Posted on 05/10/2007 3:28:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
The United States dodged another bullet - several in fact - when authorities foiled an alleged terrorist attack on the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey by six men described by authorities as "radical Islamists." Three of the men are illegal immigrants.
White House press secretary Tony Snow said there is "no direct evidence" that the suspects have ties to international terrorism. Perhaps not in the traditional way that "ties" has been defined, but there are other ties that bind people to international terrorism without commissions or charters from a terrorist organization. That is what makes this freelance form of terrorism especially difficult to thwart.
Had it not been for the carelessness of one of the suspects who asked a local video store to copy a training video depicting men with weapons shouting "God is great" and proclaiming jihad, the alleged plot might have succeeded. The owner of the store tipped off authorities, which then began a 15-month investigation resulting in the arrests of the men. Some advocacy groups want the right to sue people who report suspicious activity, as in the case of passengers aboard a U.S. Airways flight who reported several imams they believed were behaving suspiciously. Now the imams, with the help of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim lobby group, have filed suit in hopes of obtaining the names of the passengers so they can be sued.
The usual groups issue the predictable statements condemning the alleged terrorist plot at Fort Dix, repeating that Islam is a "peaceful religion." Recall that the late Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, repeatedly condemned terrorist attacks he either helped instigate or inspired.
It is more prudent to pay attention to what terrorists say and do rather than to what the sophisticated, media-savvy conveyers of disinformation tell us.
Authorities said one of the suspects is believed to have been a sniper in Kosovo and he and the other men had been training at a firing range in Pennsylvania. Eljvir Duka, 23, is quoted in the complaint as saying, "When it comes to defending your religion, when someone is trying to attack your religion, your way of life, then you go jihad." This is the triumph of the brainwashers throughout the Islamic world. They teach the youngest of children that jihad and dying for Allah is their sole guarantee of heaven. That's a tough doctrine to overcome, especially when Western diplomats are seen as infidel "cross-worshippers" and "Jewish pigs" deserving of death.
Christopher J. Christie, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, told a news conference, "This is a new brand of terrorism where a small cell of people can bring enormous devastation."
Is anyone in doubt as to the terrorist game plan? It is to intimidate, subjugate and eradicate U.S. citizens and bring the United States to its knees. This is not a secret. It is preached throughout the world in mosques and in Arab and Muslim media. As more aliens enter this country - legally and illegally - those who are Muslims are building mosques faster than coffee shop chains. The Saudis, who teach the most virulent and violent strain of Islam, underwrite most of them. That is not to say all Muslims are terrorists, or that all mosques are centers for terrorist training, but surely some are and how do we identify them before we experience another Sept. 11 -- times 10?
According to the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, the number of mosques in America grew 60 percent between 1995 and 2000, second only to the Christian mega-churches and well ahead of the Mormons and Assemblies of God. One finds no reciprocity in Muslim countries, where churches, and especially synagogues, are either tightly controlled or banned outright. In the Washington, D.C., area, alone, there are an estimated 45 mosques. It only takes one to serve as a theological instruction center for young jihadists who believe that killing Americans is his or her highest "calling."
It is long past time to stop worrying about political correctness and "sensitivities" and do what is necessary to improve our security before someone with official ties to al-Qaida, or simply religious freelancers, shoot up a shopping mall or a school. Congress can start by putting real teeth into the immigration bill that will be up for debate soon. And then we have to get serious about dealing with the threat living in our midst.
Cal Thomas is America's most widely syndicated op-ed columnist and co-author of Blinded by Might.
OR what I’m more worried about, in fact:
“... before we experience 1% of Sept. 11 -— ten thousand times?”
Why is this incident being treated as a “crime” instead of an act of war?
Here is another example of why the white flag appraoch to fighting terror is not going to work. While Pelosi, Reid, Murtha and the rest of the surrender monkies in DC do their best to lose the war, our enemies are only too happy to come here and fight us on our own shores. How can the Democratic leadership be so reckless and just plain stupid? We either win the war overseas or we fight it here.....how many episodes of that do we need before they get the message? Maybe they will not demand we withdraw from the Northeast.....Pennsylvania first, Murtha’s district is showing no progress at all.
I watch him every Saturday on FOX News watch on FNC
I wonder how many jihadists roamed freely while Gov. McGreevey's boyfriend, Golan Cipel, handled New Jersey's Homeland security.
Investigations by the news media into Cipel's history revealed few notable qualifications related to intelligence or security.
Because it is a crime
Why did Cal write that? Whom does this help....?
We may know a lot more about their connections when investigators have studied their computers.
The Muslim terrorists, three of whom were illegal aliens, must have missed class when terrorist tactics were taught. Terrorists are supposed to go up against unarmed women and babies from ambush. They are not supposed to attack a regular army force.
They would have been shot down in short order.
The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, the believers our soldiers. - Ziya Gokalp
The barracks are being built and filling up with platoons of soldiers.
If these cells were all to launch attacks at once and the citizenry were to fight back we would find ourselves beset by the law enforcement agencies of the nation who would be more concerned to protect the saracens, guilty or innocent, than to protect the country. More resources would be expended against militias and citizens than against jihadists attacking targets in our country. That is Political Correctness and our nation appears to be sworn to that standard above survival itself.
And who would you claim was the supporting state behind this group? Sort of need that to declare 'war' against someone (well unless you're the US government, they declare war on all sorts of nouns)
Course the description 'crime' itself may be a little too harsh when you look at some of the facts known about the case.
Actually the Left is thoroughly condescending toward Islam, even as it pushes for Islamic victory in the world. They don't believe the mohos are capable of doing much of anything complicated and that is why they will realize that they have to use the services of the Left.
He could not have written it were it not already public. I bet it has already been all over the jihad chats that it is not a wise thing to do.
They don't need any. They have ties to international _Islam_.
What more does a jihadi need?
- John
“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, the believers our soldiers. - Ziya Gokalp
The barracks are being built and filling up with platoons of soldiers.”
When they’re unleashed the US is in BIG trouble. How did we get to be so d*mn dumb?
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