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The top 10 ObamaLeaks John Brennan needs to explain

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When John Brennan appears for his confirmation hearing as the next CIA director tomorrow, he needs to explain to the Senate these ten major leaks of classified national security information from the Obama administration — including the strange timing of most of these disclosures.

  1. EXPOSURE OF US-ISRAELI ROLE IN “STUXNET” ATTACK ON IRAN. On June 1, 2012, the New York Times reported that “President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities.” The story exposed the top secret codename for the program (“Olympic Games”) and the involvement of Israel, a US ally. At one point in the story, the Times directly quotes one of the president’s briefers telling him, “We think there was a modification done by the Israelis,” adding, “Mr. Obama, according to officials in the room, asked a series of questions, fearful that the code could do damage outside the plant. The answers came back in hedged terms. Mr. Biden fumed, ‘It’s got to be the Israelis,’ he said. ‘They went too far’” (emphasis added). In other words, it was leaked by someone “in the room” when the president was briefed on this cover action program.
  2. EXPOSURE OF US-ISRAELI ROLE IN DEVELOPING “FLAME” VIRUS TO SPY ON IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM. In addition to the leak to the Times about the Stuxnet virus, a second leak to the Washington Post revealed on June 19, 2012 that the “United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials with knowledge of the effort.”
  3. EXPOSURE OF SAUDI DOUBLE AGENT IN YEMEN. On May 8, 2012, a leak to the Associated Press revealed the role played by a double agent, recruited in London by British intelligence, in breaking up a new underwear bomb plot in Yemen. As a result of this disclosure, the double agent had to be extracted. The leak is being investigated by the Justice Department.

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The Wrong Man for the C.I.A.

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By GREGORY D. JOHNSEN

WITH the resignation of David H. Petraeus, President Obama now has a chance to appoint a new C.I.A. director. Unfortunately, one of the leading candidates for the job is John O. Brennan, who is largely responsible for America’s current flawed counterterrorism strategy, which relies too heavily on drone strikes that frequently kill civilians and provide Al Qaeda with countless new recruits. Rather than keeping us safe, this strategy is putting the United States at greater risk.

For all of the Obama administration’s foreign policy successes — from ending the war in Iraq to killing Osama bin Laden — the most enduring policy legacy of the past four years may well turn out to be an approach to counterterrorism that American officials call the “Yemen model,” a mixture of drone strikes and Special Forces raids targeting Al Qaeda leaders.

Mr. Brennan is the president’s chief counterterrorism adviser and the architect of this model. In a recent speech, he claimed that there was “little evidence that these actions are generating widespread anti-American sentiment or recruits for A.Q.A.P.,” referring to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Mr. Brennan’s assertion was either shockingly naïve or deliberately misleading. Testimonies from Qaeda fighters and interviews I and local journalists have conducted across Yemen attest to the centrality of civilian casualties in explaining Al Qaeda’s rapid growth there. The United States is killing women, children and members of key tribes. “Each time they kill a tribesman, they create more fighters for Al Qaeda,” one Yemeni explained to me over tea in Sana, the capital, last month. Another told CNN, after a failed strike, “I would not be surprised if a hundred tribesmen joined Al Qaeda as a result of the latest drone mistake.”

Rather than promote the author of a failing strategy, we need a C.I.A. director who will halt the agency’s creeping militarization and restore it to what it does best: collecting human intelligence. It is an intelligence agency, not a lightweight version of Joint Special Operations Command. And until America wins the intelligence war, missiles will continue to hit the wrong targets, kill too many civilians and drive young men into the waiting arms of our enemies.

Without accurate on-the-ground intelligence, our policies will fail. George W. Bush launched two major ground invasions, and Mr. Obama has tried several smaller wars. Neither strategy has worked. In Yemen, which has been the laboratory for Mr. Obama’s shadow wars, A.Q.A.P. has more than tripled in size after three years of drone strikes. When the United States started bombing Yemen in 2009, A.Q.A.P. had just 200 to 300 fighters. Today, the State Department estimates it has a few thousand. Since 2009, the group has attempted to attack America on three occasions, coming closest on Dec. 25, 2009, when a would-be suicide bomber narrowly failed to bring down an airliner over Detroit. When it tries again — and it will — the organization will be able to draw upon much deeper ranks.

Not surprisingly, American officials reject the claim that current policy is exacerbating the problem. In June 2011, Mr. Brennan declared that “there hasn’t been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities we’ve been able to develop.” This came almost exactly a year after a botched drone attack in Yemen killed a deputy governor and four of his bodyguards instead of the intended target.

Under Mr. Brennan’s guidance, the United States has also adopted a controversial method for determining how many civilians it has killed, counting all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants. This means that Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a 16-year-old American citizen killed by a drone in October, was classified as a militant despite evidence that he was simply a shy teenager whose father happened to be Anwar al-Awlaki, who had been killed by American missiles two weeks earlier.

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Know Your Ansar al-Sharia

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By AaronY. Zelin

From Sana to Benghazi, Cairo to Casablanca, new jihadist groups have adopted the same name in recent months. Is it all just a coincidence?

There is a new trend sweeping the world of jihadism. Instead of adopting unique names, groups increasingly prefer to call themselves ansar, Arabic for “supporters.” In many cases, they style themselves Ansar al-Sharia — supporters of Islamic law — emphasizing their desire to establish Islamic states. Yet despite the fact that these groups share a name and an ideology, they lack a unified command structure or even a bandleader like the central al Qaeda command (or what’s left of it), thought to be based in Pakistan. They are fighting in different lands using different means, but all for the same end, an approach better suited for the vagaries born of the Arab uprisings.

The name Ansar al-Sharia shot into the news last week in the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, when the local organization Katibat Ansar al-Sharia was accused of perpetrating it — charges the group denied. Many reports seem to have confused Benghazi’s Ansar al-Sharia with another Libyan group, based in Derna.

The naming trend actually started in Yemen, when al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the powerful and ambitious local al Qaeda branch, established the front group Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen in April 2011. It is possible this was born out of Osama bin Laden’s musings over whether to rebrand al Qaeda. None of the names in the documents captured from the late al Qaeda leader’s compound mentioned Ansar al-Sharia as a potential example, however. More recently, one of the preeminent global jihadi ideologues, Shaykh Abu al-Mundhir al-Shinqiti, put his stamp of approval on the new wave of Ansar al-Sharia groups.

Shinqiti, who is of Mauritanian origin, published an article in mid-June titled “We Are Ansar al-Sharia,” calling Muslims to establish their own dawa (missionary) Ansar al-Sharia groups in their respective countries and then to unite into one conglomerate. It should be noted that most of the Ansar al-Sharia groups were already created beforehand. The most prominent of these organizations are the ones in Yemen, Tunisia, and Libya, along with newer versions in Egypt and Morocco to a lesser extent.

The rise of these Ansar al-Sharia groups points to an end of al Qaeda’s unipolar global jihad of the past decade and a return to a multipolar jihadosphere, similar to the 1990s. One key difference, however, is that jihadi groups are now more ideologically homogenous — in the 1990s, jihadis thought locally and acted locally, while many now talk globally and act locally. These newer groups are also more interested in providing services and governance to their fellow Muslims.

Distinguishing between these differing groups is crucial for better understanding the new landscape of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as the trajectory of new salafi-jihadi groups that are not necessarily beholden to al Qaeda’s strategies or tactics. Although there are no known formal or operational links between these disparate organizations, it is possible they may try to link up in the future based on ideological affinity and similar end goals. For now, though, conflating them would be premature. Here’s a guide to the major groups going by this name.

Read more about Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen, Tunisia, Libya and Morocco at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 

Obama to Release One Third of Gitmo Inmates

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by  AWR Hawkins

President Barack Obama is about to release or transfer 55 Gitmo prisoners, despite reports that the Libyan believed to be behind the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens was a former Guantanamo inmate transferred to Libyan custody.

The large percentage of those scheduled to be released are Yemeni, according to a list made public by the Obama administration.

Obama stopped the release or transfer of Yemeni inmates in 2010, because the conditions in the country were viewed as too “unsettled” at the time.

A release or transfer of 55 inmates means Obama is moving out one third of the prisoners at Guantanamo. And while it doesn’t represent a shutdown of the facility, it’s certainly indicative of a move toward that end.

Could it be that Obama is trying to set himself up to campaign as the man who is taking steps to finally close Gitmo, just as he recently reversed the Afghanistan surge in order to campaign as the man who’s winding down the war in the Afghanistan?

The ACLU has praised the releases as “a partial victory for transparency.”

Source: Breitbart

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9/11 a Prequel? Next Attack on America in Works (Part II)

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by PAUL L. WILLIAMS, PHD

Part  I : Eleven Years after 9/11, the Threat Remains: The Leading Al Qaeda Operative  Remains at Large

Think 9/11 was a thing of the past?

Think that you’re safe and secure.

Think again.

Meet Adnan el-Shukrijumah.

He’s a chameleon.

Adnan el-Shukrijumah possesses an uncanny ability to blend into a  crowd, to alter his looks, and to assume a multitude of identities. Few things  about him indicate his Islamic orientation. He is often clean-shaven and rarely  wears a long shirt (shalwat kameez) or chews a toothpick. He has been  known to have a beer (like an average American Joe), to smoke a Marlboro, and to  carry rosary beads in his pocket. He has posed as an Italian-American, a  Mexican-American, a Canadian, a Saudi, a Jamaican, an Arab, and a Latino from  Trinidad. He stands somewhere between 5’4″ and 5’6″; weighs 140 pounds; and  suffers from sacute asthma. He has black hair, dark brown eyes, an olive  complexion, a mole on one cheek and a very prominent Mediterranean proboscis. A  key distinguishing feature is a scar on the left side of his face below and  forward of his earlobe.

Adnan is fluent in English, Spanish, Urdu, and Arabic. He is a trained pilot  and a computer whiz. But, his central area of interest, training and expertise  is nuclear engineering.

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THE NUCLEAR MISSION

In Pakistan, Shukrijumah became singled out by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to  spearhead the next great attack on America – a nuclear attack that would take  place simultaneously in seven U.S. cities (New York, Boston, Miami, Houston, Los  Angeles, Las Vegas, and Washington D.C.), leaving millions dead and the richest  and most powerful nation on earth in ashes.[x]

To prepare for this mission, a team of al-Qaeda operatives reportedly were  sent by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to McMaster  University in order to gain  knowledge of nuclear technology and to obtain access to the reactor. Along with  Adnan, the team purportedly consisted of Anas al Liby, an engineer from Libya  and member of the al-Qaeda high command; Jaber A. Elbaneh, a Yemeni national and  naturalized American citizen who worked closely with the Lackawanna Six domestic  cell near Buffalo, New York; and Amer el Matti, a Canadian national and licensed  pilot. Another visitor to the campus, according to several sources, was  Abderraouf Jdey from the Montreal cell.

At McMaster, Adnan purportedly kept to himself, made few new friends or  acquaintances, kept strictly to his studies, and left the facility at the same  time as his colleagues.[xi]

He also managed to obtain employment at the reactor – - allegedly as a  guide.[xii] Adnan’s “normal’ behavior on the Hamilton campus, a source said,  gave him entry to places where dangerous materials were stored without raising  undue suspicion. Bit by bit, the al-Qaeda operative allegedly managed to pilfer  approximately 180 pounds of nuclear material from the university – - enough to  build several radiological bombs.[xiii]

According to Israeli sources, Shukrijumah was under surveillance by Canadian  officials in early October 2003, when he suddenly stopped attending classes and  failed to show up for work. His disappearance aroused no concern, the sources  say, until a few days later when the nuclear material was reported  missing.[xiv]

Jayne Johnson, a spokesperson for McMaster  University, declined to comment  on the reports of Shukrijumah and the other al-Qaeda agents at the school. Other  McMaster officials denied that any al Qaeda agents were on campus and that any  nuclear or radiological material was missing from the campus. But Adnan’s stay  at the Canadian school has been verified by Rolf Mowatt Larssen of Harvard  University’s Belfer Center.[xv] It was allegedly was facilitated by Dremali, his  mentor at Broward Community College. Dremali had formed associations with fellow  Egyptian engineers at McMaster and reportedly retained an affiliation with a  clandestine club in Ontario that had been formed, in part, to assist newly  arrived Arabs in the acculturation process. {The connection between Adnan and  Dremali remains to be fully investigated by the FBI. In 2005, Dremali left his  teaching position at Broward to become the imam of a mosque in Des Moines, Iowa.  He allegedly also left his wife Lamyaa who now resides at in Colombia,  Kentucky).

In an interview pertinent to this report, Hamid Mir confirmed that he had  received verification that Anas al-Liby was at McMaster and that Liby had been  instrumental in the removal of radiological/nuclear material from the reactor.  Mir further testified that nuclear weapons and materials had been forward  deployed by al-Qaeda to the United   States.[xvi] Despite Mir’s stature among  journalist as the only reporter to interview Osama bin Laden in the wake of  9/11, federal officials have neglected to seek out the bases of his claims.

Where is Adnan hiding?

Is he really capable of launching a devastating attack on American soil?

Stay tuned. Part three of Adnan’s story will appear on this site  tomorrow.

Read more: Family Security Matters

Hot Warning of Al Qaeda Attack in West

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by: Ryan Mauro at Radical Islam:

Three European intelligence services have confirmed that Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen, called Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has trained and dispatched a Norwegian recruit to carry out an attack in the West. The target is not known for sure, but recent information indicates it is an American airliner.

“We believe he is operational, and he is probably about to get his target. And that target is probably in the West,” said one unnamed official. He has been described as an “ideal recruit” because he likely has a European Union visa, making travel across the continent easy, and he has a “completely clean” criminal record. “Not even a parking ticket,” explained one official.

The man is in his 30’s and has gone by the Muslim name Abu Aburrahman since converting to Islam in 2008. After converting, he went to Yemen and lived in Azzan until last month. He then moved to Dammaj but has now left the Gulf country.

It is speculated that the planned attack is to happen sometime around the Olympics in London, but there is no specific intelligence pointing to that. In February, the Telegraph reported that Iran and Al-Qaeda had teamed up for a “spectacular” attack in the West, probably in Europe. Then, like now, it was suggested that the operation could be timed around the Olympics.

On July 1, the European embargo on imports of Iranian oil went into effect. If Iran is involved in this latest plot, it may be seeking retaliation for the implementation of the toughest sanctions yet. An attack could also cause oil prices to spike, allowing Iran to make more money per barrel of oil sold.

The fact that a Norwegian is at the center of the plot speaks to a broader threat facing the West: Radicals among the quickly-growing Muslim populations of Europe, including Scandinavia. In March 2011, a Norwegian was killed in Somalia who had gone there to fight alongside al-Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda affiliate. He previously served in the Norwegian military. At least four more Norwegians are thought to be in Somalia.

Norway’s bloodiest terrorist attack came at the hands of Anders Breivik last summer, an anti-Muslim extremist that carried out a massacre of 77 Norwegian civilians, including many children. The rise in right-wing extremism in Europe is indeed a problem, but U.S. government officials have long complained privately in the past that Norway has not awaken to the Islamist threat.

Secret documents published by Wikileaks from 2007 to 2009 show that U.S. officials reported that the Norwegian government did not consider terrorist groups to be a “direct threat.” The American ambassador to Norway said that the government wouldn’t even allocate resources to conduct surveillance on a suspected Al-Qaeda terror cell. The British government offered to send a team to help the Norwegians, and they still weren’t interested.

Norway sentenced its first terrorist, Mikael Davud, only this January. One of its citizens, a Chinese-Muslim, was given seven years in prison for planning to set off a bomb at the offices of the Danish newspaper that published cartoons mocking Islam’s founder, Mohammed. He learned how to build the bomb in Iran and traveled to Pakistan to train with Al-Qaeda.

Also in January, a group of 40 Muslims protested in front of the parliament building and said that if Norway didn’t bring home its small number of troops from Afghanistan, retaliation would happen on its own soil. “If security is dear to you, dear Norwegians, you should collectively demand that the Norwegian government withdraw Norwegian forces. And I stress: this is not a threat; it is a warning for your own good,” the leader said to cheers.

In January of this year, the Norwegian authorities arrested a citizen originally from Central America that uploaded a video asking Allah to destroy the government and the royal family. “Oh Allah, destroy them, and let it be painful,” the accompanying song says. He posted it to a Facebook group with 1,600 members that was planning a protest against the war in Afghanistan.

That’s three Islamist terrorism-related incidents in just one month. Hopefully, U.S. officials working with the Norwegian government aren’t having the same complaints now.

Ryan Mauro is RadicalIslam.org’s National Security Analyst and a fellow with the Clarion Fund. He is the founder of WorldThreats.com and is frequently interviewed on Fox News.

Reality Check? U.S. Declares ‘War on Terrorism’ Over

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by: Arnold Ahlert at Radical Islam:

On Monday it was revealed that the CIA had thwarted a new al-Qaeda-sponsored terror plot hatched in Yemen. The scheme was brought down by a man said to have been a mole for the CIA and Saudi intelligence. After infiltrating the Yemeni cell, the agent enlisted in a suicide mission designed to bring down a U.S.-bound airliner, but turned over his equipment and intelligence once the plan was set in motion. The success of the counterterrorism mission — a story full of intrigue, double agents and high-stakes deception — is a testament to the prowess of U.S. defense capabilities, to be sure. Yet, the event also serves as a grim reminder that recent declarations by Obama surrogates suggesting that the war on terror is “over” have been overstated, to say the least.

On Tuesday, John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, contended that the discovery of the plot indicates that al-Qaeda remains a threat to the United States a year after Bin Laden’s death. Keep in mind, however, that Mr. Brennan himself revealed in 2009 that the terms “war on terrorism,” “jihadists” and “global war” were no longer acceptable within the Obama White House. At the time, he did concede that we were still “at war with al-Qaida,” yet he insisted that using the three above terms gave the terrorist organization unwarranted legitimacy, and further implied that America is at war with all of Islam.

The “we’re only at war with al-Qaeda” motif was amplified by an unnamed “senior State Department official” in a National Journal article written by Michael Hirsh in April 2012. “The war on terror is over,” said the official. “Now that we have killed most of al Qaida, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, people who once might have gone into al Qaida see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism.”

Despite the ridiculous assertion by Hirsh that, if Osama bin Laden were still alive, he “would see a U.S. administration that, having killed most of bin Laden’s confederates, is now ready to move into a post-al-Qaeda era and engage with Islamist politicians as long as they renounce violence and terrorism,” al-Qaeda remains a potent force.

Despite the ridiculous assertion by Hirsh that, if Osama bin Laden were still alive, he “would see a U.S. administration that, having killed most of bin Laden’s confederates, is now ready to move into a post-al-Qaeda era and engage with Islamist politicians as long as they renounce violence and terrorism,” al-Qaeda remains a potent force.

Yemen, Pakistan Nigeria and Somalia represent relatively new and fertile feeding grounds for the terrorist organization — unless one wishes to engage in another round of semantic obscurantism. Such obscurantism attempts to ignore the reality that groups such as Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Taiba, Nigeria’s Boko Haram, and Somalia’s al Shabaab espouse the very same jihadist ambitions as al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Furthermore, leaders of these affiliates have sworn “bayat,” or loyalty, to current al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, even as they offer him funding and fighters. The Wall Street Journal’s Seth Jones offers the ultimate reality check: “None of these organizations existed a decade ago,” he writes.

Hirsh’s other contention, that the so-called Arab Spring “opened up new channels of expression, supplying for the first time in decades an alternative to violent jihad” is also undone. Documents taken from Bin Laden’s compound and reviewed by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reveal that Bin Laden was seeking a way to “reattach al-Qaeda to the Muslim mainstream.” Ignatius re-iterates the success al-Qaeda has enjoyed in Yemen, but he notes that Egypt’s Salafist party, “which like al-Qaeda traces its roots to the Islamist theorist Sayyid Qutb, has 13 seats in the new Egyptian parliament.” He refers to such political successes as “electoral bin Ladenism.”

There are other notable al-Qaeda success stories as well. It planted its flag on a Benghazi courthouse in post-Gaddafi Libya last November, and has made inroads into the Syrian opposition attempting to overthrow butcher Bashar Assad, a reality revealed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to members of the Senate Armed Services Committee in February. Thus, it appears the demise of the organization responsible for 9/11 has been greatly exaggerated.

Despite these sobering assessments, one of the reasons the administration likes the focus to remain on al-Qaeda is that it takes the focus off other inconvenient truths. For example, instead of pursuing victory in Afghanistan, the Obama administration has not only been negotiating with the Taliban, but secretly releasing high-level Taliban detainees from a military prison in Afghanistan — with the warning that if they are caught attacking American troops, they will be detained once again. Measured against the Taliban’s long record of savagery, such a warning amounts to delusional thinking.

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Arnold Ahlert is a former NY Post op-ed columnist.

The End of the Inspire Era

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Al-Qaida has released two new issues of its English-language magazine eight months after a drone strike eliminated the American jihadi leaders behind it. The latest editions of Inspiremagazine reinforce al-Qaida’s promotion of lone wolf attacks, but each is aimed at a very different audience.

Inspire was known for cultivating English-language jihadis, contributing to more than a dozen plots against American and Western targets. The sophisticated magazine combined all the elements necessary to motivate would-be terrorists, from the justifying theology to detailed suggestions for new attacks in the West. It was also critical for al-Qaida’s shift from large, top down directed attacks to small, individualistic terror.

The newly-released eighth issue carrying the cover headline, “Targeting Dar al-Harb Populations,” promotes the lone wolf trend for non-Muslim lands in the same way as previous editions. It details plans for new attack methods in the “Open Source Jihad” section, and presents the culmination of American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki’s justification for killing American civilians.

But the ninth issue, “Winning on the Ground,” reads more like an address to Western audiences and the moderate Muslims that al-Qaida despises. It was written after Awlaki and Inspire editor Samir Khan – a fellow American – were killed in the September U.S. drone strike.

Although it contains suggestions to burn down Western forests and cities, it spends more time eulogizing fallen fighters like Awlaki and trying to explain al-Qaida’s ideology to outsiders. Its quality is noticeably worse without Khan, lacking the polished style and graphics of previous editions, and is further limited by contradictory articles and barely readable translations.

The difference between the two magazines is striking, and perhaps hints at the new direction for future al-Qaida English-language publications.

Issue 8′s update in the “Open Source Jihad” series reinforces Inspire’s hallmark methods of lone wolf terrorism by showing how to use small handguns and to build remote-controlled detonators for explosives. This effort clearly builds on articles from previous issues, like “How to Build a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.”

Its ideological articles also mirror those in previous issues. In a lengthy feature article, “Targeting the Populations of Countries that Are at War with the Muslims,” Awlaki lays out his most sophisticated argument for killing American civilians.

Such arguments arguably are his most important contribution to al-Qaida’s ideological longevity. This role was so important that Osama bin Laden called him “qualified and capable of running the matter in Yemen,” according to documents captured from bin Laden’s compound after his assassination.

In “Targeting the Populations of Countries that Are at War with the Muslims,” Awlaki argued that Islam’s prohibition against killing civilians doesn’t hold up for modern-day Westerners.

“… In no way does it mean that Islam prohibits the fighting against the disbelievers if their men, women and children are intermingled. This understanding is very dangerous and detrimental to jihad and awareness on this issue is very important,” he wrote. “To stop the targeting of disbelievers who are at war with the Muslims just because there are women and children among them leads to constraints on today’s jihad that make it very difficult, and at times, impossible to fight and places the Muslims at a great disadvantage compared to their enemy.”

Although it was intended to be released last fall, most of the issue’s ideological material remains relevant and dangerous.

In “Blended Duality: Muslim and American?” Khan argued that being Muslim and American are inherent contradictions.

“To say one is proud of being American is not merely a cultural declaration but one of allegiance,” he wrote. Being American is “to undertake that which Allah detests,” and all attempts to create a “moderate” Islam are just “Muslims throwing the Qur’an behind their backs.”

Would-be warriors should help al-Qaida create a real Islamic state instead, and throw off the shackles of Western secularism, he argued.

Stark Contrast

The ninth issue looks and reads like a different publication, complete with notes explaining Islamic terminology to the uninitiated. It also presents contradictory arguments about what al-Qaida really wants and who it is willing to kill to get there.

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Al Qaeda’s Seven Phase Plan: So Far, So Good .

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Marshall Frank at Right Side News:

Most folks are unaware that al Qaeda, the most feared terrorist organization in the world, was the brainchild of the Muslim Brotherhood, launched for the very purpose of using mass murder as an intimidation tool to achieve long range objectives. In the meanwhile, their propaganda strategy is to present the appearance of being “moderate” within the Islamic world, and trust that the majority of people in Europe and America would be gullible enough to believe it.

They have been successful.

The New Yorker Magazine published a piece in 2006, written by Lawrence Wright in which he revealed the al Qaeda “Master Plan’ developed from the year 2000, in which they set out to weaken the western world to a point where they (meaning: we) will ultimately submit to an Islamic caliphate, thus destroying the constitutional democracy of America as we know it by the year 2020. It is well supported and documented.

Don’t ever forget the literal meaning of the word “Islam” : Submission to the will of God.

Neither should we ever forget the specific — since 1928 — objectives of the Muslim Brotherhood: World Islam.

The Seven-Phase al Qaeda plan is summarized as follows. The reader can relate to the levels of achievement, to date. (Source)

  1. The Awakening. 2000-2003. Include the 9/11 attacks and the fall of Baghdad. The aim was to get the Americans to declare war on the Islamic world, thereby “awakening” the Muslims.  This has been a great success.
  2. Opening Eyes 2003-2006. Make the Western conspiracy aware of the Islamic community. Many young men targeted for recruitment. Iraq becomes the target for centering global operations, developing an army there.
  3. Arising and Standing Up 2007-2010. Starting a focus on Syria and Turkey. Countries neighboring Iraq will be endangered. Elevated attacks on Israel.
  4. Destroy Hated Arab Governments 2010 – 2013. This will bring a steady growth in strength within al Qaeda. (Egypt? Libya? Tunisia? Syria?) Attacks to be carried out against oil suppliers to the U.S. targeting American economy.
  5. Declare Caliphate 2013-2016. Western influence in Islamic world will be so weakened, they will no longer be feared. The new Islamic State will eventually bring about a new world order.
  6. Total Confrontation 2016 – 2020. After the caliphate is established, the Islamic Army will instigate the fight between believers and non-believers (Muslims and non-Muslims).
  7. Definitive Victory 2010 – ? The world will be so beaten by 1.5 billion Muslims, the caliphate will prevail. The war shouldn’t last more than two years.

So far, so good.

I have pointed out, since day one, that the so-called Arab Spring in the mid-east, has been nothing more than a ruse, a subversive movement organized behind the scenes by the Muslim Brotherhood who are now poised to assume full control of Libya and Egypt. Since the American pull-out, Iraq has been subjected to scores of terror attacks killing many hundreds of Iraqis. Israel has been under attack from Hamas rockets (another off-shoot of the MB)

Bear in mind, the Muslim Brotherhood’s manifesto, which was unveiled during the Holy Land Foundation investigation, calls for strategies that also include invasion of the west by peaceful infiltration and coercion, using sub-organizations spawned to create support for the non-violent jihad. That includes the infestation of our infrastructure, including the government itself. I will provide a link to that document below, in which the first half is written in Arabic.

Also, “The Project” is another MB document discovered hidden in Switzerland in 2001, which spells out the tactics and strategies that will be used to conquer the west from within. That includes the application of deceit, and the availability of unlimited funding by which to support corruption.

The aforementioned speaks for itself. Readers are smart enough to connect all the dots and see what is happening to our world and our country, while we argue about jobs, contraceptives and gas prices.

Granted, those are important issues, but they won’t matter one iota if there is no America.

Remember these points when you go to the polls. It’s the only power we have as a populous, besides the rights to free speech.

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