US monitored Muslim sites for radiation: report

Yahoo ^ | 12/23/05

[Sub-Driver]

US monitored Muslim sites for radiation: report

5 minutes ago

U.S. officials have secretly monitored radiation levels at Muslim sites, including mosques and private homes, since September 11, 2001 as part of a top secret program searching for nuclear bombs, U.S. News and World Report said on Friday.

The news magazine said in its online edition that the far-reaching program covered more than a hundred sites in the Washington, D.C., area and at least five other cities.

"In numerous cases, the monitoring required investigators to go on to the property under surveillance, although no search warrants or court orders were ever obtained, according to those with knowledge of the program," the magazine said.

The report comes a week after revelations that the Bush administration had authorized eavesdropping on people in the United States. U.S. President George W. Bush has defended that covert program and vowed to continue the practice, saying it was vital to protect the country.

Senior U.S. officials, including FBI Director Robert Mueller, have repeatedly said Islamic militants appeared intent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction for an attack against the United States.

Mueller said in February he was "very concerned with the growing body of sensitive reporting that continues to show al Qaeda's clear intention to obtain and ultimately use some form of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-energy explosives material in its attacks against America."

An FBI spokesman declined to confirm or deny the U.S. News and World Report article and said, "We can't talk about a classified program."

[noblejones]

This is news?

When I look for water, I find the ocean a good place to start.

[gotribe]

I hope we've infiltrated every one of them, myself.

I hope we've put every Iman in the US to sleep and inserted microchips under their skin. They should have no right to privacy.

[Edgerunner]

People keep disclosing such top secret programs, endangering national security and our lives. And nobody seems to care or demand an investigation. But the Plame investigation, even though it was clear from day 1, that no law was broken, turned into a major investigation.

DING DING DING we have a winner! ya get a cigar fer that observation...

[Steel Wolf]

The same John McCain who wrote THE TERRORISTS' BILL OR RIGHTS? I don't think so. It might turn enough people toward Guiliani and make them ignore his sleazier points, but I really don't think it will help a crazed crook like McCain get power.

That's why I picked McCain for my example. It's not because of his experience in the Senate, although that is part of it. It's not exactly his military service, either.

The reason I think that Americans in panic would run to McCain is simple.

Deep down, everyone knows that McCain is crazy. Not just a little off, mind you. I'm talking about foaming at the mouth, paint chip eating, barking at the moon crazy. We all know it, but so long as he holds it together for the cameras, we're all to polite to say anything.

[gotribe]

If a nuclear terrorist attack occured on U.S. soil, I wouldn't want to be a Muslim, any Muslim, in America.

It's interesting to ponder. I'm not sure anything would happen to them. Fearful of uncontrollable violence, the government would immediately go into lockstep with the "Islam is a religion of peace" crap, CAIR would be inundated with Saudi cash to run TV ads every minute saying how sorry it is that this happened, the Democrats would escalate the blame Bush rhetoric. Only if individuals en masse took the law into their hands and started burning Mosques would Muslims be at risk. Then we could have major civil unrest on our hands as the rage spread. But I think our government would clamp down hard on that sort of thing. I think there would be a lot of "disappearances," though, as the Feds rolled up even the least suspect, and the torture laws be damned at that point.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You need this book....it will explain a great deal.

Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left

And a very good review:

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Vastly Illuminating, September 25, 2004

Reviewer:

Kat Bakhu (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews

I had long wondered why people on the Left had the propensity to speak more positively about people who would slit their throats than they do about their own country, which affords them more freedom and opportunity than anywhere else. David Horowitz has answered that question thoroughly and convincingly in his Unholy Alliance. Where I felt bewildered and confused, I now feel crystal clear. Unholy Alliance is such a great book.

It begins with the leftist movements at the beginning of the 20th Century, and works its way up to the present day, exploring the anti-American attitude of these movements in detail. Horowitz shows that the enemies of the US back then are largely the same group today, operating under the same misperceptions, making the same mistakes, and pursuing the same impossible utopia.

Individual chapters are included on the Patriot Act (I was persuaded that it is a GOOD thing); the democratic flip-flop on Iraq once G.W. Bush implemented what they agreed with Clinton needed to be done; the driving components of the current anti-war movement; as well as chapters on individual personalities who are major spokespeople of the Left. Horowitz covers a lot of ground, and he covers it concisely and clearly. Unholy Alliance is richly informative without ever being boring or plodding.

This book is so illuminating that I simply cannot do justice to it here. I love people who reason so clearly that they help me get my own reasoning clear. Horowitz is just that type of person! In the terrain of mindless clichés (no-blood-for-oil, etc.), he is a breath of real fresh air.

[penowa]

I'm not too polite to say it. He's a whacko. I don't think people in a panic would want him as a president any more than people thinking rationally. McCain radiates his instability a lot of times and he makes many people uncomfortable because they perceive it even if they don't recognize exactly what it is.

[Edgerunner]

they seem to confuse criminal investigation with enemy intelligence gathering ops...

[Right_in_Virginia]

U.S. officials have secretly monitored radiation levels at Muslim sites,

Good.

[Aquinasfan]

I am outraged! If they want to keep a nuke in their home or church, why it's their RIGHT!

Being monitored for radiation levels is worse than torture!!!

[sheik yerbouty]

The media mullahs should be bound.. and gagged as well! They are compromising US security.

[Dawggie]

I for one would like to see the leekers hang. My point is I do not think the public understands how serious the danger is and therefore the public hangings for treason are out. Given enough latitude a slime will always hang themselfs and they are presently working on the knot. These stories are making a big splash in the public eye so that when we get hit again the knot which the lefties have made will tighten.

[Principled]

"another item the Dims will complain about...."

Well, and I would be complaining if such obvious steps had not been taken.

So would the dems.

[Fishtalk]

I want to know WHO IS THE LEAKER

At this point it seems evident a couple of things. The State and CIA were full of moles when Bush took office. After losing three months because of that Dem attempt to steal the 2000 election Bush had but a few months to get his act together before 9/11.

He had to appoint Condi to state, Goss to CIA, turnover for Ashcroft, Colin Powell's wishy-washiness, etc. FINALLY it's gotten to the point that these moles are being systematically eliminated.

It's either these former traitors that have been fired from the housecleaning doing the leaking. More likely, as dawn begins to break over our marble heads, it's actual SENATORS from the House of Lords likely doing th leaking, along with a few representatives.

I'm thinking, as with the NY Times, that these leaks have been out there waiting for the right time to spring. Obviously one of the right times was planned right after this December Iraqi election.

They simply don't want us to win this war. Now I must ask why?

All the world, including the two bit thugs in Nigeria was having a field day with Saddam's oil for food. And NO ONE in American knew anything?

Could be that finally getting around to completion of a lot of investigations some names are floating to the top?

Because I've thrown up my hands and refuse to say it's about idealology.

Follow the money.

[ADemocratNoMore]

I should probably make this my tag line...

"The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column".

[Txsleuth]

I find it most amusing...as well as curious, that Daschle would do what he did today...

By coming out and saying (I don't believe him, but that is beside the point)..that they TURNED THE POTUS/CIC down, when asked for any clearance they needed to conduct these wiretaps...

PROVED..right there....that they were/are more interested in making Bush's life miserable..than protecting our country from terrorists.

NOW...the leaker in this case..feels it is more important to give these Muslims groups more ammunition to get the terrorists..and others riled up...and I am SURE that the dems (George Soros?)...are behind this also.

[Political Junkie Too]

based on what I have been reading from some freepers on the Patriot Act threads - you will see some people agreeing that use of a gieger counter without a search warrant violates the 4th amendment.

This reminds me of a news story from last month where a group of lawyers was arguing against searching backpacks at subways because it violated the "public's expectation of privacy."

This falling into the same oxymoron of public-privacy. They argue that using a geiger counter in a public place that can detect emmissions from within a private place is a violation of privacy. Does the same logic hold true if a person in that same spot smells smoke? Are they not supposed to report it to try to prevent a fire?

-PJ

[CDB]

I agree. It most likely was someone from an org. that was briefed. I'd like to hope that the CI folks in every agency involved are tracking this down as I post this.

And the libs cry "oversight." Is giving aid and comfort to our enemies "oversight?" Most Americans understand the need for national security secrets--and they reasons why they must be KEPT secret.

[p23185]

By coming out and saying (I don't believe him, but that is beside the point)..that they TURNED THE POTUS/CIC down, when asked for any clearance they needed to conduct these wiretaps... PROVED..right there....that they were/are more interested in making Bush's life miserable..than protecting our country from terrorists.

Maybe Mehlman and Rove can make a soundbite out of this!!! Would help in '06 and '08 -The party that is more interested in re-gaining their birthright (power) than protecting the US from islamofacists.

[p23185]

Make it a 2006 campaign issue....PLEASE. Let's see how many people in this nation BELIEVE that would be terrorists have a RIGHT to PRIVACY as they BUILD a dirty BOMB.

I can see it now - a clip of some islamofacists assembling Fat Man in a mosque, with a crawl underneath on the TV screen - "These are the folks the DemonRATS want to protect!".