Analysis of US Counterterrorism Strategy

While Bessent was putting London on notice regarding its shell

corporations and shadow banking, the White House was putting them on

notice on another front.

This is from the just-released White House counterterrorism

strategy. It says, "President Trump knows that

all modern jihadi groups, from Al Qaeda to ISIS to Hamas,

can trace their roots back to one organization, the Muslim

Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is the root of

all modern Islamist terrorism predicated

on recreating the Muslim caliphate and killing or enslaving

non-Muslims. Given the Muslim Brotherhood's key

role in promoting modern terrorism, we will continue to

designate its branches across the Mideast and beyond as

foreign terrorist organizations to crush the

organization everywhere it operates." That's the president of the

United States identifying the Muslim Brotherhood as the root of

all modern Islamist terrorism. Well, if it's the

root, who planted the seed? After decades of sponsoring

and protecting various radical Islamic fundamentalist figures,

British intelligence settled on the Muslim Brotherhood back in nineteen

twenty-eight in Ismailiya, Egypt.

That's where the British Suez Canal Company and the British military

were headquartered. The British Suez Canal Company

helped the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood build the mosque,

which became its base of operations.

And from then on, the Muslim Brotherhood

was used by British intelligence,

and often their little brothers in American intelligence,

against nationalist movements throughout the Mideast,

all of this to protect the empire's economic and strategic

position. Now, if you want to dive into the history of

this,

check out either or both of these two books: Robert Dreyfuss'

Devil's Game or Mark Curtis'

Secret Affairs. Both are extensively researched and documented,

but Curtis' background makes his especially interesting.

He's a former research fellow at the empire's Chatham House,

and he researched his book based on British government records and

declassified documents. And using that material, he

shows, in particular, direct British government

ties to the Egyptian, Lebanese, and

Jordanian branches of the Brotherhood.

Guess what three branches have been specifically designated by the Trump

administration under the Foreign Terrorist Organization

provision? Here's what the report says.

"That is why he," the president, "took the

historic step of issuing an executive order that declared the

original Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood chapter, along with the

Jordanian and Lebanese chapters, as foreign terrorist

organizations, soon to be followed by others." Those

three

chapters Trump designated, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, are the

exact same three organizations that appear in the British government's

own

declassified foreign office files as British operational

assets,

built, funded, and deployed by London.

And here's the part that closes the loop.

When Curtis filed Freedom of Information requests for details on the

Foreign Office's more recent contacts with the Brotherhood,

meetings that the British media is not going to report, the Foreign Office

refused to release them, citing the public interest.

Well, it's in their interest, not yours, because London

built the network, it used the network, and it is

still actively concealing what it is doing with the network today.

So whether it's financial flows or whether it's these networks themselves,

that is what Bessent is targeting.

That is what Trump is targeting when the counterterrorism strategy says,

"Crush the

Brotherhood everywhere it operates." The arrow points at one

address: London.