A Council on American-Islamic Relations adviser and regular speaker at its events has suggested Islamic law permits Muslims to attack C-130 military transport planes carrying the 82nd Airborne out of Fort Bragg, N.C., according to a new book exposing Washington-based CAIR’s inner workings.
Radical Islamic cleric Zaid Shakir, a frequent guest speaker at CAIR events, tells his Muslim audiences: “Jihad is physically fighting the enemies of Islam to protect and advance the religion of Islam. This is jihad.”
Acceptable targets of jihad, he says, include U.S. military aircraft. “Islam doesn’t permit us to hijack airplanes filled with civilian people,” Shakir once told a Muslim audience. However, “If you hijack an airplane filled with the 82nd Airborne, that’s something else.”
…… Longtime CAIR advisory board member and chief fundraiser Siraj Wahhaj echoes his friend Shakir’s interpretation of jihad. “If we go to war, brothers and sisters – and one day we will, believe me – that’s why you’re commanded [to fight in] jihad,” the imam has told his flock in Brooklyn. “When Allah demands us to fight, we’re not stopping and nobody’s stopping us.”
……The cleric has not tempered his jihadist views. “I don’t regret anything I’ve done or said,” Shakir has insisted. Shakir holds little, if any, respect for law enforcement, particularly the FBI, according to “Muslim Mafia.” He constantly belittles the bureau in speeches to Muslims, even warning them that the FBI frames Muslims for terrorism – terrorist acts that he contends the FBI secretly commits. Read the rest
From DNI Press Release (11 Nov 09):
David C. Gompert officially joined the Office of the Director of National Intelligence today as the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence following his Nov. 9 confirmation by the U.S. Senate. President Barack Obama nominated him for the position on Aug. 6, 2009.
The appointment makes Gompert the ODNI’s second-highest-ranking official after Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair. The Principal Deputy DNI, who may act on the Director’s behalf, assists the DNI in efforts to promote greater collaboration and information sharing among the 16 agencies that make up the Intelligence Community. Read the rest
From US Dept of Justice Press Release (10 Nov 09):
Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, Russia; Oleg Covelin, 28, of Chisinau, Moldova; and a person known only as “Hacker 3;” have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta, Ga., on charges of hacking into a computer network operated by the Atlanta-based credit card processing company RBS WorldPay, which is part of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Igor Grudijev, 31, Ronald Tsoi, 31, Evelin Tsoi, 20, and Mihhail Jevgenov, 33, each of Tallinn, Estonia, have also been indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta, Ga., for access device fraud.
The 16-count indictment charges Tsurikov, Pleshchuk, Covelin and “Hacker 3″ with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, computer fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. The indictment alleges that the group used sophisticated hacking techniques to compromise the data encryption that was used by RBS WorldPay to protect customer data on payroll debit cards. Read the rest
“The Koranic Worldview as it Relates to Muslims in the Military” (.pdf) by US Army Major Nidal Hasan in 2007. His presentation is doctrinally correct as it relates to Islam according to CI Centre’s instructors in our 361: The Global Jihadist Threat Doctrine training course. Hasan’s solution, however, raises loyalty issues: he believes American Muslim soldiers should be exempt from fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan to avoid harming fellow Muslims (according to Islamic doctrine).
Hasan PowerPoint Presentation Warned Army of “Adverse Events” if Muslims Not Released (ABC News)
Allegiance in a Time of Globalization (.pdf) DOD PERSEREC, Dec 2008
Hasan said he was a Muslim before he was an American. Security officers have their work cut out for them regarding the increasing problem of lack of allegiance to the United States. PERSEREC looks at this issue.
A senior government official tells ABC News that investigators have found that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan had “more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI” than just radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki. The official declined to name the individuals but Congressional sources said their names and countries of origin were likely to emerge soon. Read the rest
