Notice anyone missing? No wonder they were caught flat-footed on 9/11. And as the outrageously great Kathy Shaidle points out, they could put out the same flyer today, for all the notice they have taken of the global Islamic jihad.
Notice anyone missing? No wonder they were caught flat-footed on 9/11. And as the outrageously great Kathy Shaidle points out, they could put out the same flyer today, for all the notice they have taken of the global Islamic jihad.
They don't like the US Constitution over at the FBI. It's primary 'evidence' of terrorism in their first two categories. So much for our grundnorm.
Ignorant, ignorant, ignorant.
Where's the star and crescent?
Making "numerous references to the U.S. Constitution" is a sign of terrorist activity for the FBI? Yikes! Where to begin on what's wrong with thattheory?!
And the FBI, charged with protecting Americans domestically, had best raise their gaze and see who's "inside" the gates already.
(Also, they really need a professional graphic artist to work on their iconography.)
Maybe they lumped in our favorite "religion" in with the "cult-type group" under single issue terrorist. After islam is pretty single minded when it comes to the issues.
Then again, they are part of the same government that encompasses the State Department which put out a list of words not to use. Wouldn't want to upset those little bombing devils. After all we know just how important our opinion of them is important to the islamic world.
What about those rapid Islamophobes? Where are they? I'll bet CAIR is upset.
Daniel Pipes posted this related article at frontpagemag.com yesterday:
The West's Islamist Infiltrators
Um, anyone notice the date on this???
1999, during the Clintons...I dare say some things have changed.
They do have a Counterterrorism Division, and I suspect they investigate more than just these groups, otherwise we wouldn't have had some of the captures & arrests we've had in recent years.
You guys need to relax...these documents are not static.
Interesting that 'Right-wing extreamist' appears to be the #1 [most important] target to watchout for.
And what the hell is 'Christian Identity'? Does this mean all christians are to be considered 'hate roups'?
I can full well believe that this was from the Clinton Era. I wonder what today's flyer looks like (and what is the 'most important' to look for.) Will it look all that different? Probably won't mention 'Islam' since that might offend the religion of [no]peace.
Believing that driving is a right will get you on a terror list?
Sign me up now.
A truly free country would be nice.
No mention of Islamic terrorism in *1999*?
This was after the first attack on the WTC, after the hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the cold-blooded murder of Leon Klinghoffer, after the kidnapping and murder of Olympic athletes at Munich, after inumerable airplane hijackings, after the bombing of US barracks in Lebanon, after the attack on the US embassy in Kenya.
This was before the attack on the USS Cole and 9/11, but it was already abundantly clear that Islamic terrorism was a threat by this point.
That they have radical *animal rights* groups--who haven't killed a single person--up there while omitting Islam is just stunning.
Miira, thanks for posting the piece by Daniel Pipes. I was going to cite it myself.
Aw, Robert, they're on there, the same as they still are:
Lone Individuals.
Remember, it has nothing to do with Islam, they were just crazy.
Also,
Cult-Type Group.
Perverting a noble faith.
Both under Single Issue Terrorists. Single Issue=Jihad.
They were not saying Islam before it was against the law to say Islam...
The categories and bullet points aren't really coherent and consistent.
Muddled and incomplete thinking remain obstacles to this day.
That document is dated 1999. The big attack was in September 2001. A lot can happen in two years. Who knew about, who could possibly remember, the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993? The bomb in that Berlin discotheque? The attack on American marines in Beirut? The blowing up of a TWA jet over Greece? The Pan Am flight,and the Arabs who beat to death Robert Stethem? All the attacks and blowing up of planes and hijacking of planes, going back decades. Did the FBI know about the Air France hijacking, the one where the plane was forced to fly all the way to Entebbe, and the Jewish passengers carefully separated from the rest. You know, that example of international terrorism, in which the passengers were so spectacularly rescued on July 4, 1776 by the long arm of Israel, embodied in Yonatan Netanyahu and other heroes under his command. That attack, and that rescue, which was both a present, and a lesson to be heeded, just in time for the American Bicentennial.
But why should the FBI have known about any of that? Entebbe, after all, had been so far away. And the first attack on the World Trade Center had been so long ago, a full six years before, in 1993.
Yes, by 1999, it was all so long ago, and so far away. So why blame the FBI? They can’t be expected to keep track of everything, can they?
This is the same FBI after 9/11 refused the translation services of American Jews and Lebanese Marionite Christians and instead hired Muslims by the gross.
Its the same FBI after 9/11 that used many new hires in menial positions such as security escorts or assigning them to other drudgework. As a result the the FBI lost many of the its new hires within 2 years.
If anything the FBI has repeatedly demonstrated a institutional hostility towards C-T.
They'd also be the last people I'd notify if I became aware of a terrorist plot of any sort. As it stands now about the only ones who'd do anything are the local police.
Oh yeah this is same FBI that destroyed the lives of innocent men like Richard Jewel, Steven Hatfill, and the late Bruce Ivins whom the FBI drove to suicide.
If anything, when we suffer another Muslim suicide attack, I have every confidence the FBI will be at the side of Muslims protecting them and blaming the attack on some imaginary white Christian group.
Since when did Shaidle become outrageously great? Her unique combination of bile, insults backed up by her petty catechism homilies hardly qualifies as even great. At best, she is a low budget Canadian Coulter clone. By the way, if she is so great, why didn't she bother to get the 2008 version of this flyer?
According to the corrupt scum (Mueller et al) at the FBI, a few dozen degenerates making up this so called Christian Identity movement were worse than the groups that ALREADY had bombed the WTC in 1993, not to mention the thousands of attacks big and small worldwide.
Now we are about to elect a member of an racist African American "Christian Identity" church with ties to the racist Nation of Islam, and the FBI is cool with that.
Max,
What is the FBI supposed to do, arrest Obama for attending Reverend Wright's church? Jeez, people here don't have thin skins, they don't have any at all.
What about Jalal Abualrub the Islamic preacher/missionry? He was Mujahideen in Afghanistan in the '80's-think he told the INS that on his citizenship app?
The European lists of terror groups of the time were probably just as bad...in not worst..
Static is weakness in the arena of intel. The following is from the FBI's 2007 "National Intelligence Estimate":
"Al-Qa’ida is and will remain the most serious terrorist threat to the Homeland, as its central
leadership continues to plan high-impact plots, while pushing others in extremist Sunni
communities to mimic its efforts and to supplement its capabilities."