2 chapters across the catalog
Al Qaeda is identified as a product of US "Operation Cyclone" and National Security Directive 166, which funded the Mujahideen in 1980. During the Bosnian War, the CIA and Saudis reportedly sent $200 million to support the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Figures like John McCain were famously pictured with radical Islamic groups that served as proxy forces for Western intelligence interests.
Imperial Geopolitics and the Failure of Exported Democracy
The segment concludes with an analysis of Zbigniew Brzezinski's "Operation Cyclone" and the failure of the Western attempt to export democracy to the Middle East. Dyer argues that "democracy" is merely a cloak for the expansion of the Atlanticist empire. He reviews the 1945-1948 period where President Truman and the British Labour government clashed over Jewish immigration, leading to the guerrilla warfare that eventually established the modern Israeli army.
