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The Washington Post’s Pinnochios on Terror Training

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washpost-fact_check2 A letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, By Frank Gaffney:

Glenn Kessler recently awarded Rep. Louis Gohmert “four Pinnochios,” asserting that that Texas Republican legislator had “invent[ed] his own facts” about the Obama administration’s ties to Islamists.  Actually, Mr. Gohmert is on solid ground with his warnings about Muslim Brotherhood influence operations inside the U.S. government that have contributed to the dumbing-down of the FBI’s and other agencies’ understanding of the threat thus posed.  Such penetration has indeed contributed, among other things, to the purging of official training materials the Brotherhood and its fellow Islamists find “offensive.”

Mr. Kessler wrote that, “We are open to altering this ruling if more evidence is provided” in support of Rep. Gohmert’s allegations.  Happily, such evidence is readily available in a free, 10-part, online video-based course posted last year by the Center for Security Policy at MuslimBrotherhoodinAmerica.com.  This course offers six examples of individuals with documented ties to the Brotherhood who have served as officials of the Obama administration or as key advisers concerning “Muslim-outreach.”

For instance, the course chronicles the role one such individual, Mohamed Elibiary, appears to have played in the elimination of training materials used by the FBI that connected the proverbial dots between the Islamic supremacist doctrine of shariah, jihad and terrorism.  It also describes the role of Mr. Elibiary and others with Islamist associations in the adoption by the administration of guidelines that effectively require future training materials and trainers in “countering violent extremism” to be vetted by “community partners.” The latter seem to be drawn exclusively from Brotherhood front groups or their surrogates, which can only make matters worse.

Finally, Mr. Kessler faults Rep. Gohmert for pointing to the Obama administration’s elimination of words like jihad, shariah and Islam from key documents.  While President Bush began this practice, it has been enshrined in the Obama presidency to the point where, for example, the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy and even the 2010 after-action report on the jihadist attack at Fort Hood make no mention of such terms.  Rep. Gohmert is right to worry that such willful blindness can only interfere with our government’s understanding of the dangers we face and its ability to protect us against them.

I hope that, on the basis of such additional evidence, Mr. Kessler will, indeed, “alter this ruling” and the serious disservice it does to one of the most knowledgeable and truthful Members of Congress, Louie Gohmert.
Frank Gaffney
Center for Security Policy

Obamastan

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obamastanBy Melanie Phillips:

Fort Hood, Benghazi, the Boston bombings, Iran/Syria, Israel. The pattern is unmistakeable; the danger to America is exponentially increasing; the scandal is deepening into something nearer to a national crisis.

The Obama administration is playing down the Islamist threat to the US and the free world, empowering Islamists at home and abroad, endangering America and betraying its allies — and covering up its egregious failure to protect the homeland as a result of all the above, while instead blaming America for its own victimisation.

What is coming out in the Benghazi hearings would be jaw-dropping if it had not been apparent from the get-go that the administration failed to protect its own people in the beseiged American mission where Ambassador Chris Stevens and three of his staff were murdered in 2012, then lied about the fact that this was an Islamist attack, and then covered up both its failure and its lie. (Apparent, that is, to some — but not to the American media, most of which gave the Obama administration a free pass on the scandal in order to ensure the smooth re-election of The One).

But the administration has form on this — serious, continuing form. After the Fort Hood massacre in 2009, in which an Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan shot and killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas shouting ‘Allahu akhbar’, not only was it revealed that his radicalisation and extremist links had been ignored but the Department of Defense and federal law enforcement agencies classified the shootings merely as an act of ‘workplace violence’.

Read more at Melanie’s Blog

Must-See Video: Fort Hood Heroes (Part II)

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Shoebat Foundation:

Last October, a group called Fort Hood Heroes produced an awesome video that featured survivors of Nidal Malik Hasan’s Fort Hood Jihad attack. We have been eager to see Part II ever since and it is now available.

If you haven’t seen Part I yet, click here.

Also, be sure to visit thetruthaboutforthood.com

This is Part II, entitled Broken Promises:

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Pack of ‘Lone Wolves’ in thwarted Canadian terror plot just grew by one

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936967_10201010191639987_621509775_nShoebat Foundation:

Last month, Canadian authorities prevented Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser from committing an Islamic terror attack that involved derailing a VIA passenger train.There is no telling how high the death toll would have been had they been successful. Thankfully, they were not.

The left-wing media would have you believe that Islam is not what motivated these two ‘lone wolves’. That westerners don’t seem all that interested in finding out – largely because failed terror attacks rarely get people to look up from their smart phones – is part of the problem.

In addition to Esseghaier’s facebook page revealing an Al-Qaeda flowchart and a photo of Bin Laden, his favorites included the likes of Abu Mus’ab Zarkawi, the guy many believe personally beheaded Nicholas Berg in Iraq.

Now it’s being reported that a third ‘lone wolf’ may have been part of the Esseghaier / Jaser pack. Ahmed Abassi was arrested in New York and apparently had plans to perpetrate a separate attack, designed to kill 100,000 people.

Read more at Shoebat Foundation

 

Acting like a weapon of mass destruction, a Tunisian Jihadist is accused by US authorities of planning to poinson thousands of Americans. As usual, the debate about lone wolf or not, and who radicalized him and so on, surges. By now, precedents and global analysis shows that every Jihadist is indoctrinated by someone. There are no exceptions. Every Jihadist is either recruited or recruits itself to some group. That is not what worries me in my analysis, it is the type of attacks the latest Jihadists are selecting. Most of the targets are mass casulaties types and frequency of attemps is higher.

Since my book ‘Future Jihad’ of 2005, I have challenged the ‘Lone Wolf’ assertion raised by many in the mainstream academia, media and among ‘consultants’ to Government. There is no full Jihadi lone wolf when he makes phone calls to other Jihadists. I published dozens of pieces and was interviewed several times over the past few years trying to explain that in the making of a Jihadist, there must be other Jihadists. The Bush bureaucracy, not policy makers, dodged this reality and the Obama Administration and bureaucracy pushed back against it. But Ft Hood, Arkansas and Boston reconfirmed it, sadly and deeply. Walid Phares 

 

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How Many Americans Has Obama Killed?

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two-senators-were-asked-whether-obama-should-be-impeached-over-benghazi-450x337By Daniel Greenfield:

Three days after the tenth anniversary of September 11, left-wing activist Spencer Ackerman struck a blow for Muslim terrorism by denouncing FBI training materials as Islamophobic.

The training materials dealt with such topics as the doctrinal basis for Jihad and the origins of terrorism in Islamic law. The story spread into the mainstream media, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, whose leaders had endorsed terrorist groups and helped raise money for terrorists, began pressuring the FBI to recant the threat of Islamic terrorism.

In February of 2012, Amine El Khalifi was arrested for plotting to carry out a suicide bombing in the US Capitol building. Before he began his mission, he visited the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, whose former Imam was Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al Awlaki and whose parishioners included Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Hasan. At his sentencing, El Khalifi said, “I just want to say that I love Allah.”

But that did not stop the FBI from announcing a few days later that it had completed purging references to Islamic terrorism from its training materials. A month earlier, Tamerlan Tsarnaev had begun his trip to Russia and by the time he returned, the training materials meant to prepare agents for the reality of the terrorist plot that he and his brother would carry out had been buried out of sight.

Where El Khalifi had failed in Washington, the Tsarnaev brothers would succeed in Boston.

The counterterrorism information purge had been completed by the time the lead Boston bomber returned to America, but it had begun earlier under Obama.

The 9/11 Commission Report had freely used terms like “Jihad,” “Takfir” and “Islam” to define the nature and motivations of the enemy. But the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy did not mention them. Neither did the FBI counterterrorism lexicon. They had been replaced by “violent extremism.”

Violent extremism is generic. Predicting an attack requires specifics. Investigators cannot stop undefined crimes or arrest undefined suspects. The less information they have to work with, the more likely the terrorists are to succeed.

Islam is the crucial link between disparate terrorist groups from Dagestan to Thailand, from Mali to Afghanistan, from Israel to Nigeria and from the United States to Chechnya. Without the Islam factor, there was no reason to suspect that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a threat to anyone except the Russians.

The old FBI training materials had explained what Chechen, Pakistani, Egyptian and Nigerian terrorists had in common. In the new ones there was a great empty space in which facts died and lives were lost.

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Wolf Legislation Brings Back 9/11 Commission

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(Lexicon purge chart by Patrick Poole)

This ought to be interesting. Will we get more hearings with Obama administration officials turning themselves into pretzels trying to avoid the “Forbidden Lexicon”?

IPT, by John Rossomando:

An amendment to the FBI’s appropriations bill signed into law by President Obama may bring back the 9/11 Commission to assess how its recommendations have been implemented since they were issued in 2004.

“We should not miss an opportunity to look at everything and look at anything inappropriate that we may have done differently in the past that we may have to do differently,” amendment sponsor U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., told the Investigative Project on Terrorism. “We need to bring people who have a history of dealing with things like this and bring them in front of the Congress.”

“They would look at everything,” Wolf said. “What is the radicalization issue? What were some of the recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission? How have they all been carried out? Is there anything based on new technology or whatever that we should be doing different to look at everything?”

He hopes the review also will examine the problems leading up to last week’s Boston Marathon bombing.

Much has changed since the recommendations were made and al-Qaida has adapted, shifting toward using lone-wolf terrorists to attack America. It has also uses Internet tools such as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula’s Inspire magazine for recruiting.

With accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev telling FBI investigators that he and his brother were radicalized online and that they found the design for their bombs in Inspire, the deficiency of traditional counter-terrorism approaches becomes apparent.

Homegrown terrorists such as the Tsarnaev brothers, Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan and Sgt. Jason Naser Abdo show the threat is more difficult to intercept.

“You don’t get the chatter that you normally would if it was al-Qaida,” Wolf said. “Some are impacted by abroad and some are impacted by just reading the magazine that’s online.

Many questions remain about Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and their ability to carry out the Boston attack without the FBI and other government agencies detecting them.

Among those is the FBI’s handling of a January 2011 inquiry triggered by contact from Russia’s Federal Security Bureau (FSB) about Tamerlan’s Islamic extremism.

The fact that the FBI didn’t learn about Tamerlan’s travel to Russia despite knowledge within the Department of Homeland Security underscores some of the problems that have remained unsolved since the 9/11 Commission issued its report.

A Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee report on the terrorism watch list from last July found that the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) lacked access to all intelligence databases despite the 9/11 Commission’s desire to break down the walls between various agencies.

Wolf blames a comprehensive political correctness that he says has consumed all aspects of the Obama administration. Involving the American Muslim community in finding the extremists before they strike is an important part of preventing future attacks, he said, but the message emanating from come Muslim groups hinders that, he said. “[Muslims] should be out there speaking out on this, but if you recall you had CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) urging … young Somalians in the Minneapolis area and their families with this line of not to participate and not deal with the FBI.”

Wolf has long been a critic of CAIR’s effort to blind the FBI, DHS and other national security agencies in their quest to catch homegrown Islamic extremists before they turn to terror.

In a 2009 floor speech, he took CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad to task for his stated support for Hamas in a 1994 speech at Berry University and nailed CAIR officials for giving aid and comfort to such international terrorist groups.

His amendment would ensure the FBI’s policy about limiting contacts with CAIR continues. “They have been more of a hindrance than a help,” Wolf said.

Terrorism Without Motive

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blindfoldedby Daniel Greenfield:

Means, opportunity and motive are the three crucial elements of investigating a crime and establishing the guilt of its perpetrator. Means and opportunity tell us how the crime could have been committed while motive tells us why it was committed. Many crimes cannot be narrowed down by motive until a suspect is on the scene; but acts of terrorism can be. Almost anyone might be responsible for a random killing; but political killings are carried out by those who subscribe to common beliefs.

Eliminate motive from terrorism and it becomes no different than investigating a random killing. If investigators are not allowed to profile potential terrorists based on shared beliefs rooted in violence, that makes it harder to catch terrorists after an act of terror and incredibly difficult before the act of terror takes place.

The roadblock isn’t only technical; it’s conceptual. Investigations consist of connecting the dots. If you can’t conceive of a connection, then the investigation is stuck. If you can’t make the leap from A to B or add two to two and get four, then you are dependent on lucky breaks. And lucky breaks go both ways. Sometimes investigators get lucky and other times the terrorists get lucky.

Federal law enforcement was repeatedly warned by the Russians that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was dangerous, but operating under the influence of a political culture that refused to see Islam as a motive for terrorism, it failed to connect the dots between Chechen violence in Russia and potential terrorism in the United States, and because it could not see Islam as a motive, as a causal factor rather than a casual factor, it could find no reason why Tamerlan was a threat not just to Russia, but also to the United States.

The missing motive factor has led to a rash of lone wolf terrorists whose acts are classified as individual crimes. Nidal Hasan’s killing spree at Fort Hood was put down to workplace violence, but workplace violence isn’t a motive, it’s a bland description. The motive was obvious in Hasan’s background and his behavior; but the military, an organization that by its nature has to be able to predict the actions of the enemy, had been crippled and left unable to see Islam as a motive.

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Eye on the FBI: Congress ordered review of FBI’s response to domestic terror

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By Adam Kredo:

The FBI was ordered by Congress to carry out an external review of its efforts to combat domestic radicalization less than a month before two Chechen-born terrorists bombed the Boston marathon.

Congress mandated last month that the FBI submit to an outside review of its “response to trends of domestic terror attacks since September 11, 2001, including the influence of domestic radicalization,” according to language contained in the 2013 Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act passed to avoid a government-wide shutdown.

The funding bill was signed into law on March 26 and allocated $500,000 to the “comprehensive external review,” according to the bill.

“The timing of the review is important, given the reports about radicalization of the two suspects involved in the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks last week,” according of the office of Rep. Frank Wolf (R., Va.), who authored the amendment initiating the review.

The FBI was reportedly warned by Russian intelligence services that Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with the police, was suspected of having terrorist ties.

The FBI is said to have interviewed Tsarnaev in 2011 following the tip but determined he did not pose a threat. Critics have called this a stunning intelligence failure in the wake of the Boston attack.

The external authority charged with reviewing the FBI will seek to determine if the law enforcement organization has improved its ability to detect and respond to domestic acts of terror.

“The motivation behind the language is to have fresh eyes on this constantly evolving threat and to improve practices within the Bureau, particularly in light of the terrorist attacks involving radicalized Americans, like the brothers suspected in the Boston attacks and Maj. [Nidal] Hasan at Ft. Hood,” Rep. Wolf said in a statement Monday.

Those reviewing the FBI will also provide “any additional recommendations with regard to FBI intelligence sharing and counterterrorism policy,” according to the legislation.

The Congressional Research Service has reported since the 9/11 terror attacks that “hundreds of individuals have been implicated in more than 50 homegrown violent jihadist plots or attacks,” according to Wolf’s office.

The FBI came under criticism from lawmakers over the weekend for what they say is its failure to have identified Tsarnaev as threat prior to last week’s terrorist bombing.

Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.) warned, “this is the latest in a series of cases like this” during an interview Sunday on Fox News.

King said this is just the latest example of the FBI having been “given information about someone as being potential terrorist, they look at them, and then they don’t take action, and then they [the terrorists] go out and carry out murders after this,” King said. “I’m wondering if there’s something deficient here.”

Tsarnaev is suspected of having ties to Chechen Islamists and possibly al Qaeda.

It came to light over the weekend that Tsarnaev had traveled to Dagestan, a Russian territory that is the home to Islamic terrorists.

There have been at least five terrorists, including the Fort Hood shooter, who have gone on to carry out terrorist attacks following contact with the FBI.

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I ACCUSE

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boston-marathon-injuredBy I.Q. al Rassooli:

When I first heard about the horrific slaughter – caused by two bombs – perpetrated by some individual or individuals at the end of the Boston Marathon, I immediately assumed it was an Islamic act – especially since almost 98% of all acts of terror around the globe are committed by Muslims, the followers of Muhammad.

As I watched the carnage and listened and read the reports, I decided that – to be fair – my instant impulse to accuse Muslims was not based on facts, and that there was the possibility that this heinous act may have been perpetrated by a depraved mind with a grudge about something.

As I continued to watch the scene of the event, my memory went to the destruction of the federal building by Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma (by the way, 19th April 2013 marked the 18th anniversary) and suddenly a thought lit my mind – in this case, there was no state or federal building or abortion clinic around. All I could see were shops, cafes and ordinary American citizens enjoying the Marathon before the bombs went off.

Instantly I realized that this was an Islamic act to slaughter unbelievers/ infidels/ kuffar/ kafiroon who are not considered by Muslims as human beings but as beasts to be terrorized and/ or butchered.

Who says so?

For the worst of beasts in the sight of Allah are those who reject Him: They will not believe [la yu/minoona] – Al Anfal 8:55

Muhammad’s Quran says so.

For these two young terrorists – and tens of thousands of others like them from Arab and Islamic countries – to have been allowed entrance and residence in the USA without a full background investigation of their origin and affiliations is a symptom of a disease that is destroying America’s (and Europe’s) culture, her security and her heritage. This is the disease of political correctness and unlimited tolerance.

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. – Karl Popper

Hence we must never tolerate the intolerance of Islam and sharia nor allow them to soil our soil. Those who tolerate evil are intolerant of good.

I accuse Barack Hussein Obama as President of the USA of dereliction of duty for his negligence of dealing with the facts and reality of Islam and Islamic terror.

I accuse Barack Hussein Obama as President of the USA of deliberately misinforming and deceiving the American people regarding the true characteristics of Muhammadan Islam, their Quran and their mission.

Mr Obama, I would like to enlighten you and all other human beings: there are no extremist or radical Muslims; Islam is radical and has no shades.

I accuse Barack Obama as Commander in Chief of the US military of betraying his soldiers at Fort Hood, because the victims were murdered by a very sane but fundamentalist Muhammadan Muslim.

I accuse the military officers in the Department of Defense who call the Fort Hood massacre “workplace violence” of denying the victims and their families their honour and financial help. Nidal Hassan was shouting all the time while slaughtering his colleagues, “Allahu Akbar!” Allahu Akbar!”, the Terror Verse of Takbir (Glorification of Allah) used especially when butchering unsuspecting and unarmed infidels/ kuffar/ kafiroon.

I accuse both Barack Obama as Commander in Chief of the US military and Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State of betrayal of thefour Americans killed in Benghazi. Both of them were and are responsible for handing on a silver platter the whole of North and Saharan Africa to the Muslim Brotherhood – the very enemies of the USA and humanity. This too represents a betrayal of the security of the USA.

One of the most powerful former presidents, President Richard Nixon, was impeached and removed from office for a stupid, botched-up job at Watergate where no one was hurt, while Barack Obama remains in office (because he is African American?) although the offences listed above are impeachable.

I accuse the Christian clergy in both the USA and Europe for their moral and religious failure to confront Islam regarding the systematic destruction of Christian communities in the Middle East, Africa and Asia in almost every Muslim state.

I accuse the Vatican and the previous and current Popes for submitting themselves in humiliation to Islam with their kissing of Muhammad’s Quran and washing the feet of a Muslim girl – since these acts are not considered by Muslims as acts of friendship but rather as acts of servility.

The Catholic clergy should know that since they believe in the Trinity, Islam considers them as mushrikoon (people who associate other gods with Allah), and hence Catholics are actually the enemies of Allah to be eradicated off the face of the Earth.

Fight [qatiloo] those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His apostle [Muhammad] nor acknowledge the religion of truth [Islam] (even if they are) of the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] until they pay the Jizya [onerous Tax for not being a Muslim] with willing submission and feel themselves humiliated. – l Tauba 9:29

I accuse many of the Christian leaders who are attempting to reconcile Christianity and Islam as monotheistic sister religions of incomparable stupidity for their lack of knowledge of Muhammad’s Quran that proves the impossibility of reconciling these two belief systems.

O ye who believe (Muslims)! take not the  Jews [Yahood] and the Christians [Nasara]  for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other.  And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. – Al Mai’da 5: 51

If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah) never will it be accepted of him. – Al Imran 3:85

I accuse most of the US media and academia of wilfully misleading the American people in their mostly contorted interpretions of events inside and outside the USA. Their culpability in this respect is greater than that of any Islamic group committing an attack because they are aiding, abetting and protecting the very entities that intend to subvert and destroy America.

In a nutshell: Muhammad, his Quran, his Sunna, sharia, and his fundamentalist followers are duplicitous, war-mongering and ungodly. Every believing Muhammadan Muslim’s first loyalty is to Allah, not to the laws and Constitution of the USA, because they are not from Allah. Hence among the believing followers of Muhammad in the USA (or any non-Muslim country) are traitors in waiting or traitors in action just like these two Muslim Chechens.

I challenge CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), any Islamic institution or any TV or radio station to find fault, misrepresentation, error or deception in anything I reveal or conclude.

Visit The homepage of Ibn Q. al-Rassooli - an Iraqi exile committed to warning the world of the dangers of Islam

Allen West: ‘We have a domestic radical Islamic terror problem’

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by George Bennett:

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Allen West, reacting to reports that the suspects in the Boston Marathon terror bombings are Muslim, told his Facebook audience of more than 273,000 this morning that “we have a domestic radical Islamic terror problem in America.”

West, whose remarks about Islam have often generated controversy, got more than 13,000 “likes,” 6,300 shares and 1,300 comments in less than an hour for today’s Facebook post.

Allen West’s Facebook post on Boston Marathon bombings:

“Let me be very clear, the terrorist attack in Boston and evolving events indicate we have a domestic radical Islamic terror problem in America. We must no longer allow the disciples of political correctness and the acolytes of the Muslim Brotherhood (CAIR, ISNA, MPAC, MAS) to preach to us some misconceived definition of tolerance and subservience. When tolerance becomes a one way street it leads to cultural suicide. Carlos Bledsoe in Little Rock, MAJ Hasan in Ft Hood, the Ft Dix Six, Faisal Shahazad in NYC Times Square — these are just the examples I can type now. When Rep Peter King attempted to have hearings on domestic terrorism he was attacked for being racist. No more excuses. No more apologies. We are in a war of ideological wills, and we shall prevail. Congratulations to all the law enforcement agencies.”