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Former CIA agent: "We do not face a global jihadist 'movement'" Glenn L. Carle "was a member of the CIA's Clandestine Service for 23 years and retired in March 2007 as deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats." In "Overstating Our Fears" in the Washington Post, July 13, he says this: We do not face a global jihadist "movement" but a series of disparate ethnic and religious conflicts involving Muslim populations, each of which remains fundamentally regional in nature and almost all of which long predate the existence of al-Qaeda. In a circulating e-mail, LTC Joseph Myers, who has served...

LTC Joseph Myers is a man whose name ought to be on the lips of all who care about victory in the Global War on Terror. For quite some time he has been fighting a lonely battle to get our military to study and counter-strategize against the distinctively Islamic elements in the strategies our enemies use against us.... Only if we understand the enemy's strategic thinking can we anticipate their moves, identify their points of vulnerability, and carry out a winning strategy. Yet our military and political establishment refuses to recognize the religious-based aspects of the thinking of our enemies....

To better understand the Quranic basis of jihad as practiced by extremists without sifting through a library of interpretations, you should read one book above all others, says Lt. Col. Joseph Myers. “The Quranic Concept of War,” by Pakistani Brig. Gen. S.K. Malik in the late 1970s, isn’t much studied in the West. But it should be, Myers said, if America, and more specifically, the U.S. military, wants to gain a better understanding of the enemy in the war on terrorism... ..."I think the significant strategic shortcoming or failing in the war on terror is that we have not gone...

Our enemy says he is fighting jihad warfare to extend the Islamic faith; the basis of that claim rests on his exegesis of Quranic and Islamic Law injunctions. Irrespective of whether we or other Muslims accept or deny the legitimacy of his claim, if that is his stated doctrine, then that is the doctrine we must study and comprehend. That is the doctrine that will provide the indicators and warnings of future threats, that is the basis of our threat model. That fact that other Muslims do not engage in violent jihad bears no relevance to our problem set or...

Insurgent threat A former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst says documents recently made public during a terrorism trial in Texas reveal that radical Islamist groups in the U.S. linked to the Muslim Brotherhood represent both a security and military threat to the country. Army Lt. Col. Joseph C. Myers, former chief of DIA's South America division and senior military analyst for Colombia, stated in a recent article that the Muslim Brotherhood meets the new U.S. Army counterinsurgency manual threshold of "an organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict." Since...

[E]fforts by a Washington lobbyist named Jim Guirard to stop military and government officials from using the word "jihad" for the...global jihad. Their contention is that Islam is a religion of peace, that the jihadists' use of the language of jihad is illegitimate on Islamic grounds, and that Americans and other non-Muslims can help delegitimize the jihadists by employing other Arabic terms for them and their activities -- terms which brand them criminals. This idea sounds terrific, but it has many serious flaws.... And now it has come to light that the whole enterprise may be a Muslim Brotherhood deception...

Hope Rides Alone USA Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, USA (Iraq) February 1, 2007 Editor's Note: This piece by Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, "Hope Rides Alone", was mentioned in a segment on Fox News Channel's O'Reilly Factor. Click here to listen to or download the segment. I stare out into the darkness from my post, and I watch the city burn to the ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk through the familiar rubble, and I look at the frightened faces that watch me pass down the streets of their neighborhoods. My nerves hardly rest; my hands are steady on a device...

“The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military. . . . The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.” — Majid Khadduri

The bottom-line is the Army is broken; our enemies know it and see it and the "Peace Dividend" got us here. Some peace. That also means the President's military and strategic options become increasingly confined and non-conventional. However we can get "strategically unfixed."

While there is much to laugh at and condemn in this letter, such as “assuming” the Holocaust occurred, there is a method to Ahmadinejad’s madness. There are several points in this letter that need to be understood within very clear and classic Muslim practice, adherence to the intonements of the Quran and the example of the Prophet. A few excerpts from the letter: "These have prompted me to discuss some of the contradictions and questions, in the hopes that it might bring about an opportunity to redress them. Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ (PBUH), the great Messenger...

By LTC Joseph Myers and Patrick Poole 28 April 2006: From the Article: "It is too early to predict how the current diplomatic crisis over Iran’s nuclear weapons program will play out, but Americans should assume that any potential military hostilities could result in Hezbollah striking American interests across the globe and here in the US Homeland. Possibly the Iranian ayatollahs may decide that preemptive Hezbollah suicide attacks against America might serve as a deterrent to U.S. military action against their nuclear facilities. A strategic wave of Hezbollah suicide bombings, and well coordinated military attacks in America could very well...

Sorry it has been five months since my last update, but then, we have been busy. Let me give you the bottom-line up front (BLUF), and then catch you up on things. Feel free to forward this to whomever, since we still can’t seem to get the press to tell folks what is going on. This is how the fight is going from my foxhole, and it is much more than the bombings, US casualties, and rumors of civil war the press seems to be focused on.

Global environmental concerns from the UN and various special interest groups—from rational to extremist—often do speak in terms of the Amazon as a global environmental interest and resource. Intellectually or specifically, such rhetoric implies challenges to Brazil’s sovereignty over the region. Those flinging about such rhetoric include former senior US political leaders, namely Al Gore. ...the father of Brazil’s nuclear weapons program, Rex Nazare Alves, currently sits on the advisory committee for National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN) of the government of Lula da Silva. Previously a consultant in the Institutional Security Office (GSI) of the Presidency of the Republic, he...

But we are a federal republic, so the President and national agencies work to support state and local officials—not to usurp them or "take over." We expect our local and state governments to govern and manage their polities, their policies and programs; to plan and prepare for crises and to continue governing... Consequently Presidential declarations of emergency provide legal authority for the national government to spend money and release national resources, such as the armed forces, and provide “all necessary support” to support, rather than to supplant, state and local civil authorities. It’s the state and local government that bear...

One lesson I thought we had learned from Hurricane Andrew is that after a major disaster, the local and even state governmental system can become rapidly overwhelmed and paralyzed. It is a near certainty that local government and police will be in a “not mission capable” status. Therefore the early entry of military forces with other state and local police forces marshaled into the destroyed zones is imperative...We fell short of this standard in New Orleans...Emergency management plans that work and have been tested [not just paper-drilled] must be in place...New Orleans is not the only city that is sited...

LTC Joseph Myers discusses Able Danger, Intelligence Oversight, and Colombia's Insurgency on The Right Balance. Interview restreams on your computer every 2hrs from 0930 EST [eastern time] onward through Monday. Former DIA Senior Military Analyst updates issues related to Congressman Weldon's charges of 9-11 hijackers identified inside the US in 2000 and issues related to Colombia's insurgency. He is the author of: "Are Plans in Place if Schools attacked?" "Proliferation Terror Time for a New Deterrence Strategy" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453439.html "Does al Qaida have nukes?" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44251

Must hear... His interview will restream on your computer every 2hrs from 7:30 EST [eastern time] onward through Monday. "There should have been absolutely no hinderance in sharing that information with the FBI..." Former DIA Senior Military Analyst discusses the Intelligence Oversight issues related to Congressman Weldon's charges of 9-11 hijackers identified inside the US in 2000. He is the author of: "Are Plans in Place if Schools attacked?" "Proliferation Terror Time for a New Deterrence Strategy" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453439.html "Does al Qaida have nukes?" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44251

Posted on 07/15/2005 8:02:26 PM CDT by Barbarian6 Former DIA Senior Military Analyst will discuss the Inteligence Oversight issues related to Congressman Weldon's charges of 9-11 hijackers identified inside the US in 2000. His interview will restream on your computer every 2hrs from 10:00 eastern time onward through Monday. He is the author of: "Are Plans in Place if Schools attacked?" "Proliferation Terror Time for a New Deterrence Strategy" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453439.html "Does al Qaida have nukes?" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44251

30 July Update: The UK police statement Saturday, July 30, that Hussein Osman left London by Waterloo Station for a journey that ended in Rome indicates that he took the Eurostar to Paris and then crossed France to Rome by TGV. They claim to have tracked his route from London across France by his mobile phone. DEBKAfile’s counter-terror experts find this account hard to credit. While warning the British public that the four escaped terrorists had access to more explosives, the London police would hardly have let a dangerous suicide bomber slip out of their hands if they knew his...

He will discuss his articles on the WMD Commission report, US nuclear proliferation deterrence strategy, and thinking about al Qaida as an American insurgency...He will draw upon his experiences within the intelligence community and as a former DIA senior military analyst for Colombia. He is the author of: "Are Plans in Place if Schools attacked?" "Proliferation Terror Time for a New Deterrence Strategy" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453439.html "Does al Qaida have nukes?" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44251