Posted on 03/09/2003 8:52:37 PM PST by FreeSpeechZone
FEBRUARY 7, 2000 : (REPORT : ) "….Last week, testifying on security threats against the United States before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, CIA director George Tenet laid out a blueprint for America's national security doctrine in the twenty-first century. Topping Tenet's list of principal threats was terrorism committed by Muslims. "There is an intricate web of alliances among Sunni extremists worldwide, including North Africans, radical Palestinians, Pakistanis, and Central Asians...There's an infrastructure out there that is perhaps bigger than we anticipated," said Tenet. "We essentially have undertaken to systematically develop a strategic plan to attack this infrastructure."
Like many of his colleagues in the national security profession, Tenet paints a picture for Congress and the American people of a vast conspiracy of "Islamic terrorists" stretching across the globe; irrational fanatics who burn with rage at America and probe our weaknesses for a chance to strike. Of course, that is the picture he must paint -- his agency's funding depends on it…….
In testimony before Congress in 1998, Larry Johnson, former deputy director for counter-terrorism for the U.S. State Department, said: "Groups and individuals that advocate terrorism are losing support rather than winning adherents. Consider Osama Bin Ladin's fatwas that have called for Muslims to rise up and attack U.S. citizens and installations around the world. His fatwa has fallen on deaf ears...Bin Ladin's failed fatwa is a reminder that Muslims are not terrorists and they do not endorse his tactics."
Articulation of the new doctrine is often preceded by disclaimers purportedly distinguishing between ordinary Muslims and "Islamic fundamentalist terrorists." But for the doctrine's proponents, these distinctions are superficial….." ------------ Islamic Views 2/7/00 Ismail Royer via ALAMO-GIRL'S DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON ; SECTION: BREACH OF TRUST; SUBSECTION: TERROR; Revised01
Larry Johnson's one of 10 "former intelligence officers" - you know, those VIPS folks- who asked for Congress to get involved in the Plame story. He's no fan of Judith Miller [at this time the libs were mad at here because of an article she wrote which concerned WMD finds and an Iraqi planning room with mockups of Israeli sites.]
"When Judith Miller went to jail in July I rejoiced because some justice, at least in my eyes, was being visited on a media whore who helped the Bush Administration mix the KoolAid that took us to war." ----------Fallout from the Miller Affair by Larry Johnson , Thu Oct 20th, 2005 at 07:41:29 PM EDT
Lary's one of the people who "confirmed" to the DU nutclub that Rove was going to be indicted in the leakamagiggy.
And he's the guy that wrote right beofre 9/11 about "The Declining terrorist Threat." Awesome timing, wot?
I think it's interesting that Randall "Ismail" Royer in February 2000 [see the Alamo-Girl citation above] noted and quoted Larry Johnson; Royer was involved with CAIR and as we know sometime after this article and after 9/11/2001 he ended up getting his little terrorist butt caught by the FBI in the Virginia Jihad / Paintball Cell investigations. The paintball Jihadis were led by the Iraqi-American Timimi.
blast from the past ping
In 1994, after an attempt to assassinate bin Laden, I went to the Sudan in 1994 to train bin Laden's bodyguards, security detail. I trained those conducting the security of the interior of his compound, and coordinated with the Sudanese intelligence agents who were responsible for the exterior security. . . . I was aware of certain contacts between Al Qaeda and Al Jihad organization, on one side, and Iran and Hezbollah on the other side. I arranged security for a meeting in the Sudan between Mugniyah, Hezbollah's chief, and bin Laden. Hezbollah provided explosives training for Al Qaeda and Al Jihad. Iran supplied Egyptian Jihad with weapons. Iran also used Hezbollah to supply explosives that were disguised to look like rocks.
In late 1994, I was in Nairobi. Abu Hafs met another man and me in the back of Wadih el- Hage's house. Abu Hafs told me, along with someone else, to do surveillance for the American, British, French and Israeli targets in Senegal in West Africa...."
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