Posted on 03/10/2017 3:55:39 AM PST by SJackson
A familiar face from the Obama disaster in Egypt.
Reprinted from PJ Media.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis’ pick for undersecretary of defense for policy, Anne Patterson, is problematic.
Politico briefly explains why:
If nominated and confirmed, Patterson would hold the fourth most powerful position at the Pentagon -- and would effectively be the top civilian in the Defense Department, since both Mattis and his deputy, Robert Work, were military officers.
As ambassador to Egypt between 2011 and 2013, Patterson worked closely with former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and his Islamist government. She came under fire for cultivating too close a relationship with the regime and for discouraging protests against it -- and White House officials are voicing concerns about those decisions now.
This is putting it mildly. Back during the months leading to the June 30, 2013 revolution, Patterson -- the “Brotherhood’s Stooge” as she was called by all, from news analysts to the Egyptian street -- was arguably one of the most hated individuals by the millions of Egyptians who took to the streets against Morsi and the Brotherhood.
Not only did her face regularly appear next to Obama’s in placards; it sometimes appeared alone, indicating just how closely she was seen as supporting the Brotherhood. It should be noted that these were not isolated sightings, as shown by the number of different placards and signs:
Below are just a few anecdotes that I have translated from Arabic language media before, during, and after the June 30, 2013 revolution that highlight Patterson’s unsavory ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
In the days leading to the revolution, Patterson called on Egyptians not to protest. She even met with the Coptic pope and asked him specifically to urge the nation’s Christian minority not to oppose the Brotherhood -- even though Christians were naturally going to suffer the most under Morsi, especially in the context of accusations of "blasphemy."
Soon after the revolution, she repeatedly tried to reinstate the Brotherhood to power.
Even Muhammad Heikal -- “the Arab world’s most respected political commentator,” and for over 50 years an Egyptian political insider -- said during a live interview that Patterson had assured the Muslim Brotherhood’s Hisham Qandil, who under Morsi was Egypt’s prime minister, that “there are many forms of pressure, and America holds the keys to the Gulf.”
Later, Patterson demanded that Egypt’s recently appointed supreme commander of the Egyptian Armed Forces, General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, release all Muslim Brotherhood members currently being held for questioning:
And when Sisi rejected this order, the American ambassador began threatening him that Egypt will turn into another Syria and live through a civil war.
Another report said Patterson was “trying to communicate with General Sisi, demanding dialogue with the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, and concessions to them,” to which Sisi reportedly retorted:
Stop meddling in our affairs … the Egyptian people are capable of looking after their own welfare.
In a live interview on Tahrir TV, political insider and former Egyptian Member of Parliament Mustafa Bakari exposed the relationship between Patterson and Khairat al-Shater, the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
He said she was regularly seen going to and from the Brotherhood leader’s private residence, as opposed to meeting at the party’s headquarters. He said she told al-Shater “we [the U.S.] will stand with you [regarding the June 30 protests],” and that she treated the Brotherhood leader as the “true ruler of the nation.” Bakari concluded by saying:
[I]n fact, in my opinion, she is a member of the sleeper cells of the Brotherhood, likely recruited by Essam al-Erian or Muhammad al-Baltagi.
Because of all this, several of Egypt’s revolutionary forces, including Tamarod, which played a pivotal role in the June 30 Revolution, staged protests in front of the U.S. embassy in Cairo “calling for the ejection of ambassador Anne Patterson.”
In connection, Egyptian journalist Abdullah al-Sanawi said this on live TV:
Anne Patterson’s presence in Egypt has become a great burden for America, and Patterson should be admitted into a mental hospital for her deeds are full of bloodshed and the Obama administration is in a very awkward position in front of the whole world, the [U.S.] Congress and the Pentagon.
Soon thereafter, Youm 7, a popular newspaper in Egypt (then the sixth-most visited website in the nation according to Alexa.com), conducted a survey asking its readers:
Do you support the call to kick U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson out because she interfered in Egyptian affairs?
A whopping 87.93% said yes, 10.54% said no, and 1.53% were indifferent. Youm 7’s audience is almost exclusively secular-leaning or Christian. It was the non-Islamists of Egypt that disliked the U.S. ambassador -- not the Muslim Brotherhood, which benefited from her.
In 2013, even Foreign Policy, a publication notorious for always siding with establishment D.C., noted that Patterson was widely seen among Republicans “as the key implementer for a policy that at least offers tacit support to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Such is the person that General Mattis wants to place in a top Pentagon position.
At least with Mattis, it’s acknowledged that the DOD ultimately will do its job, which is to follow policy.
McMaster as National Security Adviser is far more disastrous.
Go back and look at the Benghazi connection.
I think these Obama generation General- Diplomats will get worse once the Kurds are established in “no- fly zones” in Syria occupied by US bases
I wouldn’t doubt if Petraeus slithers back into the game
He assisted Petraeus with the COIN strategy. I really want to know his opinion of the ROE.
Unfortunately for all Trumps tough talk I see a policy vacuum from the WH and a willingness to let the DoD run the show and they are using the same script with a slight change in protagonists
When is Trump going to have the balls to meet Putin face to face instead of throwing GOP neocon scripted spit balls at Russia?
Well,first of all, when did Petraeus ever take troops into a country where they weren’t invited by the host government? And we have no SOFA
Second of all are we there to help that government and its allies Russia and Iran to win, or to lose, or neither ( prolonging chaos until a more viable favorable to the U.S. outcome emerges) .
Those basic policy questions must underlie any ROE
Maybe the “Dog” really is mad?
Here's a direct link preset to that point of the video:
and here is the
with which to follow it up.
Here is one very brief quote to whet the appetite:
===>"Given the nature of the information and secrets being kept by its clients, it should come as no surprise that many of PTech’s top investors and employees were men with backgrounds that should have been raising red flags at all levels of the government."<===
(take blood pressure meds before watching)
A rough outline illustrates this lack of vetting is establishing a pattern of horrific incompetence if not aiding and abetting the enemy within and without:
Given the nature of this sensitive risk-management work, only a company with experience delivering software to large-scale organizations with secrets to protect would fit the bill, and in this regard PTech did not disappoint.Their client roster included a veritable who’s who of top-level corporate and governmental clients:
the FBI, the IRS, NATO, the Air Force, the Naval Air Command, the Departments of Energy and Education, the Postal Service, the US House of Representatives, the Department of Defense, the Secret Service, even the White House. From the inner sanctum of the White House to the headquarters of the FBI, from the basement of the FAA to the boardroom of IBM, some of the best-secured organizations in the world running on some of the most protected servers housing the most sensitive data welcomed PTech into their midst.
Sanctioned by the UN Security Council for his suspected links to Al Qaeda, Yasin al-Qadi-backed investment firm Sarmany Ltd. became an “angel investor” to a software startup called PTech, providing $5 million of the initial $20 million of capital that got PTech off the ground.
.................Note: Yassin Abdullah al-Qadi is a character included in the banned/pulped book "Alms for Jihad" which was re-released online here: Scribd: Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World
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al-Qadi continued investing millions of dollars in the company through various fronts and investment vehicles. Company insiders told FBI officials that they were flown to Saudi Arabia to meet PTech’s investors in 1999 and that al-Qadi was introduced as one of the owners. It has also been reported that Hussein Ibrahim, PTech’s chief scientist, was al-Qadi’s representative at PTech and al-Qadi’s lawyers have admitted that al-Qadi’s representative may have continued to sit on PTech’s board even after 9/11.
Hussein Ibrahim himself was a former president of BMI, a New Jersey-based real estate investment firm that was also one of the initial investors in PTech and provided financing for PTech’s founding loan. PTech leased office space and computer equipment from BMI and BMI shared office space in New Jersey with Kadi International, owned and operated by none other than Yassin al-Qadi. In 2003, counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke said:
“BMI held itself out publicly as a financial services provider for Muslims in the United States, its investor list suggests the possibility this facade was just a cover to conceal terrorist support.”Suheil Laheir was PTech’s chief architect. When he wasn’t writing the software that would provide PTech with detailed operational blueprints of the most sensitive agencies in the U.S. government, he was writing articles in praise of Islamic holy war.
He was also fond of quoting Abdullah Azzam, Osama Bin Laden’s mentor and the head of Maktab al-Khidamat, which was the precursor to Al-Qaeda.
That such an unlikely cast of characters were given access to some of the most sensitive agencies in the U.S. federal government is startling enough. That they were operating software that allowed them to map, analyze and access every process and operation within these agencies for the purpose of finding systemic weak points is equally startling. Most disturbing of all, though, is the connection between PTech and the very agencies that so remarkably “failed” in their duty to protect the American public on September 11, 2001.
----------Note: Ptech Inc. was a Quincy, Massachusetts-based provider of business process modeling software that was renamed to GoAgile in late 2003 as a consequence to the media frenzy wiki link
************ Currently, a search of the identity GoAgile ...
Key Execs listed:
“The worst-case scenario is that this is a situation where this was planned for a very long time to establish a company in this country and in the computer software business that would target federal agencies and gain access to key government data to essentially help terrorists launch another attack.” [National Public Radio, 12/8/2002]
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All of this information is a rehash of info available on the web but displays a disheartening confirmation of minimal activity resulting in court and incarceration. Since 2008, there is little to NO updates on related and similar nefarious infiltration of Muslim Brotherhood entities which, no doubt, has expanded to a degree which boggles the mind.
The enemy within and without has penetrated our nation's most secure tech. How & when is Mattis, Trump, his cabinet going to address this?
Soros is no distraction - he is part and parcel of these events. Perhaps you should do some deeper study so that you can understand what others see when they point the finger at him.
I read Mattis’s bio in Wikipedia. Assuming it’s mostly correct although that’s my caveat...he’s extremely hard to categorize. Sometimes thought too military solution gung ho, other times thought too PC out the wazoo. Regardless of who was President or the various situations and reputations he has garnered, he rose to the top. His library is legendary and he prizes historical knowledge and what he views as scholarship of the highest order.
He appears to not have a personal life at least not that is established and known. Lifelong bachelor, never been married. Not even linked to anyone that was a noteworthy situation.
An odd bird, possibly.
Seems to revel in the particulars of a situation - viewed narrowly - and calls them each as he sees them without regard to the demands of coherency, with unfailing belief in his conclusions.
Unless there is something about Anne Patterson that we don’t know in which she has been doing intel behind the scenes by pretending something odious, publicly, this pick of her by Mattis appears to be MAD.
Thanks for the research. The fifth column in the US is deep and Trump is not being properly advised about the threat within that needs to be cut out of the US government and American society. The Muslim Brotherhood needs to be designated as a terrorist organization and the current Egyptian government not given the back of the hand with this appointment.
BKMK
Wow. Talk about hiring the fox to guard the hen house!
:) first search for SOFA was predictable. Both very legitimate points and again I learned something new today. Do you think the last administration’s destabilizing of the area was the plan all along given their Iranian leanings?
USA spending trillions of USAian dollars and debt to fight an enemy its highest military people cannot even name. Or the name changes from week to month. ISIS, ISIL... The name of the enemy is known by real USAians. It looks a look like the Nazis buy pretends to be a _pieceful_religion_
From the Daily Caller...
Michael Flynn, Trump's first choice for National Security Adviser, was actively working on behalf of Turkey's tyrannical Islamic extremist leader, Recep Erdogan, before Trump appointed Flynn.
Erdogan wants the USA to extradite a Turkish exile living in Pennsylvania back to Turkey. Erdogan claims the exile was responsible for the completely bogus “coup” attempt against Erdogan about eight months ago.
Very interesting. I did not know that.
Please see my Comment #36 about Trump's first NSA, Michael Flynn.
Flynn actively worked for Islamic extremist and tyrant, Recep Erdogan, before Trump appointed him NSA.
Mattis (Sec Defense); Michael Flynn (NSA, resigned); McMaster (new NSA); Anne Patterson (USec Defense Policy)
All these folks are sympathetic to, or tolerant of, Islamic extremism.
In my opinion, these appointments represent Trump's true thinking and Trump's future policy on the Middle East and Israel.
One can only conclude that ISIS is not a real enemy, but a group of paid Gulf Arab operatives that we are permitted to publicly complain about but not to forcibly evict, lest much under-the-table Deep State funding be jeopardized.
I see money for sure, but who does the dirty work on the ground, which political forces are aligned with him.
Money is short in this world, but there’s plenty of it in Asia and yes, plenty of money in the Gulf Arab region from Saudia Arabia, Qatar and UAE, among other places.
Does money from there flow through Mr. Soros.
Be careful not to just throw blame as Soros. He is a Jew and for better or worse the ‘hate’ and ‘anti-Semite’ charge will be thrown at you if you focus too much on him.
The Arab Spring has an anti-Iranian bent to it, especially in Syria. Is Soros a disloyal renegade or loyal to Israel in his purposes working with Saudis and Gulf Arabs against Iran in Syria and beyond over the last eight years.
There were street revolts in Iran before the Arab Spring began.
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