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No, I am not making this up.
"Terror group told to prepare for U.S. training," from WorldNetDaily.com (thanks to Doug):
Much of the senior leadership of the most active Palestinian terrorist organization in the West Bank recently received orders to prepare to enter U.S.-run security training courses, according to the author of a new book.The courses, meant to train forces to fight terrorism, are to be reportedly stepped up following this week's Annapolis summit.
WND's Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein, author of the recently released ""Schmoozing with Terrorists," said yesterday he received information much of the senior leadership of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group were told they will be entering U.S. anti-terror training courses for security forces associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah forces.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's declared military wing, took credit along with the Islamic Jihad terror group for every suicide bombing in Israel between 2005 and 2006. The Brigades is responsible for more terrorism from the West Bank than any other Palestinian Arab organization, carrying out thousands of shootings and grenade attacks.
Many members of the Brigades serve openly on Fatah's security forces, including the Force 17 presidential guards and Fatah's Preventative Security Services, which function as Palestinian police forces. Abbas last June appointed senior Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader Mahmoud Damra as commander of Force 17. Damra, who was arrested by Israel last November, was on the Jewish state's most-wanted list of terrorists.
The U.S. has been running bases in Jericho to train Fatah militias since the late 1990s. Over the years, the U.S. also has provided Fatah militias with arms, reportedly including thousands of high-powered assault rifles during the past year alone.
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The U.S. training programs include courses in the use of weapons. They are being partially funded with a $86.5 million grant approved by Congress in April and are slated to be infused with more funds from a $400 million grant President Bush asked Congress to approve last month ahead of this week's U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian summit in Annapolis, Md.
The training courses are to be stepped up following the Annapolis summit to prepare Abbas' forces for their stated role in fighting terror in West Bank.
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"It's scandalous that in the midst of the war on terror, our tax dollars are used to fund, train and arm the most active Palestinian West Bank jihad group," said Klein.
"It took no investigative reporting whatsoever on my part to discover members of U.S.-backed, trained and armed Fatah militias are also members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group," writes Klein. "I simply went around the West Bank and asked Fatah militia members, who walk around with American-provided high-power assault rifles, whether they are also in the Brigades."
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Speaking to Klein through a translator, Yousuf said his American training was instrumental in attacks on Israelis.
"All the methods and techniques that we studied in these trainings, we applied them against the Israelis," he said.
"We sniped at Israeli settlers and soldiers," he said. "We broke into settlements and Israeli army bases and posts. We collected information on the movements of soldiers and settlers. We collected information about the best timing to infiltrate our bombers inside Israel. We used weapons and we produced explosives, and, of course, the training we received from the Americans and the Europeans were a great help to the resistance."
Yousuf said the training included both intelligence and military tactics.
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The leader of the Brigades in Nablus, Ala Senakreh, received U.S. training and serves in the Palestinian Preventative Security forces. Senakreh is widely considered to be the West Bank chief of the Brigades; his cell is accused of planning multiple suicide bombings.
"In other words, a U.S.-trained police officer charged with stopping terrorism in Nablus is also the known head of the city's terror group. Something smells a little wrong here," writes Klein.
In his new book, Aaron Klein lists more such follies:
* The Bush administration has sent hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons per year to Palestinian militias without official congressional oversight.* U.S. weapons have been used in scores of terrorist shootings, including against Israeli schoolgirls.
* U.S. intelligence has coordinated security with terrorists.
* The U.S. funds Hamas-run schools and a university in which the chemistry lab has been used to produce rockets and suicide bomb belts.
* U.S.-funded streets and sports stadiums have been named after enemies of America, including Iraqi insurgent leaders, suicide bombers and even hanged Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
There is a great deal more. Read it all.
Posted by Robert at November 26, 2007 9:02 AM
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this is truly pathetic. the war on terror should have started with first cleaning the state depatment of all people ignorant of muslims an dislam. that would mean practically all of them.
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at November 26, 2007 9:35 AM
???? !!!! XXXX
Posted by: poetcomic1 at November 26, 2007 9:46 AM
The State Dept are Arabists whose first duty is to protect the Saudi royal family, and promote their interests, over and above those of America.
The Saudis want a Jew free middle east, and what they want they always get, thanks to the USA!
Forget Bush, it's James Baker who's running the show and has put America's security in grave jeopardy by taking orders from the Saudis, leaving any national security looking like a Swiss cheese with massive holes...
Posted by: Jerusalem Posts at November 26, 2007 10:25 AM
Assuming this report is accurate, what strategic calculation could ever justify such moral depravity as this--during a war in which the survival of our civilization is at stake, teaching the most dedicated jihadists our own techniques, so that those same jihadists can more easily subvert and defeat them, and so that those same jihadists can better carry out a fascist war of extermination against a free people?
Posted by: Stendec at November 26, 2007 11:02 AM
Oh my god!!!
How can they be such idiots!
Why is this in Dhimmi watch btw, should be in JW.
Posted by: zaphodbrx at November 26, 2007 11:05 AM
No, you really got to be making this up.......
Our government can't be that stupid..........
Can they?
Of course they can!
PT Barnum once said "you can't go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public".
This way to the egress!
Posted by: tanstaafl at November 26, 2007 11:11 AM
George W and Company never cease to amaze. By all means let us train them to be more efficient at killing.....us. I'm sure everyone would agree....right?
Posted by: TheOmegaMan at November 26, 2007 11:19 AM
A nd this is just as alarming
Officials from three U.S. agencies are now reviewing their records over the past three years to see if permission should have been granted for a major American computer company to ship "sensitive" technology to Syria, a state sponsor of terrorism.
FOX News originally reported that after years of harsh talk and escalating rounds of sanctions against Syria for supporting terror and seeking weapons of mass destruction, the United States is quietly supporting a United Nations program to supply the regime with sophisticated surveillance equipment and computers to monitor its borders.
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/11/backstabbing-bastards.html
Posted by: shiva at November 26, 2007 11:32 AM
This is like teaching a lion not to hunt. It won't work.
Posted by: sadatoni at November 26, 2007 11:41 AM
Well, this seems to be a further development of the "Overlords" to create more havoc.
Why?
Because so far, their efforts haven't borne fruit. It seems the American people, ditto the Western common man, is too disciplined and adhere too much to the rule of LAW and JUSTICE to riot, and cause disorder, like the barbarian hordes of the islamics. It seems the influx, forced influx, immigration of islamics into these lands hasn't YET caused outright mass rioting.
So the "Overlords" have decided to up the ante.
Now, why would such creatures as "Overlords" want to do that?
Who - just WHO are these "Overlords" this crazy Cassandra mentions?
Well, let me just say, whatever their names or whatever they are, one simply had to pause and look around, and take stock of all the happenings and events going on around the planet - to make one wonder, whether they could possibly be connected?
Could all the events - the wars be artificilly created? And for what reason?
Posted by: allat at November 26, 2007 11:56 AM
PT Barnum once said "you can't go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public".
I think that was H L Mencken. What Barnum said was "There's a sucker born every minute"
Mencken also noted that "Every decent person is ashamed of the governnment he lives under"
Posted by: zaltys at November 26, 2007 12:48 PM
It seems that this President has been a disaster. Throwing the anti-Jihad baby out with the mediocre bathwater, Americans are quite likely to elect a Democrat, thereby compounding the error of not having given a coherent story about the War on Terror.
Posted by: StillBreathing at November 26, 2007 12:56 PM
Menchken, not Barnum! Damn! Can't ascribe the quote to the right person!
Just having a senior moment, folks. Move along, nothing to see here.
Posted by: tanstaafl at November 26, 2007 1:50 PM
"Americans are quite likely to elect a Democrat."
Sh, don't look now, but Dems and Reps. are now the same animal.
Anyway, I don't want to live in a Democracy: I prefer to live in a Republic. There is a very important difference.
The gov. has been propagandizing that we're a democaracy, and encouraging this sort of thinking - and it has caught on like a wildfire - and we're very happy to state it. But the Founders of the U.S. actually brought forth a REPUBLIC.
Posted by: allat at November 26, 2007 2:10 PM
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2937068.ece
Posted by: TheOmegaMan at November 26, 2007 2:16 PM
Prince Charles visits mystic poet's tomb
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071126/ap_on_re_mi_ea/people_prince_charles_1
Defender of the Faiths. Spit
at November 26, 2007 3:06 PM
Are they going to be expected to use the weapons on themselves?
Im lost here?
Posted by: GrennBeck at November 26, 2007 4:30 PM
"Menchken, not Barnum..."
-- from a posing above
Yes, H. L. Menchken, the one who from his perch in Baltimore denounced the Booboisie; wrote "The American Language," and even had time left over to act, along with his 23 siblings, in "The Wizard of Oz."
Posted by: Hugh at November 26, 2007 6:52 PM
Haven't we given these goat-fellaters enough training already? Hello? Al Qaeda - we did that, because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Let's stop training them and start killing them off, ok?
RG
Posted by: RightGirl at November 26, 2007 6:53 PM
The U.S. trained Osama Bin Laden's rebel forces in Afghanistan against the Soviet military, and what we got in return was 9/11.
Now the geniuses in the Jew-hating State Department want to train the "Palestinian" "security" forces in Gaza.
Some people just never learn. It is sad, really, that because of a small group of influential people whose hatred of Jews exceeds their love and concern for the U.S. and its citizens, many Americans will die, and this brings to mind a certain verse from the Bible:
"I will bless those that bless you, and those that curse you I will curse."
Posted by: US_infidel at November 26, 2007 7:17 PM
Israel is finished. Perfidious America will see to that. Only a miracle will prevent it.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at November 26, 2007 9:21 PM
ISLAMSFORLOSERS, God is rather stingy and unpredictable with his miracles. The most recent one was for The New York Mets in 1969.
Posted by: Pelayo at November 26, 2007 11:00 PM
........
Posted by: Bosch Fawstin at November 26, 2007 11:26 PM
Somebody needs to invent an anti-stupidity pill...and quick! Then we need to distribute them to the US government officials before they can do any more damage (if such a thing is even conceivable).
Posted by: pythagoras at November 26, 2007 11:35 PM
If this were a ruse to round them up and kill them all, I'm behind it 100%.
Otherwise, the Madness just gets deeper.
Over the heads of the State Dept. menchkins already.
"The believing mind is ...impervious to evidence."- H.L.
Posted by: profitsbeard at November 27, 2007 12:59 AM
Don't you wonder why Saudi Arabia, in all it's monopoly over Islam, does not reconcile the Sunni/Sunni differences. Then again, with a lap-dog sitting on billions of tax-dollars, why do Saudis have to lift a finger? As they say, in a democracy, people get the government they deserve. Americans elected a rich, spoilt, wahhabbi ass-kisser, so this is what Americans get.
But for those Americans who are serious about resisting Islamic terror, Tom Tancredo before it is too late: http://www.teamtancredo.typepad.com
at November 27, 2007 1:06 AM
People, instead of just sitting down and writing our complains here - why don't we start writing letters of protest - Letters of Protest - to the State Dept. - to the consulate of Sudan - to the Sudan MIssion in the U.N.
Call the Sudan Embassy and bother the hell out of them.
It's obvious our own gov. is not doing anything.
Let's take a page from the vile islamic protesters!
Posted by: allat at November 27, 2007 9:22 AM
Un. F***ing. Believable.
Posted by: carpediadem at November 27, 2007 10:34 AM
I take it this was funding through the CIA and State?
F*ing typical. What a joke.
Posted by: Miss_Anthrope at November 28, 2007 1:24 PM
We can only hope that along with rifles these guys got some really creative nano-technology manufactured by the Israelis.
Check out the Jer. Post front page there is an ad for Nano jewelry??
Plots within plots. John Le Carre must be writing this stuff.
Or could it just be that Condi is an anti-semetic?
Or it could be we are training them against the Israeli terrorist Roobart keeps barking about.
Posted by: Aunt Bea at November 28, 2007 2:33 PM
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