http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/paulsperry/ en-us Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:38:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382009/posts FORT HOOD, Texas (Nov. 8) – A key U.S. senator said Sunday he would begin an investigation into whether the Army missed signs that the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood had embraced an increasingly extremist view of Islamic ideology. Sen. Joe Lieberman's call for the investigation came as word surfaced that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there. Whether Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, associated with the hijackers is something the FBI will probably look into, according to a... AOL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382009/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:38:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257299/posts Fearing the next terror attack could emerge from America's growing Somali refugee population, federal authorities have stepped up surveillance in Somali communities – including a large enclave just outside Washington. In fact, WND has learned that the Baileys Crossroads area of Northern Virginia – about 10 miles from the capital – was a critical focus of security investigations in advance of the presidential inauguration in January. Investigators say a troubling number of the area's Somali men hold "militant" anti-American views and sympathize with al-Qaida. They typically work as taxi drivers, gathering at local coffeehouses during their breaks, as well as... wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257299/posts#comment Sun, 24 May 2009 13:17:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025229/posts If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That appears to be the strategy of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist in his wicked project to dress Islamists up as patriotic Republicans so they can infiltrate the government. While he's managed to get some of his Muslim proteges jobs in the Bush administration, getting them elected to public office has been another story. Voters aren't buying their makeover. Last November, his crony Faisal M. Gill lost a bid for a seat in the Virginia state legislature. Now another protege, Kamal M. Nawash, has lost his third political race in seven years.... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025229/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:28:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025577/posts Norquist's Muslim Protégés By Paul Sperry FrontPageMagazine.com | 6/3/2008 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That appears to be the strategy of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist in his wicked project to dress Islamists up as patriotic Republicans so they can infiltrate the government. While he's managed to get some of his Muslim proteges jobs in the Bush administration, getting them elected to public office has been another story. Voters aren't buying their makeover. Last November, his crony Faisal M. Gill lost a bid for a seat in the Virginia state legislature. Now another protege, Kamal M. Nawash,... FrontPageMagazine.com | 6/3/2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025577/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:30:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928142/posts Homeland Security: You'd think U.S. security agencies would be extra cautious about hiring after 9/11. But the case of the Hezbollah spy shows background checks are a joke.Nada Nadim Prouty, a Lebanese national, infiltrated both the FBI and CIA — even though she lied on her application about being a U.S. citizen. Both agencies failed to catch the fraud in their security checks. Prouty went on to access secret files about Hezbollah to tip off family members linked to the Lebanon-based terror group, something investigators failed to turn up in their original background check. Washington pundits say the case raises... IBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928142/posts#comment Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:07:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708640/posts [snip] I can commiserate with Wallace. Several years ago, as the Washington bureau chief of this newspaper, I also got full frontal Clinton — in my case, for daring to ask him about the Chinagate scandal. It was the fall of 1999, the occasion a Cajun picnic for the Washington press corps on the South Lawn of the White House. Clinton, the function's main attraction, was due to make an appearance at any moment. Despite the president's having to wade through 40-plus scandals over the previous seven years, my cohorts in the press were all atwitter at the prospect of... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708640/posts#comment Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:10:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708658/posts Beltway press corps needs more skunks http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- Washington, D.C. --- Behold the Beltway press corps: Star-struck sycophants on the White House lawn. Overrated stenographers in ossified newsrooms. Shameless plagiarists at snooty magazines. Bickering narcissists on cable TV. And that's just the backbenchers. Aaah, this is the life. Come to the Capitol, ingratiate yourself with reliable government sources, pound out spoon-fed stories, sidle up to the President a few times a year at lavish schmoozefests, and take home free doggie bags full of planted puff pieces to last a lifetime. These dreams can come true for the nation's aspiring media... JWR (cached) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708658/posts#comment Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:35:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693027/posts The recent terror case of a "gentle" third-grade teacher from the D.C. suburbs shows the danger is at once closer and harder to ID than you think. The enemy is hiding not in the shadows, but in plain sight, and may even wear a smile. Hundreds of Muslims last week flocked to a federal courtroom to show their support for the affable and soft-spoken Ali Asad Chandia of Maryland as he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for supporting terrorists. Friends say anti-Muslim prosecutors railroaded a "law-abiding" and "peaceful" brother. "He is a dedicated teacher," said one. "A great... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693027/posts#comment Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:37:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683912/posts When President Bush said we're at "war with Islamic fascists," he was referring to Osama bin Laden and his acolytes in London trying to blow U.S. airliners out of the Atlantic skies. But America has its own "Islamic fascists" right here at home. Once they amass the numbers, they secretly plan to nullify our Bill of Rights and religious freedoms and create their own Muslim state ruled by Islamic law. They've got a 100-year plan, but they're already making inroads. Astoundingly, some of them head the allegedly moderate Muslim groups who protested Bush's use of the phrase "Islamic fascists." The... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683912/posts#comment Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:54:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648394/posts US Marines Build Shrine To Islam By Paul Sperry FrontPageMagazine.com June 13, 2006 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22845 We are at war with militant Islam, but you wouldn't know it from the Pentagon, which is busy erecting a shrine to Islam just five short years after Islamic terrorists destroyed a good chunk of its own building and killed more than 100 of its occupants. Worse, it's consulting on the project with a Wahhabi-educated cleric posing as a moderate. Last week, military brass -- along with representatives from the terror-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations -- dedicated the first Muslim prayer center for the Marines as... Front Page Mag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648394/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:51:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642522/posts DAY OF INFAMY 2001 U.S. equipped terror sponsors WASHINGTON -- The dozen or so Islamic terrorists who pulled off the plot to strike at America's nerve centers in New York and Washington spent at least five years researching, planning and coordinating the surprise attacks, U.S. security officials say. And they did it completely in secret, using the world's most sophisticated telecommunications equipment, some secured by advanced encryption technology that most armies don't have. Where did they get such state-of-the-art, military-related gear? First, you have to appreciate the high degree of communications activity their mission required at each stage. In researching... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642522/posts#comment Fri, 2 Jun 2006 21:52:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1633596/posts This month's defeat of local politicians who built the equivalent of a day-care center for illegal Hispanic immigrants in a leafy Washington, D.C., suburb was a victory not just for immigration reformers but also anti-terror watchdogs. Angry voters in Herndon, Va., swept out their bleeding-heart mayor and two of his allies on the town council and replaced them with candidates who are not expected to renew the lease of a controversial hiring site set up to help illegal aliens find work. Lost in all the controvery, however, is the more disturbing fact that the site -- a covered building featuring... FrontPageMag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1633596/posts#comment Wed, 17 May 2006 09:33:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1554689/posts Infiltration By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | April 12, 2005 Frontpage's Interview guest today is Paul Sperry (sperry@sperryfiles.com), a Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist, Investor's Business Daily veteran, Hoover Institution media fellow and author of the blockbuster new book, Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington (Nelson Current, 2005)." FP: Paul Sperry, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Sperry: Thanks, it's a pleasure. FP: What inspired you to write Infiltration? Sperry: My children. I wrote it in the hopes that my kids and their kids won't have to live under terror alerts. Washington hasn't leveled with us about the full scope and... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1554689/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:36:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540330/posts The Pentagon Breaks the Islam Taboo By Paul Sperry FrontPageMagazine.com | December 14, 2005 Washington's policy-makers have been careful in the war on terror to distinguish between Islam and the terrorists. The distinction has rankled conservatives who see scarce difference. A little-noticed speech by President Bush in October gave them some hope. In a major rhetorical shift, he described the enemy as "Islamic radicals" and not just "terrorists," although he still denies that radicalism has anything to do with their religion. Now for the first time, a key Pentagon intelligence agency involved in homeland security is delving into Islam's holy... fwww.rontpagemag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540330/posts#comment Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:03:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540139/posts The government asks the forbidden question: How closely related is Islamic terrorism to mainstream Islam itself? Washington's policy-makers have been careful in the war on terror to distinguish between Islam and the terrorists. The distinction has rankled conservatives who see scarce difference. A little-noticed speech by President Bush in October gave them some hope. In a major rhetorical shift, he described the enemy as "Islamic radicals" and not just "terrorists," although he still denies that radicalism has anything to do with their religion. Now for the first time, a key Pentagon intelligence agency involved in homeland security is delving into... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540139/posts#comment Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1537358/posts Sami's Guardian Angel By Paul Sperry FrontPageMagazine.com | December 9, 2005 "I didn't see the evidence," explained one male juror who this week voted to acquit former Florida professor Sami al-Arian on charges he conspired to help Palestinian terrorists kill Israelis and Americans. Don't blame federal prosecutors for that. They did the best they could with the reams of circumstantial evidence they had, which was powerful enough by itself to sway even al-Arian's defense team to admit he had at least "some affiliation" with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and may have cheered news of the terror group's attacks. But prosecutors could... www.frontpagemag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1537358/posts#comment Fri, 9 Dec 2005 21:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536999/posts "I didn't see the evidence," explained one male juror who this week voted to acquit former Florida professor Sami al-Arian on charges he conspired to help Palestinian terrorists kill Israelis and Americans. Don't blame federal prosecutors for that. They did the best they could with the reams of circumstantial evidence they had, which was powerful enough by itself to sway even al-Arian's defense team to admit he had at least "some affiliation" with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and may have cheered news of the terror group's attacks. But prosecutors could have had an open-and-shut case if it weren't for a reluctant... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536999/posts#comment Fri, 9 Dec 2005 12:41:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1527138/posts When a bewildered Iraqi woman named Sajida al-Rishawi confessed on Jordanian state television last week that she had been part of the team that tried to blow up the Radisson Hotel in Amman, she showed that Iraq has become a base from which al Qaeda launches attacks against its enemies and that suicide terrorism may be the one area in Mid-East culture where fundamentalist Muslim women are finally gaining equality with men. Wearing her defused bomb belt, which failed to detonate when the three other members of her team blew themselves up along with members of a Jordanian wedding party,... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1527138/posts#comment Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:40:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489869/posts The rise and fall of an Islamic Institute alumnus. Last Monday, David Hossein Safavian, a high-ranking White House official and pal of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist, was arrested in a federal corruption case involving lobbying bad boy Jack Abramoff. According to the FBI, Safavian repeatedly lied to federal investigators in order to cover up Abramoff’s shady dealings. He not only bent ethics rules to accompany Abramoff on a 2002 golf junket to Scotland; he also used his position as chief of staff at the General Services Administration to deliver GSA-managed land into the lobbyist’s hands. But Safavian's not just tied... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489869/posts#comment Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:45:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462791/posts "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington" Center for the Study of Popular Culture Los Angeles, California (United States) Sperry, Paul, Fellow, Hoover Institution, Media Paul Sperry talked about his book "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington," published by Nelson Current, at the Luxe Hotel. In his book, Paul Sperry argues that Islamic extremists are using the media, government, and U.S. citizens to turn America into an Islamic state. The author explains that Muslim businessmen and scholars who appear to be patriotic are taking advantage of the American way of life to further their agenda... C-SPAN2 BookTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462791/posts#comment Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:04:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1452205/posts IN response to the serial subway bombings in London, Mayor Michael Bloomberg prudently ordered the police to start searching the bags of New York's subway riders. But there will be absolutely no profiling, Mr. Bloomberg vowed: the police will select one out of every five passengers to search, and they will do so at random, without regard for race or religion. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Grady White Forum: Op-Ed Contributors In that case, the security move is doomed to fail. Young Muslim men bombed the London tube, and young Muslim men attacked New York with planes in... New York Tiimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1452205/posts#comment Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:49:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424960/posts With Friends Like These Paul Sperry Published 6/17/2005 12:08:27 AM Terror camps? What terror camps? That's Pakistan's reaction to news that one of two terror suspects arrested last week in California trained to kill Americans at an al Qaeda camp operating inside Pakistan, America's supposed ally in the war on terror. "There are no training camps in Pakistan," insists senior Pakistani diplomat Naeem Khan. "We are the frontline state in the fight against terrorism. How could we allow such camps in our country?" Or worse, right under your nose, as seems to be the case. According to the FBI, a... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424960/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:29:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1415774/posts CBN.com – (CBN News) – On March 1st, 2003, near Karachi, Pakistan, authorities nabbed 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Under interrogation, Mohammed talks. But, according to the 9-11 Commission Report, there was one thing that the Sheikh refused to come clean about: a notebook he possessed that contained U.S zip codes. Mohammed fumbled a nonsensical excuse about their being for e-mail. But officials suspect the zip codes are the locations of al Qaeda sleeper cells in the United States. Even though there has not been a major attack since 9-11, the experts we talked to say that does not mean... CBN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1415774/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jun 2005 14:57:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408911/posts Despite what rioting Islamic fanatics around the world want to believe, the U.S. did not authorize any interrogators to desecrate the Koran to rattle Muslim detainees at Gitmo—at least not according to a military intelligence memo I've obtained. Distributed in early 2003 by an Army JAG officer, the sensitive internal document lists approved techniques for interrogating Taliban and al-Qaida detainees at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, and none of those techniques include defiling the book Muslims hold sacred. No flushing it down the commode or laying it in the toilet seat; no stomping or spitting on it. "That... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408911/posts#comment Mon, 23 May 2005 20:32:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403699/posts How radical Muslims masquerading as "moderates" are infiltrating our government, our military, our prisons, our schools -- and even the Department of Homeland Security Infiltration by Paul Sperry The most dangerous Muslim radicals won't be sneaking through our borders from the Middle East -- they're already here. That's the alarming message of Washington-based investigative reporter Paul Sperry's new book, Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington. Using access to classified documents as well as exclusive interviews with FBI agents, Customs officers, and military intelligence officials, Sperry reveals how the top levels of our government, armed forces and intelligence... CONSERVATIVE BOOK CLUB.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403699/posts#comment Sun, 15 May 2005 21:12:46 GMT