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		<title>Times Square Denial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 04:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama officials jump to wrong conclusions to stop Americans from making the right ones.]]></description>
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<p>Before  any real investigation had been carried out into the attempted terrorist bombing  on New York’s Times Square last week, Secretary of Homeland  Security Janet Napolitano had almost immediately dismissed it as a “one-off”  thing. General David Petraeus, head of US Central Command, was also quick off  the mark, saying the terrorist behind the plot, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/04/new-york-bomb-suspect.html" target="_blank">Faisal  Shahzad</a>, 30, who traded his Pakistani citizenship for American last year,  was a “lone wolf.”</p>
<p>But  last weekend the truth came out when Attorney-General Eric Holder was forced to  admit what many suspected all along. It was another act of international Islamic  jihad against the United  States, and faceless murderers in Taliban/ al Qaeda  terrorist organizations, based in Pakistan and motivated by their undying  resolve to kill as many Americans, were the  string-pullers.</p>
<p>“We’ve now developed evidence that shows that the  Pakistan Taliban was behind the attack,” Holder said on the ABC program, <em>This Week</em>. “We know that they probably  helped finance it. And that he (Shahzad) was working at their  direction.”</p>
<p>With  Holder’s admission, the question remains as to why a government that told people  not to jump to conclusions concerning a connection between the  Fort Hood massacre and Islamist terrorism was  so quick to erroneously declare the Times Square bombing a solo, one-time operation? In the  Fort Hood killings, Major Nidal Malik Hasan  was also initially described as a lone gunman, whose motives were unclear,  although he was shouting “Allahu Akbar” during his murderous rampage. President  Obama himself cautioned against any premature judgement, even though his own  intelligence agencies knew for months Hasan had been trying to make contact with  al Qaeda-connected people.</p>
<p>“We  don’t know all the answers yet,” Obama said at the time. “And I would caution  against jumping to any conclusions until we have all the facts.”</p>
<p>But in  the case of the failed Times Square bombing the facts were already in, some of  them for a long time. The United  States is in a worldwide war with radical Islam, a  concept some still have difficulty with. As a result of this war, according to  one analyst, America was the target of about a <a href="http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20091121.aspx" target="_blank">dozen  terrorist attacks</a> within its borders last year alone. Only the  Fort Hood strike was successful, costing 13  lives while another 30 were wounded.</p>
<p>In one  of the thwarted attacks, also potentially the most deadly, an Afghan residing  legally in the United  States, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/z/najibullah_zazi/index.html" target="_blank">Najibullah  Zazi</a>, 25, was arrested last September along with two others for planning  three suicide attacks on the New York subway. Zazi, like Shahzad, had  also received weapons and explosives training at a terrorist training camp in  Pakistan. Zazi pleaded guilty last February  and will be sentenced in June.</p>
<p>However, it was the arrest of two men of  Pakistani origin in Chicago last year on terrorism charges that  indicated how deeply the al Qaeda/ Taliban terrorist network had spread in  America. Rather than use the two Chicago  residents, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Headley" target="_blank">David  Headley</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahawwur_Hussain_Rana" target="_blank">Tahawwur Rana</a>, the  former an American and the latter a Canadian citizen, to carry out terrorist  attacks in the United States where they lived, an easier proposition, the  terrorist leaders sitting in Pakistan confidently used them to help carry out  the most devastating terrorist attack of 2008: Mumbai.  Headley, using his American passport and  Rana’s business as cover, traveled several times to  India to scout out potential targets  before the attack and to gather information. The two men’s sinister activities  remained undetected in both India and  America.</p>
<p>Headley  would also travel to Pakistan where he would drop off his reports  to<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyas_Kashmiri_%28militant%29" target="_blank"> Ilyas  Kashmiri</a>, the mastermind behind the Mumbai attack and allegedly the head of  al Qaeda’s military operations. When arrested, Headley and Rana were carrying  out reconnaissance in Denmark for another Kashmiri-planned  terrorist attack, this time against the Danish newspaper, the <em>Jyllands-Postens</em>, which printed the  Muhammad cartoons. Kashmiri was indicted at the trial that saw Headley plead  guilty to terrorism charges last March.</p>
<p>When  the investigation is complete concerning the failed Times Square bombing, it would not surprise if  Ilyas Kashmiri’s name pops up once more. South Asian affairs analyst <a href="http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers36/paper3506.html" target="_blank">B. Raman</a> describes Kashmiri as seeing himself as another Khalid Sheikh Mohammad who wants  “to carry out a spectacular terrorist strike in a Western country.”</p>
<p>American  intelligence indicated Kashmiri’s importance by subjecting him to three drone  attacks in the past. Kashmiri, who also heads al Qaeda’s secretive <a href="http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers36/paper3506.html" target="_blank">313 Brigade</a>, granted a Pakistani journalist <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KJ15Df03.html" target="_blank">an interview</a> last October after his death was reported in the  third attack to prove he was still alive and planning further terrorist strikes  in India, Europe and North America.</p>
<p>“They  are right in their pursuit. They know their enemy well. They know what I am  really up to,” he told the interviewer with  pride.</p>
<p>The  fact the Pakistani Taliban rather than al Qaeda at first took credit for helping  Shahzad and then later retracted its claim is probably an attempt to deceive.  Raman writes there is really no knowing what the relationship is between the  Pakistani Taliban, Ilyas Kashmiri and his 313 Brigade. He further observes that  the terrorist scene in Pakistan is “getting murkier and murkier”  and not even Pakistan’s leaders know exactly what is  going on.</p>
<p>The  fact that so many terrorist plots in America and elsewhere have led back to  Pakistan, why then would Napolitano and  General Petraeus hastily conclude the Times Square bombing was a “one-off”, “lone wolf” deed?   What drives such speedy, and  misleading, utterances and presidential warnings not to jump to conclusions is  the White House’s fear of a backlash against Muslims living in  America. Such a backlash, it is believed,  would not only play into the Islamists’ hands and adversely affect the War on  Terror, but would also jeopardise Obama’s stated desire to build bridges to the  Islamic world.</p>
<p>But  while such fear may be understandable, it only serves to hinder people from  drawing the proper conclusion: Islamic terrorism is a very real danger to  Americans and the threat is growing.  And that is something that can’t be  denied.</p>
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		<title>The Times Finds A Lone Crazed Assassin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Collier]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Grey Lady won't tell you about professor Amy Bishop.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/">Newsreal</a></strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html" target="_blank"><em></em></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html" target="_blank"><em>The New York Times</em>’ front page profile</a> on Saturday of professor Amy Bishop, who allegedly executed three University of Alabama Biology Department colleagues after being denied tenure, appears to be an exhaustively reported piece based on “numerous interviews with colleagues and others who knew her.” It portrays Bishop as violent and unpredictable, rejected by Harvard because of mediocre work and shunned by a series of neighbors and co-workers scared off by the suppressed rage that kept bubbling up to the surfaces of her social life, and also someone who may already have gotten away with the murder of her brother years earlier possibly because of her mother’s political connections in her home town of Braintree, Mass.</p>
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<p>“Between brilliance and rage” is the caption of the photo of Bishop used by the<em> Times</em> for the story, although the piece makes no case for the former.  But is this all the news that is fit to print about the perpetrator of this murder spree in academe?  What about the “family source” who told the Boston Herald that Bishop was,</p>
<blockquote><p>“<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=144&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">a far left</a> political activist who was ‘obsessed’ with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" target="_blank">President Obama</a> to the point of being off putting”?</p></blockquote>
<p>What about the student who called her a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">“socialist”</a>? What about one report that Bishop complained about a rule issued by University  of Alabama administrators regarding underclassmen living on campus because she believed it was destructive of “diversity.”  And what about the crowning irony of this case, whether or not she made this complaint: that two of the colleagues she allegedly killed were black and one was South Asian, and that Bishop thus wiped out the 14 person Biology department’s entire diversity in one burst of gunfire?</p>
<p>Considering the politics of Bishop’s <em>ressentiment</em> might have helped fill out the Times’ portrait of a psychopathic time bomb who had already gone off several times in her disordered life on her way to the Big Explosion on February 12 in Huntsville. There is no doubt, as the blogosphere has already noted, that the paper would have pursued even the vaguest hint that Bishop had been a fan of Glenn Beck or was a Tea Party fellow traveler as a major story line. For the Grey Lady, only the politics of the Right is personal.</p>
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		<title>Homegrown Insurgency &#8211; by Paul Sperry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Move over Europe, radicalization is happening here.]]></description>
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<p>You&#8217;ve heard the narrative from the Beltway punditry: Our Muslims are better assimilated than Muslims in Europe. Our Muslims are more Westernized, less radicalized.</p>
<p>Well, it&#8217;s a false narrative.</p>
<p>We are seeing the horns of a Muslim insurgency in this country. We are being Europeanized. And we need a counterinsurgency plan not just in Afghanistan but right here at home.</p>
<p>While our leaders are too politically correct to even think about such a thing, they are starting to at least recognize the problem.</p>
<p>Even President Obama, who still won&#8217;t utter the M word, notes the rise in &#8220;extremists within our borders.&#8221; So does his Homeland Security chief, who just months earlier fixated on white militia groups as the main domestic terror threat.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are seeing young Americans who are inspired by al-Qaida and radical ideology,&#8221; echoed DHS secretary Janet Napolitano, while still failing to name the source of that ideology. &#8220;Home-based terrorism is here.&#8221;</p>
<p>And for the first time, a senior Justice Department official has gone on record saying the U.S. is turning into Europe, with Muslim citizens becoming more and more hostile toward the government, and plotting and carrying out more acts of homegrown terrorism.</p>
<p>&#8220;If there was ever a subconscious belief in the counterterrorism community that our society is different from Europe and therefore we don&#8217;t have to worry about problems like they&#8217;ve had, the activities in Minneapolis demonstrate we can&#8217;t think that way,&#8221; said Patrick Rowan, who led Justice&#8217;s national-security division when the government first started investigating the case of the 20 young Somali-American men who quit college and gave up promising careers in Minneapolis to join al-Qaida&#8217;s jihad in Somalia.</p>
<p>The FBI fears the recruits &#8212; who have U.S. passports &#8212; may use their terror training to come back and attack their own country. One of them already carried out a suicide bombing, becoming the first American to do so.</p>
<p>&#8220;We should all be on guard,&#8221; said Ralph Boelter who heads the FBI&#8217;s Minneapolis field office.</p>
<p>As we dig in deeper in Afghanistan, hostility among our own Muslim population will only grow deeper. And as we import more refugees from Muslim countries, demands for Shariah (think: Taliban) law will only grow shriller. Consider that:</p>
<p>* A new Gallup poll finds American Muslims are most likely to report feeling anger compared with the overall population &#8212; making even more of them ripe for radicalization.</p>
<p>* 2009 is shaping up to be most dangerous year in domestic terror since 9/11, a grave national security issue overlooked by a national media obsessed with boys trapped (or not) in balloons and golfers trapped in bimbo bunkers.</p>
<p>* In the past 12 months alone, there have been more than 75 arrests in the U.S. and abroad of homegrown terrorists including the Fort Hood shooter &#8212; all of them Muslim, almost all U.S. citizens.</p>
<p>* The FBI says Muslim groups have declared war on law enforcement over mosque surveillance and undercover informants &#8212; and we just saw the first mosques seized and the first shootout between a Muslim cleric and agents in Detroit.</p>
<p>* USA Today reports six Muslim &#8220;honor killings&#8221; in America over the past two years.</p>
<p>&#8220;Radicalization is clearly happening in the U.S.,&#8221; said NYPD intelligence unit chief Mitch Silber. &#8220;In years past, you couldn&#8217;t say that about the U.S. You could say it about Europe.&#8221;</p>
<p>The secularity of the American Muslim community is a myth. In fact, a larger share of American Muslims (80%) say their religion is an important part of their daily lives than British Muslims (70%), according to a recent Gallup poll. And our Muslims are nearly as militant in their faith as Iranians.</p>
<p>The same survey finds a disturbing percentage of American Muslim youth &#8212; 26% &#8212; are seething with anger compared with the national average among respondents aged 18 to 29.</p>
<p>These findings dovetail with a 2007 Pew Research poll finding an alarming 26%  &#8212; or roughly 100,000 &#8212; of U.S. Muslims aged 18 to 29 condone suicide bombings against non-Muslim &#8220;civilian targets.&#8221; That roughly tracks the 35% of young Muslim Brits who told Pew the same thing after some of them bombed the London subway.</p>
<p>Clearly, young Muslim Americans are as prone to radicalization as their European counterparts.</p>
<p>Take Tarek Mehanna, a 27-year-old American from Boston recently arrested on terror charges. Court records show his jihad cell, which allegedly planned to attack a shopping mall, justified suicide attacks against fellow American civilians &#8220;because they paid taxes to support the [U.S.] government, and because they were Kufar (non-believers).&#8221;</p>
<p>The group traveled to Pakistan to train with Lashkar-e-Taiba, the al-Qaida subcontractor blamed for last year&#8217;s bloodbath in Mumbai,  India.</p>
<p>LeT also attracted a top official at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a terrorist front group posing as a civil-rights group. Ismail Royer &#8212; who worked under CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper at its national headquarters in Washington &#8212; is now serving 20 years in the pen. Prosecutors say he trained at LeT camps in Pakistan to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, and recruited other Muslims in the D.C. suburbs to join the<br />
anti-American jihad.</p>
<p>Confidential CAIR board meeting minutes first revealed in my new book, &#8220;Muslim Mafia,&#8221; show Hooper has been tasked as point man to get Royer out of prison, and has worked closely with the convict&#8217;s family and lawyers.</p>
<p>Hooper hired an accused terrorist, andthen after he confessed to related charges and was convicted, Hooper treated him as a hero. Even now, as prosecutors call Royer an &#8220;inveterate liar&#8221; who refuses to cooperate in other terror cases as promised &#8212; CAIR&#8217;s communications director is doing everything he can to put this dangerous criminal back on the streets.</p>
<p>Royer is no different from the accused jihadist in Boston. Both want to kill Americans.</p>
<p>Only difference: Hooper&#8217;s protege worked as a spokesman and civil-rights coordinator at CAIR headquarters.</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t need CAIR&#8217;s brand of civil rights, something the FBI, which recently cut off ties to it, finally understands.</p>
<p>Royer was ringleader of the so-called Virginia Jihad Network, which the feds thought they&#8217;d broken up. But now there&#8217;s a new group of Virginia jihadists: five young Muslim men arrested in Pakistan for trying to do the same thing &#8212; train to kill U.S. troops. All five are U.S. citizens, and include a dental student described as &#8220;cool, and all-American.&#8221;</p>
<p>How do Muslims raised in America become so radicalized?</p>
<p>They&#8217;re steeped in the anti-American hate of mosques and national front groups (like CAIR, ISNA and the Muslim Students Association) controlled by the radical Muslim Brotherhood and funded by the Saudis. Through sermons and Saudi literature and the media, they teach them that America is the enemy.</p>
<p>This is the jihad factory, fueled by jihadi websites, churning out homegrown terrorists. And the FBI is only now trying to dismantle it.</p>
<p>Arrests of homegrown Muslim terrorists are averaging more than six a month. They are threatening both hard targets, such as military bases, and soft targets, such as hotels and shopping malls. That&#8217;s an alarming up-tempo in terrorist activity, belying official spin the problem is confined to a small minority of the Muslim community. The home-based jihad threat is much larger than the administration suggests.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are people living among us, in our communities around the U.S., that are honing their skills to carry out acts of murder and mayhem,&#8221; warned senior FBI official Owen Harris.</p>
<p>He like other government officials can&#8217;t publicly say what kind of &#8220;people&#8221; would be doing such treacherous things.</p>
<p>But make no mistake, he&#8217;s referring to Islamic fanatics. While they may be spread out over different cities &#8212; Raleigh, N.C., Boston, New York, Minneapolis, Denver, Washington, Chicago, even sleepy Killeen, Texas &#8212; and while they may have different ethnicities &#8212; Arab, South Asian, Eastern European, Hispanic, white &#8212; they all share a common bond in jihad. While we may call them Americans, they do not. They hate their country and want to destroy it.</p>
<p>Most don&#8217;t look like wild-eyed traitors. Some even appear patriotic.</p>
<p>Witness American citizen Daood Gilani. A Chicago businessman, he changed his name in 2005 to David Headley.</p>
<p>But he was trying to fit in for all the wrong reasons. He wanted to escape notice as a Muslim and allow for easy transit through immigration on terror missions to Pakistan, where he attended training camps run by LeT.</p>
<p>Federal prosecutors this month charged Headley with, among other things, conspiracy to murder Americans.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s Hazam Ali Ahmed, who for years has run a neighborhood convenience store in Knoxville, Tenn.</p>
<p>Authorities last week found two guns inside his store, and say he planned to carry out a terrorist attack at a shopping mall.</p>
<p>&#8220;He referred to jihad,&#8221; the FBI said in court documents charging the 35-year-old Muslim. &#8220;And stated that he was connected to al-Qaida.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, more and more Muslims in America are trying to assert Islamic rights under Shariah law, a medieval monument to human-rights abuses practiced by the Taliban and Saudis.</p>
<p>Right now in this country, we are seeing a spike in &#8220;honor killings&#8221; &#8212; murders of women by relatives who claim the victim brought shame to the family &#8212; something normally seen in Muslim countries. America is now averaging one every four months. And we will see more.</p>
<p>The latest victim is a 20-year-old Arizona girl who died last month after her father, an Iraqi immigrant, ran her and her boyfriend&#8217;s mother over in a parking lot. He admits the attack was intentional, explaining his daughter brought shame to the family by living with a man.</p>
<p>Lest anyone think such murders are confined to Muslim immigrants, a New   York TV executive earlier this year sawed off his wife&#8217;s head in a suspected honor killing.</p>
<p>And there appears to be broad support and acceptance of this barbaric ritual in mainstream Islamic circles in America.</p>
<p>One of the most popular fatwah banks in the U.S. &#8212; maintained by the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America &#8212; does not condemn honor killings. It only discourages men from doing it themselves.</p>
<p>&#8220;Imams implement the Shariah punishments,&#8221; decrees AMJA. And execution is not the &#8220;unvarying&#8221; punishment for fornicating daughters or sisters, it adds. They can also be punished by &#8220;lashing.&#8221; (The sentence for adulterous women, however, is always &#8220;stoning.&#8221;)</p>
<p>&#8220;Would it be permissible for a brother to kill his sister if he saw her committing zina (pre-marital sex)?&#8221; a Muslim living in America asked AMJA&#8217;s scholars in 2007.</p>
<p>In any other culture, the answer would be an emphatic, resounding: &#8220;No, not ever. It&#8217;s immoral and against the law, and you&#8217;d be prosecuted for first-degree murder.&#8221; But in the subculture of radical Islam co-existing in the shadows of the most advanced country in the world, the answer from AMJA was: &#8220;It depends.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another false narrative says our Muslims demonstrate a &#8220;fierce loyalty to America,&#8221; as Obama just claimed in Oslo without offering any concrete examples. Apparently he&#8217;s giving them credit just for choosing to live here.</p>
<p>He needs to get out more. He can start by driving across the Potomac to Alexandria and Falls   Church, Va. FBI agents and detectives who have worked counterterror cases and entered Muslim homes in those Washington suburbs, know better.</p>
<p>Inside, they&#8217;ve seen home computers with Osama bin Laden screen savers. They&#8217;ve seen refrigerators with children&#8217;s drawings depicting Jews and Christians as pigs and apes and hateful anti-Jewish and anti-Christian<br />
poems.</p>
<p>They&#8217;ve seen the throngs of Muslims rallying around terrorist defendants at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, even after they&#8217;ve confessed to crimes. They&#8217;ve heard respect Muslim leaders bash U.S. prosecutors as &#8220;Zionists.&#8221;</p>
<p>They also know that the Skyline Towers, a luxury apartment complex housing thousands of Muslims in Falls Church, erupted into cheers after the Twin Towers collapsed on 9/11. We&#8217;re not talking about Gaza or the West  Bank. This was just minutes from the Pentagon.</p>
<p>Authorities have made so many trips to the high-rise complex to investigate tenants that they&#8217;ve dubbed it &#8220;Taliban  Towers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Just up the street is the still-bustling 9/11 mosque, Dar al-Hijrah, where the hijackers, the Fort Hood shooter and a shockingly long rap sheet of other terrorists have worshipped.</p>
<p>The vast majority of Americans have no idea, but the very capital of our nation is a breeding ground for terrorists. In fact, the Washington area is Ground Zero of the anti-American insurgency being carried out by radicalized American Muslims in plain view of our government.</p>
<p>Yet it&#8217;s doing next to nothing about it, still deluded by the notion it can win &#8220;hearts and minds&#8221; by cow-towing to ISNA and other radical Brotherhood fronts, who simply use outreach events as an opportunity to gather intelligence and tip off targets of terror probes.</p>
<p>As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq drag on, we are going to see a much broader participation in jihad by Muslims. Not just Muslims living overseas, but those living here, inside America.</p>
<p>Will we talk honestly about this problem? Or will we turn a blind eye &#8212; and continue to be blindsided, like those 42 brave Americans in Texas?</p>
<p>Are we going to defuse this religious powder keg? Or are we going to continue to commit politically correct suicide?</p>
<p><strong>Pauk Sperry, a Hoover Institution media fellow, is author of &#8220;Infiltration&#8221; and co-author of the new book, &#8220;<a href="http://www.muslimmafia.com/">Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That&#8217;s Conspiring to Islamize America</a>.&#8221; Email: <a href="http://ca.mc882.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Sperry@SperryFiles.com">Sperry@SperryFiles.com</a></strong></p>
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