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State Dept. apologizes for promoting Muslim cleric who backed killing of US soldiers
Fox News ^ | May 27, 2014 | By Adam Kredo

Posted on 05/27/2014 4:10:28 PM PDT by kingattax

The State Department’s Counter Terrorism (CT) Bureau apologized on Tuesday for promoting a controversial Muslim scholar whose organization has reportedly backed Hamas and endorsed a fatwa authorizing the murder of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

The apology came on the heels of a Friday Washington Free Beacon report detailing the CT Bureau’s promotion of Sheik Abdallah Bin Bayyah, the vice president of a radical Muslim scholars group that was founded by a radical Muslim Brotherhood leader who has called “for the death of Jews and Americans.”

Bin Bayyah himself is one of several clerics who endorsed a 2004 fatwa, or religious order, endorsing the killing of U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2004; 201405; amateurhour; apologies; apology; binbayyah; fatwa; gwot; hamas; iraq; islam; iums; muslimbrotherhood; sheik; statedept; terrorism; terrorists
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1 posted on 05/27/2014 4:10:28 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax

Apologies mean nothing!


2 posted on 05/27/2014 4:12:59 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Puppage

Get back to us after you drop the “cleric” out of an airplane flying at 30000 feet. I’ll accept that form of apology.


3 posted on 05/27/2014 4:14:36 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: kingattax

They apologized?

Well, it’s OK then.


4 posted on 05/27/2014 4:15:36 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: kingattax

Treason, as clear as daylight.

Treason, supported by the hated, EXEMPT Congress.

Treason against the American people.


5 posted on 05/27/2014 4:17:16 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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6 posted on 05/27/2014 4:17:32 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Darteaus94025

State Department, the same that allowed the murder of 4 US citizens, one an Ambassador! More lies from the 0 regime!
The last 5+ years have been nothing but an apology from the Obama regime!


7 posted on 05/27/2014 4:20:06 PM PDT by DocJhn
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To: kingattax

You don’t apologize for a ‘mistake’ like this. You lose your job.


8 posted on 05/27/2014 4:20:38 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: kingattax

Notice what they didn’t say?

They didn’t say that they were rescinding the promotion.

They didn’t say that they were firing him immediately.

And notice that no journalist has even bothered to ask them about either of these two actions.


9 posted on 05/27/2014 4:20:56 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: kingattax

And you expected “WHAT” from the State Department? At one time they had good intelligence operations, but under Obama, the State Dept. has been so bastardized that they often don’t know who our enemies are.

Remember, Hillary worked with a communist party-dominated law firm, Treuhaft, Burstein, Garry, etc. on a Black Panther torture murder case concerning one of their own members who they falsely accused of being a govt informant.

Later she recommended Castro asset Prof. Johnnetta Cole to be considered for Secy of Education (under Bill’s first administration).

Her personal die, Huma Abedin has a family (and herself as well) that have/had/worked for the Moslem Brotherhood/fronts.

Secy of State John Kerry. Betrayed his fellow soldiers/sailors in So. Vietnam, left a man behind, talked illegally with the enemy in Paris, called our men war criminals, and then participated in “peace fronts” that were run by Soviet operatives/assets (Feinglass, Weiss, Dellinger, etc) during the remainder of the VN war.

He also worked with communists and communist propagandistists (Tony Avirgan, Gary Porter, etc), on the so-called “Iran-Contra” investigation which proved a very expensive, multi-million dollar dud/farce re “cocaine” and the contras.

Kerry later helped set up ties with Hanoi that ignored “live sightings” of our men from Vietnam (who were known to be alive and in Hanoi’s hands).

The State Department has become a political “eunuch” under Obama and his marxist minions and fools.

The disaster in the Ukraine caught them by surprise, as have many other major foreign events over the years.

Only a thorough cleaning from top to bottom can salvage “Foggy Bottom” from becoming a permanent cesspool of incompetence, political cronyism, and white-flag policies.


10 posted on 05/27/2014 4:25:07 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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11 posted on 05/27/2014 4:25:33 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: kingattax
Wonder if there's any connection to the outing of the CIA dude. Bet there is..........

Hope Mr. Snowden finds the key to this incompetence....aka....treason.

12 posted on 05/27/2014 4:32:51 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: kingattax

We’re really sorry you caught us.


13 posted on 05/27/2014 4:37:06 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Moonman62

Another one of hatellary’s accomplishments?


14 posted on 05/27/2014 4:37:35 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: kingattax

What? Our bad? We okay now?


15 posted on 05/27/2014 4:40:27 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice. And Pay Your Liberty Tax Citizen.)
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To: Puppage; maggief; LucyT; WildHighlander57; crosslink

Past time to clean house. After he’s had time to pick up and pass on a few tidbits .......geeze!


16 posted on 05/27/2014 4:45:46 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: kingattax
promoting a controversial Muslim scholar

Did they grant a raise as well?
17 posted on 05/27/2014 4:48:00 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: kingattax

But it’s a religion. Would they apologize for promoting a Catholic? /s


18 posted on 05/27/2014 4:51:47 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: Puppage

Tehy apologized but did nothing about him? Or did they simply promote him again to an even higher position on the QT?


19 posted on 05/27/2014 4:54:07 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: kingattax

words are cheap... fire his a$$


20 posted on 05/27/2014 4:57:50 PM PDT by Nifster
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