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Still more willful ignorance-- in this case, from the director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
From Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence and law enforcement authorities are discovering new home-grown cells of Islamist radicals in the United States that draw inspiration and moral support from al Qaeda, officials said on Tuesday.
Scott Redd, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said in a written statement to the Senate that the emergence of home-grown terrorist groups is posing "real challenges" for U.S. authorities despite law enforcement successes at disrupting potential attacks.
"We are grappling with a whole new set of questions: what forces give rise to this violent ideology in immigrant communities that may appear otherwise to be quite well assimilated? ... What signs should we be looking for to try to draw early warning of potential problems?" the statement said.
And so, by insisting on al Qaeda as a first cause of the impulse to jihad (which they won't acknowledge as "jihad" to begin with), they wage the "War on Terror" as if swinging blindfolded at a piņata.
In later oral testimony, Redd said home-grown cells were a new domestic phenomenon for which the FBI and law enforcement agencies had no "baseline" for measuring the scale of the problem.
Redd declined to discuss details with senators in public but cited recent arrests of terrorism suspects in California and Georgia.
"That's three in a little over a year, and there are obviously other investigations ongoing," Redd told the committee.
Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the panel's ranking Democrat, said the emergence of home-grown U.S. terror cells is widely recognized within the intelligence community.
"Everyone I've spoken to in the intelligence community says there are more cells now in the United States, there's more activity in the United States," Biden said.
Intelligence officials have long warned the international battle against al Qaeda had encouraged Islamist militants to operate in small groups like the cell that carried out bombings in London in 2005.
Posted by Marisol at June 14, 2006 4:05 AM
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IT'S THE KORAN, STUPID
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at June 14, 2006 5:00 AM
Somebody, please, send mr. Redd text of the song I found yesterday http://www.patrickhenrysongs.com/
IT'S IN THE KORAN
In our days of glory
Now centuries past
The kingdom of Islam
Stood mighty and vast
Then we failed our faith
And watched your power grow
But soon our greatness will return
And this is how we know
Because it's in the Koran
It's written in the Koran
A world united under Allah is
The future of man
How could it not be so
When most opposing us panic
And surrender once a few of them have bled
We're happy to torture
We're eager to rape
We savor your last screams
On videotape
We massacre children
We ransack a shrine
And all our acts are sanctified
By Suras 2 through 9
Because it's in the Koran
It's written in the Koran
That we should fight and slay the infidels
However we can
We'll blow ourselves to bits
If that gives us an advantage
Or we'll slit your throats while you're asleep in bed
Those heathens who scold us
Are wasting their breath
Over the millions we've butchered
And starved
We're men who would let girls
Be trampled to death
Rather than see them in public
Unscarved
So don't look for mercy
When you're at our feet
The justice we'll give you
Is harsh and complete
We danced in delight
When your Twin Towers fell
And you'll weep with your slaughtered
As you burn with them in Hell
Because it's in the Koran
It's written in the Koran
Your fate was settled long before
This latest battle began
We've found our holy purpose
And we'll never abandon it
As long as there's a sinner to behead
In other words we won't rest
Till everyone in the west
Is a slave, a Muslim or dead
at June 14, 2006 6:00 AM
Stuck on stupid.
Posted by: Anthony at June 14, 2006 7:02 AM
In canada we now have some Muslims claiming they were outraged at some of the hate speech they heard several years ago in the Mosques, but when asked what they did at that time we get the Deer in the headlights stare and a fumble for a answer.
The lies just keep piling up and Muslims are convicting themselves by their own testamony.
Posted by: ala-sux at June 14, 2006 7:18 AM
Biden recognizes terror, but is against security wiretapping. Typical hypocritical leftie.
Posted by: exsgtbrown at June 14, 2006 8:06 AM
Christopher Hitchens recently wrote two great articles about the successful targeted killing of Zarqawi. The second one, which details Jordan's contribution, contains a paragraph that speaks very directly to gormless wonders like Joe Biden and the equally gormless "counterterrorism experts" who think it's a bad idea to rile jihaddists:
"For some reason, I have not recently been hearing that the war in Iraq is 'a distraction from the fight against al-Qaida.' Perhaps this mantra became harder to chant after Zarqawi went to all the trouble to certify his gang as 'al-Qaida in Mesopotamia' and to receive Bin Laden's official franchise. Then again, if one wanted to argue that al-Qaida would not be in Iraq if we were not, one had to confront the fact that Zarqawi was actually there first.* And that while he was there, he could in theory have had a chat with Abdul Rahman Yasin, the man who mixed the chemicals for the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 and then (released by the FBI) went straight to Baghdad. Or perhaps kicked back with Abu Abbas, organizer of the ocean liner hijacking that resulted in the murder of American Jew Leon Klinghoffer, who when arrested by the Italians had to be released because when on hijack duty he carried an Iraqi diplomatic passport. Failing that, what about chewing the fat with Abu Nidal, assassin of several PLO diplomats and mastermind of the mass slaughter at the Rome and Vienna airports? Yes, it's true that there are more foreign gangsters in Iraq today, but they are no longer living in government hospitality homes, and they are being killed at the rate of dozens every week. And, yes, it hasn't yet been shown that any of them-except of course Zarqawi and his friends-were ideologically linked to the events of Sept. 11. But the intervention in Afghanistan was to make up for that atrocity. The intervention in Iraq was partly designed to forestall the next attack. Now I'm told that it has only made the jihadists more angry. Should I try to think of a policy that would have made them less so?"
* It seems certain that Zarqawi was in Iraq in June, 2002, nearly a year before the US/UK led invasion.
Both articles are about a page long (each) and worth reading:
Part I
http://www.slate.com/id/2143305/
Part II
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22893
at June 14, 2006 8:14 AM
The answer to this problem for our law enforcement is simple:
Treat them like white Christians.
Remember Waco?????
at June 14, 2006 8:15 AM
And yet it seems like just yesterday (in last two years)a person over seeing America's terrorism security was proclaiming that there where no active cells in the United States.
The article appeared on Jihadwatch (somewhere in roberts archives)and robert along with most of the commenters thought how absurd that statement was at the time, given the understanding of the tenants of the Quran that are likely to produce these cells like mushrooms since the start of the war on terrorism.
And when you read comments like the one below, you get the feeling that our counter terrorism director is living in some kind of bubble and failing to read or understand anything about the never ending evidence that shows that muslims do not assimilate into western cultures with their fundamental belief system intact.
"We are grappling with a whole new set of questions: what forces give rise to this violent ideology in immigrant communities that may appear otherwise to be quite well assimilated? ... What signs should we be looking for to try to draw early warning of potential problems?" the statement said."
Well one of your enemies is the perversion of multiculturalism after all you don't want to be accused of racial profiling.
The more I think of it, with all the experts and all the information out there on this so-called phenomena of militancy that can be found in the Islamic communities who believe that their religion is in the state of the dar-al harb.
I find it almost quite unbelievable that this director is asking this question. Is there anbody that reads this sight on a regular basis that cannot describe what to look for when trying to discover a developing homegrown jihadist?
Oh that's right we have to be careful not to profile someone like that!
Posted by: Mackie at June 14, 2006 11:05 AM
We need more Jihadwatch readers to run for public office. When we do that, this kind of idiocy will end. It's obvious the people currently in power are not willing to even read about the enemy they face. Either they're stupid, or they are just trying to appear politically correct. Either way, there needs to be a change. I'm afraid another catastrophe may happen before people realize the problem. I'd run, except I'm just not articulate enough. How about Hugh?
Posted by: Tomilio at June 14, 2006 12:25 PM
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