HOLY WAR:
What The White House, The Legislature, and The Press Are Afraid To Tell You!
by Gary Miller
February 2, 2002
..."A lot of us who spent time on the ground in the Middle East worried that something
big and bad was in the offing. There was too much hatred out there, and too many means
of destruction to keep the bubble of American innocence from bursting. But I don't think
anyone saw with any precision the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon coming. Even by the standards of the terrorists involved, the scale of the
assault was almost unimaginable. The point, though, is that we didn't even try to find out
what was headed our way."...
-- "See No Evil" by Robert Baer
February 2, 2002
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-- "See No Evil" by Robert Baer |
Islamic Text:
-- The Dinner Table [5.51], The Koran --
In our politically correct American society, we are being coerced into believing that those who executed the horrible September 11 attack on this nation were merely a splinter group of Islamic radicals taking orders from Osama bin Laden and his Taliban / al-Qaida gang.
From President Bush, and on down through the chain of command, the myth of how peaceful and non-violent the Islam religion is has been stated and overstated to a point where many U.S. citizens are lulled into believing it.
Those who have studied and investigated their religion have found it to be otherwise.
As a guest on Fox News this morning (Feb. 2) former CIA operative, Robert Baer gave a much darker scenario.
In relating to his book, "See No Evil," Mr. Baer noted that our agencies such as the CIA and FBI, have been totally blind-sided by the recent attacks upon this country, our military, and our territories abroad. He recalled many instances during the 1990's where obvious leads from reliable sources were ignored by our government because we wanted to rely on new sophisticated electronic spy toys rather than place agents directly on the scene where they could do what they were trained to do... gather and intercept information and neutralize the threats whenever possible.
The following excerpts from Robert Baer's book give us a rather chilling insight into the Islamic threat:
"In most parts of the Middle East, bookstores are forbidden from selling radical Islamic tracts that openly advocate violence, but in London's Arabic bookstores there were racks of them. One glance at the bold print and you knew what they were about: a deep, uncompromising hatred for the United States. In the worldview of the people who wrote and published these tracts, a jihad, or holy war, between Islam and America wasn't just a possibility; for them the war was a given, and it was already under way. Having spent so much of my life in the Middle East, I knew that such intense, violent hatred represented an aberration of Islam; but I also knew better than most the human toll that such hatred can take.
Often I would pick up a tract and take a look at the small print. Rarely did the publisher or the editor's name appear on the masthead, and office addresses were never noted. But with few exceptions, they carried a European post-office box, often in Britain or in Germany. It didn't take a sophisticated intelligence organization to figure out that Europe, our traditional ally in the war against the bad guys, had become a hothouse of Islamic fundamentalism.
Curious, I asked my CIA colleagues in London if they knew who was putting this stuff out. They had no idea, but there was really no reason why they should have. Since our London office couldn't claim a single Arabic speaker, it was unlikely that anyone there was going to wander down Edgeware Road. Even if someone had, he wouldn't have been able to read the venomous headlines. What's more, the CIA was prohibited by British authorities from recruiting sources, even Islamic fundamentalists, in their country. What was the point, then, in spending time with the Arabs there?
In general, things were no better on the continent. By the mid-1990s, the CIA was shriveling up everywhere in Europe. Our offices in Bonn, Paris, and Rome were shadows of what they had been during the cold war with the Soviet Union. They lacked the officers to go after Europe's vast Middle Eastern communities, and those they did have too often lacked the inclination, the training, and in some cases the incentive to do so.
Things weren't much better in the Middle East. Often there was only one or two CIA officers assigned to a country. Rather than recruit and run sources-foreign agents-CIA stations in the tinderbox of the world spent most of their time catering to whatever was in fashion in Washington at the time: human rights, economic globalization, the Arab-Israeli conflict. To veterans like me, the CIA seemed to be doing little more than flying the flag."...
..."A lot of us who spent time on the ground in the Middle East worried that something big and bad was in the offing. There was too much hatred out there, and too many means of destruction to keep the bubble of American innocence from bursting. But I don't think anyone saw with any precision the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon coming. Even by the standards of the terrorists involved, the scale of the assault was almost unimaginable. The point, though, is that we didn't even try to find out what was headed our way.
Like the rest of Washington, the CIA had fallen in love with technology. The theory was that satellites, the Internet, electronic intercepts, even academic publications would tell us all we needed to know about what went on beyond our borders. As for Islamic fundamentalists in particular, the official view had become that our allies in Europe and the Middle East could fill in the missing pieces. Running our own agents-our own foreign human sources-had become too messy. Agents sometimes misbehaved; they caused ugly diplomatic incidents. Worse, they didn't fit America's moral view of the way the world should run.
Not only did the CIA systematically shed many of its agents, it also began to ease out many of their onetime handlers: seasoned officers who had spent their careers overseas in the hellholes of the world. In 1995 the agency handed the title of director of operations-the man officially in charge of spying-to an analyst who had never served overseas. He was followed by a retiree, and the retiree by an officer who had risen through the ranks largely thanks to his political skills. In practical terms, the CIA had taken itself out of the business of spying. No wonder we didn't have a source in Hamburg's mosques to tell us Muhammad Atta, the presumed leader of the hijacking teams on September 11, was recruiting suicide bombers for the biggest attack ever on American soil."
Has America answered this wake-up call?
Apparently not!
As long as we are fed, and believe the fairy tales of political correctness, the United States will remain in grievous peril. We MUST be allowed to accurately identify the races, sects, and religions which pose a significant threat to our nation and directly to our lives.
We are engaged in a war which poses the most despicable and horrible threats our nation has ever faced.
The potential for destruction and carnage is of a gigantic proportion!
We can no longer afford to avoid "profiling" people out of fear that we will be accused of being biased and intolerant. If a person is of a color, sect, religion, occupation, or any classification of those under suspicion, we have to be allowed to at least question them and examine their background for ANY possible link to terrorism. The threat is very REAL! The stakes are EXTREMELY HIGH!
"O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people."
Do you get the feeling these people don't really like us?
Being politically correct HAS ALREADY BECOME OUR ACHILLES HEEL. We CANNOT continue being so blind IF we are sincere about WINNING this WAR and those to come.