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Islamic Jihadists Send Us a Reminder - (to be taken with the utmost seriousness; this IS war!)
CHRONWATCH.COM ^ | JULY 9, 2005 | ALAN CARUBA

Posted on 07/09/2005 6:23:12 PM PDT by CHARLITE

If anyone still thinks that the worldwide Islamic Jihad is going to go away simply because we have had some success in Afghanistan and are paving the way for a democratic government in Iraq, the attack in London as the G-8 meeting was to convene should dispel such notions. Most revealing was the G-8 agenda, devoted to so-called global warming and forgiving African debt, two examples of wishful thinking based on neither scientific, nor economic evidence either would accomplish anything. More to the point, the Islamic Jihadists took the opportunity to remind us who and what the real enemy is.

“Ya Mahdi, Ad Rekni!” This translates to “Mahdi save us!” and refers to the Islamic Shiite myth about a twelfth imam who tradition says disappeared some eleven centuries ago. In Curt Weldon’s new book, Countdown to Terror, he notes that this figure “is expected to return and fulfill the long-awaited Islamic apocalypse, one that will reward the faithful and, with catastrophic violence, purge all infidels from the face of the Earth.”

We must face the risk of another even more catastrophic attack that will be justified by an Islamic fantasy.

Making this even worse is the “election” of Mahmood Ahmadinejad as Iran’s president. The mullahs that run Iran are perfectly capable of sanctioning some kind of nuclear attack on the United States, but Mahmood is on record as saying: “The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.” Watching this guy is comparable to having watched the rise of Hitler in the 1930s. This Teheran mayor has served as a senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp, responsible for the nation’s missile and nuclear weapons programs. The stage is set for their use against us.

Weldon is vice chairman of the House Armed Service Committee in Congress and long familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of our intelligence services. Despite strenuous efforts, he has been unable to awaken any concern in the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and other comparable agencies to prevent an attack on the United States timed to occur on or about the twelfth imam’s supposed birthday.

You can begin the countdown now. If an attack is scheduled, it could occur as early as between November 25 and December 3 of this year. The likely target is a nuclear facility in the United States. A Jihadist plot to destroy Seabrook, just outside of Boston, was previously foiled. Had it succeeded, producing a “Chernobyl” after a hijacked commercial jet flew into it, much of the northeast would have become uninhabitable. A future “Mahdi save us!” attack might alternatively occur in the Seattle area.

Americans in general, it seems to me, have grown indifferent to the threat the Islamic Jihad represents. Too many believe we are engaged in a questionable military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. Only the daily casualty reports remind anyone that the single most important war of civilizations is occurring and has been for the last three decades or so. And it formally began in Iran.

This is why the president delivered a speech on June 28 to clarify the military situation in the Middle East and emphasize again the need to succeed in our mission to install a democratic nation in the midst of a region that has none other than Israel, a backsliding Turkey, and the government we set up in Afghanistan.

Weldon’s book is a shocking series of revelations of how unprepared and ill prepared we are for another attack on the United States. Despite the billions spent on our intelligence agencies, they were caught completely off-guard by 9-11 and there are examples of earlier failures such as the revelation that Pakistan had developed a nuclear weapon. These days, one wonders if any of these agencies has a clue where Iran’s or North Korea’s nuclear facilities are located.

Detailing how he was contacted by an Iranian living in Europe and working with a network of informants inside the government to avoid another catastrophic attack on the United States or elsewhere, Weldon’s book presents his written communications, all of which accurately predicted events and plots that those in the CIA chose to ignore. Frustrated, Weldon met independently with his contact and, finally, has authored this book whose title is enough to tell you he expects something truly awful to occur.

Frankly, I do as well. Iran is the single most determined enemy the United States has these days. Its mullahs have poured millions into terrorist organizations and are currently doing everything they can to deter Iraq from emerging as a beacon of freedom on its border and throughout the region. The Iranian population loves America, but everything there is run by a council of mullahs who are determined to extend the Islamic Revolution to the entire world. It is folly to trust them to act rationally.

Anyone who does not think that Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda is not closely linked to the Iranian mullahs is deluding themselves. Indeed, I have long believed that the real reason we have not been able to find and kill bin Laden is because he has been safely living in Iran and not the frequently mentioned mountainous areas of Pakistan or Afghanistan. That he has been seen in various safe houses and compounds in Iran is not even in doubt.

Weldon’s contact reported that “In November 2003, at a crucial meeting of the Committee of Nine, it is decided to postpone the Twelfth Imam attack on the United States until after the 2004 elections.” At that time, however, Ayatollah Khameni reportedly decided that “The project should be kept alive and preparations should be made in such a way that once the decision is taken to go ahead, there is no delay in execution.”

Weldon notes in his book: “We live in an age when technology has so empowered man that a small group of terrorists--even an individual--could bring a nation to its knees.”

In the midst of the usual blather that followed the president’s speech, the one thing missing from the political partisanship and reflections by various “experts” is that we are very probably living on borrowed time until the “Twelfth Imam” attack occurs.

About the Writer: Alan Caruba writes "Warning Signs," a weekly commentary posted on http://www.anxietycenter.com, the website of The National Anxiety Center.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americas; attack; iran; islamic; jihad; jihadineurope; london; nuclear; terror; twelfthimam; vulnerability

1 posted on 07/09/2005 6:23:14 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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To: CHARLITE

I believe it.

I honestly think this terrorism could definitely bring the US to it's knees economically, socially, and cause us to unleash a nuclear fire just to make things even.

It is no wonder in the Book of Revelation that the armies march in on horses. If the oil is gone through war, horses are the only way to travel.


2 posted on 07/09/2005 6:50:37 PM PDT by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: RaceBannon
If the oil is gone through war, horses are the only way to travel.

Strange you should say that. I was just thinking today when I was hanging out with my horse that, if all else fails, I and all the other horse owners here in Florida would probably be the most sought after folks around! After all these years that people have laughed at us and our expensive oat burners...

3 posted on 07/09/2005 6:55:35 PM PDT by livius
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To: CHARLITE
Good article. There is no doubt that it is war, as serious as any we have ever been involved in. But neither political party wants to label it what it is. The left calls it revenge and talks of these savages as though they were freedom fighters who simply want the occupiers to leave their country. The President has spoken of them as evil terrorists who hate us for our freedoms. He speaks of spreading democracy to the world. Neither tells the real story.

These people want an Islamic empire and Iraq stands in their way. If Iraq falls, a coalition of Syria, Iraq and Iran will control massive amounts of oil and will be well on their way to development of a nuclear weapon. Saudi Arabia will fall as will most of the other moderate but substantially weaker governments in the region. Pakistan will simply be rolled into the militant fold and the empire these fanatics desire will be realized.

But first they must get the Western powers out of the region. It worked in Madrid, and was designed to work in London. Many Americans reminded constantly by the left of the US casualties cringe at the violence in Iraq. The terrorists remember Vietnam well, and know that Americans will not tolerate an unending presence in that part of the world if casualties continue, and the anti-American media helps them daily. Many fervently believe that all of this violence is simply the fault of Bush and Blair.

If Iraq does not fall, Syria and Iran can be isolated within the region. The President knows this very well, but in telling it to the American people, he will materially weaken those governments already on shaky ground. The Democrat leaders know this and know why the President cannot be forthcoming, and so they feel their attacks on him are freebees and cannot be countered. This is why they are so unbelievably disgusting.

4 posted on 07/09/2005 7:08:38 PM PDT by MACVSOG68
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To: livius

Re-read Ezekiel 37-39 and Daniel and Revelation.

All those future wars are fought with horses and spears and bows and arrows.

Islamic terrorism will shut down civilization if it is carried out to fruition.

The US is NOT in Bible prophesy. Wonder why?


5 posted on 07/09/2005 7:11:14 PM PDT by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: RaceBannon
Islamic terrorism will shut down civilization if it is carried out to fruition.

Absolutely.

6 posted on 07/09/2005 7:17:12 PM PDT by livius
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To: CHARLITE; All
From my file, "Fire & Blood & Iron:"


The entire West ( dare I say "the civilized World?" ) is locked in a fight to the death with militant Islam.

There will be no second-place winner, no "third way" solution-- it is March or Die time, folks.

It is Us versus an eighth-century "culture" of plunder & pillage, forced religious "conversions," and the mistreatment of women.

The sooner we face up to this fact realistically and quit dancing around PC talking-point nonsense about diversity and tolerance, the better off we'll all be.

We did not pick this fight- which really has roots in Jimmy Carter's appeasement in 1979 of militants- but we had damned well better see it for what it is, and be prepared to face it and finish it.

I'll put it in raw, personal terms-- I don't want Sharia law visited upon my women, and I don't want a goat-roper "culture" infesting my land.

I don't want their vile, nasty, loathsome weapons of mass destruction loosed upon my fair country, either.

They picked the fight, and now it is up to us to finish it- balls to the wall, hammer and anvil, fire and blood and iron... freedom is never, ever free, and the coin you pay it in is men's lives and tears and blood.

What we saw during Gulf War I was our military doctrine ( high tech ) versus Soviet doctrine ( throw a lot of low tech iron at the problem )-- and we all know how that turned out.

What we saw in the 3-Week War is Information-Tech,
( What some are calling it Hyperwarfare... )
or 21st Century warfare versus 20th Century...

What I would suggest, and call your attention to, is the fact that we, and Israel, are capable of waging 21st Century warfare, and the entire Arab world is not.

Proven fact, by recent events.

One more thing- this will be a war where we are all called to be warriors- so I suggest to you that the time has come to get hard, and stay hard... it really is the time for Fire and Blood and Iron...


I simply don't give rip anymore what these creatures think, feel, or fear:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

Where It's 9-11 All the Time...

Click the picture...

Where it's nine-eleven all the time
and no Sun sets,
and no clocks chime
where no voice speaks
and no bird trills
the Moon hangs frozen
o'er the hills
The winds are still, they seem to say,
Reflect, remember,
stop to pray...


7 posted on 07/09/2005 11:39:45 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Cold Warrior, draggin' his BAR into the Sunset...)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

..................

8 posted on 07/10/2005 6:06:33 AM PDT by SJackson (On the second try, I got that jug off, but then I had a bear tied to a tree)
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To: RaceBannon
The US is NOT in Bible prophesy. Wonder why?

Hal Lindsey, of the Late Great Planet Earth tells that the US will fall in power.  The big powers will be (if I remember right), will be China and Russia.

What with the Muslims taking over America right now, I tend to believe that this will be true.  Sad but true.


9 posted on 07/10/2005 6:22:00 AM PDT by SheLion (Donate to Free Republic! Help keep our forum free!!!)
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To: SJackson
  

(This is the newest map published in 2005.  A lot of FReepers tell me that this Mosque isn't on the map and that Mosque isn't on the map.  More proof that the Mosque's are popping up across the United States at a record pace.  Even the one in Lodi, California is not on this newest map).

Congressman refuses to probe illegal alien
terrorist cell in his own district

January 28, 2005 - Despite widespread news reports linking Moroccan Muslims to worldwide terrorism, Florida Congressman Ric Keller (R-8-FL) has declined to call for a formal FBI or Government Accounting Office (GAO) investigation of Orlando Homeland Security official Mary Schneider's concrete evidence of green card bribery of immigration officials by illegal Moroccan Muslims linked to a terrorist cell in Keller's central Florida congressional district--the hub of Sunshine State tourism and airline traffic.

Our interview with the Orlando immigration adjudication officer revealed that Keller, who is a member of the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security told Mary Schneider "your problem is not a matter within the purview of a federal agency." Full Story

"It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain,and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims..."
Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, ARAB NEWS 9 September 2004

Holy War on the Home Front

Holy War on the Home Front:
The Secret Islamic Terror Network in the United States

(An excerpt) FROM THE PUBLISHER

"Nearly three years after 9/11, the war on terror is far from over. In fact, a leading terrorism expert argues that despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security, we're not really any safer at all.

Harvey Kushner, a respected adviser to the FBI, the FAA, the INS, and other government agencies, offers frightening new evidence of a unified Islamic terrorist network that is operating inside the United States and planning new opportunities to strike.

Kushner identifies and assesses the violent plans of these Islamic organizations and individuals who take advantage of our reluctance to engage in ethnic profiling. He supports his claims with never-before-seen documents from top-level government sources, exposing a secret network of Arab intelligence agencies, terrorists, university professors, corrupt imams and other religious leaders, and violent criminals.

Some members of this network are recent immigrants; others have been American citizens for years. Some are laundering money from abroad through seemingly innocuous charities and mosques. Some have even infiltrated our military as Arabic translators and Muslim chaplains..."

The influential Washington-based Center for Security Police recently unveiled a groundbreaking report entitled, "Terrorism Investments of the 50 States."   This report analyzes the investment portfolios of America's leading public pension funds.  The key finding of the report is that America's 87 largest and most influential pension systems invest some $200 billion in companies that provide revenues, advanced technology, equipment and moral cover to governments that enable terrorism.  (This detailed report and related materials can be obtained at www.DivestTerror.org.)

To be sure, there is nothing illegal about investing in any of the roughly 400 companies that partner with our enemies' friends.  Nor is it illegal for such companies to do business with terrorist-sponsoring regimes.  Whether the law prohibits such activities or not, however, we believe most Americans will agree with us that they are wrong â?" wrong morally, wrong strategically and wrong financially. 

Consequently, DivestTerror.org offers a "how-to" manual showing ways in which investors, taxpayers and other citizens can bring pressure to bear to convert this $200 billion investment into leverage that can be used to help defeat terrorism.  Reduced to its essence, the idea is this: By divesting the stock of these companies, public pension systems, university endowments and even individual investors can send a powerful message to the companies that provide life-support to many of the planet's most dangerous regimes. You can choose to continue to partner with rogue state regimes that aid and abet terrorism.  Or you can do business with American investors and capital markets.  But you can no longer do both. 

As the DivestTerror.org website makes clear, divestment campaigns have already proven to be highly effective instruments.  In fact, over the last twenty years, institutional and private investors have repeatedly used their financial leverage to initiate social change.  For instance, these efforts have been used to bring pressure on stocks of companies involved in tobacco, alcohol, gambling, guns and environmentally insensitive behavior.  Arguably, the best-known example to date was the shareholder activism that used divestment to force the apartheid government of South Africa to abandon its heinous apartheid policy.  Subsequently, that government was forced to surrender power. 

By applying this model to companies doing business in terrorist-sponsoring states, we hope to achieve a success no less momentous than that accomplished in South Africa.  All it will take is for Americans like you to feel empowered to play a role in the war on terror, to make known your views against investment in terrorist-sponsoring states and to use tools like those provided by DivestTerror.org to target and maximize the effectiveness of your activism.  Please visit this informative and useful site and to join in the campaign it is now waging to defeat those who threaten not only our lives, but those of our children and grandchildren, as well.

   

 


10 posted on 07/10/2005 6:24:16 AM PDT by SheLion (Donate to Free Republic! Help keep our forum free!!!)
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To: SheLion

I think there are dark days ahead, but we have not lost the war yet. There is no room for pessimism, imho, while there is still a War to be fought and won. And if 9/11 opened many people's eyes, then each succeeding attack will convert more. Denial does not work forever.

And don't forget -- only 1/3 of the Patriots fought the Revolution; 1/3 wanted only to be left alone; 1/3 left for Canada. We don't need 'fighters' like that, anyway. And then there's Gideon -- the Lord told him to only use his fiercest soldiers, the rest he sent home.

It is up to those who get it to Speak the Truth to all who will listen, to work hard to influence our leaders, and to be vigilant and prepared. These are amazing times, but I believe we are up to them.


11 posted on 07/10/2005 7:09:59 AM PDT by bboop
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