Terrorist attacks reported as "isolated incidents"

Since October 2001 there has been a trend in the "mainstream" news media to cover up acts of terrorism, calling them "isolated incidents".  Some examples of this are shown below, but I'm sure there have been other similar cases.  It's not difficult to connect the dots when dots are so plentiful. One of the most obvious cases of the government dimissing a terrorist attack as an "isolated incident" was the first one after September 11, 2001 — the crash of American 587, in New York City, just two months after the 9/11 attack.  The plane was still smoldering on the ground when government officials began making extraordinary pronouncements that there was "no connection to terrorism" and it was just an "unfortunate accident."  I could go on at length about this case... and I did, on this page. More examples of suppressed news stories can be found here and here. More examples of pro-Islam bias in the media can be found here. An example of an incident being hushed up and thrown down the memory hole is the case of Northwest Flight 327. There have been many other similar cases. Overviews Hit-and-Run Jihad Comes to America.  A radical Islamic terrorist attack doesn't necessarily need several participants or a direct connection to a terrorist organization.  It doesn't need to be spectacular or done by someone motivated by nothing other than theology.  It just needs to be an act of violence aimed at instilling fear in order to advance the cause of radical Islam, and it is because of this failure to understand what qualifies as a "terrorist attack" that the country does not see how many such acts have actually occurred. The Myth Of The Lone Gunman.  Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the claim has often been made that no further acts of terrorism have occurred on U.S. soil.  But anyone following the news closely knows better.  While there has not yet been another large-scale attack, a number of terrorist plots have been broken up and a variety of suspicious crimes and incidents have occurred across the nation.  But each time, authorities seem to have made every effort to downplay the terrorism angle. The Editor says... The article above was quoted here in its entirety, with a link back to this page.  (Thank you!) Amateurs – Not:  All Terror Plots are Serious.  Foiled terror plots often will seem ridiculous and unlikely, especially when they are pre-empted. … If the 9/11 plot had been disrupted at its very inception — with jihadis playing flight-simulator games in Afghanistan — it would have seemed laughable.  This is why even foiled plots deserve to be taken seriously. The Terror Nobody Knows:  Thwarted Attacks on the U.S..  In July 2005, the Los Angeles Police Department caught a group of men who had been robbing gas stations in the area.  While investigating, police uncovered something far worse:  The gas station hits were bankrolling a terrorist plot to attack National Guard facilities, synagogues, the Israeli consulate and Los Angeles International Airport. List of Thwarted Terror Attacks Since Sept. 11. Islamic attacks on our airline industry.  The list of incidents involving Muslim passengers disrupting flight operations aboard domestic aircraft is increasing, while criminal charges against the suspicious and disruptive Muslim passengers are not.  Instead, accusations of racial profiling, alarmist and reactionary responses by the airlines, flight crews and passengers are becoming more widespread, despite the historical significance of such incidents and the consequential devastation and loss of life caused by these very same "dry runs" footnoted in the 9/11 Commission Report. Islamic Radicalization U.S.A..  If a major homegrown terrorist attack happens on U.S. soil in the coming years, 2009 will be looked at as the year when the warning signs were missed.  According to the Rand Corporation, the U.S. has experienced 30 homegrown terrorism plots since 9/11.  One-third of these occurred in 2009; a frightening spike that warrants more attention than it is currently being given by public officials. Merry Christmas from the World of Islam.  With attention focused on the flagrant security breaches around Flight 253 on Christmas Day, too little has been made of the timing of the attack.  Most readers will be surprised to learn that this was not the only Christmas attack on Christians.  Here is a list of other holiday attacks which I found without extensive research... Isn't it noteworthy that you did not hear about any of this from the general media? Fort Jackson, South Carolina Army Investigates Alleged Attempt by Soldiers to Poison Food at Fort Jackson.  The U.S. Army is investigating allegations that soldiers were attempting to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson in South Carolina. ... The suspects were part of a Arabic translation program called "09 Lima" and use Arabic as their first language, two sources told Fox News.  Another military source said they were Muslim. Is This Post-Traumatic Cooking Syndrome?  There is a price to be paid, you see, when we fail to name, identify, understand, and focus on the nature of our enemy.  When we dismiss these incidents as the result of some nebulous psychological illness or lump jihadism in with a grab bag of other threats or concerns bearing little relationship to the actual incidents we have experienced, we diffuse our efforts and distract ourselves from the sole task that should occupy our national security apparatus:  identifying and destroying jihadists who want to butcher (or poison or blow up) Americans.  That singular focus can come only from the president.  Hence, the problem. Army probes allegations of poison at S.C. base.  The Army has been looking for two months into allegations that soldiers at a base in South Carolina were being poisoned, but a spokesman says no credible information to support the allegations has been found. Food poisoning plot at U.S. military base might be linked to wider network.  Reports are emerging that up to five Muslim Arabic translators who are part of an Arabic translation program identified as "09 Lima" at the Fort Jackson, SC U.S. Military training facility were questioned and detained last December regarding a plan to poison the food supply at the military base. Former FBI Special Agent Comments on Fort Jackson Case.  I received [an] e-mail last night about the Fort Jackson investigation from a former FBI special agent who has worked on major terrorism cases.  He makes some very interesting points. US Rep:  No plot to poison food at SC Army base.  An Army probe into allegations of verbal threats involving a base's food supply has revealed that none of the five soldiers detained was involved in any plot to poison food at the base, a congressman said Sunday.  U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., said Sunday information he received as a member of the House Armed Services Committee showed there was no plot. No 'poison food plot' at Fort Jackson but 4 Muslims discharged from army?  Given the whitewash of what happened at Fort Hood, the news that an army investigation has concluded there was no plot to poison the food at Fort Jackson but that 4 of the 5 translators involved have been dismissed from the army, I think some further clarification is in order.  In fact, the way this story has been played by the army leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Northwest Flight 253 Don't Worry, Honey, It's Just Another "Isolated Extremist".  When President Barack Obama finally spoke up about the Christmas Day terrorist attack on an airliner bound for Detroit, one of the most staggering phrases to roll from his lips was "isolated extremist."  This was three full days after the attack.  By that time the "isolated extremist" himself, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had already told U.S. authorities that he'd trained with al-Qaeda bomb-makers in Yemen. Passenger Ignites Explosive on Delta Flight, Al Qaeda Connection Reported.  A male passenger reportedly linked to terrorist organization al-Qaeda ignited a powdery substance prior to landing on a Delta Airlines flight to Detroit Friday [12/25/2009].  The suspect is believed to be Nigerian, Fox News reported. Abdul Mudallad Allegedly Attempts to Blow Up Northwest Flight 253.  Terrorism may have occurred on the Christmas day flight of Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam that landed in Detroit.  There were 278 passengers aboard the flight.  The FBI is investigating the incident involving a passenger trying to blow up the plane.  Abdul Mudallad, from Nigeria, has been arrested for suspected terrorism. Guess The Missing Word In NY Times Report On Attempted Plane Bombing.  Imagine that there had been a series of three incidents in which members of a [invented for present purposes] fanatical Jewish sect had attempted to bring down airliners from Arab countries.  In reporting on the latest attempt and describing the previous ones, do you think the New York Times might have mentioned the religion of the perpetrators? Ali Velshi Stops Rep. King From Naming Northwest Airlines Terrorist.  CNN's Ali Velshi on Friday [12/25/2009] stopped Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) from divulging the name of the terrorist who tried to set off a bomb as a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam began to land in Detroit.  Velshi did this claiming, "[W]e have not got any information on anyone being charged.  So thank you for bringing us information.  But would ask you not to name anybody on TV right now, we do not have any word of official charges." Routine Turned to Mayhem on Terror Flight.  Seconds after passengers spotted flames climbing above the back of a window seat midway down the left side of Northwest Flight 253, Friday's routine descent toward Detroit's main airport turned into horror, mayhem and instant heroism. Muslim terrorist attempts to detonate explosive aboard Detroit bound plane.  Abdul Farouk Abdul-Mutallab (a/k/a Umar Farouk Abdul Mudallad), a 23 year-old Nigerian national, who is reportedly an engineering student at University College in London, UK, is the primary suspect in the attempt to detonate an explosive aboard Delta-Northwest Flight 253 as it prepared to land at Detroit Metropolitan Airport just before noon today [12/25/2009]. Father of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab warned U.S.  The terror suspect who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane is the son of a Nigerian banker who alerted U.S. authorities to his "extreme religious views" months ago, it was reported Saturday [12/26/2009]. Rep. Hoekstra: Airline attack should 'connect the dots' for Obama.  Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) Friday [12/25/2009] said that the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit should "connect the dots" for the Obama administration.  Hoekstra, who is the top Republican on the House Select Intelligence Committee, told the Detroit Free Press that the attacks are an indication that al Qaeda is beginning to plan more widespread attacks on the United States. Flight 253:  AP Scrubs 'M-Word'.  It has been interesting watching the Associated Press reports on the attempted takedown of Flight 253 devolve in the past 12-plus hours.  In its 8:56 a.m. report (likely dynamic and subject to change), it looks like the assemblage of AP writers who worked on the story have succeeded in ... ridding the report of the M-word ("Muslim"). What good is the no-fly list? US Approved Flight 253 Passenger List, Source Says.  American security agencies reviewed the passenger list for Northwest Airlines flight 253 before it left Amsterdam for Detroit on Christmas day and informed the airline that the flight was cleared to take off for the U.S., a Dutch government spokeswoman tells NEWSWEEK. 'High explosive' — U.S. charges Abdulmutallab.  The United States charged a 23-year-old Nigerian man Saturday [12/26/2009] with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines aircraft on Cristmas [sic] Day during its final approach to Detroit Metropolitan Airport.  The criminal complaint said the device contained a "high-explosive" chemical, PETN, which has been used in several past terror plots.  It's what so-called "shoe-bomber" Richard Reid used in his December 2001 bid to blow up a Paris-to-Miami flight. Obama handles Northwest Airlines terror incident differently than Ft. Hood.  The Obama White House has been aggressive in its press outreach regarding the Northwest Airlines terrorist incident.  Some of the earliest stories on accused terrorist Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempt to set off an explosive device on board Northwest Flight 253 were sourced to the White House, and White House officials were quick to label the incident an "attempted act of terrorism." Let's Roll 2.  On September 11th 2001, the government's (1970s) security procedures all failed, and the only good news of the day came from self-reliant citizens (on Flight 93) using their own wits and a willingness to act.  On December 25th 2009, the government's (post-9/11) security procedures all failed, and the only good news came once again from alert individuals. Officials:  Only A Failed Detonator Saved Northwest Flight .  Officials now say tragedy was only averted on Northwest flight 253 because a makeshift detonator failed to work properly.  Bomb experts say there was more than enough explosive to bring down the Northwest jet, which had nearly 300 people aboard, had the detonator not failed, and the nation's outdated airport screening machines may need to be upgraded. Why was he ever allowed to fly?  The former London student charged with attempting to blow up a transatlantic airliner carrying 278 passengers was barred from Britain, it has been revealed. ... The 23-year-old son of a wealthy Nigerian banker was charged in hospital last night with attempting to destroy the aircraft during its final approach to Detroit airport on Christmas Day, the US Justice Department said. Preliminary Observations on the Christmas Day Terror Plot.  We are still in the early hours of the investigation into an attempted terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound flight leaving Amsterdam.  So, any analysis at this point is by definition preliminary.  Be that as it may, here are some initial observations and questions.  The first question that will be asked is:  Was this the act of a so-called "lone wolf" extremist or a terrorist acting in concert with the al Qaeda terror network? Why Was Abdulmutallab Flying?  Pardon me if I'm being overly cynical here, but we know the Obama administration has backed off on any number of the Bush administration's anti-terror policies on the ground that they were too draconian.  In pursuit of Obama's policy of "engagement" with those who hate us, has the administration loosened no-fly restrictions? Oops!  Freed Gitmo alumni plotted airline bombing.  From ABC News:  Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Homeland chief an airhead.  An al Qaeda bomber stashing explosives in his underwear cakewalked onto a US-bound airliner after averting scans on two continents — but the federal Homeland Security chief incredibly claimed yesterday [12/27/2009] that "everything happened that should have." The System Worked, Except That Part When It Failed.  The system is supposed to work, according to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, something like this:  a man recently reported to U.S. authorities by his own father, who was on a terror watch list, who pays three grand in cash for a ticket to Detroit (enough to buy a city block in the Motor City), and who was denied a student visa to the United Kingdom, attempts to explode a bomb on a packed plane and is tackled by a Dutch filmmaker. Liberal Take on Terror!  I feel great to live in a country that gives full constitutional rights to a foreign national who, on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, was tackled by passengers and crew as he reportedly was trying to blow up the plane.  If a terrorist fails to blow up a plane, he should get a court-appointed attorney.  My big concern is that if Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab keeps telling the FBI there are others like him in Yemen, he may not get a fair trial. Yes, Janet, There Is A 'War On Terror'.  Al-Qaida's botched Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253 raises a series of concerns about U.S. vulnerability.  Chief among them:  a Homeland Security chief in denial that we are at war.  The nearly 300 trans-Atlantic passengers targeted for death by alleged would-be suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab were saved not by any policy of the Homeland Security Department, but by the good luck of a detonator malfunctioning. Learning from Abdul Mutallab.  After the embarrassing debate about Hasan (e.g., "Was he a terrorist?"; second-hand post-traumatic stress syndrome, etc.), I don't think the public will put up with similar contextualization about Mutallab. Lying to ourselves.  By continuing to lie to ourselves.  Although willing — at last — to briefly use the word "terror," yesterday [12/28/2009] President Obama still refused to make a connection between the action, the date and Islam.  Was it just a ticketing accident that led to a bombing attempt on Christmas?  Was it all about blackout dates and frequent-flyer miles?  It wasn't.  You know it.  And I know it.  But our government refuses to know it. How did 'undy bomber' get a visa?  Forget about no-fly lists, full-body scanners and air marshals.  All the loud recriminations about who should have done what to stop the underwear bomber from boarding a plane to Detroit on Christmas Day miss a more fundamental point:  Young, single, rootless foreign Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab should never, ever have received a temporary visa into our country in the first place.  No visa, no plane ticket.  No ticket, no passage to airline jihad. Obama's wrong to call terrorist an "isolated extremist".  Abdulmutallab was not an isolated extremist.  He had been dispatched by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to kill Americans after having spent four months training with them in Yemen.  He told this to his interrogators. Binghamton, New York Student kills prof.  An upstate graduate student was charged yesterday [12/5/2009] with stabbing a beloved anthropology professor to death.  Saudi national Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, 46, was held without bail for the murder of Binghamton University professor Richard Antoun, 77, an expert on comparative religion, authorities said. Professor fatally stabbed in NY.  Richard T. Antoun, a respected Binghamton University anthropology professor who grew up in Shrewsbury, spent his entire career seeking peace.  His work focused on bridging the divide between religions and cultures, particularly in the Middle East.  But the 77-year-old professor's life ended violently Friday when he was stabbed multiple times in his campus office, allegedly by a graduate student whom he was advising on his doctoral thesis.  The student, Abdulsalam S. al-Zahrani, 46, was from Saudi Arabia. Identifying Muslim Radicals.  The assassination of State University of New York-Binghamton Middle East anthropology professor emeritus Richard Antoun, on Friday, December 4, in which a Saudi Arabian graduate student named Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani has been charged, once again highlights the issue:  how to distinguish between Islamist extremists and moderate Muslim believers, both of whom have come to live in the West? AirTran Flight 297 So, was this a language misunderstanding or terrorist dry run?  Look up the date.  Flight 297, Atlanta to Houston.  If this wasn't a dry run, I don't know what one is.  They wanted to see how TSA would handle it, how the crew would handle it, and how the passengers would handle it.  I'm telling this to you because I want you to know.  The threat is real.  I saw it with my own eyes. Security Incident Aboard AirTran 297 Suggests Terror "Dry Run".  On November 17, an incident took place aboard AirTran Flight 297 scheduled to fly from Atlanta Hartsfield Airport to Houston that the media does not want to cover and everyone from the airline to the TSA and other government agencies want to keep very quiet. Was Air Tran Flight #297 a terrorist dry run?  Like Climategate, there is another story the national mainstream media has either missed or largely ignored, and that is the story of what really happened November 17th on Airtran's Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston.  Much confusion remains about exactly what transpired that afternoon on a plane preparing for takeoff at Hartsfield International Airport. Another flight disrupted by a group of Muslims.  It happened again on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, less than a month after the incident aboard AirTran Flight 297.  United Airlines Flight 227, scheduled to depart Denver International Airport at 1:50 pm Wednesday for Los Angeles was disrupted when several passengers who were described as Middle Eastern in appearance, confirmed by this investigator to be a group of Muslims traveling together, were removed from that aircraft due to suspicious behavior that originated in the terminal and continued to the airplane. Fort Hood Fort Hood's 9/11.  On Thursday afternoon [11/5/2009], a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11.  And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.  What cowards we are.  Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did.  And the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting. Evidence of premeditation: Fort Hood suspect said methodical goodbyes.  As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship... Texas shooter reportedly a Palestinian.  Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a US military psychiatrist suspected of going on a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in a US army base in Texas, is believed to be of Palestinian origin. Fort Hood shooting:  Nidal Malik Hasan 'said Muslims should rise up'.  Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who allegedly killed 11 people before being shot and wounded by police at Fort Hood, had said Muslims should "rise up" and attack Americans in retaliation for the US war in Iraq, a former army colleague said.  Col Terry Lee, a retired officer who worked with him at the military base in Texas, alleged Maj Hasan had angry confrontations with other officers over his views. Jihad at Fort Hood.  According to NPR, "the motive behind the shootings was not immediately clear, officials said."  The Washington Post agreed:  "The motive remains unclear, although some sources reported the suspect is opposed to U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq and upset about an imminent deployment."  The Huffington Post spun faster, asserting that "there is no concrete reporting as to whether Nidal Malik Hasan was in fact a Muslim or an Arab."  Yet there was, and what's more, Major Hasan's motive was perfectly clear — but it was one that the forces of political correctness and the Islamic advocacy groups in the United States have been working for years to obscure. The Muslim Brotherhood and Fort Hood.  The murders by Malik Nadal Hasan at Ft. Hood, TX are not a 'lone wolf incident' as being described by most media organizations.  Hasan had been taught the ideology that is being advocated by hundreds of Islamic scholars and Imams in the U.S.  We as a country can continue to deny there are numerous Islamic leaders and their supporting organizations such as CAIR, ISNA, MSA, and MANA, to name a few, who advocate killing innocent men, women, and children whom they allege 'oppress Islam.' Muslim Psychiatrist Murders 11 Soldiers.  Yes, this was just a "a horrific outburst of violence."  There is just no other explanation.  By the way, given that Mr. Nidal Malik Hasan, is a mental health physician, it might be a little tricky to try to sell us on the notion that he was mentally ill.  That is, apart from his (soon to be heavily downplayed) religious persuasion. Obama says don't jump to conclusions on shooting.  President Barack Obama said Friday the entire nation is grieving for those slain at Fort Hood, and he urged people not to jump to conclusions while law enforcement officers investigate the shootings. Jumping to Conclusions.  "Don't jump to conclusions" is an all-purpose tautology, like "Don't panic."  It's hard to argue with.  One wonders, though, exactly what conclusions he has in mind.  I think it's safe to predict that President Obama will never reach those conclusions, let alone jump to them. Muslim Suffers Bruised Ego in Fort Hood Tragedy.  President Obama honored the victims by immediately warning Americans not to "jump to conclusions" — namely, the obvious conclusion that the attack was an act of Islamic terrorism.  As conclusions go, it wasn't much of a jump.  But the mainstream media waited for no information — indeed actively avoided learning any information — before leaping to the far less obvious conclusion that the suspect's mass murder was set off by "stress." Why is Fort Hood a Surprise?  [Scroll down]  So why waste time trying to discover what prompted Major Nidal Malik to open fire at Fort Hood.  He was a Muslim and he believed in the koran.  The only mystery to me is why the army would allow any Muslim to be a member.  The koran clearly states Infidels (unbelievers) are the Muslim's undoubted enemies.  Yes, we Christians and Jews are their enemies.  We did not say that, they did. More commentary about Fort Hood.  Major Malik Hassan, after being transferred from Walter Reed Hospital to Fort Hood decided to celebrate his promotion and transfer by shouting "God is great" in Arabic while gunning down a dozen of his fellow soldiers.  The mainstream media is falling all over itself today in an attempt to somehow paint this domestic Islamic terrorist as the victim rather than the perpetrator.  Muslim-friendly to the point of being Muslim-centric, the news networks are even trying to do their reporting without mentioning the killer's name. More examples of Pro-Islam bias in the news media. FBI given gunman's name six months ago.  The US Army major who killed 13 people in a shooting spree at America's biggest military base had come to the attention of the FBI six months earlier over possible links to extremist comments posted on the internet. Troubling Portrait Emerges of Fort Hood Suspect.  At least six months ago, Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades.  They had not determined for certain whether Hasan is the author of the posting, and a formal investigation had not been opened before the shooting, said law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the case. It's the (Religious) Ideology, Stupid.  [The FBI] seems to have developed a conditioned reflex that requires the Bureau to announce, within seconds of any act of murder, "there is no evidence of terrorism."  Which, in this case, is ridiculous, since it was precisely that. Fort Hood shooting:  Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists.  Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001. The Islamic connection.  Barely 24 hours after the massacre at the Fort Hood Army Base, the lines were drawn:  On one side are those who believe the shooting was the act of a madman and that emphasizing his Muslim identity is irresponsible.  On the other side are those who insist this was an act of terrorism and that the suspect's religious affiliation is central to the story. Do not deny what happened at Fort Hood.  [Scroll down]  This man was a professional psychiatrist, assigned to help soldiers cope with traumas.  Is this the profile of a man with no control over his own emotions?  It appears he had hired a lawyer to get him out of the military before his deployment overseas.  Is this consistent with spontaneity?  He reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire on American soldiers.  Would that perhaps offer a little hint of the actual motive?  He shot about 40 people, over 10 minutes, with two pistols, neither of them military issue.  Might that perhaps suggest premeditation? Fort Hood shooting:  an attack by the enemy within.  It will take weeks to assess all the reasons Hasan acted.  But the evidence of his devout Muslim faith, antipathy towards women, arguments in favour of suicide bombing and opposition to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars point to a religious and political motivation at least in part. Memo to ABC:  There's a Reason He's Not Called Smith.  Imagine in World War II if an American officer had shouted "Heil Hitler" as he was killing un-armed soldiers.  Would there be any soul-searching debate about "PRE-traumatic stress syndrome" and other gobbledy goop? ... Of course, this would never have happened in WW2.  Things are different today.  Somehow our military remains the best in the world while accommodating all kinds of fast track programs for psychiatrist officers whose name sounds a lot like those on the roster at Gitmo while ignoring the detail that he might be anti-American. They Kill Us and We're the Ones to Blame.  [Scroll down]  Completely ignoring his Islamic ideology and Palestinian Arab background, the media speculated that he might have been suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, even though he had never served in a combat zone, that he was angry over being deployed to Iraq, even though he had a history of pro-terrorist postings predating that, and finally that he had been bullied by other soldiers for being a Muslim, a claim that has since emerged as completely baseless. Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut.  Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America's Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats. When Muslims Commit Violence.  [Scroll down]  Here's a simple test:  If Nidal Malik Hasan had been a devout Christian with pronounced anti-abortion views, and had he attacked, say, a Planned Parenthood office, would his religion have been considered relevant as we tried to understand the motivation and meaning of the attack?  Of course.  Elite opinion makers do not, as a rule, try to protect Christians and Christian belief from investigation and criticism.  Quite the opposite.  It would be useful to apply the same standards of inquiry and criticism to all religions. Jihadi Denial Syndrome reaches epidemic proportions.  Now we have seen the horrific outcome — the Fort Hood attack which left 13 people dead and dozens more injured by army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who reportedly screamed the jihadi battle cry 'Allahu akhbar!' before he opened fire.  There can be no doubt whatever that this was a jihadi attack upon America, not least from the evidence that has now surfaced of Major Hasan's attitudes for months before his rampage — evidence that the US authorities simply ignored. Fatal Correctness.  The victims of this horrific tragedy died at the hands of an enemy masquerading as a friend.  Those soldiers had every reason to believe they were safe on an army base, surrounded by their patriotic brothers and sisters.  They volunteered to serve their country, knowing full well that they might lose their lives on a battlefield in a foreign land.  Could any of them have imagined that the end would come at the hands of a Muslim extremist wearing the uniform of an Army Major? It's Called Islamofacism.  Since when is it cool to make terrorist attacks politically correct?  Why are so many people and so many entities — the mainstream media especially — painting this Fort Hood calamity as another run-of-the-mill workplace shooting?  Let's call a spade a spade!  This was a terrorist attack! Obama's Rush to Judgment.  Obama doesn't want us to jump to the conclusion that the shootings at Fort Hood were a terrorist attack by an Islamic jihadist, Major Nidal Hasan.  Obama would rather we forgot that Nidal Hasan screamed "Allah akbar" before he mowed down scores of patriotic Americans and gave away Qurans with his business card before his act of jihad.  Hasan also gave his landlord two week's notice — showing that he planned this for a long time.  He didn't just snap. Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki Calls Nidal Hassan a Hero.  Following is Al-Awlaki's article, as it appeared on his website.  "Nidal Hassan is a hero.  He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people.  This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn't exist.  Any decent Muslim cannot live, understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims, and yet serve as a U.S. soldier." Mainstream Misreporting:  Ft. Hood Shooter's Motives.  [Scroll down]  Indeed, anyone at all could potentially commit an act of terror at any time, regardless of communication with Osama bin Laden or any other radical leader.  However, Hasan actually did have contact with radical leaders, including one Anwar al-Awlaki.  He and al-Awlaki went to mosque together often-al-Awlaki was one of Hasan's teachers there-and communicated via email on a regular basis. Why He Shouted "Allahu Akbar".  We now know from the testimony of various eyewitnesses that this act was carefully planned.  Nidal Malik Hasan some time ago told his landlord he would not be renewing the lease on his apartment.  He gave away his furniture along with copies of the Qur'an on the morning of the day he committed mass murder.  This indicates that he thought he was going to die — in other words, that he was planning a suicide attack. Our Brain Dead Country.  A Muslim fanatic with an Internet site praising Islamic suicide bombers as defenders of their comrades is a Major in the U.S. Army with access to military intelligence and lethal weaponry.  And it's not as though the army didn't know that he was a Muslim fanatic and supporter of the Islamic jihad against the West.  He was under investigation for six months because of his anti-American, jihadist rantings. The Muslim Brotherhood and Fort Hood.  The murders by Malik Nadal Hasan at Ft. Hood, TX are not a 'lone wolf incident' as being described by most media organizations.  Hasan had been taught the ideology that is being advocated by hundreds of Islamic scholars and Imams in the U.S.  We as a country can continue to deny there are numerous Islamic leaders and their supporting organizations such as CAIR, ISNA, MSA, and MANA, to name a few, who advocate killing innocent men, women, and children whom they allege 'oppress Islam.' Fort Hood Attack Was Terrorism.  In his nationally televised remarks following the horrendous killings at Ft. Hood, President Obama never mentioned the T word.  The attack was an act "of violence."  No mention of terrorism.  In fact, the Ft. Hood shooting is the first terror attack on American soil since 9-11.  But Obama, reluctant to take the rap for inadequate protections against such attacks, is doing everything he can to make it look like an adult version of the Columbine school shootings. The Editor says... No, it most certainly is not "the first terror attack on American soil since 9-11."  It's just the latest in a long series of attacks.  That's what this page is about.  Scroll down. Sudden Jihad or Inordinate Stress at Ft. Hood?  The establishment — law enforcement, politicians, the media, and the academy — ... disagrees on the specifics, however, presenting Hasan as the victim alternatively of "racism," "harassment he had received as a Muslim," a sense of not belonging," "pre-traumatic stress disorder," "mental problems," "emotional problems," "an inordinate amount of stress," or being deployed to Afghanistan as his "worst nightmare." ... As a charter member of the jihad school of interpretation, I reject these explanations as weak, obfuscatory, and apologetic.  The jihadi school, still in the minority, perceives Hasan's attack as one of many Muslim efforts to vanquish infidels and impose Islamic law. All the Warning Signs Were There.  Hassan is only one blip of red in an ugly impressionist painting scrawled across the globe in shades of crimson and black.  Each Muslim who follows the way of Jihad or feels compelled to support those who do, is a single point of red in that red and black atlas.  Each one of their victims, murdered, raped, honor killed, tortured, beheaded and crippled are the black dots.  And both the black and red dots are growing in number to cover the world. The Hasanity Defense.  Can it really be that anybody seriously believed a career Army psychiatrist would deal with the "stress" of his own deployment to a war he opposes by opening fire and shooting 43 people?  Evidently, the answer is yes... So who's nuttier?  The guy who gives a lecture to other military doctors in which he says non-Muslims should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats? ... Or the president who says we cannot "fully know" why Major Hasan did what he did, so why trouble ourselves any further?  Or the columnist who, when a man hands out copies of the Koran before gunning down his victims while yelling "Allahu akbar," says you're racist if you bring up his religion? 'Going Muslim'.  "Going postal" is a piquant American phrase that describes the phenomenon of violent rage in which a worker — archetypically a postal worker — "snaps" and guns down his colleagues.  As the enormity of the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sinks in, we must ask whether we are confronting a new phenomenon of violent rage, one we might dub — disconcertingly — "Going Muslim." Hasan's Treason.  One word aptly describes Ft. Hood mass murderer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan:  traitor.  Traitor is a tough word.  It doesn't smudge and squish.  "Traitor" draws a hard line, one that sharply divides essential life-determining values and marks a defining personal choice between the profound and the profane. Army Wasn't Told of Hasan's Emails.  The Pentagon said it was never notified by U.S. intelligence agencies that they had intercepted emails between the alleged Fort Hood shooter and an extremist imam until after last week's bloody assaults, raising new questions about whether the government could have helped prevent the attack. The Editor says... I thought this kind of inter-agency isolation was supposed to have been solved by the Patriot Act.  At least that was one of the big selling points, as I recall. Taking Islam seriously.  [George] Stephanopoulos presented [General] Casey with some of the already-abundant evidence that soldiers who worked with Hasan had recognized him as an unstable anti-American religious fanatic, and had been discouraged from saying anything by fears of being accused of racism.  Casey deflected the question in the manner of a corporate chief, suggesting that it is too soon to speculate on whether Hasan was a politically motivated terrorist or someone who, to use Stephanopoulos's phrase, "just snapped." Dare to Call It Terrorism.  So it turns out that the worst Islamist terrorist strike since 9/11 — an attack that killed twice as many Americans as were slain in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing — was not a terrorist attack at all.  Just ask the FBI. ... Like the cavalry, the FBI came riding to the PC rescue.  The Federal Bureau of Let's Skip the Investigation pronounced that the killing was not terrorism.  Forget about Islamic (or at least Islamist) terrorism.  This mass murder wasn't even terrorism. How Embarrassing Is It To Be A So-Called Liberal In The Midst of a Holy War?  Why is it that when a so-called liberal opens his mouth about the Ft. Hood massacre by a Muslim jihadist I know that I'm going to feel less safe?  The corrupt mayor of Chicago (and presidential patron) blames the shooting of 41 soldiers — at the deployment center for the wars against Muslim jihadists in Afghtanistan and Iraq — on the alleged fact that "America loves guns." Obama's Willful Failure of Comprehension.  The violence at Fort Hood, President Obama told mourners on Tuesday [11/10/2009], was "incomprehensible."  The "twisted logic that led to the tragedy," he reiterated, may be "too hard to comprehend." ... What exactly is so hard to comprehend?  Fort Hood jihadist Maj. Nidal Hasan made his means, motives and inspiration all too clear for those willing to see and hear. Hasan's Motives.  One reads and hears with increasing disbelief and anger that we don't know the motive or motives of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army major who fired over 100 shots at his fellow American soldiers in order to murder and maim as many as possible.  Hasan ended up allegedly murdering 13 people, but government and Army spokesmen and the mainstream media claim they just can't figure out why he did this.  They are, however, certain that it was not an act of terrorism. Reframing the Ft. Hood massacre.  Despite the best attempts of the Obama administration and its media claque, very few Americans are buying the narrative that Major Hasan was a lone psycho who snapped.  His PowerPoint presentation warning of "adverse events" if Muslims were made to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan has made its way to the media, he tried to contact Al Qaeda, and his radical imam inspired 2 of the 9/11 hijackers, for instance. Memo to U.S. Government:  Fort Hood Shooter Is A Jihadist.  The FBI and other federal authorities are reportedly still trying to figure out Maj. Nidal M. Hasan's motive for opening fire at Fort Hood. ... Interestingly, Hasan's words were echoed by al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki in his post (now offline) praising Hasan's shooting spree.  Awlaki said Hasan "is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against its own people." General Casey's Diverse Army.  I am missing something here.  After the attack and murder of 13 innocent people by an apparent imbedded radical Jihadist in the US Army, General Casey said on Meet The Press, "Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength.  And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse." ... I took the oath of office a few times in my military career and for the life of me I don't ever remember the word "diversity" being in it. When Political Correctness Kills.  One would hope that common sense would prevail in perilous times, but that's not the case since political correctness reared its ugly head.  It's my belief that P.C. advocates are basically cowards who fear that those offended will resort to lawsuits or violence.  What other explanation can explain how Major Nidal Malik Hasan didn't raise the "potential terrorist" antennae of the authorities at Fort Hood, the most populous U.S. military base in the world? Common Sense Says Major Hasan Was a Terrorist.  The U.S. Army and President Barack Obama are understandably seeking desperately to prevent U.S. public opinion from reaching any conclusion with respect to the motive of Major Nidal Malik Hasan who killed 12 soldiers and one civilian, and wounded 28 soldiers and one civilian last week at Fort Hood in Texas.  In the court of public opinion, subject to change based on hearings to be conducted on the subject by U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, Major Hasan has been found guilty of engaging in a terrorist act. The Wall separates Reagan from Obama.  If you knew nothing more of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama than what each man said about freedom at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, it would still be painfully obvious which of the two was a fierce defender of liberty, and which the avatar of toothless internationalist generalities. Military Doctors Worried Hasan Was 'Psychotic'.  A group of doctors overseeing Nidal Malik Hasan's medical training were concerned he was "psychotic" and capable of killing other American soldiers, before the Army major allegedly went on a deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. Officials say Fort Hood suspect had Islamist ties.  Fort Hood shooting suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had been in contact with numerous Muslim extremists — some of whom are under federal investigation — before last week's rampage, two U.S. officials told The Washington Times on Wednesday [11/11/2009]. You can't ignore the role of radical Islam.  As dozens of talking heads descended on CNN and FOX TV to give their opinions on the Fort Hood massacre last week, no one seemed to notice the significance of the attire that suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan was wearing the morning of the killings.  It was captured on a store surveillance video as Maj. Hasan bought a coffee. Dressed to Kill.  This guy was walking around a U.S. military installation dressed like Osama bin Laden and nobody said anything, yet the Army is being accused of intolerance and anti-Muslim bias.  To repeat, according to Tarek Fatah, Hasan was not merely dressed in traditional Arab garb — he dressed in the traditional garb of al Qaeda terrorists. Hasan's Personal Jihad.  A week after a Muslim jihadi gunned down more than 40 fellow citizens at Ft. Hood, Texas, America's national security leadership still won't admit that the attack had anything to do with Islam.  By failing to acknowledge that connection, those with a constitutional duty to defend this nation "against all enemies foreign and domestic" consistently substitute a policy of political correctness at the expense of military readiness. Treachery as Lifestyle Choice.  Diversity at this point is a synonym for mindlessness and self-hating hypocrisy.  Were Hasan a virulent and outspoken Christian military chaplain, he would have been branded a hate criminal and whisked away.  But since he is a Muslim, since Obama isn't at "war with Islam," and since Islam is so obviously a religion of peace, he was given a wide swath.  Under the paralysis of a PC culture, all Muslims are moderate Muslims and anyone who says otherwise is a bigot. Why Fort Hood Really Happened.  The only good news out of the Fort Hood massacre is that U.S. electronic surveillance technology was able to pick up Major Hasan's phone calls to an al Qaeda-loving imam in Yemen.  The bad news is the people and agencies listening to Hasan didn't know what to do about it.  Other than nothing. Hasan Called Himself 'Soldier of Allah' on Business Cards.  Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan called himself a "soldier of Allah" on business cards found in his apartment after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood in which he is accused of murdering 13 people.  Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, reportedly obtained the business cards over the Internet.  In addition to listing his profession and contact information, the cards contain a discrete reference to his religion:  "SoA(SWT)." Army:  Fort Hood suspect charged with murder.  The Army psychiatrist suspected in a deadly rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, has been charged in a military court with 13 counts of premeditated murder. Mayor Daley Blames Fort Hood on Guns, Not Islam.  If this wasn't such a dreadfully serious matter, it would almost be funny watching Democrats insist that there's no elephant in the bathtub.  Perhaps the most bizarre of these claims is that of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who insists that the core problem behind Fort Hood is that "America loves guns." With Whom Are We At War?  President Obama can content himself all he wants with false assurances that we ought not to "jump to conclusions" about Hasan or that "we can't fully know what leads a man to do such a thing."  But when someone shouts "Allahu Akbar" and begins wantonly slaughtering people we have a pretty good idea of what Hasan's motivations are. Let's Make Political Correctness Final Fort Hood Casualty.  [Scroll down]  In the Fort Hood case, liberal elites have put forward some ludicrous explanations for Hasan's treasonous behavior:  He had "pre-traumatic stress."  He was bullied by other soldiers.  One news article even suggested that evangelicals are to blame for making the Muslim soldier feel like an outsider.  President Obama has repeatedly warned us not to believe our own eyes and ears about what happened. Fort Hood shooting suspect sent money to Pakistan, Texas congressman says.  An Austin congressman said Thursday that he has confirmed that Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan, which Muslim extremist groups use as a base to raise funds and carry out terrorist attacks.  Rep. Michael McCaul's statement followed a Dallas Morning News report that authorities were looking into whether such wire transfers had occurred. Jihad and the Scandal of "Brain-Dead" Diversity.  Two joint terrorism task forces became aware almost a year ago that Major Hasan was in regular email contact with Anwar al-Awlaqi, the American-born but now Yemeni-based cleric who served as imam to three of the 9/11 hijackers and supports all-out holy war against the United States.  But the expert analysts in the Pentagon determined that this lively correspondence was consistent with Major Hasan's "research interests", so there was no need to worry.  That's America:  Technologically superior, money no object (not one but two "joint terrorism task forces" stumbled across him).  Yet no action was taken. Jihad sparked accused Fort Hood killer.  The massacre in Fort Hood, Texas, was an act in the war the Islamists declared some three decades ago against America, the great Satan in particular, and the west in general.  It seems there can be no mistaking that Nidal Hasan went out as an Islamist warrior to kill as many infidels before he found his martyrdom. How many at Fort Hood died because of the Army's gun ban?  Since 1993, there has been a gun-ban in place on our army bases.  Here we have soldiers, expertly trained in the safe and efficient use of guns, yet they are prevented by a cockamamie Clinton ruling from carrying handguns on their bases.  From reports of the Ft. Hood terrorist attack, the Islamic radical enemy within was allowed a full 10 minutes of completely protected firing at soldiers before someone with a gun arrived on the scene to fire back. How America created the Fort Hood shooter.  Bin-Laden recruits terrorists by claiming lack of western resolve to fight.  Hasan is alleged to have, verbally and in writing, tested the resolve of the "system" — and again and again he found it lacking.  In doing so, he came to the same conclusion as bin-Laden; that The Time Is Now — Allah is indeed granting victory to Muslims.  By blindly failing to disabuse Hasan of this belief, Americans "created the terrorist" Ft Hood shooter. Mr. Obama's War.  Scattered among the first breaking news reports of the Fort Hood massacre were statements by FBI sources that there was no terrorist connection to Maj. Nidal Hasan's jihadist murder of his fellow soldiers.  Why? ... The answer is as clear as it is dangerous:  our president's war plans are rooted in his — and his administration's — naiveté and political correctness. ABC, CBS, NBC:  Obama's Lapdogs.  Ever since Candidate Obama set foot on the national scene, the "mainstream" media have been eating out of his hand.  And regrettably, today those same news stations still are.  This has been made abundantly clear through their coverage of the recent terror attack on Fort Hood. Mainstream Misreporting:  Ft. Hood Shooter's Motives.  "We don't know all the answers yet, and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts," said President Obama with regards to Nidal Malik Hasan's motives in murdering thirteen people last week.  So maybe President Obama and his press secretary won't acknowledge that Nidal Malik Hasan is a terrorist, but that is no excuse for members of the mainstream media who are ignoring this facet of the recent Fort Hood shooting. Political Correctness, Ft. Hood, and Hollywood.  Almost before the echo of gunfire from the massacre at Ft. Hood had faded, the news media launched a pre-emptive rationalization for the slaughter committed by Muslim traitor Nidal Malik Hasan.  To divert attention from the shooter's inconvenient name, the talking heads began speculating sympathetically about the fragile mental state of poor frazzled Hasan, who had never seen combat but nonetheless must have "snapped." Lawmakers Seek to Award Casualty Benefits to Fort Hood Victims.  Republican Rep. John Carter plans to introduce legislation Tuesday [11/17/2009] that would grant the victims of the Fort Hood massacre the same legal status as combatant casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, a move that could intensify a debate over whether the incident should be deemed a terrorist attack. Death by political correctness.  In all likelihood, this tragedy would have been avoided if political correctness hadn't led military and government officials to turn a blind eye to clear signs that Maj. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist.  As far back as a year ago, at least three government agencies — the Army, the Department of Defense and the FBI — learned that Maj. Hasan had sent 10 to 20 e-mails to an al Qaeda propagandist, Anwar al-Awlaki. The government whitewash begins... Lieberman launches Fort Hood hearings without any government witnesses.  Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) held the first congressional hearing into the Fort Hood shootings with minimal cooperation from the Obama administration.  No administration officials appeared at Thursday's Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing despite requests by Lieberman. Major Hasan's Islamist Life.  As the Pentagon and Senate launch what one analyst dubs "dueling Fort Hood investigations," will they confront the hard truth of the Islamic angle?  Despite encouraging references to "violent Islamists" by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, there is reason to worry about a whitewash of the massacre that took place on Nov. 5; that is just so much easier than facing the implications of a hostile ideology nearly exclusive to Muslims. White House keeps Fort Hood probe in the family.  Any reporter worth their salt knows that when government decides to investigate itself, exonerations tend to follow.  That's why it's so perplexing that the Obama administration is giving the arms-length treatment to any independent, congressional probe of the Fort Hood massacre, and instead putting faith in a Pentagon-led review. Sen. Levin:  Fort Hood shooting rampage was likely a terrorist attack.  The leading Senate Democrat on military matters said the shooting rampage at Fort Hood could be labeled a terrorist attack.  "It sure looks like that," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in an interview on C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" program that will air Sunday [11/22/2009]. Fort Hood shooting splits America over Islamic terror motive.  As US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan faces his first court hearing in a San Antonio hospital, America is split over a fundamental question:  Is Hasan an Islamic terrorist? ... Hasan's frequent contacts with US-born Al Qaeda recruiter Anwar Al-Awlaki and Hasan's "Soldier of Allah" business cards seem to point to a political motivation that would fall into the terror definition. If You Don't Think the Fort Hood Massacre Was a Terrorist Attack then You're an Idiot.  [Scroll down]  All the while jackasses on the left blame pre-traumatic, pre-tribulation, pre-menstrual low blood sugar syndrome as the root cause of why Hasan took his gun off safety and murdered our soldiers in the second biggest terrorist attack on our sacred soil since 9/11.  Hasan told us what he thought of Americans and why he did what he did.  Why won't we believe him?  Could it mean that we can't because if we did we'd have to out other Muslims in America? Levin:  May be more troubling e-mails from Hasan.  There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday [11/20/2009]. MSNBC Exclusive:  Fort Hood Never Happened!  Is it still too soon to come to the conclusion that the Fort Hood shooting was an act of terrorism?  Alas, it is still too early to tell at MSNBC. ... Actually, according to Keith [Olbermann], the Fort Hood massacre may not have happened at all.  He has argued persuasively, on several occasions, that it is impossible, literally impossible, to commit mass murder at a military base. Boo hoo. Defense cites rights violation.  The lead lawyer for Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan said Monday that he believes the Army is violating Hasan's religious rights because it prohibited him from praying from the Quran in Arabic with a relative. Fort Hood officials announce new gun registration policy.  Fort Hood officials announced Thursday [12/17/2009] a new command policy regarding registration requirements for privately-owned firearms was signed into effect Tuesday by Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, III Corps and Fort Hood commander.  The policy, and Fort Hood Regulation 190-11, requires all service members and their families living, residing or temporarily staying at Fort Hood to register any privately-owned firearms kept on post with the Directorate of Emergency Services, a Fort Hood press release stated. The Editor says... Does anyone believe for a millisecond that this regulation, had it been in place six months ago, would have stopped whats-his-name from going on an islamic killing spree? Fort Hood Denial.  As the United States prepares to try Nidal Malik Hasan for 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder at Fort Hood last month, few question the suspect's guilt, but many disagree about his motives.  Yet the evidence is now conclusive: the Fort Hood massacre was an act of Islamic terror. CAIR:  Fort Hood Co-Conspirator.  Suddenly CAIR, an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator, is acting like a good citizen.  Suddenly it's concerned about young Muslim-American men going on jihad.  Suddenly it's concerned about "certain" passages of the Quran inspiring jihadists.  It's all too little, too late.  Thanks to CAIR, 42 brave American soldiers were gunned down by an Islamic nut in Texas.  That's right, thanks to CAIR. Did someone mention CAIR? Muslim question persists in Army shooting.   Fear of offending Muslims or being insensitive to religion was likely a key factor to why Army supervisors missed signs that the suspect in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage was a Muslim extremist, according to national security experts. Obama's Terror Non-Policy:  Nidal Hasan did everything but walk around Fort Hood with "kill infidels" tattooed on his forehead.  He continually expressed support for the jihadis, disparaged U.S. anti-terror efforts, and attempted to proselytize his patients.  He was in contact with the al-Qaeda preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who had been chased from the U.S. to Yemen.  Yet he was not questioned, discharged from the service, or even put under observation. Flashback to the 1930s:  Has the Enemy Within Returned?  No one fully understood how corrupted the American military had become by the corrosive influence of "political correctness" — which more properly should be call "fascism of the mind," since it seeks to control thought by controlling speech — until the "Soldier of Allah," Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, pulled a gun and killed thirteen American soldiers at Ft. Hood in Texas last fall.  And how did the Army react?  With the same supine, spineless cowardice that characterizes most contemporary government institutions, including those tasked with protecting Americans. Ft. Hood suspect was Army dilemma.  Army superiors were warned about the radicalization of Major Nidal Malik Hasan years before he allegedly massacred 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, but did not act in part because they valued the rare diversity of having a Muslim psychiatrist, military investigators wrote in previously undisclosed reports. Celebrate Diversity Unto Death.  I pretty much said what I had to say about the Fort Hood massacre in the first couple of weeks, because it was perfectly obvious within about 48 hours that 14 people (including an unborn child) had died so that "diversity" might live. Terrorists in the Military:  The Legacy of Political Correctness.  On November 5, Major Nidal Hasan, an Army Psychiatrist, walked into the Solider Readiness Center in Fort Hood, Texas and shot 43 people.  Thirteen died.  While he fired at them he shouted Allahu Akbar, like a stereotypical Muslim terrorist.  The military should have known it was coming.  He had given away all his worldly goods beforehand. ... Naturally, the first reaction from the authorities was to tell everyone not to leap to conclusions.  And of course, for days afterward they were saying it wasn't a terrorist incident. Raleigh, North Carolina 7 arrested in terror plot.  To neighbors in Johnston County, Daniel Boyd was a mild-mannered father who worked as a general contractor.  To U.S. intelligence officials, Boyd is an extremist with long, deep ties to terrorists in Afghanistan.  Investigators blame the senior Boyd for "radicalizing others, mostly young Muslims or converts to Islam, to believe in fard 'ayn, the idea that violent jihad is a personal obligation on the part of every good Muslim," according to the indictment. Jihad, USA.  They don't look like al-Qaida terrorists.  Their photos in the local newspaper look menacing enough — but more like a crew that might knock over a convenience store or an ATM at a gas station.  Their apprehension this week by FBI agents in Raleigh, N.C., has their neighbors here talking about "homegrown jihadis" and has prompted the O-Team Department of Homeland Security to warn about "American extremists" once again. The Bronx Bombers Oh, and Incidentally ...  You gotta' love the New York Times and its hyper-politically correct sensitivities about revealing the ethnic or religious backgrounds of criminal suspects.  Thus we have today's front-pager:  "4 Accused of Bombing Plot at Bronx Synagogues."  Who were these four, I wondered? Homegrown Islamic Jihad in the Bronx.  Four African-American converts to Islam, all of whom converted to Islam in prison, have been arrested by the FBI just as they attempted to bomb two Riverdale synagogues, (the Riverdale Jewish Center and the Riverdale Temple), in the Bronx and a New York National Guard air base in Newburgh, New York where they lived and attended a mosque.  Why do I begin by clearly stating the race and religion of the terrorists?  Because the liberal mainstream media refuses to do so, or buries such facts on its back pages. The Media, Islam & Political Correctness.  The New York Times has been assailed by conservative critics such as Dallas Morning News columnist and blogger Rod Dreher for downplaying a troubling aspect of the case:  all the suspects are Muslims.  (They had converted to Islam while in prison for drug offenses, theft and other crimes.)  The first Times report on May 20 mentioned this fact only in passing — despite a statement by New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at a press conference that the four had talked frankly about wanting to "commit jihad." Jihad 'Bait & Snitch'.  It wasn't quite 72 virgins, but it did the job.  A slick FBI informant roped four Muslim converts into a horrific terror plot to blow up two Bronx synagogues and military jets by handing them piles of cash and gifts and even bags of weed, relatives of the suspects said yesterday [5/23/2009]. The Latest "Man-Made Disaster".  The first U.S. jihadi cell of 2009 was just busted by the FBI and New York City Police Department.  Four Muslim men were arrested in connection with alleged plots to blow up synagogues and shoot down military aircraft en route Iraq and Afghanistan.  Today's announcement is a true reminder that we are still under attack, eight years after September 11.  And it also means that we are still in a real WAR, not an imaginary "overseas contingency operation" or facing possible "man-made disasters." Plot renews fears of radical Islam in US prison.  The arrest of four Muslim ex-convicts in an alleged homegrown terror plot in the Bronx is renewing fears about the spread of Islamic extremism in the nation's prisons.  At least two of the four men suspected of plotting to bomb synagogues and shoot down military airplanes converted to Islam behind bars.  The alleged mastermind is also a convert, and the fourth man identified himself as a Muslim when he entered prison. N.Y. synagogue bomb defendants may claim entrapment.  Four ex-convicts accused of plotting to bomb synagogues and shoot down military planes apparently will claim they were lured into the conspiracy with gifts including cash and fried chicken. Little Rock New Details Emerge On Military Recruitment Shooter.  A man with "political and religious motives" killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another Monday in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center, police said. ... Police arrested Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, along a crosstown interstate moments after the shootings at the Army-Navy Career Center in a shopping center in west Little Rock. A Conspiracy of Euphemism.  The eight a.m. NPR news update today included word of the fatal shooting of one soldier and the wounding of another outside an army recruiting station in Arkansas.  The news reader, Nora Raum, outlined the incident and stated that the shooting appeared to have "religious motivations."  She did not name the suspect, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, or tell NPR listeners what those religious motivations might be.  In other words, it could have been a radical Unitarian who gunned down the soldiers, or possibly a violent Presbyterian. Little Rock Shooting Suspect Joins Growing List of Muslim Converts Accused of Targeting U.S..  The suspect in the deadly shooting at a military recruiting center in Arkansas is the latest in a series of Muslim converts accused of planning or launching violent attacks in the U.S., part of what security experts call an alarming domestic trend.  The attack came less than two weeks after a foiled bomb plot on two synagogues in Riverdale, N.Y., allegedly led by four men who converted to Islam in prison or shortly after their incarceration. Did someone mention Islam in prison? Jihad Returns to America.  Jihad came once again to American soil on Monday, when an American convert to Islam, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, began shooting at soldiers who were standing outside the Army-Navy Career Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Muhammad murdered Pvt. William Long, 23, and gravely wounded Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18.  Muhammad was charged with capital murder and — in a departure from authorities' practically reflexive dismissal of terrorism as a factor in virtually any act of violence by a Muslim — sixteen counts of committing a terrorist act. More Targets Found on Arkansas Shooting Suspect's Computer.   The suspect in a deadly military recruiting center shooting in Little Rock, Ark., conducted Google Map searches of several sites there and in other U.S. cities, a law enforcement official tells FOX News.  The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security sent out an "e-mail alert" Tuesday night [6/2/2009] to local and state law enforcement, according to the official.  The source said they did not issue an "intelligence assessment" about the 23-year-old accused shooter, Abdulhakim Muhammad, as has been reported. Man Claims Terror Ties in Little Rock Shooting.  A Tennessee man accused of killing a soldier outside a Little Rock, Ark., military recruiting station last year has asked a judge to change his plea to guilty, claiming for the first time that he is affiliated with a Yemen-based affiliate of Al Qaeda. Update: Little Rock Shooter Says He's with Al-Qaeda in Yemen.  On June 1, 2009, a Tennessee man born Carlos Bledsoe — but who changed his name to Abdul Hakim Muhammad — walked up to a military recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas, and opened fire. ... He pleaded not guilty.  Last week, on January 12, this same man sat down and wrote a letter to the judge presiding over his capital murder case.  Abdul Hakim Muhammad asked that the judge change his plea to guilty. Fort Dix 6 arrested in plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix.  The six men charged with plotting the slaughter of U.S. soldiers in an armed assault on Fort Dix were held without bail this afternoon during an initial appearance in federal court in Camden.  The men, identified by authorities as homegrown Islamic terrorists inspired by Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, each spent about 10 minutes before a judge in U.S. District Court, saying they understood the charges against them. 6 Charged in Plot to Attack Army Post.  Six foreign-born Muslims were arrested and accused Tuesday [5/8/2007] of plotting to attack the Army's Fort Dix and massacre scores of U.S. soldiers … The defendants, all men in their 20s from the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East, include a pizza deliveryman suspected of using his job to scout out the military base. Al Qaedism, Again.  Why would Albanian-speaking Muslim refugees from the Balkans try to murder American soldiers?  After all, the United States — not bin Laden's rag-tag jihadists — saved Bosnia and Kosovo?  And we did that by bombing the capital of a Christian European nation.  But then, why did a mixed-up Albanian Muslim in Salt Lake City, one Sulejman Talovic, go on a shopping-mall shooting spree? Man pleads guilty in Fort Dix Six case.  A 25-year-old man pleaded guilty today [10/31/2007] to providing weapons to a group of men charged with planning to attack soldiers at Fort Dix.  Agron Abdullahu, of Buena Vista Township in Atlantic County, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide weapons to illegal aliens.  He faces up to five years in federal prison when he is sentenced Feb. 6.  Five of the six defendants — Mohammad Shnewer, 22; Serdar Tatar, 23; and brothers Dritan Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; and Eljvir Duka, 23 — have been charged with plotting a paramilitary attack on Fort Dix that was inspired by al-Qaeda, the government says. Liberal Media Downplays Threat Of Terrorism To Elect Democrats.  The plot to murder soldiers at Fort Dix was taken seriously by the F.B.I.  It said, after the plot was thwarted, "we dodged a bullet"  The F.B.I. said the terrorists had gone through a complete planning process, and that they were lucky to stop them.  But the Washington Post sounded the themes of the mainstream media and dismissed the whole threat as if it were nothing: "would-be terrorists … leaderless … [with] no rigorous military training." Feds say it's okay to call the Fort Dix Five 'jihadis'.  Federal prosecutors in New Jersey say they should not be forced to drop references to Al Qaeda and jihad from the indictment of five men accused of plotting to attack soldiers on Fort Dix.  Lawyers for the men have asked a judge in federal court in Camden to delete such language, saying it was "inflammatory" and was included in earlier court filings to incite prejudice against the defendants.  In a response filed Friday [7/18/2008], prosecutors said the terms are central to the case, arguing that jihadist principles motivated the defendants. Update: 5 Convicted of Plotting to Kill Fort Dix Soldiers.  Five Muslim immigrants were convicted Monday of plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix in a case that tested the FBI's post-Sept. 11 strategy of infiltrating and breaking up terrorist conspiracies in their earliest stages.  The men could get life in prison when they are sentenced in April.  The five, who lived in and around Philadelphia for years, were found guilty of conspiring to kill U.S. military personnel. The Fort Dix Five.  What is the difference between the five Muslim immigrants convicted in a Federal court in Camden, New Jersey on Monday, and Bill Ayers and his comrades in the Weather Underground?  The answer:  not much, except for the outcome. Did someone mention Bill Ayers? Another update: Duka brothers get life terms for plotting Fort Dix attack.  Three of the five men convicted of plotting an armed attack on Fort Dix were sentenced to life in prison today.  The Duka brothers, Eljvir, Dritan and Shain, maintained their innocence before sentencing in federal court in Camden.  Defendants Mohamad Shnewer and Serdar Tatar are scheduled for sentencing tomorrow [4/29/2009]. Salt Lake City Police identify gunman as 18-year-old Bosnian.  Police Tuesday [2/13/2007] identified the gunman accused in Monday night's Trolley Square shooting as Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old Bosnian refugee who lived in Salt Lake City. Coworkers:  Talovic 'stayed to himself'; FBI rules out terrorism.  Snyder said nothing had been completely ruled in or out yet as a motive.  Addressing concerns from some in the public that Talovic's Muslim beliefs may have played a role, she said there was still no evidence pointing either way as to whether that was the case. Salt Lake Jihad?  When Sulejmen Talovic entered the Trolley Square mall in Salt Lake City Monday night [2/12/2007] with a shotgun, a pistol, and a backpack full of ammunition, he intended to "kill a large number of people," according to Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank. … Why did Talovic do it?  No one knows. … Could he have been motivated by jihadist sympathies? [Most news articles about the incident omitted any reference to Talovic being a Muslim.] Coworkers:  Talovic 'stayed to himself'; FBI rules out terrorism.  Addressing concerns from some in the public that Talovic's Muslim beliefs may have played a role, [detective Robin Snyder] said there was still no evidence pointing either way as to whether that was the case.  The FBI said it has no reason to believe the shootings were an act of terrorism. Utah Authorities Guard Against Backlash.  Mayor Rocky Anderson blasted vitriolic Internet postings and e-mails sent to newspapers that concluded the shooter was an Islamic terrorist, calling such criticism "unjustified" and "outrageous." [Oh, really?  He's a Muslim.  He committed an act of terrorism.  He killed as many strangers as he could -- in a shopping mall -- in the final violent act of his life.  Why then is it so "outrageous" to call him a terrorist?] What Motivated the Salt Lake City Shooter?  We are, of course, not supposed to mention the elephant in the room, but at least one editor was asleep at the wheel when this story went through. The Salt Lake shooter and Sudden Jihad Syndrome.  If you only read the news as reported by the Main Stream Media, you would never know that we had just recently experienced another Jihad style attack by a Muslim on American soil. ... The media showed an interesting and obvious reluctance to initially disclose, let alone discuss, eighteen year old Talovic's religious persuasion. The Salt Lake City Murders: A Jihad?  This article is being written on behalf of the victims of the Trolley Square murders perpetrated by Sulejman Talovic, a Bosnian immigrant who went on a shooting rampage at a Salt Lake City shopping mall on February 12, 2007.  The FBI and mainstream media have all but ruled out the murders had any link to terrorism. Mall shooting prompts Bosnian backlash fears.  The mayor and police chief assured Bosnian immigrants Thursday [2/15/2007] that authorities would not stand for any backlash against them after an Bosnian teenager shot five people to death in a crowded shopping mall and then died in a shootout with police. Father of Shooter Believes Someone Told His Son to Kill People.  The father of Trolley Square shooter Sulejmen Talovic apologizes over and over for the ordeal.  Suljo Talovic says no one who knew his son saw this coming, and he believes someone pushed him to do it.  Suljo Talovic doesn't know where his son got the guns or how he learned how to use them. The Editor says... I find it difficult to believe that this killing spree came as a complete surprise to the young man's family, friends, and co-workers.  A sane, well-adjusted and peaceful person doesn't suddenly produce a collection of firearms and ammo, and then go out in a blaze of glory.  Nobody knew he had a gun or a grudge?  In almost all the incidents recounted on this page, the surviving family members claim that the perpetrator had always been a harmless citizen, and there must be someone else to blame.  Nonsense! San Francisco Just Nuts?  What would possess a Muslim motorist to drive around San Francisco Bay Area streets in his SUV and deliberately run over pedestrians, including kids?  Insanity, shrugs the mainstream media.  Omeed Aziz Popal was taken into custody Tuesday [8/29/2006] after a hit-and-run spree that terrorized pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists for a full hour, killing one and injuring 14.  The news treated the bloody rampage like a random act of violence. … War is no time for apologetics.  In their tired effort to claim the mantle of tolerance, the media only disserve Americans by continuing to sugarcoat the ugly truth about the enemy. Driver's rampage:  "Everyone needs to be killed," Omeed Aziz Popal calmly told officers as he sat in the back of a police car after a hit-and-run rampage that left one person dead in Fremont and 19 injured in San Francisco.  Just why the 29-year-old unemployed automotive worker allegedly said that remains a mystery. Leaning over backwards indicates head not screwed on straight.  Omeed Popal was 29 years old, but apparently totally sheltered and controlled by his parents, who, according to the paper, "believed they needed to protect him from America's 'evil society.'"  He had recently traveled to Afghanistan to be married to a woman his family picked out for him. Nashville, Tennessee Cabbie Runs Down Students.  Two students visiting from Ohio were coming from a bar downtown when they got into an argument with their driver over religion, said police.  After they paid the driver he allegedly ran them down in a parking lot.  Ibrihim Ahmned, of United Cab, was arrested and charged with assault, attempted homicide and theft. Muslim Cabbie Tries to Run Down Fares.  The Religion of Peace has struck in Nashville, Tennessee, where a local cabbie tried to run down a couple of customers after an argument over religion became heated, leaving one of them hospitalized.  Ibrihim Ahmned was arrested and charged with assault, attempted homicide, and stealing the license plate he was using on his cab. Rockford, Illinois 'Lone Wolf' Charged With Plotting Attack During Christmas Rush.  A Chicago-area man has been charged in an alleged plot to attack a local mall and government buildings.  Derrick Shareef was arrested Wednesday as he attempted to buy grenades and a handgun from an undercover FBI agent posing as a weapons dealer. Feds Arrest Man They Say Planned to Detonate Grenades in Illinois Shopping Mall.  A man has been arrested by federal agents on charges of planning to set off hand grenades at an Illinois shopping mall on Dec. 22 as part of his plan to commit "violent jihad" against civilians.  Derrick Shareef, 22, of Rockford, was arrested when he carried out a rendezvous with an undercover agent in a parking lot to trade a set of stereo speakers for four grenades and a handgun. Mall bomb suspect's mother shocked at his arrest.  Even before federal agents said they foiled his terrorism plot, Derrick Shareef's growing commitment to radical Islam worried his mother. … Shareef converted to Islam seven years ago, a move that did not surprise his mother.  Shareef's father was a member of Nation of Islam, led by minister Louis Farrakhan, and several paternal relatives practiced the faith. Jihad in Rockford, IL:  What the MSM Won't Tell You.  President Bush and supporters of the war in Iraq have told us that "We're fighting them over there so that we don't have to fight them over here."  Apparently, someone forgot to explain that to Derrick Shareef.  This 22-year-old black man converted seven years ago to the Nation of Islam.  Over 24 hours after the first news reports, his race and the black Muslim connection are still missing from national news reports. 23-year-old pleads guilty to 'jihad' plot at Rockford mall.  A 23-year-old man who dreamed of waging violent jihad while under surveillance by the FBI pleaded guilty Wednesday [11/28/2007] to plotting a hand grenade attack on a Rockford mall crowded with Christmas shoppers.  Derrick Shareef, 23, a softspoken, bushy bearded young man apparently inspired by the violent acts of Mideast terrorists, faces 30 years to life when he is sentenced March 14, according to federal prosecutors. Update: 35 years for man who offered speakers for grenades.  A one-time admirer of Osama bin Laden who plotted a hand-grenade attack at a mall jammed with Christmas shoppers — and tried to trade two stereo speakers for the weapons — was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday [9/30/2008].  Derrick Shareef of Rockford said he once admired bin Laden as a sheik and a scholar but has changed his views and opposes violence. The Three Guys with 1000 Cell Phones Three Middle Eastern Men Found With 1000 Cell Phones, Now Face Charges.  Around 1:00am August 11th the three men purchased cell phones from the Wal-Mart store on M-81 near the corner of M-24 in Caro [Michigan].  Wal-Mart places a limit on the number of cell phones that can be purchased at once, that number is three.  The three men allegedly bought 80 by purchasing them three at time so that an alert wouldn't be triggered by the cash register.  They also paid cash. Three Texas Men Arraigned on Terror Charges.  Three Texas men were arraigned Saturday on terrorism-related charges after police found about 1,000 cell phones in their minivan.  A magistrate set bond at $750,000 for each of the men, who are charged with collecting or providing materials for terrorist acts and surveillance of a vulnerable target for terrorist purposes. FBI:  No Terror Groups in Cell Phone Case.  The FBI said Monday [8/14/2006] it had no information to indicate that the three Texas men arrested with about 1,000 cell phones in their van had any connections to a known terrorist group.  Authorities had increased patrols on Michigan's 5-mile-long Mackinac Bridge after local prosecutors said investigators believed the men were targeting the bridge. The Editor says... Terrorists use cheap disposable cell phones one time only and throw them away, as an untraceable means of communication.  And any time young Muslim men are going from one Wal-Mart to another in the middle of the night, buying hundreds of cell phones with cash, they're up to something.  This is not just a group of enterprising young men hoping to sell the phones at a profit.  If that were true, they wouldn't have opened up all the packages.  Have we learned nothing about Islamic terrorists in the last several years?  Any time young Muslim men do anything as unusual as this, it is more than a little suspicious. Seattle  Read this   'Lone Individual'.  The smoke had barely cleared in Seattle, where one Naveed Afzal Haq, a 30-year-old Muslim, killed one woman and shot five others Friday after taking a 13-year old hostage and forcing his way into the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, when the effort began to tamp down the significance of the event. 'I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel'.  On the eve of the Jewish Sabbath, a 31-year-old man claiming he was upset about "what was going on in Israel" opened fire at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building, killing one person and wounding five women, one of them pregnant.  Three of the women were in critical condition Friday night [7/28/2006] with gunshot wounds to the stomach. Open Season on Jewish Women.  [Naveed Afsal] Haq's brutal attack is no ordinary crime.  It is the product of an Islamic culture that denigrates women in general and a jihadist culture that specifically seeks to destroy life.  Thus, many Islamic suicide killers will purposely target pregnant women or women with small children before they blow themselves up. Seattle Suspect Hid Behind 13 Year Old.  The man suspected in a fatal shooting rampage hid behind a potted plant in a Jewish charity's foyer and forced his way through a security door by holding a gun to a 13-year-old girl's head, the police chief said. Media ignores or downplays homegrown terror attack in Seattle.  Are these the actions of a crazy person?  A crazy person might cause harm to himself, maybe even someone close to him.  Haq, though, did not know anyone at the Seattle Jewish Federation.  He traveled some distance late last month from central Washington, getting there after determining his target following an Internet search for "something Jewish." Update: Accused Jewish center shooter pleads insanity.  Naveed Haq, accused of shooting six women — one fatally — at a Seattle Jewish center last summer, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday as prosecutors tacked on 11 additional charges against him. Baltimore County, Maryland Moviegoer Killed In Maryland.  As his victim lay bleeding in the aisle, police say Mujtaba Rabbani Jabbar walked out of the theater, placed the gun with one bullet left on a counter and told the manager he had shot someone. Same story: Muslim Shooting Spree in Jewish Community?  The victim was Paul Schrum, 62, from the 900-block of Bittersweet Road. … The Reisterstown area is Baltimores largest community of Jewish families. And again... The Jihad That Failed:  "Leaderless resistance" barely dents the USA.  Was it just a random moment of violence, or was it an act of jihad?  The shooter is called Mujtaba Rabbani Jabbar — not a name that suggests Buddhism or Scientology — and Owings Mills is a heavily Jewish suburb. Chapel Hill, North Carolina Quite a stretch.  On March 3, Mohammed Taheri-azar, a 22-year-old graduate of the University of North Carolina, rented an SUV and drove it into "the Pit," an area between two libraries on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill where students congregate, injuring nine.  Mr. Taheri-azar told police he made the attack "to avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world."  Mr. Taheri-azar smiled and waved at his arraignment, and told reporters he was "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah." Calling terror terror at UNC:  In an obvious case of terrorism, a Muslim alumnus of the school attempted to run down and kill a large crowd of students in a popular meeting area on campus.  However, the school's hard-left, P.C. mentality has not allowed the chancellor to provide a sufficient response to the incident.  Indeed, he will still not even acknowledge the heinous act as one of terrorism! Alleged UNC campus crasher said he wanted to use a gun.  A man charged with trying to kill students by hitting them with a car said he would have preferred using a gun but screening laws were too stringent, according to a letter read at a hearing in his case.  Mohammed Taheri-Azar drove a Jeep Cherokee into a crowd of students March 3 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and hit nine people, none of whom had life-threatening injuries. Sudden Jihad Syndrome (in North Carolina).  A just-graduated student named Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 22, and an Iranian immigrant, drove a sport utility vehicle into a crowded pedestrian zone.  He struck nine people but, fortunately, none were severely injured.  Until his would-be murderous rampage, Mr. Taheri-azar, a philosophy and psychology major, had a seemingly normal existence and promising future. Media won't report radical Islamic events.  Most of the world today not only is in denial concerning the truly appalling likely consequences of the rise of radical Islam, it often refuses to even accept unambiguous evidence of its existence.  The latest minor example of the latter is occurring at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Students Are Terrorized.  But It's Not "Terrorism".  On Friday afternoon [3/3/2006], an act of terrorism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill left students and faculty in disbelief, wondering why a former student would ram an SUV into a crowded group of students.  Many of them extended their disbelief to include a willful denial that the attack was an act of terrorism at all. Muslim Suspect Charged With Driving Into Crowd at UNC to Offer Mental Defense.  Mohammed Taheri-Azar, 24, told investigators he hoped to "avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world" when he drove the rented SUV into the plaza at the school's Chapel Hill campus in March 2006, authorities have said.  Nine people were injured, none seriously. Update: Muslim student agrees to plea for crashing into UNC's Pit.  A former student accused of plowing his sport utility vehicle into a campus crowd, hitting nine people, in a self-professed bid to avenge Muslim deaths overseas pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree attempted murder. The DC Snipers, aka the Beltway Shooters The Psychology of Junior Sniper Lee Malvo:  There is no such thing as a psychological disorder which leads people to become so loyal that they're willing to kill.  It's conjecture and excuse-making taken to a nearly incomprehensible extreme. The Washington DC Snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo:  Numerous additional links to news articles about this case. Malvo pleads guilty to 6 sniper shootings.  Lee Boyd Malvo, the junior member of the Washington-area sniper tandem, pleaded guilty today [10/10/2006] to murdering six people in Montgomery County in October 2002, and his lawyers said they are trying resolve other shooting cases in other states in which he is a suspect. Teen Sniper Malvo Gets Life Without Parole.  A judge sentenced teenage Beltway Sniper Lee Boyd Malvo to life in prison without parole Wednesday [3/10/2004], but he may still face the death penalty if other states have their way.  It is unclear what will happen next with the 19-year-old, who took part in an October 2002 killing spree in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 people dead. Police union probes Moose.  The police union here has formed a special committee to investigate Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose's handling of look-out information during the Beltway sniper manhunt, union officials told WorldNetDaily.  Officials complain that Moose, who led the multi-agency sniper investigation, withheld critical information about the sniper suspects from investigators and patrol officers, thereby jeopardizing their safety. D.C. sniper Malvo confesses to killing Tucson man on golf course, police say.  One of the Washington D.C. snipers confessed to killing a man on a Southeast Side golf course four years ago, Tucson police said Friday [10/27/2006].  The confession from Lee Boyd Malvo on Thursday brings a sense of closure to Jerry Taylor's family, who for many years have believed that Malvo and fellow sniper John Allen Muhammad were behind the slaying on March 19, 2002. The Rise and Fall of Charles Moose:  Was it just a coincidence that the publicized spate of shootings began in Moose's jurisdiction?  Moose and Muhammad had served in the Oregon National Guard at the same time but in different units in Portland.  Moose claims they never met.  Can we take that at face value, now that we have proof Moose lied about several important aspects of the case?  Why, after shooting deaths by the same rifle were confirmed in other states didn't the FBI take over as the lead agency?  By leaving Moose in charge, police were led on a wild goose chase looking for a white man driving a white van or truck.  Members of the task force, presumably including the FBI, knew there were credible eyewitness reports to the contrary. The Rush From Judgment:  Like many people, it crossed my mind early in the Beltway Sniper case that this might be a terrorist attack.  I reserved judgment, realizing — unlike the armchair experts who flocked to fill airtime on cable news channels -- that I did not know all of the facts available to the police.  But the moment I heard the suspect's name, John Muhammad, the conclusion was obvious.  These killings were motivated by a version of the same Islamic ideology that has inspired mass murder around the globe. The other beltway shooter:  At least one crazed Middle Eastern gunman has sought revenge on behalf of Muslims by gunning down Americans near the nation's capital and slipping in and out of our country with murderous ease.  Could it be happening again? Back when they were looking for the Beltway snipers... Police suppress terrorism angle:  ATF official says releasing descriptions of Mideast suspects would cause "panic". Malvo calls daughter of sniper victim.  In March 2002, Malvo shot and killed [Cheryll] Witz's father, Jerry Taylor, as he practiced chip shots on a golf-course practice green.  Taylor's murder was a precursor to a killing spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area, in which the teenage Malvo and partner John Allen Muhammad killed 10 people and wounded three others over a three-week span that began Oct. 2, 2002. Read this article: Rehabbing The D.C. Snipers.  When news of the snipers' identity first broke, CNN anchors were so determined to avoid making the obvious connection to radical Islam that they called the lead sniper, a Muslim convert, by his old name.  Police were looking for John Allen Muhammad, but CNN insisted on referring to him as John Allen Williams.  Now the network has completely scrubbed Islam from the picture, offering child abuse (boo-hoo) and spousal revenge as alternative motives for the snipers' bloody rampage.  Nowhere in its one-hour special — promoted as "The Minds of the D.C. Snipers"  — is Islamist brainwashing even hinted as a motivating factor behind their serial assassinations. John Allen Muhammad:  Hating America:  Did Muhammad convert to Islam out of a sincere, spiritual conversion and awakening?  Or, did he convert, as some do, to say, "Screw you," to America, the West and to non-Muslims, thus providing a scapegoat for his failed life? The Snipers:  Crazy or Jihadis?  [W]hen Muslims engage in terrorism against Americans, the guiding presumption must be that they see themselves as warriors in a jihad against the "Great Satan." John Allen Muhammad:  Convert to Violence?  It came as no surprise to learn that the lead suspect as the Washington, D.C.,-area sniper is John Allen Muhammad, an African-American who converted to Islam about 17 years ago.  Nor that seven years ago he provided security for Louis Farrakhan's "Million Man March."  Even less does it amaze that he reportedly sympathized with the 9/11 attacks carried out by militant Islamic elements.  All this was near-predictable because it fits into a well-established tradition of American blacks who convert to Islam turning against their country. Jury Finds John Muhammad Guilty in Sniper Trial.  The announcement Tuesday afternoon [5/30/2006] followed four weeks of prosecutors, experts and witnesses presenting evidence against Muhammad and Muhammad defending himself with the argument that he had been framed. November Execution Date Set for Muhammad.  A Northern Virginia judge Wednesday set Nov. 10 as the execution date for sniper John Allen Muhammad, whose wave of random shootings terrified the Washington region in 2002. The Editor says... Why not execute him sometime next week?  Or maybe tomorrow morning.  What's the holdup? DC sniper Muhammad set to die by lethal injection.  The mastermind of the 2002 Washington, DC-area sniper attacks will die by lethal injection next month, Virginia officials said Tuesday [10/27/2009]. Muhammad executed for sniper killing.  John Allen Muhammad, the sniper who kept the Washington region paralyzed by fear for three weeks as he and a young accomplice gunned down people at random, was executed Tuesday night [11/10/2009] by lethal injection. Los Angeles International Airport Nothing to see here.  Move along.  The watchdogs in the national press … 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." Los Angeles airport shooting kills three.  A gunman opened fire Thursday [7/4/2002] at Los Angeles International Airport while standing in line at the ticket counter of Israel's El Al Airlines, officials said, killing two and wounding four others before an airline security officer shot him dead. "An isolated incident at LAX":  When I heard an FBI spokesman try to dismiss the Fourth of July attack on El Al passengers at Los Angeles International Airport by Egyptian Muslim Hesham Mohamed Hadayet as "an isolated incident," something about those words troubled me.  I had heard them before. The FBI's B.S.:  It seems as if the only ones who refuse to acknowledge that this was terrorism are the folks at the FBI.  It seems that they are not willing to go any further than to say that the gunman, came to LAX with the intent to kill.  Just how dumb do they think we are? Terror and Denial:  It is obvious why Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet targeted Jews in a highly visible place on so prominent a date:  to engage in terrorism against Israel.  But one important institution — the U.S. government — claims not to know Hadayet's goals. Others Counterterrorism Scorecard:  New Jersey Store Clerk: 'A+,' Congress: 'F'.  Like the Dutch filmmaker on NWA Flight 253 and the video clerk near Fort Dix, a Quick Chek employee steps up to the front lines in the war on terror. Jury convicts suspect in hit-and-run rampage.  After four days of deliberation, a Cumberland County jury found hit-and-run rampage suspect Abdullah El-Amin Shareef guilty of 10 charges, including first-degree murder and attempted murder, for a hit-and-run rampage that encompassed parts of three counties in 2004. Bridge 'terror' thug's Allah cry.  A Queens man tied to a suspected al Qaeda-trained terrorist may have been trying to kill himself when he crashed his car into the back of another at the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, law enforcement sources said.  Adis Medunjanin, 25, called 911 as he sped erratically away from federal agents through Queens streets at up to 90 mph.  "We love death more than you love life!" he exclaimed in Arabic. Hit-and-Run Jihad Comes to America.  The latest possible act of hit-and-run jihad occurred just this month.  A 27-year-old man named Munir Muthana was apprehended in Rochester, New York, after he began running random people over, sending six to the hospital.  Two squad cars were also hit as they tried to stop him. This attack was the rule, not the exception.  On average, in the 98 months since the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, a radical Islamic-inspired terrorist plot has been uncovered every four months.  There have also been "lone wolf" mass murders in which angry radical Muslims sought to channel their frustrations and failures into violence against their perceived enemies of Islam.  Since September 11, several Muslim men have run over innocent bystanders or shot random people at or near military bases, synagogues, and shopping malls.  After the initial hysteria died down, we were usually told that such acts were isolated incidents, involving personal "issues" rather than radical Islamic hatred of the U.S.  Yet a few examples show that was not quite the case. Man arrested for 'anti-Christian' mall disturbance.  Police arrested 22-year-old Abdul Walid Hamid of Hayward on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 4, after he reportedly tore a crucifix from a person's neck and scared others at Stoneridge Shopping Center.  Hamid, an employee at a mall kiosk near Starbucks, has been charged with battery, terrorist threats and grand theft.  According to reports, Hamid was yelling "Allah is power" and "Islam is great" while holding a pen in a fist over his head.  Witnesses said he shouted anti-Christian comments, said police. Boston-area man charged in alleged terrorist plot.  Authorities say Tarek Mehanna and associates discussed attacking two prominent U.S. politicians, shopping malls and American troops serving in Iraq. "Backlash" After Dallas Jihad Terror Plot?  Late in September, a Muslim named Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, was arrested after placing an inert car bomb at a 60-story office tower in downtown Dallas.  In March 2009, according to his indictment in U.S. District Court, Smadi declared his intention to wage war in the name of Islam.  Yet characteristically, if dispiritingly, Muslims in the Dallas area are now expressing fears of a "backlash," rather than taking the hard steps necessary to make sure there are no more jihad plotters who are inspired by Islamic teachings, as was Hosam Smadi. Two men accused in alleged bomb plots in Illinois, Texas.  Two men who professed devotion to Al Qaeda — one a convert to Islam, the other a Jordanian native — were charged Thursday [9/24/2009] with plotting to blow up buildings in Illinois and Texas.  In both cases, the men thought they were working with Al Qaeda operatives when they were really working with undercover federal agents. Man to be arraigned in Dallas skyscraper bombing plot.  A 19-year-old Jordanian citizen is expected to make an appearance before a federal magistrate in Dallas this morning after authorities accused him of attempting to blow up a downtown Dallas skyscraper. NYC Plot Suspect, 2 Others Arrested in Federal Terror Probe.  The FBI arrested a 24-year-old Colorado man on charges of making false statements to federal agents in an ongoing terror investigation, and supporting documents contend the man admitted receiving weapons and explosives training from Al Qaeda in Pakistan. Suspect to make plea deal.  The Afghan émigré suspected of being an al Qaeda bomb-maker may admit he received demolitions training and has terrorist contacts as part of a federal plea deal, sources report. Source:  Colo. Man in Suspected NYC Subway Plot Admits Ties to Al Qaeda.  The man under FBI investigation for alleged ties to a New York subway terror plot has admitted he has ties to Al Qaeda and is in negotiations to plead guilty to a terror charge, a source familiar with the investigation told FOX News.  The source said 24-year-old Najibullah Zazi, who until now had protested that he had no connection to Al Qaeda, changed his story Friday [9/18/2009]. Denver apartment searched in terror probe.  Officials investigating a possible terror strike by Afghan nationals in New York, on Wednesday [9/16/2009] searched the Denver, Colorado, apartment of an Afghan man who recently traveled to New York. Was Terrorism Behind Air France Crash?  On Wednesday morning, [6/10/2009] news emerged out of Paris that two Muslim men aboard Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, were Islamic radicals listed on France's terrorist watch list.  French foreign intelligence agents from the DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure) released this information to the Paris weekly L'Express.  Immediately, the story became headline news around the globe.  And then, just hours later, those same French terrorism investigators recanted. Terror link to Air France crash?  The focus on technical problems has been, in part, because almost immediately after the plane disappeared with 228 people aboard, the French authorities reportedly ruled out terrorism as a possible cause.  That puzzled many aviation analysts, since so little was known at the time about the cause of the disappearance.  Since then, several clues have emerged that have prompted investigators to take another look at terrorism. A Small Event with an Ominous Warning.  Denver Police have closed their investigation into the mysterious death of an indigent man in a suite of a luxury Denver hotel.  They announced that his death was suicide, and that there was no link to terrorism.  An FBI spokesman has also stated that the incident has no apparent terrorism connection.  The man was Saleman Abdirahman Dirie and, the coronerŐs verdict notwithstanding, his death raises far more questions than have been answered by the Denver police, who seemed quite happy to wash their hands of the whole affair. Law enforcement's premature dismissal of terrorism as a motivating factor is puzzling — and harmful. Inverse False Alarms.  The FBI's national spokesman was already prepared to dismiss a connection to terrorism the day after ricin was found in a Las Vegas hotel room. … It is, of course, too early to declare that the Las Vegas incident was connected to terrorism.  But law enforcement's announcement to the contrary was almost certainly premature — and is part of a larger pattern of officials dismissing acts of violence as unrelated to terrorism long before they are in a position to know. Media fantasy land.  This compelling drama has drawn scant attention from the mainstream media.  And while apologists might attempt to write off the paucity of coverage for various reasons, a slew of other terrorism cases since September 11 have been met with the same media disinterest.  Following the arrests of Mr. Mohamed and Mr. Megahed on Aug. 4 with explosives in the trunk of their car — just seven miles from a naval weapons base in Goose Creek, S.C. — The Washington Post and New York Times made fleeting references.  Each paper ran the brief overviews from the Associated Press, with no independent reporting. Authorities Charge 4 in NYC Terror Plot.  Four Muslim men were foiled from carrying out a plot to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods, authorities said Saturday. Abdul Kadir, Kareem Ibrahim, Isha Kadir, Abdel Nur, Russell Defreitas. Worthington man agrees to plead guilty to terrorism charge.  A Worthington man accused of plotting to help al-Qaida has agreed to plead guilty to working with terrorists — a charge that could put him in prison for life.  According to documents filed shortly after noon in U.S. District Court in Columbus, Christopher Paul has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.  Details of the plea agreement were not available. Bedier Reaches New Low on USF Plea.  On June 13th, Egyptian national and former University of South Florida graduate student Ahmed Mohamed agreed to plead guilty to terrorism charges and is facing a maximum of 15 years in prison.  Mohamed, along with fellow student Youssef Megahed, was stopped by police in South Carolina last August.  Police found in their possession explosives and a laptop which hosted an instructional video for terrorists. Army translator sentenced to 10 years.  A U.S. Army translator has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for unauthorized possession of classified defense documents, the Justice Department said Monday [5/19/2008]. … The defendant — who goes by various names including Abdulhakeem Nour, Abu Hakim, Noureddine Malki, Almaliki Nour and Almalik Nour Eddin — pleaded guilty in February 2007 to unauthorized possession of classified documents.  He pleaded guilty to false identity in December 2005. Airline Passenger Arrested with Pipe Bomb Components.  Who is Kevin Brown and what was he doing with what appears to be a pipe bomb in the making at Orlando International Airport yesterday [4/1/2008]? Passenger Arrested with Box Cutter in Hollow Book.  21-year old Benjamin Baines, Jr. was arrested on Sunday at Tampa International Airport after a TSA screener found a box cutter in a hollowed-out book in his backpack. … According to a report from the TSA, the books in Baines' backpack included "Muhammad in the Bible," "The Prophet's Prayer" and "The Noble Qur'an." Student truck driver faces deportation.  Federal terrorism officials and Rhode Island authorities converged this week to arrest an Indian citizen enrolled in a Smithfield tractor-trailer training school who was trying to obtain a commercial driver's license and permit to haul hazardous materials.  The man, Mohammed Yusef Mullawala, of Jamaica, N.Y., is being held in federal custody for overstaying his student visa.  State police Maj. Steven O'Donnell said that after two days of truck-driving classes, Mullawala's behavior was suspicious enough to prompt school officials to contact the Department of Homeland Security late last month.  "His behavior was consistent with terrorist-type activity," O'Donnell said.  "He showed no interest in learning the fine art of driving a tractor-trailer.  He had no interest in learning how to back up." Sailor Started E-Mail on Terror, U.S. Says.  When Hassan Abujihaad was a sailor on a United States Navy destroyer in 2001, federal prosecutors said, he began exchanging e-mail messages with a man who ran an Internet site seeking to raise money for terrorist causes. … Now, Mr. Abujihaad, 31, of Phoenix is accused of supporting terrorism with the intent to kill American citizens and with transmitting classified information to unauthorized recipients. Why's a Nice Guy Like You Doing a Terrorist Act Like This?  According to former Detroit Public Schools Superintendent Eddie Green, Kifah Jayyousi is "a great guy, one of the nicest people I've ever met." … Jayyousi is now charged, according to the Detroit Free Press, with "conspiring to kidnap, maim and murder by providing money, recruits and equipment for Islamic struggles in Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya from 1993 to 2001."  He could get life in prison. If Scare = Terrorism, then... Man involved in airport scare faces deportation.  An Iraqi immigrant faces deportation after triggering a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport when authorities found a suspicious device lodged in his body, officials said.  Fadhel Al-Maliki, 35, of Atlantic City, N.J., prompted the alert March 6 during a screening for a flight to Philadelphia when he tried to go through security with two objects in his rectum. U.K. Man Faces Terror Charges In Connecticut.  The indictment claims he helped run web sites that raised money for terrorists. … Syed Talha Ahsan, 26, was arrested at his home in London on a federal indictment in Connecticut charging him with conspiracy to support terrorists and conspiracy to kill or injure people abroad. Not an attack, but definitely an incident related to terrorism and perhaps even treason. Florida Doctor Convicted in Terror Case.  A Florida doctor was convicted Monday [5/21/2007] of providing material support to terrorists by agreeing to treat injured al-Qaida fighters so they could return to Iraq to battle Americans. Muslims Charged in Jihad Terror Plot in Florida:  The government has indicted two Muslim men on charges of conspiring to blow up four electrical substations and a National Guard armory as part of a "jihad" terrorist campaign. Police:  Man Charged in ATM Killings.  A convicted bank robber charged with killing two armored car guards spotted the vehicle on the road and followed it to the ATM machine, a homicide detective said Saturday.  Mustafa Ali, 36, of Philadelphia, then shot the two retired Philadelphia police officers as they serviced the cash machine, police said. Ex-Convicts Plead Guilty in Plotting Attacks on Military Sites.  Two men accused of plotting behind prison walls to launch attacks on military sites, synagogues and other targets in 2005 pleaded guilty Friday [12/14/2007] to conspiring to wage war against the United States.  Kevin James, 31, and Levar Haley Washington, 28, both pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy charges.  Authorities say James, Washington and two others were part of a California prison gang cell of radical Muslims planning attacks in the Los Angeles area. Third Guilty Plea in Calif. Terror Case.  A third man accused of plotting to attack Southern California military sites and other targets pleaded guilty Monday [12/17/2007] to a terrorism conspiracy charge in federal court.  Gregory Vernon Patterson, 23, entered his plea in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana to one count of conspiring to levy war against the U.S. government through terrorism. Cache Of Weapons Found In Dallas Apartment.  Federal sources tell CBS 11 News that law enforcement officers have confiscated a large cache of weapons found in an apartment near the federal building in downtown Dallas. … Authorities tell us the tenant travels to the Middle East frequently and just returned from there this morning.  That information and the amount of weapons found lead to the involvement of the North Texas Terrorism Task Force.  However, authorities say there is no reason to suspect terrorism as a motive. The Editor says... Yeah, right.  It's just a guy who spends a lot of time in the Middle East and has a downtown Dallas apartment full of weapons.  I don't think the people on the North Texas Terrorism Task Force would know a terrorist if they saw one. Muslim women face felony charges.  She is on the terrorist watch list but authorities say she's been watching something else:  local airports.  Then Monday [7/16/2007], there was a standoff with police.  But Asma Al-Homsi tells News 8 she is not a terrorist. Frontier Airlines Plot Twist:  2 Incidents in 36 Hours.  Two deranged "Asian" men, two rolls of duct tape, two planeloads of John Doe passengers, two arrests in 36 hours.  What's going on aboard Frontier Airlines?  Here are the two flights -- Flight 561 on Thursday night and Flight 514 on Saturday morning [8/25/2007] -- both of which involved vigilant passengers that helped to avert disaster. FBI:  Incident on Flight to RDU Posed No Threat.  The FBI early Saturday [9/22/2007] said a misunderstanding apparently sparked an incident on a flight from Florida that Raleigh-Durham International Airport officials initially classified as a possible terrorist incident.  FBI agents determined that a "misperception" caused the alert and said there was never any threat to passengers or crew members. ... Early reports said the FBI arrested two passengers, but hours later, the FBI said it had arrested no one and was closing the case. Egyptian student denies explosives charge.  An Egyptian college student accused of making an Internet video demonstrating the construction of a detonator for terrorist bombs pleaded not guilty to federal charges Wednesday [10/24/2007].  Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 24, remained jailed on charges of distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction. Teacher who attacked base had death wish, FBI says.  Wielding two butcher knives bought at Wal-Mart and vodka bottles to use as explosives, Tahmeed Ahmad chanted "Death to America" and told Homestead Air Reserve Base guards he wanted to kill soldiers.  But Ahmad was no terrorist, authorities believe. Rather, the Miami Central High School math teacher wanted to "commit suicide by cop" when he attacked military policemen stationed at the west gate just before midnight Sunday, the FBI said. Islamic terrorists target Army base — in Arizona.  Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility. U.S. gives half of the Lackawanna Six a fresh start.  When three of the Lackawanna Six complete their prison terms, they will have the chance to start new lives under new identities — courtesy of the U.S. government.  That's because they struck a bargain with the government:  their testimony against Osama bin Laden's media secretary in exchange for a fresh start.  Yahya A. Goba, Sahim Alwan and Yasein A. Taher are, in fact, already living under aliases while finishing out their time behind bars. Killer's daughter admits it was political.  Ali Abu Kamal's relatives say they are tired of lying about why the Palestinian opened fire on the observation deck of Empire State Building, killing a tourist and injuring six other people before committing suicide.  Kamal's widow insisted after the shooting spree that the attack was not politically motivated. … But in a stunning admission, Kamal's 48-year-old daughter Linda told the Daily News that her dad wanted to punish the U.S. for supporting Israel — and revealed her mom's 1997 account was a cover story crafted by the Palestinian Authority. Man in Houston Taliban case gets 10 months.  Shiraz Syed Qazi, 26, one of four Muslim men charged in the so-called Houston Taliban case, was sentenced today [5/17/2007] to 10 months in prison.  The men were arrested in November and accused of training to join the Taliban's fight against U.S.-led forces overseas. Man, Attendants Fight Aboard Qatar Plane.  A man aboard a Qatari Airways flight fought with flight attendants Thursday [8/10/2006], prompting the pilot to return to Amman, but the incident was not a hijacking attempt, a government spokesman said.  Initial reports from airport security officials and a Qatari Airlines spokesman said the man, identified as an Eritrean, tried to force his way into the cockpit carrying a canister that the officials said contained a liquid. 2 Chicago-Area Men Arrested In Terror Case.  Two Chicago-area cousins were arrested Wednesday [2/21/2007] on charges out of Cleveland accusing them of conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U.S. military forces serving in Iraq.  Zubair A. Ahmed, 27, of suburban North Chicago, and Khaleel Ahmed, 26, of Chicago, were arrested after a Cleveland grand jury returned an indictment charging them and adding charges against three other men from Toledo, Ohio, who already face terrorism charges. Man Arrested in Airport Knife Scare.  A man with a one-way ticket to Yemen attempted to board a plane with a knife hidden in a book, authorities said.  Mohammed Ghanem, 21, of Hamtramck, was jailed Saturday on $500,000 after being arraigned on a charge of possessing a weapon in the sterile area of an airport. A Case for Guantanamo:  This is not the case of a few isolated, scattered incidents.  FrontPage Magazine columnist Daniel Pipes has documented more than 30 such incidents post-September 11, 2001.  Some of the highlights are: · July 2002 - Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet's double murder at the El Al counter in Los Angeles airport. · March 2003 - Hasan Akbar's fragging of his two officers (at an overseas U.S. military base). · August 2003 - Mohammed Ali Alayed's murder of Ariel Sellouk in Houston. · January 2005 - The Armanious family massacre. · May-July 2005 - The Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh robbery spree to fund future terrorist activities. Pipes cites "more than 200" cases in which American Muslims have "turned to terrorism." Denying [Islamist] Terrorism:  Anyone following the investigation into the mid-January slaughter of the Armanious family (husband, wife, two young daughters), Copts living in Jersey City, N.J., knows who the presumptive suspects are:  Islamists furious at a Christian Egyptian immigrant who dares engage in Internet polemics against Islam and who attempts to convert Muslims to Christianity.  The authorities, however, have blinded themselves to the extensive circumstantial evidence, insisting that "no facts at this point" substantiate a religious motive for the murders. Teen charged with driving into crowd.  A Virginia teen has been charged with driving his car into a crowd of people outside a bar that had just evicted him in a wealthy part of Long Island, N.Y. Sayed Khaled El-Waraky, 19, of Vienna, Va., was being held without bond Tuesday [6/20/2006] after the incident early Sunday morning in Glen Cove. In Praise of Routine Traffic Stops:  In July 2004, Michael Wagner's not wearing a seat belt got him stopped in a SUV near Council Bluffs, Iowa, that had in it "flight training manuals and a simulator, documents in Arabic, bulletproof vests and night-vision goggles, a night-vision scope for a rifle, a telescope, a 9mm semiautomatic pistol and hundreds of rounds of ammunition." America's Homegrown Troop Killers:  It's bad enough that Americans are bad-mouthing American troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.  But an alarming number of Muslim-Americans are plotting to kill them. Oklahoma bomber had jihad material.  An Oklahoma University student who killed himself by detonating a bomb strapped to his body outside a packed stadium over the weekend was a "suicide bomber" in possession of "Islamic jihad" materials, according to a new report. Media ignores homegrown Islamic terror trial.  The trial of Hamid Hayat, 23, is not taking place in the dark of night nor in a military tribunal from which the media is barred.  It is in an open California courtroom, the very kind that has been overrun for trials of the likes of Scott Peterson and O.J. Simpson.  Yet in the month of February, the New York Times had exactly one story on the alleged terror cell in Lodi, California.  The Washington Post had none.  And on the cable news channels, the trial has received scant attention. Terrorism?  Naah … .  Last Friday [April 29, 2005], firefighters conducting a routine inspection in a Brooklyn supermarket found 200 automobile airbags and a room lined with posters of Osama bin Laden and beheadings in Iraq.  An element in the airbags can be used to make pipe bombs.  The owner of the building, according to the New York Post, "served jail time in the late 1970s and early 1980s for arson, reckless endangerment, weapons possession and conspiracy, according to the records."  But officials were definite:  this has nothing to do with terrorism. What really happened to AA Flight 612.  What makes the evidence particularly compelling is that the pilots apparently saw what the radar was reporting:       ATC: Flare or a rocket?       AA 612: It looked more like a rocket.       ATC: American 612, how far away was it from your position?       AA 612: It was about half way between us and the coastline when we first called that last center guy. This sounds very similar to the case of TWA 800. More on Possible Surface to Air Missile Attempt Against Passenger Aircraft.  Just as suddenly as the story was broadcast, it seemed to have disappeared from the media. That's why this page exists. Possibly related information: Shoulder-Fired Missiles Pose a Serious Threat to Passenger Jets.  Worldwide, at least 24 civilian aircraft have been brought down by shoulder-fired missiles, and more than 500 people have been killed.  And experts say that shoulder-to-air missiles can be bought for only a few thousand dollars on the black market.  But U.S. commercial aircraft still have no defense system against these portable missiles. Buncefield fuel depot near Hemel Hempstead Massive blaze rages at fuel depot.  A police investigation into the incident has begun, including investigations by anti-terrorist police.  But Chief Con Whiteley said there was "nothing to suggest anything other than an accident". [Yeah, right.  The eyewitness accounts of the initial explosion describe exactly the effects of a car bomb.] Exxon-Mobil Workers Got Fake Flu Shots.  As many as 1,000 Exxon Mobil employees and 14 residents of a senior citizens home were injected with fake flu vaccine, authorities said Friday [10/28/2005], and the owner of a home health care company was arrested. … Iyad Abu El Hawa, 35, was arrested Thursday. … "This is a very callous and disturbing crime," [U.S. Attorney Chuck] Rosenberg said. "He purposefully put at risk many, many people." Editor's Note:  The item above is being mentioned here only because someone with a middle eastern name is charged with intentionally endangering the health and safety of hundreds of Americans.  Sounds like a willfully malicious act.  Fits the pattern.  That's all I'm saying. 'Sudden jihad syndrome' poses domestic risk.  Sympathy for al Qaeda has produced "sudden jihad syndrome" in domestic terror cells unaffiliated with foreign terrorists and people seeking to carry out attacks in the U.S., a law-enforcement intelligence analysis says.  The Dec. 6 report by the Texas Public Safety Department's Bureau of Information Analysis warns officials not to dismiss individual or homegrown terror cells as "wannabes," saying they pose a credible threat to homeland security. … "As a result, law enforcement should not be too quick to judge their attacks as having no nexus to terrorism."   Islam:  The Religion of Peace -- and Terror. Back to The War With No Name Back to the Media Bias Page Jump over to Islam is not a "religion of peace" Jump over to Other examples of biased news coverage Back to the Home page

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