HSA Group

Aden had been invaded and occupied by the British East India Company in 1839. The protectorate was then governed from British India until 1937 when Aden became a British Crown colony. This was part of the managed decline of an empire occurring in the same year the Indian National Congress came to power in multiple provinces following election reforms. The writing was on the wall for the British Raj and control over Aden was transferred away to preserve that colony. But the Yemeni independence movement was unstoppable too. The British Crown clung desperately to its Aden colony with brutal force (see Mad Mitch) but was finally forced out in November 1967. Showing its alignment to the British Crown, the HSA Group left Aden too. Its founder blamed socialists (nationalists) for confiscating his assets and businesses in Aden. But it appears he had been planning ahead because in 1962 HSA created Yemen’s first shipping company in the Red Sea port of Hodeidah. In 1969 they reestablished their headquarters in Taiz, an ancient city in Yemen’s central highlands. The clearest account of how that new base progressed was published in a 1994 edition of the English language Yemen Times newspaper. They ran two reports on adjoining pages (3 & 4), one praising HSA’s success after 25-years of investment in Taiz and the other declaring an effective Islamic state after the Islah party had displaced socialists in Taiz. The Yemen Times’ human rights orientated editor received an International Award for Freedom of the Press in 1995 (part funded by George Soros). The significance of those two reports being on adjoining pages of a George Soros endorsed English language newspaper is compounded by a HSA director being an honorary vice-president of the British-Yemeni Society, established in 1993. Clearly everything HSA was doing in 1990s Yemen was known about and endorsed by the highest echelons in Britain and America.

International Terrorism Financing
Evidence of HSA’s links to terrorism funding dates from 1982 when a HSA director gave his power-of-attorney to an Eritrean born, Italy based, Nigerian business owner. The Eritrean used that power to make the HSA director a founding member of a Swiss shell company that after 9/11 was sanctioned by the USA, European Union and United Nations for "serving as a front organization and financial hub for the Al-Qaeda terrorist network." The shell company’s name MIGA - Malaysian Swiss Gulf and African Chamber - matches HSA’s global footprint. In August 2002 former US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill described the shell company’s cofounders as "supporters of terrorism" involved in "an extensive financial network providing support to Al Qaeda and other terrorist-related organizations."

This HSA terrorism funding link was investigated and reported brilliantly by Fox News in 2004, even though it was twisted to cast blame on Saddam Hussein. They exposed HSA’s Malaysian subsidiary Pacific Interlink overcharging Iraq on the 1990s UN run Oil-for-Food program, from which HSA got at least $246-million of business. The U.S. Defense Contract Audit Agency found Pacific Interlink overcharging $3-million on just one $20-million contract. Fox News suggests this price-skimming was used to finance terrorism. What happened next – nothing – should concern everyone. When asked about being a founding member of the MIGA shell company the HSA director said he’d forgot he’d given his power of attorney to the Eritrean. That was it, no one bothered him again. MIGA and the Eritrean did stay on the US / EU / UN sanctioned list until 2007 when they were quietly removed without explanation as reported here. It appears financing / facilitating terrorism is okay if you are a very rich international business owner.

Three HSA directors were part of another financial shell company, this one in the British Cayman Islands. Atlantic Investments was setup by the St Clair-Morgan family of Jersey (another British tax haven) in 1994. In a now deleted report the St Clair-Morgan’s were linked to illegal arms trading and money laundering on the UN Iraqi Oil-for-Food programme investigated by Paul Volcker. In March 1997, a month before I first met them in Chicago, the HSA directors joined Atlantic Investments as directors.

A more recent example of HSA’s documented links to terrorism financing was highlighted by Forbes in a 2016 report titled What is ISIS Banking On? In April 2015 Daesh / al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) captured Yemen’s fifth-most populous city, Mukalla. They immediately looted the local Yemen Central Bank but other banks remained unmolested and open to provide financial services to the insurgents. One was the Tadhamon International Islamic Bank (TIIB) of which HSA is a share holder, along with the Qatar Islamic Bank.

HSA in South-East Asia
HSA has massive palm oil interests in Indonesia through a shadowy network of front companies that remain controversial to this day. HSA’s expansion into south-east Asia coincided with the rise of extremist terrorist groups there. Pacific Interlink was established in 1988 Kuala Lumpur, coinciding with the future Bali bomber and Jamaah Islamiyah terrorist group leader Hambali returning to Asia after eighteen months training in Afghanistan ( 9/11 Commission report page 150/151). Hambali (an Indonesian who was recruited in Malaysia) trained in camps run by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Afghan boss Abdul Rasul Sayyaf. Another student of Sayyaf’s training camps was the Filipino founder of the Abu Sayyaf Group, who returned to the Philippines from Afghanistan in 1989 ( West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center page 17). Was HSA’s Pacific Interlink shipping company used to support or facilitate this terrorist network’s expansion into south-east Asia? Given KSM’s activities in 1994 Manila (the Bojinka Plot) and the fact he was in HSA’s Yemen HQ in 1997 (see below), I’d say almost certainly.

My Links to HSA
I visited the HSA Group secure hilltop headquarters compound (google maps) in 1997 Taiz but my HSA links start three years earlier. In 1994, just as Taiz was declared an effective Islamic State, my brother Paul visited a HSA business in Taiz. Both our visits were to install printing machinery; I was working directly for my family’s Queen’s Award winning (another British Crown link) engineering export company JM Heaford Ltd. Paul was living in the USA, working directly for our US sales agent David Dean. In 2019 I discovered evidence linking Dean to a CIA contractor via their Vietnam war service. That contractor, Billy Waugh, admitted working with Al Qaeda in 1990s Yemen, most likely during the 1994 civil war when the USA was allied to north Yemen and their Arab-Afghan Jihadi veteran soldiers (known to Billy Waugh as Al Qaeda). My normally meticulous record keeping brother Paul told me he’d lost all his customer database records from 1994 Taiz and the only thing he could remember was a very important religious leader. I wonder if that was Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Shaibani who declared Taiz an effective Islamic State in 1994 as quoted by the Yemen Times? I’m also beginning to speculate that Paul and Dean may have been assisting Billy Waugh in his work with Al Qaeda in Yemen. I tweeted about Dean’s links to Waugh and Al Qaeda in Yemen on 14 December 2019. Dean died by drowning in Lake Hartwell on 8 January 2020; the sheriff said his family were saddened but not surprised – a clear indication of suicide.

Billy Waugh

Dave Dean

My meeting with the HSA Group directors was on 14 April 1997, at a printing industry exhibition in Dean's home town Chicago. Although they were existing customers the HSA directors presented themselves as new, using their London office’s company name Longulf Trading to purchase another machine. The three Arab executives visited our sales stand and within twenty minutes had signed a contract for a top-of-the-range machine, paying list price at about $100,000. They made quite an impression in Chicago, purchasing an entire printing factory's worth of machinery (about $3-million) in one morning, all for an ill-defined end customer in Yemen whose name they made up and address they refused to give (more details here). My next interaction with the HSA Group was in their Taiz HQ, where I spent a week (20-26 September 1997) installing the machine they’d purchased in Chicago (as detailed here).

KSM avoided capture by the FBI in January 1996 thanks to his then employer, the government of Qatar. He’d been employed as a Project Engineer with the Qatari Ministry of Electricity & Water since 1993, but when he was indicted in America for the Bojinka plot to bomb a dozen trans-Pacific flights, KSM was warned and helped to escape. The 9/11 Commission report says he returned to Afghanistan but when I met him in September 1997 it was inside the HSA Group’s Taiz headquarters. There’s evidence he was there in 1996 too; in August 1996 HSA sourced industrial quantities of TNT component chemicals via the US embassy Yemen and State Department Washington. The two Pakistanis I worked with in Taiz told me they were chemical engineering graduates and I think they made the TNT that was used by KSM’s terror network to bomb the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania a year later. The US embassies contact at HSA, general manager Mohamed Salem, drove me to a clandestine meeting by Al Qaidah town on my last day in Yemen, after our photo together with KSM.

I've documented my week in HSA's HQ in my report How, Where & When the 9/11 Plot Began. but here's a brief summary. I first warned of a 9/11 style attack after flying from Boston's Logan airport to Canada on 11 June 1997. I told the customer I was visiting in Toronto and now realise they wil have told my employer. Three months later my employer sent me to spend a week in KSM's front company where the Pakistanis asked me about visiting New York as tourists. I repeated my 9/11 warning in some detail and told them not to visit the World Trade Center and to resist any hijacking attempts. Two days later the HSA HQ's managing director (Saeed Alrobaidi) confirmed my warning before arranging three meetings for me. First I was vetted over dinner by Yousef, a facial recognition match for Yemeni Gitmo prisoner Ramzi bin al-Shibh (I think they're brothers or cousins). Alrobaidi, who everyone called the Chief introduced me to the Engineer (KSM) the next morning, saying he was working on other projects. And then his general manager took me to the unscheduled meeting by Al Qaidah town. Not only were HSA hosting and funding KSM's terrorist cell, they were intimately complicit in the initialization of the 9/11 plot too.

HSA's Chief introduced the Engineer aka Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

HSA general manager Mohamed took me to Al Qaidah town

The HSA mechanic I worked with was Dino aka Ahmad al-Darbi

My HSA security contact was Shawki Alariki aka Abdu Ali Sharqawi

My dinner companion is a 100% facial match for Ramzi bin al-Shibh

And on two business trips to Dubai in December 1997 and March 1998 that I believe were linked to my conversations in Yemen, the factory I visited (PO Box 16797, JAFZ ) was very close to an address used by KSM’s nephew Ammar al-Baluchi (PO Box 16958, JAFZ). On my second visit to Dubai I met the company's finance manager: it was 9/11’s finance mananger Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi aka Zahir. More details in My 9/11 Timeline.

HSA Group HQ to Al Qaidah town, google route map

Me, the HSA Group managers, KSM & Ahmed al-Darbi

My full photo contact sheet from 1997 Yemen

My security contact in Taiz

My dinner companion in Taiz

HSA’s Continued Role in 9/11 Preparations
After becoming directors of the Cayman Island shell company (March 1997) and spending $3-million in Chicago (April), HSA made a massive investment in Britain in May 1997. I recall they spent tens-of-millions buying the three largest cardboard packaging printers to create a single entity and called it Cepac. Then in early 2000 my uncle Mike Heaford who was managing director of JM Heaford Ltd since 1997 came to speak to me. We had a fractious relationship because six months after my visit to HSA’s Yemen HQ he engineered my redundancy from the family business. After joining the business he’d blanked me, never asking my opinion and so I was surprised when he came to ask me if I could explain an approximately $1,000,000 gift investment from a large printing company in Britain.

I didn’t recognize the company name he mentioned at that time but after discovering HSA / Longulf Trading own Cepac Ltd I now think that was the company behind this mystery payment. Government tax records show an approximately £1,000,000 increase in JMH Ltd’s assets in 2000, followed by similarly large asset discrepancies in 2001. Because the 9/11 operation was activated during the Hamburg Cell’s December 1999 visit to Afghanistan (after two years planning in Germany), I suspect Cepac made that $1,000,000 payment as a gratuity to my employer for my role in 9/11. My warning in 1997 Yemen included Logan airport's proximity to New York and lack of security, low passenger numbers on fully fuelled mid-week flights, and the ease and lethality of carrying box-cutters on board. My warning was KSM’s blue print, unwittingly delivered by me; please remember my employer sent me to spend a week in his front company three months after I'd given a 9/11 warning to a customer in Toronto.

Partnership with the UN, WFP, WHO, TetraPak & Unilever

USAID gives HSA subsiduary 'trusted trader' status

World Economic Forum partnership

HSA director Dirham Abdo Saeed is the managing director of HSA’s London office Longulf Trading, Cepac Ltd, Atlantic Investments and an honorary vice-president of the London based British Yemeni Society. His fellow honorary VP there is Dr Noel Brehony CMG. Those post-nominal letters CMG stand for Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, a title showing Dr Brehony has the British Crown’s endorsement and protection. Brehony has worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Kuwait, Yemen, Jordan and Egypt. Privately he’s Director of Middle East Affairs for Rolls-Royce plc and Chairman of Menas Associates, “a strategic, political, and integrity risk consultancy that provides actionable intelligence for multinational companies operating across emerging and frontier markets.” He's also an author of books like Yemen Divided: The Story of a Failed State in South Arabia, published in 2013. Having studied Libya at university and spent two years researching in the Palestinian West Bank too, Dr Brehony is clearly one of the best qualified government advisors regarding the current conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa.

So what would happen if one of Brehony's associates was implicated in financing and facilitating terrorism? Well as long as he's a very rich and powerful businessman, absolutely nothing (as is occurring right now). That's guaranteed due to Brehony’s British Crown endorsement because every police officer, soldier and judge in Britain swears an Oath to protect the Crown, the King and his successors. Their sworn duty is to protect the Crown and if that means ignoring terrorist activity in Britain because investigating it would implicate one of the King’s agents – like Noel Brehony – then they are duty bound to ignore it.

That Crown Immunity extends much further when my employer's 1995 Queen's Award for Export Achievement is taken into account. It means JM Heaford Ltd's activities in Yemen - furnishing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's front company - had a Royal Seal of Approval. I was 49-years old when I finally realised that my three time Queen's Award winner father, JM Heaford, was a Secret Intelligence Service asset and I had been their patsy. That realization came in 2020, very soon after my father's US sales agent Dave Dean had drowned in Lake Hartwell after I'd linked him to the CIA's Billy Waugh.

British Yemeni Society website link

Brehony's book Yemen Divided

Queen's Awards announced in 1995

And that’s not the end of HSA’s Crown Immunity – they are protected by two monarchies – the British and Saudi ones. HSA and its directors have many business interests in Saudi and are backed by the Saudi government as evidence by a 2021 United Nations Security Council report. It details how HSA received $872-million in contracts from Saudi and highlights HSA’s influence over Yemen’s government in exile, the Presidential Leadership Council aka the Riyadh hotel government. And that reveals another Saudi-9/11 link: Rashad al-Alimi. He was Taiz governorate director of security from 1996, the same year my evidence shows HSA supporting KSM in Taiz via the TNT chemicals order. Today Mr al-Alimi is the Saudi backed chairman of that Riyadh hotel government:

2021, UN Security Council report on Saudi financing of HSA Group

Yemen's Saudi backed PLC chairman Rashad al-Alimi

Another layer of British Crown immunity stems from HSA's Cayman Islands interest: their off-shore financial activities were actively protected by one of the British Crown’s knights – Sir Graham Brady. As chair of the Cayman Islands parliamentary group in London, Brady campaigned to retain banking secrecy laws for the tax haven. But Brady’s association with HSA extends much further – he was indirectly financed by the HSA Group his entire parliamentary career (since 1997). The directors of HSA’s British suppliers (JM Heaford Ltd) funded Brady’s political career with multiple donations each year from themselves and clandestinely via third parties – each giving the maximum donation allowed without it being registered (£5,000 I was told by one director circa 2001). I am not accusing Brady of any complicity in HSA’s terrorist financing and facilitating because he did very professionally forward my 9/11-Yemen report to SIS (MI6), parliament and the US embassy in 2017. But his Cayman Islands activities undoubtedly gave HSA another layer of protection. I was told it was Brady's predecessor Sir William Fergus Montgomery (another Knight of the British Crown) who advised JM Heaford Ltd / my parents to apply for the Queen’s Awards for Export Achievement they won in 1987 and 1995. Montgomery’s political office was also funded by JMH Ltd’s directors.

Sir Graham Brady in the Cayman Islands

HSA's Practical Immunity
As documented in my Official 9/11 Correspondence I’ve been trying to report HSA’s links to 9/11’s Khalid Sheikh Mohammed since May 2015. British counter terrorism police (SO15) simply ignored my reports for two years. In 2017 Sir Graham Brady forwarded my reports to the Secret Intelligence Services and parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. They’ve ignored that too. When I tried to report Longulf Trading financing terrorism to my local police (Greater Manchester Police farce) they responded by referring me to the Prevent (terrorism) scheme as though I was a potential terrorist! I reported that police corruption to the then Home Secretary Priti Patel whose office responded by saying they could not intervene in police matters. I then tried to report HSA's British facilitators, the St Clair-Morgan family of Jersey to the newly established Jersey Financial Crimes Unit. The JFCU did not clear the St Clair-Morgans or say that my evidence was wrong; they simply refused to investigate. My allegations implicate the St Clair-Morgans in the murder of 2,977-souls on 9/11 by providing material support to the terrorists’ financiers but that doesn't seem to concern Jersey police. My correspondence with Jersey's Financial Crimes Unit is copied below along with evidence of a cover-up being implemented by deleting reports linking the St Clair-Morgans to historic money laundering and illegal arms trading.