The Darkened Hour

In this episode, Richard Cox and myself talk about the story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi and the film based on his life and time while imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba, "The Mauritanian". Slahi was accused of being involved with Al Qaeda and also being the conduit between members of the "Hamburg Cell" at Al Quds mosque in Germany who were allegedly involved with the September 11th 2001 atta...

Coleen Rowley had served as a Special Agent with the FBI and was assigned to the Omaha, Nebraska and Jackson, Mississippi divisions. Beginning in 1984, she spent six years working in the New York City field office on investigations involving Italian organized crime and Sicilian heroin. During this time she served three temporary assignments in the U.S. embassy in Paris and the consulate in Montrea...

Robbie Martin is a journalist and filmmaker. He writes for the magazine White Fungus and Oakland-based news website Media Roots founded by his sister Abby Martin whom he also co-hosts a regular podcast with. He is the behind the documentaries American Bisque, American Anthrax and A Very Heavy Agenda. Robbie has made appearances on Buzzsaw TV, KPFA’s ‘Project Censored’, Russia Today, The Corbett Re...

Julie Sirrs is a former Middle East analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency (1992-1999). An ardent student of Afghanistan culture, she began by visiting the war torn country after graduating from Georgetown University. After college, she joined the Defense Intelligence Agency. Her analytic experience of Afghanistan and the Taliban was valuable to the DIA and in 1998 she went back to Afghanista...

Co-host of The Darkened Hour, Richard Cox, returns to interview Adam Fitzgerald regarding the current state of Afghanistan and the United States military withdrawal of the capitol Kabul in recent weeks leading the Taliban to take complete control of the country. We delve into the history of what precipitated the US invasion in the first place which led to various points starting with the Unocal Pi...

Dan Christensen is the founder and lead investigative reporter of the Florida Bulldog. He is also an award-winning former investigative reporter for The Miami Herald and Daily Business Review. We talk about his ground breakling stories regarding the Saudi lawsuits in the Southern district of New York City, Operation Encore, an FBI investigation involving Musaed al-Jarrah, Fahad al-Thumairy and Oma...

In the late evening hours of September 11th 2001, those in the highest levels of the federal government were gathering as much intelligence as they possible could to piece together just exactly what happened and who was responsible for the attacks earlier in the day. The Central Intelligence Agency and the Counter-terrorism unit were alarmed that their initial suspects who were being tracked by me...

Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell who has also served as the associate director under the Director for Policy Planning, talks with us about the past, present and future of the United States foreign policy in the Middle East. The Neoconservative, Israeli and Saudi influence on American politics and his...

A journalist whose career spanned over three decades, Terry McDermott, author of Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers—Who They Were, Why They Did It, and, The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (co-authored with Josh Meyer) is invited to speak about both books today. McDermott covers a wide range of issues relating to what was being pl...

Kenneth Williams is a retired 35 year veteran from the Federal Bureau of Investigation out of Phoenix who worked in counter-terrorism on foreign and domestic issues that included being involved with two major terrorist attacks on the United States, The Oklahoma City Alfred Murrah bombing and the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. Williams conducted a covert operation involving an informant who...

When United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into an open field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11th 2001, nobody in Somerset County imagined that this horrific incident would be thoughtlessly expressed by the minds of fringe conspiracy theorists who would entertain, repeatedly, irrational theories that would undermine current federal and local investigators looking at foreign intervention and...

In this episode, I lend my thoughts about what precipitated the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. In a special edition three hour discussion where I cover many specific areas. They include the Afghan-Soviet War, The Rise of Islamic/Salafi Movement, Osama Bin Laden, Israel-Arab-US Foreign relations, The Paul Wolfowitz Doctrine, The Rise of Neoconservatism, The 1993 WTC Bombing,...

In todays episode we cover the life of one of Islam's most venerated and enigmatic scholars of the century. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was a Palestinian Islamic scholar, author and credited as being the founder of modern day defensive jihad, or "aljihad aldifaeiu" (aldifayou) in the Arabic. In the Quran there are three types of jihad, the jihad against yourself, the jihad against Satan — which are calle...

In 1996, a classified military planning effort led by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)  constructed a covert meta-data collection operation code named, Able Danger. They employed the US Army's Land Information Warfare Activities Division as the data-miners needed to collect 'open source' information to track terrorist cells inside the United Sta...

In 1932, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud granted permission for the American oil company, Standard Oil, to begin drilling for oil in Bahrain. The vast oil reserves which exported billions of barrels annually, would provide the Kingdom with American military protection from it's Arab and non-Arabic neighbors. However the hegemony in the region would suddenly come under intense conflict, as Israel w...

The "28 pages" are located in the final summary of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (JIS), conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Entitled "Part IV: Finding, Discussion and Narrative Regarding Certain Sensitive National Security Matters",...

In 1996 the Defense Intelligence Agency and US Special Operations Command, under Joint Chiefs of Staff General Hugh Shelton and General Peter Schoomaker (Special Operations Command), constructed a covert signals intelligence program, code named, Able Danger. This unit would involve members of the Land Information Warfare Activities division with some of the most highly skilled tech analysts in the...

Mark Rossini served as an FBI representative to the CIA’s Counter-terrorist Center (CTC) at CIA Headquarters and he was one of the founding executives of the National Counter-terrorism Center (NCTC). He was then situated in the 1997 NYC joint terrorism task force where he served under the I-48 counter terrorism unit which investigated Hezbollah, which was the unit next to the legendary I-49 unit w...

In 1922, Egypt had gained it's independence from British Colonials rule and the Ottoman Empire was next. The country led by it's despot ruler, King Farouq, had begun to falter thru the leader's hedonism and affluent expenses which led most of Egyptian society living below the poverty level. Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher, began to organize a group of fellow Islamic scholars, it was called the Mu...

In this special episode of The Darkened Hour, we interview Scott Horton. Scott is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com , the author of “Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan” and “Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism” And since 2003 has conducted over 5,400 interviews, and is host of Antiwar Radio on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles which...

In this episode, we discuss the profile of alleged 9/11 ringleader and pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta otherwise known as Mohamed Atta. Who was this young Egyptian? Was he the shy young man who studied engineering in Egypt and Germany? Or was he the radical Islamic fundamnetlist claimed by the FBI and 9/11 Commission Report. According to family and...

For years prior to the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had begun a campaign against Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Capture or kill the Saudi financier of terrorism. Meanwhile the National Security Agency (NSA) had began monitoring the Al Qaeda's connection hub in Sanaa Yemen, while foreign intelligence from Saudi Arabia and Israel were involved with monitorin...

Since the British mandate (Balfour Declaration) along with Zionist influences inside the United States, Israel, has made a seemingly rapid impact not just in building a country governed by nationalist Jews, but also heavily influencing the American political and media apparatuses as well. In the 21st century, the rate of Israeli espionage rivals and even outclasses even the Soviet Union's former c...

Balochistan, Pakistan is the home to two of the world's most notorious terrorists, both whom would leave an everlasting impact on the fabric of society as we know it by constructing two of the largest terrorists incidents in our nation's history. The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing and the 2001 Terrorist attacks of September 11th. They would be known by their regular "nom de guerre", but their act...

In this episode of The Darkened Hour, The United States intelligence services, CIA (Alec Station) the FBI and the NSA and how they began monitoring the venerable Saudi, Osama Bin Laden, who was becoming a global figurehead with his militant Mujaheddin which was covertly supported with military armaments by the CIA under its largest financial blackops program called Operation Cyclone, in which they...