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Nidal Malik Hasan, the Islamist who launched a dispicable shooting jihad against U.S. soldiers at Ft. Hood, was a Task Force Participant with the George Washington University's HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force, April 2008-January 2009. Report at WND. The objective of GWU's HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force was to act in an advisory capacity to the Obama Administation. A list of Task Force Participants appears beginning on page 20 of their report. Hasan's name appears on page 29. Safiya Ghoria, an Islamist affiliated with MPAC [Muslim Public Affairs Council], was also listed as a Presidential Transition Task Force participant. Her...

The uncle says Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a sensitive man haunted by the wartime disabilities of soldiers he treated. The Army psychiatrist was not political, his relatives in the West Bank say. Hamad described his nephew as a gentle soul who once, as a young adult, mourned for three months after rolling over during a nap and crushing his pet parakeet. During medical school, the uncle said, Hasan switched his major to psychiatry after fainting at the sight of blood while delivering a baby. The young man became more religious after the death of his parents, who were Muslims...

After Sgt. Kimberly Munley stopped the Fort Hood massacre by shooting Major Nidal Malik Hasan several times, she collapsed from her wounds and doctors who treated her were afraid she wouldn't survive. Munley, a 34-year-old former soldier who became a civilian cop on the Fort Hood base, was shot twice in both legs during Thursday's confrontation. Two powerful "cop killer" rounds allegedly fired by Hasan tore through her left thigh, exited and blasted through her right thigh as well. She was also struck in the wrist. Munley, the mother of two girls, was sped to Metroplex Hospital several miles away...

ith Turkey’s prospects for joining the European Union growing more elusive and the country reaching out to predominantly Muslim countries with a vigor not seen in years, a longstanding question is vexing the United States and Europe: Is this large, secular Muslim country turning East instead of West?

SNIPPET: "The Bangladesh government has finally imposed proscription on the transnational Islamic religious-political organization Hizbut-Tahrir’s country chapter on Oct 22, for its anti-state, anti-government, anti-people and anti-democratic activities in the country." SNIPPET: "Despite the ban, the HT-B’ website which is still active and operational criticized the present government in these following words: "The oppressive Awami League government, agents of US-India-Britain banned Hizb ut-Tahrir due to the party’s stance on the side of the defence forces of the country and leading the work for re-establishing the Khilafah (Caliphate).""

DALLAS - Dallas FBI agents arrested a Jordanian citizen Thursday afternoon for attempting to bomb a skyscraper in Downtown Dallas. According to the bureau, 19-year-old Mosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested and charged for attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Smadi had been under continuous FBI surveillance and was arrested after he allegedly placed and tried to detonate an inactive car bomb near Fountain Place, a 60-story glass office tower located at 1445 Ross Avenue, the FBI said.

This is a long post and not for the casual-minded. Beck is taking some ridicule even from some people on this site -- maybe the "watchers" who can't resist a sniper shot, or maybe just some who think he's too wrought up (mistaking his presentational style as a lack of substance). Wrong. I don't know if Beck has read any of the following, but for those who want to know why this is such a serious moment -- at the same time the Liberals wallow in their memorial barf-fest about Teddy Krapennedy., that lecherous, backstabbing "pen pal" of former KGB...

GAZA CITY (AFP) – A radical sheikh was among 24 people killed and 130 wounded after Hamas police stormed a Gaza mosque when he declared an Islamic emirate in the Palestinian enclave, medics said on Saturday. The shooting erupted on Friday afternoon following weekly prayers in Rafah, on the Egyptian border, and continued until dawn on Saturday. "Clashes... between Hamas and an extremist group in the southern Gaza Strip left 24 people dead and at least 130 wounded," a spokesman for the Palestinian emergency services told AFP. Four of the wounded were considered to be "clinically dead" and many more...

Once again Fatah, the terrorist group considered "moderate" by the US is showing its true colors. Under the tutelage of President Abbas, the party created by Yassar Arafat has it both ways, sometimes it tries to maintain a public shroud of "moderation," and at other times refuses to sit at the negotiation table and calls for "armed struggle." Since Bibi Netanyahu Made his speech offering to sit down and have talks with the Palestinians with no preconditions, there has been no movement toward talks. You see, the Palestinians refuse to talk unless Israel agrees to give them everything they want...

Back in May UNIFIL finally fessed up publicly that Hezbollah continues to smuggle weapons south of the Litani River (that's not really news, because Hezbollah never stopped doing it). This is followed up with reports from Israel showing that UNIFIL is so embarrassed by its incompetence that it withheld information showing that Hezbollah was breaking the cease-fire that ended the Israel/Hezbollah war. Today's revelation was even more frightening. Since the end of the Second Israel/Lebanon War, Iran and Syria have been resupplying the Hezbollah terrorists to the point where they now have 3x the number of missiles as before the...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AFP) – A Nigerian Islamist sect leader was shot dead following his capture Thursday, after troops put down a five-day uprising that left hundreds dead. Mohammed Yusuf, 39, leader of a Nigerian self-styled Taliban sect was captured earlier in the day from a house in the northeastern city of Maiduguri following days of deadly clashes between his followers and security forces. "Mohammed Yusuf was killed by security forces in a shootout while trying to escape," Moses Anegbode, police Assistant Inspector-General for the northeastern Nigeria told BRTV state television. "I can confirm that has been killed and the body...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of cooperating with "radical branches" of Islam and of anti-Semitism, according to media reports Thursday in Colombia. "I will not speak about intelligence specifics, but we have enough to be concerned about the collaboration between radical branches of Islam and Hugo Chavez," Lieberman told the El Tiempo newspaper at the conclusion of a 10-day South American visit which included stops in Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Colombia. Lieberman, an ultra-nationalist who is part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hawkish government, was responding to questions seeking evidence to support Israel's contention...

They have launched co-ordinated attacks across northern Nigeria, threatening to overthrow the government and impose strict Islamic law - but who exactly are the Nigerian Taliban?Since the group emerged in 2004 they have become known as "Taliban", although they appear to have no links to the Taliban in Afghanistan.Some analysts believe they took inspiration from the radical Afghans, others say the name is more a term of ridicule used by people in Maiduguri, the area where they were founded.The group's other name, Boko Haram, means "Western education is a sin" and is another title used by local people to refer...

Christiane Amanpour, the Chief international correspondent of Cable News Network grew up in Tehran where her father was a shill for the Shah's government. Since that the overthrow of the of the Shah, Christiane, a Roman Catholic, has been making up for her father's support of the Shah by supporting Islamic Terrorism every chance she has. Christiane cut her teeth on her her one-sided coverage of the conflict in Bosnia. Since then she has continued to support the Islamofacist cause every chance she can; be it her admiration for Yassir Arafat (a terrorist and baby killer) right down the line...

Up to 100 people are believed to have been killed in the latest clashes between Islamist militants and security forces in Nigeria. The Islamist militants have staged a series of attacks on police stations, government buildings and a church in northern Nigeria over the past two days. In the latest assaults as many as 100 people died as militants engaged police in fierce gunbattles. The Islamist fighters are thought to belong to a group known as Boko Haram, which means "western education is sin". The group wants Western-based education banned and wants to establish sharia law across Nigeria, a country...

If you find yourself in Chicago on Sunday take a stroll over to the Hilton Oak Lawn hotel and "enjoy" The Fall of Capitalism, the Rise of Islam. The first American Conference of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamic Supremacist Group with ties to confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Al Qaeda in Iraq's onetime leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The Hizb ut-Tahrir group says that it does not engage in terrorism, the State Department says that it is not a known terror group. The group has operated discreetly in the U.S. for decades, but this Sunday represents its"coming out party. Hizb...

"Why Islam" is Muslim outreach group, run by the ICNA a Islamic group loosely tied to the Jamaat-e-Islami organization of Southeast Asia and allied with the Muslim Brotherhood The "Why Islam" effort supposedly has "nicer" goals then its parent organization. According to its Website; The WhyIslam project is for everyone. To those who have little or no previous knowledge of Islam, we invite you to a journey that is filled with treasures along the way. To those who are mystified by the contradiction between Islam and the actions of some Muslims, we urge you to leave aside your stereotypes and...

Obama has appointed Arif Alikhan to a position with the Dept. of Homeland Security. Alikhan is reported to be affiliated with MPAC [ Muslim Public Affairs Council]. MPAC has major credibility problems and has advocated positions on issues contrary to America's national interests, and the national interests of our closests allys. IPT has more: Edina Lekovic, who serves as communications director for MPAC, was a "managing editor" of Al-Talib magazine which featured text in an article written by their staff that praised Osama Bin Laden as a "freedom fighter".

Somali Islamist fighters on Friday beheaded seven prisoners accused of abandoning the Muslim faith and spying for the government in the largest mass execution since the Islamists were pushed from power two and a half years ago. The public killings in the southwestern town of Baidoa followed weeks of fierce fighting as the Islamists try to seize Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, amid mounting concerns about the influx of hundreds of foreign fighters to the failed state. The beheadings may be linked to the Islamists' failure to take Mogadishu after a 2-month-old offensive, said a senior analyst at global intelligence company Stratfor....

A 28-year-old African who styled himself as a barbarian was sentenced to life in prison last night for kidnapping and torturing to death a Jewish man in a case that exposed anti-Semitism in France’s immigrant suburbs. Youssouf Fofana, from the Ivory Coast, was the ring-leader of a gang of 27 youths who abducted Iman Halimi, 23, in 2006. The gang, from a housing estate in Bagneux, west of Paris, called themselves the “gang of barbarians”. Fofana Fofana, who describes himself as a hardline “Salafist” Islamist, fled to Ivory Coast after the killing. He was arrested there and extradited to France....

Prior to the administration of Barack Obama, the reasons given for the Islamist hatred of the United States was they were threatened by our values, lifestyle and freedoms. That's why the United States was called the great Satan. We are leaders in the world of non-believers. Take for example this from James Taranto's WSJ Column: Now and then a terrorist actually takes the trouble to explain his motives. London's Daily Telegraph reports on the trial of the man who allegedly (and now confessedly) murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh: Mohammed Bouyeri, a baby-faced 27-year-old with dual Dutch-Moroccan nationality, broke his...

" People are being shot like animals...people are being beaten like animals.....people are being hit with an axe in the heart....they are thRowing people off the bridge...You people should stop this its time to act" That was the haunting cry of a woman in Tehran describing the evil that went on in Tehran today (see video). Through all of the Hate there is hope, one Iranian Blogger reports that half the revolutionary guard is on the side of the people:

There’s never been a better time to be an enemy of the United States of America. Whether you’re a trained jihadist in US custody, a diminutive cult leader starving his own people while developing nukes, or part of a ruthless regime that murders dissidents in broad daylight, you can rest assured that the United States government is unlikely to act—or perhaps even speak—in a manner likely to disrupt your daily routine. While invoking “our values,” hailing the importance of American humility, and rejecting the “failed policies of the past,” the current administration is projecting a dangerous image to the world....

Sometimes the Extremism of the Islamist Clerics can be quite amusing. Sometimes you just can't believe what they determine is a plot of the evil Zionists. There was Barbie "Jewish Barbie dolls, with their revealing clothes and shameful postures, accessories and tools are a symbol of decadence to the perverted West. Let us beware of her dangers and be careful," said a message posted on the site. A spokesman for the Committee said the campaign against Barbie — banned for more than 10 years — coincides with the start of the school year to remind children and their parents of...

It is now clear that the president is either unable or unwilling to come to terms with the nature of the radical Islamic threat to America and the West. To him, the problem is a few violent extremists, a “small but potent minority of Muslims,” which leaves one wondering how a small minority got to be quite so potent. In any case, the West is dealing not with a few militants, or even with terrorism as such, but with a murderous, totalitarian doctrine couched in Islamic terms that has already become the dominant idiom in much of the Muslim world...

Esam Omeish, former president of the Muslim American Society, which has ties to the Islamist terror group Muslim Brotherhood, has failed in his effort to win the Democratic primary for Va.'s 35th District.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Al Qaeda is planning a major attack on Germans before September's election to wreak revenge for the deployment of troops in Afghanistan, a German magazine cited security officials as saying on Saturday. Der Spiegel said German intelligence officials and the Federal Crime Office believed German firms based in Algeria and German citizens in northern Africa were in particular danger. The officials also warned of attacks in Germany. The new assessment is largely due to a warning from the U.S. government, believed to be based on information from al Qaeda in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, said the weekly.

The spectacle of two duelling speeches with a mile of each other in downtown Washington was extraordinary. I was at the Cheney event and watched Obama's address on a big screen beside the empty lectern that the former veep stepped behind barely two minutes after his adversary had finished. So who won the fight? (it's hard to use anothing other than a martial or pugilistic metaphor). Well, most people are on either one side or the other of this issue and I doubt today will have prompted many to switch sides. But the very fact that Obama chose to schedule...

NECN: Washington, D.C.) - President Barack Obama, preparing to give a speech on Bush administration interrogation techniques and the prospective closure of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, took a moment to share the names of the members of his cabinet that were in attendance. Except he got one wrong. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in the crowd, but President Obama said that "William Gates" was on hand. Was that William Gates, as in the Microsoft billionaire? On Tuesday, Gates was introduced at a Pentagon ceremony as Ronald Gates. At the time, Gates joked that he had recently been introduced...

Security forces in Morocco announced on Tuesday (May 12th) that they had successfully dismantled a "nascent terrorist organisation planning to carry out attacks" in the country. This cell, which comprised eight people, operated in at least three towns – Laâyoune, Guelmim, and Boujdour – as part of the radical Islamist Salafia Jihadia movement. "These terrorists have been monitored for months and inquiries showed that the people we detained were a threat," said one interior ministry source wishing to remain anonymous. PJD Secretary-General Abdellah Benkirane said Tuesday in a televised interview that one of the people arrested is a member of...

A radical Somali Islamist leader branded a terrorist by the US returned to the war-wracked country Thursday after more than two years in exile in Eritrea, an Islamist group said. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys fled Somalia after Ethiopian troops rolled into the country and ousted his Islamist movement in January 2007, after it had taken control of large parts of the country's southern and central regions. "Sheikh Aweys has arrived and is having discussions with his supporters in Afgoye" west of Mogadishu, said Muse Abdi Arale, spokesman of Islamist group Hizb al-Islamiya after he touched down at an airport close...

A potentially troubling era dawned Sunday in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where a top Islamist militant leader, emboldened by a peace agreement with the federal government, laid out an ambitious plan to bring a "complete Islamic system" to the surrounding northwest region and the entire country. Speaking to thousands of followers in an address aired live from Swat on national news channels, cleric Sufi Mohammed bluntly defied the constitution and federal judiciary, saying he would not allow any appeals to state courts under the Islamic Sharia law system that will now prevail there as a result of the peace accord signed...

Back in January the Joint Military Command warned that Mexico and Pakistan were in danger of rapid and sudden collapse In terms of worst-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world, two large and important states bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse: Pakistan and Mexico,” says the study - Joint Operating Environment 2008 - in a chapter on “weak and failing states.” At the time it was most of the attention was placed upon our neighbor to the south Mexico, but the collapse of Pakistan is a bigger nightmare. A Nuclear-armed Pakistan, where al-Qaeda has established...

President Obama has announced the addition of Dalia Mogahed to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Ms Mogahed has a history as an apologist for radical Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood. Much of her work has been in conjunction with her mentor, John Esposito. Last year Gallup Press has published a book Who Speaks for Islam? By John L. Esposito, one of the Muslim Brotherhoods biggest supporters in the US (Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's Georgetown stooge), and Esposito protegee, the head of Gallup's Muslim division, Dalia Mogahed. The book claimed that that their research proved that most...

Counter-demonstrators dream opportunity to assure free speech is not intimidated in Orange County, Ca.

A terrorist attack which left 13-year-old Shlomo Nativ dead and a 7-year-old boy wounded ended Thursday after a Bat Ayin resident who saw the younger boy running from the terrorist stepped in and disarmed the man. A view of the West Bank... A view of the West Bank settlement of Bay Ayin. Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski [file] SLIDESHOW: Israel & Region | World "I saw a boy, aged 7 or 8, running past my house, and then I saw a 20-year-old man running after him," a man who identified himself as Avinoam told Channel 10. "I approached him, and he turned...

Title of Video: Kuwaiti Professor Abdallah Nafisi Suggests about a Biological Attack at the White House and Prays for the Bombing of a Nuclear Plant on Lake Michigan partial transcript: Abdallah Al-Nafisi: Four pounds of anthrax – in a suitcase this big – carried by a fighter through tunnels from Mexico into the US, are guaranteed to kill 330,000 Americans within a single hour, if it is properly spread in population centers there. What a horrifying idea. 9/11 will be small change in comparison. (audience chuckling) Am I right? There is no need for airplanes, conspiracies, timings, and so on....

At 12:01 P.M. on January 20, 2009, minutes before Barack Obama was sworn in as president, the first post went up on the Obama White House website. It included a reiteration of a campaign promise Obama repeatedly made: "President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history." Two days later, Obama ordered the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay closed. And two days after that, on January 24, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff wrote about a Pentagon study that will provide an early test of this promise: "The report, which could be released within the next few...

Binyam Mohammed, who planned terrorist attacks on U.S. cities, has been set free... This is a national-security disaster. Up until now, President Obama has voted “present” on enemy combatants. Rather than resolve the dilemma between the law-enforcement approach (which he supported as a candidate) and the law-of-war paradigm, he has said he is studying what to do about the remaining 245 Gitmo detainees. Now, it appears his plan is incalculably worse than either alternative: He is going to let many of them go. Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder now concede that Gitmo is a Grade A detention facility. And...

Esam Omeish, a president of the Muslim American Society, which has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization, is running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. Many will remember that Omeish tendered his resignation from the Va. Commission On Immigration after being caught on tape telling a crowd of Muslim activists that "...jihad is the way...", and making radical statements denouncing Israel's counter-terrorism operation against Hamas.

This article was published in Geostrategy-Direct , an open source intelligence (OSINT) newsletter that has a good track record. The report would probably seem preposterous if it weren't for the fact that Team Obama already waived sanctions on Syria and is considering opening travel to Cuba. It's like watching Carter on Speed. This latest news comes from the February 18, 2009 edition of Geostrategy Direct (subscribers only): DOSSIER: Ehud Barak 'Change' the mullahs can believe in: Obama to drop sanctions on Iran TEL AVIV — Israelis may have gone to the polls hoping for "Change" but the status quo is...

Welcome to the new Middle East, characterized no longer by the Arab-Israeli conflict but by an Arab nationalist-Islamist conflict. Recognizing this reality, virtually all Arab states - other than Iran's ally, Syria - and the Palestinian Authority want to see Hamas defeated in Gaza. Given their strong self-interest in thwarting Islamist revolutionary groups, especially those aligned with Iran, they are not inclined to listen to the "Arab street" - which is far quieter than it was during previous conflicts, such as the 1991 war in Kuwait, the 2000-2004 Palestinian uprising or the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war....

Former TV personality Roseanne Barr condemned the Israeli government, calling them “worse than Nazis,” for retaliating against the Hamas terrorist organization for its attacks on Israeli civilians. “The world had sympathy for the Jews when they meekly submitted to Hitler’s exterminators,” Barr observed. “Resources were conserved. Clothes, shoes, even hair and gold teeth all were recycled. But these Israelis are just blowing their enemies to bits. It’s wasteful and environmentally unfriendly.” Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) labeled Israel’s bombing of Hamas fighters and weapons caches “a disproportionate response—just like the US response against the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Israeli...

Music and real estate mogul Kenny Gamble, alternatively known as Luqman Abdul Haqq, is one of the most powerful men in Philadelphia -- and also among the most controversial. His effort to revitalize dilapidated South Philly neighborhoods stands at the center of the storm. While he grandiosely links his projects to "the saving of America," others have accused him of constructing a "black Muslim enclave." Gamble's story encompasses several themes that define the Islamist enterprise in the West: Muslim lobby groups steeped in radicalism, highly motivated individuals with two-track agendas, and feckless governments that unwittingly enable them. Therefore, Gamble provides...

I'm collecting posting and archiving Islamist videos. These tend to appear and disappear from the web. If anybody has has other videos that show the Islamist point of view or the effects of islamic radicalism feel free to share the link and if I can capture them, I'll archive them so they don't disappear.

Massacre in Mumbai: Up to SEVEN gunmen were British and 'came from same area as 7/7 bombers' By Justin Davenport , Rashid Razaq and Nicola Boden Last updated at 5:39 PM on 28th November 2008 British-born Pakistanis among arrested militants British-born Pakistanis were among the Mumbai terrorists, Indian government sources claimed today, as the death toll rose to at least 150. As many as seven of the terrorists may have British connections and some could be from Leeds and Bradford where London's July 7 bombers lived, one source said. Two Britons were among eight gunmen being held, according to Mumbai's...

Armed Islamists will attack pirates, says militant Last Updated: Friday, November 21, 2008 | 3:08 PM ET A group of armed Islamist militants is reportedly headed to a Somali port Friday to attack pirates holding hostage a massive Saudi Arabian oil tanker.Ships belonging to Muslim countries should not be seized, Abdelghafar Musa, a fighter with the Islamist group al-Shabab, told the Associated Press. This undated picture taken at an unknown location shows the Saudi oil supertanker MV Sirius Star, which has been hijacked by Somali pirates. (Christian Duys/Associated Press)"We are really sorry to hear that the Saudi ship has...

This is the weekend when Americans set clocks back an hour for daylight savings time. Thus, I guess it's only fitting that, given all the current fuss about the Los Angeles Times's refusal to make public even a transcript of Senator Obama's love fest with Professor Rashid Khalidi and his ilk (no doubt, Jews included), I'll turn the clock back as well...but almost three decades. You see, Fox News means well, and while most of the mainstream media in general is either ignoring the story or downplaying it, Fox--and even the McCain people themselves--miss the real problem. It's not that...

Obama's Anti-Israel Islamic Pals by Sammy Benoit Khalidi is just one of many. The controversy surrounding Senator Barack Obama's friendship with Rashid Khalidi, and the tape being suppressed by the Los Angeles Times, is overshadowing the important fact that Khalidi is just one of many Israel-hating Islamic characters that Obama has allied himself with. For example, these people are connected directly to his Senate office or campaign: Cynthia K. Miller, treasurer of his Senate campaign, is a member of a member Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam. Jennifer Mason, Obama's Director of Constituent Services, is also a member of the Nation...

U.S. military "Red Team" charged with challenging conventional thinking says that words like "jihad" and "Islamist" are needed in discussing 21st-century terrorism and that federal agencies that avoid the words soft-pedaled the link between religious extremism and violent acts. "We must reject the notion that Islam and Arabic stand apart as bodies of knowledge that cannot be critiqued or discussed as elements of understanding our enemies in this conflict," said the internal report, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times.