The identity of Irhabi 007 (also known as Qaeda 007 & Terrorist 007) has finally been revealed by the SITE institute as Younis Tsouli, a 22 year old from West London. Irhabi [which means 'terrorist' in Arabic] 007 was one of the most prolific internet jihadis of the last several years. The FBI had been actively tracking down Irhabi 007 for at least a year. Aaron at Internet Haganah had been tracking him for even longer.

According to SITE, Younis Tsouli was among four terror suspects arrested by Scotland Yard on Oct. 21, 2005. Tsouli, aka "Irhab 007", may have been involved in a plot to attack the White House. He has also been linked to a string of arrests in Europe--including Scandinavia--over plots to commit acts of terrorism all over the Continent.

Through his contacts with al Qaeda in Iraq and other terror organizations, Irhabi 007 put up scores of posts. Among his many claims to fame, it was Irhabi 007 who first posted the al Qaeda video of Jack Hensley being beheaded at an Islamic forum. more...

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The FBI has added new names to its Most Wanted Terrorists List. Unfortunately, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi only made the Seeking Information List, where he joins the ranks of the 'American al Qaeda' leader, Californian Adam Yahiye Gadahn. However, the information leading to Zarqawi's arrest will get you a $25 million award.

Interestingly enough, one of the terrorists, Abd Al Aziz Awda, is an imam in the Gaza strip where he preaches and lives in the open. Hmmm, you mean the Palestinian Authority isn't cooperating in the Global War on Terror?

Another, Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, lives in Damascus. Another is in Beirut after our friends the Germans released him. more...

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Able Danger Blog has posted the first audio segment of the Able Danger conference call between Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA) and bloggers, conducted last Thursday evening. The clip lasts for about twenty minutes and covers most of Congressman Weldon's opening remarks.

Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto and Vince Aut Morire.

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I participated in a conference call tonight with Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA) and several other bloggers about the Able Danger program, 9/11, the USS Cole attack, and the ongoing coverup by mid- to senior-level bureaucrats spanning two administrations. Frankly, a lot of information was forthcoming and I need time to process it all.

But I do want to address a charming bit of character assassination by Washington Post writer William M. Arkin, who has a problem with Able Danger whistleblower Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer: more...

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1 Well, character assasination is the only thing left to the anti-ideological ideologues of today in defense of Able Danger BS. Its rather interesting, how undifferentiated each major party has become from one another. Democrats are the socialists with more taxes, Republicans are the socialists with a few "tax cuts" and then some hidden taxes (deficeits.) Essentially the politics of today has more the feel of a sporting event than any actual ideological confrontation. Instead of a stand between principled opponents each attempting to prove their consistant ideology is what is best for the nation, you have a pair of personalities that are universally anti-idealistic, "pragmatic" (funny how so-called "pragmatists" are so unpractical, in the long run,) and totally divorced from any thought except how to justify themselves, not even the day after tomorrow, just tomorrow. This culture is evident in the numerous amount of spending, the inability to be fiscally responsible, and the flat-out refusal to deal with big issues - on the premise that, since nobody has any ideology to guide them on their actions as to what is right, they have no idea what is the good and proper thing to do. Thus, no one wishes to be the first one to act when the first one to do so is going to be blamed for the shebang. Thus, our "practical" politicians have an ever-shrinking range of concern, limiting themselves to issues that can be predicted by today's focus group, tomorrow's exit polls. And that, of course, is the price one pays for allowing that dirty word, "practical," into the political scene. To be "practical," in this day, is to compromise on whatever principles you hold for some (supposed) advantage. It has lead to the insane contradiction of a politician seeking election for the sake of being elected - as, once you've compromised enough, the only ideal you have left is that you must compromise to get anything done - and thus, you have nothing to compromise on and are incapable of any significant action in the political realm. A lesson to learn. Too bad it has to be learned at the worst possible moment - but such is the penance for America's abandonment of principled stands for the individual.

Posted by: MiB at February 23, 2006 09:59 PM (tFcEO)

2 Just found the site and my pagan ass loves it! keep up the outstanding work! love g

Posted by: girish at February 24, 2006 01:12 AM (IpuE8)

3 Anyone else noticed problems with Jihadwatch? Seems to be frozen up or possibly hacked.

Posted by: dave at February 24, 2006 04:07 AM (GHTct)

4 MiB, you're right on, I will only add that the only thing the parties agree on is that they must steal as much as possible from us before we wise up and hang them all. Girish, welcome. Dave, it works fine now.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 24, 2006 04:56 AM (0yYS2)

5 No, Jihadwatch still isn't updating, and the sidebar with the links and email form has vanished. Thats how it's appearing to me. I can't post a comment at all. Very odd.

Posted by: dave at February 24, 2006 05:44 AM (GHTct)

6 I think JW/DW has been cyber-attacked. By the way, I think MiB speaks truth.

Posted by: kentim at February 24, 2006 05:56 AM (CqTKB)

7 Dave, re: JW/DW, I didn't notice the side bar missing until you mentioned it . Since last night, I (only) noticed that the final comment on each thread was not identified by who posted it. It didn't dawn on me that I couldn't comment until you mentioned it. I thought it was my system blocking cookies or something . . .hmmmm.

Posted by: heroyalwhyness at February 24, 2006 06:00 AM (XU9K/)

8 JW has been frozen like that for at least 15 hours I'd say.

Posted by: dave at February 24, 2006 06:07 AM (GHTct)

9 oh, and sorry for butting into this thread.

Posted by: dave at February 24, 2006 06:11 AM (GHTct)

10 I had not heard about this "Able Danger" thing before. Senator Joseph McCarthy comes to mind(more and more every day), remember what he said? Paraphrased-- "if these things were mistakes due to incompetence, the perpetrators would do the right thing "accidently" at least once in a while, but instead there is a distinct pattern that suggests a coherent pursuit of a specific goal". I have no doubt in my mind anymore he was right. While chasing the Leninists, who were so obvious and easily identified, he stumbled upon the Pragmatic(Americanised) Fabians, that's where the real power is, and that was the force that destroyed him. Goldwater knew too, probably Wallace too. The fact is, with this knowledge, almost all "history", or "conventional wisdom" is suspect. This fact is dangerous for a truth-seeker. Power is what determines what is "sane and rational", but that may or may not coincide with truth and reality. "The Naked Capitalist" by Skousen and "Tragedy and Hope" by Quigley pretty much shatters the myth of "self-government" here.

Posted by: kentim at February 24, 2006 06:56 AM (CqTKB)

11 I'm still reading Shaffer's testimony, but so far I'm shocked that the megalomaniacal, self-aggrandizing attitudes of those charged with the defense of this country are so systemic. I guess I always knew it, but seeing so many individual accounts of it is still shocking. Has the House Armed S_ervices Committee subpoenaed any of Shaffer's documents or email (or anything) to corroborate his testimony? It would be a dereliction of duty not to. Unless they've been purged too. This entire investigation would be a farce without it. The House Armed S_ervices Committee member's list is extensive. I wonder how many of them are taking this seriously. I also read Cambone's testimony. Eighteen pages of obfuscation with no names and many generalities. His testimony reads like a parent making light of some child's game. His answers focus consistantly on Atta even when not requested to do so. So this is their Able Danger "expert"? Someone who was not involved in the program while it was underway and was charged with finding information on 2.5 terabytes of information which was purged? His testimony is basically useless. (Sorry for the underscores in some words. MuNu's filters are over-zealous)

Posted by: Oyster at February 24, 2006 07:06 AM (YudAC)

12 Everyone who has taken the time to read this, don't forget the numerous supporting military and contractor witnesses supplying their own statements backing up Colonel Shaffer, some found here: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2006_hr/index.html#ad . P.S. Shaffer names conspirators in Pentagon--now anyone can call them and let them know what real Americans think of them.

Posted by: jim at February 24, 2006 10:17 AM (6Q9ZO)

13 Hang in there friend and pursue the able danger to the bitter end. It looks to me like there is far more being withheld than is being exposed.

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Michelle Malkin's website was down for most of the morning, presumably due to a Denial of Service attack from hackers. The site was back up as of around 10:30, when Malkin posted, noting that the FBI had been informed of the attack.

In an update posted at Pajamas Media, where Malkin rode out the attack, she notes that investigators have confirmed a DoS attack, apparently originating in Turkey.

Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto and Vince Aut Morire.

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I'll be participating in a second conference call about Able Danger tonight. Representative Curt Weldon will update bloggers on the latest developments and take questions. This is a follow-up to this call with Mark Zaid, who represents Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and others. The call is scheduled for 6PM ET and will last for about an hour and a half, so I may have something to post about it later in the evening.

Both calls were arranged by Mike Kaspar of the Able Danger Blog.

Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto and Vince Aut Morire.

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The squabble over whether or not to allow a United Arab Emirates company control over shipping operations at six major US seaports is a red herring. The real issue is the shameful state of port security, part of an overall slackening of security measures.

Following 9/11 a wave of public outrage forced the formation of the Transportation Security Administration to replace private security firms at the nation's airports. The plan then was for the TSA to live up to the ""transportation" part of its title and eventually take over security at seaports, railroad stations, bus stations...everywhere that mass transit operated. more...

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The trial of an Australian renegade named Joseph Thomas, who is accused of working with Al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan, may have revealed that Osama bin Laden is trying to recruit Caucasians.

From UPI:

Western intelligence services are increasingly nervous about al-Qaida attempts to recruit white men and women, as they can more easily pass in Western society.

Australia's Herald Sun reported that an ongoing court case in Melbourne uncovered an al-Qaida attempt to recruit Caucasian "sleeper agents."

Australian defendant Joseph Thomas told his police interrogators that Khalid bin Attash, an associate of Osama bin Laden, said that bin Laden was interested in having "an Aussie ... a white boy," according to testimony in Melbourne's Supreme Court.

Prosecutor Nick Robinson alleged that Thomas's conversations with bin Attash occurred in Pakistan, where Thomas was staying at an al-Qaida safe house after training at the group's al-Farooq camp in Afghanistan during 2001.

Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto and Vince Aut Morire.

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1 I'm white. I'm asleep. Where do I sign up?

Posted by: Rusty at February 21, 2006 12:06 PM (CIynh)

2 I think you have to fill out an application at the ACLU.

Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at February 21, 2006 12:42 PM (RHG+K)

3 Hmmmmmm ... how much money would they have to pay me to get me to commit a suicide bombing? ...

Posted by: ProCynic at February 21, 2006 01:19 PM (bfkgE)

4 Of course, it's not just mercs that we have to watch out for. Actually, white hardcore leftist ideologues who have already made common cause with Islamists against the U.S. might be even more likely aQ candidates, especially once it dawns on them that they have zero chance of actually getting their way via the political process.

Posted by: Joshua at February 21, 2006 01:33 PM (2c7xL)

5 Sounds like a good opportunity to get the CIA inside to me. That would solve that pesky problem with your best agent not having the same color skin. I'm sure we have Muslims on the inside but we hear about too many cases of them being exposed to the dark side of their own religion and turning on us. I'm sure a vast majority of the Muslim CIA agents are doing good work but one bad one is too many.

Posted by: slug at February 21, 2006 01:44 PM (wcNc2)

6 Jayna Davis explores recruitment of 'lily white' candidates in her book "The Third Terrorist". Immortalizing the Oklahoma City bombing as an act committed by two lily white home grown anti-government discontents has shown how successful this tactic is. Certainly the FBI, congress, federal and state justice departments saw no cause to explore 22 well corroborated eye witness accounts to counter preconceived ( or should that be PC)notions. Just ask Hussain Hashem Al Hussaini (the third terrorist) or any of his cohorts . . . like Majid Ajaj, Dr. Anwar Abdul, Ali Kamel, Adnon Khan, Rizwan Sidiqqi, etc. etc.

Posted by: heroyalwhyness at February 21, 2006 03:39 PM (XU9K/)

7 All they need do is post at www.stormfront.org, and they'll find all the Jew-hating nazi's they could want, or just go to Kos, where they all cross-post.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 21, 2006 04:20 PM (0yYS2)

8 Sounds like a good opportunity to get the CIA inside to me. Sorry slug, I didn't realize you were one of those people who think the CIA still do something other than watch '24' reruns and leak secrets.

Posted by: dave at February 21, 2006 06:31 PM (CcXvt)

9 It seems to me that about 99% of whites are sleeping here in the US. I wonder what the hell it will take to wake them up.

Posted by: jesusland joe at February 21, 2006 06:37 PM (rUyw4)

10 'Lilly whites' as described in Jayna Davis' book about the Oklahoma City Bombing... I fear more is coming...

Posted by: tele64 at February 21, 2006 07:17 PM (pSM02)

11 Other than some Kosovars and Albanians they are not having much luck.

Posted by: hondo at February 21, 2006 07:24 PM (fyKFC)

12 Uh... the Bosnian Muslim SS divisions during WWII... It's nothing new...

Posted by: Ariya at February 21, 2006 09:44 PM (uxW3N)

13 You can't be 11685 serious?!?

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This evening I participated in a conference call about the Able Danger hearings with Mark Zaid, attorney for Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and other Able Danger figures, with several other bloggers. The call was organized by Mike Kasper of the Able Danger Blog.

The bloggers were:

Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters
AJ Strata of The Strata-Sphere
Mark Coffey of Decision '08
QT Monster's Place
Pierre of The Pink Flamingo Bar & Grill
Rory O'Connor
Moi, representing The Dread Pundit Bluto , The Jawa Report, and Vince Aut Morire. more...

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Indian state minister ups the fatwa money.

Amidst protests in Uttar Pradesh against the caricatures of Prophet Mohammed, a state minister Friday announced a reward of Rs.510 million ($11.5 million) for anyone who beheaded the artists responsible for the cartoons.

Looks like we need to set up a donation system for The Filthy Report.

Stein hoist to Patrick al-Kafir

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I have already posted about the fact that the Islamic Thinkers Society was behind the New York rally in front of the Danish embassy. This is the same group that burned the American flag, celebrated 9/11, and warned that 'next time, we will get all of NYC.' Here is an admission from the group that they a) organized the rally to condemn the Muhammed cartoon b) share the same goals as al Qaeda and the Taliban--the revival of the Caliphate, institution of sharia (Islamic) law, the building of a utopian Islamic society, and the domination of the world by Muslims

Here is a screenshot of the announcement from their webpage. [click to zoom]

And a statement of their goals:

Our objective is to resume the Islamic way of life to which will fulfill the purpose of the aim. Our objective is to bring back the apparatus that was destroyed in 1924 i.e. Khilafah. Indeed it was the Khilafah that united the Muslim Ummah under one flag, one land, one border, and one leader. It was the Khilafah which served as the appartus to make sure that Tawheed manifested in all ascpect in the Muslim Ummah's affairs. Surely, anyone who accepts any other system than Allah's Shari'ah is worshipping the one who has put his laws in place of the laws of Allah. This is a major form of shirk and anyone who commits a major shirk has left Islam....

This is what we, as part of Islamic Thinkers Society strive for. To create the ideal Islamic society, where the furqan(criterion) for the individuals as well as the rulers will be the Qur'an & Sunnah and the Qur'an & Sunnah only. As always, our struggle is intellectual & political. To us, this is a matter of life & death. A matter of jannah & jahannam. It requires seriousness, dedication, & sabr.

According to their own website, they are 'less than a handful of people'. Here is a photo of the rally by 'less than a handful of people'. I hope the FBI is keeping close tabs on this group of extremists. The MSM certainly isn't.

Do they really support terrorism? YES!

From their forum rules:

ABSOLUTELELY NO RIDICULING OF THE MUJAHIDEEN, THE SCHOLARS OF HAQQ, & THE SINCERE DA'WAH CARRIERS OF ISLAM.

Oh, and what do we have hear? It appears that The Jawa Report has been brought to the attention of this little band of terror supporters. The referring url takes us back to a discussion forum run by the Islamic Thinkers Society. I wonder what I could have said that would piss them off?

Did I mention they have an e-mail? info@IslamicThinkers.com

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1 There is a terrorist website working openly in Sweden too: http://www.tawheed.se

Posted by: Fred Fry at February 18, 2006 03:07 PM (HJnrm)

2 They're pretty much in every country.

Posted by: Rusty at February 18, 2006 03:57 PM (JQjhA)

3 Rusty Not very bright when you really think about it. Never let your emotions dictate your actions - stay cool - watch - learn - take names - wait. Which is why Maxie (if your listening) you would have made a poor trooper in my plt.

Posted by: hondo at February 18, 2006 06:06 PM (fyKFC)

4 Oh I'm sorry hondo, I didn't realize that being passionate about the survival of civilization was a negative trait, especially since it got me through a war and several years of cold war and "peacetime" service, and will see me through our coming difficulties. Don't get confused, just because I hate muslims, liberals, and cowards doesn't mean that my emotions control me, I've read Sun Tzu too, ya know. And you can take your opinion of my soldiering skills and shove them up your ass while you're at it, because you don't know shit about me, and you don't seem to have the balls for this fight, so stay home and let the men handle it if you can't take it.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 18, 2006 06:18 PM (0yYS2)

5 Ah Maxie Your reaction was predictable.

Posted by: hondo at February 18, 2006 06:28 PM (fyKFC)

6 IM, you're not at all alone in this, though most will not agree openly for reasons of unnamed fears. Where do you hail from, if I might ask?

Posted by: forest hunter at February 18, 2006 10:16 PM (Fq6zR)

7 forest hunter, Maxie wouldn't mind me telling you that he is from Tennessee. He was raised Christian but is now an atheist, although I have high hopes he will return to his Christian roots. He is a veteran of the Gulf War and now works as a photographer.

Posted by: jesusland joe at February 19, 2006 12:02 AM (rUyw4)

8 Thanks JJ- Where are you from? I'm still waiting for the info requested weeks ago-TPS REPORTS? Will nobody inform the humble dummy? What does it mean?

Posted by: forest hunter at February 19, 2006 12:13 AM (Fq6zR)

9 Hondo, don't even try bud, my kung-fu is too strong. You may take my ruthless attitude as intemperance, but to me, your attitude smacks of a lack of resolve. If you're not in it to win, don't get in the game. I will win even if I have to stand on a mountain of bodies to do it, and even if the last body on the mountain is mine. Hey JJ, you forgot to tell him what I like for breakfast. By the way, I never left my Christian roots, I just don't believe in any sort of divinity. In other words, I'm a pious heretic.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 19, 2006 09:22 AM (0yYS2)

10 Haha, ok, Maxie, but one can hope. And I didn't want to tell the forest hunter everything. Forest hunter, I'm from West Texas, and East Texas, and Arkansas. My daddy's from Kerrville, my momma is from Arkansas, and I've lived in all these places, plus Oklahoma. Oil patch kid.

Posted by: jesusland joe at February 19, 2006 01:31 PM (rUyw4)

11 JJ, that's you all over!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 19, 2006 02:27 PM (0yYS2)

12 I spent a sticky month or so in Oklahoma as a guest of the US Army. It was an interesting chapter of my life and tormenting my army brothers kept the boredom at bay. Two dozen of us and hundreds of them = a win win situation, if ever there was one. I don't know what the Gunny had done to be permanently attached to that assignment, never saw that red eyed basturd smile once. He could get a decent workout just by hoisting his arm to scratch his forehead, he had so many hash marks. Our first day there, filed off the bus and standing there formed up, getting our asses ate out. Just like home I thought to myself. We hadn't even done anything..... yet! Breathing was off limits, unless and until.....blah, blah, blah! ......and Lawton! That's a city? Country boys like me don't belong in places like that. IM- My mountain'll be bigger than yours!

Posted by: forest hunter at February 19, 2006 05:05 PM (Fq6zR)

13 Islamic thinkers... isn't that an oxymoron?

Posted by: tee bee at February 20, 2006 02:12 PM (q1JHF)

14 Remember that it is not just terrorism and hate that these people bring. They bring their slaves, their honor killings, their misogyny, and their pedophilia that their beloved prophet extolled. They want to change the world into their culture. They make the Aryan Nations and the KKK look like a ladies quilting club. Americans systematically run those hate groups out of town, why canÂ’t we do it with these sickos? IÂ’ll tell you why: because they dress different and speak a different language and most Americans donÂ’t understand their hate. Thank God for the net.

Posted by: cactus at February 20, 2006 10:08 PM (QrT+O)

15 Good hunting, forest.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 21, 2006 04:50 PM (0yYS2)

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Karim El Sahy has a message for Muslims via Egyptian Sandmonkey), and we agree with ESM that it should be spread to the entire Muslim world.

Please go read it, link to it, and help pass it around!

As a courtesy to Karim, in order to help him get his message out, his entire post is reposted below (Please visit Karim's site for updates): more...

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Jay at Stop the ACLU is calling on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the activities of the ACLU. Among other things, Jay cites dissension within the ACLU ranks resulting in multiple resignations and ACLU spying on their own members.

One of the most troubling points is that in 2004 the ACLU refused to accept $1.15 million in grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations because:

“The Ford Foundation now bars recipients of its funds from engaging in any activity that “promotes violence, terrorism, bigotry, or the destruction of any state.”

The Rockefeller Foundation’s provisions state that recipients of its funds may not “directly or indirectly engage in, promote, or support other organizations or individuals who engage in or promote terrorist activity.”

Why?

Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto and Vince Aut Morire.

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UPDATE: Pakistani cleric with ties to this group has placed a $1,000 bounty on Danish cartoonist's head.

Disturbing report from WND about terror groups using Islamic schools in the U.S. as a front for their recruitment and training activities.

I'm *shocked*. Thanks to Nicholas for sending this link:

The Pakistani terrorist group Jamaat ul Fuqra is using Islamic schools in the United States as training facilities, confirms a joint investigative report by an intelligence think tank and an independent reporter.

A covert visit to an encampment in the Catskill Mountains near Hancock, N.Y., called "Islamberg" found neighboring residents deeply concerned about military-style training taking place there but frustrated by the lack of attention from federal authorities, said the report by the Northeast Intelligence Network, which worked with an Internet blogger, "CP," to publish an interim report.

The neighbors interviewed, who asked not to be identified, said they feared retaliation if they were to make a report to law enforcement officials.

"We see children – small children run around over there when they should be in school," one neighbor said. "We hear bursts of gunfire all of the time, and we know that there is military-like training going on there. Those people are armed and dangerous." ...

Jamaat ul-Fuqra, or "community of the impoverished," was formed by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani in New York in 1980. Gilani, who refers to himself as "the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr," has stated his objective is to "purify" Islam through violence.

Gilani also is the founder of a village in South Carolina called "Holy Islamville."

The encampment in Hancock, N.Y., is run by a front for Jamaat ul-Fuqra called Muslims of the Americas Inc., which operates a school known as the International Quranic Open University Inc....

Though primarily based in Lahore, Pakistan, Jamaat ul-Fuqra has operational headquarters in the U.S.

The group seeks to counter "excessive Western influence on Islam" through any means necessary, publicly embracing the ideology that violence is a significant part of its quest to purify Islam. The enemies of Islam, the group says, are all non-Muslims and any Muslim who does not follow the tenets of fundamentalist Islam as detailed in the Quran.

Jamaat ul-Fuqra openly recruits through various social service organizations in the U.S., including the prison system. Members live in compounds where they agree to abide by the laws of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, which are considered to be above local, state and federal authority.

According to the report, there appear to be more than two dozen "Jamaats," or private communities, loosely connected and scattered throughout the U.S. with an estimated 5,000 members.

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Al Qaeda and the global salafist jihad network can be beaten, but not through traditional military force. The terrorists can only be beaten when we take away their major tool for recruitment and training--the internet. more...

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From a February 15, 2006 American Civil Liberties Union press release [emphasis added]:

WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union today urged the House Judiciary Committee to adopt several resolutions that would formally request any and all documents relating to the illegal National Security Agency domestic spying program authorized by President Bush.

Stop the ACLU has the details of ACLU Policy #117, which calls for the emasculation of Federal counter-terror agencies.

The real reason that the ACLU is abandoning its principles in this fight is that they don't want their own conversations with terrorists and terrorist-sympathizers to be monitored. The ACLU's stated goal of protecting civil liberties would appear to be a cover, much like the bogus "peace" organizations during Vietnam and the Cold War, for activities that are clearly hostile to the best interests of the United States.

Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto and Vince Aut Morire.

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Sen. Charles Schumer opens mouth, voice of reason heard.

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The trial for two Lodi, California, men who have extensive ties to terror supporters in Pakistan begins today. The Sacramento Bee, which has been following the case closely, is now the target of a FBI investigation over information it published from a sealed federal indictment.

Two Muslim religious leaders who attended the same California mosque as Hamid & Umer Hayat have already been deported. The son, Hamid, is charged with giving material support to terrorists and three minor counts of lying to investigators. The father, Umar, is charged with two counts of lying to the FBI.

Don't let this relatively minor charges fool you. They told federal investigators that they had no ties to terrorism when in fact the younger of the two, Hamid Hayat, had attended terrorist training camps in Pakistan. All this after they had become naturalized U.S. citizens and were widely seen as pillars of the community.

I believe we have a name for citizens of our country who give material support to our enemies and swear to wage war against us: treason.

Incidentally, the Lodi Muslim community was outraged at the allegations that any one of them could possibly have ties to terrorists. Because, as we all know, to suggest that the percentage of terror supporters in the Muslim community is probably much higher than the number of terror supporters among the Mennonites is not allowed. Who represented this group of victims? The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the ACLU.

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Vi is liveblogging the Able Danger hearings.

Weldon Press Conference on Able Danger.

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