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November 19, 2004
Arafat had AIDS: Loftus
Hillel gala speaker offers views on terrorism, Nazis.
PAT JOHNSON
Yasser Arafat died of AIDS, claims John Loftus, an American whistleblower,
who also maintains that American and British intelligence have a
long history of co-operating with Nazis and that the Islamist terrorists
who have tried to destroy Israel are the direct ideological descendants
of Hitler.
These and other assertions by the former high-level American bureaucrat
may come as a shock to Vancouver audiences when he visits here next
month.
In an interview with the Bulletin a day after Arafat's death,
Loftus lobbed some stunning allegations about the Palestinian leader's
life and death, alleging that Arafat was a homosexual who contracted
HIV and that his death last week was a result of AIDS-related illnesses.
Though some of the allegations have been spotted on the international
rumor mill, Loftus is more certain than most about their veracity.
"It's the only thing consistent with his symptoms," Loftus
said. "Low platelet count, high white blood cell count, ruling
out cancer and leukemia, confusion consistent with end-stage dementia,
most importantly, the 65-pound sudden weight loss, one-third of
his body weight. There's only one illness that can combine all four
of those and that's AIDS. Which is why, when he contracted HIV,
that his wife moved out and lived in Paris."
The French hospital in which Arafat spent his last days, and the
French government have so far respected the wishes of Arafat's widow,
Suha, in not releasing the cause of death.
Loftus has a national Sunday morning TV show on the Fox network
and a weekly radio program on the ABC radio network. He used to
be a top official in the American intelligence sector.
"I worked for the attorney general of the United States at
the headquarters of the U.S. Justice Department," Loftus said.
"I handled the CIA cases and the Nazi war crimes cases, until
one day I discovered that the Nazis I was supposed to prosecute
were on the CIA payroll, so I became a whistler-blower back in 1982
on the 60 Minutes program, which caused a bit of an uproar.
Congress submitted hearings, Mike Wallace got the Emmy Award, my
family got the death threats. It was a great trade-off. But ever
since, I've been the attorney for whistle-blowers inside U.S. intelligence,
helping them get things legally declassified and into the public
domain."
Some material, like his research into the Bush family's war-era
relationships with the Nazi regime, has been widely circulated through
such venues as the film Fahrenheit 9/11. His assertions about
Nazi connections to the Arab extremism are less widely known.
"Essentially, the Muslim Brotherhood was a Nazi organization
that worked for Hitler's spy services," he said. "They
had a half-million members in 1945 and the British secret service
used them as a covert arm to try to kill Jews [in pre-Israel Palestine].
In 1948, the Muslim Brotherhood fled back to Egypt but the Egyptians
got nervous about the Arab Nazis and they were expelled. The CIA
resettled them in the early 1950s in Saudi Arabia and the Saudis
gave them jobs teaching at madrasas, religious schools, where they
inculcated the next generations of radicals – young people
like Osama bin Laden."
While Western alliances with Arab fascists were pragmatic and convenient,
Loftus said, the Arab alliance with Nazism was ideological, he said.
"When we're dealing with al-Qaeda, we're dealing with a curious
mixture of Islamic religious bigotry and Nazi racism, combined in
a very virulent doctrine. In many ways, the battle against al-Qaeda
is the last battle of World War Two," Loftus said.
Loftus was behind a 2002 lawsuit that raised public awareness that
some Saudi "charities" raising funds in the United States
were in fact little more than fund-raising fronts for anti-Israel
terrorist organizations.
In his 1997 book, The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western
Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People, Loftus states that American
and European intelligence agencies conspired against Israel because
the Arabs had the oil and the Jews didn't.
Loftus speaks Dec. 5 at Vancouver Hillel's fund-raising gala, called
An Enchanted Evening in New York, New York. The proceeds from this
year's event are designated for Hillel's expansion to permanent
facilities at Simon Fraser University, which has been one of North
America's most hostile campuses for Zionist and Jewish students,
according to organizers of the gala. Tickets are available by calling
604-224-4748.
Pat Johnson is a B.C. journalist and commentator.
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