Spies and Killers
It’s one thing for foreign spies to penetrate our country and our government, but it’s quite different when we seem to be inviting them in and even paying their expenses. Three stories along these lines caught my attention. The first says the FBI is investigating more than a hundred military members and contractors with something or other to do with “radical Islam.” As Investor’s Business Daily sums it up:
Of the 100-plus probes, at least a dozen have advanced to full-blown investigations, which means agents have enough evidence to believe that a dozen Muslim soldiers are plotting major attacks against the military. The rest are preliminary investigations of suspect Muslim traitors in the ranks who have radicalized to the point of posing a serious threat.
A serious problem, in short. Remember that these people are all paid by the US military.
Second, the estimable Tarek Fatah asks rhetorically why the State Department issued a visa to a known Egyptian member of an Islamist terrorist group, Hani Nour Eldin, of the infamous Gamaa Islamiya. Writing in the Toronto Sun, he notes:
While the Obama Administration maintained the Egyptian delegation was in the U.S. to seek ways of future cooperation between the two countries, it was revealed Eldin met with Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough and asked him for the transfer the “Blind Sheik” Abdel-Rahman to an Egyptian prison.
By U.S. law, Eldin should have been denied a visa to enter the country.
Actually, the answer to Tarek’s rhetorical question isn’t hard to find, as I confirmed when, after dozens of failed efforts, I managed to establish contact via my trusty ouija board with the spirit of the late James Jesus Angleton, once upon a time the head of CIA Counterintelligence. He–or the raspy voice that I get in answer to my questions–is one of the great experts on espionage in this or any other world, and when I quoted him Tarek’s question, he got snarky.
JJA: “Hah! Need you ask? They certainly know who he is, and they gave him a visa because they wanted to talk to him. And they did.”
ML: “But they could have talked to him in Cairo, they didn’t have to violate their own regs, did they? I mean, it’s kind of embarrassing, isn’t it?”
JJA: “Not so much, as the kids say these days,” (how would he know? I asked myself) “they don’t embarrass very easily. But then, they don’t get asked the difficult questions.”
ML: “OK, I’ll take that bait. Like what difficult questions?”
JJA: “Like how many Iranian/Hezbollah/Islamic Jihad/Venezuelan/Bolivian/Nicaraguan persons have set up shop in the United States? And, how many members and sympathizers of the Moslem Brotherhood are now working in the executive branch? And, what sort of counterintelligence program is being carried out to protect us against penetration by terrorist organizations and states that sponsor them?”
Well, this will have me sleeping comfortably tonight. On top of everything else he’ll have to do, President Romney (I hope!) will have to deal with a bureaucracy and military infiltrated by Islamists. :/
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You didn’t know this already???
Of course the MSM has been quiet on this subject. What a surprise! However should the cases in point gain more national currency you can be sure that the MSM will brand those questioning the rationale behind such egregious disregard of national security as Islamophobic, an expression invented to blemish those who see the truth as the diseased ones. They have always done that. Those who correctly feared possible Communist sympathizer infiltration of Washington during the Cold War Era were branded with the disease of McCarthyism. Whittaker Chambers was the bad guy who was mentally disturbed and Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White were the good patriotic Americans wrongly persecuted for loving the USA. The late Shah of Iran was a murdering torturer of innocent women and children and that rabid dog, Khomeini, was Time magazine’s Man of the Year and according to Andrew Young, Carter’s ambassador to the UN, a modern day philosopher akin to Plato. I must admit to being a bit of a geek, a long in toothed one. I have been a Trekkie since Star Trek first appeared in the 60’s and have not missed a single episode of the original series and its many reincarnations over the decades. Some time back a post Voyager series was being pitched by David Foster to one of the studios and when asked what the new series will encompass he replied with the following quote:
“If evil wore the face of a hero, would you recognize it? If freedom came in the likeness of your oppressors, would you accept it? If you were your own enemy, who would be victorious?”
Many dismiss Jimmy Carter as ineffectual and his presidency as a failed one. Nothing can be further from the truth. The damage done to the security of the world by that one term President reverberates to this day. Rest assured that the damage done by our current, hopefully one term, President will also remain with us into the distant future.
Your point of Carter’s long term damage despite his single Adminisration was spot-on. Thanks to him, our children will fight a far more “fair” fight against Iran than we would have in 1980. Anoher equally damaging stooge from that era was Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
I think a far greater concern is all the generals in the military, especially in the Army, who are de facto pro-Islam.
Bingo.
Or pro-homosexual, or pro-women-in-combat, or pro-whatever-is-politically-correct-these-days-so-I-can-get-another-star.
We have a profoundly dysfunctional system for promoting field grade officers. It rewards those who don’t rock the political boat, instead of rewarding good soldiers. In fact, it PUNISHES good soldiers.
We should have a military which is subject to the civil government (Congress and the President) but insulated from politics. We don’t have that at all.
I don’t know what the answer is, but what we’ve got aint’ workin’.
Not so much as being pro-Islamic as they are being “careerist” and “elitist.” They don’t want to rock the boat and make the hard decisions that, while saving lives and killing the enemy, could also result in negative press. They are hyper-sensitive to criticism.
In the military (specifically the Army), a Private can get into more trouble by misplacing his rifle, than a General would for losing battles or not supplying his troops with proper support.
If you want great examples, log onto Michael Yon’s website at http://www.michaelyon-online.com/
Then, o’ course, it helps these goombahs in the CIA if everyone thinks they are a bunch of idiots who cannot close the kitchen door when it is storming outside.
Or, as Fox Mulder would say, “That is what ‘they’ want you to think.”
But the best strategy might be simply to follow Michael Corleone’s concept: “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
Rest easy, Mr. Angleton.
I suspect that most Iranians in the US/Canada, while they may long to return and wish to keep their culture, would do anythign they could to hurt the regime. Why do you think they left?
This is what you get when you have a far-left liberal administration that refuses to admit that there are radical Islamists out there that are not only willing to do us harm, but have been plotting attacks some time now. Not only do these individuals have to be found, but they also need to be locked up in Guantanamo Bay as soon as possilbe.
I get this terrible feeling that there will be another Ft. Hood massacre in our not too distant future, and that would be such a sin considering the fact that the Ft. Hood incident should have served as a wakeup call for the FBI, the military, and Homeland Security. These people really are a dangerous threat to this nation. But you’ll never get the Obama administration to admit that. Did you notice how quickly they tried to change the subject about the Ft. Hood shooter? At first, the Obama administration didn’t even want to call the shooter an Islamic terrorist, even though all the evidence proved that he was. Now you don’t hear ANYTHING from either Homeland Security or the White House about any of these potential threats that may be working right in our own military. Not only is that shocking, it is shameful as well. Obama and ALL of his minions need to be thrown out in November. American lives could very well depend on it.
Because of the Ft Hood shootings, military hospitals now undergo “active shooter” training, whereby in the event of an attack we just lock ourselves in our rooms, hunker down, and fight “only as a last resort.”
Sadly, DoD missed the point entirely. While they insist that we report suspicious activity, Islamist or extremist activity by military members is entirely ignored. What little training we do, they usually show photos of some jihadist hunkered in a bunker somewhere else, or a picture of a suspicious package. The training is ludicrous, and would be laughable if the danger didn’t exist. Professional MILITARY officers and NCOs aren’t even allowed to be armed on our own installations – only when deployed.
On the home page, Michael Ledeen asks:
Q. Are there 100 Maj. Hasans in the military?
A. No. There are 101. That includes the Commander-in-Chief.
Don’t expect the military higher ups to care. As we heard after the Fort Hood massacre, diversity is more important than protecting our troops from terror attacks. Even if there are 100 Hassan’s ready to do “workplace violence”, don’t expect anything to be done. A soldier who sneezes on a Koran will get more attention from the military brass than a Muslim soldier who murders our troops.
100?
More like thousands. Just waiting…
It’s one thing for foreign spies to penetrate our country and our government, but it’s quite different when we seem to be inviting them in and even paying their expenses.
Hell, we’re promoting them. To wit: when FBI Special Agent Amal Abdel Hafiz was told to wear a wire during a dinner with Sami al-Arian, he didn’t. He told his superviors that, get this, Moslems have a religious objection to audio devices.
Instead of being fired for insubordination he was promoted to head the FBI’s Arabian Desk in Riyadh, with a fat pay raise.
A serious problem, in short. Remember that these people are all paid by the US military.
Some gubmint police officals disagree with you: After the Special Agent Amal Abdel Hafiz incident, the natural response for the FBI was to announce it was launching an Affirmative Action program to hire Moslem Special Agents into its fold, which it’s still doing.
Kudos Dr. Ledeen: Excellent expose’
US military crimiinal investigtors (MPCI, NIS, OSI)are being thwarted in their investigations by our great leader’s politically correct,new age females in line units and homosexual armed services.
There are fanatic Islamic individuals and gangs. There are Crips, Bloods, and Latin Kings gangs in all the services.
It is a career killer for FBI and military agents to pursue these cases.
Should President Barrack Hussein Obama get a second term there will be Jihad a communist revolution coming to your neighborhood and a hammer and sickle flag flapping over the White House.
Right on Dr.Ledeen – WRITE ON!
Respectfully, Yoda@magnifiedview.com
http://www.magnifiedview.com/2010/09/17/yodas-little-known-tactics-to-avoid-being-a-target/
kudos Dr. Ledeen
Hopefully, when England explodes with all of its no-go zones and incitement we still have time to correct the wrong pc policies of allowing enemies in our midst.
I used to think the same thing re Europe’s social welfare state. I assumed that everyone would see it implore & not take us down that path.. I was wrong
James Jesus Angleton.
An icon for those of us who are of 1/2 Mexican ancestry.
Todays 3 and 4 stars suck.
Robb
US Army-Retired
This has been going on since the 1980′s with Muslims infiltrating the military. I was with 3rd BN 4th Marines at Camp Lejeune NC, where one of my roommates (and fellow fireteam leader) made no bones about what he was doing in the Marines.
One night after many hours of his ranting about the evils of America I asked, “What the hell are you doing here then”?
He replied, “One of these days we will go to war with America and me and my fellow Muslims are here to learn how you fight and how to kill you all. I will take everything that I learn here and take it back to my brothers so that when the time comes we will use your own tactics against you.”
My other roommate and I recorded approx 5 hours of this type of talk over the next couple of weeks and turned those tapes over to our CO. When we didn’t here anything from the chain of command I asked the Capt. if he had listened to the tapes. I was informed that he did and that he had sent them to Battalion. A few days latter my roommates and I where called into the 1stSgt’s office one at a time. Our Muslim “friend” was called in first and came out after five minutes with a huge grin on his face. My other roommate went next and for a full thirty minutes was dressed down and chewed out for conduct unbecoming a Marine. The same thing happened to me when it was my turn except with the added pleasure of being given the choice of signing a page 11 entry for conduct unbecoming or takeing NJP artical 15 for Religious/Racial intimidation and taking my chances before “The Man”.
My Muslim “friend” was moved to another room so that he would be safe with fellows of his own religion.
I got out in 1989, before my old friend left “the suck” and don’t know whatever happened to him, but weeks before my EAS one of his new “safe” roommates was caught running weapons to his “brothers” in St Louis MO and last I heard was sent to Ft Leavenworth KS.
The followers of “the religion of peace” have been at war with the west since before America was founded. They have infiltrated all levels of our society both in the public sector and private.
You were on shore duty, not deployed. You should have asked for a judge advocate and insisted on court-martial.
Internal DIA briefing video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkW_vt7_wj0
Does President Obama really believe that he has mastered the art of class warfare??? Tsk tsk. He is a child compared to the thinkers of the Islamic Republic.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9401491/Chickens-facing-censorship-in-Iran.html
“While the Obama Administration maintained the Egyptian delegation was in the U.S. to seek ways of future cooperation between the two countries…”
The Muslim Brotherhood, is an Jihadist bloody movement. The society of the Muslim Brothers reject the Western influences and opposes secular tendencies of Islamic nations. They want to IMPOSE the law of Allah (Sharia) on all Muslim societies and even on entire the world. The organization’s motto is (Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope). The Jihad is an important aspect of the Muslim Brotherhood ideology, and as we know, the current leader of Al-Qaeda “Ayman al-Zawahiri” is a graduate of school of the Muslim Brotherhood. So Which cooperation Mr. Obama wants with the leaders of terrorist organization? This sort of humans are a very dangerous threat to America and to entire the world, which is why you have to fight them, NOT to embrace them!!!
However, Americans sponsored them in the 80s, while today they chases them, and most probably today that Americans would like to act likewise!?
In fact, during the cold war America supported the Islamists for political and strategic reasons. They were to be motivated to serve American interests against the Soviet Union. At that time the Islamist extremists were sponsored by the CIA and the FBI. Even there was heavy pressure by high-level State Department officials on the former chief of the visa section at the U.S. Embassy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to issue visas to Islamists whom were recruited by the CIA. Most of them used as a spies for the CIA, and after all, they turned against Americans, murdered them at their own home!!!
Well, it was a great, it was to fight the evil empire, and above all to serve the U.S. interests. But, but the suspicious wrong was, “when Americans gave the carte blanche to the Saudi Wahhabi royal family to lead the struggle” where the Saudis recommended the scion of a wealthy family who was close to their family, Osama bin Laden to lead “the Jihad” against the infidel communists. Then, the Saudi government and the wealthy Saudis strongly supported the Mujahideen because they serve the purpose of a religious holy against NON-Muslims. At that time they dispatched thousands of volunteers jihadis from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries to fight alongside the mujahideen…a hundreds of millions of dollars was sent to bin Laden’s organization from Saudi Petro-dollars.
Michael, the true spies and killers are those who “divulge the secrets of the country” such as leaks or the like. Indeed they are an criminal traitors, they who are putting the nation at risk. Most of them unfortunately at high up in some sensitive positions. I think the CIA institution has became unreliable and unconfidential enough!!!?
According to a UN General Assembly report ( A/65/350) in 2010 the UN Secretariat worldwide employed 128 Palestinians, 603 Russians, 473 Chinese, 173 Syrians, 51 Venezuelans, 35 Cubans and even a single North Korean. The majority of these “International Civil Servants”were/ are stationed in the New York HQ. Of course, none of these are hostile to US interests (according to the UN anyway), but just in case, how many FBI Agents in the NYC Counterintelligence Office – a dozen, 2 dozen? Makes me want the UN out of the US for this reason alone!
Huma Abedin
This story reminds me of the new discovery of violations by British banks. The fact is there is nothing new there. For 33 years Iranian people have known and are aware of the fact that all the stolen money by Mullas and their murderer people, are deposited mostly in British banks or the banks of a member of commonwealth like Canada. These funds are generated almost entirely illegally by killing the people, stealing country’s resources money, and paying big money to themselves and their IRI relatives. Which means they are all mainly stolen or blood money. So what is new here again? Oh, HSBC will apologize!!!