Sayyid Qutb The Founder of the Modern Islamist

Sayyid Qutb – The Founder of the Modern Islamist Movement Looks Out of An Egyptian Prison Cell

King Hussein of Jordan During the Six Day War of 1967

King Hussein of Jordan – Only Jordan and Egypt Have Signed Peace Treaties With Israel

Reinhard Heydrich to the Left, Adolf Eichmann to the Right Heydrich was killed by Czech Partisans, Eichmann captured in South America and Hanged in Israel in 1961

Faces of the Murdered

Yad Vashem – Israel’s Holocaust Museum

Adolf Eichmann on Trial In Jerusalem, 1961 – He was Hanged

Egyptian Planes Destroyed on Their Runways By Israeli Air Strikes – June 5, 1967

A Dead Egyptian Soldier Lies in the Sinai Desert - 1967

Israeli Soldiers Capture East Jerusalem and the Old City in the Six Day War

Moshe Dayan on the Left and Yitzhak Rabin on the Right as they Enter the Old City of Jerusalem in June 1967

Moshe Dayan – Critical Israeli General of the Six Day War

The Dome of the Rock and The Temple Mount of Old Jerusalem

Palestinians Pray Facing Mecca with the Dome of the Rock at Their Back

The Hostage Crisis of 1979 -1981 (444 Days) and Iran During the Eight Year War with Iraq 1980 -88

A View of the Dome of the Rock/Temple Mount and the Wailing Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem

Israelis Rallying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

George Habash Founder of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine)

Yasir Arafat – Palestinian Liberation Organization – 1970 During the Expulsion of PLO Forces from Jordan known as Black September

A Hooded Terrorist Emerges From the Room Where He and His Team Are Holding 11 Israeli Athletes Hostage – Munich Olympics, 1972

June 5, 1967 – Six Day War October 6, 1973 Yom Kippur War

Israel Following the Camp David Accords of March, 1979 Israeli Settlements Prior to Return of Gaza

Sadat Flew to Israel and Addressed the Knesset in November, 1977 He offered Negotiations, Recognition and Peace

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, American President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in the Winter of 1979

President Carter joins Egyptian Leader Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin in the Historic Camp David Peace Accords – March 26, 1979

The Assassination of Anwar Sadat – Cairo, Egypt 1981

The Islamic Revolution toppled the pro-American Shah and transformed Iran from a staunch American ally to a fierce adversary. A 444 day hostage crisis began when Iranian revolutionaries seized U. S Embassy personnel. The year ended with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan beginning a brutal war that continued until 1989.

Ayatollah Khomeini – Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Modernizing and Secularizing Shah of Iran Who Was Deposed by the Islamic Revolution

Scenes from the 444 Day Ordeal 1979 -1981

The Hostage Crisis

A Long and Frustrating Ordeal

The 1980 Moscow Olympics Were Boycotted by Dozens of Nations in Protest of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Eighty nations sent teams to Moscow – sixty-seven nations refused to attend.

Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution shocked the world – it made Islamic fundamentalism a force. Secular Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein allowed his country a short break from war before invading Kuwait in 1990. He would be evicted by a huge American force in the first Gulf War, 1991’s Desert Storm.

Iraq Attacked Iran in 1980 – the war consumed one million lives. Soldiers fought from trenches, Iraq used poison gas, cities were shelled and rocketed. It ended in a stalemate.

Iranian Photographer Jahangir Razmi Captured the work of an Iranian firing squad executing Kurds in 1979. Razmi has extensive collections of images from Iran’s brutal war with Iraq (1980 -88) in which one million people were killed.

Soviet armies entered Afghanistan in December, 1979 – as many as one million Afghans were killed over the next nine years, three million more fled as refugees, most to Pakistan. The country’s infrastructure was shattered, the land sown with millions of land mines. The Soviets lost a minimum of 15, 000 dead and many tens of thousands wounded. Heroin use soared.

Afghan Poppy Field – Afghanistan Produces 90% of the World’s Heroin

Chasing the Dragon – Heroin can be heated with an open flame while laying on a bed of tinfoil. The addict chases the smoke with a straw sucking it into his lungs.

Heroin Addiction – Prostitution – AIDS All Serious Problems in Russia Today

The Most Powerful High Comes From Injecting the Drug

Lightweight, extremely effective with helicopters and planes flying at 11, 000 feet or less the Stinger missile took a heavy toll of Soviet aircraft. It fires a heat seeking missile that locks onto an aircraft’s thermal trail. The U. S supplied the Afghan fighters with these and many other weapons using Pakistan as the conduit for arms.

RPGs, I. E. Ds, AK-47’s and Toyota Trucks

Islamic Fighters with American Supplied Stinger Missiles. The US continues to purchase these on the black market in the hopes of preventing their use against civilian aircraft.

Afghanistan’s Taliban Leader Mullah Omar lost an eye fighting the Soviets. He has eluded American forces since the invasion of October, 2001. The last leader of pre-Taliban Afghanistan was Najibullah. He and his brother were captured by the Taliban, beaten, castrated, dragged behind jeeps and then strung up to die.