The Darkened Hour will host interviews with the leading experts in their fields relating to the September 11th 2001 attacks. Content will also expand to fields relating to said event with invigorating, rational discussions weekly. We will also cover Middle East History, the history of the Intelligence Community (foreign & domestic), U.S-Israel-Saudi geo-politics, and the psychological characteristics of those involved with terrorism and the political sphere.
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In 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 …
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An Interview With Richard Kammen (Tortured Justice: Guantanamo Bay)
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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 ca…
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An Interview With Alka Pradhan (Lawyer For 9/11 Defendant Ammar al-Baluchi)
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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 al…
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New Evidence For Saudi Government's Alleged Involvement With Two 9/11 Hijackers While Inside The United States
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According 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 l…
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An Interview With Seth Hettena (The CIA, FBI & The Guantanamo Defendants Charged For The 9/11 Attacks)
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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 …
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In 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 …
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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 cur…
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The 9/11 Congressional Inquiries: A Comprehensive Breakdown
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In 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…
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After 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 …
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9/11: The Unscripted History Past & Present
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In 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 an…
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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 org…
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1996 Afghanistan: The Taliban, Bin Laden & The Intelligence Community
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In 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…
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9/11 Special Edition Collab With Sean Russell
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With 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 wa…
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An Interview With Tom Parker (Avoiding The Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism)
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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 Europ…
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An Interview With Michael Scheuer (CIA Chief Of Bin Laden Issue Station)
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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 H…
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An Interview With Mansoor Adaiyfi (Former Guantanamo Prisoner & Author Of ’Don’t Forget Us Here’)
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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 g…
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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 res…
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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 sp…
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Bin Laden Declares War: The 1998 US Embassy Bombings In Kenya & Tanzania
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In 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. involveme…
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An Interview With Anthony Shaffer (Operation Encore & The Canestraro Documents)
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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…
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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 examinati…
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Genesis Of The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing (War Against The United States) (Part 2)
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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. Inv…
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Genesis Of The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing (Birth Of Jihad) (Part 1)
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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 U…
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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…
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An Interview With Ray Nowosielski & John F. Duffy (The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark)
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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…
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An Interview With Sean Russell & Darin Harvey (Beyond Ground Zero)
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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 …
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An Interview With Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Guantanamo Diary)
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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 i…
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The Gerald Shea Memorandum: An Israeli Intelligence Sting Involving The Monitoring Of 9/11 Hijackers And Associates
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In 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 Moss…
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What Did They Know? The NSA Signals Intelligence Operation Of Osama Bin Laden & Al Qaeda Network
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The 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 milli…
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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 …
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As 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. W…
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Urban Moving Systems Rewind (The Complete Version)
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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 …
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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,…
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The Bush White House War On The Constitution: How 9/11 Gave Unchecked Authority To Bush, CIA And The NSA
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In 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 …
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An Interview With James Corbett (False Flags: The Secret History Of Al Qaeda)
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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 s…
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An Interview With Ben & Erik (The Podcast For The New American Century)
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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 "lig…
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Operation Encore: The FBI’s Investigation Of Saudi Arabia And The September 11 2001 Terrorist Attacks
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Immediately 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 w…
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Facts From Fiction: The September 11th 2001 Terrorist Attacks
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In 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 create…
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An Interview With Ben Howard (The Intelligence Community Involvement In Malfeasance And Coverup Pre-9/11)
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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…
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Dying One Thousand Deaths: The Assassination Of Ayman al-Zawahiri
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21 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 again…
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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 transpir…
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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…
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Shayna 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 …
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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 …
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An Interview With Richard Cox (Energy Of Empire)
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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 M…
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An Interview With Ed Brotherton (The Constitutional Militia)
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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 leavin…
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An Interview With Mark Fallon (Unjustifiable Means:The Inside Story Of How The CIA, Pentagon And US Government Conspired To Torture)
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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 A…
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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 …
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In 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…
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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…
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