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WASHINGTON – U.S. lawmakers called this morning for an investigation into a Muslim non-profit group suspected of infiltrating congressional offices with interns.
Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., founder of the anti-terrorism caucus, says "Muslim Mafia, Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America," a publication of WND Books to hit the shelves tomorrow, ties the allegations to an internal memo by CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Myrick's office says "Muslim Mafia" co-author Paul Sperry, an investigative journalist and expert on terrorism, and his investigative team unearthed the January 2007 memo. The lawmaker has worked with Sperry to get educational information for her anti-terrorism caucus. She wrote the forward to the book, which Sperry wrote with P. David Gaubatz, a counter-terrorism investigator and former Air Force special agent.
from WorldNetDaily
Myrick, along with Reps. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., John Shadegg R-Ariz., and Paul Broun R-Ga., are calling on the Department of Justice to share with Congress an executive summary of findings that led the FBI to officially sever ties with CAIR.
Myrick notes "Muslim Mafia" also alleges CAIR has connections to Hamas. She points out the Muslim group was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial in Texas. The case resulted in guilty verdicts to 108 charges stemming from the funneling of more than $12 million to Hamas.
The lawmakers are also urging the Capitol's Sergeant at Arms to see whether or not CAIR infiltrated congressional offices, specifically the judiciary, intelligence and homeland security committees as referenced in the 2007 memo. Finally, Myrick and her colleagues are asking the Internal Revenue Service to finvestigate the legality of CAIR's non-profit status.....
Friday, October 16, 2009
Stanley McChrystal’s Long War
(Analyst's note: A long, but extremely interesting read. I recommend it.)
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal stepped off the whirring Black Hawk and headed straight into town. He had come to Garmsir, a dusty outpost along the Helmand River in southern Afghanistan, to size up the war that President Obama has asked him to save. McChrystal pulled off his flak jacket and helmet. His face, skeletal and austere, seemed a piece of the desert itself.
He was surrounded by a clutch of bodyguards, normal for a four-star general, and an array of the Marine officers charged with overseeing the town. Garmsir had been under Taliban control until May 2008, when a force of American Marines swept in and cleared it. Since then, the British, then the Americans, have been holding it and trying, ever so slowly, to build something in Garmsir — a government, an army, a police force — for the first time since the war began more than eight years ago. ....
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal stepped off the whirring Black Hawk and headed straight into town. He had come to Garmsir, a dusty outpost along the Helmand River in southern Afghanistan, to size up the war that President Obama has asked him to save. McChrystal pulled off his flak jacket and helmet. His face, skeletal and austere, seemed a piece of the desert itself.
He was surrounded by a clutch of bodyguards, normal for a four-star general, and an array of the Marine officers charged with overseeing the town. Garmsir had been under Taliban control until May 2008, when a force of American Marines swept in and cleared it. Since then, the British, then the Americans, have been holding it and trying, ever so slowly, to build something in Garmsir — a government, an army, a police force — for the first time since the war began more than eight years ago. ....
U.S. ignored warnings before deadly Afghan attack
By Bill Gertz
Three intelligence reports warned that Taliban insurgents were planning an attack just days before this month's raid on two remote military outposts in eastern Afghanistan that killed eight U.S. soldiers, but the reports were dismissed as insignificant, U.S. officials told The Washington Times.
As a result, military officials did not send additional troops or make preparations to protect the 140 U.S. and Afghan troops at the combat outposts near Kamdesh in Nuristan province by the Pakistan border, the officials said.
"Reports like this happen all the time in all of our areas," Maj. Taylor said in an e-mail. "It is only through corroboration of reports and/or multiple instances of reporting that we can develop patterns." ....
Three intelligence reports warned that Taliban insurgents were planning an attack just days before this month's raid on two remote military outposts in eastern Afghanistan that killed eight U.S. soldiers, but the reports were dismissed as insignificant, U.S. officials told The Washington Times.
As a result, military officials did not send additional troops or make preparations to protect the 140 U.S. and Afghan troops at the combat outposts near Kamdesh in Nuristan province by the Pakistan border, the officials said.
Army Maj. T.G. Taylor, a spokesman for the Army's Task Force Mountain Warrior, told The Times that the three reports did not stand out among hundreds of others and that the intelligence was deemed to be not specific and uncorroborated.
"Reports like this happen all the time in all of our areas," Maj. Taylor said in an e-mail. "It is only through corroboration of reports and/or multiple instances of reporting that we can develop patterns." ....
'Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah its most sublime belief.'
from Jihad Watch
"The root cause of the Gaza tragedy is not mentioned in the Goldstone/Gaza Report to the UN Human Rights Council: the genocidal Hamas Charter that teaches children hatred and death."
Comments by David G. Littman, NGO Representative to the United Nations in Geneva for the Association for World Education (AWE) and the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ):
This is the promised follow-up to my last article.
Two weeks ago, I delivered three oral statements to the 12th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva (all reproduced below): on the Gaza/Goldstone Report and Hamas Charter (item 7); violence against women (item 8); Defamation of Judaism and Jews (item 9). After I had finished speaking for the WUPJ the 1st time, the HRC president declared (not on webcast):
I was informed yesterday that the Secretary of the Human Rights Council [Eric Tistounet] has agreed to maintain the webcast of our oral intervention on the UN website and the verbatim version of this intervention on the HRC extranet, but with an asterisk* indicating that the statement was ruled partially out of order: "consequently, your statement will not be included in the report of the 12th session of the Human Rights Council."
In a rapid reply, I asked whether, because the President used the expression "out of order", in relation to "parts of the previous statement", signified that his 'ruling' was correct. I asked:
"The root cause of the Gaza tragedy is not mentioned in the Goldstone/Gaza Report to the UN Human Rights Council: the genocidal Hamas Charter that teaches children hatred and death."
Comments by David G. Littman, NGO Representative to the United Nations in Geneva for the Association for World Education (AWE) and the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ):
This is the promised follow-up to my last article.
Two weeks ago, I delivered three oral statements to the 12th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva (all reproduced below): on the Gaza/Goldstone Report and Hamas Charter (item 7); violence against women (item 8); Defamation of Judaism and Jews (item 9). After I had finished speaking for the WUPJ the 1st time, the HRC president declared (not on webcast):
Before moving to the next speaker, may I call upon everyone to stick to the agreed practice and link their statement to the item under discussion; clearly, part of the previous statement are extraneous to the item under discussion and out of order; this should not be repeated.After I spoke for AWE the same morning under item 8, the president made similar remarks, but without saying, "out of order." This concerned 'violence against women' - it seems that I should have referred also to the ' Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action', not only to: Integrating the human rights of women throughout the UN system - so I was informed! Toward the end of the day, I was told by the NGO liaison officer that one of the statements would be removed from the official report of the meeting because the president had used the expression "out of order"- later, I learned that it was the statement on Gaza. As this 'decision' seemed discriminatory, I prepared a 10 point letter to the president, Belgian Ambassador Alex Van Meeuwen - also reproduced below - to which there has been no response after twelve days. At an NGO meeting after the plenum, in reply to a question, the president stated that he had heard me refer to Iran, which was not related to the subject of item 7; I replied that I had only referred to Iran in the Hamas-Gaza context that was the subject of WUPJ's statement.
I was informed yesterday that the Secretary of the Human Rights Council [Eric Tistounet] has agreed to maintain the webcast of our oral intervention on the UN website and the verbatim version of this intervention on the HRC extranet, but with an asterisk* indicating that the statement was ruled partially out of order: "consequently, your statement will not be included in the report of the 12th session of the Human Rights Council."
In a rapid reply, I asked whether, because the President used the expression "out of order", in relation to "parts of the previous statement", signified that his 'ruling' was correct. I asked:
We maintain that an NGO, like any other representative, is entitled to an explanation on such a serious matter and my 10 point letter to the President, dated 2 October (by fax, email, and post), is very comprehensive (...) Do the 'rules and regulations' imply that should the President make a 'slip of the tongue' when speaking he cannot retract the words "out of order" which must automatically be implemented by the Secretariat?Hopefully, I shall obtain a reply to this question from the friendly president at the 12th Special Session of the HRC- requested by the Palestinian Authority with the usual 'sponsors' - and scheduled for October 15-16. Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban had this to say forty years ago: "The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." (The Times, London, 17 December 1970) It will be interesting to see what NGOs will be forbidden to say at the Special Session - and what will be ruled 'out of order' as a result of pressures from OIC countries .....
Next nuclear worry for US: Kazakhstan?
Washington - Does Kazakhstan want to increase its nuclear commerce – doing deals with other nations that have mixed records when it comes to weapons proliferation? That is a sensitive issue which US intelligence appears to be following closely. ....
Iran Blasts Back at Rumors of Supreme Leader's Death, News Site Reports
Iran's embassy was said to have blasted back at reports of Khamenei's illness or death as a "slander" -- possibly the first official response to rumors that have been swirling around the Internet and appear to be fraying nerves in Tehran. ....
Audio - Muslim Brotherhood 'conspiracy' to subvert America Paul Sperry details CAIR's role in plot to 'destroy' U.S. government from within
(Analyst's note: Absolutely must hear.. Please consider listening)
Hill terror front group investigated by FBI
from WorldNetDaily
The Washington field office of the FBI is actively investigating the founding chairman and acting executive director of the nation's premier Islamic-rights group in Washington, based on evidence that emerged from the largest terror-financing case in U.S. history, a blockbuster new book alleges.
Omar Ahmad
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, along with its founding chairman Omar M. Ahmad, were named by the U.S. Justice Department as unindicted co-conspirators in a criminal conspiracy led by the Holy Land Foundation charity to underwrite Palestinian terrorism.
"CAIR has been identified by the government at trial as a participant in an ongoing and ultimately unlawful conspiracy to support a designated terrorist organization – a conspiracy from which CAIR never withdrew," federal prosecutors wrote in September 2007, according to court documents.
Following the blacklisting, the FBI severed ties with CAIR, a move that sent shock waves throughout the American Muslim establishment.
"Until we can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and Hamas," explained assistant FBI director Richard C. Powers, "the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner." ....
Now Ahmad and CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad have come under active investigation for their roles in the criminal conspiracy to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas terrorists, according to "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America."
The Washington field office of the FBI is actively investigating the founding chairman and acting executive director of the nation's premier Islamic-rights group in Washington, based on evidence that emerged from the largest terror-financing case in U.S. history, a blockbuster new book alleges.
Omar Ahmad
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, along with its founding chairman Omar M. Ahmad, were named by the U.S. Justice Department as unindicted co-conspirators in a criminal conspiracy led by the Holy Land Foundation charity to underwrite Palestinian terrorism.
"CAIR has been identified by the government at trial as a participant in an ongoing and ultimately unlawful conspiracy to support a designated terrorist organization – a conspiracy from which CAIR never withdrew," federal prosecutors wrote in September 2007, according to court documents.
Following the blacklisting, the FBI severed ties with CAIR, a move that sent shock waves throughout the American Muslim establishment.
"Until we can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and Hamas," explained assistant FBI director Richard C. Powers, "the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner." ....
The 15-year-old nonprofit organization's top executives for years had enjoyed virtually unfettered access to the corridors of power in the capital, even meeting with presidents and rubbing elbows with congressional leaders.
Now Ahmad and CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad have come under active investigation for their roles in the criminal conspiracy to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas terrorists, according to "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America."
U.S. Considering New Assessment of Iran Threat
Spy agencies are considering whether to rewrite a 2007 intelligence report asserting Iran halted its efforts to build nuclear weapons in 2003
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