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		<title>NY Jets Player Spoke at Event Hosted by Designated Terrorist Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Israel athlete regals the Muslim American Society after the group's banning from the UAE. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246943" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed.jpg" alt="unnamed" width="319" height="247" /></a>The media, the NFL and the New York Jets organization can no longer overlook the problem that is Jets player Oday Aboushi. People can argue that he has the right to have pride in his family’s heritage or even that he has the right to voice his opinion against Israel, albeit in a town that has a huge Jewish population. But it is quite another thing for those to look the other way if Aboushi chooses to speak in front of a group labeled terrorist, which is exactly what he did earlier this year, when he delivered a speech to the Muslim American Society (MAS).</p>
<p>Since coming to the New York Jets as a fifth round draft pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, Oday Aboushi has been very public in his stance against the nation of Israel. On a number of occasions, he has used social media to demean and denounce the Jewish state.</p>
<p>His latest set of infractions happened this past July, when Israel’s military entered Gaza in response to thousands of rockets being fired into Israel by Hamas. Aboushi took the opportunity to bash Israel on Twitter. One of his messages could not have been clearer: “<a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Shame_On_You_Israel.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">#SHAMEONYOUISRAEL</span></a>.”</p>
<p>There are over two million Jews who live in New York and New Jersey, the locations of the majority of Jets fans. Yet, the NFL, the Jets and the media have all stood by Aboushi, whitewashing his actions as if he is merely exhibiting pride in his Palestinian heritage.</p>
<p>Indeed, when this author pointed out in a previous article that Aboushi had spoken at a conference sponsored by the El-Bireh Palestine Society, a group that does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, whose 2013 conference Facebook site contained numerous photos of Adolf Hitler and Hamas leaders, it was not Aboushi who was attacked by the media, but it was instead this author and anyone else who appeared to voice concerns based on my information.</p>
<p>When Jonathan Mael, then-new media coordinator for Major League Baseball’s official website, MLB.com, compared Aboushi to New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, who had just been charged with murder, stating in a tweet that the Jets were “a disgrace of an organization,” there were calls for Mael’s firing. And those calls appear to have been successful.</p>
<p>Aboushi’s speaking in front of the bigoted El-Bireh Society, though, seems to have only been a prelude to his being featured at something far worse, as he has now spoken in front of a group that would soon be designated as a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>On the night of February 7, 2014, Oday Aboushi was the featured speaker at an <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Muslim_American_Society.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">event hosted by the Muslim American Society</span></a> (MAS), at the group’s youth center in Brooklyn, New York. The title of his speech was ‘The Easy Way vs the Right Way,’ and it was promoted by MAS on social media.</p>
<p>On November 15, it was widely reported that MAS was <a href="http://www.wam.ae/en/news/emirates-international/1395272478814.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">named a terrorist organization by United Arab Emirates</span></a> (UAE), on a list that included al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram. This was a fitting designation, as the links to terror from MAS are many and varied.</p>
<p>MAS was founded in 1993 by a group of individuals from the Muslim Brotherhood, which included the future global head of the Brotherhood (2004 &#8211; 2010), Mohammed Mahdi Akef.</p>
<p>In the recent past, MAS has used its official websites to praise Hamas and to call for violence upon and/or denigrate Jews, Christians, homosexuals and women.</p>
<p>The current National Executive Director of MAS is Mazen Mokhtar. From 1992 through 1996, Mokhtar made numerous statements on the internet in support of Hamas and suicide bombings. Prior to the September 11 attacks, Mokhtar served as a web designer for what was then the main website raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Qoqaz.net. The site was a project of Azzam Publications, an organization named for Osama bin Laden’s mentor, Abdullah Azzam. In April 2007, Mokhtar was arrested for tax fraud.</p>
<p>The fact that Aboushi made his speech at a “youth center” does not lessen the harmful nature of his event, as MAS Youth facilities have been and remain havens for extremist activity. One must note that, prior to becoming the National Executive Director of MAS, Mazen Mokhtar served as the Youth Director of MAS-New Jersey and has been a featured speaker at a number of MAS Youth camps and children’s retreats.</p>
<p>The Youth Coordinator at MAS Youth Center, where Aboushi spoke, is Amal Hussain. According to Facebook, Hussain was an attendee at Aboushi’s speech.</p>
<p>The very first posting on Hussain’s personal Facebook page was an <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Amal_Hussain_Siraj_Wahhaj.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">announcement for a speech that was to be given by Siraj Wahhaj</span></a>, the imam of the radical At-Taqwa Mosque, located in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. Hussain used the announcement as her Facebook cover photo.</p>
<p>In 1995, Wahhaj was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” for the federal trial prosecuting those involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj had been linked to the bombmaker of the attack, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial Wahhaj was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack – the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman – whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>On November 30, Amal Hussain posted a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Amal_Hussain_Mohamed_Soltan.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">photo of Egyptian prisoner Mohamed Soltan on her Facebook site</span></a>, along with the following statement above it: “[Hosni] Mubarak walks away freely while Soltan is still ‘unjustly’ detained.” Soltan is awaiting trial for charges of funding a terrorist organization and conspiracy to commit violent acts. Soltan’s father, Salah Soltan, is a high-ranking official in the Muslim Brotherhood. Mohamed’s father is also a former leader of MAS.</p>
<p>Salah Soltan is the founder and former President of the MAS-run Islamic American University (IAU), which is based in Southfield, Michigan. The former Chairman of IAU is the current spiritual leader of the international Muslim Brotherthood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) refers to al-Qaradawi as “Theologian of Terror,” and about Salah Soltan, the ADL states that, in June 2013, Salah delivered a sermon labeling Jews “the enemies of God… the cursed ones.”</p>
<p>Prior to going to jail, Mohamed Soltan tweeted a photo of himself <a href="https://causingfitna.wordpress.com/there-is-no-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-united-states-ummm-correction/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">together with his father and al-Qaradawi</span></a>, at what he claimed was al-Qaradawi’s house. He also tweeted support for Hamas.</p>
<p>The day after his speech to MAS, Oday Aboushi tweeted a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Muslim_American_Society_2.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">thank-you note to the group</span></a>. He stated, “Thank you @MASYouthCenter for having me last night. Being available for our youth is the biggest hand we can lend in times of need.”</p>
<p>Question: Just how far is Oday Aboushi willing to go to lend a hand to a designated terrorist organization? And how far does he have to go before the NFL, the Jets and the media end their relationship with and their support for him?</p>
<p>As a professional football player, Oday Aboushi is considered by many to be a role model for kids, but what kind of role model legitimizes bigotry and terror?</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<title>Obama’s OIC Envoy Didn’t Just Defend Al-Arian</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rashad Hussain's disturbing stances on U.S. terrorist prosecutions.]]></description>
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<p>He condemned the United States for prosecuting just about everyone who was under indictment on terror charges at the time.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" target="_blank">Obama</a>’s newly-named Special Envoy to the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7453" target="_blank">Organization of the Islamic Conference</a>, <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/?s=rashad+hussain" target="_blank">Rashad Hussain</a>, came under fire last week for statements he made in defense of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6448" target="_blank">Palestinian Islamic Jihad</a>’s leader in the US, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=671" target="_blank">Sami al-Arian</a>, as well as for having initially lied about making them. Hussain had said that al-Arian, who pled guilty to providing material support to a designated terrorist organization, was a victim of “politically motivated persecutions,” then claimed that Laila, Sami’s daughter had made the statements, not him.</p>
<p>The <a href="../2010/02/17/rashad-hussain%E2%80%99s-samigate/" target="_blank">cover-up</a> itself is interesting for a couple of reasons.  First, it was large.  The <em>Washington Report on Middle East Affairs</em> deleted two paragraphs from a 2004 article – the two paragraphs quoting Hussain – and then claimed that Archive.org was lying and implied that anyone who wonders what happened to the article is a bigot. The White House then erroneously echoed Hussain’s claim that Laila al-Arian had made the statements. Then, last Friday, Hussain <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/02/obamas-envoy-to-oic-admits-he-defended-jihad-terror-leader.html" target="_blank">came clean</a> and admitted to having said it all, while the White House admits nothing.</p>
<p>Second, the cover-up is intriguing because the reason why Hussain admitted to making the statements was not out of  some sense of duty or honor, especially after having shifted the blame to another person, but because he got caught red-handed. Josh Gerstein of the <em>Politico</em> <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33210.html" target="_blank">obtained audio</a> from the 2004 <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6175" target="_blank">Muslim Students Association</a> conference at which he made the remarks.  (Hat tip: <a href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/obamas-special-envoy-spoke-out-for-more-terrorists-audio/" target="_blank">Creeping Sharia</a>.)</p>
<p>Gerstein’s article also reveals (although the audio above does not) that Hussain’s defense of al-Arian was part of a much broader condemnation of U.S. terrorist prosecutions, which should not be surprising since his speech took place at a conference for Muslim Brotherhood front group and he was a law student at the time. What <em>is</em> surprising is that he stuck up for just about every individual under indictment on terrorism charges at the time.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33210_Page3.html" target="_blank">Hussain cited:</a></p>
<p>— The court martial of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2349" target="_blank">Capt. James Yee</a>, a Guantanamo chaplain initially  suspected of treason and later charged with adultery. All charges were  eventually dropped.</p>
<p>— The case of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=703" target="_blank">Jose Padilla</a>, who was held without charge for more than three years as an enemy combatant on suspicions of trying to detonate a radiation-laced “dirty bomb” in the U.S. In 2006, more than a year after Hussain spoke, Padilla was charged in a terrorist plot unrelated to the dirty bomb allegations. He was convicted by a jury in 2007 and sentenced to 17 years in prison.</p>
<p>— The imprisonment of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Free%20to%20Dissent.html" target="_blank">Yaser Hamdi</a>, who was captured in Afghanistan, held  as an enemy combatant and released to Saudi Arabia weeks after Hussain  spoke.</p>
<p>— The prosecution of an imam and a pizzeria owner in Albany, N.Y., for conspiring with an informant in a fictitious plot to use a missile launcher to attack a Pakistani diplomat. The men were convicted in 2006 and sentenced to 15 years in prison, though their lawyers claimed the pair were entrapped.</p>
<p>— The prosecution of a Somali man, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6368" target="_blank">Nuradin Abdi</a>, in 2004 for plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Columbus, Ohio. He pled guilty in 2007 to conspiring to support terrorism and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.</p>
<p>— The imprisonment of an Oregon lawyer, Brandon Mayfield, who was jailed for more than two weeks in 2004 as a material witness on suspicion of involvement in the Madrid train bombings that year. He was never charged with a crime, received an apology from the FBI, which said it misidentified his fingerprints, and brought a lawsuit that led to a reported $2 million settlement from the government in 2006.</p>
<p>— The prosecution of four men as alleged members of a Detroit-based Al Qaeda “sleeper cell” plotting an attack. Two of the men were convicted on terror charges in 2003 but the convictions were thrown out at the government’s request after evidence emerged of prosecutorial misconduct and an unreliable informant. The prosecutor was charged criminally with concealing exculpatory evidence but later acquitted.</p></blockquote>
<p>He then backtracked, calling his remarks about al-Arian “ill conceived.” He did not, however, retreat in his condemnation of the prosecution (or his perceived motivations for prosecution) of nearly every individual indicted on terrorism charges between September of 2001 and September of 2004, when he made the statements, nor has he repudiated any of his <a href="../2010/02/18/rashad-hussains-troubling-ties/" target="_blank">many troubling ties</a> to the Muslim Brotherhood, a <a href="http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/mbhood_en.html" target="_blank">genocidal</a> organization whose <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22415" target="_blank">stated purpose</a> in the U.S. is to undermine our government and replace it with Sharia law. He spoke at a leadership summit hosted by a roll call of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6181" target="_blank">Holy Land Foundation</a> unindicted co-conspirators as recently as <a href="http://globalmbreport.com/?p=2173" target="_blank">last May</a>.</p>
<p>The case of Rashad Hussain is disturbing on too many levels. One should not surprised that Obama appointed someone like Hussain as Special Envoy to the OIC, which seeks to outlaw free and honest discussion of Islam and undermine the national sovereignty of free nations. His <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/%7E/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/08_counterterrorism_hussain/08_counterterrorism_hussain.pdf" target="_blank">counterrorism approach</a> (why are lawyers crafting approaches to combating terrorism?) is one which essentially bends over backward to avoid dealing with the Islamic texts and tenets which call for violence, and which is pacifistic and appeasing in response to violent jihad both at home and abroad.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406" target="_blank">Van Jones</a> may be a 9/11 Truther who defended a Marxist cop killer, but he never defended any leaders of explicitly genocidal international terror organizations or attempted mass murderers like Jose Padilla, and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7491" target="_blank">Jones’ ties</a> to terror organizations pale in comparison to Hussain’s. Jones seems as innocuous as Opie from the Andy Griffith Show next to Rashad Hussain, yet, given the extent of the Obama administration’s dealings with <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/17/napolitano-meets-with-muslim-brotherhood-leaders/" target="_blank">individuals</a> and <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/18/hamas-linked-isna-facilitated-brennans-nyu-speech/" target="_blank">entities</a> affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, and given the fact that Obama appointed an envoy to the fascist murderers of the OIC at all, I do not expect Rashad Hussain to quietly resign in the middle of the night any time soon.</p>
<p><strong>The author writes for <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/author/jetabler/" target="_blank">NewsReal Blog</a>. She also runs <a href="http://theforceofreason.com/" target="_blank">The Force of Reason</a>.</strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does the world’s most notorious terrorist have in common with Al Gore? ]]></description>
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<p>Judged simply by their content, it would be easy to misidentify the speaker who uttered the following quotes:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Al Gore perhaps?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The world is held hostage by major corporations, which are pushing it to the brink. World politics are not governed by reason but by the force and greed of oil thieves and warmongers and the cruel beasts of capitalism.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Sounds a lot like something you might read at the Daily Kos.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We must also stop dealings in the dollar and get rid of it as soon as possible. I know that this has great consequences and grave ramifications, but it is the only means to liberate humanity from slavery and dependence on America.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>That’s got to be George Soros, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>In fact, all three quotes are part of Osama bin Laden’s <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584249,00.html">latest appeal to the world</a> in an audio tape released last week by the Arab news network Al-Jazeera. The idea, no doubt, was to appeal to more “mainstream” anti-Americanism around the world. Those who help sabotage American industry and our economy, in other words, punish the infidels. Perhaps not quite as spectacular as <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582355,00.html">blowing up a CIA outpost</a>, but all contributions are gratefully accepted.</p>
<p>This is not to say that either Al Gore or George Soros are terrorist sympathizers (the jury is out on the Daily Kos). Rather, it’s to observe that radical messages tend to attract radicals. Bin-Laden’s self-serving green activism will resonate with people pre-disposed to distrust America, and alarmists like Gore have created the environment that allows this to occur.</p>
<p>There is much obvious, and laughable, hypocrisy in bin-Laden’s sudden concern for the environment. It was his terrorist organization, after all, that leveled the twin towers, which subsequently created the most horrendous air pollution disaster in the history of New York. If he’s really concerned about the environment, this Islamic warrior might also want to consider how Mother Earth fares in his ancestral home of Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>The following is an anecdotal story, but one suspects it’s representative of a larger truth. I worked in Saudi Arabia, on and off, between 1996 and 1998, in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu. During my time there, I had occasion to drive up the coastal highway to observe operations at the <a href="http://www.yanbucement.com/profile.html">Yanbu Cement Company</a>, located about seventy kilometers north of Yanbu. (The bin-Laden family was then rumored to have an interest in Yanbu Cement, but I can not confirm it). At the time, Yanbu Cement operated three large kilns, essentially big rotating drums in which the ingredients that go into cement “cook” at high temperature.</p>
<p>In the United States, and in most all of the western world, cement kilns have to <a href="http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&amp;sid=6e49a0f322a1b2a5dc0579dd3386ea91&amp;rgn=div6&amp;view=text&amp;node=40:6.0.1.1.1.17&amp;idno=40">utilize pollution control devices</a> to comply with environmental standards. Without such devices, these kilns would emit truly amazing amounts of air pollution. I was therefore shocked to observe a huge, menacing, dirty brown plume that ran for miles through the air above the Red Sea. Approaching Yanbu Cement, the source of that incredible smear on the atmosphere became obvious: none of the kilns at Yanbu Cement were controlled at all. The stacks belched out filthy plumes of soot at a rate that I have never observed then or since in over twenty five years of environmental practice.</p>
<p>This kind of story can be told again and again throughout the developing and third worlds. Those nations are not nearly rigorous about protecting the environment as the west, because environmental controls cost money to install and to operate. Accordingly, if everyone followed bin-Laden’s advice and, using the power of their purses, effectively transferred manufacturing capacity to such nations, the net result would be a far more polluted world.</p>
<p>But, of course, bin-Laden doesn’t really care about the health and welfare of the planet and its inhabitants. He’s just scrambling for talking points that he hopes will resonate with listeners who hate America. Al Gore and his disciples have unwittingly provided him with more ammunition to do so. That doesn’t make Gore a terrorist, but it’s surely further evidence of the unintended consequences that are bound to occur when you abandon science for the sake of a political agenda.</p>
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		<title>Intelligence Officials Warn Attempted Al Qaeda Attack Months Away &#8211; FOXNews.com</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; Al Qaeda can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months, senior U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday. The terrorist organization is deploying operatives to the United States to carry out new attacks from inside the country, including &#8220;clean&#8221; recruits with a negligible trail [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Al Qaeda can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months, senior U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday.</p>
<p>The terrorist organization is deploying operatives to the United States to carry out new attacks from inside the country, including &#8220;clean&#8221; recruits with a negligible trail of terrorist contacts, CIA Director Leon Panetta said. Al Qaeda is also inspiring homegrown extremists to trigger violence on their own, Panetta added.</p>
<p>The annual assessment of the nation&amp;apos;s terror threats provided no startling new terror trends, but amplified growing concerns since the Christmas Day airline attack in Detroit that militants are growing harder to detect and moving more quickly in their plots.</p>
<p>&#8220;The biggest threat is not so much that we face an attack like 9/11. It is that Al Qaeda is adapting its methods in ways that oftentimes make it difficult to detect,&#8221; Panetta told the Senate Intelligence Committee.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda is increasingly relying on new recruits with minimal training and simple devices to carry out attacks, the CIA chief said as part of the annual assessment of national threats provided to Congress by the top five U.S. intelligence officials.</p>
<p>Panetta also warned of the danger of extremists acting alone: &#8220;It&amp;apos;s the lone-wolf strategy that I think we have to pay attention to as the main threat to this country,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The hearing comes just over a month since a failed attempt to bring down an airliner in Detroit by a Nigerian suspect. And the assessment follows only a few months since U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hassan is accused of single-handedly attacking his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13.</p>
<p>Director of National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair described Hassan as homegrown extremist. He also said that Al Qaeda can be expected to continue and try to attack the United States until Osama bin Laden and his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, are dead.</p>
<p>The U.S. still does not know the intended targets of suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi, who was arrested in September and charged with plotting to attack New York City with homemade bombs, Blair said.</p>
<p>Blair warned as well of a growing cyber threat, saying computer-related attacks have become dynamic and malicious.</p>
<p>Obama has promised to make cyber security a priority in his administration, but the president&amp;apos;s new budget asks for a decrease in funds for the Homeland Security Department&amp;apos;s cybersecurity division.</p>
<p>The government&amp;apos;s first quadrennial homeland security review states high consequence and large-scale cyberattacks could massively disable or hurt international financial, commercial and physical infrastructure.</p>
<p>The report, obtained by The Associated Press, said these types of cyberattacks could cripple the movement of people and goods around the world and bring vital social and economic programs to a halt.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/02/intelligence-officials-warn-attempted-al-qaeda-attack-months-away/">FOXNews.com &#8211; Intelligence Officials Warn Attempted Al Qaeda Attack Months Away</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A disturbing trend among Somali immigrants in the West.]]></description>
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<p>As the United States turns its attention to security threats abroad, the disturbing trend of extremism in America’s Somali communities is a reminder that there are also real and present dangers at home.</p>
<p>A growing body of evidence suggests that Somali communities in the Unites States have become fertile ground for terrorist groups to recruit and implant operatives. On November 23, the federal government <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/23/us/AP-US-Missing-Somalis.html">announced</a> eight more indictments of Somali-Americans in Minnesota on charges of recruiting members of their community to join the al-Shabaab terrorist organization in Somalia. This brings to 14 the number of Somalis from Minnesota who have been indicted for helping the Al-Qaeda-linked group.</p>
<p>Of the eight indicted, only one has been arrested; the rest are currently outside of the United States. Four of those previously arrested have pled guilty and two have been released while they wait to be tried. The government believes that about 20 Somali-Americans have left the state to join al-Shabaab’s jihad in Somalia, at least three of whom have <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575850,00.html">died</a> since departing. One, Shirwa Ahmed, died when he became the first American suicide bomber.</p>
<p>Several of those indicted attended the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in St. Paul, as did many of those who were recruited. The mosque released a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529796,00.html">statement</a> in March saying that “Abubakar Center didn’t recruit, finance, or otherwise facilitate in any way, shape, or form the travel of those youth.”</p>
<p>Somali gangs are also becoming an issue in Minnesota. Shukri Adan, a former Somali community organizer, said in 2007 that there 400-500 members of his community were involved in gangs. <em>The Associated Press</em> <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/-muslim-gangs-get-foothold-in-minnesota-.html">reported</a> in July that</p>
<blockquote><p>“Despite anger and despair over the killings in Minnesota’s Somali community—the nation’s largest—police and prosecutors have struggled to catch and try the killers. Few witnesses have stepped forward because of a fear of reprisal and deep-rooted distrust of authority.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The concern over extremist elements in the Somali community is not limited to Minnesota. The FBI is <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&amp;pageId=98997">worried</a> about the community of 6,000 living in the Washington D.C. area. The Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, which was <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573050,00.html">attended</a> by two of the 9/11 hijackers and the Fort Hood shooter, has many Somali attendees. The former imam of the mosque has acted as an Al-Qaeda recruiter and may be part of the group’s <a href="http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/awlakishebab1208.pdf">efforts</a> to help al-Shabaab. The FBI’s investigation into disappearing Somalis who may have joined the terrorist group <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509839,00.html">includes</a> Seattle, Columbus, Cicinnati, Boston and San Diego.</p>
<p>Brian Moseley, a reporter for the <em>Shelbyville Times-Gazette</em>, won an award for documenting of the inability of Somali immigrants in Shelbyville, Tennessee, to assimilate, causing a culture clash in the town. Moseley <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/15124/sec_id/15124">described</a> how law enforcement and fire department personnel had described to him how the immigrants were hostile to them, and how police officers were often reluctant to patrol areas where they live when it is dark. I also broke a <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=97946">story</a> in May about how counter-terrorism expert Dave Gaubatz and his researchers had found extremist material at a mostly Somali mosque in Nashville. Gaubatz and his team collected evidence of child abuse and accused the Department of Child Services of failing to act.</p>
<p>A similar clash was caught on tape when on June 27, 2009 a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfW9inRkTpU">video</a> was uploaded to YouTube showing about 15 Somali youth harassing and throwing rocks at a homosexual man leaving the Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis.</p>
<p>Terrorism researcher Patrick Poole <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/homeland_security_snoozes_whil/">wrote</a> in November 2007 that an organization tied to radical Islamic militants in Somalia was holding conferences in Falls Church and Minneapolis, where those attending were instructed on how to send money overseas without being detected. Poole <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33399">wrote</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“…there exists an active recruiting and transportation network in the U.S., including Minneapolis, for Somali-run terrorist training camps, many of which have recently reopened. In many instances, these same Somali leaders purporting ignorance and innocence for the local media are not only aware of these recruiting operations, but have actively participated in them.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Al-Shabaab’s ranks have been swelled by the addition of non-Somalis. The president of Somalia’s government has <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/02/fbi-director-al-qaeda-linked-somali-group-attack/">said</a> that up to 1,100 foreign terrorists have joined the group, which now is operating training camps in the East African country. The terrorist group has a wide international network and its training of foreign operatives means it has sympathizers willing to act in the West.</p>
<p>One Somali-American from Minneapolis was <a href="http://www1.voanews.com/somali/news/news-makers-in-english/Somali-Man-Arrested-in-the-Netherlands-on-Terrorism-Charges-69769692.html">arrested</a> in November in the Netherlands for financing the transportation of American recruits to Somalia. Up to five Somalis living in Canada <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2230011">disappeared</a> in November as well and are believed to have traveled together to their homeland via Kenya. Previously, a Toronto-based businessman was killed in 2008 after he joined Somali terrorists fighting Ethiopian troops who had invaded the country to stop extremists from coming to power. British intelligence has <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5741300.ece">said</a> that dozens of people have gone to Somalia and received terrorist training and returned to the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>Al-Shabaab has taken large control over large swaths of territory, including parts of Mogadishu, potentially allowed Al-Qaeda to replicate the safe harbor and reverse some of its most major losses since the war in Afghanistan began. Already, Somalia is being used as a base to export terrorism. Saudi Arabia has <a href="http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/22531.htm">captured</a> Somalis that were helping the extremist Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and were planning attacks in the Kingdom.</p>
<p>Of course, not all Somalis are sympathizers with extremism. There has been outrage in the Somali community over these developments. On June 11, Somali-Americans in Minneapolis <a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/47883727.html?elr=KArksUUUU">protested</a> the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which they accused of encouraging members of their community not to cooperate with the government’s investigation. The <a href="http://terrorfreesomalia.blogspot.com/">Terror-Free Somalia Foundation</a>, which closely tracks events related to al-Shabaab, is led by Abdurahman Warsame, a Somali-American activist.</p>
<p>The failure to integrate these Somali immigrants into American society is causing strife and has proved to be an asset to al-Shabaab. The majority of the immigrants oppose such extremism. But it doesn’t take many sympathizers to create a network of support for terrorists. The current focus of al-Shabaab is Somalia, but when the day comes that they change their focus to the U.S., they will have American recruits ready for action.</p>
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