'Now we have proof' jihadis infiltrating D.C. Congress seizes on explosive new book based on daring undercover CAIR probe

By Art Moore

CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad shakes hands with intern Chris Gaubatz, aka David Marshall, at CAIR's national headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2008

In the wake of the sensational ACORN video sting operation by two young investigators, an even more daring and devastating undercover investigation – this one infiltrating the nation's most aggressive Muslim "civil rights" organization for six months – has produced stunning revelations about the supposedly "moderate" group, backed up by 12,000 pages of documents obtained during the secret op.

As revealed in a new book detailing the operation and its findings, the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, is not the beneficent Muslim civil-rights group it claims to be. Indisputable evidence now shows CAIR and other "mainstream" Islamic groups are acting as fronts for a well-funded conspiracy of the Muslim Brotherhood – the parent of al-Qaida and Hamas – to infiltrate and destroy the American system.

Until now, CAIR has remained a powerful force in the nation's capital and across the country, from demanding the Obama administration stop FBI counter-terrorism tactics to compelling a school district to apologize to Muslims.

That influence, many believe, may be coming to an end, as a result of the undercover investigation – which included the son of a veteran counter-terrorism investigator, who grew a beard and converted to Islam, as well as two veiled female interns.

"Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America," a WND Books"Infiltration" author Paul Sperry, documents CAIR's ultimate purpose to transform the United States into an Islamic nation under the authority of the Quran. publication by counter-terrorism investigator P. David Gaubatz and

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The book already has prompted action on Capitol Hill.

With evidence from "Muslim Mafia" in hand, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., co-founder of the Congressional Anti-Terror Caucus, and other members of Congress – including Reps. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., and Paul Broun, R-Ga. – plan to hold a press conference today in Washington calling for an investigation and an end to political lobbying by front groups such as CAIR.

"Now we have proof – from the secret documents that this investigative team has uncovered, coupled with the ones recently declassified by the FBI – that [radical Islamists] agents living among us have a plan in place, and they are successfully carrying out that subversive plan," Myrick writes in the foreword to "Muslim Mafia." ....

NYC Terror Plot Suspect Zazi Contacted by Al Qaeda's Afghan Head

NEW YORK —  The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with Al Qaeda that went nearly all the way to the top, to an Usama bin Laden confidant believed to be the terrorist group's leader in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence officials told The Associated Press. ....

GOP Lawmakers Accuse Muslim Advocacy Group CAIR of Planting Spies on Capitol Hill

(Analyst's note:  Yes, this must read report is exactly how the Islamist jihadists work.  We can expect denials with a straight face as they work to infiltrate and use our own system to bring us down.)

from FoxNews

Four House Republicans on Wednesday accused the nation's largest Muslim advocacy group of trying to "infiltrate" Capitol Hill by placing interns in the offices of lawmakers who handle national security issues.

The four lawmakers, members of the anti-terror caucus, asked for an investigation into the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) after discovering an internal memo noting the group's strategy. They also highlighted a new book by Paul Sperry titled "Muslim Mafia," scheduled for release on Thursday, which claims the group has been actively infiltrating Congress.

Reps. Sue Myrick of North Carolina, Trent Franks of Arizona, Paul Broun of Georgia and John Shadegg of Arizona asked the Internal Revenue Service to determine whether CAIR deserves its nonprofit status. They also are asking their colleagues to review a summary of findings that led the Justice Department to name CAIR as a co-conspirator in a terrorism case.

The internal memo, provided to FOXNews.com, stated that CAIR would "focus on influencing congressmen responsible for policy that directly impacts the American Muslim community."

The memo cited three House committees -- Homeland Security, Intelligence and the Judiciary -- as panels on which lawmakers preside over policy affecting American Muslims.

"We will develop national initiatives such as a lobby day and placing Muslim interns in Congressional offices," the memo read.

Earlier this year the FBI severed its once-close ties with CAIR as evidence mounted of the group's links to a support network for Hamas, which the U.S. has designated a terrorist organization.

"It's frightening to think that an organization with clear-cut ties to terrorism could have a hand in influencing policy -- especially national security policy -- within our government," Myrick said. "The investigations that we're asking for are simple, and I'm hopeful that they will bring to light any and all information regarding the goals of CAIR."

Franks called on CAIR to renounce its ties to terrorist groups and state publicly that it does not support Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood.

"I take the charges levied against CAIR and laid out in this book very seriously because they affect our national security," Franks said in a statement. "This Congress must be deliberate in taking a strong stance against those groups and organizations that align themselves with terrorists."

"We live in a post-9/11 world where the coincidence of nuclear proliferation and Islamic terrorism pose a very dangerous combination and real threat to America's national security," he said. "That is why it is critical, in light of the well supported documents and information, that the U.S. Congress take this issue seriously."

CAIR decried the call as a "racist" and "insidious" attack on Muslims and mocked the allegations.

"If it wasn't so insidious, it would be laughable," CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told FOXNews.com. "What are their charges? CAIR seeks political participation of Muslims. I'm shocked."

Hooper said the evidence proves only that the group is trying, like every other minority group, to engage Muslims in the political process.

"Why is it evil when Muslims seek political participation?" he asked.

In the book "Muslim Mafia," a six-month sting appears to link CAIR to an organized crime network made up of more than 100 other Muslim front groups that make up the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. The book claims the group is bent on destroying Western civilization.

Hooper said Sperry's efforts only proved the group's good intentions.

"The guy spied on us for months, stole documents -- and the most they came up with is CAIR seeks to work with policymakers on Capitol Hill?" Hooper said. 

"I see it as a stamp of approval."

Corruption fighter: 'I've never seen it like this' Freedom Watch founder talks to Lou Dobbs about new book

(Analyst's note:  Troubling, in that I'm sensing the same conclusion.)

from WorldNetDaily

Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and, more recently, Freedom Watch USA, says he's never seen a climate of corruption in Washington like the current situation.

"I've never seen it like this," Klayman said in an interview about his new book on Lou Dobbs' CNN show.

Called "WHORES: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment," hard-hitting expose about corruption, abuse and lapsed ethics in the U.S. government, judiciary and media. Klayman's book is a

HarperCollins originally agreed to publish the book – a non-partisan view of why the current political climate is so unscrupulous – but shelved it because it was considered "too hot to handle."

Klayman says he agrees with the overall discontent about Washington demonstrated in the record numbers of Americans passionately voicing their anger at town hall meetings

, and he explains how the country arrived at the crisis it faces today.

Klayman, whose battles with Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch USA have included the "Chinagate" scandal during the Clinton administration

, in which some of the nation's top technology was shipped to China at the same time considerable campaign donations were coming from that nation, said it's a case of bad government just getting worse. 

He said President Obama

now is on a march toward appeasement around the world.   ....

Meet the 'father of world currency' Robert Mundell masterminded China plan to destroy dollar

(Analyst's note: Especially troubling in this man lives and works in America.  Such people just don't get it.)

By Jerome R. Corsi

 

Robert Mundell

A plan to replace the dollar with a world currency originated with Columbia University

economics professor Robert Mundell, who won a Nobel Prize in economics in 1999 for creating the euro and is now widely regarded as "the father of the euro."

Mundell, currently an economic consultant to China, is the originator of the suggestion that the International Monetary Fund should utilize Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, to replace the dollar as a new standard for holding foreign exchange reserves in international trade transactions.

SDRs are international reserve assets calculated by the IMF in a basket of major currencies allocated to the IMF's 185 member nation-states in relation to the capital. The assets are largely in gold or widely accepted foreign currencies the members have on deposit with the IMF.

As far back as June 2008, Mundell was telling Reuters a major dollar crisis would come within five years, and China was discussing with him proposals to reform the global monetary system.

"There's no doubt about it that inside the Chinese government there's a lot of discussion going on," Mundell told Reuters. "I'm not sure how they're doing it, but I know they're going to get input from me."

In the interview, Mundell went so far as to speculate the Chinese-recommended solution would involve the IMF.

Aspiring to be the father of a global currency, Mundell has argued, "What you need to have is an International Monetary Fund that's going to take some of these excess dollars (such as held by China in foreign exchange reserves), put them into a substitution account inside the IMF or some other institution and then use that to create what is a new international currency." ....

Obama: 'We're going to paint nation purple with SEIU' Explains how he 'built political power on south side of Chicago'

By Chelsea Schilling

During his campaign, President Obama boasted of his track record of working with the Illinois-based Service Employees International Union, helping it "build more and more power" – and he promised to "paint the nation purple with SEIU."

In the following recently surfaced video from January 2008 posted by Breitbart, Obama told a group of SEIU workers that all presidential, gubernatorial and congressional candidates claim they are pro-union when they are looking for endorsements:

"They'll all say, 'We love SEIU,'" he said. "But he question you've got to ask yourself is, do they have it in their gut? Do they have a track record of standing alongside you on picket lines? Do they have a track record of going after the companies that aren't letting you organize? Do they have a track record of voting the right way but also helping you organize to build more and more power?"

Obama referenced his background as a community organizer and his ties to SEIU Local 880, a union for homecare workers and home childcare providers in Illinois that first mobilized through Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.

"I've been working with SEIU before I was elected to anything," he said. "When I was a community organizer, SEIU local 880 and myself, we organized people to make sure that home-care workers had the basic right to organize. We organized voting registration drives. That's how we built political power on the south side of Chicago

."

He continued, "And now the time has come for us to do it all across this country. We are going to paint the nation purple with SEIU."

Israelis may stay home to avoid arrest in Europe

(Washington Times) Israel is seriously considering restricting travel to Europe by its senior officials and military officers, fearing they might be arrested ...

Study charts links between mobile phones, tumors

Pentagon Cites 'Urgent' Need for Mega-Bomb to Take Out Hidden Bunkers

Chinese Migrants Arrested At Ariz. Border

from KBPO.com

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Several groups of illegal immigrants from China have been arrested in southern Arizona in recent days, part of an increasing trend that U.S. Border Patrol agents said Monday was being fed by smugglers recruiting tourists to Central and South America.

The arrests included two Chinese found among a large group of migrants who entered the county from Mexico on Friday. Three more Chinese were found Saturday, a group that included four Chinese was captured Sunday and four more were arrested early Monday.All were discovered close to the border near Nogales, Ariz.The Border Patrol has seen a small but significant rise in the number of Chinese caught after entering Arizona from Mexico, agent Colleen Agle said. 

Between Oct. 1, 2008, and the end of August, agents captured 261 illegal immigrants from China in the patrol's Tucson sector in southern Arizona.

Just 30 Chinese were caught in the same area during the federal fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2008.The numbers are still tiny compared with the number of Mexican migrants caught. In the 12 months ending Sept. 3, 

Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector arrested more than 241,000 suspected illegal immigrants.ncreases in personnel and technology have helped put pressure on traditional routes for illegal Chinese immigrants, Agle said.

But the Border Patrol believes that isn't driving the current increase. Instead, human smuggling organizations in Mexico have become aware of increasing numbers of Chinese tourists in Central and South America, Agle said. They're targeting them as potential customers, she said, and enticing them to be smuggled into the U.S.
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DISTURBING: Significant Increase in Chinese Illegal Aliens Caught at Ariz Border

by Debbie Schlussel

Collaborators in the Campus War against Israel and the Jews: Mark LeVine – by Steven Plaut

by Steven Plaut

Over the past decade the University of California at Irvine has become a center of Israel hatred and Jew bashing.  It hosts countless radical Islamist events, many openly supportive of terror and jihad.  Its chapter of the Muslim Student Union may be the most openly jihadi and pro-terror in the country.  Its anti-Israel and anti-Jewish events have included a conference on the “Holocaust,” the one its organizers claim Israel is perpetrating against Palestinians. UCI holds regular events in which anti-Semitic speakers call for Israel’s annihilation.  Moslem students walk about campus with signs that read: “Death to Infidels. Death to Israel.” Faculty and students attend UCI rallies that openly support the Hamas. Anti-Semitism at UCI has been so blatant that it was the subject of an official investigation by the US Office for Civil Rights. The atmosphere at UCI is so rancid that few eyebrows were raised when an impersonator of a Holocaust Survivor brought in to bash Israel. ....

New York-Based Muslim's Web Site Calls for God to 'Kill the Jews'

(Analyst's note:  Troubling.  Now think about it -- this former Jew learned this kind of thinking where?) 


By Joshua Rhett Miller 

A New York bicycle cabbie who last year used his Web site to mock the beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl posted a prayer calling for the murder of Jews and exhorting Muslims to “throw liquid drain cleaner in their faces." And there's nothing authorities can do about it.

Yousef al-Khattab, who runs RevolutionMuslim.com and pedals a pedicab in New York City, insists the words he has posted on his Web site are a prayer, and not a threat — and that his hatred is protected by the First Amendment.

"If it was a threat, I'd be in jail," the 41-year-old al-Khattab told Foxnews.com from his home in Queens. "I'm asking my God, that's what it is. Every supporter of Israel is an enemy combatant and the immune system is not anti-Semitic for resisting disease."

Al-Khattab removed the Oct. 7 post a "few days ago" and replaced it with a post about a mosque in Jerusalem.

An American-born Jew formerly known as Joseph Cohen who converted to Islam after attending an Orthodox rabbinical school — al-Khattab called on Allah to carry out "wrath on the Jewish occupiers of Palestine & their supporters."

"Please throw liquid drain cleaner in their faces," he wrote. " … burn their flammable sukkos while they sleep 

… Ya Allah (Oh God) answer my duaa (prayer)." ("Sukkos" refers to the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, during which Jews build and eat their meals in outdoor huts known as "sukkahs," which represent the huts the Jews lived in during their exodus from Egypt.) ....

Video -- Eye on the Stimulus!

We haven't forgotten that the government is still spending $787 billion of our money and we are keeping an eye on where it's going. Now, with rumblings that Pelosi and the Dems are considering a second stimulus, it's even more important to understand what a miserable failure the first one was (and still is). Where are your stimulus dollars going? Glenn gives an update in this 'Eye on the Stimulus' video blog.

Obama quietly authorizes 15,000 troops for Afghanistan

(Fox News) In an unannounced move, the Pentagon is deploying thousands of support forces for the Afghanistan war ...

Rifqa Bary to be sent back to Ohio

from Jihad Watch

The message from child protective services to girls like Rifqa: You're on your own. "Judge Rules Christian Convert Teen Must Go Back Home," from Fox News, October 13:

A Florida judge has ruled a teenager from Ohio must return after running away to Florida in fear that her parents would harm her for converting from Islam to Christianity.

The judge ruled Ohio has jurisdiction over the case involving the teen, Rifqa Bary.

No date has been set for when she will be returned back home.

The 17-year old girl ran away from her parents' home in July, saying she feared being killed for changing religions. But a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation found no credible threats to Bary.

She has been staying in foster care in Orlando since she ran away.

Railroads, gov't spar over chlorine trains

FORT WORTH, Texas — Railroads, chemical makers and U.S. government regulators are battling to hammer out new policies on shipments of toxic chlorine gas, observers say.

Even as the federal government was proposing new safeguards to guard the public against gas leaks caused by accidents or terrorist attacks, the Union Pacific railroad was asking the government for authority to turn down such shipments and chemical makers sued in court to prevent it from imposing higher tariffs, The Fort Worth (Texas) Star Telegram reported Sunday.

Trade groups representing chemical makers eventually prevailed as the court struck down a Union Pacific policy charging much higher rates for chlorine gas shipments through major cities such as the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, while the U.S. Surface Transportation Board ruled it was the railroad's responsibility to ensure the shipments remain safe.

"The problem is they wanted to indemnify us for things they did wrong," Paul Donovan, a Washington attorney who defended the chlorine industry in the court case, told the Star-Telegram.

The newspaper said a U.S. Department of Homeland Security report postulates an attack on a chlorine rail tanker could kill 17,500 and hospitalize more than 100,000 people in an urban area.

Lack of Hospital Surge Capacity Still a Problem - by Anthony L. Kimerly

Report highlights importance of surge capacity for pandemic, mass casualties A new report by Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) concluded “that 15 states could run out of available hospital beds during the peak of the outbreak [of the H1N1 influenza virus now spreading across the nation] if 35 percent of Americans were to get sick" from this flu virus. “Twelve additional states could reach or exceed 75 percent of their hospital bed capacity, based on estimates from the FluSurge model developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),” the TFAH report, “H1N1 Challenges Ahead," concluded. Meanwhile, a report released by the American College of Emergency Physicians disclosed that nearly 90 percent of doctors said in response to a survey in September that they were concerned or very concerned about their hospital’s ability to handle a surge of H1N1 patients. This could quickly pose problems for many hospitals as serious H1N1 cases mount. During the last six months, more than a million Americans have been stricken with the H1N1 influenza virus and more than 10,000 have had to be hospitalized. About 1,000 have died, including 76 children. And flu season has just begun. It runs through next spring. Because of the risk that H1N1 seems to pose to young and at-risk children in particular, many more children could die than the 76 who've so far been killed by the virus, which is a number that appears to be a higher rate than pediatric deaths caused by traditional seasonal flu strains. In other words, many more children could die from H1N1 over the next six to seven months than die from seasonal influenza if they are not soon vaccinated. "We've already had 76 children dying from the 2009 H1N1 virus, and it's only the beginning of October," Anne Schuchat, head of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters last week. Also at risk are pregnant women. Officials believe at least 28 pregnant women who contracted H1N1 died from the virus or from complications arising from their flu infection. At least 37 states are reporting widespread H1N1 infections, up from 27 just a week ago. While the number of cases appears to be declining in some areas, it is increasing in others, and could continue to rise and fall in these places – as well as across the nation. "It's hard to know how many waves we're going to have into the fall, winter and spring," Schuchat said. "We still think the vast majority of people in a given community are vulnerable or susceptible to this virus ... Unfortunately, we do expect more illness, including more hospitalizations and deaths, to be occurring in the weeks ahead." Given that we’re just beginning to see the ravages of a full blown H1N1 pandemic season, authorities say it’s not a leap to extrapolate the possible numbers of most at-risk people who could be infected over the next six to seven months and to calculate the possible strain that this could put on the nation’s hospitals' ERs and intensive care units. Last April, for example, when H1N1 infections first erupted in the US, adults arriving with flu-like symptoms at New York’s Montefiore Medical Center's ER - one of the nation's busiest emergency rooms - rose 20 percent. Child ER visits jumped 40 percent. Similar situations were experienced by ERs across the nation. According to a study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, H1N1 was responsible for a 15-fold increase in intensive care admissions for viral lung inflammation in Australia and New Zealand, especially among pregnant women, people with chronic lung disease, and people who are obese. H1N1 patients filled 8.9 percent to 19 percent of all intensive-care hospital beds in each state in Australia and New Zealand, while nearly 65 percent of intensive-care H1N1 patients required ventilators. Similarly, severely ill patients in Mexico and Canada were in intensive care units on ventilators for nearly two weeks, according to reports published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. About 17 percent of the Canadian patients and 41 percent of the Mexican patients reportedly died and, in both countries, hospitals' ICU capacities were strained. Authorities in the US are bracing for a possible surge in hospital and ER/ICU admissions and a sudden draw down on resources, especially ventilators, if large numbers of H1N1-sickened persons require mechanical ventilation to survive. But studies such as one conducted in 2006 by the Trauma Center Association of America (TCAA) revealed that in the event of a mass casualty event in which many patients require ventilators, the majority of hospitals that responded to the TCAA survey reported that they would quickly run out, with few hospitals having plans in place to acquire additional ventilators. Numerous authorities HSToday.us talked to said it’s possible that the H1N1 pandemic could be the first nationwide test of national hospital surge capacity limits, the importance of which can’t be overstated when it comes to being prepared for mass casualties. For years, Homeland Security Today and HSToday.us have been reporting on the nation’s inadequate hospital surge capacity. In a two-part series a year ago, HSToday.us reported that inadequate surge and mass casualty trauma care capacity remains a problem nationwide. [Editor’s note: Also see the July 2007 report, “Seeking to Surge,” and the May 2004 feature, “The Trauma in America’s Trauma Care”] “Surge capacity … is one of the most serious remaining challenges for emergency health preparedness,” the TFAH report stressed, noting that “health care providers and hospitals could be quickly overrun or overextended during the H1N1 outbreak, even though it is currently a mild strain of flu, and the plans and capacities to deal with this influx are limited.” The report stated that “federal, state, local, and health system officials will have to continue to clearly communicate with the public as to which groups are urged to seek rapid care and who should practice sound selfcare measures and stay home when ill. The TFAH report stated “one of the biggest ongoing challenges health officials face is that preparations are taking place in the context of a public health system that has been chronically underfunded for decades. Many core systems and capabilities are lagging behind where they should be or could be, which leaves the nation unnecessarily vulnerable during times of emergency. The concurrence of lost workforce due to the economic recession, the continuing need to address other pressing public health issues simultaneously with a pandemic, and the diversion of health department employees to the H1N1 response have placed a severe strain on the public health system.” In short, the nation’s public health infrastructure is eroding. The TFAH report “examines the series of challenges the country faces in preparing to deal with the complications that an H1N1 outbreak adds to this flu season related to medical care capacity, antiviral medications, disease surveillance, vaccinations, budget cuts at public health departments, and caring for people in communities, particularly meeting the special needs of at-risk populations, and provides a series of recommendations for how to address preparedness gaps.” The report “estimates that the number of people hospitalized could range from a high of 168,025 in California to a low of 2,485 in Wyoming, and many states may face shortages of beds or may need to reduce the number of non-flu related discretionary hospitalizations due to limited hospital bed availability. The numbers of people who get sick could range from a high of 12.9 million in California to a low of 186,434 in Wyoming, if 35 percent of Americans were to get H1N1.” The TFAH report made the following estimates of hospital bed capacity at five weeks into a pandemic based on CDC’s FluSurge using expert predictions that H1N1 is a relatively mild strain of the flu and that up to 35 percent of Americans could potentially become sick with H1N1: Fifteen states would be at or exceed hospital bed capacity: Arizona (117 percent); California (125 percent); Connecticut (148 percent); Delaware (203 percent); Hawaii (143 percent); Maryland (143 percent); Massachusetts (110 percent); Nevada (137 percent); New Jersey (101 percent); New York (108 percent); Oregon (107 percent); Rhode Island (143 percent); Vermont (108 percent); Virginia (100 percent); and Washington (107 percent). Twelve states would be at 75 to 99 percent of their hospital bed capacity: Colorado (88 percent); Florida (80 percent); Georgia (78 percent); Maine (83 percent); Michigan (79 percent); New Hampshire (84 percent); New Mexico (93 percent); North Carolina (95 percent); Pennsylvania (77 percent); South Carolina (93 percent); Utah (83 percent); and Wisconsin (75 percent). (Analyst's note:  A troubling assessment. We will not likely have to wait long to see how accurate these predictions are.)

Reclaim American Liberties - Find Out How!

(Analyst's note:  Thought you might be interested in a letter I just received.)

Dear Readers,

• In less than nine months we have experienced an unprecedented radical transformation in our culture, our economy and our political system.
• We have witnessed expansion of government authority and intrusiveness that is unique, dangerous, and probably, unconstitutional. 

It is the job of We the People to temper and modify change to conform to the principles of American exceptionalism, freedom and meritocracy, as they are under attack like never before.

If you want to stop the destruction of the institutions that sustain free enterprise and opportunity, read on!

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·         As an article in the 10/12/09 Wall Street Journal said (emphasis ours),

“If you think those town hall meetings over health care were fierce, wait until Americans come to understand the threat to our national financial survival posed by the interest on the government's credit card.”

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How to Tell if We're Winning the Afghan War

This commentary appeared in The Providence Journal on October 5, 2009.

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With U.S. casualties in Afghanistan mounting, the public questions the eight-year U.S. involvement. Gen. Stanley McChrystal has declared the war "serious but winnable"—yet now, for the first time, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll, more than 50 percent of the American people say the war is not worth fighting. 

As part of an effort to shore up opinion, the Obama administration is expected to submit to Congress a list of 50 metrics which will be used to measure success in Afghanistan.

That would be 48 metrics too many. Only two criteria are needed to determine whether the U.S. mission in Afghanistan is succeeding. Back in March, President Obama identified clear strategic objectives for Afghanistan: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida in Afghanistan, and to prevent its return. We can gauge progress toward those objectives by asking two simple questions.

1. How much territory do al-Qaida and the Taliban control within Afghanistan?

Right now, al-Qaida's main base of operations lies across the border in Pakistan. However, al-Qaida has a history of cooperation with the Taliban, and the Taliban does control large portions of southern Afghanistan.

The two organizations do not share the same goals: The Taliban wants to regain power in Afghanistan, while al-Qaida wants to use the country as a base for terrorist operations. 

Still, the two groups have often found that cooperation suits both of their interests. If the government falls to the Taliban, it would increase the chances that al-Qaida would reconstitute its operations in Afghanistan.

Many of the 21,000 additional U.S. troops that were deployed to Afghanistan earlier this year have been trying to oust the Taliban from its strongholds in the south. This is an extremely difficult task, which includes intense fighting and requires a sustained military presence. 

General McChrystal may soon request additional troops for this mission, according to news reports, and Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has rightly warned that it may take 12 to 18 months to see progress. At that point, if the Taliban controls less territory than it does today, then we will know the U.S. is winning. If it does not, we will know it is losing.

2. How capable are the Afghan security forces?

International forces will not stay in Afghanistan forever. Ultimately, the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police must bear responsibility for securing their own country, and for preventing al-Qaida's return.

Efforts to build Afghan security forces were starved for many years, so progress has been slow. The police continue to be plagued by corruption and poor performance, despite reform efforts. But in recent years, the Afghan army has emerged as one of the country's few bright spots. Its capabilities are slowly but steadily increasing. 

More importantly, the army is now the most respected government institution in the country, and the Afghan people generally believe that it genuinely acts in the national interest rather than for the benefit of particular factions. But there is still a long way to go before the army can secure the country on its own.

Some officials in the Obama administration have reportedly called for expanding the size of the security forces and intensifying international training efforts. These will be key developments to watch. 

In order to move toward the goal of securing their own country, the security forces will need to effectively recruit and train personnel and gradually improve their ability to conduct military operations independently.

The United States does have a range of other interests in Afghanistan, including democratization, economic development, and reconstruction. But these interests are best pursued by civilians as part of a normal program of development assistance, and should not be conditions that must be achieved before withdrawing military forces.

If one year from today, the Taliban controls less territory and the Afghan security forces are more capable, then we will know the United States is winning. If not, then we will know we are losing—no matter what the 48 other metrics say.

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Nora Bensahel is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and a professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Living Conditions in Anbar Province in June 2008

Effective counterinsurgency is dependent on understanding the local population. A survey of those living in Iraq's Anbar Province (once one of the country's most violent areas) reveals both the many improvements and the suffering that has occurred.

Full Document (PDF)

Protecting Critical Computer Networks from Cyber Attack

Because it will be difficult to prevent cyber attacks on civilian and military computer networks by threatening to punish attackers, the United States must instead focus its efforts on defending these critical networks—such as ones used for electric power, telephone service, banking, and military command and control.

News Release

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In the Shadow of the War on Terror

by Salena Zito

The "Overseas Contingency Program" – the "war on terror" – is back at the center of the political world, thanks to the uncertain prosecution of the war in Afghanistan.

 

As President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Congress and the generals in the field contemplate the damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't consequences of Afghanistan, terror has reappeared in the American vernacular.

 

"America is still a salient target and attractive target for terrorists," says Paul Pillar, a former senior CIA counterterrorism official who heads security studies at Georgetown University.

 

And while such terms as "Islamic terrorist," "jihad" and "Muslim extremist" have been scrubbed from administration chatter, we remain at risk.

 

Pillar points out that this administration continues the commitments and policies of the Bush years.

 

Those security and intelligence programs irritate radicalized Muslims who want to harm Americans – and chill left-leaning Democrats who fervently opposed Bush.

 

Pillar dismisses the notion that Americans' memories of 9/11 have faded: "If you look at the current debate about Afghanistan, it illustrates that we still equate Afghanistan with terrorism."

 

The public's turn away from the topic of terror is understandable: In light of the economic crisis, health care controversy and unprecedented government spending, the focus is on swift-changing pocketbook issues.

 

Last month's arrest of Afghan-born alleged terror-plotter Najibullah Zazi ran as "B-roll" on TV news and "below the fold" in most newspapers, though authorities called his plot one of the most significant terror threats since 9/11.

 

If the bad guys unleash one or two suicide bombings in the heartland, our country would become paralyzed economically and mentally.

 

"The various agencies of government, like the Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, remain fully engaged, as well as state and local law enforcement," says Mark Davidson, a former member of the Clinton administration and a Navy Reserve captain. "The general public, the press and many politicians, on the other hand, apparently are not."

 

Davidson explains that the only measure is "Have we been attacked?" The public's answer since 9/11: "No."

 

Almost from the start, the Obama administration distanced itself from war-on-terror language.

 

Yet "Overseas Contingency Program" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

 

The irony is that the war on terror has been ongoing since the 1970s, including airliner hijackings, Olympic athletes killed in Munich and the Berlin disco, Pan Am Lockerbie and Beirut Marine barracks bombings.

 

Davidson says that war only became more intense after the collapse of the Soviet regime in Afghanistan and the crystallizing of extremist elements bent on hatred of the West (which, ironically, supplied the weapons and training to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan).

 

As for Americans no longer listening to talk about the threat, Davidson says the Obama administration lowered the volume: "Frankly, the American public was burned out by the color-code threats and rhetoric coming from the previous administration. Creating a perception of constant fear and using that fear for political gain is very dangerous."

 

That may be why many Americans and the media paid little attention to the Zazi arrest. Unfortunately, the pendulum has swung in that direction for some members of Congress and the administration. The president's challenge is that a left-leaning minority brought him his party's nomination, partly based on war opposition.

 

"This minority wants to withdraw from Afghanistan," Davidson adds. "Such a withdrawal may prove to be a disaster as our allies see a lack of commitment, Pakistan suffers a Taliban blitzkrieg and violent extremists possibly gain access to highly sensitive material in a Taliban-influenced Pakistan."

 

Gen. David Petraeus and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the military men in charge of Afghanistan strategy, know how to engage and defeat insurgencies. We know how to pursue violent extremists.

 

Let's hope the debate – and the White House's war-policy "review" – leads us to a sensible conclusion, defeating al-Qaida and leaving Afghanistan as stable as possible and able to fend for itself.

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Napolitano Says Al-Qaeda-Style Terrorists Are in U.S.

from National Terror Alert

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said terrorists with al-Qaeda leanings are in the U.S. and that the threat of attack “is always with us.”

“It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs,” Napolitano said in an interview with Bloomberg Television today. “And so it makes information-sharing, it makes effective law enforcement and it makes the shared responsibility of law enforcement ever so important.”

Information-sharing between federal, state and local law- enforcement agencies is “much improved” since the Sept. 11 attacks, she said.

In September, U.S. authorities indicted Najibullah Zazi, 24, an Afghan immigrant and former Denver airport shuttle-van driver, on federal terrorism conspiracy charges. They found bomb-making instructions on a laptop computer in his rental car.

Attorney General Eric Holder said the case had connections to al-Qaeda, the terrorist group that attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.

Napolitano said she met in New York today with leaders in financial security in order to discuss ways to protect the nation’s financial system from cyber-terrorism or other attacks.

“The financial institutions of this country are part of our bedrock infrastructure,” she said. “They need to be protected. We need to be able to protect them.”

U.S. Begins Official Effort to Destabilize Pakistan

by Erick Erickson

The ineptitude of this administration as it wages foreign policy knows no bounds. What makes it all the more disturbing is that the Obama administration is beginning to engage in an official effort to destabilize the government of Pakistan and potentially foment a civil war there.

On egg shells ever since Musharraf’s resignation as President and the assasination of Benazir Bhutto, USA Today has obtained a confidential State Department memo outlining how the administration intends to escalate Pakistan’s descent into chaos.

The sad thing is the administration thinks it will be helping.

The problem — according to the memo by C. Stuart Callison, an economist with the U.S. Agency for International Development — is that Holbrooke is canceling successful programs run by U.S. contractors and preparing to bypass them by giving large sums to local organizations with shaky financial track records.

Holbrooke, the top civilian overseeing Obama administration policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, has asked to personally approve every project funding renewal involving U.S. contractors, Callison wrote — and “the disapprovals already received are shockingly counterproductive.”

In other words, the United States is shifting money from efficient operations that work to inefficient operations that line the pockets of people who we probably don’t want to make wealthy, given their loyalties.

It is willfully naive. And it is dangerous.

If Pakistan falls, war will come with India. Both have nukes. The consequences for this administration’s ineptitude will be major and the lives lost catastrophic.

Maybe Obama wasn’t misspeaking during the campaign when he said he wanted to bomb Pakistan . . . er . . . Pockeestun.

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Saudi Arabia is demanding that oil-producing nations receive financial assistance if a new climate pact designed to replace the Kyoto Protocol calls for substantial reductions in the use of oil and natural gas, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.

The country is waging a quiet war against climate alarmists who want to use the upcoming global summit in Copenhagen to impose further restrictions on the use of hydrocarbon fuels. The Saudis estimate they stand to lose $19 billion a year under a new Copenhagen climate pact. ....

Sunstein: Take organs from 'helpless patients' 'Though it may sound grotesque, routine removal would save lives'

(Analyst's note:  In my book, such thoughts are more than a little troubling.)


By Aaron Klein
 

Cass Sunstein

TEL AVIV – President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission. Cass Sunstein also has strongly pushed for the removal of organs from deceased individuals who did not explicitly consent to becoming organ donors.

In his 2008 book, "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness," Sunstein and co-author Richard Thaler discussed multiple legal scenarios regarding organ donation. One possibility presented in the book, termed by Sunstein as "routine removal," posits that "the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone's permission."

"Though it may sound grotesque, routine removal is not impossible to defend," wrote Sunstein. "In theory, it would save lives, and it would do so without intruding on anyone who has any prospect for life."


Sunstein continued: "Although this approach is not used comprehensively by any state, many states do use the rule for corneas (which can be transplanted to give some blind patients sight). In some states, medical examiners performing autopsies are permitted to remove corneas without asking anyone's permission."

Sunstein's example of medical examiners removing corneas, however, applies only to patients who are already declared deceased. ....

Nobel Committee Pulls Oil Plug on Democracy: A Prize to Drop the Underdogs?

(Analyst's note:  Want to know the mind of this jihadist enemy - then I absolutely recommend the written works of this author, to include this analysis. A careful study will  help to correct many of the fundamental misunderstanding and true nature now seen in-play of the Islamic extremism in their global jihad.  Real understanding is required for effective counterterrorist strategies.  As stated by Colonel Kenneth Allard, USA, Ret., Former Dean, National War College and NBC Defense Analysts -- "Dr. Phares has an unmatched knowledge of the Middle East with its tightly interwoven tapestry of language, religion, history, and politics.  He can bring an inter-disciplinary approach to complex security issues.  Unlike so many analysts, he can convey his encyclopedic knowledge of the Middle Ease in multiple languages." The work of Dr. Phares is the results of a lifetime of observation and analysis)

by Dr. Walid Phares

As soon as the Oslo committee issued its Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama, a debate raged in America about the legitimacy of such a move so very early in a U.S. presidential term.

 

The debate soon will espouse the dividing lines between domestic and foreign policy issues and, in a few weeks, will die out under the awe of newly unfolding events. What will remain are future policy debates that will refer to one of the world's most prestigious awards as a fact in international relations.

 

Months and few short years from now, supporters of the "new direction" in U.S. foreign policy, as well as academics, will frame Obama's Nobel as a consolidation of a new world order, while the media outburst following the granting declaration will be forgotten.

 

Hence, bypassing the noise of did-he-earn-it-or-not deliberations, let's ask: What is the strategy behind the decision to grant this particular trophy to the sitting American president?

 

To answer this, we simply can connect the dots between the statements made by the grantor and the grantee. Naturally, every American must be proud and many people around the world are happy for such a decision to honor the White House, although some U.S. leaders wished the committee had granted the honor to past presidents such as Bill Clinton for his gigantic efforts in worldwide humanitarian assistance.

 

The alternative choices are arguable, but this particular gesture isn’t about past achievements, as the committee and the recipient have concurred. It is about supporting a specific policy, which has been enunciated firmly during 2009 and is now being grounded in layers of moral recognition.

 

This honored policy is to ensure that there will be no more American intervention overseas to provoke democratic change, let alone revolutions, particularly in the so-called “Muslim world.”

 

The Norwegian Nobel Committee lauded “the change in global mood wrought by Obama's calls and initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: easing American conflicts with Muslim nations.”

 

In other words, the transnational group of academics, politicians, and multinational corporations involved in the Oslo process of the Nobel Peace Prize clearly has championed the policy of Western restraint from “meddling” in the domestic business of authoritarian regimes.

 

If previous unilateral interventions meant removing the Taliban and Saddam Hussein from power, “multilateral approaches” mean not to pressure such types of regimes, as long as the latter's action doesn’t disrupt the flow of petrodollars.

 

The real message of the prize’s grantors is deeper than what it shyly states: You will be honored if you keep your hands off our regimes and ideologies. Thus this recognition is not really about abstract notions or about climate change. It is a message from the authoritarians in the greater Middle East, via their economic partners in the West, to the United States, to quit pushing for democracy and intervening for human rights; as the previous administration said it would, but in fact failed to deliver.

 

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee is based in Norway, which cooperates with OPEC and often has joint ventures with its members. The latter is obviously controlled by the hard-core authoritarian members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Arab League. These regimes, regardless of their bilateral disputes (such as Wahhabis and Khomeinists), have one common ground: Oppose the rise of democracy, their worst enemy, in their own midst.

 

U.S. intervention in Yugoslavia, moderating the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, reaching out to dissidents in Myanmar, is fine. But defeating the Taliban and empowering women, helping the reformers in Iran, the Cedars Revolution in Lebanon, or saving Darfur? All of that is forbidden.

 

The bureaucrats and advisers of the Oslo committee are in partnership with the OPEC-OIC web and thus have offered their “credibility” as part of efforts to block and reverse American support to the underdogs in the region. In their eyes, the Obama administration already delivered significantly in nine months: The war on terror is over, narrative against jihadism is deleted, OIC’s “fatwa” on Defamation of Religion is endorsed, meddling in Iran’s oppression of its citizens rejected, intervention in Darfur stopped, Ghadafi’s terror forgotten, Assad regime’s massacres forgiven, and of course Guantanamo to be closed and U.S. Homeland Security directed against natural disasters instead of urban jihadism.

 

With such achievements, the “oil jihadi cartel” cannot but make a grand gesture to consolidate the new direction. In return, the powerful grantee accepted the prize as a “call to action,” meaning the course will be stayed. Reaffirming the tenets of his Cairo speech, the president asserted that today’s world is one of “religions” deserving “mutual interests and respect.”

 

So, between the lines, no future U.S. actions will be in favor of oppressed peoples if they happen to be living in Dar el Islam. The war in Iraq will be ended, regardless of Iran, Syria, and the jihadists’ future interventions there. And there will be no escalation in the battlefield of Afghanistan, if only somehow the “ruthless adversary would stop threatening the United States.”

 

Here we go: The “other side” announced its agenda for America, and the latter accepted. Surely it is nice to receive a prominent prize, but it is important to see beyond our own nose. The hope is that the price for such an honor won’t be a human rights catastrophe for the underdogs in the “Muslim world.”