Olie North Had It Right, Democratic Senator Al Gor

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Olie North Had It Right, Democratic Senator Al Gore Had It Wrong:

Let’s turn the clock back to 1987 and learn reality; to wit, Ollie North realized the danger that Islam posed to freedom loving people everywhere. However our Democratic politicians failed to heed his warning. The results were 9/11/2009. How so you may ask!

Let’s investigate a part of the Iran-Contra hearing during the Reagan Administration; to wit, questions being asked by then Senator Al Gore of Tennessee of Lt. Colonel Oliver North.

[Question 1 by Senator Al Gore] 'Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?'

[Reply by Lt. Colonel Oliver North] 'Yes, I did, Sir.'

[Question 2 by Senator Al Gore] 'Isn't that just a little excessive?'

[Reply by Lt. Colonel Oliver North] 'No, sir,'

[Question 3 by Senator Al Gore] 'No? And why not?'

[Reply by Lt. Colonel Oliver North] 'Because the lives of my family and I were
threatened, sir.'

[Question 4 by Senator Al Gore] 'Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?'

[Reply by Lt. Colonel Oliver North] 'His name is Osama bin Laden,

[Question 5 by Senator Al Gore] ‘Why are you so afraid of this man?'

[Reply by Lt. Colonel Oliver North] 'Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of'

[Question 5 by Senator Al Gore] 'And what do you recommend we do about him?'

[Reply by Lt. Colonel Oliver North] 'Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the
earth.'

[Senator Al Gore’s Reaction] The senator disagreed with this approach.

[Terrorist Blew Up A Bus in Israel 1986] The Israelis captured the terrorist, Mohannad Atta, and tried and imprisoned him. But, As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called 'political prisoners.' However, the Israelis would not release
any with blood on their hands. The American President at the time, Bill Clinton,
and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, 'insisted' that all prisoners be released.

[The Terrorist Thanks to America] Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked USA by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified. This has been kept alive and moving since 9/11. In memory of all those who perished this morning; the passengers and the pilots on the United Air and AA flights, the workers in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and all the innocent bystanders. Our prayers go out to the friends and families of the deceased.

[Politicians and A Large Portion Of The Public Does NOT Want To Come To Grips With Reality] What happened at Fort Hood should be a WAKE UP call to all, but for most it is NOT.

However, TIME Magazine of November 23, 2009, on Page 26, has an article called ‘Terrorist?’, by Nancy Gibbs, and its main question is, “Is Fort Hood an Aberration Or A Sign Of Things To come?

Most will try to dismiss this wake-up call. The question – WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT RECOGNIZING ISLAM AS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER RELIGIONS, IS IT REALLY A POLITICAL OUTFIT SEEKING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD?

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Your Friend in Christ Iris89

PS: Some may WRONGLY label me a zealot, but REALITY is that I am a realist like Ollie North.

[iris89]

Hi Everyone

It appears that one of my correspondents supplied me BAD information with respect Ollie North which I failed to check as the source has always proved reliable in the past and I wanted to try out a new and simpler style of writing articles. Now I shall return to my old style with researching myself for the evidence and posting sources even thought at times this makes my articles long and somewhat boring – BUT ABSOLUTELY ACCURATE.

[iris89]

Hi Everyone

There are some posters who have NOT woken up to reality, but here is another wake-up call of today – some members of Islam lust for violence and are out-to-get-you, NOW WAKE-UP.

[1] More than a dozen 'terror plots foiled' in India [source - retrieved from news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091223/wl_sthasia_afp/indiaattackssecurity_20091223111600 on 12/25/2009]

NEW DELHI (AFP) – India's home minister said Wednesday that a dozen or more plots to stage major attacks on the scale of the Mumbai atrocities of last year had been foiled during 2009.

"Twelve to 13 terror attacks were neutralised in 2009 which could have been like Mumbai," P. Chidambaram told an intelligence services event in New Delhi as he unveiled sweeping plans to upgrade national security.

Chidambaram did not elaborate on where the attacks were to occur or how they were thwarted but attributed the incident-free past 12 months to "luck and better intelligence".

A total of 166 people were killed in India's financial hub Mumbai last November when 10 heavily-armed gunmen stormed the city, targeting hotels, a train station and a Jewish centre.

India blames the Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba for the attacks, which also left 300 people hurt, and top officials have repeatedly stressed since that the country remains a target and is vulnerable.

The home minister said New Delhi would set up a National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) by the end of 2010 "to prevent, contain and respond to terrorist attacks by inflicting pain upon the perpetrators".

[2] AP sources: Al-Qaida link in failed plane attack, by Associated Press [source - retrieved from buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:y_news:23f36819c4475236d4b1474e6c3311d1/AP-sources-Passenger-tried-to-blow-up-airliner-AP on 12/25/2009]

Passenger tried to blow up airliner AP Play Video Airlines Video:Love Field Travel Update CBS 11 Dallas Airlines Video:Plane splits in half on runway Australia 7 News By LARRY MARGASAK and LARA JAKES, Associated Press Writer Larry Margasak And Lara Jakes, Associated Press Writer – 20 mins ago
WASHINGTON – U.S. officials say a Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria said he was acting on behalf of al-Qaida when he tried to blow up a flight Friday as it landed in Detroit.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., identified the suspect as Abdul Mudallad, a Nigerian. King said the flight began in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit.

One of the U.S. intelligence officials said the explosive device was a mix of powder and liquid. It failed when the passenger tried to detonate it.

The passenger was being questioned Friday evening.

Let the facts speak for themselves with respect the danger!

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[iris89]

Hi Everyone

The following news item clearly shows that some members of Islam are out to get you.

<<"Did you know that 90-95% of the conflicts in the world today are Muslims fighting non-muslims or each other?
Islam is intolerant of other religions, so much so that Christians in Nigeria, Sudan and middle eastern countries are killed for practicing their religion. Muslims are also responsible for burning down their churches. Sydney has recently seen an attack on four churches for similar reasons. (December 16, 2005) How can we tolerate such intolerance?"[source - The Weekend Australian, November 26-27, 2005 AD] >>.

Domestic Terror Incidents Hit a Peak in 2009 [source - retrived from news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091223/us_time/08599194932900 on 12/25/2009 by TIME]

Police feared terrorist attack after arrest of Jackson AP By BOBBY GHOSH / WASHINGTON Bobby Ghosh / Washington - Wed Dec 23, 3:55 am ET
You may not have noticed because most of the plots were foiled, but 2009 saw an unprecedented surge in terror "events" on U.S. soil. When analysts tally these events, they refer to anything from a disrupted plot to U.S. citizens traveling abroad to seek terror training or a lone gunman running amok in the U.S. And by the calculations of Rand Corporation expert Brian Jenkins, more terrorist threats were uncovered in the U.S. during 2009 than in any year since 2001.


"There appears to be an increase in [terrorist] activity in the U.S.," warns Jenkins, who calculates that there have been 32 terror-related "events" on these shores since 9/11, and that 12 of those occurred in 2009. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots.)


Some of the more noteworthy "events" of 2009:


• In January, Bryant Neal Vinas, a Long Island convert to Islam, plead guilty to helping al-Qaeda in a plot to blow up a train in Penn Station.


• Late in 2008, Shirwa Ahmed, a Somali-American college student from Minneapolis, became the first American suicide bomber on record when he killed 29 people in an attack in Somalia. Earlier in the year, the FBI had revealed that at least 20 Somali-Americans from the Minneapolis area had traveled to Somalia to join al-Shabaab, a radical militia tied to al-Qaeda. Five Somali-Americans are believed to have died in fighting there this year, and Somali officials say at least one more unnamed American citizen has become a suicide bomber on behalf of al-Shabab. (See pictures of a Jihadist's journey.)


• In June, Abdulhakim Muhammed, an Arkansas convert to Islam, was accused of killing one soldier and wounding another in an attack at a military recruitment center in Little Rock.


• In September, an Illinois man, Michael Finton, who converted to Islam in prison, was accused of trying to blow up a Federal building in Springfield.


• In October, David Coleman Headley, a Chicago businessman, was arrested for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper that had published controversial cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammed. (Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian resident of Chicago was also arrested in connection with the same plot.) Headley was later additionally charged with abetting the Mumbai terrorist attack of November 2008. (Read "The Chicago Suspect: Are Pakistani Jihadis Going Global?.")


• In November, Maj. Nidal Hasan, the son of Palestinian immigrants who had grown up in the U.S., was accused of going on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, killing 13 and wounding 30. (Read "The FBI Probe: What Went Wrong at Fort Hood?.")


• Also in November, eight Somali-American men from Minnesota were charged with terrorism-related counts involving al-Shabaab. Six other had been charged previously. Most of the men were charged in absentia because they remain in Somalia, along with dozens of Somali-Americans who are believed to have joined the Qaeda-linked militia.


• And earlier this month, five men from the Washington, D.C., area were detained in Pakistan, where local officials say they had been trying to join the fight against U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Ramy Zamzam, said to be the leader of the group, is a Howard University dental student; two others are sons of businessmen.


• Some other cases involve legal residents who are not U.S. citizens, such as Najibullah Zazi, the Afghan suspect arrested in Denver and charged with a plot to bomb targets in New York, and Jordanian Hosam Smadi, arrested in Dallas, accused of trying blow up a skyscraper. (Read "Three Key Questions About Zazi and Terrorism.")


Terrorism experts and Muslim community leaders caution that the spurt in such events doesn't necessarily add up to a trend. For one thing, the cases are unconnected. "Each case has its own special circumstances," says Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.


Nor is there likely to be wide-scale extremism in the American Muslim community. Jenkins points out that that there's "no underground network, and no deep reservoir of resentment." Hooper notes that the problem "is not coming from rhetoric within the community; it's not the case that young men are being radicalized in American mosques."


Indeed, one of the lessons of 2009 is that the Internet can suffice as a recruitment tool for extremists. From Smadi to the Virginia Five, many of the men accused of terrorist-related activities in the past year first made contact with jihadist groups online, officials say. "More and more people are going online to find inspiration," says Danny Coulson, a former Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI.


Jihadist recruiters have grown increasingly sophisticated in their use of the Internet, and many of them specifically target American audiences. Extremist e-preachers such as Anwar al-Awlaki, an American living in Yemen who exchanged e-mails with Maj. Hasan, communicate in English, which makes them more accessible to American Muslims. Pakistani authorities believe the Virginia Five were recruited by a man known as Saifullah, who communicated mainly through e-mails.


Not all jihadi recruiters want their American recruits to travel abroad for training or to join existing groups. "They've figured out that people who travel to Pakistan or Afghanistan or Somalia are probably being watched by the authorities," says Coulson. "So they'll just encourage you to act independently, without direct affiliation with any group. That makes it harder for law enforcement."


The good news: If recruiters can use the Internet, so too can U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Terrorism experts say U.S. authorities have become much better at finding plotters online, and putting them under surveillance. Smadi, for instance, was first spotted on a jihadi website.

Coulson argues, in fact, that one reason so many terrorism-related cases popped up in 2009 was the improvement in the ability of U.S. authorities to detect plots. It helps, too, that ordinary Americans have grown more alert to the danger. "More and more people will call in the police or FBI when they see something suspicious going on," he says.

Also, the American Muslim community has become better at nipping potential threats in the bud. In the case of the Virginia Five, the families of the men approached CAIR, which encouraged them to get a lawyer and make contact with the FBI. Hooper says community leaders are working harder to promote mainstream Islamic thinking among younger American Muslims, to counter extremist interpretations they may discover online.

Despite these efforts, however, terrorism experts warn that some American Muslims will continue to succumb to extremist calls for holy war against their own country. Some will be inflamed by the continued presence of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, says Hooper: "Extremists use U.S. foreign policy as a recruitment tool."

Jenkins suggests there may also be a generational conflict at work: He points out that many of the American Muslims accused of terrorism this year are young men, who "would have been at a very impressionable age when 9/11 happened." Although the majority of the community were repelled by the terrorist attacks on that day, he says, "some would have been inspired by it and caught up in the jihadist narrative."

If 2009 alerted Americans to the domestic terror threat, it's a safe bet that there will be more reminders of the danger in 2010.

(Read "Most Domestic 'Jihadists' Are Educated, Well-Off.")

(Read "How the Zazi Terror Probe Could Help U.S. Intel.")

View this article on Time.com

This news article speaks for itself with respect the current and clear danger!

Your Friend in Christ Iris89

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Hi Everyone

Here is something that was just sent to me that all should carefully and review:

Hezbollah's "New" Manifesto in Context
by Raymond Ibrahim
Pajamas Media
December 24, 2009

www.meforum.org/2535/islamist-doublespeak-hezbollah-manifesto

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"Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri Accuses Obama of Trying to 'Enslave' Arab World." So reads the headline of a recent Fox News report, which goes on to quote Zawahiri saying things such as "Obama's policy is nothing but another cycle in the Crusader and Zionist campaign to enslave and humiliate us, and to occupy our land and steal our wealth."

Two years earlier, Zawahiri was even more dramatic. Then he implored "blacks in America, people of color, American Indians, Hispanics, and all the weak and oppressed in North and South America, in Africa and Asia, and all over the world, to know that when we wage jihad in Allah's path, we aren't waging jihad to lift oppression from Muslims only; we are waging jihad … to lift oppression from all mankind. … This is why I want every oppressed one on the face of the earth to know that our victory over America and the Crusading West - with Allah's permission - is a victory for them, because they shall be freed from the most powerful tyrannical force in the history of mankind."

Unfortunately for al-Qaeda, its very own words - the Arabic ones directed at fellow Muslims which Westerners rarely see or read - unequivocally contradict its repeated attempts to portray itself as an organization out to spread Robin Hood-style justice and equanimity vis-à-vis a tyrannical U.S. For in these Arabic treatises, al-Qaeda makes it perfectly clear that, short of submitting to Islamic hegemony, the non-Muslim world is the enemy, ipso facto.

Yet doublespeak is definitely not the sole province of al-Qaeda; the decades-long Arab-Israeli conflict has furnished the world with some of the most flagrant examples of Islamist doublespeak - emanating from such players as Arafat, the PLO, and Hamas. Hezbollah offers a recent example:

According to Reuters, the terrorist organization's newly revised manifesto "tones down Islamist rhetoric but maintains a tough line against Israel and the United States. The new manifesto drops reference to an Islamic republic in Lebanon, which has a substantial Christian population, confirming changes to Hezbollah thinking about the need to respect Lebanon's diversity."

In fact, this "new" manifesto has been hailed as a progressive step forward for the terrorist organization: an AFP headline tells us that "Hezbollah strikes softer tone in second manifesto: [according to] analysts," such as one Paul Salem, head of the Beirut-based Carnegie Middle East Center, who asserts that the "manifesto is reassuring as it shows Hezbollah's integration with Lebanese political life."

Meanwhile, back on earth, a Jerusalem Post report reveals that this "toning down" exists solely in the "for-infidels-only" English version of the manifesto: "It is correct that the new manifesto does not include the previous document's call for the establishment of an 'Islamic republic' in Lebanon. But here an interesting discrepancy emerges. The longer, Arabic version of the manifesto is steeped in religious rhetoric and Islamist terminology."

In fact, words and phrases that do not appear in the English version - "resistance in the way of jihad," the "jihadi way," "mujahidin" and "martyrs," even oblique praise for Sharia rule - appear in the Arabic version, demonstrating that Hezbollah does not "respect Lebanon's diversity" and is not "integrat[ing] with Lebanese [i.e., half-Christian] political life."

As the Jerusalem Post concludes, Hezbollah "considers it in its interest to tone down or remove the pro-Iranian and jihadi parts of its identity when presenting itself to the outside world. But the full document in its original form suggests that the movement has not strayed far from its original path."

(Ironic, too, that Hezbollah ignored the fact that the Arabic and English versions would inevitably be compared and exposed. Perhaps its Shia proclivities, including an instinctual reliance on taqiyya, that is, doctrinal deceit, blinded it to this fact - that and perhaps its more plausible expectations that, even if they were to find out, few Westerners would care anyway.)

Aside from the fact that Hezbollah perfectly mirrors al-Qaeda by saying one thing in English to infidels and another in Arabic to Muslims, so too does it employ the grievance-against-the-West paradigm. A CNN headline concerning this new manifesto summarizes by saying, "Hezbollah blames U.S. for all terrorism." In fact, the manifesto's first section, entitled "Domination and Hegemony," is dedicated to portraying the U.S. as the "root of all terror" and a "danger that threatens the whole world," including by trying to dominate the Muslim world "politically, culturally, economically, and through all aspects."

There is one final irony worth noting: Though duping infidels has a long pedigree, that the current deception revolves around Muslims portraying themselves as weak victims who need to rely on the goodwill of the despised infidels; that the lie reduces Muslims to evoking, of all things, "humanitarianism" - otherwise a maudlin Western abomination that directly contravenes Islamic law - surely this must sting Muslim pride. For it is incongruous to believe, as Islamists certainly do, that might not only makes right, but is a sign of divine approval; that Islam must proudly spread its hegemony, including by the sword, brooking no infidel nonsense, no talk of "equality," "freedom," "tolerance," etc. - I say, it is incongruous to believe all this and then turn around and play the role of poor victim, evoke lofty, liberal standards, implore the international (that is, infidel) community for aid, and whine about that big meanie, the U.S. and its supposed quest for "domination and hegemony" - precisely what all Islamists most desire.

Yet so long as (naive or arrogant) Westerners continue believing their ideals are universally shared, irrespective of all evidence otherwise - from the antithetic dictates of Islamic law to al-Qaeda's, Fatah's, Hamas', and Hezbollah's open advocacy for it (in Arabic at least) - the indignity of assuming an effete and, from an Arab point of view, emasculated role is a small and, quite possibly, temporary price to pay.

Originally published at: pajamasmedia.com/blog/shameless-islamist-doublespeak-rages-on/

Raymond Ibrahim is the associate director of the Middle East Forum and the author of the Al Qaeda Reader, translations of religious texts and propaganda.

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