Ijaz is 'the Man'...Ijaz is 'the Man'...He is fabulous. Saw his explanation on FoxNews of how the latest capture of OBL's #2 man came about and how it has weakened them - clear and precise. I sure hope the Administration is making use of him in a big way. We need to keep saying over and over so the uneducated public remembers -- HE OFFERED OBL TO CLINTON AND WAS TURNED DOWN.
Then I reflect on that and say, to myself, "Am I seeing a masterful huckster at work."
There is just something nagging at me about him. I want to beleive what he is putting out but then I kind of pull back from it. Some times he is just a hair too slick.
Our strategy and tactics are working. Listen to the recorded conversation between charged terrorist cell member, Jeffrey Battle, and an FBI informant on May 8, 2002. Battle is part of the alleged Portland, Oregon cell.
In his conversation unsealed in court, Battle explained why his enterprise was not as organized as he thought it should have been (quote):
". . . because we don't have support. Everybody's scared to give up any money to help us. You know what I'm saying? Because that law that Bush wrote about, you know, supporting terrorism, whatever, the whole thing … Everybody's scared . . . He made a law that says for instance I left out of the country and I fought, right, but I wasn't able to afford a ticket but you bought my plane ticket, you gave me the money to do it . . . By me going and me fighting and doing that they can, by this new law, they can come and take you and put you in jail."
They are getting the message: we are gathering and cultivating detailed intelligence on terrorism in the U.S.; we are arresting and detaining potential terrorist threats; we are dismantling the terrorist financial network; we are disrupting potential terrorist travel; and we are building our long-term counter-terrorism capacity. We are winning the war on terrorism.
Thank you and I will be happy to take your questions.
Well, more so than another FOX "expert":
"Don't ask, don't tell" Hackworth