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Nafeez Ahmed - Researcher and Scholar
Topic Started: Jan 22 2011, 02:10 PM (1,320 Views)
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Nafeez Ahmed - Researcher and Scholar
http://nafeez.blogspot.com/

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Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD) in London, and an Associate Tutor in the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton. He is the bestselling author of The War on Freedom: How & Why America was Attacked: September 11, 2001, which won him the Naples Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award, in 2003. The War on Freedom (2002), the first book to critique the official narrative of 9/11, was described by Gore Vidal in the London Observer as “the best, most balanced, analysis of 9/11”.

One of the world’s foremost authorities in terrorism and conflict analysis, in July 2005 he testified as an expert witness at a special all-day Congressional hearing on 9/11 and international terrorism sponsored by Hon. Reps. Cynthia McKinney and Raul Grijalva. He has written and reported for the Independent on Sunday, Raw Story, Counterpunch, ZNet, Dissident Voice, OpEd News, Online Journal, Media Monitors Network, The American Muslim, The Muslim News, Q News, and many other publications. He has been a regular political commentator on BBC Southern Counties Radio in Sussex, and has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows around the world, including BBC World Today, Channel 4, former Daily Express journalist Yvonne Ridley’s “Agenda” on the Islam Channel, PBS Foreign Exchange with Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria, Pacifica Radio, David Barsamian’s Alternative Radio, and so on.

Nafeez’s other books include Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq (2003); The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism (2005) and The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry (2006), which has been profiled in the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Times. His writings have received critical acclaim from many leading journalists and academics, including Gore Vidal, John Pilger, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva, Andre Gunder Frank, Johan Galtung, Robert W. McChesney, Robert Jensen, Peter Dale Scott, Brian Appleyard, among others.

Nafeez worked for two years as Senior Researcher at the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) in London, a leading human rights group with UN consultative status specializing in human rights violations in the Muslim world. There he authored IHRC Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa, before moving to Brighton where he founded the IPRD in early 2001.

At the University of Sussex, he teaches courses in political theory, international relations and contemporary history. As a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of International Relations, Nafeez is currently doing interdisciplinary research on genocide, imperialism and structural violence, and has published in many peer-reviewed journals. His work in human rights and foreign policy has been recommended by leading academic institutions and is used in university courses, including the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University, the Department of Communication at California State University, the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah, the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, among many others.





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The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism
July 23, 2005

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Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed talked about his book The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism, published by Olive Branch Press. In the book he outlines the relationship between the West and radical Muslim groups such as the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in Algeria, and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in Serbia. Mr. Ahmed says that these groups, parts of which are now affiliated with Al Qaeda, were used by the United States and Britain to further Western political and economic goals. He argues that a more complete investigation of this relationship is necessary to understand what happened on 9/11. Mr. Ahmed also talks about the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1996 British attempt to assassinate Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in this light. After his presentation he responded to questions from members of the audience. This talk, held at American University in Washington, D.C., was part of an event organized by the D.C. Emergency Truth Convergence.


C-span video link - (1 hour, 23 minutes)

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Truth9



Mp3 Download link - ( 76.5mb)

http://www.pumpitout.com/audio/911-Nafeez-Ahmed-The-War-on-Truth-Disinformation-Terrorism.mp3







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The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001
by Nafeez Ahmed
http://www.amazon.com/War-Freedom-America-Attacked-September/dp/0930852400

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A disturbing exposé of the American government’s hidden agenda, before and after the Sept.11, 2001 terrorist attacks. A wide range of documents show U.S. officials knew in advance of the "Boeing bombing" plot, yet did nothing. Did the attacks fit in with plans for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy? Nafeez Ahmed examines the evidence, direct and circumstantial, and lays it before the public in chilling detail: how FBI agents who uncovered the hijacking plot were muzzled, how CIA agents trained Al Qaeda members in terror tactics, how the Bush family profited from its business connections to the Bin Ladens, and from the Afghan war. A "must read" for anyone seeking to understand America’s New War on Terror.


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http://www.pumpitout.com/documents/Nafeez-Ahmed-The-war-on-freedo-How-why-America-was-attacked-911-WTC-Bush-Neocons-Terrorism-Fascism-Iraq.pdf










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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nP2mTuTX6g

There will be a documentary film inspired by Nafeez Ahmed's latest book 'A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilisation: And How To Save It'... Release date: February 14th, 2011. Facebook group here - http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Crisis-of-Civilization/170204603013405


more here -
http://truthaction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6933



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Here's links to audio of some of his lectures - thanks to "Gareth Newnham" for posting and "chrisc" for uploading many of them.

Food Crisis & Peak Oil
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2008/11/413658.html

The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2008/01/388961.html

Creating Terror
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/07/376665.html

Ties With Terror: Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2007/04/368971.html

International Terrorism: The Secret History
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2006/11/356939.html









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Jan 27 2011, 12:09 AM
Excellent - recommended. I'll get to the rest eventually, good links jeff.
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The following link doesn't have the files available anymore -

Ties With Terror: Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2007/04/368971.html

...but you can find them here (youtube vids thanks to Michael Wolsey) -

http://s1.zetaboards.com/pumpitout/topic/4078614/





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January 28, 2011
Radio Ecoshock Interview

My interview with Radio Ecoshock, the web's premiere ecologically-oriented radio show, about my new book, A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010). Listen to it here - my bit starts around 30 min in.
http://nafeez.blogspot.com/2011/01/radio-ecoshock-interview.html


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http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock11/ES_110128_Show_LoFi.mp3






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The Boiling Frogs Presents Dr. Nafeez Ahmed
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/01/15/podcast-show-19/

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Dr. Nafeez Ahmed provides us with an overview of the role played by US military and intelligence practices in the creation of terrorism, particularly Al-Qaeda. He tells us about the status of investigations into the Blair government’s complicity with the Bush administration in supporting the invasion of Iraq. He discusses possible factors behind Americans’ long-held denial and dismissal of dark US foreign policy practices as conspiracies. Mr. Nafeez talks about the Obama administration, the ongoing posture of US corporate interests and the desire to dominate world energy supplies, the so-called liquid bombing plot and how it was mythologized in the US, and more.








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Thanks ;)
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Keep up the good work, Jeff. :)
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