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Hastings’ Amendment Addressing Diversity in the Intelligence Community Passes House

1 March 2010

TMC News, 27 Feb 10: . . . . Rep. Hastings’ amendment seeks to enhance the diversity of the intelligence community’s workforce. It requires the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), in coordination with the heads of the elements of the Intel community, to submit to Congress a report on the plans of [...]

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Ft. Hood suspect was Army dilemma; extreme views overlooked in favor of diversity

22 February 2010

Boston Globe, 22 Feb 10: Army superiors were warned about the radicalization of Major Nidal Malik Hasan years before he allegedly massacred 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, but did not act in part because they valued the rare diversity of having a Muslim psychiatrist, military investigators wrote in previously undisclosed reports.
An obvious “problem child’’ [...]

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Young British Muslim ex-prisoners unrepentant on views

8 February 2010

BBC, 8 Feb 10: Two young British Muslims who have served short prison sentences for terrorism offences have spoken frankly about their views to a new BBC documentary investigation into the extent of the radicalisation of Muslims in the UK. The views of Rizwan Ditta and Bilal Mohammed, two young Muslims born and brought up [...]

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Fort Hood shooting was terrorism, U.S. says

19 January 2010

Reuters, 15 Jan 10: The shooting rampage at a U.S. Army base in November was “an act of terrorism,” an Obama administration official said on Friday, as the Pentagon ordered an overhaul of protocols to spot threats within the military. . . . .A senior official in President Barack Obama’s administration declined to say whether [...]

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Terror trials will pose tough questions about Islam

22 December 2009

Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec 09: The coming trials of 11 Muslim men in the United States for several separate acts of mass murder will sharply refocus attention on Islamic theology. It will also present the Muslim world with a “moment of truth.”
How the Ummah, the global Muslim community, reacts will be a crucial test [...]

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Sayyid Qutb and the Virginia Five

18 December 2009

FrontPage/Robert Spencer, 18 Dec 09: . . . . . These are the Muslim Brotherhood’s two great theorists, its founder Hasan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb, “the father of modern [Islamic] fundamentalism.”
Of these, Qutb is the more influential today. His writings can be found easily in Islamic bookstores in the U.S. And Americans, particularly law enforcement [...]

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Hired by Customs, but Working for Mexican Cartels

18 December 2009

New York Times, 17 Dec 09: At first, Luis F. Alarid seemed well on his way to becoming a customs agency success story. He had risen from a childhood of poverty and foster homes, some of them abusive, earned praise and commendations while serving in the Army and the Marines, including two tours in Iraq, [...]

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Missed signs puzzling as Hasan picture emerges

7 December 2009

Stars and Stripes, 6 Dec 09: . . . . . Now, as the results of the first of several federal probes into missed signals in the Fort Hood case circulate inside the White House, outside experts are coming to their own conclusions. They believe excessive political correctness, a lack of understanding of Islam and [...]

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Jihad draws young men across globe back to Somalia

2 December 2009

Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2 Dec 09: They slipped away quietly, not telling family or friends where they were going or why. Days later, the young Somali men turned up in their homeland to bear arms with Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaida. Counterterrorism officials worried that they might return to carry out an attack [...]

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Another spying scandal at Gitmo

1 December 2009

New York Post/Paul Sperry, 1 Dec 09:
Paul Sperry, a Hoover Institution media fellow, is author of Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington and the new book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America
A number of Arabic and Pashtu interpreters at the terror-war detention center at Guantanamo Bay are under [...]

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Home-grown terrorism: Our values are not optional for minority groups

1 December 2009

Daily Telegraph, 28 Nov 09: How do you create a home-grown terrorist? For a while, Britain seemed to hold the copyright on the formula for this.
First, you import a huge number of people from places where there are unresolved historical conflicts, with no stipulation that they learn anything about their adopted homeland (not even [...]

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America And The Enemy Within

21 November 2009

Strategy Page, 21 Nov 09: The CIA has produced a new batch of TV ads for recruiting Arab and Iranian-Americans. Especially those with a good knowledge of the languages and cultures of the old country. Such recruiting has been a tricky business, because we are war with an entity that identifies itself via culture and [...]

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American convert to Islam says it is not permissible for Muslims to join an Infidel army

19 November 2009

Jihad Watch/Robert Spencer, 19 Nov 09: Glossary: Kaafir, kufr = Infidel. Deen = religion. Ummah = global Islamic community. Ulamaa = Islamic scholars. Al wala wal bara = “Love and hate,” i.e., love for Muslims and hatred for non-Muslims.
“Is It Permissible To Join A Kaafir Army?,” by Umar Lee, November 19:
In the years since 9/11, [...]

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An Oath Violated?

18 November 2009

By Bill Warner, of the highly recommended site, Political Islam:
There is a very big problem that goes beyond the dead and wounded at Fort Hood. The jihadist “broke” his oath of service, but what was the oath worth before he started killing kafirs, unbelievers? Major Hasan swore:
I, Nidal Hasan, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that [...]

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NY ex-lawyer in terror case ordered to prison

18 November 2009

AP, 17 Nov 09: A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a disbarred civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case to go to prison and said a judge must consider whether her sentence of a little more than two years behind bars was too lenient.
Lynne Stewart, 70, has been free on appeal since she [...]

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Q&A with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser

16 November 2009

Dallas Morning News: Phoenix physician Zuhdi Jasser was particularly stung by the Fort Hood massacre. Like him, Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan is a Muslim, a son of Middle Eastern immigrants, a doctor and a military man. But there’s a key difference: Hasan appears to have succumbed to the radical Islamist ideology that Jasser spends his [...]

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Hasan’s Treasonous Statement

13 November 2009

[CI CENTRE]  CNN reported this exchange between US military officers and Army officer Nidal Hasan at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland:
“Is your allegiance to Sharia law or the United States?” students once challenged Hasan, the source said. “Sharia law,” Hasan responded, according to the source. The incident was corroborated by another doctor [...]

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Jihadist Nidal Hasan’s PowerPoint Presentation on Islam

11 November 2009

“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 [...]

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