Posted on 02/11/2008 8:31:48 PM PST by K-oneTexas
WorldNetDaily
February 11, 2008
In a stunning turn of events, a high-level Muslim military aide blamed for costing an intelligence contractor his job will step down from his own Pentagon post, WND has learned.
Meanwhile, his rival, Maj. Stephen Coughlin, a leading authority on Islamic war doctrine, may stay in the Pentagon, moving from the office of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the office of the secretary of defense. However, sources say a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey is trying to block his new contract.
The top Pentagon aide, Egyptian-born Hesham H. Islam, came under a cloud of suspicion after reports raised doubt about his resume and contacts he had made with radical Muslims. He is expected to leave the government next month, officials say.
Islam and Coughlin recently quarreled over intelligence briefings Coughlin presented showing a close connection between the religion of Islam and terrorism. Coughlin's contract with the Joint Chiefs, which ends in March, was not renewed.
But as a result of the ensuing firestorm that played out in the conservative press – led by Washington Times Pentagon reporter Bill Gertz – Islam was put under a microscope, and questions were raised regarding his background.
For example, Claudia Rosett of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies wrote a column challenging key claims in Islam's official biography. Within days, a Defense Department profile of Islam was removed from the department's website.
A Pentagon spokesman said it was "taken down in an attempt to reduce the rhetoric and the emotion surrounding this issue while we try to determine the facts."
A senior U.S. official says the life story Islam presented now appears sketchy.
"His resume didn't add up, and he knows it," the official said. "He's voluntarily leaving the government in March."
At the same time, a report by terror expert Steven Emerson revealed that Islam, as special assistant to the deputy secretary of defense, has scheduled at least two meetings in the Pentagon with Syrian-tied radicals – including a leading member of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood – in direct violation of U.S. policy.
As WND previously reported, FBI officials believe Islam is involved with the U.S. branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and is helping its front groups run "influence operations" against the U.S. government.
"He's a Muslim brother," an FBI official told WND. "He's a bad actor, and he's made other unreported nefarious contacts."
Islam has worked closely in the Pentagon with Muslim chaplain Abuhena M. Saifulislam, who as WND also previously reported, received his trained at a radical Islamic school in Northern Virginia that was raided by federal authorities after 9/11.
Islam, whose son is active in the military, obtained one of the highest security clearances for classified information. Sources confirm he has sat in on Pentagon meetings in which intelligence clearance was restricted at the Top Secret/SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information) level.
The Pentagon had no comment. And Islam, who has not been accused of any crimes, has refused interviews.
Emerson says Islam prescribed a steady diet of Muslim Brotherhood-connected outreach for his unwitting boss, deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England.
For example, England spoke at the Islamic Society of North America's 2006 convention and last year even hosted a luncheon with ISNA officials in the Pentagon. At the time, federal prosecutors had linked ISNA to the Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy in the U.S. and named the group as an unindicted co-conspirator in a major terrorism-financing case.
In one intelligence briefing, Coughlin argued that the Pentagon should end its outreach programs with ISNA, which also put him at odds with Islam.
Pentagon insiders say Eric S. Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy, has sought to stop the awarding of a new contract to Coughlin. Edelman served as ambassador to Turkey from 2003 to 2005.
Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., who co-chairs the House Anti-Terrorism Caucus, has been fighting to keep Coughlin in the Pentagon, where she says his blunt analysis of the Islamic enemy is sorely needed.
Citing federal court documents introduced as evidence in a recent major terror case, she also warns that U.S. front groups for the Muslim Brotherhood are conspiring to destroy America from within.
"Our enemies have clearly stated their intention to infiltrate us, much like the Russians did during the Cold war," Myrick said. "We had no problem analyzing and acting on that information then."
"I know that some people will refuse to admit there is a subversive movement going on here, but let me remind you that we have underestimated the will and capability of our enemy for more than 30 years," she added. "They are patient and determined to achieve their radical agenda."
Editor's Note: For more on the Hesham Islam story, click here and here.
Why isn’t this Muslim Jiahdist puke strapped to a water board?
Time to go door to door.
why does he get to say when he leaves ? what the hell is wrong with the feds ? too embedded with Clinton appointees ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Turkey
Turkish Republic
Joseph Grew (1927-1932)
Charles H. Sherrill (1932-1933)
Robert P. Skinner (1933-1936)
John Van A. MacMurray (1936-1941)
Laurence A. Steinhardt (1941-1945)
Edwin C. Wilson (1945-1948)
George Wadsworth (1948-1952)
George C. McGhee (1952-1953)
Avra M. Warren (1953-1956)
Fletcher Warren (1956-1960)
Raymond A. Hare (1960-1965)
Parker T. Hart (1965-1968)
Robert Komer (1968-1969)
William J. Handley (1969-1973)
William B. Macomber, Jr. (1973-1977)
Ronald I. Spiers (1977-1980)
James W. Spain (1980-1981)
Robert Strausz-Hupe (1981-1989)
Morton I. Abramowitz (1989-1991)
Richard Clark Barkley (1991-1994)
Marc Grossman (1994-1997)
Mark Robert Parris (1997-2000)
W. Robert Pearson (2000-2003)
Eric S. Edelman (2003-2005)
Hmm, wild guess. Grossman?
The top Pentagon aide, Egyptian-born Hesham H. Islam, came under a cloud of suspicion after reports raised doubt about his resume and contacts he had made with radical Muslims. He is expected to leave the government next month, officials say.
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NEXT MONTH ?????????
DUH
How about immediately ????????
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Former Ambassador Marc Grossman was involved with Plamegate!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Grossman
Valerie Plame Affair
Grossman played a peripheral role in the Plame Affair, at least in terms of what is currently known.
On 10 June 2003, an analyst at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) sent a memo to Ambassador Grossman outlining Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s trip to Niger and mentioning that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA. Reportedly, Grossman wanted the memo as background to use at a White House meeting on criticism of President Bush for using the Niger claim in his State of the Union speech.
According to the Washington Post, Grossman has refused to answer questions about the memo. The Post says it is not clear if Grossman actually talked about the memo or mentioned Mrs. Wilson at the meeting.[1]
On 6 July 2003, Richard Armitage asked the head of INR, Carl Ford, to send a copy of the memo to Colin Powell aboard Air Force One.
In Patrick Fitzgerald’s indictment of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on October 28, 2005, Grossman is the Under Secretary of State mentioned as giving information about Plame to Libby.
It has been suggested by Libby’s legal defense that Grossman is biased because, according to Theodore Wells, Libby’s defense lawyer, Grossman and Wilson went to college and came up through the ranks of the State Department together.[2]
It is worth noting, however, that many people have said that the unnamed “State Department official” that Sibel Edmonds is accusing of blowing an undercover operation designed to identify and plug various US leaks of nuclear secrets is Marc Grossman.
And lookie here!
On 25 January 2008, Joshua Frank at dissidentvoice.org headlined “Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade with Turkey,” and presented evidence, from recent articles in The Times and elsewhere, in which FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds alleges that the Bush Administration is trying to cover up corrupt private sales of U.S. nuclear secrets to the A.Q. Khan network in Pakistan via Turkey, in which Marc Grossman was allegedly involved. Reportedly, a request which Bush “quietly announced on January 22 that the president would like Congress to approve the sale of nuclear secrets to Turkey” aimed to protect the people who had sold these secrets. “As with most stories of this magnitude, the U.S. media has put on blinders, opting not to report” it.
From the article....
Pentagon insiders say Eric S. Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy, has sought to stop the awarding of a new contract to Coughlin. Edelman served as ambassador to Turkey from 2003 to 2005.
Hope you saw post #30.
From the article....
Pentagon insiders say Eric S. Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy, has sought to stop the awarding of a new contract to Coughlin. Edelman served as ambassador to Turkey from 2003 to 2005.
From the article: 'Pentagon insiders say Eric S. Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy, has sought to stop the awarding of a new contract to Coughlin. Edelman served as ambassador to Turkey from 2003 to 2005.'
Oh good catch!
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/breaking-islamic-stereotypes/
Breaking Islamic Stereotypes
by Thomas Riggins / February 11th, 2008
If Marc Grossman has anything to do with this organization, then my bet he is the “former Turkish Ambassador”.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/“we-can’t-afford-to-let-them-spill-the-beans”/
This is a must read!! If true, my word - who needs novelists!
That link gives a 404....
“Islam prescribed a steady diet of Muslim brotherhood-connected outreach for his unwitting boss, deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England.”
Does Mr. England have the intelligence of a pet rock?
When you look closely at a malaria germ, that is just what you see ... a malaria germ.
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