Of course, Al-Awlaki did not invent the ideology he has become widely known for propagating. Nor did Osama bin Laden, nor did al-Qaeda. Authorities would have to dig into some highly politically-incorrect territory to get to the root of what motivated Shahzad to pursue violent jihad, especially since his case…
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But…but…didn’t John Brennan, Obama’s counterterrorism czar, say that “they are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle”? Mohammed Jibril must be a Misunderstander of Islam. Funny how the only ones who don’t know Brennan’s lessons on jihad are the jihadists themselves. “‘Prince of Jihad’ to face bombing trial,” by…
A warning that was not heeded and is not being heeded. “Army warned about jihadist threat in ’08,” by Bill Gertz in The Washington Times, February 9 (thanks to Doc Washburn): Almost two years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting by a radicalized Muslim officer, the U.S. Army was explicitly…
Here is a useful summary of Louay Safi’s checkered past and dubious associations, despite which he was employed as a military subcontractor to lecture on Islam. This report does not mention that, even after the Ft. Hood shootings, Safi was involved in troops’ training, and was allowed to meet with…
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War is Deceit: “The report quoted Bosnia-Herzegovina Ministry of Security sources as saying a large number of Wahhabis moved to the region under the pretext of helping to build a mosque.” There may be a mosque involved in the plans, but that doesn’t rule out far more, after the fashion…
But of course, the answer is obvious. “Muslim question persists in Army shooting,” by Bill Gertz in the Washington Times, January 18 (thanks to Benedict): Fear of offending Muslims or being insensitive to religion was likely a key factor to why Army supervisors missed signs that the suspect in the…
“Intelligence,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan once observed, “is not to be confused with intelligence.” To read two recent analyses of U.S. intelligence failures is to be reminded of the truth of that statement, albeit in very different ways.Exhibit A is last week’s unclassified White House memo on the attempted bombing of Flight 253 over the skies [...]
The antiterror education of President Obama continued yesterday, with his release of a White House report blaming the “counterterrorism community” as a whole for “a failure to connect the dots of intelligence” that would have prevented Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from boarding a plane to Detroit on Christmas Day. Mr. Obama blamed no one in particular [...]
