention her by name, but states that a single official gave visas to 11 of the hijackers - though other information included in the report suggests that the correct number should be 12, a figure Steinger herself has reportedly confirmed. However, Steinger gave verbal testimony to the State Department Inspector General in 2002, in which she stated that it did not matter that all the hijackers’ visa ap...2022-07-0447 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Adam Taylor (Questioning The WTC Collapses)Adam Taylor has been researching the events of September 11th since August of 2007. From 2010 to 2014 he contributed to the blog "Debunking the Debunkers of the 9/11 Truth Movement". He has also contributed technical articles to sites such as AE911Truth.org and ScientificMethod911.org. He is the author of the AE911Truth multi-part essay "Debunking the Real 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality." More recently he's published a paper on the collapse of the Twin Towers in the April edition of the International Journal of Engineering and Techniques. We spoke on the scientific anomalies surrounding World Trade...2022-06-2658 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Richard Cox (Energy Of Empire)The Energy of Empire series by Richard Cox touches on the history of imperialism and questions wether we live in the age of empire still, or have we "evolved" past this age? Yet the United States currently the world empire, seemingly have not "evolved". Richard Cox questions the American political motivations, under the administrations of William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, where he suggests the age of the American empire came to fruition. In this episode, my first returning guest, and co-host of The Darkened Hour, Richard Cox, goes into full detail behind the US imperialist machine and how it...2022-06-231h 07The Darkened HourAn Interview With Ed Brotherton (The Constitutional Militia)Ed Brotherton served in the United States Air Force in the mid 90's. He served with the 60th Security Police Squadron at Travis AFB. He was a member of the Travis Air Face base Emergency Services Team and participated in Operation Sea Signal Joint Task Force 160 providing humanitarian relief for thousands of Haitian and Cuban Refugees. Since leaving the military Ed has taken an interest in legislative history with an emphasis on the two great political philosophies... The Power of the Purse and The Power of the Sword. Today we will be talking about the Power of the Sword.2022-06-051h 06The Darkened HourAn Interview With Mark Fallon (Unjustifiable Means:The Inside Story Of How The CIA, Pentagon And US Government Conspired To Torture)Mark Fallon government service spans more than three decades, and includes serving as the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism, NCIS Chief of Counterintelligence Operations for the Europe, Africa and Middle East Division, and as a Senior Executive in the Department of Homeland Security, as the Assistant Director for Training of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Following the attacks of September 11th, Mark was the Deputy Commander of the military task force established to bring terrorists to justice before Military Commissions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He previously served as the NCIS Commander of t...2022-05-281h 17The Darkened HourThe 1997 Luxor Massacre (Gamma Islamiyah’s Revenge)After years of Egyptian state repression on it's most fervent Islamist sects such as Gamma Islamiyyah and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the followers of one notable Gamma Islamiyah leader, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, saw fit to exact revenge on the Hosni Mubarak led Egyptian government in attacking it's tourism industry. The Luxor massacre was the killing of 62 people, mostly tourists, on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahari, an archaeological site and major tourist attraction across the Nile from Luxor, Egypt. The massacre would end up having a reverberating effects, not just on Egyptian society, but for the world over. As many countries...2022-05-1544 minThe Darkened HourThe Historical Connection Between The CIA & Ukrainian NationalismIn this episode we follow up our previous talk about the Ukrainian uprisings of the last 30 years which led to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to begin covert operations that involved far-right separatist groups who began spying on Soviet influences in the region. Myself and Richard Cox, speak about Operation Aerodynamic, and Mykola Lebed and the nefarious connection with the CIA and how the agency connects with these violent nationalist orgaznaition to use them to suppress Russian influence in the "disputed" territories of Luhansk and Donetsk which led to NATO to expand far eastward. The topic of CIA led...2022-05-0142 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Richard Cox (Contemplating Conspiracy)In today's episode, i interview my co-host of The Darkened Hour, Richard Cox. We speak on Richard's first book, available on Amazon, "Contemplating Conspiracy: Excursions Into Undiluted Madness" . The book covers the elements of fringe conspiracies and realism. Richard's experience into the realm of fringe conspiracy, becoming introduced with known British sports announcer who later delved into the extreme forms of conspiracy, David Icke. Thru Icke, Richard investigates the "secret world" which lead him to understand that between the fringes and the worldly narrative lies a truth which can be known to everyone. They just have to take that...2022-04-2550 minThe Darkened Hour9/11-Saudi Government Connection Revealed (Latest FBI Document Declassification)Adam Fitzgerald, and co-host, Richard Cox speak about the latest 510 page cache of declassified documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (PENTTBOM) into Saudi financing of two Al Qaeda operatives living inside the United States in the year 2000. After the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001, FBI officials, as well as 9/11 Commission panelists, interviewed Saudis such as Omary al-Bayoumi, Osama Basnan and Fahad al-Thumairy who all denied knowing two Al Qaeda operatives who were involved with the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. In today's podcast, we go over the documents which now show their statements...2022-04-1130 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Nick Fielding (Masterminds Of Terror)Nick Fielding is a journalist and author. He has worked for the Sunday Times, the Mail on Sunday and the Independent. At the Mail on Sunday he broke the story of the renegade MI5 officer David Shayler, and for the Sunday Times he covered the story of Richard Tomlinson, a MI6 whistleblower (Fielding is the author of the introduction to Tomlinson's book The Big Breach). He was launch editor for the online magazine, China Outlook, and he writes the Circling the Lions Den blog about Afghanistan. He is the author, together with Yosri Fouda, of Masterminds of Terror, which...2022-03-271h 29The Darkened HourThe Russian-Ukraine Crisis (A History Of Genocide & CIA Covert Operations)In this special episode, Richard Cox and Adam Fitzgerald, speak on the Ukrainian-Russian crisis. Richard opens up the dialogue by explaining the Holodomor Genocide, which was a famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. From there, we speak on the Orange Revolution which took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter intimidation and electoral fraud, in which Viktor Yushchenko won. In the years proceeding this was rife with protests in the...2022-03-051h 12The Darkened HourThe Afghanistan Chessboard: The CIA, Osama Bin Laden, Taliban & Pakistan ISIIn todays episode, The Taliban and the war for Afghanistan. When the Soviet Union negotiated a retreat out of Afghanistan in 1979, it was Pakistan who mediated the talks. However, the civil war between the Afghan factions, most notably, the Northern Alliance under Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leftover communists and the Taliban with Mohammad "Mullah" Omar began as the fight for control of the country left many tens of thousands dead. The Taliban were led by Mullah Omar, who received weapons left behind by the Soviets in trucks, who in turn, quickly took control of most of the South of...2022-02-201h 13The Darkened HourAn Interview With James Schwartz (Arlington County Pentagon Incident Commander)James Schwartz is a senior fellow with the Program on Crisis Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and teaches in the Executive Education programs including, Leadership in Crises, the General and Flag Officer Homeland Security Executive Seminar, and Leadership in Homeland Security. Schwartz is a member of the International Association of Fire Chiefs Committee on Terrorism and Homeland Security which he chaired from 2008 until August 2014. He previously served on the Advisory Council for the Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group (ITACG) and subsequently the Joint Countererrorism Assessment Team (JCAT) at the National Counter Terrorism Center. He also...2022-02-071h 16The Darkened HourThe Hunt For Osama Bin Laden (Operation Jawbreaker)After the September 11th terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headed a multi-operational attack on Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The CIA's hunt for Bin Laden however predated the attacks upon the nation, according to news articles and documented intelligence reports, the agency were monitoring the embittered Saudi for many years while Bin Laden resided in the Sudan after he was forcibly expelled by the Saudis Bin Laden had built training camps and plotted against US military in Somalia with help from Al Qaeda.. US President Bill...2022-01-3047 minThe Darkened HourThe Origins Of Political Islam: The Ways Of The Salafi (A Response To Western Imperialism)In this episode i discuss how the Salafi/Wahhabi ideology which had manifested into a reactive, political Islamic response to Western foreign policy which is often dictated thru Israeli-Gulf lobbyists and their agendas for the Middle East. The responses from terrorist groups led by the Salafi such as the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and most infamously the September 11th 2001 attacks are often visited on the United States. Yet the West continues to show unwavering support to the Saudi Kingdom which propagates the Wahhabi-Salafi faith.
I also quote from those who wage ‘defensive jihad”, which come...2021-12-111h 39The Darkened HourCarl Levin Of The Joint House Inquiry Into 9/11 (A Definitive Report)The Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 was the the official name of the inquiry conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence into the activities of the U.S. Intelligence Community in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks. The selected co-chairs to lead the inquiry were Senator Bob Graham chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence, and Representative Porter Goss, chair of the House Intelligence Committee. The Committee lasted ten months which focused on the domestic intelligence services and their capacity to counter...2021-11-282h 19The Darkened HourMohamedou Ould Salahi (The Mauritanian)In this episode, Richard Cox and myself talk about the story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi and the film based on his life and time while imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba, "The Mauritanian". Slahi was accused of being involved with Al Qaeda and also being the conduit between members of the "Hamburg Cell" at Al Quds mosque in Germany who were allegedly involved with the September 11th 2001 attacks, and Al Qaeda. However, after his lawyer, Nancy Hollander, agreed to take on his case, all the charges against Slahi were made under extraordinary duress under the Central Intelligence Agency "...2021-11-1345 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Coleen Rowley (Minneapolis FBI & Whistleblower)Coleen Rowley had served as a Special Agent with the FBI and was assigned to the Omaha, Nebraska and Jackson, Mississippi divisions. Beginning in 1984, she spent six years working in the New York City field office on investigations involving Italian organized crime and Sicilian heroin. During this time she served three temporary assignments in the U.S. embassy in Paris and the consulate in Montreal. In 1990, she was transferred to the FBI's Minneapolis field office, where she became Chief Division Counsel. Her career with the FBI spanned 24 years. In 2002, Rowley wrote a memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller, detailing...2021-11-061h 42The Darkened HourAn Interview With Robbie Martin (Media Roots Radio)Robbie Martin is a journalist and filmmaker. He writes for the magazine White Fungus and Oakland-based news website Media Roots founded by his sister Abby Martin whom he also co-hosts a regular podcast with. He is the behind the documentaries American Bisque, American Anthrax and A Very Heavy Agenda. Robbie has made appearances on Buzzsaw TV, KPFA’s ‘Project Censored’, Russia Today, The Corbett Report, Brasscheck TV, Ring of Fire TV, Behind The Headline on FreeSpeech TV, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Radio and has been interviewed by La Figaro, the BBC, Neural Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle. In today's...2021-10-311h 52
The Darkened HourAn Interview With Julie Sirrs (Defense Intelligence Agency)Julie Sirrs is a former Middle East analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency (1992-1999). An ardent student of Afghanistan culture, she began by visiting the war torn country after graduating from Georgetown University. After college, she joined the Defense Intelligence Agency. Her analytic experience of Afghanistan and the Taliban was valuable to the DIA and in 1998 she went back to Afghanistan to meet Northern Alliance commanders (Ahmad Shah Massoud) whom were fighting against the Taliban for control of the country. Sirrs said she notified her supervisor of her trip, but her presence in Afghanistan caused a bureaucratic fight involving...2021-10-1035 minThe Darkened HourUnderstanding Afghanistan With Adam FitzgeraldCo-host of The Darkened Hour, Richard Cox, returns to interview Adam Fitzgerald regarding the current state of Afghanistan and the United States military withdrawal of the capitol Kabul in recent weeks leading the Taliban to take complete control of the country. We delve into the history of what precipitated the US invasion in the first place which led to various points starting with the Unocal Pipeline deal with the Taliban, the civil war between Northern Alliance and the Taliban and Al Qaeda training camps in Kandahar. We also talk about the recent book Adam Fitzgerald had read, "Jawbreaker: The A...2021-09-1358 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Dan Christensen (Florida Bulldog)Dan Christensen is the founder and lead investigative reporter of the Florida Bulldog. He is also an award-winning former investigative reporter for The Miami Herald and Daily Business Review. We talk about his ground breakling stories regarding the Saudi lawsuits in the Southern district of New York City, Operation Encore, an FBI investigation involving Musaed al-Jarrah, Fahad al-Thumairy and Omar al-Bayoumi, Abdulaziz al-Hijji a former sarasota native who met with 9/11 hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehi in the days leading up to the attacks, Adnan Gushnair El Shukrijumah a high level Al Qaeda operative who lived in Florida and...2021-08-1757 minThe Darkened HourThe Neoconservatives War Against The Middle East: The Imperialist Agenda Before & After The September 11th Terrorist AttacksIn the late evening hours of September 11th 2001, those in the highest levels of the federal government were gathering as much intelligence as they possible could to piece together just exactly what happened and who was responsible for the attacks earlier in the day. The Central Intelligence Agency and the Counter-terrorism unit were alarmed that their initial suspects who were being tracked by members of the special unit, the Bin Laden Issue Station" were responsible for the hijackings of four planes three of which intentionally crashed into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. George Tenet, CIA Director...2021-08-0833 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Lawrence Wilkerson (Adviser To Secretary Of State Colin Powell)
Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell who has also served as the associate director under the Director for Policy Planning, talks with us about the past, present and future of the United States foreign policy in the Middle East. The Neoconservative, Israeli and Saudi influence on American politics and his thoughts on the Middle East past and present.
The topics Wilkerson speaks at length are numerous which encompass, the office of special plans created by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith. The powerful tentacles of the A...2021-07-251h 15The Darkened HourAn Interview With Terry McDermott (Perfect Soldiers & The Hunt For KSM)A journalist whose career spanned over three decades, Terry McDermott, author of Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers—Who They Were, Why They Did It, and, The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (co-authored with Josh Meyer) is invited to speak about both books today. McDermott covers a wide range of issues relating to what was being planned and known before the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks and we also speak about what happened immediately afterwards. His book Perfect Soldiers, is the only book in existence which covers specifically on the hijackers backgrounds an...2021-07-181h 22The Darkened HourAn Interview With Ken Williams (FBI) (Phoenix Memo)Kenneth Williams is a retired 35 year veteran from the Federal Bureau of Investigation out of Phoenix who worked in counter-terrorism on foreign and domestic issues that included being involved with two major terrorist attacks on the United States, The Oklahoma City Alfred Murrah bombing and the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. Williams conducted a covert operation involving an informant who went by the name Henry Ellen, a Phoenix based businessman who was also a Muslim convert and later went by the name, Abu Yousef. He was able to obtain information about suspicious activities by individuals who had contacts with known...2021-07-111h 37The Darkened HourThe Actual Conspiracies Involving United Airlines Flight 93When United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into an open field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11th 2001, nobody in Somerset County imagined that this horrific incident would be thoughtlessly expressed by the minds of fringe conspiracy theorists who would entertain, repeatedly, irrational theories that would undermine current federal and local investigators looking at foreign intervention and financial assistance into the cooperators of this crime. Or by the federal government who made sure to use the FBI to omit certain information that may be relevant to what took place before and during the hijacking. In time these outlandish theories, which still persist...2021-06-271h 04The Darkened HourA Brief History Into The September 11th 2001 Terrorist Attacks
In this episode, I lend my thoughts about what precipitated the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. In a special edition three hour discussion where I cover many specific areas. They include the Afghan-Soviet War, The Rise of Islamic/Salafi Movement, Osama Bin Laden, Israel-Arab-US Foreign relations, The Paul Wolfowitz Doctrine, The Rise of Neoconservatism, The 1993 WTC Bombing, Bojinka Plot, AIPAC Influence On US Politics 1998 East Africa Bombings, The 2000 Millennium Plot, Nabil al-Marabh, Josie Hadas, Omar Abdel Rahman, Abdullah Azzam, Ramzi Yousef, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Benjamin Netanyahu, Paul Wolfowitz, James R. Bath, George...2021-06-143h 13The Darkened HourThe Godfather Of Jihad, Abdullah Yusuf AzzamIn todays episode we cover the life of one of Islam's most venerated and enigmatic scholars of the century. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was a Palestinian Islamic scholar, author and credited as being the founder of modern day defensive jihad, or "aljihad aldifaeiu" (aldifayou) in the Arabic. In the Quran there are three types of jihad, the jihad against yourself, the jihad against Satan — which are called the greater jihads — and the jihad against an open enemy — known as the lesser jihad. The jihad Azzam had implemented in the madrassas in Pakistan and to the young mujahid in the afghan servic...2021-06-0649 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Erik Kleinsmith (Able Danger)In 1996, a classified military planning effort led by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) constructed a covert meta-data collection operation code named, Able Danger. They employed the US Army's Land Information Warfare Activities Division as the data-miners needed to collect 'open source' information to track terrorist cells inside the United States. Erik Kleinsmith, Army Major and the Chief of Intelligence of the Land Information Warfare Activity (LIWA), was selected to take part of this highly classified unit. The data mining software would be provided by Raytheon Company and Orion Scientific, which helped e...2021-05-221h 03The Darkened HourAn Interview With Dr. Mitchell Bard (The Arab Lobby)In 1932, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud granted permission for the American oil company, Standard Oil, to begin drilling for oil in Bahrain. The vast oil reserves which exported billions of barrels annually, would provide the Kingdom with American military protection from it's Arab and non-Arabic neighbors. However the hegemony in the region would suddenly come under intense conflict, as Israel would declare independence in 1948. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia would begin a race for American geopolitical influence which started under the Woodrow Wilson administration. Over the next 40 years tens of millions have been donated to Washington lobbyists, billions...2021-05-2157 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Brian McGlinchey (28 Pages)The "28 pages" are located in the final summary of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (JIS), conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Entitled "Part IV: Finding, Discussion and Narrative Regarding Certain Sensitive National Security Matters", they refer to possible financial support of prominant Saudi businessmen and intelligence operatives and those who were involved with the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. When the report was finalized in July 2003, the Bush administration sought to redact the pages, but in 2016 under the Obama administration...2021-05-031h 10The Darkened HourAn Interview With Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (Able Danger)In 1996 the Defense Intelligence Agency and US Special Operations Command, under Joint Chiefs of Staff General Hugh Shelton and General Peter Schoomaker (Special Operations Command), constructed a covert signals intelligence program, code named, Able Danger. This unit would involve members of the Land Information Warfare Activities division with some of the most highly skilled tech analysts in the country. One of the members of this program, Major Anthony Shaffer, was already a highly decorated Army counter-intelligence officer, and was selected to the Able Danger unit. The operation involved data-mining which would later uncover two of three al-Qaeda active cells...2021-04-201h 17The Darkened HourAn Interview With Mark Rossini (FBI) (Alec Station)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 January 1999, Rossini was tasked to replace Dan Coleman at the CIA's Bin Laden Issue Station, code named, Alec Station. The Bin Laden Issue Station was under the ma...2021-04-111h 09The Darkened HourThe Egyptian Evolution Of The Muslim Brotherhood & The Fundamentalist GenesisIn 1922, Egypt had gained it's independence from British Colonials rule and the Ottoman Empire was next. The country led by it's despot ruler, King Farouq, had begun to falter thru the leader's hedonism and affluent expenses which led most of Egyptian society living below the poverty level. Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher, began to organize a group of fellow Islamic scholars, it was called the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928. The goal of al-Banna and the group was simple. Usurp British colonel rule from Egypt and establish a sharia based government led by the Quran and sunnah. By 1952, a coup de tat c...2021-03-2757 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Scott Horton (Enough Already: Time To End The War On Terrorism)In this special episode of The Darkened Hour, we interview Scott Horton. Scott is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, the author of “Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan” and “Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism” And since 2003 has conducted over 5,400 interviews, and is host of Antiwar Radio on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles which had won The Austin Chronicle's Best of Austin award in 2007 for "Best Iraq War Coverage."
We spoke at length about certain events depicted in the chapters of his latest book, Enough Alr...2021-03-132h 04The Darkened HourThe Enigma Of Mohamed AttaIn this episode, we discuss the profile of alleged 9/11 ringleader and pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta otherwise known as Mohamed Atta. Who was this young Egyptian? Was he the shy young man who studied engineering in Egypt and Germany? Or was he the radical Islamic fundamnetlist claimed by the FBI and 9/11 Commission Report. According to family and friends from his native Cairo, he was a soft spoken young man who concentrated solely on his studies and hardly dated. He was also never taught any religious studies, according to his father, Mohamed El Amir...2021-01-2551 minThe Darkened HourSeptember 11th 2001 - The Disastrous Secret War For IntelligenceFor years prior to the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had begun a campaign against Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Capture or kill the Saudi financier of terrorism. Meanwhile the National Security Agency (NSA) had began monitoring the Al Qaeda's connection hub in Sanaa Yemen, while foreign intelligence from Saudi Arabia and Israel were involved with monitoring Al Qaeda operatives inside the United States. All without the knowledge of those from the Justice Department, the State Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation. The CIA which led the operation under it's virtual station located in...2020-12-201h 06The Darkened HourIsraeli Spies & Politics: The Shadows That Walk Amongst UsSince the British mandate (Balfour Declaration) along with Zionist influences inside the United States, Israel, has made a seemingly rapid impact not just in building a country governed by nationalist Jews, but also heavily influencing the American political and media apparatuses as well. In the 21st century, the rate of Israeli espionage rivals and even outclasses even the Soviet Union's former communist dictatorship, as well as the Chinese communist entities who have integrated inside the host United States. However, it is Israel whom we label an ally, that commits the most egregious acts of counter-intelligence and espionage conducted against...2020-11-2345 minThe Darkened HourFrom Students To Terrorists, The Backgrounds Of Ramzi Yousef & Khalid Sheikh MuhammadBalochistan, Pakistan is the home to two of the world's most notorious terrorists, both whom would leave an everlasting impact on the fabric of society as we know it by constructing two of the largest terrorists incidents in our nation's history. The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing and the 2001 Terrorist attacks of September 11th. They would be known by their regular "nom de guerre", but their actual names are Abdul Basit Karim (Ramzi Yousef) and Khalid Sheikh Muhammad. Muhammad, Karim's uncle born in different locations but united in Baluchistan's tight knit Islamic upbringing, where they both would start out as...2020-11-0219 minThe Darkened HourListening To The ”Emir”: The NSA & Osama Bin LadenIn this episode of The Darkened Hour, the intelligence services and their investigation into a young Saudi who was an integral part of the Soviet withdrawal of Afghanistan in 1979. As Bin Laden was expelled from his home country of Saudi Arabia, he and along with his Arab mujahid along with Egyptian members of the Islamic Jihad, relocated to Sudan. The NSA thru a separate investigation of a Hamas operative in New York City became aware of a satellite phone which was delivered to Khartoum. This phone was an unencrypted device which the FBI informed the NSA about. By 1993, the...2020-10-1046 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Nelson Martins (DJ Thermal Detonator)In this episode of the Darkened Hour, Adam Fitzgerald interviews, historian and analyst of the September 11th 2001 attacks, Nelson Martins who also goes by DJ Thermal Detonator. A careful and prominent researcher, Nelson encompasses many subjects relating to the event such as U.S Foreign Policy and the domestic and foreign intelligence services. We talk about many other terrorist events leading up to the attacks, which include, The 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, 1993 WTC Bombing, 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, Bojinka Plot and the 2001 September 11th attacks. We also elaborate on the problems of the fanatical conspiracy theories which blanket the actual...2020-09-131h 52The Darkened HourThe Turning Point Of The Arab WorldFor the religious ulema of the Islamic world in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the ideology known as Pan Arabism, or "Nasserism" (Named after Egyptian President Abdel Gamel Nasser) was a direct threat to it's existence and a liability for the Islamic world as a whole. Religious extremists from Saudi Arabia and Egypt began taking an aggressive stance against the secular ideology, which was to blame for the embarrassing defeat suffered to Muslims worldwide, during the "6 Day Arab War" against it's main adversary, Israel. In this episode, Adam Fitzgerald, talks about how the Pan Arab nations in the Middle...2020-08-1633 minThe Darkened HourAmerican Airlines Flight 77: The Pentagon Terrorist AttackAmerican Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon on September 11th 2001, and the subsequent investigation that followed, have caused some to question the "validity" of the incident. Adam Fitzgerald goes thru the day's events with actual anomalies that happened pre and post 9/11 which were not properly investigated nor reported by the legacy media while dispelling the more questionable conspiracy theories that have arisen from it causing the 9/11 Truth Movement to become fragmented.
2020-07-1330 minThe Darkened HourAn Interview With Mitchell Gray (I Heard You Were Going On Jihad)In a follow-up to the episode on Zacarias Moussaoui, Adam interviews Mitchel Gray, author of 'I Heard you were going on Jihad - How a Minnesota FBI agent may have prevented a second wave of attacks before 9/11'. Mr. Gray is an Iraq War veteran who provided valuable information to the counter-intelligence agencies after 9/11. An Arabic speaker, Mr. Gray is also an attorney and adjunct professor of oil and gas who lectures on energy security issues.
Adam talks with Mitchell about his encountering radical Islamic groups inside the USA, as well as the detailed information he compiled...2020-05-311h 45
The Darkened HourAdam Fitzgerald Interviewed on WhatKastAdam recently wrote an extensive comment on a podcast discussing the validity of 9/11 conspiracy theories. The hosts invited him on to give his views on what's wheat and what's chaff when it comes to 9/11 theories.
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2020-05-181h 25The Darkened HourAn Interview With Fran Shure (Why Good People Become Silent: The Psychology Of State Crimes)Psychotherapist Fran Shure joins us to discuss her series, ‘Why Good People Become Silent - or Worse - About 9/11’.
Drawing on her knowledge of psychology, Fran explains why people may find it uncomfortable to even entertain ideas which threaten their existing world-view, and what we can all do to watch for this tendency in ourselves. We then go on to discuss the psychopathic mindset and how people can come to engage in evil acts.
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2020-04-261h 38The Darkened HourOn The Nature Of Conspiracy TheoryIn a week where the BBC has acted to have a David Icke interview removed from YouTube, Adam and Richard take a break from examining the details of 9/11 to discuss the nature of conspiracy theories. What exactly constitutes a conspiracy theory, as opposed to more grounded geopolitical research? Are they a good thing? Are they a necessary thing? Do they act to help or hinder investigations of state crimes?
2020-04-211h 27The Darkened HourThe 9/11 Plot To Assassinate George W. BushDelving into one of the most obscure aspects of 9/11, Adam explains the bizarre details of a plot to assassinate President Bush in Florida on the day of 9/11. Bizarre - but testified to by several journalists and eye witnesses, many of whom were encouraged to keep quiet be the FBI
2020-04-1929 minThe Darkened HourThe Defense Intelligence Agency's Able DangerIn this episode Adam explain how the intelligence gathered from the Defense Intelligence Agency's Able Danger program could have been used to thwart the 9/11 attacks, how it was blocked, and the ramifications to lieutenant colonel Anthony Schaffer for bringing this information out.
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