There's nothing going on here, everybody move along!
Posted on 10/11/2005 8:48:28 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Nothing To See Here - Move Along
By Michelle Malkin
October 12, 2005
Oct. 12 marks the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole. Seventeen American sailors were murdered in the attack. They were casualties of a war with radical Islamic terror that America hadn't yet declared and which the mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge today.
Too many of us were blind in 2000 -- unable or unwilling or simply too uninterested to connect such blood-stained dots as al Qaeda's 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack, the 1996 Khobar Tower bombings, the 1998 African embassy bombings, and the attack on the Cole. After Sept. 11, 2001, all of our eyes should have been pried wide open to the evils of Muslim extremism that exist among us in both organized and freelance form.
The watchdogs in the national press, however, insist on clouding our vision.
Since 9/11, I've reported on the media's reluctance to highlight the convicted Washington, D.C.-area snipers' Islamist proclivities and journalists' refusal to call Egyptian gunman Hesham Hadayet's acts of murder at the Israeli airline counter at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, 2002, "terrorism."
Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes noted how quickly the media sought to whitewash the bloody bus-hijacking by Croatian illegal alien Damir Igric a month after 9/11. Although the incident "echoed similar attacks by Palestinians on Israeli buses," Pipes observed, the "media attributed the violence to post-traumatic stress syndrome."
National Guardsman Ryan Anderson (a.k.a. Amir Talhah), a Muslim convert who allegedly attempted to pass sensitive military information to al Qaeda over the Internet, rated barely a blip on the media radar screen.
Similarly, press accounts have downplayed the disruption of terrorist cells on American soil: The Lackawanna Six were just nice Muslim boys led astray. The Virginia Jihad Network was just a group of weekend paintball enthusiasts. Those indicted imams in Lodi, Calif., are just misunderstood "moderates." Terror suspects deported on immigration charges are just victims of discrimination.
Now, many of my readers wonder why the MSM won't touch the strange and troubling story of the University of Oklahoma bomber, Joel Henry Hinrichs III. On Oct. 1, Hinrichs died on a park bench outside the school's packed football stadium when a homemade bomb in his possession exploded. The Justice Department has sealed a search warrant in the case. The university's president, David Boren, is pooh-poohing local media and Internet blog reports of possible jihadist influences on Hinrichs. The dead bomber was, we are being told, simply a depressed and troubled young man with "no known ties" to terrorism.
Never mind that, according to local news reporters, the bomb-making material found in Hinrichs' apartment was triacetone triperoxide -- the explosive chemical of choice of shoe bomber Richard Reid and the London 7/7 subway bombers.
Never mind the local police department's confirmation that Hinrichs had attempted to buy ammonium nitrate a few days before his death.
Never mind the concerns of Oklahoma University student journalist Rachael Kahne, who told me this week in a call for the media's help:
"I've been working on this story since the night it happened, and have been stonewalled at every turn. . . . Minutes after the explosion, police busted into a student's apartment and arrested four Muslim students who were there for a small gathering (the president of the Muslim Student Association assures me this was in no way a "party"). Among those arrested [and later released] was Fazal Cheema, Joel Henry Hinrichs' Pakistani roommate. I was baffled when I heard this. I didn't know how police would be able to identify who Hinrichs was, where he lived, who his roommate was, and then find where his roommate was in a matter of minutes. Something isn't adding up, and I've been wracking my brain for the past week trying to figure out what happened here. OU isn't saying anything more than the typical PR spin, and the FBI won't talk."
Nothing to see here. Move along. Islam is a peaceful religion. Stop asking so many damned questions.
Such is the attitude of the national media, which seems to believe that 'tis better to live in ignorance and indulge in hindsight later than to offend the gods of political correctness.
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Michelle Malkin is author of "Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores" (Regnery). Michelle Malkin's e-mail address is malkin@comcast.net.
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If the timing of the police raid is correctly given, then you have to think that the feds were following him and his friends covertly to trace their contacts.
Whether the authorities set off the bomb is another matter. The story was that he approached the stadium gates three times, but was turned away. Were the gate guards warned about him, or was it sheer good luck that they happened to be stopping students to check them for alcohol?
I suppose the FBI could have spoken with the university president and asked him to think of some innocent-seeming reason to search everyone. That would explain why he is acting like an insider, in the know--also like an insider who thinks the American people are too stupid to be told the truth.
It seems to me that the cat is out of the bag, that the other Muslims must know that they are being watched, so the FBI could perfectly well let the media tell people the truth, that this was a terrorist plot that failed. That wouldn't give away anything the suspects don't already know.
I guess you would need to know whether it took a few minutes, 15 minutes, half an hour, who knows? The normal police response would be to visit Kinrich's room, search it for evidence, interview his roommate and friends, and so forth. But if it were done in the normal course of an investigation, it would probably take more time than if the whole circle were suspected of being terrorists and were being watched.
I don't know what the timeline was. We have only one student's suspicions to raise these questions. But the news media ought to be doing some investigating, even though they seem to have lost the habit of actually digging up facts.
I can only think of two explanations: 1) he was making drugs; 2) he was making bombs. Or possibly 3) he was making drugs to support himself while he made bombs.
I sure did Seadog Bytes and thanks to both of you for the pings.
Don't look at that little man behind the curtain, he has nothing to do with any of this.
Coming events cast their shadow well before themselves, and all this has only been a dress rehearsal for the attack that will come, apparently carried out by blue-eyed, blond-haired young men of Northern European extraction, who had succumbed to the call of Jihad. In fact, it may have happened already, in Oklahoma, in the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Murrah building.
All the threads lead back to the Philippines, and mysterious connections made there by Terry Nichols, to the Jihadi Islami that is so active there.
I agree with what you've said about this. It is curious - I mean even if Cheema had just emerged from the apartment when they grabbed him - how would they know what he looked like - presumably Hinrichs didn't have his pic in his wallet with his name, ya know?
It's all rather interesting...
>>>>Nothing else I read or heard drew attention to this being the 5th anniversary of the USS Cole attack.
I think Curt Welden gave the USS Cole more justice then we could have ever hoped for.
From Curt's speech:
>>>What we have here, I am convinced of this now, is an aggressive attempt by CIA management to cover up their own shortcomings in not being able to do what the Able Danger team did: They identified Mohammed Atta and the al Qaeda cell of Brooklyn 1 year before Ð9/11. But even before that, as the story unfolds, you are going to hear the story that they also identified the threat to the USS Cole 2 weeks before the attack, and 2 days before the attack were screaming not to let the USS Cole come into the harbor at Yemen because they knew something was about to happen.<<<
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505816/posts?page=1#1
Mr. Welden's speech is being emailed everywhere as a hot topic. Every VET and MIL are dumping their address books on it.
I'm confident the USS Cole victims will soon rest in peace. Their brothers aren't going to let this go.
Nothing news in all this. Back during the Depression the reds were able to mobilize huge ralllies in Chicago and New York, but a news blackout was achieved by the powers-that-be. The news reels, which were played weekly in every movie theatre in the country, in a time when EVERYONE went to the movies (movie, one dime, bag of popcorn, one nickle, ninety minutes of escape. Whoever is in power "controls". The only way dissent gets its day is by infiltration of the power centers, as the reds did the New Deal and Hollywood. and academia.
Nothing news in all this. Back during the Depression the reds were able to mobilize huge ralllies in Chicago and New York, but a news blackout was achieved by the powers-that-be. The news reels, which were played weekly in every movie theatre in the country, in a time when EVERYONE went to the movies (movie, one dime, bag of popcorn, one nickle, ninety minutes of escape. Whoever is in power "controls". The only way dissent gets its day is by infiltration of the power centers, as the reds did the New Deal and Hollywood. and academia.
CIA is not the only intellogence agenmcy that needs to CYA.
That is true. And I'm sure housecleaning will be going on for a while.
I suspect that the Fitzgerald investigation is being "guided" by CIA agents hoping to get revenge on Cheney. Miller wrote a book on "the Agency." I gather she is in thick with them.
That makes sense to me.
I've sent out Weldon's speech to just about everybody I Know via e-mail.
FRegards..
BTTT!!!!
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