By Judson Phillips

The American military is one of the most respected institutions in the country.  We respect and honor those who served and revere those who fell in battle for their country.  

One of the highest accolades that are spoken of some soldiers in combat is that the they gave their life for their country.

Some soldiers gave their lives for this country, which died in combat, yet are not being recognized for this.

In 2009, an Islamic terrorist attacked an American military outpost, killing 14 and wounding 24.  Some of the soldiers in that attack displayed amazing heroism, in the highest traditions of military service.  

While some of these men and women have received commendations for their bravery, none of the dead or wounded have received the Purple Heart. 

None of the next of kin have received survivors’ benefits that are awarded to the families of soldiers killed in combat.

Why?

The attack by the Islamist was the attack by Nadal Hasan on Ft. Hood in November 2009.   Hasan was known to have jihadist sympathies.  He spoke of Muslims in the American military engaging in jihad.  

He had communications with Anwar Al-Awlaki, the Al-Qaeda terrorist leader.  He had business cards printed up that said he was a “soldier of Allah.”

When Hasan opened fire on American soldiers at Ft. Hood, he shouted the terrorist battle cry of “Allah Akbar.”

The attack at Ft. Hood was every bit as much combat as when the Taliban attack a military outpost in Afghanistan. 

Only the Army will not recognize it as combat.  They will not even acknowledge they know why Hasan did what he did.  

In a recent ceremony at Ft. Hood honoring the bravery of a civilian who was killed by Hasan in his terrorist attack, Brigadier General Joseph DiSalvo said, “We may never know why the attack happened.”

If General DiSalvo is typical of the flag officers of the American military right now, we are in deep trouble.    

Yes, we know exactly why this happened.   Hasan wanted to attack an American military installation.  He wanted to be a jihadist.  He wanted to become a martyr for Islam and get his 72 virgins. 

Immediately after 9/11 President Bush went out of his way to say Islam is not the enemy.  As bad as Bush was on that issue, Obama is a nightmare.   

How many jihadist attacks on America do we have to have before we realize Islam is the enemy?

When a radicalized American Islamic convert attacks a recruiting station, killing an American soldier because he wanted to wage jihad, the government acted like it was simply a random crime. 

Islam is the enemy of freedom and liberty.  During World War II, we identified the Nazis as our enemy.  The few Nazi sympathizers that were here in America were quickly rounded up and got to spend World War II in prison or under very close scrutiny.      

During the cold war, we had no problem acknowledging communists and communism was the enemy.  Today, that enemy is Islam.  Just like the communists, Islam is bound on world domination.   

Islam teaches Muslims they are to fight to take over the world for Islam, by forced conversion or murder if necessary. 

Islam has a long history of militancy and military conquest.  We ignore this at our peril.

Monday, we will celebrate Memorial Day, a day we traditionally honor our war dead.  The 14 dead from Ft. Hood are war dead.  

It is well past time that our government starts acknowledging this and treats them with the honor and respect they deserve.

Source: TPN

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By Gadi Adelman
GCC/Staff
Apr. 4, 2011

They claim they were just lost looking for the highway and that they didn’t know each other.

Three Middle Eastern men make hateful comments and terrorist threats towards Marines before driving onto Camp Pendleton without authorization, but it was just an honest mistake.

I have said it and written about it before. There is a difference between “profiling” and good law enforcement.

The statistics tell us that most terrorists will be male, aged 18-35, and Muslim and have Middle Eastern descent. This is not profiling, this is good law enforcement, period.

Over the last 12 months we have seen the arrest of over 50 “homegrown terrorists” right here on American soil and the numbers of attempts are rising month in and month out.

All of them were either Muslims who were born in to the Islamic faith, or those that have converted to Islam.

According to my friend and colleague, counter terror expert Dr. Walid Phares who was a guest on my radio show not that long ago,

“We know that between 2001 and 2008, U.S. agencies prevented roughly one or two terror cases (either by individuals or cells) a year. But since the beginning of 2009, the United States has stopped one attack a month and over the past few months, we’re learning about one jihad operation every two to three weeks!”

Our government has warned that homegrown terrorism plots are on the rise and they have redoubled efforts to root them out.

Just last week on March 26/27 we had what can only be called “curious” activity at the Camp Pendleton U.S. Marine Corp Base in California.

The Camp Pendleton website gives us some insight to the base,

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, the Corps’ largest West Coast expeditionary training facility, encompasses more than 125,000 acres of Southern California terrain.

Located approximately 38 miles from downtown San Diego in North County and 82 miles south of Los Angeles, Camp Pendleton has been the largest employer in North San Diego County for more than 60 years.

Camp Pendleton is one of the Department of Defense’s busiest installations and offers a broad spectrum of training facilities for many active and reserve Marine, Army and Navy units, as well as national, state and local agencies.

According to KGTV, ABC 10 San Diego news,

10News taught three men (pictured L-R) — 40-year-old Afghani Ahmad Rahmani Naeem, 41-year-old Iranian Vahik Petrossian and 27-year-old Iranian Sengekdi Norvik Avanosian — attempted to get into Camp Pendleton last weekend under what was considered suspicious circumstances.

According to a Be On the Lookout (BOLO) alert issued to high-ranking Camp Pendleton officials, someone reported hearing hateful comments and terrorist threats from three men at a gas station in Oceanside Saturday.

Investigators at Camp Pendleton said the men asked the attendant for directions on how to get to Camp Pendleton before they left the gas station.

According to the alert, shortly after midnight Sunday, rented silver Toyota Corolla driven by Naeem attempted to enter Camp Pendleton through the main gate.

As it was being searched, Petrossian and Avanosian drove up in a black Mercedes, but were told to wait.

Instead, they continued past the gate and onto the base. Following a short pursuit, the Mercedes was stopped and searched.

No weapons or contraband were found in the Mercedes, but base security noticed the air bag in the steering wheel of the Mercedes had been pulled out and re-attached with duct tape and had wires hanging free, the alert said.

According to the alert, Naaem told base security he was lost and was trying to go to Glendale. When interviewed, Petrossian and Avanosian said they were lost and trying to go to Glendale. The three men claimed not to know each other, the alert said.

Naaem, Petrossian and Avanosian were photographed and released after questioning, and a warning about the trio was posted to law enforcement.

However, later that morning about 8:30 a.m., Naeem returned in the Toyota and tried to get on the base again, saying he made a mistake and was trying to enter Interstate 5, the alert said.

After his vehicle was searched, Naeem was issued a letter of debarment from the base and escorted to the freeway.

Well, there you have it. The story could end there, but…

Call me paranoid, but I didn’t believe the story these three individuals gave the authorities so I decided to do some digging.

Let’s start with the actual BOLO (Be On the Lookout), this was posted by a spouse whose husband is on active duty at Camp Pendleton and she explained her reason for posting it in the beginning of the post,

Just rcvd an email about this from my husband. E-mail included pics, but I can’t figure out how to copy and put them on here.

Typing in all CAPS are the subject’s names. Ask your active duty spouse about the e-mail so you can see pics!

This posting is not intended to scare anyone just to keep our families safe.’

On 26Mar11, three Middle-Eastern males were overheard making hateful and terrorist threats towards Marines at a gas station in Oceanside, CA.

One of the men asked an attendant for directions to Camp Pendleton, CA, and left driving the below mentioned silver Toyota.

At 0010/27Mar11, NAEEM approached the Main Gate, MCB CPC, driving a vehicle, which matched the description provided by the Gas Attendant.

While MP’s were searching NAEEM and his vehicle, PETROSSIAN and AVANOSIAN approached the Main Gate in the below mentioned black Mercedes.

After MP’s signaled the vehicle to stop, the vehicle slowed and then continued through the gate. MP’s adjacent Pacific View Housing initialized a hot stop.

A physical inspection of the black Mercedes revealed the steering wheel airbag was tampered with and had duct tape securing it in place with wires hanging out.

All vehicles were searched by MWD and EOD, which was negative in locating any explosive materials.

NAEEM was interviewed and claimed not to know PETROSSIAN or AVANOSIAN.

NAEEM stated he was lost and was trying to get to Glendale, CA.

PETROSSIAN and AVANOSIAN were interviewed and also stated they were lost attempting to reenter Hwy-5 and were trying to get to Glendale, CA.

A criminal background history of the above-mentioned persons’ identities was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security, which failed to identify any derogatory records for the men.

US Border Patrol confirmed the above individual’s immigration status and confirmed the men were not on any Terrorist watch databases.

All men were released on their own recognizance.

At 0830/27Mar11, NAEEM again approached the Main Gate in his silver Toyota. NAEEM was questioned and stated after he was released he drove to the nearby Denny’s Restaurant washed his face and hands and worked on “paperwork”.

NAEEM stated he made a mistake by reentering the base and was attempting to access the highway.

NAEEM’s vehicle was searched again by MWD and MP’s and was met with negative results in locating anything of evidentiary value.

NAEEM was issued a Temporary Letter of Debarment from MCB CPC and was escorted off MCB CPC and onto Hwy-5 by MP’s.

VEHICLE:

NAEEM: 2011 silver Toyota Corolla 4-door sedan, Ca lic plate, Rental from Enterprise Rent-A-Car

VEHICLE:

PETROSSIAN & AVANOSIAN: 2001 black Mercedes CL 506, 2-door Ca/6PRK028

Three men that all fall into the “good law enforcement” stats. Stories don’t jive, all Middle Eastern, and lastly, all Muslim.

Don’t let the last names fool you, it is common that any surname with “ian” at the end is Armenian; however, many are also Iranian Muslims, as with two of these.

They claimed not to know one another even though they arrived at the gate at the same time in separate vehicles, not to mention witnesses saw them speaking (making threats) at the local gas station minutes before.

They had to drive past large signs for the Interstate 5 highway they claimed they were looking for and missed.

One was in a rental car and the other, well, wires and duct tape on the airbag? Where have we heard this before, wires sticking out of objects? That’s not unusual, right?

Here is a schematic of a Mercedes driver’s side airbag.

Are there wires in an airbag? Yes, leading to the crash sensor well below the bag and inflator itself. Did this Mercedes have any front end damage perhaps explaining why the steering wheel was taped up?

Would this not have been mentioned in the BOLO with the vehicle description?

One of the men, Naeem returns to the gate again 8 hours later but claims that he was lost again after sitting at a Denny’s Restaurant for 8 hours doing “paper work”. Yeah, I often sit at a diner all night doing paperwork. Was he asked to show this paperwork?

I had read a report that Camp Pendleton base officials issued a statement, saying in part,

“After further investigation, it was determined that the individuals involved were not a threat to MCB Camp Pendleton or any other military installation in the area. MCB Camp Pendleton officials are not investigating these incidents further.”

This was due to the fact that the Department of Homeland Security determined that none of these individuals were on the ‘Terror Watch List’. The report stated,

“A criminal background check on the trio conducted by the Department of Homeland Security found no “derogatory records” for the men.

Additionally, the U.S. Border Patrol said the immigration statuses for the three men were confirmed and they did not appear on any terrorist watch databases.”

Really? How many people involved in the past thwarted attempts of terror over the last few years were not on the Terror watch List? That is why it is called “Home Grown”. What if these men are part of a sleeper cell, would they be on a watch list?

I had to get more info on this. First, I contacted Camp Pendleton Public Affairs, Media Relations Department. 

The Marine I spoke with told me to fill out a media query form on the website and they would send me a press release.

I explained that I was not only on a deadline, but wanted to speak to someone that could answer some questions. He asked me again for my name and credentials and placed me on hold.

When he returned to the line he gave me the name and phone number of someone I could speak with.

Although my conversation was not “off the record”, I gave my word to the person I spoke with that I would not release their name or rank.

I asked why, after entering the base without authorization these men were not detained,

“I understand that you don’t know if these men understood or spoke English, but once the vehicle was stopped and it was determined that these men did speak English, why were there no charges filed and why were they just released”?

The answer I got was almost more surprising than the incident itself. I was told,

“That I don’t know, a lot of people run the gates for different reasons. So, I really can’t answer that question”.

What? Are you kidding me, a lot of people run the gates? What kind of security is that? I then asked,

“If you enter a Federal installation, be it a military base or otherwise, after being told not to by a Federal employee and then you have to be pulled over by Military Police or law enforcement is that not grounds for arrest, is that not a Federal offense”?

The answer was a simple “I don’t know”.

When I questioned the story they gave that they didn’t know one another and claimed to be lost I was told,

“I would just be careful about making blanket statements because, you know, people get lost. We’re not saying they got lost or anything like that, I can’t speculate on anything like that, but the roads are tricky sometimes”.

Of course people get lost, especially after stopping at a gas station, making threats and then asking for directions to the base, yeah, they were lost.

Knowing that I was going to receive a press release that according to this person would answer my questions about the BOLO, I ended the interview with this question,

“As far as you know these men were never detained for any period of time other than the vehicle being searched”.

Once again, the answer was simple, “that’s correct”.

The press release from Camp Pendleton I received was as follows:

Mr Adelman,

Below are the statements, which we have released:

Investigation Concluded Concerning Recent “Be On The Look Out” (BOLO) Memo.

MCB Camp Pendleton officials have concluded their investigation into a recent “Be On The Look Out” (BOLO) memo issued to local Marine Corps law enforcement agencies.

The investigation promptly determined that the individuals identified in the BOLO posed no threat to the public. Base officials are no longer looking in to this matter.

To answer you is question regarding base security:

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton Military Police takes a very comprehensive approach in ensuring the protection of life and property, enforcing laws and regulations, and preserving the good order and discipline throughout the base.

Such an approach includes perimeter security, access control at each of the seven entry gates, perimeter patrols, interior patrols, traffic enforcement, physical security, crime prevention, military working dogs, investigations, and community relations.

However, in order to maintain and safeguard operational security aboard the base, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton cannot divulge specific information about tactics, techniques, or procedures involving on-going installation security operations.

Please attribute to base officials.

I hope this answers your questions.

I would like to say that each and every person I spoke with from Camp Pendleton was polite, professional and eager to help and I am sure that they are following their orders and guidelines, as they should.

I am not surprised at what was contained in this press release and I am sure we can all understand base officials not wanting to give out too much information on matter such as this.

Having said that I was far from done, I wanted to find out what exactly was stated at this Chevron gas station.

I tracked down the gas station from the news report that had been on ABC Channel 10 and contacted them by telephone.

After identifying myself, I asked if I had the correct gas station citing the incident, the young lady said,

“I don’t know anything about that”.

I again explained who I was and stated,

“I just want to know if I have reached the right place”.

She again said, “I don’t know anything about that” and then hung up.

I don’t take lightly to being hung up on, so I of course called back. This time a different woman answered and I again asked if I had the right station. She confirmed that I did but that they could not discuss it.

I asked if I could speak to the owner and she said he was only there until about 2pm daily. Okay, so I’ll call back, who should ask for? She said, (you’ll love this) “ask for Omar”.

OMG! Really? Omar? And you have been told not to discuss this? Wow, I mean what a shocker!

At this point I contacted Preston Phillips from KGTV, the reporter that did the story and had been to the Chevron in question.

Preston confirmed my story. He explained that he was speaking to the attendant at the Chevron when the owner, Omar, “caught wind of it” and instructed his employee to not say anything more.

Hmmm, could this be that Omar just didn’t want any negative publicity towards Muslims?

Preston and I spoke at length and are on the same page with this one. He plans to follow up on this story; I for one look forward to it.

Preston’s original video report can be seen here.

I contacted the “Denny’s” in question as well and spoke to the Manager. No surprise here, he told me “this is the first I’m hearing about this”. Well given the massive media coverage on this story… As I said, no surprise.

What did surprise me is this. How well did investigators check Naeem’s story, did anyone check to see if that is where he had actually been for the last 8 hours?

Why was the waiter/waitress that helped this man that was supposedly sitting there for 8 hours not questioned and if they were why did the manager not know about this?

Now the latest news is that the Federal authorities maybe looking into this matter further. There’s a novel idea, you think that might be in our nation’s best interest given things like Ft. Hood?

Major Nidal Hassan wasn’t on any watch lists either.

I would think, like many others, that this is being further investigated. What worries me is if that is the case, why did the manager of the Denny’s not know anything when I spoke to him on April 2?

Any investigator knows that time is of the essence; any investigation should be immediate or as soon as humanly possible.

People who may not think they know anything may have valuable information, those that should be interviewed forget things, and stories change and memories get foggy. If this is being investigated why would we, the American public not is told?

Over a year ago I wrote an article asking the question “Why is our government hiding the truth about our safety?” We the people not only have a right to know, we need to know.

The American public is the first line of defense; this case itself proves that point. Who notified the authorities that caused the BOLO?

The person or persons who overheard these men making threats at the Chevron gas station.

Does our DHS really believe that these 3 men buy in to the story that it is all over and done with? Does DHS or the FBI really think that these men aren’t taking precautions at this point?

Are they hoping these men lead them to others? We already know that sleeper cells, if that’s what this is, don’t communicate or even know anyone outside their own cell.

As I have said before, terrorists are many things, but stupid is not one of them. Did we not learn anything at all from 9/11?

A very interesting side note, this all occurred on March 26 and 27. While looking over the Camp Pendleton website I found that the Commander (CO) of base Security was transferred out and replaced on April 1.

The article states,

Security Bn welcomes new CO

Col. Gino P. Amoroso takes command of Security Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton from Colonel Hal J. Sellers, April 1. Security Battalion is home to military police, fire and emergency services responsible for the safety of the installation.

Colonel Gino P. Amoroso, was commissioned a military police officer in 1988 and recently transferred from Naval Warfare School where he graduated March 1.

Amoroso served in numerous military police command billets and locations throughout his career including Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Sellers were commissioned an infantry officer in 1988, and will be transferring to Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twenty-nine Palms.

The U.S. Military acts quickly when things happen, one can only speculate about this replacement of the base security CO occurring within days of this incident.

Authors note: As a follow up to last week’s story of “Social Media Urging a Third Intifada”, on the same day this article was published, Face book released a statement that the page would not be shut down.

I am pleased to announce that just one day after the article, the page was closed by Face book. Thank you to all who reported this page and complained to Face book.

Source: Gadi Adelman

Editor’s Note: We at the Chronicle are glad to have Gadi Adelman on our Staff.

Mr. Adelman is a freelance writer and lecturer on the history of terrorism and counterterrorism.

He grew up in Israel, studying terrorism and Islam for 35 years after surviving a terrorist bomb in Jerusalem in which 7 children were killed.

Since returning to the U. S., Gadi teaches and lectures to law enforcement agencies as well as high schools and colleges.

He can be heard every Thursday night at 8PM est. on his own radio show “America Akbar” on Blog Talk Radio . He can be reached through his website.

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By Gadi Adelman
GCC/Staff
Nov. 15, 2010

President Obama was asked for his “opinion about jihad” last Sunday in India, not only was he evasive, but his answer makes me question the ability of this administration to safeguard our National Security.

You really have to wonder about politicians sometimes. They get asked a simple question by a journalist and they ramble on to get their own agenda or talking points across and sometimes, they spin it so far, they never even answer the question.

I’m used to that. I expect that during a campaign or before an upcoming important vote on the floor. But not during a ‘town hall’ with students asking about “jihad”.

The question that President Obama was asked, and more importantly, the way the question was phrased could have been answered in an infinite amount of ways.

But the way Obama chose to answer it scares the heck out of me and once again, makes me ask why?

The President was speaking at a St. Xavier’s College, a 147-year-old Jesuit institution in Mumbai, India.

You know, Mumbai.

It was where on November 26, 2008 Pakistani (can I say it?) terrorists attacked in what was more than 10 coordinated shootings and bombings all across Mumbai, India’s largest city, that lasted 3 days leaving 173 people dead and over 300 wounded.

When Anam Ansari, third-year physics student from Byculla, asked the President about jihad, she wasn’t asking him about the “internal struggle” of a Muslim. I am not in her head, so let’s look at the actual question verbatim.

“Hi, good day, sir. Hi, my name is Anam and I’m from St. Davis College. My question to you is what is your take or opinion about jihad, or jihad?

Whatever is your opinion, what do you think of them?”

Obviously, there is a language barrier here, but I think that Anam phrased it beautifully.

She left no room for error. She said “jihad”, she said “jihad” and even ended the question with “what do you think of THEM”.

Them. As in plural, as in more than one, as in “jihadists”, as in more than one person that makes war or terror under the flag of Islam.

There really is no questioning what she meant, she is after all at St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai only a few blocks from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, just one of the areas in which hundreds were murdered during the November 26, 2008 attacks.

They just suffered, wait for it Mr. President, I’ll use a term even you can understand, they suffered a “man made casualty” just two years ago that left the city in ruins with people dead, remember?

So, Obama, the great orator, the American Idol of speech givers, stumbled and paused and thought and stumbled some more to answer what truly was a simple question with a simple answer.

Yes, I know, it’s easy for me to sit here and play armchair quarterback, but let’s face it; he could have answered the question in a way that would have satisfied those in India and the rest of the world and yes, even in a politically correct manner as to make his liberal base happy.

But, more importantly, he could have answered it in a way that would put those that Anam was referring to, the jihadists, on notice, that we as America will not stand for acts of terror against anyone, anywhere of any kind. Period.

Would that be so bad?

Last time I checked we were still at war with troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan, a war that even though inherited and not initiated by Obama, is being waged due to a terror attack on our nation by jihadists.

When Anam asked her question, Obama answered,

“Well, the phrase jihad has a lot of meanings within Islam and is subject to a lot of different interpretations. But I will say that, first; Islam is one of the world’s great religions.

And more than a billion people who practice Islam, the overwhelming majority view their obligations to their religion as ones that reaffirm peace and justice and fairness and tolerance.

I think all of us recognize that this great religion in the hands of a few extremists has been distorted to justify violence towards innocent people that is never justified.

And so I think one of the challenges that we face is how do we isolate those who have these distorted notions of religious war and reaffirm those who see faiths of all sorts — whether you are a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian or a Jew or any other religion, or your don’t practice a religion — that we can all treat each other with respect and mutual dignity, and that some of the universal principles that Gandhi referred to — that those are what we’re living up to, as we live in a nation or nations that have very diverse religious beliefs.

And that’s a major challenge. It’s a major here in India, but it’s a challenge obviously around the world.

And young people like yourselves can make a huge impact in reaffirming that you can be a stronger observer of your faith without putting somebody else down or visiting violence on somebody else.

I think a lot of these ideas form very early. And how you respond to each other is going to be probably as important as any speech that a President makes in encouraging the kinds of religious tolerance that I think is so necessary in a world that’s getting smaller and smaller, where more and more people of different backgrounds, different races, different ethnicities are interacting and working and learning from each other.

And those circumstances — I think all of us have to fundamentally reject the notion that violence is a way to mediate our differences.”

Let me read part of his answer again,

“And more than a billion people who practice Islam, the overwhelming majority view their obligations to their religion as ones that reaffirm peace and justice and fairness and tolerance.”

Really?

Where does this happen?

In Paradise after they blow themselves up, because neither peace, justice, fairness or tolerance has been given to the hundreds of thousands of women who have suffered under Islam.

You know, the ones that have been and are being subjected to things such as:

• Obligatory female genital castration;
• Stoning to death of adulteresses;
• Compulsory acceptance of polygamy and forced child marriages;
• Beating of disobedient women and girls;
• Requirement of the testimony of four male witnesses to prove rape;
• Requirement of women to obtain permission from husbands for daily freedoms, such as leaving the house unescorted by a male family member

Yes, there are some really fair and just things to chew on.

The last sentence of his first paragraph is truly questionable: “I think all of us recognize that this great religion in the hands of a few extremists has been distorted to justify violence towards innocent people that is never justified.”

A few extremists? A few?

How many exactly is a few?

Daniel Greenfield who has a blog known as “Sultan Knish” answered just this question in his article “Who is Really Distorting Islam?” He wrote about the “few”,

“How many exactly is a “few”? Are we talking about a few dozen, a few thousand, a few million?

Naturally Obama and the Islam apologists never really address that question. Because it is a rather inconvenient question.

Since Muslims are defined by religious streams and mosque attendance, it should be easy enough to come up with a realistic figure.

We could start with the population of Saudi Arabia, which ranks at some 25 million. That is quite a “few” extremists right there. Then there’s Pakistan with a population of 166 million.

That’s a few more, right there. Of course officially both countries are allies of the United States and have nothing to do with terrorism. Even when it’s funded by their own governments.

So let’s move on to a slightly more definitive figure. In 2006, the Palestinian Arabs held an election. 440,000 of them voted for Hamas.

A terrorist organization. In the 2009 Lebanon election, a coalition that included Hezbollah and the Baath Party won over 800,000 votes.

So certainly we know that there are more than 1 million “misunderstanders” of Islam out there. And that’s out of a tiny portion of the Muslim world.”

How did the rest of the world look at his answer? The Dubai-based commentator Aijaz Zaka Syed wrote in the Arab news,

“But it was a studious girl who walked out with the cake when she queried him about jihad and what he thought of it.

As if Obama was a Sheikh [from] Al Azhar or Ayatollah from Qom to issue a fatwa on jihad!”

I see, so one has to be a Sheikh to be allowed to speak out against Jihad.

Even the Arab News knew exactly what Anam meant when she said Jihad, otherwise why would they even mention a fatwa against it, unless they want to put an end to their own “internal struggles”?

It’s also interesting that in a country where 80.5% of the population is Hindu while only 13.4 % is Muslim and only 2.3 % Christian, the Telegraph in Calcutta, India, interviewed Anam and she said she is a Muslim.

“I am Muslim but I did not ask him the question because I am Muslim. I just wanted to know.

I was nervous when I asked him the question, and surprised that I should be the first to be called upon to question him.”

The Telegraph article also had an extremely valid point,

“Barack Hussein Obama, they call him in Islamic countries in West Asia and the conservatives back home have accused him of being “socialist”, as if that were a bad word.”

Why is it that in the Islamic and West Asian countries they always use his middle name and here in the U.S. anyone who dared utter “Hussein” was accused of being a racist or Islamaphobe?

But what really gets my blood pressure up isn’t the fact that he didn’t answer Anam’s question, it was that he played right into the hands of the jihadists! I am sure Al-Jazeera television loved that clip.

No, I take that back. He didn’t play in to the jihadists hands, he promoted them. By not answering the question as it was posed to him and saying that Islam is a great religion and that those who practice Islam reaffirm peace and justice and fairness and tolerance, he isn’t just praising Islam, he is touting those that are jihadists as well.

What message does this send to those who are jihadists or better yet, those in the early stages of becoming a jihadi, like Samir Khan once was, the American turned traitor whom I wrote about last week?

Another question that a student asked of Obama did not get as much publicity, but his answer was once again questionable and deserves to be clarified. He was asked,

“Sir, my question to you is why Pakistan is so important an ally to America, so far as America has never called it a terrorist state?”

The very first thing Obama said to this question was,

“Well — no, no, it’s a good question. And I must admit I was expecting it.”

Part of Obama’s lengthy answer was as follows,

“There are more Pakistanis who’ve been killed by terrorists inside Pakistan than probably anywhere else.”

If he had been expecting a specific question, he might have researched his answer a little better.

According to the Nation Master website, a site that gathers numerical data extracted from the C.I.A.

World Fact book the top three terrorist fatalities by country between 1968 and 2006 are in descending order: Iraq, United States and India. Pakistan was number 4 followed by, you guess it, Israel.

Yes Mr. President, your own country has suffered more terrorist deaths than Pakistan according to the C.I.A.

Why does Obama continue to push the Muslim agenda? This has been ongoing since he took office.

From his speech in Cairo shortly after becoming President, to his first television interview as President with the Arab network Al-Arabiya.

Then removing all words that have anything to do with Islam in any manner within our National Security Strategy, to his Muslim outreach program with NASA, I could continue with example after example for the last 23 months.

Then when someone in this country rightly uses his middle name…

Does it really surprise anyone at this point that he would give such answers after everything he has been doing since he took office to go out of his way to praise Islam?

This does not in any way, shape or form help our national security. Our enemies only see this as a sign of weakness and give them more reason to continue to attack us and attack us hard.

As we all were told by our mothers as we were growing up “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”

I don’t remember anyone’s mother adding “or make something nice up”.

Maybe the President should heed that advice when it comes to Islam and Jihad and just say no comment. I

t would be better than praising a theological, political, ideology that murders anyone who disagrees with their agenda, wants world domination and then claims to be a peaceful religion. 

Mr. President, for our country’s sake and safety, either start calling it like it is, or don’t say anything at all.

Remember, the next time a child asks you “What color is the sky?” You can say “Well, the phrase color has a lot of meanings and is subject to a lot of different interpretations.”

Or, you could just say “blue”.

Source: Gadi Adelman

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He grew up in Israel, studying terrorism and Islam for 35 years after surviving a terrorist bomb in Jerusalem in which 7 children were killed.

Since returning to the U. S., Gadi teaches and lectures to law enforcement agencies as well as high schools and colleges.

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A man who claims he witnessed a “dry run” by Muslim hijackers on a plane at Atlanta’s airport last month told TPMmuckraker this morning he is standing by his story, despite several holes in the tale and the carrier’s claim he was not even on the plane.

In an email account of his experience that went national on right-wing blogs last week, Ted Petruna describes a group of 11 Muslim men “in full attire” who created a disturbance on a Nov. 17 Air Tran flight on the runway at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport.

In Petruna’s telling, the men fanned out through the plane, and one of the men called a companion in the back of the plane, “talking in Arabic very loudly and very aggressively.” He ignored a flight attendant’s request to put away his phone before takeoff.

Petruna, who works as a diver at a NASA lab in Houston, says two of the Muslim men began “to show footage of a porno they had taped the night before, and were very loud about it.”

Its unclear what he means by “taped the night before,” and how Petruna would know what the men had been doing the previous night. But he describes porn viewing as an activity Muslims would be permitted to engage in only before Jihad.

When a flight attendant objected to their use of an electronic device, she was told to “shut up infidel dog!”

COMPLETE STORY HERE: 

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By Diana West

President Obama gave his big Afghanistan speech last night, and it was, of course, a mess.

It was rhetorically deceptive, what with the 9/11 jihad further attributed to “men” from al Qaeda, a “group of extremists who have distorted and defiled Islam, one of the world’s great religions” and it was symbolically diabolical, what with the lives of those dewy-faced cadets in the audience in the balance.

The point of it all? The 44th POTUS ordered up 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan to begin bringing them all home by 2011.

Madness.

More depressing still, however, was the conservative reaction, which was all about seeing its glass half full. (Make those three-quarters full.) The futility of “nation-building” anywhere in the Islamic world lost on these poor infidels, they are now saying the president’s message is correct; sending a big chunk of troops as requested by Commander On-the-ground to carry out the chimerical “counterinsurgency”; even if it was marred by an exit date.

In other words, the leftist White House and conservatives are pretty much on the same stupid page when it comes to this suicide pact to sink us ever deeper into the Islamic Pit; I mean, Republic (I get them confused)—of Afghanistan.

For no achievable thing.

Not that our military, unleashed, couldn’t achieve whatever it darn well wanted. Four years to roll back Nazi-occupied Europe, but eight years and counting to roll back Taliban-occupied Bedrock?

Ours, however, is a military that will continue to be tightly leashed, hands behind its back, bound by criminally perilous rules of engagement and limited strategies that actually cause US casualties, all in a criminally misguided effort to put over a hearts-and-mind ivory tower thesis to “protect the Afghan people from everything that can hurt them,” which is how Gen. McChrystal memorably and shamefully put it.

Worse than ridiculous, but that too.

But this isn’t a conventional war, my critics say. There’s no comparison between WWII and today.

You can say that again. But why isn’t there? Why couldn’t there be? Or, to turn the question around, what if WWII had been fought as a “counterinsurgency”?

What if, instead of firebombing every important German city and killing tens of thousands of civilians from Hamburg to Dresden, and instead of firebombing Tokyo and nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and tens of thousands of Japanese in the all-outeffort to defeat the Axis powers and End All Fighting, the Allies had sought instead to win hearts and minds?

What if Gen. Eisenhower, like Gen. McChrystal today in Afghanistan, wandered through German towns, asking der volk, “What do you need?” What if Gen. MacArthur had charged his troops with Japanese population protection over US force protection, to guard them from everything that can hurt them—namely the “extremists”?

What if the US bought and paid fora “Nazi awakening”? Rewrote constitutions, enshrining Nazism in the German one, and Shintoism in the Japanese one, and then supported these governments against the “extremists” who had distorted and defiled their respective ideology/religion?

Maybe those of us on the East Coast would be speaking German, and those of us on the West Coast, Japanese.

Back to reality. News reports indicate that one of the first targets (love the utter disregard for operational secrecy) of the new “surge” will be the Taliban stronghold of Marjeh, a city of 50,000 in Helmand Province. Marjeh is known as the hub of the Taliban opium trade and the manufacturing center for the roadside bombs that kill, de-limb and cripple our troops.

This summer’s mini-”surge” (oh, to do away with that word) of 4,000 Marines left it untouched—particularly after Karzai put the kybosh on a US led assault for fear of civilian casualties, or was it for fear of denting the opium trade? (See below.) As the Washington Post recently noted about Marjeh:

The U.S. offensive, however, was not able to dislodge the Taliban from places like Marjeh, a city of about 50,000 people in central Helmand that remains a major center for the opium trade.

After several months of fighting, senior Marine officials concluded that they did not have enough troops to expand into Marjeh and a handful of other Taliban havens while holding onto the gains they had made in the province.

Guess what? If Marjeh is so important to this war it should be bombed into surrender or smithereens, whichever comes first.

But no. Not so long as Gen. Conway is at the switch. Such a tactic doesn’t occur to him or anyone else in todays military. Meanwhile: “Where we have gone, goodness follows,” Conway said.

Gad.

“But the fact is that we are not as expansive as we would like to be, and those probable additional number of Marines are going to help us to get there.”

The Marines’ inability to push the Taliban out of these key sanctuaries led some Afghans in the area to doubt U.S. resolve.

Translation: Why aren’t more of you dying for us faster, infidel? Question: What about supposedly non-Taliban “Afghan” resolve?

Why don’t they push Taliban out themselves? Why are supposedly non-Taliban Afghan men so darn helpless against other presumably Taliban Afghan men?

The Taliban has used its haven in Marjeh to produce roadside bombs and plan attacks on areas where the Marines were trying to build the local government and police forces.

Um, if this is a war and everything, wouldn’t it be a good idea to, um, destroy this all-too-safe enemy haven of bomb and tactical supply? Just wondering.

This month, Taliban fighters from Marjeh killed three Afghan city councilmen in the nearby city of Nawa, which Marines have held up as a major success story in the province.

Still wondering. But not BG Nicholson. Remember him? (Hint: “Eat lots of goat, drink lots of tea … ” Yup. That’s him.)”The two questions I get from Afghans are ‘when are you leaving’ and ‘why aren’t you going into Marjeh, because that is where the real enemy is,’ ” said Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, the senior Marine commander in the province.

Sure, go into Marjeh. Send your young warriors out for some nice urban warfare. Well worth their time and limbs, general. But how about if you go, too?

Marine commanders have little doubt that the additional 9,000 troops moving into the province will push the Taliban out of their remaining sanctuaries in the province.

But the gains will be transitory if U.S. forces do not build effective local police forces and foster a government that is relatively free of corruption and able to provide for the Afghan people, U.S. officials said.

“This will be a credibility test for the (Afghan) government to see if it can deliver,” said Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, a spokesman for McChrystal.

A credibility test. To see if they can deliver. Using real, flesh-and-blood Americans as game pieces. Sickening. And, more important, sick.

Already, there is cause for concern.

The Afghan government appears likely to commit only 60 percent of the troops that Marine and local Afghan commanders estimate that they need for the assault, a senior Marine official in Helmand said.

That means more Marines will probably have to be posted in the city after the initial attack to ensure that the Taliban does not return.

Of course, it does. How about just leaving them there forever—giving them as tribute, as janissaries, to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan?

“To have American Marines standing on a corner in a key village isn’t nearly as effective as having an Afghan policeman or Afghan soldier,” Conway said.

Earlier this year, Karzai intervened to halt an attack into Marjeh by U.S. Special Operations forces and Afghan troops after residents in the area complained of excessive civilian casualties, said senior military officials.

The coming assault on the city will be a measure of Karzai’s willingness to buck allies with ties to the opium industry, these officials said.

Sure. Let’s throw sacrifice some Marines to see what Karzai does next. That’s a great idea.

The other major area of concern is whether the Afghan government and the U.S. military will be able to meet the aggressive new growth targets laid out for the Afghan army and police force in the Obama administration’s war strategy.

“We have to increase recruiting. We have to increase retention, and we have to decrease attrition this year,” said Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV, who leads the U.S. training effort in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital.

The administration’s new plans for the Afghan army and police, which are likely to be a heavy focus of Tuesday’s speech, call for increasing the size of the army to about 134,000 troops by next October, four years earlier than the initial goal of 2014.

To meet that target, the Afghan Ministry of Defense must bring in about 5,000 new recruits a month and dramatically cut attrition in existing battalions. In November, the defense ministry missed its monthly recruiting goal by more than 2,000 troops.

Afghan soldiers and police officers were recently given a 40 percent pay increase, but it is too early to tell whether the extra money will fix the recruiting problem, U.S. officials said.

“The pay extra pay literally brought us to parity with what the Taliban are offering,” said a senior military official in Kabul.

Just wait. Soon we’ll be throwing in a signing bonus of 72 virgins.

Source: Stand Up America

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