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New York Muslim leaders tell community not to talk to police on terror concerns!

New York Muslim leaders are flexing their collective muscle to encourage Muslims NOT TO COOPERATE with law enforcement who are charged with protecting a city that has been attacked twice by terrorists who practice the Islamic faith.   According to liberal Huffington Post NY Muslims Angry Over Spying: 'Don't Call NYPD' For Terror Concerns.

2nd incident when a young, possibly Muslim, man caused problems on an airline!

Yesterday, Ali Reza Shahsavari, 29, of Indialantic, Fla., was charged with interfering with a flight crew a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Kansas City.  Initial reports said he tried to get into the cockpit but that was denied by others who said he was unrly and confronted the cabin crew.   Mohammad Shahsavari, the man's father, said  he did not know what led to the incident.  The FBI said early indications were the incident was not terror related.  CNN reported on this today but didn't name the man.

Earlier this month Saudi passenger, Abdulaziz Mubarak Alshammari, was pulled away from the cockpit door on an American Airlines flight bound for Indianapolis.  No charges were filed.

Bin Laden urged followers to target smaller cities yet counterterrorism funds to many smaller cities will be cut!

Documents found in the Bin Laden raid showed Osama Bin Laden eyed smaller cities as targets to expand their attack sites. 

He schooled his followers to work around U.S. counterterrorism methods which he was apparently well-versed.  He wrote of ways to ferment political dissent and play politicians against one another.  Bin Laden also wanted to exploit minorities that would help drive a wedge between them and others as a method to help tear down the country.  Is it just me or have you notice CAIR seems to do all these things?   What a remarkable coincidence.

We learned this week counterterrorism funding to half of the smaller cities will end.  Congress probably decided to cut these funds before these documents were discovered so I hope they are paying attention here.  Some of the thirty-three "smaller cities" include Syracuse, Tuscon, Columbus, Toledo, New Orleans, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, to name just a few.

Also this week, Congress leaders agreed to extend for four years a vast array of surveillance and search powers put in place since 9/11.  Both houses will vote on this agreement next week.

Terror plots since 2009

Here's a screen shot I took at the beginning of Rep. Pete King's radicalization hearing this morning of the racial Islamic terror plots since 2008:

 

Rep. Pete King named House Homeland Security Chairman

CAIR is not pleased Rep. Pete King (NY) was named chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.  Read how they titled a FB post, pictured below, which links to a Newsday article titled King named House homeland security chairman.  King said he will hold hearings on Islamic radicalization in America. 

November 17th testimony of TSA chief, John Pistole

Read the testimony of John Pistole, TSA Chief before a Congressional committee yesterday to get a better feel for the serious security threats our country faces from our enemies:

Testimony - TSA Chief John John Pistole - Senate Commerce Committee - 17 Nov 2010    

Secure flight go into effect today!

Secure Flight goes fully in place today! 

Secure Flight requires airlines to collect a passenger’s full name (as it appears on government-issued ID), date of birth, gender and Redress Number (if applicable). By providing complete information, passengers can significantly decrease the likelihood of watch list misidentification. Secure Flight watch list matching takes a matter of seconds to complete, and providing this data enables passengers to print their boarding passes at home or at an airline kiosk.

For airlines, November 1, 2010, marks the end of the year-long grace period to clear out their systems of older reservations made before Secure Flight requirements took effect in October 2009. After November 1, 2010, Secure Flight will not conduct watch list matching or approve the issuance of a boarding pass by an airline if complete passenger data is not submitted...

Read more at TSA Secure Flight Program

Internet wiretapping may be coming

Wiretapping the Internet?  This legislation currently being drafted by the Obama administration actually wants to expand wire-tapping ability of law enforcement officials to find terrorists, their plots and other criminal evil doers, if I understand this correctly. 

This will drive the far-left crazy:

U.S. Looking to Ease Internet Wiretap Laws, Report Says (PC Magazine re NYT article(

The Obama administration is reportedly prepping new Internet regulations that would allow online service providers to comply with wiretap orders.

These new regulations could include sites like Facebook, mobile providers like Research in Motion, and software like Skype "to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order," according to a report in The New York Times. "The mandate would include being able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages."

It seem really simple, though.  If, you aren't doing anything wrong what's the problem?  However, opponents will argue it's too much authority. 

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UAE sees BlackBerry issue solved before deadline‎

Dubai police chief calls BlackBerry a spy tool‎

Muslim leaders issue press release of meeting with Janet Napolitano

Muslim Advocates, a sister entity of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers, issued a press release on the 29th of January after a meeting they and other Islamic organization leaders had with DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano:

Excerpts from the release:

Leaders from national and local organizations representing these communities expressed concern about DHS policies, such as racial, ethnic, and religious profiling at airports and the border, that have eroded the government’s trust and credibility with the communities.

The commitments Secretary Napolitano made to these community leaders include:

Community participation in an anti-violent extremism task force of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, which reports to the Secretary;

Regular, quarterly meetings with the Secretary;

Education and training for DHS leadership to promote understanding of the Muslim, Arab, Sikh & South Asian American communities and their concerns; and

An honest and full discussion of legitimate grievances from members of these communities about DHS policies that are ineffective and have a deleterious, humiliating impact on Muslim, Arab, Sikh and South Asian American communities.

Muslim Advocates also asked that the new TSA police about travelers to or through 13 Muslim countries be rescinded, and that religious headgear procedures be revised and that the U.S. should set limits on immigration interrogations and searches.

The DHS press release reads totally different.

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Also see:

Muslim Advocates advisory on new TSA rules

Muslim Advocates, MPAC, CAIR, ADC: Senate Homeland Security Report Lacks Substantive Analysis, Contradicts Own Recommendations (May 2008)

Rashad Hussain's paper on counter-terrorism: Islam in the answer

Rashad Hussain, the Deputy Associate Counsel to President Obama was recently named by the president to be the envoy to the OIC (a Saudi based and backed global Islamist governmental organization).

In 2008 he  co-wrote a Brookings paper titled Reformulating the Battle of ideas Understanding the Role of Islam in Counterterrorism Policy.  This paper claims Islam is the most important counter terrorism ally we have. Hussain believes Islamic religious leaders should be brought into our policy decision making who would speak with more credibility that our own policy makers because Muslims distrust our democracy. 

What more could the Muslim Ummah want but to have someone within an arms reach of the president call for the downgrade of our democracy and the upgrade of Islam? 

In the first sentence in the introduction it states: "Implementing a more effective national security strategy in the coming decades will require the deployment of perhaps the most potent tool for combating terrorism: Islam".  Why promote democracy and freedom when "many Muslims associate American freedom and democracy with immorality and impermissible secularism --", he wrote.  He went on;  "Similarly, many Muslims view “American democracy” as pro-secular, anti-religion, and anti-Islamic law".  To help offset this he said the U.S. should "incorporates mainstream Islamic scholarship into policymaking as a part of a comprehensive counterterrorism strategy. 

Hussain's eight point plan is highlighted below:

First:  Instead of calling our struggle as one for freedom and democracy vs. terrorist ideology we should just call it a conflict with terrorists within the Muslim world (America's struggle against terrorism is to protect our freedom and democracy which Hussain apparently wants us to deny).

Second:  No use of the word Islamic terrorist instead say Al Qaeda terrorism. (do not link terrorism with Muslims, period)

Third:  Create a coalition of partners outside of those who support democracies which could be led by Muslim nations (do you get it?)

Fourth:  Enlist Islamic scholars of Islam and the Muslim World -- "these scholars should analyze the most persuasive methods for applying Islamic law to reject terrorism."  (does he mean introduce Sharia law into our government?)

Fifth:  Include these scholars into our policymaking decision. (confirmed, bring Sharia law into the highest levels of our democracy)

Sixth:  Promote scholarships with Fiqh Council of North America and others groups (I know at lease one member who was ID'd by the FBI as part of the Muslim Brotherhood - an Islamic supremacist global organization. , I suspect many others are members or supporters.  BTW, why is their anti-terrorism page so thin?)

Seventh:  Strengthening the authoritive voice of mainstream Islam in the U.S. (depends greatly on whom he considers mainstream)

Eighth: The primary cause of broad-based anger and anti-Americanism is not a clash of civilizations but the perceived effect of U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim world. (i.e., U.S. bad)

"While an examination of political and economic problems that are frequently cited as major grievances not just of terrorists but also of large populations of Muslims around the world is beyond the scope of this paper, the U.S. should continue to promote effective economic and social reforms and to work with allies in crafting fair and peaceful resolutions to conflicts in the Middle East and in other parts of the Muslim world."

I'm speechless.

Top Intelligence chief "Underwear Bomber" should have been treated as high-value terror suspect!

A major screw up was admitted today in a Senate committee when the nation's top intelligence official chief, Dennis Blair,  said that the "Underwear Bomber" should have been treated as a high-value terrorist suspect and questioned by special interrogators rather than civilian law officers.

But, he wasn't consulted!   So, wasn't he the man in charge?

Muslim woman cool with more airline security - had nothing to hide!

I learned a new phrase today;  "a hijabi".  This is what a Muslim woman with a headscarf called herself in an article about increased airline security on martyrdom-supporter Yusef Qaradawi's Islamonline:

"I even said thank-you to the airport personnel for doing their job. Coming from a hijabi, I think that made them feel good."

Now that's the spirit!

ACTION: Attend CAIR-OK meeting on airport profiling in Moore, Oklahoma tonight!

CAIR-OK will hold a "Town Hall" meeting to push their anti-airport profiling agenda tonight in Moore, Oklahoma at Melody Hall, 2280 North Broadway St. Moore, OK 73160, at 7 PM.

5th District Congressional candidate,  Kevin Calvey, jumped all over this Islamist organization's attempt to get support to dilute our airports anti-terror security measures with the help of any many libs as they can get on their side.  Calvey called for a civil protest at the meeting.  He urged protesters to arrive early to let their view been known on terrorism since CAIR doesn't seem to get it.  CAIR actually claims our security procedures hands a victory to terrorists!  No CAIR, it will make it harder for them to kill us.  Duh!

Razi Hashmi claims in his press release how important it was for Oklahomans to know about one of the fastest growing civil rights groups in the Oklahoma City metro area that is serving the needs of the Muslim and greater community alike.  Oh, please.  Are your full of yourself much?

Hashmi shilled for Hamas in print last January and the protest/rally he put together for Gaza in Oklahoma City clearly was against Israel since many of the signs were quite offensive.   His blog posts are typical for CAIR.  Hashmi even had the nerve to tell U.S. Rep. Mary Fallen she should keep her opinions about Israel to herself!

On the other hand, Calvey was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his service in Iraq as an army prosecutor.  He is working hard to win voter's approval for the congressional seat now held by Mary Fallen who seeks to be Oklahoma's next Governor (yes!).  Check out Calvey's position on national security here.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, of course,  but 99.999999% of all terrorists today are Muslims! 

Political correctness isn't going to cut it anymore.

Update 1/17/10:  The day before CAIR OK changed the location of their meeting to avoid protestors!  Attending the townhall with CAIR was Oklahoma ACLU Director Chuck Thornton and Rep, Shane Jett (R-Tecumseh)

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Islam in Oklahoma - Mixed Signals

CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and more

The never ending diplomatic "cry of the wolf" with Iran over their nuclear program

The Iran nuclear standoff this year is really beyond comprehension.  2009 started off with a report that major world powers failed to agree on Iran sanctions.  After that, on the 19th, Reuters reported France, UK made another push for EU sanctions on Iran.

Obama then considered tougher Iran sanctions in early February.  A few days later Reuters wrote West threatens Iran sanctions but offers talks, instead  TALKS!

On March 13th, Iran dismisses sanctions, launches gas project.  At the end of the month, EU chief offered Iran a new deal as sanctions loomed.  But, Iran didn't bite at the bait.

Then,  the UN Security Council unanimously approves new sanctions against Iran on April 23rd but back on the15th we read Iran Sanctions Would Be Frozen By US for Talks, Envoys Say.  Confused?

Shocking airline security breach discovered by blogger!

A blogger has revealed that a most serious breach of airline security has taken place:

In an alarming security breach in the United States, an airport security manual has been posted on the internet.

The confidential airport passenger screening procedures offer insight into how to sidestep security.

The 90-page Transportation Security Administration (TSA) manual was marked "sensitive security information".

It had been sitting on the internet since March but the blunder has only just been made public by a blogger.

...But the release of this manual is not the only security loophole that has been highlighted today.

Eight years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the owners and operators of critical infrastructure, including airport shuttle buses, are not allowed to screen their employees against the terrorism watch list.

President Barack Obama speech on Afghanistan; an enemy's dream

After President Obama's speech on Afghanistan last night, I heard a far amount of criticism.  What a gifted speaker he is, though.  He looked serious, worried and even slightly emotional, at times.  I was drawn in.  I felt his concern.  I applauded he plea, at the end,  for all of us to pull together.

President Obama spoke of the grave threat we face from "violent extremism". He said Al-Qaeda has perverted Islam and Congress has authorized the use of force against them and those who harbored them.  But, I think he should of spoken more about the threat - so let me rephrase what he said.  The unending supply of jihadists fighters for Islamism - political Islam and its ultimate GLOBAL supremacy goal which is strongly supported by thousands of non-violent Islamists - their global organizations, leaders and governments pose a grave threat to America and the world's security.  Their scope and reach is unprecedented in history.  Jihadists are most certainly not created in a vacuum.  Clearly, the president has a duty to tell Americans what the heck is going on.

Accused Denver terror suspect was in contact with al-Qaeda

Najibullah Zazi, the young man from Denver who is accused of planning a large terror attack in the U.S.,  was in contact with the top al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, according to reports. 

...Prosecutors say Zazi admitted when he was arrested last month that he "received instructions from Al Qaeda  operatives on subjects such as weapons and explosives" during a trip to Pakistan in 2008.

...The feds say they found nine pages of handwritten bomb-making instructions in Zazi's e-mail. The directions to make explosives of hydrogen peroxide and flour are similar to the bombs used by terrorists to bomb the London subway in 2005, killing 52 people.

...Zazi and his friends bought up "unusual quantities of hydrogen and acetone products," according to court papers. The store of chemicals has not been found.

....Al-Yazid took over Al Qaeda operations in Afghanistan in 2007. Pakistani officials reported his death in August 2008 but he showed up in February in a video threatening to attack India.

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2009 terror plots, trials, money laundering and more...

Muslim held in Illinois for attempting to bomb a federal building yesterday

Talib Islam was ordered today to be held on charges he tried to blow up a federal building in Springfield, Illinois yesterday.  He detonated, what he thought was a real bomb, with a cell phone. 

Michael Finton, also known as Talib Islam, was arrested in Springfield, Illinois, and charged with attempted murder of federal officers or employees and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction, charges that carry a life sentence.

"Fortunately, a coordinated undercover law enforcement effort was able to thwart his efforts and ensure no one was harmed," David Kris, assistant Attorney General for National Security, said in a statement.

Finton was arrested on Wednesday in Springfield as he used a cell phone to try to detonate the bomb he believed was inside a van he had just parked outside the federal building.

...After returning from a trip to Saudi Arabia in 2008, Finton told an individual, who turned out to be a law enforcement source, that he wanted to fight against Israelis in the Gaza Strip, according to the complaint.

In early 2009, "it appeared that Finton was on the verge of taking action, so it was decided to proactively provide him with an opportunity for action that we controlled, rather than merely hoping to be able to find out and stop him," according to a government affidavit.

Talib Islam converted to Islam while in prison.

BREAKING: Jordanian Muslim arrested for attempting to bomb a Dallas skyscraper!

A 19-year-old year-old Muslim by the name of Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested today for planting what he thought was a car bomb near Fountain Place, a tall building in downtown Dallas:

The FBI says agents arrested Smadi after he placed what he thought was a bomb at the base of Fountain Place, a 60-story skyscraper located at 1445 Ross Avenue in downtown Dallas.

The FBI says undercover agents found out about Smadi's intent to commit violent attacks in Dallas.  The FBI says agents tried to get him to change his mind about committing the attacks, but were unsuccessful.

...Agents say they arrested Smadi Thursday afternoon after he placed the dummy car bomb next to the building. The FBI says the public was never in any danger.

Federal complaint

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff critcize efforts to combat extremism with PR

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had strong words about our government's attempt to curb Islamic extremism through PR tactics:

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has written a searing critique of government efforts at “strategic communication” with the Muslim world, saying that no amount of public relations will establish credibility if American behavior overseas is perceived as arrogant, uncaring or insulting.

The critique by the chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen, comes as the United States is widely believed to be losing ground in the war of ideas against extremist Islamist ideology. The issue is particularly relevant as the Obama administration orders fresh efforts to counter militant propaganda, part of its broader strategy to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“To put it simply, we need to worry a lot less about how to communicate our actions and much more about what our actions communicate,” Admiral Mullen wrote in the critique, an essay to be published Friday by Joint Force Quarterly, an official military journal.

...Admiral Mullen expressed concern over a trend to create entirely new government and military organizations to manage a broad public relations effort to counter anti-Americanism, which he said had allowed strategic communication to become a series of bureaucracies rather than a way to combat extremist ideology.

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The U.S. and U.K. Both 'Go Wobbly' on Terrorism

Wall Street Journal - Amanda Bowman - ‎29 minutes ago‎

... to put the Bush Administration on trial and their desire to maintain the tools that have kept America safe from terrorism for the 2907 days since 9/11.

Congressional investigators build live bomb in federal building!

A GAO report revealed disturbing security breaches at a number of federal buildings after congressional investigators were able to smuggle bomb making material in every attempt they made!   They even assembled a real bomb inside one building and exploded it outside to prove their point.

It only took 27 seconds for him to smuggle live bomb components through security detail in a federal building. Later, he assembled a bomb in the restroom, and then walked around the facility undetected.

...Investigators from the the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, were able to penetrate all 10 of the undisclosed federal buildings it tested across the United States.

"Of the 10 Level IV facilities we penetrated, 8 were government-owned, 2 were leased, and included offices of a U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative, as well as agencies such as the Departments of Homeland Security, State, and Justice," according to a preliminary report from the GAO. Level IV facilities are defined as having more than 450 employees and "a high volume of public contact."

"It's stunning. It's shocking," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., the chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs..."

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7/8/09 GAO report: Preliminary Results Show Federal Protective Service’s Ability to Protect Federal Facilities Is Hampered By Weaknesses in Its Contract Scurity Guard Program

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Al-Qaeda post new Adam Gadahn videos on YouTube!

YouTube is again facilitating our enemies to conspire against us.  In four high definition videos posted yesterday al-Qaeda's Adam Gadahn, with a longer bread now, spews Al-Qaeda's agenda against the Jews and the West.  But you probably would not know how Al-Qaeda is using YouTube against us from poor media coverage.  You may have heard that it was found on a jihadist website or something like.  As-Sahab Foundation for Media Production, the media arm of Al-Qaeda did the videos.

Gadahn affirmed to Muslims the honor of their greatness is their Islam.  Jihad against the Jews and their allies continues.  Gadahn spoke of his grandfather who he said was a Zionist.  In the Ummah of Islam we have seen the truth about Obama, he goes on. He then encourages Palestinians to continue their jihad against the Zio-Crusaders assault on Muslim land.  Obama is led by the Jews and Zionized Christians, he rants.  Zio-Crusaders are fair target everywhere and he urged jihadists to  strike whenever possible

Seeing the masked martyrs saying goodbye to their families on TV brought Gadahn to Islam and this will bring other people to Islam, too, he said.

In the 3rd video, he spoke of the martyred Sheik Abdullah Azzam as a great leader who, by the way, spoke in Oklahoma to area Muslims before his assassination.  Assam was the mentor to Osama bin Laden.   Victory is only through the march of armies, Gadahan continues. 

All 4 videos are posted on several YouTube channel; sheikh3zaam's channel, yamane90's channel, Omar's channel.

Consider flagging these videos as inappropriate.

Former college student found guilty of supporting terrorists!

A onetime college student at Georgia Tech, Syed Haris Ahmed, was found guilty today of providing support for terrorists.  He faces 15 years in federal prison.

Syed Haris Ahmed wasn't surprised by the verdict from U.S. District Judge William Duffey.

...Prosecutors say Ahmed and his alleged co-conspirator, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, went to various public buildings in the Washington D.C. area and videotaped them for a suspected terrorist group.

Among the buildings that prosecutors say were "cased" were the U.S. Capitol, the World Bank, a fuel depot and a Masonic temple.

Ahmed will be sentenced in a few months, after a pre-sentencing report has been prepared.  He remains in solitary confinement at the Federal Prison in Atlanta, where he's been held for three years.

Sadequee goes on trial in the U.S. District Court, in Atlanta, in August.

How do these young Muslim men take such a wrong path?

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2009 terror plots and trials

FBI plans to continue using informants

Informants have long been used by the FBI to uncover certain criminal activities.  If there was a terrorist-type being encouraged at my church through Bible verses and indoctrination, I would welcome the FBI infiltrating it to stop an attack on others before it happened. 

Likewise, it would be comforting to see the Muslim community also embrace this tactic to help keep us all safe.

The FBI plans to continue using informants to monitor mosques in America despite strong criticism over such programs leveled this year by Muslim American leaders in Orange County.

..."We don't investigate places, we investigate individuals," Mueller told the Associated Press. "To the extent that there may be evidence or other information of criminal wrongdoings, then we will ... undertake those investigations. We will continue to do it."

U.S government post list of nuclear sites on Internet "accidentally"

The Government Printing Office "accidentally" posted for about a day a list of highly confidential civilian nuclear sites in the U.S.: 

"...A 266-page document that gives detailed information about civilian nuclear sites and programs, marked "highly confidential," was accidentally made public by the federal government, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

The document's publication was revealed Monday in an online newsletter about federal secrecy issues. The Times described the document as including maps that identify where nuclear weapons fuel is stockpiled, though it contained no information about military nuclear operations.

In a written statement late Tuesday, Damien LaVera, a spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that while administration officials "would have preferred it not be released, the Departments of Energy, Defense, and Commerce and the [Nuclear Regulatory Commission] all thoroughly reviewed it to ensure that no information of direct national security significance would be compromised."

But David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a group that tracks nuclear proliferation, told the Times that releasing information on nuclear fuels "can provide thieves or terrorists inside information that can help them seize the material...."

If this was a pdf document, and an enemy was given a heads up on it, all they had to do was right-click and select "save target as".

President Obama, Ali Soufan, want to give more rights to terrorists!

Are more rights for terrorists and criminal/law enforcement prosecutions likely to come from the Obama administration new counter-terrorist strategy? 

In a word, yes. 

Obama is moving to position more of our fight against jihadists in a law enforcement direction to help achieve his new "global justice" initiative.  This will mean more terrorists will be brought to the United States and put into the criminal courts, I suspect.  

Once again, only one former FBI agent by the name of Ali Soufan, who is a Muslim, is quoted in an article in the Los Angeles Times outlining all this for us in order to further drive home the ill ways of the Bush administration.

"The FBI and Justice Department plan to significantly expand their role in global counter-terrorism operations, part of a U.S. policy shift that will replace a CIA-dominated system of clandestine detentions and interrogations with one built around transparent investigations and prosecutions.

Under the "global justice" initiative, which has been in the works for several months, FBI agents will have a central role in overseas counter-terrorism cases. They will expand their questioning of suspects and evidence-gathering to try to ensure that criminal prosecutions are an option, officials familiar with the effort said.

Though the initiative is a work in progress, --  key to the national security strategy President Obama laid out last week -- one that presumes most accused terrorists have the right to contest the charges against them in a "legitimate" setting.

The approach effectively reverses a mainstay of the Bush administration's war on terrorism, in which global counter-terrorism was treated primarily as an intelligence and military problem, not a law enforcement one. That policy led to the establishment of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; harsh interrogations; and detentions without trials.

The "global justice" initiative starts out with the premise that virtually all suspects will end up in a U.S. or foreign court of law. 

...The harsh interrogations provided such bad information that U.S. agents spent years chasing false leads around the world, former FBI agent Ali Soufan testified before Congress two weeks ago. "It was one of the worst and most harmful decisions made in our efforts against Al Qaeda.

...Behind the scenes, some intelligence officials are resisting a broader criminal justice role overseas for the FBI, contending that it could inhibit the flow of intelligence if their own agents, or foreign governments, believe top-secret sources and methods might be disclosed during criminal prosecutions..."

Yet, it was the Bush administration who kept Americans safe from another attack. A fact rarely mentioned or appreciated by the left.

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The irony of Ali Soufan

"...Soufan wrote he disapproved of enhanced interrogation techniques or, as some call it,  torture.  He said, "the short sightedness behind the use of these techniques ignored the unreliability of the methods, the nature of the threat, the mentality and modus operandi of the terrorists, and due process..."

President Obama will seek to bring Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants to America!

I'm paraphrasing here what appears to be President Obama's defiance against Congressional actions about funding the closing of Guantanamo Bay which he addressed this morning: 

 ...We know Al-Quada is planning to attack us...We have to hold to our fundamental values...  I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution and cannot turn our back on it for expediency...Our values are our best asset...

We know our enemy has surrendered to us because they knew they would be treated better than their own...(what?)

9/11 changed things...Our government made a series of hasty decisions...  made on fear more than foresight, fitted facts and evidence to their needs...sat principles aside..too many of us fell silent... we went off course...this assessment was made by the American people who called for a new approach... We are at war with Al-Qaeda and its affiliates...framework by gov (Bush) failed....I banned enhanced interrogations techniques...brutal methods of waterboarding...I see the intelligence and I reject this method...they undermine the rule of law...helps recruit new terrorists...they risk the lives of our troops...all this undermined the war...This methods belong in the past...

the 2nd decision was to close Guantanamo Bay, for over 7 years detained hundreds...3 convictions in over 7 years...525 detainees released by the previous administration not me...it set back our moral authority in the world...it help Al-Qaeda recruit more it didn't keep us safer...the cost of keeping it open far exceeded (misssed it)...

The 3rd decision to order review of all pending cases...I knew it would be difficult...We are cleaning up something that is a mess...

17 Chinese Muslims were ordered released last fal under Bush...the problem wasn't caused by me but by it being opened int he first place...They are no neat and easy answers here...the wrong answer is to pretend it will go away and get it going...I refuse to allow it to fester...I'll let other litigate the problems of the last 8 years...fear-mongering...words were said to scare people...

Two broad areas I will focus...we are not going to release any if it will endanger anyone's national security...One: we will seek to detain them in U.S. prisons...gives several reasons why...Two:  some will be tried by military tribunal...detainees will have more latitude to select their own council...these will be fair...Three:  those who have been ordered released by the courts...this is the rule of law. Four: detainees who may be transferred to other countries...Finally, those who cannot be prosecuted and they are too dangerous to let go...we will try to prosecute them...there may be a number who cannot be prosecuted but they still pose a threat to us...those who have received explosive training...allegiance to Bin Laden...they are at war with the U.S...detention policies cannot be unbounded...we are reshaping standards...fair procedures...involves judicial and congressional oversight...

These are all issues for fodder, I can picture what will happen,  I get it...

Security issue requires a delicate balance with some transparency. 

Now he is giving his reason for releasing interrogation memos and is defending his action...released memos because they was no overriding reason not to...now gives reasons for not releasing photos...

He is still talking but I have an obligation to tend to.  Frankly his constant blame President Bush for everything is getting real old.

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Iran claims to have test-fired advanced two-stage missile

Iran claimed they test-fired a new and advanced long range missile capable of hitting Israel or Southern Europe.  Video:

CIA Director Leon Panetta: "We are a nation at war"

One-time California Democratic Congessman Leon Panetta, who is the new head of the CIA, bravely stood up to partisan politics today to state that we are a nation at war and that the partisan politics can take our eye of the seriousness of the threat facing our country:

"...Panetta spoke at a luncheon in California in his first public appearance since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week accused the CIA of lying to Congress about its use of enhanced interrogation tactics during the Bush administration. 

Panetta, who denied the charge through a written statement, tried to quiet the debate Monday and offer a warning to those who "focus on the past." 

..."We are a nation at war. We have to confront that reality every day, and while it's important to learn the lessons of the past, we must not do it in a way that sacrifices our capability to stay focused on the present, stay focused on the future and stay focused on those who threaten the United States of America." 

Panetta said Al Qaeda remains the "most serious security threat" to the country.

..."What I'm most concerned about is that this stuff doesn't become the kind of political issue that everything else becomes in Washington, D.C., where it becomes so divisive that it begins to interfere with the ability of the intelligence agencies to do our primary job, which is to focus on the threats that face us today and tomorrow," he said..." 

Fox News

CAIR to the FBI: Our mosques, our Koran are off-limits!

At a "Know your Rights" seminar in Los Angeles last month, a number of Muslims gathered.  The message they heard from most speakers:  Beware of the FBI!

"As they sipped tea and nibbled on dates, more than 100 men and women listened to a litany of speakers sounding the same message: The FBI is not your friend.

"We're here today to say our mosques are off limits," Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for Greater Los Angeles, told the crowd last month at an Anaheim mosque.

"Our Koran is off limits," Ayloush said. "Our youth, who they try to radicalize, are off limits. Now is the time to tell them, 'We're not going to let this happen anymore.'

...On Sunday, a coalition of the nation's largest Muslim organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Islamic Society of North America, issued a statement demanding that the Obama administration address FBI actions, including what they describe as the "infiltration of mosques," the use of "agent provocateurs to trap unsuspecting Muslim youth" and the "deliberate vilification" of the council.

"It reached a level where we felt we had to do something," said Agha Saeed, chairman of the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections. "The FBI is doing things which are not healthy. They are creating divisions and conflict, creating a totally negative, Islamophobic image of Muslims in America..."

LA Times

Excerpt from their statement:

Representatives from the American Muslim Alliance (AMA), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), Muslim American Society-Freedom Foundation (MAS-FF), Muslim Student Association-National (MSA-N), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) took part in Saturday's meeting. Other member and observer organizations were briefed by phone. (note: links added by z)

"...We are fully united in asking the Obama administration to address the following issues: 1. Infiltration of mosques and systematic manipulation of Muslim religious affairs, 2. Use of agents provocateurs to trap unsuspecting Muslim youth, 3. Unfair targeting and deliberate vilification of CAIR, a national Muslim civil rights organization, 4. Use of McCarthy-era tactics, most notably dissemination of Islamophobic analysis by federally-funded 'fusion centers' to local law enforcement agencies."

 

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Also see:

 

Coalition, including CAIR, seeks release of man held on terror suspicion

Video: CAIR booth in Florida selling radical Islamic material

Dr. Juhdi Jasser's fight against Islamism

Muslim groups who support the FBI's decision to break with CAIR speak out!

CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and more

Doctor who alleged treated Al-Qaeda injured to be released from Guantanamo Bay

This announcement makes it the third time President Obama's new administration has stepped in regarding enemy combatants, now simply called "detainees".  First, "detainee" Binyam Mohamed, was returned to England.  And another "detainee", held by the military inside the United States for nearly six years, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, was transferred to be prosecuted in the civilian courts.

From Arab News:

"The US government on Monday agreed to release a Yemeni surgeon who prosecutors say treated Al-Qaeda wounded at Tora Bora in Afghanistan under a new review ordered by President Barack Obama meant to empty Guantanamo by January 2010.

Ayman Saeed Batarfi, 38, a Yemeni citizen and doctor whose family lives in Saudi Arabia, told a military review panel that he was a humanitarian worker who found himself at the battle of Tora Bora while Osama bin Laden was in the area, according to a Pentagon transcript. He is the second detainee whose release was ordered during the Obama administration.

At one point, Batarfi said, the Al-Qaeda leader appeared in a graveyard near Tora Bora in 2001 while the doctor was burying the dead from American air assaults on Afghanistan.

Bin Laden “was there and said a prayer” for the victim being buried, Batarfi said in the transcript of a hearing held here in 2005.

...The US Justice Department said the release of Batarfi, a doctor, won’t be easy because officials expect difficulty finding a country willing to take him.

Although the Bush administration declared him an enemy combatant, alleging ties to Al-Qaeda, Batarfi was never formally charged.

I just wonder if this man will be brought to America:

"The US will now work to transfer Batarfi “to an appropriate destination country in a manner that is consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice,” said Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd..."   

Surely not, right?

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US Decides to Release Detainee at Guantánamo

Venezuelan offer for Guantanamo

BBC News - ‎12 hours ago‎

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he is prepared to receive detainees held by the US military at the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba. ...

Muslim task force miffed at FBI for finding a suspected jihadist!

I would think Muslim organizations throughout America would applaud the FBI's effort to find the Islamic terrorists lurking among them who give Islam a bad name.  

If a known hate group had members join my church and tried to recruit members to carry-out an attacks on others, I would welcome their capture.  If it took the FBI to go undercover at my church to get them, so be it.  Glad they were exposed and arrested.  Thank you FBI!  It's really just plain common sense.

But that is not what we see here, folks.

From a press release issued by the American Muslim Taskforce yesterday and picked up by Fox Business we read:

More Islamic and civil liberties organizations have signed on to a statement by the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, saying that it is considering suspending outreach relations with the FBI over recent incidents in which American mosques and Muslim groups have been targeted.

...The new signatories include the Pakistan American National Alliance, the Peace and Justice Foundation, Muslim Voters of America, and the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) in the greater Washington, D.C., area. The CCMO represents more than 50 Washington-area mosques, Islamic schools and Muslim organizations.

AMT is an umbrella organization that includes American Muslim Alliance (AMA), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), MAS-Freedom, Muslim Student Association-National (MSA-N), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), and United Muslims of America (UMA). Its observer organizations include the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County (IEC).

The incident they are so up in arms about has to do with an undercover man finding a potential jihadist in California which led to his arrest!  Why the nerve of law enforcement.

These Islamic organizations have deepened the division and mistrust that exits in America with many Muslim organizations because their claim of being a victim doesn't fly here.  Had these Islamic organizations thanked the FBI for finding this alleged jihadist instead of criticizing them, most of us would feel we are all on the same page.  But we are far from it.

America's fusion centers concern CAIR

Do you know about fusion centers?  They grew out of a need to share intelligence after 9/11.  In February 2009, there were 58 such centers around the country designed to share information and intelligence within their jurisdiction, as well as with the federal government, according to the DHS website.

31 DHS officers have been sent to state fusion centers in numerous states such as Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Texas and a several more 

There are plans to increase the number of officials to 70 by the end of 2009.

CAIR, the ACLU and some individuals, such as ousted U.S. Rep. and Green Party member Cynthia McKinney are crying foul for a few alleged incidents:

"...In 2007, the ACLU released a report entitled, “What’s Wrong With Fusion Centers?” which was updated last year. The report identifies specific concerns with fusion centers, including their ambiguous lines of authority, the troubling role of private corporations, the participation of the military, the use of data mining and the excessive secrecy surrounding the centers.

 

“CAIR is deeply troubled that the North Central Texas Fusion System bulletin labels monitoring the legal activities of American Muslims exercising their constitutional privileges as ‘imperative.’ In light of similar monitoring of peace and anti-death penalty activists in Maryland, CAIR believes it is time for Congress to conduct a deeper evaluation of our nation’s new domestic surveillance infrastructure.

 

“The author’s unprofessional presentation of known anti-Muslim sources as outlets of credible information also calls the integrity of the entire fusion system into doubt. This second point is an overt manifestation of the ‘Inaccurate or Incomplete Information’ identified in a December, 2008 Department of Homeland Security report on a number of risks to privacy presented by the fusion center program.

 

“Based on this and other recent incidents and initiatives targeting the Muslim community nationwide, we are concerned that the rights of American Muslims to participate fully in our country’s political process and practice their faith free of government intrusion is under assault..."

 

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Napolitano backs fusion centers

FCW.com - ‎Mar 12, 2009‎

By Ben Bain Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said March 11 that state and local intelligence fusion centers are important to her department's ...

 

Fusion Center Conference in KC will bring together experts on ...

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The gathering is the third annual National Fusion Center Conference, an effort born in the smoke and rubble of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. ...

 

Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security - Staff Bios  

Kim joined the Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security (OKOHS) in 2007 to design and implement the state’s Fusion Center. Nikki Cassingham -- Assistant Project ...

 

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation - Investigative  

The OSBI operates a Criminal Intelligence Unit, in which the Oklahoma State Fusion Center is currently being developed. This unit will house criminal ...

Taliban terrorists reject Obama and Clinton's reconcilation offers as lunatic!

Hope and change from Obama seems to have hit a brick wall with the Taliban:

"Taliban insurgents rejected on Wednesday a U.S. offer of "honourable reconciliation" as a "lunatic idea" and said the withdrawal of foreign troops was the only way to end the war in Afghanistan.

With the Afghan conflict now in its eighth year, NATO-led forces and the Taliban are locked in a bloody stalemate with violence set to rise further this year as more U.S. troops arrive and seek to contain the insurgency ahead of August elections.

President Barack Obama is redoubling U.S. efforts with more troops, more diplomatic effort and more economic assistance, but he has also already spoken of the need for an "exit strategy".

If the U.S. plan fails to show results, analysts say, time is on the Taliban side.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an international conference on Afghanistan on Tuesday that those members of the Taliban who abandoned extremism must be granted an "honourable form of reconciliation".

"This matter was also raised in the past," said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, referring to comments by Obama last month who spoke of reaching out to moderate Taliban.

They have to go and find the moderate Taliban, their leader and speak to them. This is a lunatic idea," Mujahid said by telephone from an unknown location.

...The Taliban meanwhile, do not have to win the war, analysts say. All they have to do is survive and wait for their opponents to lose the will to keep fighting.

Reuters

Iran official: America, change or you may be forced to change

Ali Akbar Javanfekr is the presidential advisor for press affairs to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and in an opinion piece carried by the LA Times he wrote that while President Bush was hated around the world, he was one of the most honest American presidents because he deeds and words matched. 

First, Mr. Javanfekr let's clarify what you said. President Bush was largely hated by Islamists and the left, and not by everyone.  Millions of Americans appreciated immensely his efforts to make the world a safer place.  Over time, this appreciation will likely grow in the face of our ever-evolving enemies that follow a strict and twisted religious edict and not a nation.

From the LA Times:

"...Mr. Obama's recent message to Iran on the occasion of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, contained some encouraging signs -- and some negative ones.

...The U.S. has a long history of interfering in Iran's domestic affairs --. (Z: In other words we are merely the victims of your cruel country)

...For all these reasons, Mr. Obama's claims of responsibility and honesty must ultimately be put to the test.

Mr. Obama's efforts to replace aggressive rhetoric in official U.S. statements with the language of peace and mutual respect is a step forward. If this change of tone is also manifested practically in the official policies of the U.S., it will be an important step toward remedying the impaired image of the U.S. in the eyes of other nations.

Mr. Obama expressed his country's willingness to see our Islamic Republic take its true position in the international community. This new approach by the United States is appreciated, but we would note that Iran already occupies a distinguished position in the international community. President Ahmadinejad is one of the most beloved dignitaries in the world, and freedom-loving nations in all corners of the Earth love Iran.

The policies of previous U.S. administrations led to a rise in hatred, anger and worries. In all corners of the world, it is worth noting, the only flags being set ablaze belong to the U.S. and the occupying Zionist regime.

President Obama has proclaimed a policy of "change," and the American people have embraced it. But to remedy its image in the world, the U.S. needs to truly change its past methods.

Change is mandatory for the U.S. administration. For as history demonstrates, either you change, or you are forced to change."

 

Was that a veiled threat based on a belief that America is now weaker?

Obama lawyer argues for ban on Tariq Ramadan!

Great news coming from the Obama administration:

"A lawyer arguing on behalf of the Obama administration on Tuesday echoed Bush administration policies to back a decision to deny one of Europe's leading Muslim intellectuals entry to the United States.

Assistant U.S. Attorney David Jones told a U.S. federal appeals court panel that they should uphold a decision to bar Swiss Muslim Tariq Ramadan, an Oxford University professor and a vocal critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, from entering the United States.

Civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, had hoped Tuesday's arguments would see a reversal of Bush administration policies that they argue exclude foreign scholars from visiting the United States due to their political beliefs.

"Consular decisions are not subject to litigation," Jones told the three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, broadly arguing the courts have no power to examine visa denials. The ACLU argued against a judge's ruling in late 2007 that upheld Ramadan's ban.

Ramadan is the grandson of Hasan al-Banna, an Islamist thinker and activist who in 1928 founded the Muslim Brotherhood, which opposed secular and Western ideas.

...The ACLU argued the government was using the provision more broadly to deny entry to people whose political views they did not approve of..."

Reuters

U.S. ready to take on the Mexican drug cartels!

This is good news:

"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg and Deputy Attorney General David Ogden laid out details of what the White House calls a "comprehensive response to the situation along the border with Mexico."

"Department of Justice stands ready to take the fight to the Mexican drug cartels," Ogden said in a White House briefing with reporters.

Noting President Obama's concern about the "increased level of violence," particularly in cities along the U.S.-Mexico border, the White House also said that the United States will invest $700 million for collaborative efforts with Mexican law enforcement and the judicial system, and that the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security and Treasury Department "are all ramping up personnel and efforts directed at the Southwest border."

ABC News

Marine One information breached by Iran

Well, this is troubling:

"An Internet security company claims that Iran has taken advantage of a computer security breach to obtain engineering and communications information about Marine One, President Barack Obama's helicopter, according to a report by WPXI, NBC's affiliate in Pittsburgh.

Tiversa, headquartered in Cranberry Township, Pa., reportedly discovered a security breach that led to the transfer of military information to an Iranian IP address, according to WPXI. The information is said to include planned engineering upgrades, avionic schematics, and computer network information.

The channel quoted the company's CEO, Bob Boback, who said Tiversa found a file containing the entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One..."

CNET

Canadians jets intercepted Russian bomber aircraft one day before President Obama's visit

I suspect Russia is flexing its muscle:

"One day before U.S. President Barack Obama's Canadian visit last week, Canadian fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers near Canadian air space, the defense minister said Friday.

Canadian jets intercepted Russian TU-95 Bear bomber aircraft last week similar to this one.

"At no time did Russian planes enter Canadian air space, but within 24 hours of the president's visit here ... we did scramble F-18 fighter planes from NORAD in Canada command," Peter MacKay said in a news conference in Ottawa.

The Russian planes were in international waters, about 118 miles (190 kilometers) northeast of Tuktoyuktuk, in Canada's Northwest Territories.

"It was a routine flight over international airspace," Yevgeniy Khorishko, a spokesman at the Russian Embassy in Washington, told CBC news.

"As has been done on previous occasions, (Canadian pilots) sent very clear signals that are understood, that (the) aircraft was to turn around, turn tail and head back to its own air space, which it did," MacKay said.

The Russian planes were identified as TU-95 Bear aircraft by NORAD spokesman Michael Kucharek."

CNN 

 

CAIR fails to be a true partner in fighting Islamic terrorism

In California recently it was revealed that a FBI informant had infiltrated mosques in Orange County and recorded the jihadist talk of one particular Muslim who was later arrested.

Instead of praising the work of the FBI for finding this alleged jihadist amongst them, CAIR  blasted the FBI!   Keep in mind, the OC Muslim community did not report the man.

This Islamic organization, which is a blatant outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America, once again claims to speak for all American Muslims who do not dispute this claim, I should add.  

And American Muslims wonder why there is a problem. 

From the statement by CAIR:

"The American Muslim community has never wavered from its commitment to keeping America safe, nor has it hesitated from cooperating with various law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, in ensuring the security of all U.S. citizens," the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement.

But, it said, reports that informants have been paid "to monitor and provoke law-abiding Muslims in houses of worship" and the recruitment by the FBI of Muslims "to become informants" have left American Muslims with "deeply troubling concerns."

One of them is that "these coercive and intimidating methods highlight the fact that the FBI continues to view the entire American Muslim community as suspect and treat it as such," the statement said.

"Infiltrating mainstream mosques the way FBI informants infiltrate white supremacist groups illustrates the FBI's perception of American Muslims as a community that must be constantly monitored, instead of being treated as an equal partner in fighting crime and terrorism," according to the statement..." 

MSNBC

You've got that right, CAIR. 

But under President Obama's liberal leadership and inclusive nature FBI scrutiny could be curbed.  The Islamist's agenda then can accelerate and flourish in a more protected environment which is, of course, exactly what they want.  That's why Muslim organizations often partner up with the left. 

The struggle to bring Islam to the West was resoundingly apparent in the non-Muslim country of Serbia when an internal struggle led to an independent country, Kosovo, being formed as a new largely Muslim-dominated country which happened one year ago on February 17th. 

I am curious, CAIR, do you happen to have a list of when anyone in the American Muslim community actually has turned someone in to authorities?   I am unaware of anytime this has happened. 

Some partner.

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A Short History of Kosovo (formerly part of Yugoslavia)

Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo: An Abbreviated History An Opening for the The Islamic Jihad in Europe. G. Richard Jansen Colorado State University ...

  

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Albanians Push KosovoIn Islamic Conference :: BalkanInsight.com

Feb 3, 2009 ... started a petition drive to appeal to all 57 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, OIC, to recognize Kosovo’s independence.

 

Kosovo Independence Significant in Muslim World, Envoy Says

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Muslim Brotherhood

CAIR and Company

Islam in Oklahoma

World Trade Center's first attack was 16 years ago today

There will be a memorial service today to mark the date of the first attack on the WTC when a car bomb was detonated below Tower One.  Six people died and 1,000 were injured.

It happened on a Friday when Islamic terrorism hit American soil for the first time.

How many Americans have completely erased this date from their minds?

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FBI Press release on the attack

National September 11th Memorial and Museum

Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano may erase terrorism from vocabulary

Today President Barack Obama's new Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, will testify before Congress for the first time.

Napolitano will not use the term terrorism, at all,  despite the fact she used it eight times in her pre-confirmation testimony. 

This move to not identify our enemy is similar to what they've done in Britain where the threat of another attack is growing greater by the day.

From Napolitano's transcript: February 25, 2009

Testimony of Secretary Janet Napolitano before the House Committee on Homeland Security, "DHS: The Path Forward"

The action directives required DHS components to report back to me in a short timeframe, and I want to update the Committee on the status of the directives:

• Efficiency Review – Last week, I issued an action directive calling for an Efficiency Review across DHS. 
• State and Local Intelligence Sharing and Integration – I issued two action directives concerned with the Department’s partnerships and intelligence-sharing activities with state, local, tribal, and territorial partners.
• Hurricanes Katrina and Rita – I issued an action directive regarding the Department’s continued efforts in recovery from Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.
• Border Security, Immigration, Employment Verification, and Enforcement – I issued a number of directives related to border security and immigration. Among the directives, I requested an assessment of past border security assistance by National Guard and Department of Defense assets.
• Transportation Security – In an effort to assess security across all forms of transportation, I directed the review of transportation security in the surface, maritime and aviation sectors. 
• Critical Infrastructure Protection – I issued an action directive to assess the status of the Department’s efforts to shield the Nation’s critical infrastructure from attacks. I issued a separate directive for an assessment of DHS’s critical role in cybersecurity.
• Healthcare Surge Capacity – I issued an action directive that evaluated DHS’s role in building capacity for a “healthcare surge” – the increase in people who might need medical attention after an incident...
• Planning and Risk Management – I issued an action directive asking for a report on DHS’s lead role in the interagency effort to develop Federal operational plans for prevention, protection, response, and recovery activities for the National Planning Scenarios.

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"Man-caused disasters" the new term for Islamic terrorism!

Global Islamist terrorism that dare not speak its name

War of terror and enemy combatant terms disappear but enemies still loom large

Yet, in her testimony before being nominated she did mention terrorism about 8 times:

DHS: Testimony of Secretary-Designate Janet Napolitano before the ...

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Napolitano: DHS to miss cargo screening deadline

Director of FBI warns of possible U.S. terror attacks

Its time for another reality check on our national security risks from the head of the FBI who spoke yesterday at the Council of Foreign Relations.  This assessment appears not to speak well for the Religion of Peace followers and their ability to rein in Islamic extremists with their own Muslim community:

Photo credit FBI

"FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III today warned that extremists "with large agendas and little money can use rudimentary weapons" to sow terror, raising the specter that recent attacks in Mumbai that killed 170 people last year could embolden terrorists seeking to attack U.S. cities.

At a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Mueller said that the bureau is expanding its focus beyond al-Qaeda and into splinter groups, radicals who try to enter the country through the visa waiver program and "home-grown terrorists."

"The universe of crime and terrorism stretches out infinitely before us, and we too are working to find what we believe to be out there but cannot always see," Mueller said.

One particular concern, the FBI director said, springs from the country's background as a "nation of immigrants." Federal officials worry about pockets of possible radicals among melting-pot communities in the United States such as Seattle, San Diego, Miami or New York.

A Joint Terrorism Task Force led by the FBI, for instance, continues to investigate a group in Minneapolis after one young man last fall flew to Somalia and became what authorities believe to be the first U.S. citizen to carry out a suicide bombing. As many as a half-dozen other youths from that community in Minnesota have vanished, alarming their parents and raising concerns among law enforcement officials that a dangerous recruiting network has operated under the radar..."

Washington Post

Attorney general nominee, Eric Holder: Try some Gitmo detainees in the U.S.

Oh, oh:

"...Eric H. Holder Jr. said Thursday that if confirmed as attorney general under President-elect Barack Obama he would seek to prosecute in American criminal courts some prisoners now held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and would re-examine Bush administration policies he considered legally troubling.

...Mr. Holder said the practice of waterboarding terrorism suspects, used by the Central Intelligence Agency on three prisoners after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, represented torture. He said other aggressive interrogation techniques risked violating the Geneva Conventions as well and would not be authorized by his Justice Department..."

Washington TImes

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1/16/09:  EXCLUSIVE: Bush warns Gitmo detainees pose danger

1/15/09:  Let some Guantanamo Bay detainees live in US, advocates say

1/12/09:  Brownback invites Obama to Fort Leavenworth

1/8/09: (Governor) Sebelius says no Guantanamo detainees in Kansas

1/5/09:  Kansas senators don't want Gitmo detainees - UPI.com

12/5/08:   The Obama team could bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Kansas!

Pelosi stacks Intelligence Committee with Democrats: defies 9/11 recommendations!

Disturbing news that insures the Democrats will dominate on the important issue about our national security in the House of Representatives:

"Rep. Pete Hoekstra has sharply criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan to increase the number of Democrats on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

The Michigan Republican said the move would contravene the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, which held that the majority on the Intelligence Committee should never exceed the minority by more than one vote.

The committee currently has 12 Democrats and 9 Republicans, however.  And yet Pelosi wants to change that to a 13 to 8 ratio, a source close to the committee told Newsmax.

“This is a brazen move by Democrats to pack the Intelligence Committee and drive intelligence into a partisan realm,” said Hoekstra, the top Republican on the committee."

NewsMax

President-elect Obama may change domestic counterterrorism structure

Well, we knew something like this would probably happen.  But is it just the beginning?

"...The plan being discussed would eliminate the independent homeland security adviser’s office and assign those duties to the National Security Council to streamline sometimes overlapping functions. A deputy national security adviser would be charged with overseeing the effort to guard against terrorism and to respond to natural disasters.

Democrats close to the transition said Mr. Obama’s choice for that job was John O. Brennan, a longtime C.I.A. veteran who was the front-runner to head the spy agency until withdrawing in November amid criticism of his views on interrogation and detention policies. His appointment would not require Senate confirmation.

“It’s pretty clear they’ve made the decision,” said Frances Fragos Townsend, who was homeland security adviser under Mr. Bush and has talked with the Obama team about the issue. “It’s a question of timing and how they’re going to roll it out.”

Mr. Bush’s aides, including the national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, have privately urged Mr. Obama’s advisers not to get rid of the separate homeland security office, warning that it would load too many responsibilities on the National Security Council and risk important matters’ falling through the cracks..."

New York Times

Hotline setup to monitor FBI efforts to question those who entry into U.S.

A number of organizations have set up a hotline to gather complaints against the FBI.  On December 1st,  the FBI instituted new guidelines that authorize them to gather a wide-range of information without any evidence of wrong-doing in their unrelentless effort to keep us safe from another Islamic terrorist attack.  

Naturally, CAIR an organization that grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in the U.S. is right in the middle of it. 

Come to think of it, have you ever heard of one incident where CAIR has actually helped the FBI get information against terrorists?

"It's a new effort to help those who have been racially profiled at border crossings.   The American Civil Liberties Union says the FBI has implemented new guidelines that will allow agents to profile individuals for searches based on race and ethnicity at borders across the United States.  The Detroit branch of the NAACP, ACCESS, CAIR and ACLU Wednesday launched a new hotline to report issues.

Dawud Walid, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said since the September 11th terror attacks there's been an increase in profiling, particularly focused on American Muslims at borders.  

Walid claims personal property such as wallets and laptops have been taken from people, searched and -- in some cases -- have had information removed."

WWJ Newsradio 950

Lockheed Martin's Multiple Kill Vehicle Hover Test - MKV-L

Lockheed Martin's first anti-ballistic missile system designed to search and destroy multiple warheads and countermeasures using a single launcher.

Multiple Kill Vehicle Completes Hover Test

U.S. likely faces massive terror attack by 2013 government report states

The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden.

It suggests the Obama administration bolster efforts to counter and prepare for germ warfare by terrorists.

"The commission is also encouraging the new White House to appoint one official on the National Security Council to exclusively coordinate U.S. intelligence and foreign policy on combatting the spread of nuclear and biological weapons, per Fox News.

Download Executive summary

Full report  preventwmd.gov

U.S. warned India of terror attack in October.

The U.S. government, you know the one that the left constantly tells us is the cause of all the problems in the world under President Bush's leadership, actually warned India (ABC video) of a potential terror attack from the sea that named the Taj Mahal hotel.  They took some precautions at the hotel at the time but then let up on it.

So when our government warns us of a potential attack, like the one they issued last week about New York City, we should pay attention: