SPY EYES

By Wayne Madsen

Norwegian terrorist killer Anders Behring Breivik has been regaling Norwegian law enforcement investigators with greater plans for conducting terrorist attacks and even a coup d'etat against the Norwegian government. However, when it comes to like-minded cells operating in Europe and elsewhere, Behring has been closed-mouth. Breivik resistance to spilling the beans on colleagues in countries he has previously visited — from Belarus and Malta and the United States to Mexico — coincides with a number of dubious statements from European law enforcement officials that insist that Breivik is a crazed "lone wolf."

Breivik's terrorist connections to groups like the English Defense League (EDL) in Britain and Knights Templar organizations in Malta and Mexico suggest that Breivik is one cog in a larger operation that has re-adopted the past terrorist tactics of CIA "stay-behind" fascist cells in Europe, generically known as "Gladio" networks, that, during the 1970s and 80s, carried out terrorist attacks that were blamed on leftist groups.

Although various media outlets, known to bend and succumb to the pressure applied by Israel and its global sympathizers, tried to downplay the connections between Breivik and his allies in Zionist circles in Israel and Europe, no less than the Jerusalem Post, an echo chamber for Zionist and neo-conservative interests, reported that Breivik was "motivated by Zionism" in carrying out his deadly attack in Norway.

In fact, Breivik had a keen interest in one such stay-behind network in Turkey, a network that transformed itself into the Israeli Mossad-linked Ergenekon network, which may still be active against the Justice and Development (AK) Party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The recent en masse resignation of Turkey's top military commanders and the past involvement of Ergenekon in military coups, attempted coups, and false flag terrorist attacks suggest that the events in Oslo and Ankara may be linked to a wider destabilization effort conducted by Brievik and his allied neo-Nazi colleagues, all of whom have been linked to Israeli far-right wing groups and extreme Zionist factions inside the Israeli government.

Law enforcement officials across Europe have been downplaying Breivik international connections, preferring to describe him as a "lone wolf." However, the connections of Israeli intelligence, security "consultants," and security system manufacturers to European law enforcement agencies is very apparent and many law enforcement agencies would have no interest in pursuing Breivik international network lest Israel's own connections to it are also revealed. In fact, former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas, in a new book, has charged that Israel controls the French intelligence agencies.

In 2007, Israeli police arrested a number of Jewish neo-Nazis in Israel, most of whom were emigrants from the former Soviet Union. The neo-Nazis had launched attacks on non-whites, gays, and religious Jews.

In recent years, European far-right political parties have made common cause with such right-wing Israeli parties as Likud led by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beiteinu led by the Jewish racist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. The German magazine Spiegel has highlighted the growing relationship between heretofore anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi far-right European political parties and Israel's right-wing parties. Spiegel's report focused on particularly close ties between Israelis and the Freedom Party of Austria, the National Front of France, the Flemish Vlaams Belang, the National Democratic Party of Germany, the German Freedom Party, True Finns Party of Finland, and te Northern League of Italy.

The English Defense League (EDL), which had links to Breivik and the Norwegian Defense League, also has a Jewish Division, both of which have found warm welcomes in Israel. The EDL has also made common cause with Dutch politician Geert Wilders's anti-Islamic Freedom Party and hosted Wilders at a public rally in London last year. Wilders spent his teenage years on a kibbutz in Israel. Breivik also maintained links with the far-right Irish Defense League.

Breivik has been linked to Malta-based Paul Ray, aka "Lionheart" and Paul Sonato, a leader of the resurgent Knights Templar (Pauperes Commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici(PCCTS)) group of ultra-right and anti-Muslim extremists. Ray fled Britain in 2008 after an arrest warrant was issued for his hate-filled Internet postings. According to the Daily Telegraph, Ray is associated with a German ex-neo-Nazi named Nick Greger, aka "Nazi Nick" and "Mad Nick," who has operated out of Liberia with a group of neo-Nazis called "Order 777," comprised of ex-Serbian security service SF Red Beret commandos, Ulster Freedom Fighters and Ulster Defense Association from Northern Ireland, Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging fascists from South Africa, and mercenary veterans from civil wars in Congo and Liberia.

Ray is also linked to the EDL, particularly its chief finance officer Alan Lake who is reported to have met Breivik in 2002 in London. INTERPOL has requested the Maltese police to investigate Ray's ties to Breivik. The presence of a far-right and racist network in Malta is noteworthy. Malta has served as an important base of operations for the Libyan National Transition Council, headquartered in Benghazi, but which has been responsible for carrying out systematic murders of black Libyans and black African guest workers. In fact, there is a strong racist element among many of the white Arab members of the National Transition Council.

The attitudes of some members of the far-right network seem to be at odds with the blanket racism associated with many of the component political parties. The goals of the global fascist network appear connected more to ousting socialist and left-wing governments and fighting Muslims with non-white bed fellows than in practicing across-the-board racism. For example, Breivik was full of praise for India's right-wing Hindu nationalists, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as well as Chinese Buddhists who oppose Chinese Muslims in Xinjiang in western China.

The resurgent Knights Templar has been connected by CNN to a similar organization in Mexico, where Breivik reportedly visited. The Knights Templar in Mexico was referred to as a "cartel" by CNN. The CNN report also cited the Mexican Knights Templar to the violent terrorist-religious cult called "La Familia," which has been responsible for a series of gruesome mass murders, including beheading of its victims. The main branch of La Familia is active in the state of Michoacan, where it id known as La Familia Michoacana.

The La Familia drug cartel has been fighting a war against the Los Zetas cartel, which has received weapons courtesy of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) as part of "Operation Fast and Furious." An all-out war has broken out in Mexico between rival drug cartels and the Knights Templar link to La Familia suggests that right-wing interests in Europe and the United States are playing both sides in the Mexican conflict. The Drug Enforcement Administration and FBI were reportedly knowledgeable about Fast and Furious and the U.S. government gun-running to Mexico.

The ATF has a sordid history of employing a number of agents who are racists in the same mold as Breivik colleagues in Europe. In the 1980s and 90s, ATF agents, as well as Justice and Treasury Department officials, were discovered to be attending racist "Good O' Boy Roundups in eastern Tennessee. The outings were notorious for signs that read "Nigger check point" and T-shirts that bore an image of Martin Luther King, Jr. in gun sight cross hairs. In 1995, then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin vowed to investigate the ATF agents but initial interest in the scandal receded after several media outlets brought light to the annual racist event.

It was not merely the far-right violent political movements that were linked to Breivik political goals but members of some "main stream" xenophobic right-wing political parties in Europe associated themselves with Breivik's extremist ideology. For example, Italian Member of the European Parliament Mario Borghezio of the Northern League, part of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition, voiced support for Breivik "ideas." Francesco Speroni, the leader of the Northern League, defended Borghezio's remarks. French National Front politician Jacques Coutela compared Brievik to the French seventh century leader Charles Martel who defeated the invading Moors in battle. Erik Hellsborn, a member of the Sweden Democrats, a far-right anti-immigration party represented in the Swedish Parliament, also said he understood why Breivik resorted to taking such actions in opposition to "multiculturalism."

Breivik has told Norwegian police that he planned to blow up the Royal Palace, the Norwegian Parliament, and the headquarters of the Norwegian Labor Party. Ergenekon's Operation Sledgehammer in 2006 saw "false flag" terrorist attacks carried out in Istanbul. The headquarters of the newspaper Cumhuriyet in Istanbul was bombed and a gunman opened fire in the State Council in Ankara, killing one judge and wounding four others. The similarities between the Ergenekon attacks in Turkey and Breivik's actual and planned attacks in Norway are striking. Breivik's "Phase 3" of his manifesto called for pan-European coups d'etat and the expulsion of Muslims and execution of European "traitors."

Far from being a "lone wolf," Breivik's world travels indicate that he was part of a wdie-reaching fascist network. Breivik has visited Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Belarus, France, Austria, Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Spain, Cyprus, Malta, Switzerland, the United States, Turkey, Mexico, China, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, and Liberia. Breivik allegedly received paramilitary training in Belarus, where local security officials referred to him by the code name "Viking," and made contact with far-right political parties in Croatia. He also allegedly received plastic surgery in the United States to make himself appear more "Aryan" looking.