Posted on 04/27/2013 6:04:56 AM PDT by Bill Russell
Since early last week, listeners across the country have been hearing Glenn Beck rail against the Obama Administration for its handling of the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing. Beck has been especially focused on the quick changes in the status and the subsequent, and very expedited, deportation of a Saudi suspect, Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi. Al-Harbi was the prime suspect on the day of the bombing and was previously on an FBI terror watch-list. He had open event files, including a 212-3B terrorist suspect designation before the bombing. In spite of this designation, Al-Harbi was quickly declared a witness and sent home. The truth behind what happened with Al-Harbi lies somewhere in the shadows, and will probably never be fully known.
Glenn Beck and former Muslim Brotherhood member, Whalid Shoebat, and many others are very concerned about the developments of the Al-Harbi connections with the Boston bombing. Glenn Beck has been the most vocal and has been leading the charge to get to the bottom of the story, presenting many verified documents detailing the changes in Al-Harbi’s status. Beck further ties the treatment of Al-Harbi to the pattern established under President Bush when 140 Saudis were quickly sped out of the country following the 9/11attacks of 2001-- although 15 of the 19 terrorists were Saudis.
This quick deportation of Saudis with or without direct connections to the terrorist crimes is troubling. At a minimum, it drives everyone with any discerning temperament and interest in the security of our nation to question why this might occur and so much of it is kept secret. The apparent conflict of interest fuels the fires of distrust and fans the flames of conspiracy theories. Given the already questionable policies and reprehensible performance of the Obama Administration on the foreign and domestic fronts, this fire is spreading.
The Obama Administration has been incredibly distrustful in the protection of our rights, or rather, in its hostilities toward those who wish to protect the Constitution. From the refusal to prosecute the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation in the 2008 election, to the focus on “right-wing Christian extremists,” to the cover up of Beghazi, the Administration and its appointed Secretaries have been seemingly focused on undermining the Constitution and America’s standing in the world. It has reached the point where Beck and many people on the politically and socially conservative side of the house believe the full weight and efforts of the entire Homeland Security Department is focused on the TEA party, and not Al-Qaeda and the Islamic Brotherhood, as the primary threats to our nation.
But all conservatives must keep in mind that there are literally hundreds of thousands of mid-level and fairly senior career intelligence, law enforcement, and military personnel who are sworn to support and defend the Constitution. These professionals are walking the tight rope of showing public compliance with the President and his policies, while quietly using bureaucratic inertia to slow the practical effects of the Administration’s efforts to undermine the Constitution. They are engaged in very personal, gut-wrenching struggles to preserve the institutions charged with protecting our nation. They are doing so at the risk of their careers as well as the risks of being lumped together with the Administration which sets the political agendas for those institutions. In some cases, they resign in protest as the Justice Department official did in response to Eric Holder’s handling of the Black Panther case. But in most cases, they continue to serve quietly to safe guard the continuity and integrity of those institutions until the political winds bring new political leadership.
In spite of the validity of the documents Beck has acquired and his listeners’ Congressional call-in campaigns, the American people will probably never get the answers we are looking for. Part of the reason is the intransigence and incompetence of the Obama Administration. Part of it is the need to keep the work of the Intelligence community secret and avoid actions and leaks which could further the destabilization of the entire Middle East. Such leaks and actions could potentially lead to the replacement of the House of Saud with another Muslim Brotherhood government, controlling a large portion of the world economy’s life blood.
To better understand the dynamics of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one must understand it is a political tent woven from one of the most complicated patch works of political relationships in the world today, ruled by a royal family (the House of Saud) with over 6000 family members. Only a native Arabic speaker could truly comprehend the mix of Sharia law, family & tribal relationships, pride, insecurity, and face-saving backwards logic which keeps that patch work together. Too much stress in anyone direction, and it will rip apart at the odd angles of its many seams. That patchwork tent is under the stress from the harsh political winds of the Arabian Peninsula which seem to blow all directions at the same time. The civil war in Syria and the revolutions in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia have only increased those winds. The danger is the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda will replace the Saudi tent with a single fabric woven from the most radical interpretations of Sharia and integrated into a new greater Islamic Caliphate.
In the west, we tend to view royal families as vestiges of antiquated political systems with a privileged few holding dominion over the masses, keeping them in poverty and suppressing societal development towards freedom. In Saudi Arabia, the dynamic is reversed. The leadership in the royal family, with all their faults and weaknesses, are the educated, enlightened, and pragmatic ones in the equation. They recognize the need to balance the conflicting legal systems of Sharia, which governs domestic issues, and Common, International, and Trade laws which govern trade and international relations. They are trying to maintain a balance as they move a 15th century society of tent and mud house dwelling Bedouin herders (it is literally the year 1434 by the Muslim Hijri calendar) into the 21st century in a single generation.
To put this in perspective: at their births, many Saudis born outside the major city centers 40 years ago, had more in common with their ancestors of the 7th Century than with their children born today.
The introduction of massive oil wealth and its opulence and decadence, combined with the modern technologies in communications, air travel, and weapons into such a society has produced an extremely volatile mix. The portion of the Saudi population whose religious beliefs, social, and political sophistication is barley removed from the middle ages, is fertile ground for the Islamic Fundamentalist messages and recruiting. The fundamentalists are blanketing those populations with sermons, videos, and printed materials highlighting the corruption and sinfulness of the royal family and accusing them of being servants to the infidel Americans. This is a message which resonates with people whose perceptions of America are shaped by Al Jazera and internet pornography. This is the portion of the population which produced the 9/11 high-jackers.
For Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, drawing Saudi recruits for attacks on American soil serves a very strategic purpose: it undermines the relationship between the Saudi government and the United States. It causes public distrust and hatred of all Saudis in the US. This in turn, fuels Islamist propaganda which makes it harder for the Saudi King to use US assistance in standing against Iran and keeping a lid on the Islamic revolutionary movements within the Kingdom.
The Saudi Royal family maintains this incredibly delicate balance with heavily weighted ballasts. The Ministry of Defense, which is responsible for defense against foreign threats, is directly balanced by the full time and equally well armed National Guard, which is responsible for internal defense. In the city of Riyadh, there are a number of security colleges, each training students to serve in different agencies, which also counterbalance each other and prevent anyone administrator from becoming too powerful.
The Americans responsible for working with this myriad of Saudi agencies to keep the open pot of boiling Islamic Fundamentalism from spilling all over the place, reside in the US interagency intelligence communities. They work with the conglomeration of Saudi security agencies on the mutual self interests of the United States and House of Saud in reducing the fundamentalist threats on the Arabian Peninsula and world stages.
Which brings us back to Al-Harbi. It is possible that he has enjoyed some special status in the US because of his Saudi family ties and this somehow got him out of a tight spot. But it is also possible that, in addressing the common threats of terrorism to the US and House of Saud, (we will probably never know for sure), that many of the Saudis who have been quickly whisked away following 9/11 and the Boston bombing were agents and their families working in conjunction with US and Saudi intelligence agencies to infiltrate terrorist organizations in order to track and defeat their leadership and money lines of communications. Their covers were effectively blown when the attacks occurred and links led American law enforcement to them.
The evidence of this is not in what is being said. It is in what is not being said in relation to Beck’s charges and inquiries. While certain documents have been leaked showing changes to the terrorist watch-list standings (probably by law enforcement or political personnel who are naturally alarmed at the changes), the door has been shut on who was responsible for changing the status and why it was done. No one who can get access to the inside information is bringing it forward and most are going silent on the issue. This led Beck to call for his listeners to contact their Congressmen to demand answers. He has also openly wondered if the Obama Administration, which is charged with protecting the country, “is shipping terror into our country.”
The good news is, if Obama was shipping terrorists into our country and then covering them up, there would be mass resignations in protest from the intelligence communities. Those analysts and agents would be bringing the documentation with them to Congress – and this has not happened.
This brings us back to the other part of the equation; the intransigence of the Obama administration.
President Bush enjoyed a certain amount of trust from the vast majority of the American people in dealing with the terrorist threat. Whether they loved him or hated him, almost all Americans recognized that Bush loved America and the people who defend it on the home front, the battlefields of distant lands, and the shadowy world of intelligence. Speculation over the movement of the Saudi Nationals following 9/11 was largely ignored. Whether it was a good or bad decision, just about everyone believed Bush would try to do what is right for America.
President Obama does not enjoy such trust. At almost every turn, he has either failed to reinforce, or directly undermined the trust in the institutions critical to the safe function of our system of government. He has been critical of our Soldiers in the fight and our law enforcement personnel in the execution of their jobs. He left an Ambassador to die at the hands of a terrorist mob in Benghazi and demonstrated his lack integrity in the cover-up of the debacle. His stated thoughts on the Constitution are more concerned with trying to reshape and reinterpret it rather than supporting and defending its original intent and language. Much of his political rhetoric is focused on dividing America along, racial, class, and religious lines. His Administration has publicly stated they see American Citizens who demand the Founding Principles of our nation be respected as greater threats to the nation than foreign enemies actively trying to destroy us. He is a President who refuses to acknowledge that religiously motivated terrorists are basing their reprehensible crimes on the fundamentalist teachings of Islam and its political and legal system of Sharia.
It is truly unfortunate that we have reached a point where a national radio hosts feels called to question not only the judgment, but the loyalty of a sitting President following a national tragedy. It is unfortunate that there is so much documentary evidence to support his questions. Finally, it is unfortunate that a sitting President has so poisoned the well of trust with such a large portion of the population that it serves to divide our nation at a time when we should be united in our stand against enemies who seek to destroy us.
Even if Obama has done the right thing in dealing with the Saudi connection, as he did when he ordered the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound, it is unfortunate that he no longer gets the benefit of the doubt from so many of us. Obama’s chickens have come home to roost.
William Russell is a retired Infantry Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Army and has served in Desert Storm, the Balkans, the Iraq War, and the Pentagon on 9/11. He has spent three years in the Middle East, including 18 months training the Saudi Arabian National Guard in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Like I told you, spurt, it’s obvious that our government isn’t communist , and it’s obvious that it’s not conspiring with terrorists.
You can call me a nut if it makes you feel better about the situation, I don’t much care, and it doesn’t change reality.
I’ve never supported Ron Paul or Rand Paul, and I do not care about Glenn Beck’s ratings nor do I watch his network.
So, it looks like you are wrong about everything you’ve said, and yet you wish me good luck.
Thanks for continuing to make my point.
As to our having a communist government, its undoubtedly loaded with self serving slackers and power hungry burrocrats led by an un-American muslim socialist - all grifters out for what they can scam, but communist may be an over-statement which detracts from claimer’s credibility.
So why jump in the middle of a discussion on GB with this off the wall stuff??
I’m not making your point, I’m making the point of reality.
It is a communist take over of this country. It’s happening all around us. Whether or not you choose to recognize that is up to you, but like I said you can call me a nut if that’s easier for you. I understand why you would do that.
But that isn’t going to change reality, it will only assist in your denial of it for a while longer.
Thanks, Mamzelle. I am sure there are grammar Nazis who will weigh in on your side. That said, I chose to use “distrustful” as it implies someone disengages from trust with deliberate lies intended to mislead. “Untrustworthy” implies someone can be simply unreliable — cannot be trusted to tie their own shoes, or show up on time, or fulfill their promises... but perhaps you distrust my linguistic judgement?.... It won’t be the first time I have been caught gaffing while writing.
Muawiyah,
Not a bad write up, but you I disagree with a couple of your statements.
1. The Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG), like the Army (Ministry of Defense) is manned by tribal members. But both organizations answer to the king. They are headed by members of the royal family who are also loyal to the king. They are similar in strength and as ballast to each other, to ensure that no Prince leading an armed organization would choose to seize power ahead of his time. When I was working with the SANG, the guy in charge of it was Crown Prince (now King) Abdullah, who was King Fahad’s brother.
2. On a more minor point, all sources I have ever heard on the size of the royal family place it at 6,000 (+/-), vice the 50,000 (+/-). Where does the 50,000 estimate come from?
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Bill
Thanks for writing.
Muawiyah,
Not a bad write up, but you I disagree with a couple of your statements.
1. The Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG), like the Army (Ministry of Defense) is manned by tribal members. But both organizations answer to the king. They are headed by members of the royal family who are also loyal to the king. They are similar in strength and as ballast to each other, to ensure that no Prince leading an armed organization would choose to seize power ahead of his time. When I was working with the SANG, the guy in charge of it was Crown Prince (now King) Abdullah, who was King Fahad’s brother.
2. On a more minor point, all sources I have ever heard on the size of the royal family place it at 6,000 (+/-), vice the 50,000 (+/-). Where does the 50,000 estimate come from?
V/R
Bill
Thanks for writing.
Hi Larry,
I don’t know Mark Caudell and have not read his book.
I would have many of the same concerns which your question implies. The problem with the basics of Islam is the demand to impose it and its political-legal system of Sharia on others......
Hi Butterdezillion,
Interesting thought. If the Hamza connection proves out, then we have a whole new dynamic that spans into Treason (aiding comforting the enemy in time of war)on the part of the President and First Lady. — Which comes back to my theory, if the Hamza Bin Laden connection were the case, we would have the majority of the intel community beating down the doors of Congress and going public with the documentation demanding impeachment. — When we see that happen, we will know you are right.
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Bill
As you undoubtedly recall, when they had about 1,500,000 people they were reporting 7,000,000 ~ today the estimate they seem to accept is about 24,000,000 ~
It's not unbelievable that they have a whopping huge population these days ~ there's so little to do there otherwise.
Now, why would anyone continue to accept the 6,000 number.
I think we are in a worse situation than you realize. We will NOT necessarily have the people within the system beating down the doors of Congress to do what is right. I say that because I have done a lot of research on Obama’s eligibility and what I have found and can document is that the system itself aided and abetted the crimes of Obama by doing their own crimes as well.
Larry Sellin overheard one of the R Presidential primary candidates say that nobody would touch the eligibility issue because they know it goes WAY deeper than anybody is willing to delve. IOW, they know there is deep, deep treason and they want to pretend that it doesn’t exist, for fear of what would happen if the truth came out.
The fact is that people within the FBI (and perhaps CIA) HAVE gone to ten members of Congress as well as to Glenn Beck with information about this Saudi guy (and Hardraade pointed out that DHS is claiming Beck’s info is that the guy is Hamza, although Beck hasn’t publicly stated that yet). Beck says these people have told him they could be sentenced to 20 years in prison for doing so.
So far the Congress members have nicely asked Napolitano to meet with them and discuss this - just like they have nicely asked Holder and others to provide documents related to Fast and Furious, and have nicely asked the State Dept to provide documents related to Benghazi. All they have ever gotten from any of those entities is the middle finger salute, and it appears that’s all they’re going to get this time as well.
Will Congress be willing to open up this can of worms, or will they leave out to dry those people who risked 20 years in prison, just like Obama left our guys in Benghazi out to dry? Given what I’ve seen on the eligibility issue, I have no confidence that Congress would do the right thing even if they knew there was big-time treason - because the largeness of the treason was the very reason to NOT dig into the eligibility issue.
What caused me to first sound the alarms on Obama’s eligibility and to go public with my research was the realization that we are really and truly lawless. The system itself has betrayed us in every way imagineable, and until we knock some sense into those systems, we are defenseless. ESPECIALLY if the people sworn to protect us know that our enemies are routing us. They are like the hireling who abandons the sheep when the wolf comes.
We are in much, much more serious times than anybody except those who have seriously dug into the eligibility issue realize. The number of crimes committed BY THE GOVERNMENT in allowing the 2008 coup to occur would be unbelievable to most people and is only believed by those of us who have researched it because we have witnessed it first-hand and can prove that it happened. What we can’t find is anybody within the system who says that it even matters if it did happen.
And the Fast and Furious and Benghazi issues only confirm that Congress will go limp on confronting treason by this regime, even when they know American lives have been lost because of it.
These are very, very serious times, and I don’t know how to help the general public realize exactly how serious this all is.
Fair enough, thanks for the sourcing/reasoning on the numbers....you are correct the 6,000 number has been around for a long time ... adding family members who have no royal status to the mix certainly increases the numbers, along with natural population increases.... I don’t see it as a major issue to this particular discussion. But I was thrown a bit by the big jump in the number......Thanks again.
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Bill
I will give one example, also, to help you understand what we’re dealing with: the FBI’s response to Obama’s ineligibility. I went to the local FBI to report the signs of forgery on Obama’s BC. The guy told me THREE SEPARATE TIMES that they don’t investigate document fraud. So I went online to report it and in conclusion it told me that it would send it to the FBI for them to investigate.
When I warned the KS Democratic Party chair, Joan Wagnon, on my blog that I have in my hand the proof that she was informed about HI state registrar Alvin Onaka indirectly confirming that Obama’s HI BC is legally non-valid, somebody tried to post a comment saying that they had helped to create the forgery and I was wasting my time because Obama has immunity and so do they. The poster said that the FBI knows they did the forgery and will cover the forger’s behinds.
I tried to find out who posted that. They had used gates to hide where they posted from, and when my hacker helper got close to finding out the truth he hit a tripwire that had been set up to fry the computer of the person who ventured too close. My guy ended up dropping the pursuit because he was afraid for his life, and this is a guy who had experience delving into some very serious stuff at an international level. His computer was fried so badly that the last I knew he was not able to get it to work again.
That’s a bit excessive for somebody who was “just joking” - especially since the “jokers” have publicly admitted to forging a Kenyan BC and giving it to Orly Taitz in order to get it submitted in a legal case.
But I already knew what this poster said was true, because I had observed the actions of the FBI and seen their lies to pretend that they had no responsibility. When I submitted an affidavit to the Lincoln Police Department detailing and proving the crimes of perjury, subornation of perjury, and election fraud in the 2012 election, the cop told me the FBI had lied to me, because they do investigate document fraud. I said I already knew that because the online report was being sent to the FBI to investigate.
Incidentally, the cop I spoke to was told that he not only could not investigate the crimes that I reported and documented, but he could not forward it to the state AG either. He was supposed to just let the case die out without me even knowing that the system itself was willing to ignore everything I had just documented for them. When I reported it to my state AG (who had lied to me in saying that citizens couldn’t report to them...) they sent it to the SOS as if the SOS is a law enforcement body.
That’s the kind of response I have gotten from EVERYBODY within the system. The ONLY just people I have found within the system are Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse - because they have seen and analyzed the FACTS just like I have. Everybody else poo-poohed the whole thing and wouldn’t even LOOK at the facts.
Your right ... they do provide a useful service in keeping the issues in front of at least a small percentage of the population.
OTOH, they make a TONof money themsleves while they don’t actually solve ANYthing, and Rush and Levin in particular dissappointments me EVERY time that someone asks either one for some specific advice.
Of all the hosts, Rush disappoints me the most and the most often. He rarely discusses anything of significance these days sadly.
But, that being said, I do still love him very much.
He is the man who shaped my conservatism, and he did so by being the first one to get to me politically when I was 21 and explained things in such a way that I had no choice but to agree.
He, being the first to reach me on a political level, was the one who planted the seeds of conservatism, and they grew. There was no longer room for any other seed to be planted.
This is partly the reason I view their roles as sources of conservative philosophy as so important. Whomever plants seeds in any fertile mind first shall be the permanent gardener of that mind.
This is why liberals are trying to get to kids as early as they can to plant the seeds of their poisonous philosophy, and they are certainly succeeding in that effort.
Well, I went back and read that sentence several times. I was a pro at this at one time, and uncertainty of meaning always catches my attention faster than spelling. It isn’t a grammar problem, but a usage one. The sentence is grammatical as is.
I suspect the non-royal offspring of royals in Saudi really have to be considered to be loyal FIRST to their family members ~ and then maybe to the clan or tribe ~ but always the family first.
BTW, regarding the dichotomy between Saudi NG And Saudi Army, of course the royals think of it in terms of princes, but the Tribal leadership think of it a bit differently ~ and that makes a whopping big difference. All federated tribal societies have that problem ~ even if the leader of the tribal consolidated forces was a close relative of the top dog over the royal forces.
We need look back no further than the dynastic disputes between English claimants and French claimants over kingship over what had been proprietorships held by Anjou over both places! There are outlyers in the mix who were sufficiently able to command or attract allegiance from enough men to end up creating England, France, Burgundy and a fair number of mini-states (note, Brittany was an independent 'super power' just a few centuries before ~ they had command over the Bay of Biscay and the English channel ~ and could pretty well enforce whatever revenue edicts they wished ~ but once the dynastic disputes between England and France were settled, Brittany found itself being eaten alive by French nobles.)
Thanks for raising the point in the first place! It is always good to have people call you on issues of style, usage, & content. I have certainly embarrassed myself enough over the years by putting out poorly written & proof read documents where the gaffes killed the message and the grade. The mathematical equation for those disasters was RD=FC (Rough Draft = Final Copy).
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Bill
It is very difficult to edit and proofread your own writing. For fun, sometime search up how often “flair” and “flare” are misused...in newspaper headlines. Copy editors can’t even manage headlines any more. It is sad how just the headlines are becoming less and less loyal to the English language. And like Dr. Ben Carson said, they’re coming for our language the way they’re coming for our guns.
Tinfoil stocks are looking better n better.
Does anyone know which mosque(s) Al Harbi attended in Boston?
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