The Management of Savagery

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Max Blumenthal. The Management of Savagery

The Management. of Savagery. How America’s National SecurityState Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda,ISIS, and Donald Trump

Contents

Introduction. The Unstable State

1. The Afghan Trap

2. At the Dawn ofthe Forever War

3. Waves Flankedby Arrogance

4. In for the Rudestof Awakenings

5. TheCounter-Jihad

6. The NextDirty War

7. Until We Meetin Damascus

8. Regions ofSavagery

9. CollateralDamage, IndirectBenefits

10. AttackingOur Team

11. Extinction ofthe Grayzone

Afterword. Active Measures

Notes

Index

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Max Blumenthal

—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the House

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Again and again, Mohamed furnished his superior officers with specific information about Al Qaeda’s existence and its determination to strike American assets. His intelligence was even used to warn President George W. Bush about the 9/11 plot. But each time, the red flags were ignored, allowing the plots to move ahead while international jihadism metastasized. And as journalist Peter Lance argued in his book Triple Cross, the CIA was so determined to protect its relationship with the Blind Sheikh, it “may have run interference for Ali [Mohamed] as he sought entry to the United States and a position of influence at Fort Bragg, the heart of the US military’s black operations.”

Mohamed’s career as a US intelligence agent began in 1985 when he showed up uninvited at the US embassy in Cairo to offer his services. Despite warnings from Egyptian intelligence, the CIA assigned him to Hamburg, Germany, where he was to spy on a mosque supposedly tied to Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia-based political movement that preoccupied the agency while Sunni jihadism flourished under its watch. Mohamed immediately blew his cover, informing senior figures at the mosque that he was a CIA operative.

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