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From Colleyville to Fort Hood-The FBI, Joe Biden, and willful blindness about Islamic terror
Frontpagemagazine ^ | Jan 18, 2022 | Lloyd Billingsley

Posted on 01/19/2022 7:39:49 AM PST by SJackson

“We do believe from our engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, uh, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community, uh, but we’re continuing to work to find motive and, and we will continue on that path.”

That was Matt DeSarno, FBI special agent in charge, after the hostage incident in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday. It was bizarre statement, as Robert Spencer noted, because the hostage-taker’s demands revolved around imprisoned jihadist Aafia Siddiqui, also known as “Lady al Qaeda.”  The FBI knew that but was “continuing to work to find motive.” It was as though the Great Brinks Robbery of 1950 left the FBI gasping in bewilderment.

The FBI did not name the “subject” of the Colleyville “engagement,” nor any of the hostages,  including the rabbi. Also unspoken was the biggest FBI lapse of all. The nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency failed to prevent “the subject,” Malik Faisal Akram, from taking the hostages in the first place. That recalls another act of Islamic terrorism just down the road at Fort Hood, Texas.

In 2009, U.S Army major Nidal Hasan was communicating with al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki about killing American soldiers then shipping out to Afghanistan. As Lessons from Fort Hood confirms, The FBI was fully aware of the communications but the Washington office of the FBI called off surveillance of Hasan. On November 5, 2009, at Fort Hood, Hasan gunned down 13 unarmed American soldiers and wounded more than 30 others in the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001.

On November 9, CNN reported, “no charges have been filed, and authorities have not identified a motive in Thursday’s attack.” The FBI said its investigation “indicates that the alleged gunman acted alone and was not part of a broader terrorist plot.” For the composite character David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, it was only “workplace violence,” and he failed to identify Hasan or name a single one of his victims.

Vice president Joe Biden said, “Jill and I join the President and Michelle in expressing our sympathies to the families of the brave soldiers who fell today.  We are all praying for those who were wounded and hoping for their full and speedy recovery.  Our thoughts and prayers are also with the entire Fort Hood community as they deal with this senseless tragedy.”

Like the composite character, Biden failed to identify Hasan or name any of his victims, including Pvt. Francheska Velez, who was pregnant and died crying “my baby!” For the Delaware Democrat, it was just a senseless tragedy, not an Islamic terrorist attack, an atrocity, a crime, or even a case of gun violence.

After Malik Faisal Akram took four hostages in Colleyville on Saturday, Biden told reporters, “I don’t – we don’t have I don't think there is sufficient information to know about why he targeted that synagogue.” In similar style, Biden’s January 15 statement failed to name Malik Faisal Akram or any of the hostages, and “there is more we will learn in the days ahead about the motivations of the hostage taker.”

Biden also thanked state, local and “federal law enforcement,” for rescuing the hostages but showed no curiosity about the FBI’s failure to prevent Malik Faisal Akram from taking the hostages. After Fort Hood, the FBI failed to prevent Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino (2015, 14 dead) and Omar Mateen’s terrorist attack in Orlando (2016, 49 dead). It remains unclear whether anyone in the FBI was disciplined, demoted or dismissed over these failures, but a ballpark figure would be zero.

As Spencer explains, the composite character president quickly “scrubbed all counterterror training materials that made any mention of Islamic texts and teachings,” and cut ties with all independent contractors “who were teaching agents about the beliefs and goals of jihad terrorists.” So FBI special agent Matt DeSarno “is operating out of the willful ignorance the FBI chose as policy years ago.”

According to his brother Gulbar, British national Malik Faisal Akram has a criminal record, yet he obtained a visa, flew to New York before January 1, and was admitted to the United States. It also remains unclear how he obtained the gun he used to take the hostages. The FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)  have yet to clarify those issues.

According to an FBI statement obtained by Fox News on Sunday, “This is a terrorism-related matter, in which the Jewish community was targeted, and is being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.” Note the passive-voice construction of the “matter” which is only “terrorism-related.” Note also that Malik Faisal Akram, who targeted the Jewish community, is not mentioned.

Recall that the Joint Terrorism Task Force failed to stop the terrorist before he took the hostages, just as the FBI failed to stop Nidal Hasan before he murdered 13 Americans in 2009. In 2020, have no doubt that the lessons of Fort Hood have not been learned.



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1 posted on 01/19/2022 7:39:49 AM PST by SJackson
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2 posted on 01/19/2022 7:42:09 AM PST by SJackson (I just think COVID is God's gift to the left, Jane Fonda)
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To: SJackson

Only the Narrative is promoted.


3 posted on 01/19/2022 7:47:26 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: SJackson

Hassan was my first thought when this happened.

The usual suspects.


4 posted on 01/19/2022 7:53:04 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Fido969

This was obviously a false flag incident whose purpose was to take the oxygen of the news cycle away from President Trump’s rally in Arizona, particularly among voters in Texas. The entire operation was conducted in a way that defied logic, and the ending occurred RIGHT AS Trump was signing off with “Make America Great Again.”


5 posted on 01/19/2022 7:53:24 AM PST by GOP Congress
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To: SJackson

The fact that there are criminals and terrorists in the world is not news to anyone.

What could be news to many, if it we had a real news media to break it to them, is the fact that criminals and terrorists are enabled by a psychopathic group of elites and that these elites are identical in character and method to common street thugs.


6 posted on 01/19/2022 7:59:41 AM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the cosmological implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Fido969

If the perp was a neo-Nazi skinhead do you think they would be having a problem finding a motive?


7 posted on 01/19/2022 7:59:43 AM PST by nhbob1
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To: SJackson

Friggin’ foreigners are allowed to pull all kinds of bullsh*t in America now that Americans have turned yellow and the FBI is chasing Americans instead of foreign terrorists and invaders. The friggin’ RACE CARD is the greatest threat to THE REPUBLIC and American freedom and liberty. THE RACE CARD, not “white supremacy” will be the cause of the downfall of America.


8 posted on 01/19/2022 8:02:01 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: SJackson

Twenty years after 9/11 Muslim influence, the number of Muslims and the amount of jihad inspired terrorism has increased greatly in America. Its the greatest ongoing example of the Stockholm Syndrome ever witnessed. the first order of business should be to close the 9/11 Saudi embassy, deal in a definitive manner with their American collaborators in business, politics, academia and the MSM, confiscate as much of their money as possible and overthrow their corrupt, hateful regime. The lowlifes knew all about the 9/11 terrorists and let it happen.


9 posted on 01/19/2022 8:02:23 AM PST by allendale
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To: SJackson

10 posted on 01/19/2022 8:03:19 AM PST by caww ( )
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To: SJackson

And on the morning news today, there were segments about how unsafe people feel at synagogues in the Dallas area. But the focus on these stories was “right wing extremism”. The narrative change goes on ...


11 posted on 01/19/2022 8:08:13 AM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: SJackson

Langley needs to start showing these “FBI guy” recruits a few videos about 9/11 during their “training”. The new agents were sh*tting yellow when 9/11 happened.


12 posted on 01/19/2022 8:17:22 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: SJackson

The FBI has been directed by the Left to show Islam in a gentle and kinder light. “They are the religion of Peace” and how dare anyone think otherwise!!! Now let’s go out and blame “Evil White People” for this happening.


13 posted on 01/19/2022 8:19:09 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: SJackson

Willful blindness?

No, fellowship.


14 posted on 01/19/2022 8:49:17 AM PST by little jeremiah (Where We Go One We Go All)
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To: SJackson

Bttt.

5.56mm


15 posted on 01/19/2022 8:55:32 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: SJackson

“We are mystified as to motive!”


16 posted on 01/19/2022 9:28:02 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: allendale

That’s a great description….STOCKHOLM SYNDROME!

Thanks!


17 posted on 01/19/2022 9:31:28 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

The feds only have so many resources; they have to focus on the “real” threat, conservatives!


18 posted on 01/19/2022 10:44:56 AM PST by ozarker
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To: SJackson

The ideology behind Islamic terrorism is inconvenient to the establishment. They refuse to understand the threat, so they cannot fight it. And Islamic Terrorism has a benefit. It has provided them the tools to deal with their enemies, us.


19 posted on 01/19/2022 10:46:17 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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