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David Belfield person

also: Dawad, Salah Hudin, Salahuddin

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David Belfield member_of Mujahideen book_quoted
“Afghanistan as a member of the resistance on December 12, 1986, and except for a period of some two weeks in the January of 87, was there until May of 1988, so about a year and a half. I received no prior military training before crossing t…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 12:47
Saeed Ramadan recruited David Belfield book_quoted
“And he also was recruiting Muslim fighters to go to Afghanistan and fight with bin Laden and the Mujahideen that the CIA had set up. Ramadan told Salahuddin that he should join them as well. He warned Salahuddin that the Pakistani, Saudi, a…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 11:13

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The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter
▶ 9:16 the U.S. intelligence business. The Ivy League, Wall Street, old boy network had morphed into a high stake private enterprise empire that Edwin Wilson had created and Shackley and Clines had taken over. In 1986, a guy by the name of David B…
The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter
▶ 9:47 Salah Hudin, and I'll spell that last name, S-A-L-A-H-U-D-D-I-N, was finding that life in his Tehran, that life in Tehran as a newspaper editor who carried out occasional intelligence missions for many different people was not as satisfying…
The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter
▶ 10:15 began to realize that the murder he had committed for Islam and his subsequent life in the first holy Islamic state had not brought him peace. Quote, Iran was full of corruption and I traveled the world to other places like China, Libya, Ma…
The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter
▶ 10:43 None of this weakened my faith in Islam, just in the politicians who exploited it, he said. So Salahuddin's mentor at the time was the guy that we talked about before, Ramadan, M-A-M-A-D-A-N. And he also had been traveling around the world …
The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter
▶ 11:13 And he also was recruiting Muslim fighters to go to Afghanistan and fight with bin Laden and the Mujahideen that the CIA had set up. Ramadan told Salahuddin that he should join them as well. He warned Salahuddin that the Pakistani, Saudi, a…
The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter
▶ 13:18 from the Afghans far exceeded any contribution I made to their cause. Though war is hell, you learn things when facing death. Ironically, Salahuddin, a fugitive from the U.S., was now fighting against the Soviets with the CIA-supported, quo…