February 01, 2012

This story at the Washington Post describing how the ACLU is suing the Administration under FOIA reminds me about a number of headlines I've seen at Drudge lately and a number of emails I've been getting about the targeted killing of Americans overseas.

The way you word things matters and I've become more and more annoyed over the past few years as many on the Right have increasingly adopted the phraseology of ardent Leftists. People who only a few years ago were die hard supporters of the war on terrorism today use phrases to make it seem that the same policies carried out under Bush are now leading to jack-booted-thuggery.

Clearly, there is a bit of Obama Derangement Syndrome happening here.

The particular wording I'm annoyed at today is the description of drone strikes as the "targeted killing of American citizens".

While the phrase is accurate, it's misleading.

We're at war. In a war, you kill your enemies. The fact that your enemies who are members or leaders of a foreign terrorist organization operating overseas are American is only incidental to the fact that they are terrorists.

We didn't kill Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan because they were Americans. We killed them because they were terrorists.

This wasn't a case of the President of the United States killing a criminal in lieu of a trial. These were enemy combatants. You kill your enemies, you don't bring them to trial.

The fact that your enemy is an American citizen is irrelevant.

The idea which has been fostered by the Left for years and by some segments of the Right since Obama came to office that such authority could lead to the government rounding up citizens and killing them without a trial is nonsense based on two of the most rudimentary logical fallacies: slippery slope and hypothetical.

First, no US citizen has been killed when arresting that individual was an alternative. We've had hundreds of terrorists arrested in the US since 9/11, most of them have been US citizens, and all of them have received civilian trials.

The idea that the President might use his alleged authority to round people up is a hypothetical. It's never happened.

Second, the hypothetical is based on absurd slippery slope arguments. That since a President could detain or kill someone overseas without a civilian trial then what's stopping him from doing it on our own soil?

The thing that's stopping him is called The Constitution of the United States of America.

All of the arguments that the Patriot Act or the recently reauthorized NDAA somehow give the President cart blanch to extra-Constitutionally round up, detain, or kill American citizens on American soil just isn't true.

It doesn't matter how many sophisticated lawyers make the case, those arguments are still based on slippery slope reasoning and overlook the basic wording of the documents and the laws as actually practiced.

I get why Leftists hate our war against terrorists, but what I don't get is why some on the Right are equally adamant? The Left doesn't like war in general, and has historically adhered to our enemies with one exception -- WWII when our ally was communist Russia.

But on the Right? That's sheer Obama Derangement Syndrome.

The idea that we are going to fly FBI agents to Yemen, read members of al Qaeda their rights, and then bring them to Virginia for a trial is sheer fantasy. It's completely and utterly disconnected to reality.

Yet that is what you are arguing for if you oppose targeted assassinations or military trials. Unless, of course, you are arguing that the US should do nothing about jihadi terrorism, even when that terrorism is directly targeted against the United States.

Before 9/11 the policy of the US was to treat terrorists as criminals. After the USS Cole and African embassy bombings, President Clinton sent in the FBI to investigate.

Yeah, that did a lot of good. 9/11 was an outgrowth of that policy position.

So, if you want to go back to that model then, by all means, keep advocating for an end to drone strikes and military commissions.

And when we're hit on a mass scale like we were on 9/11 again, I'll blame you and your legalistic ideology in regards to notions of civil liberties for the atrocity.

November 23, 2011

In all the dumb analysis that's been done on al Qaeda, this one takes the cake. The "analyst" the Washington Post is talking to makes Glenn Greenwald look like a member of Mensa.

September 12, 2011

Patrick Poole

When President Obama hosted his annual iftar dinner in August to commemorate Ramadan, the list of invitees published by the White House was curiously missing the names of several attendees — all of whom are top leaders of organizations known to be purveyors of jihadist ideology. But it was not like they had crashed the party. One of the unlisted, Mohamed Magid, head of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic Society of North America, was photographed by Reuters sitting at the front table only a few feet from the president as he spoke.

This was just the most recent episode in the federal government’s disastrous attempts at outreach to the Muslim community since the 9/11 attacks. With the release of President Obama’s new strategic plan to combat “violent extremism” by expanding outreach to these same terror-tied groups, the present administration seems intent on compounding the problems wrought by its predecessors.

Misguided outreach activities began long before 9/11, with the best example being the case of Abdurahman Alamoudi.

Alamoudi was the conduit through which much of the U.S. government’s outreach was pursued following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Not only was he asked by the Clinton administration to help train and certify all Muslim military chaplains, his organization being the first to do so, but he also was appointed by the State Department in 1997 as a goodwill ambassador to the Middle East, making six taxpayer-funded trips. It is fair to say that during this period, Alamoudi was the most prominent and politically connected Muslim leader in America.

As we now know, Alamoudi was indicted in October 2003 for moving money on behalf of Libyan intelligence in an assassination plot targeting Saudi Prince (now King) Abdullah. The U.S. government has admitted that at the time he was being courted by Democrats and Republicans alike, he was a major fundraiser for al-Qaeda.

However, it is not as if the U.S. government was unaware of Alamoudi’s attachments. As far back as 1993, an informant told the FBI that Alamoudi was funneling regular payments from Osama bin Laden to Omar Abdel Rahman, the “blind sheikh” who was convicted of authorizing terror attacks against New York landmarks. In March 1996, Alamoudi’s association with Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook was exposed in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. Two years later, the State Department came under fire by the New York Post for inviting Alamoudi to official events despite his known remarks in support of terrorism and terrorist leaders.

When President Bush took office, Alamoudi was quickly courted by the new administration. In June 2001, the Jerusalem Post reported that Alamoudi was going to be part of a White House meeting with Vice President Cheney despite the fact that Alamoudi was known to have attended a terror confab in Beirut earlier that year featuring representatives from virtually every major Islamic terrorist organization in the world, including al-Qaeda.

Yet just days after the 9/11 attacks, Alamoudi was one of the Muslim leaders asked to appear with President Bush at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. That same week, one of Alamoudi’s close associates, Muzammil Siddiqi, was asked to deliver an Islamic prayer and to represent the entire Muslim-American community at the national prayer service mourning the fallen.[Continue reading]

August 30, 2011

Black Democrats want blacks to stay on the 21st century plantation

Allen West told substitute host Laura Ingraham, “you have this 21st century plantation that has been out there, when the democrat party has forever taken the black vote for granted.”

Black Democrats are merely plantation overseers, West said.

“You have established certain black leaders who are nothing more than the overseers of that plantation, and now the people on that plantation are upset, because they have been disregarded, disrespected and their concerns are not cared about,” West said

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

May 25, 2011

Please stay in Libya

Love, Americans who have a clue...

That.is.all.

May 18, 2011

"The public may want to know" is word speak for anti-war liberals, or one can say all liberals.

LTC(R) West totally ownd Gordon...and the Obi One administration.

"The public may want to know" is word speak for anti-war liberals, or one can say all liberals.

LTC(R) West totally ownd Gordon...and the Obi One administration.

May 10, 2011

Check out Marc Thiessen's piece in WaPo on those who continue to deny that CIA interrogations were key in finding Osama bin Laden. Ironically, it's America hater Julian Assange's WikiLeaks that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that enhanced interrogations worked.

Hey Julian: thanks a lot, assmaggot. No, I really mean it this time.

If you start clicking the links he provides, you'll see Andy Sullivan features prominently among those in denial of the facts. Which should come as no surprise given that his delusional mind still calls for an investigation into Sarah Palin's womb.

April 29, 2011

Via CNS

(CNSNews.com) -- Three people convicted of crimes as a result of a terrorism-related investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) were later naturalized as U.S. citizens by the Obama administration, according to federal auditors.

The March 2011 audit (released on April 21, 2011) by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), entitled Criminal Alien Statistics: Information on Incarcerations, Arrests and Costs, shows that three individuals were among “defendants where the investigation involved an identified link to international terrorism but they were charged with violating other statutes [not directly related to terrorism], including fraud, immigration, drugs, false statements, and general conspiracy charges,” referred by DOJ as Category II terrorism-related cases.[Continue reading]

h/t Andrea

April 26, 2011

Via Breitbart:

Related:
Obama Blames Dropping of CAIR Related Terror Prosecutions on .... Bush

April 16, 2011

Hmmm, wonder what Rep Sue Wyrick (R-NC) thinks about this?

The U.S.-Islamic World Forum, sponsored [1] by the Brookings Institution, has reported that it’s 2011 event was held in the US for the first time and included a large number of individuals [2] tied to the Global Muslim Brotherhood as well as their supporters including the following persons from outside the US:

* Anwar Ibrahim (speaker) (Malaysian opposition politician with many ties [3] to the Global Muslim Brotherhood)

* Abdallah Bin Bayyah (The University of King Abdulaziz, European Council for Fatwa and Research headed by Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi)

* Farhan Nizami (Director, Oxford Center for Islamic Studies with many ties [4] to the Global Muslim Brotherhood

* Mustafa Ceric (Grand Mufti of Bosnia, European Council for Fatwa and Research)

* Jasser Auda (Qatar Foundation, member [5] of multiple U.S. Muslim Brotherhood organizations)

Related: Islamic World Forum brings radical GMB to the US; George Mason University attends[Did Zach Chesser & wifey Proscovia Nzabanita's take a course on Islamic studies at GMU?]

Related?:
Rep. Sue Myrick panel to eye Muslim Brotherhood

April 08, 2011

It pays to be Google CEO Eric Schmidt, now serving on Obama’s President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

Update: Hey, who says the federal government isn’t efficient? The deal got announced a few minutes ago:

The Justice Department said on Friday it has approved Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA, an online travel company specializing in airline ticketing software, with several conditions.

Whew! Never mind that military families will have to do without pay; at least they’ve taken care of Eric Schmidt. Our long national nightmare is over.

Inquiring minds wanna know..

April 05, 2011

Andre Shepherd

Among other assertions, Shepherd claimed that the Iraq War is illegal and people are killed which put him in danger of committing war crimes. The German feds said something like, "What war crimes? You're a helicopter mechanic."

Shepherd's lawyer says a forced return to the U.S. to face desertion charges is "out of the question." More here and here.

March 22, 2011

Due to the increase of Muslim hate crimes Sen Durbin feels the need to hold hearings on their rights.

Just weeks after House Republicans held a hearing looking at the dangers of radical Muslims in the U.S., Senate Democrats are countering with a hearing of their own, scheduled for after Congress returns from a 10-day vacation, to examine Muslims' civil rights.

Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, announced the subcommittee hearing Tuesday, saying there has been a spike in anti-Muslim bigotry in the last year that demands closer attention.

“Our Constitution protects the free exercise of religion for all Americans,” Mr. Durbin said. “During the course of our history, many religions have faced intolerance. It is important for our generation to renew our founding charter’s commitment to religious diversity and to protect the liberties guaranteed by our Bill of Rights.”

File this under domestic dhimmis/CAIR/Islams useful idiots

February 10, 2011

WTF?

During a House Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called Egypt's branch of the Muslim Brotherhood movement "largely secular."

In response to questioning from Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) about the threat posed by the group, Clapper suggested that the Egyptian part of the Brotherhood is not particularly extreme and that the broader international movement is hard to generalize about.

"The term 'Muslim Brotherhood'...is an umbrella term for a variety of movements, in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam," Clapper said. "They have pursued social ends, a betterment of the political order in Egypt, et cetera.....

We're f**ked

Update: RealClearPolitics has video

Update II: Video added:

Related:
Obama Administration lifts visa ban and allows grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder, Tariq Ramadan, entry into US
Jawa search 'Muslim Brotherhood" archives.

February 05, 2011

Update: Besides Mubarak, top leaders in the ruling party resign

Update II: Error in reports from Reuters & Al Araibya television that Mubarak had resigned

Reuters and Al Araibya television have earlier reported that President Mubarak himself had resigned from a leadership position in the NDP as well, but those reports appear to have stemmed from confusion that Mubarak is chairman over the council which resigned.

Mubarak still continues as the nation's president.

hmmm

President Hosni Mubarak has resigned as the head of Egypt ruling party, according to State television.

It comes as the country was on the verge of descending into chaos as newly appointed vice president Omar Suleiman reportedly survived an assassination attempt and saboteurs allegedly attacked an oil pipeline.

BTW, yesterdayAl Jazeera English live stream was heavy on propaganda..using FNC O'Reilly's 'that's a memo' segment regarding Muslim Brotherhood along with rolling headline "American's are creating fear mongering" and "US Networks are chastised for their poor reporting", "demand Al Jazeera English in US"

If one is to go to their Arabic website. Antisemitic/Anti-American/West abounds... assmaggots.

Al Jazeera English is also featuring 'meet ups' around the US demanding Al Jazeera channel. Islams useful idiots gladly obliging.

Update: Another useful idiot "Jaba" wants Al Jazeera too[h/t Herr Wilson]

He shall be named 'Bowling for Al Jazeera". Sorry no image, so this will have to do:

On twitter yesterday[h/t @Flippintheraya]:

Also, the missing Google exec, Wael Ghonim, is now the official poster boy for the opposition group[GOOG][h/t Andrea]

The man behind the curtain, George Soros, a couple days ago added his 2 cents worth at WaPo.

Appears to be coming together nicely, wouldn't you say?

Nothing to see here, move along..

February 03, 2011

Senator's Lieberman & Collins release their findings [full press release below fold]

WASHINGTON – The Fort Hood massacre, which left 13 dead and 32 wounded, could have been prevented, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., said Thursday, as they unveiled their report on the November 5, 2009, terrorist attack.

“TICKING TIME BOMB” FORT HOOD MASSACRE COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED
Committee Report Finds Internal Disputes, Poor Coordination at FBI and Failure to Acknowledge Violent Islamist Extremism at DOD

WASHINGTON – The Fort Hood massacre, which left 13 dead and 32 wounded, could have been prevented, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., said Thursday, as they unveiled their report on the November 5, 2009, terrorist attack.

Evidence of accused killer Nidal Hasan’s growing drift toward violent Islamist extremism was on full display during his military medical training, although his superiors took no punitive action, according to the report. Two of his associates said he was a “ticking time bomb.” He had defended Osama Bin Laden and suggested Muslim Americans in the U.S. military might be prone to commit fratricide.

But, a slipshod FBI investigation into Hasan, coupled with internal disagreements and structural flaws in the agency’s intelligence operations also contributed to the government’s failure to prevent the attack.

DOD and FBI “collectively had sufficient information necessary to have detected Hasan’s radicalization to violent Islamist extremism but failed both to understand and to act on it,” the report states. “Our investigation found specific and systemic failures in the government’s handling of the Hasan case and raises additional concerns about what may be broader systemic issues.”

DOD Failures

The report tracks Hasan’s growing radicalization in the years before the attack and the numerous failures of the military to intervene or take action against him. For example, two officers described Hasan, during his medical residency and fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as “a ticking time bomb.” At various times while he was at Walter Reed, Hasan suggested revenge might be a defense for the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and expressed sympathy with violent Islamist extremists and bin Laden. He also justified suicide bombers; said U.S. military operations represented a war against Islam; and stated that one of the risks of having Muslims in the U.S. military was the possibility of fratricide of fellow service members.

“The officers who kept Hasan in the military and moved him steadily along knew full well of his problematic behavior,” the report found. “As the officer who assigned Hassan to Fort Hood (and later decided to deploy Hasan to Afghanistan) admitted to an officer at Fort Hood, ‘you’re getting our worst.’”

Astonishingly, one of the reasons Hasan’s commanders claimed for not taking action against Hasan was a belief that the evidence of his growing radicalization actually provided an understanding of violent Islamist extremism and the culture of Islam. His Officer Evaluation Report for July 2007 to June 2008, for example, said Hasan’s work on the role of culture and Islamic faith in the context of terrorism “has extraordinary potential to inform national policy and military strategy.”

FBI Failures

The report also examines the all-too-cursory FBI investigation into Hasan’s activities when he came to the agency’s attention in early 2009; and the critical dispute, unresolved by FBI headquarters, between two Joint Terrorist Task Forces (JTTF) – the anti-terrorist intelligence units created in the aftermath of 9/11, comprised of federal, state, and local officials, and meant to facilitate intelligence information sharing and operational coordination.

On January 7, 2009, the San Diego JTTF sent a memo to the Washington JTTF about Hasan’s communications with a known terrorist already under investigation. Despite the red flags this should have raised, the Washington JTTF waited more than six weeks before assigning the investigation to an analyst from the Defense Department who was attached to the Washington JTTF. The analyst then waited until the last day of the customary 90-day deadline for completing inquiries and wrote his report in four hours, without considering the investigation from a counterintelligence perspective. Instead, he relied on Hasan’s sanitized Officer Evaluation Reports. The San Diego JTTF thought the inquiry was superficial but dropped the matter. FBI headquarters was never informed of, and played no role, in the Hasan investigation.

The FBI’s view of intelligence analysts from other agencies assigned to JTTFs compounded the problem. JTTF analysts from non-FBI agencies were not allowed full access to a key FBI database, which likely would have sparked a more in-depth inquiry.

Recommendations

The report found “compelling evidence that Hasan embraced views so extreme that he did not belong in the military.” It also found that FBI organizational problems have impeded the agency’s full use of intelligence analysts, concluding that the FBI’s “transformation into an intelligence driven, domestic counterterrorism organization needs to be accelerated.”

Among the report’s recommendations to strengthen our defenses against homegrown terrorism:

• DOD policies against extremism among service members must explicitly cover violent Islamist extremism. This is too important to be subsumed within policies aimed at “violent extremism” in general or “workplace violence.”

• Military equal employment rules and religious accommodations must clearly differentiate between violent Islamist extremism and protected religious observance. That way, the thousands of Muslim-Americans who serve our country honorably will be protected from suspicion for practicing their religion.

• Military employment evaluations and personnel records must accurately and candidly describe performance and behavior that could pose threats.

• The FBI needs to integrate its 56 field offices more effectively under headquarters leadership.

• The FBI needs to ensure that its JTTFs more convincingly share information and coordinate operations with other federal, state, and local agencies.

• The FBI must systematically update how it conducts its investigative activities. In the Hasan case, the FBI failed to identify all of Hasan’s communications with the suspected terrorist and the extent of the threat contained within them.

• The FBI needs to use intelligence analysts more skillfully. In the Hasan case, analysts were not consulted by the Washington Joint Terrorism Task Force to analyze his communications and help determine the objectives for the FBI’s inquiry.

• The U.S. must develop a national strategy to counter domestic terrorist radicalization. The reality is that even had the military dismissed Hasan before the attacks, our government would not have been well-positioned to counter his growing radicalization.

This report and its recommendations are particularly important given the dramatic increase in homegrown terrorist plots over the past two years. Thirteen people died needlessly at Fort Hood. Their memory will be served if the recommendations of this report are adopted quickly so the next “ticking time bomb” can be spotted early and defused before another deadly detonation.

January 14, 2011

Via NewsBusters

According to the American Spectator, Levin moments before this issued a challenge to Matthews:

"I challenge Chris Matthews, I'll put $100,000 on the table, to find any example where Sarah Palin has promoted the murder of anybody," said Levin -- specifically excluding terrorists and the Taliban.

Levin went on: "A hundred thousand on the table if Chris Matthews can find anywhere Mark Levin has urged the murder of people who have different political viewpoints. That's the murder of politicians …where I said go out there and kill X,Y,Z…go out there and kill A,B,C. I challenge him right now. Sarah Palin. Me. Go ahead."

More at Examiner

False accusations against conservatives by liberals in the media are nothing new. In her most recent column, Michelle Malkin writes the "blame righty" theme has become a staple in todays' so-called mainstream news. She writes:

For the past two years, Democrat officials, liberal activists, and journalists have jumped to libelous conclusions about individual shooting sprees committed by mentally unstable loners with incoherent delusions all over the ideological map. The White House now pledges to swear off “pointing fingers or assigning blame.” Alas, the Obama administration’s political and media foot soldiers have proven themselves incapable of such restraint.

January 12, 2011

Rush on Amil Imani

A snippet from Amil Imani's post

Islam enjoys a large and influential ally among the non-Muslims: A new generation of “Useful Idiots,” the sort of people Lenin identified living in liberal democracies who furthered the work of communism. This new generation of Useful Idiots also live in liberal democracies, but serves the cause of Islamofascism—another virulent form of totalitarian ideology.

Useful Idiots are naïve, they are foolish, they are ignorant of facts, they are unrealistically idealistic, they are dreamers and they are willfully in denial or deceptive. They hail from the ranks of the chronically unhappy. They are anarchists, they are aspiring revolutionaries, they are neurotics who are at war with life, the disaffected alienated from government, corporations, and just about any and all institutions of society. The Useful Idiot can be a billionaire, a movie star, an academe of renown, a politician, or from any other segment of the population. Arguably, the most dangerous variant of the Useful Idiot is the “Politically Correct.” He is the master practitioner of euphemism, hedging, doubletalk, and outright deception[...]

The lesson is clear. Beware of the Useful Idiots who live in liberal democracies. Knowingly or unknowingly, they serve as the greatest volunteer and effective soldiers of Islam. They pave the way for the advancement of Islam and they will assuredly be among the very first victims of Islam as soon as it assumes power.

January 09, 2011

Dang Palin/teabaggeerrzzz and their hateful rhetoric..oh wait.

Via Illinois Review

Chicago father Eric Kohn was stunned Sunday morning when he noticed a hall display in Chicago Public Schools' Bell School near Addison and Western. Attending services of a Harvest Bible Chapel church outreach temporarily meeting at the school, Kohn noticed a bulletin board in the school halls entitled "Celebrate the Value of You":[Read the rest]

Illinois Reviewwill publish Bell Elementary School principal Sandra Caudill's response as soon as she returns the voicemail we left at the school's office this afternoon.

December 15, 2010

Sure, "dumberer" isn't a word, but, "retard" is. So the flotillas are fail, let's hike over land? Go for it, morons!

The convoy set out from New Delhi two weeks ago and will march through 18 cities on its way to Latakia from where its 500 participants from mainly India, but also including Pakistan, Indonesia as well as Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon will sail to El Arish and then overland to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing , provided Egyptian authorities approve its passage.

500 participants? Wowza! That'll show them Zionist bastages! As long as those Muslim Egyptian bastages let them through!

Mash'allah!

October 24, 2010

Pot calling the kettle black:

GOP 'Mean Girls,' Obama Reaching Out to Women and Ginni Thomas to Anita Hill

Video below fold:

October 17, 2010

Via RedState

These would be the four Democrats [Sen. Barbara Boxer (D, CA); Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA-30); Rep. Dennis Kuchinich[sp SB Kucinich..ed] (D, OH-10); and Rep. Raul Grijavla (D, AZ-07)] who provided letters of introduction and support to the pro-terrorist groups Code Pink/Global Exchange in 2004. Those groups used these letters to facilitate their delivery over a half a million dollars’ worth of aid to terrorists in Fallujah actively fighting American troops; which is, by the way, treason by any reasonable interpretation of the US Constitution.

Note that I am not accusing these Members of Congress of committing treason, merely the American members of Code Pink and Global Exchange[More...]

Barbara Boxer SEN-CA - Carly Fiorina
Henry Waxman CA-30 - Charles Wilkerson
Dennis Kuchinich[sp SB Kucinich..ed] OH-10 - Peter Corrigan
Raul Grijalva AZ-07 - Ruth McClung

Ah, Jerry Brown also hearts Code Pink:

BTW, while you are at RedState check out Kenny Solomon's Israel survival updates

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Great: Lefties in Congress Helps "Anti-War Activists" Aide and Abed Terrorists During Shooting War

October 14, 2010

Patrick Poole [PM]

Last month, I reported exclusively at PJM about video showing al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki leading prayers on Capitol Hill for Muslim congressional staffers and officials for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Sitting beside now-convicted terrorist (and former CAIR communications specialist) Randall “Ismail” Royer in the video was Congressional Muslim Staff Association founder and former president Jameel Johnson. Also present was Nihad Awad, CAIR’s executive director.

But a recent New York Post article about how Johnson’s former employer, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), complained to Homeland Security in 2006 about the questioning of another al-Qaeda-linked cleric, Anwar Hajjaj, stated that Hajjaj was then leading prayers for the Muslim staffers on Capitol Hill.

In fact, Meeks invoked Hajjaj’s continued presence on the Hill to demonstrate that he was a “highly regarded” Islamic scholar[...]

But the stories of al-Qaeda clerics Anwar al-Awlaki and Anwar Hajjaj leading prayers on Capitol Hill raise even more questions about who else the Congressional Muslim Staff Association has been hosting in the People’s House.[Emphasis mine..ed] That’s a question members of Congress and other media outlets ought to be asking.[Rest...]

October 11, 2010

Click image to listen or download here

Today[yesterday...ed], on Aaron Klein Investigative Radio, Aaron refrences the Democratic rally held this past Saturday. Aaron is joined by legendary stand up comedian Jackie Mason. Klein and Mason dive into a discussion over the tea-party movement.

October 10, 2010

My replies, when one isn'tenough:

Meh......

October 09, 2010

Via BigPeace

Part I: Klavan on the Culture's Guide to the Elections, Part 1: The Economy

October 05, 2010

You know, when you're right you're really right. Convicting terrorists after the fact isn't a great preventative counterterror strategy.

I don't know if Mrs. Cheney is suggesting that Faisal Shahzad shouldn't have been prosecuted in a civilian court. If that is the case she is making, then I disagree. But she's certainly right about prevention.

One of you (can't remember who) sends me emails with this little quip at the bottom of each: I carry a gun because a police officer won't fit in my pocket.

Zing!

Law enforcement does a pretty decent job at solving crimes. At preventing them? Eh, marginal success.

Here's her statement:

“President Obama and his administration still seem to believe they can keep this nation safe by convicting terrorists in civilian courts. We tried that policy throughout the 1990s and gained convictions of key terrorists. None of those convictions prevented the terrorists from attacking us again and again. Americans expect their government to disrupt plots and defeat terrorists before they can attack us. The Times Square bomber’s attack failed not because it was thwarted, but because his bomb failed to detonate. Being lucky is not a responsible counterterrorism strategy, and convictions in civilian courts will not keep this country safe.”

Liz Cheney
Chairman
Keep America Safe

In the words of Han Solo: somebody up there still likes me!

Another good question about Faisal Shahzad is why he wasn't prosecuted as a traitor? I mean, he was an American citizen who went abroad for training with an enemy of the United States and came back here on their orders in order to commit an act of war. What am I missing on that?

October 01, 2010

Paging Robert Gibbs

The NASA chief who caused an uproar over the summer when he said outreach to the Muslim world might be his "foremost" priority has embarked on a trip this weekend to Saudi Arabia. A NASA spokesman said the visit is part of a multicountry tour[...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported that "top" NASA officials had urged Bolden not to make the trip, but NASA had no comment when asked about the claim.

Related (well not, just a FYI):
Non Blog Sabbath Caption Contest: Mujahideen Flower Child Edition

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NASA To Reach Out To The Muslim World
White House denies NASA remark on Muslim outreach

September 28, 2010

Recognize this douchebag?

A Republican staffer (and Iraq War vet) has hot coffee poured down his back by a Strickland supporter while trying to videotape Gov. Strickland's remarks at a campaign event. The assailant later returns to make an obscene gesture. Authorities are trying to identify the man in this video. If you can assist, contact the Scioto County Sheriff's Office at (740) 355-8245

Thanks to Breitbart

August 08, 2010

Rauf refuses to call Hamas a terrorist group/blames US for 9/11 and our State Dept is sending him on a bridge building mission to the ME. Again, WTF?

Read about this from Claudia Rosett here[Forbes] & here[Pajamas Media]

Snippet:

Ultimately, in response to repeated questions, a member of Rauf's New York Cordoba Initiative foundation e-mailed me Friday, saying that Rauf's trip to the Middle East, "in the near future," will be hosted by the U.S. government as part of an outreach program to "bring the message of moderation, peace and understanding."

At the State Department, which presumably will be spending taxpayer money on Rauf's tour, I have yet to receive confirmation or any other information about his program, despite three days of my repeated requests by phone and e-mail. Apparently it is taking a while for State's Bureau of Public Diplomacy to get "clearance" to release any details of this particular public outreach effort, though Rauf's wife says it has been in the works for months.

WTF is wrong with this picture?

File this under Domestic Dhimmis/Stealth Jihad

Thanks to Robert

Related:
Ground Zero mosque imam blames US for 9/11/refuses to call Hamas a terrorist organization

Related?
Hamas Terror Manifesto Published By Obama's Church

August 06, 2010

Threw Media Matters in title because of their love for da Jawa's?: "Right-wing media attack Brennan over uncontroversial statements about jihad":

The Jawa Report: "This is Nuckin Futz, besides it will hurt the Islamic Terrorist's feelings." The conservative blog The Jawa Report asserted: "Good News!! Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as 'Legitimate Tenet of Islam'" and claimed[I claimed? It's da feckin truth] that "This is Nuckin Futz, besides it will hurt the Islamic Terrorist's feelings."

MEMRI

'There Is No Islam without Jihad'

Anas Zahed, a columnist for the Saudi government daily Al-Madina, criticized Arab and Muslim intellectuals who limit the term jihad to a personal, spiritual struggle and reject its interpretation as waging war against occupation, which he said is its principle meaning.

Following are excerpts:

"Islam without jihad is the product of colonialism and is in no way connected to the Islam of Muhammad. Without question, the greatest jihad is personal jihad, and therein lies the proof that the term jihad in Islam is not limited [solely] to waging war... [But] this does not mean that the term jihad does not include many other aspects, among them those which relate to the individual's responsibilities to society, and the relations of the [Muslim] society and ummah with societies and countries that declare war on a Muslim state.

"[However,] ever since the American [declaration of] war against what is called terrorism, there has emerged a group of Arab and Muslim authors and academics who try to limit jihad to one dimension, namely to personal jihad. This is exactly what happened in India during the period of British colonialism, when the Qadian sect, also known as Ahmadiyya, emerged and rejected the principle of fighting the colonialists. [They] abolished the duty of jihad in the sense of waging war, and were content with preaching merely personal jihad.

Related:
Good News!! Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as 'Legitimate Tenet of Islam'

July 27, 2010

When the New York Times thinks you're out in Left field, you're really out in Left field. Andrew Exum on that assmuncher Julian Assange:

Mr. Assange says he is a journalist, but he is not. He is an activist, and to what end it is not clear. This week — as when he released a video in April showing American helicopter gunships killing Iraqi civilians in 2007 — he has been throwing around the term “war crimes,” but offers no context for the events he is judging. It seems that the death of any civilian in war, an unavoidable occurrence, is a “crime.”

If his desire is to promote peace, Mr. Assange and his brand of activism are not as helpful as he imagines. By muddying the waters between journalism and activism, and by throwing his organization into the debate on Afghanistan with little apparent regard for the hard moral choices and dearth of good policy options facing decision-makers, he is being as reckless and destructive as the contemptible soldier or soldiers who leaked the documents in the first place.

Which makes the so-called "journalist" either a combatant himself as he was showing Mahdi militia men pictures of a US military convoy when he was killed. Worst case scenario, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Bad things happen in war.

As for the van, see above and remember that part of the context Assange doesn't want you to know about is that the van had dropped off the combatants before the engagement. The lesson here is that you don't bring your kids to a firefight. It's sad, but the blame lies clearly with the insurgents.

But even after those facts had been established Assange continued to call for an investigation and claiming that there was a cover up of the incident despite knowing full well that the military had investigated it twice already and cleared the soldiers involved.

Which makes him more than a paranoid anti-war activist with an agenda, it also makes him a liar.

July 26, 2010

Is there anything Julian Assange ever gets right? Seriously, on top of being a pathological liar and a paranoid conspiracy theorist, the WikiLeaks founder also doesn't get that we've all known pretty much all of this for years.

The ISI helps the Taliban? Check.

Drones are prone to crashing? Check.

The drones often miss their intended targets? Check.

Yawn. Seriously, this guy is a baffoon.

If any one finds *shocking* revelations in the docs, let me know. The initial reading just makes me want to take a nap.

June 25, 2010

Via WeaselZippers

Congresswoman Raises Red Flag on Hezbollah-Cartel Nexus on U.S. Border
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In her letter to Napolitano, Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., called on Homeland Security to find out and report more on the extent of the problem. She cited several troubling developments that would point to Hezbollah creeping closer to and inside the United States, with the help of Mexican drug gangs.

Hezbollah's main site entry
Hezbollahs (English): Islamic Resistance in Lebanon
Al--Manor TV (Arabic):(Lebanon) Hizbollah's Beirut-based television station

June 22, 2010

Mexican Gangs Maintain Permanent Lookout Bases in Hills of Arizona

Mexican drug cartels have set up shop on American soil, maintaining lookout bases in strategic locations in the hills of southern Arizona from which their scouts can monitor every move made by law enforcement officials, federal agents tell Fox News.

The scouts are supplied by drivers who bring them food, water, batteries for radios -- all the items they need to stay in the wilderness for a long time.

“To say that this area is out of control is an understatement," said an agent who patrols the area and asked not to be named. "We (federal border agents), as well as the Pima County Sheriff Office and the Bureau of Land Management, can attest to that.”

Much of the drug traffic originates in the Menagers Dam area, the Vekol Valley, Stanfield and around the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation. It even follows a natural gas pipeline that runs from Mexico into Arizona.[Adam Housley's : Battling for the Border]While...

Mexican Cartel Threatens Police Officers in Arizona Border Town

Police officers in a small Arizona border city are on heightened alert following a tip that a Mexican drug cartel will put them in its crosshairs if they conduct off-duty busts.

The threat stems from a marijuana seizure made this month by two off-duty police officers riding on horseback in an unincorporated area east of Nogales, a city of roughly 20,000, Police Chief Jeffrey Kirkham told FoxNews.com.

"The word was that these particular officers would be targeted if they were ever in that area again and were not on duty and intercepted any drug trafficking," Kirkham said. "It said they should look the other way."

While...

Drug Cartel Activity Threatens Texas Water Supplies

Drug cartel activity along the Mexican border presents serious security threats to the area's water supply system, particularly on federally-owned lands in southern Texas, a U.S. lawmaker says.

Members of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power held a hearing Thursday on H.R. 4719, a bill that would create a Southwest Border Region Water Task Force to monitor and assess the water supply needs of the area.

Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., ranking member of the House subcommittee, told FoxNews.com that the situation needs immediate attention, particularly in light of reports that a Mexican drug cartel -- the Los Zetas -- unsuccessfully plotted to blow up the Falcon Dam along the Rio Grande last month.

While.....

Border Patrol Charged Millions for Habitat Damage, Republicans Say Enough 'Extortion'

Republican lawmakers are calling on the Interior Department to stop charging what they describe as "extortion" money from the Border Patrol -- millions of under-the-radar dollars meant to cover environmental damage stemming from their everyday duties along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Department of Homeland Security, which houses the Border Patrol, last year signed a deal with Interior -- the administrator of America's parklands -- to cough up $50 million for environmental "mitigation" needed in the wake of the construction of a border fence. That was after DHS had already spent or committed millions more for expected environmental damage caused by the Border Patrol over the years.

Though both the departments of Homeland Security and Interior say the money goes toward preserving and restoring sensitive habitats, Republicans say the arrangement doesn't make sense.

The Border Patrol needs that money to address the weighty task of securing the border, they say, arguing that agents are actually helping conserve the environment by keeping out smugglers and immigration violators who have no regard for America's natural resources.

They note that the transactions are conducted with little congressional oversight, and the Border Patrol has privately described the routine negotiations as a "constant headache."

"It was a pay-to-play type of scheme," a Republican aide on the House Natural Resources Committee said of the millions Homeland Security has spent to date.

Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, said the kicker in the multimillion-dollar tradeoff is that the money doesn't even guarantee the Border Patrol open access to the land. Agents still have to follow particular rules to drive into wilderness areas to pursue suspects or set up routine patrols.[It's racist to accuse illegals of damaging the wilderness area....ed]

"That conflict has got to be resolved," he said. "If the Border Patrol was allowed to have free access to patrol the borders at will ... it would have the same effect that they're doing in other areas."

Jawa's Immigration & Border Issues archives

Update: PDF of latest Congressional Report regarding the war on the border. Thanks to Son of Liberty..

Update II: Mexico is asking a federal court in Arizona to declare the state's new immigration law unconstitutional.

Mexico says its interest in having consistent relations with the United States shouldn't be frustrated by one state.

WTF?

Feck off Mexico, keep your nose out of Arizona's business & fix your feckin border. Also, feck you Democrats that gave Caldrone a standing ovation when he critized Arizona. Go live in Mexico if you heart Caldrone so much.

Update III: While....

Pirates in the Gulf of Aden Mexican pirates in Texas:

By Stable Hand at 12:01 PM | |

Think only Mexicans cross the border? Think again:
Channel 2 Investigates US Border Security Part 2

Terrorist crossing AZ border

Police chief: Cartels threaten U.S. law enforcement in Arizona

(CNN) -- In the first public incident of its kind, cartels are making direct death threats to U.S. law enforcement officials in Nogales, Arizona, the police chief there told CNN Monday.

Speculation about death threats by cartels towards U.S. law enforcement has been widespread for some time, but this is the first time U.S. officials along the border confirmed a case.

The threats began less than two weeks ago, after off-duty police officers from the Nogales police department seized several hundred pounds of marijuana from a drug smuggling operation they stumbled upon while horseback riding in the eastern fringes of Nogales, the chief said.

Nebraska town passes tough immigration law, ACLU to file lawsuit?

Fremont, Neb.

This small Nebraska meatpacking town has joined Arizona at the center of a national debate about illegal immigration after voters approved a ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants, but an expected court challenge could keep the measure from ever taking effect.

The American Civil Liberties Union already has promised to file a lawsuit to block enforcement of the proposal roughly 57 percent of Fremont voters supported Monday.

"In a community of 25,000, it's going to be hard to take on the whole country, and it will be costly to do so," said Fremont City Councilman Scott Getzschman, who opposed the measure but said city leaders would support the results.

h/t The Bartender & NTA

Other developments & by far not all:

Obamas radical labor chief says illegals have right to fair wages

He said, he said:

Sen Kyl claims Obi One told him if we secure the border then you wont have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform

June 18, 2010

After a standing ovation in Congress for Mexican prez Caldrone's rant against Arizona and the deliberate statement by Sec of State Hillary while being interviewed in Ecuador regarding Obi Ones lawsuit, I am not surprised.

To hell with standing behind states wanting to control illegal immigrantion, a job the gov. should be doing but aren't. Dems make funnies at the expense of Arizona and they think they'll be liked more and receive more votes in Nov.

Forget about the rancher & others who were murdered, they don't count.

Besides, it's raaaaaaaacist to blame an illegal Mexican immigrant. Dems need more votes in Nov.

Forget about the closure of parts of Arizona's National Parks because of human trafficking & drug smugglers. Dems need more votes in Nov.

Forget about al Qaeda's Somalia arm, al Shabaab, trying to cross the border, it's in Texas so that doesn't count. Dems need more votes in Nov.

Forget about trashing the land by illegal immigrants. Where's the crying Indian that symbolized destruction of the environment? Where are the environmentalists? Dems need more votes in Nov.

Forget about the fears that a dam would be blown up by a Mexican Drug Cartel, that was in Texas so it doesn't count. Dems need more votes in Nov.

Islamic prayers rugs discarded, people from countries in support of terrorism didn't discard them did they? Nah, doesn't count. Dems need more votes in Nov.

Forget about then Arizona Gov. and now head of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano signing the Immigration bill into law when she was Gov of Arizona. Gov Brewer just added amendments to it. Doesn't count, Dems need more votes in Nov.

Forget about Arizona's Gov Brewer learning about the lawsuit through Sec. of State Hillary's announcement in Ecuador. Gov Brewer is a gasp Rethuglican. She deserved it. Dems need more votes in Nov.

Forget about our Federal Immigration law, just because it's the same as Arizona's, which the Obi One administration haven't read thoroughly, it's raaaaaaacist! Dems need more votes in Nov.

/End of rant.

FNC

An official told Fox News on Friday that the Department of Justice is still reviewing the law to build the administration's case -- but that the decision has already been made that a suit will be filed.

June 11, 2010

The word "Deliverance" immediately brought this to mind:

FBI

WASHINGTON—Attorney General Eric Holder today[yesterday..ed] announced the arrest of more than 2,200 individuals on narcotics-related charges in the United States and the seizure of more than 74.1 tons of illegal drugs as part of a 22-month multi-agency law enforcement investigation known as “Project Deliverance.” The Attorney General was joined in announcing the current results of Project Deliverance by Acting Administrator Michele M. Leonhart of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Assistant Director Kevin L. Perkins of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division; and Assistant Secretary John Morton of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Yesterday, 429 individuals in 16 states were arrested as part of Project Deliverance, which targeted the transportation infrastructure of Mexican drug trafficking organizations in the United States, especially along the Southwest border, through coordination between federal, state and local law enforcement. More than 3,000 agents and officers operated across the United States to make yesterday’s arrests. During yesterday’s enforcement action, $5.8 million in U.S. currency, 2,951 pounds of marijuana, 112 kilograms of cocaine, 17 pounds of methamphetamine, 141 weapons, and 85 vehicles were seized by law enforcement agents[...]

Overall, Project Deliverance has led to the arrest of 2,266 individuals and the seizure of approximately $154 million in U.S. currency and approximately 1,262 pounds of methamphetamine, 2.5 tons of cocaine, 1,410 pounds of heroin, 69 tons of marijuana, 501 weapons, and 527 vehicles.

Through continued joint cooperation at all levels of the Obama and Calderon administrations, the Department of Justice and its partners are actively working to stem the flow of illegal narcotics, weapons, and bulk cash moving across the U.S./Mexico border.

In other news:

FBI: Mexican soldiers used rifles to chase off U.S. Border Patrol.

June 05, 2010

Who wouda thunk?

NYPost

The imam behind a proposed mosque near Ground Zero is a prominent member of a group that helped sponsor the pro-Palestinian activists who clashed violently with Israeli commandos at sea this week.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a key figure in Malaysian-based Perdana Global Peace Organization, according to its Website.

Perdana is the single biggest donor ($366,000) so far to the Free Gaza Movemen, a key organizer of the six-ship flotilla that tried to break Israel's blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip Monday[...]

Efforts to reach Imam Abdul Rauf yesterday for comment were unsuccessful.

Deborah Burlingame, the sister of the American Airlines pilot whose hijacked plane struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, said the indirect ties of the imam to the protesters who confronted Israeli forces Monday were not surprising.

"I think it goes to show he is not the man he represents himself to be. We have two Imam Rauf," she said.

"We have the anti-Israel, anti-democratic imam, and we have the smiling, soft-spoken moderate Muslim who says 'Why can't we all get along?[More..]

What makes this more interesting, the IDF audio of the radio communications between the hate flotillas and the Israeli Navy, a person was heard to say: "we’re helping Arabs go against the US, don’t forget 9/11".

h/t nmewn