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Obama congratulates Muslim Brotherhood, looks forward to working with jihadist group
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Fwd: [truthquestonline] Israel deports 120 illegal immigrants - 0.01% of what Obama deported/other news
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Subject: [truthquestonline] Israel deports 120 illegal immigrants - 0.01% of what Obama deported/other news
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Israel deports 120 illegal immigrants - 0.01% of what Obama deported/other news
Israel is forcing 120 South Sudanese to leave the country as authorities try to whittle the number of illegal immigrants.This has been a big story for a couple of weeks now. But I saw an interesting statistic accompanying President Obama's recent offer of amnesty for illegal immigrants in the US. As mentioned in this article from last year: Nearly 400,000 people were deported from the United States in the past fiscal year, the largest number in the history of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, the government announced Tuesday.Which news story has had bigger headlines: the 120 Sudanese who are getting paid to go back to their country, or the 1.2 million (10,000 times higher!) who were forcibly deported under the supposedly liberal Obama administration? Had leftists been 10,000 times more indignant at Obama before his recent about-face? Or is there something about calling Israel "racist" that they just find irresistible? |
| Well done: By the way the BDS crowd is going nuts over the upcoming Red Hot Chili Peppers show in Israel; you can show your support by going to this Facebook page and Like-ing it. 5:00pm http://www.facebook.com/RedHotChilliPeppersWelcomeToIsrael (h/t Jennifer) |
| Palestine Press Agency quotes Palestinian Contractors Union chairman Osama Kahil as saying that much of the cement smuggled into Gaza through Rafah is unsafe for building. Kahil says there is a big risk of building without testing of the quality of cement, confirming that the Hamas government does not perform tests on building materials smuggled from the tunnels. He claimed that the lab tests confirmed that the smuggled concrete is only half the strength of that necessary to build safe structures. |
| It isn't only about nukes.... Why You Should Care About Iran View more presentations from HonestReporting |
| From Ian: From Zvi: "JAIPUR: Israel's Facebook page in India ranks in top three foreign country pages. The Israel in India Facebook page, launched by the Embassy of Israel in August 2010, has received almost 20,000 'likes', a figure surpassed only by the pages of the US and the UK.""J Street, in addition to undercutting both mainstream Israel and American policy toward Iran, has also mischaracterized the views of those it cites in support of its benighted position.""Either J Street must change its policy, or truth in advertising requires that it no longer proclaim itself a friend of Israel, a friend of peace, a friend of truth or a friend of the Obama Administration." |
| From Times of Israel: The Palestinian terrorists who killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics were assisted by a German neo-Nazi, a German newsmagazine reported Sunday. The neo-Nazi, Willi Pohl, helped forge passports and ferried one of the Black September terror cell ringleaders around Germany in the weeks before the Olympic massacre. |
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Re: FBI Tracking 100 Suspected Extremists In Military
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/06/22/504937/bachmann-muslim-brotherhood-penetration/
On Jun 25, 11:58 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> :
>
> But too incompetent to remove them?
>
> FBI Tracking 100 Suspected Extremists In Militaryhttp://www.npr.org/2012/06/25/155710570/fbi-checking-100-suspected-ex...
> s-in-military?ft=1&f=2&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Fe
> ed:+NprProgramsATC+%28NPR+Programs:+All+Things+Considered%29
>
> by Dina Temple-Raston
>
> The FBI is investigating more than 100 suspected Muslim extremists who are
> part of the U.S. military community, officials tell NPR. U.S. authorities
> have increased scrutiny since the 2009 shooting attack at Fort Hood, Texas,
> that left 13 dead. Maj. Nidal Hasan, charged with the killings, is shown
> here in an April 2010 court hearing.
>
> June 25, 2012
>
> The FBI has conducted more than 100 investigations into suspected Islamic
> extremists within the military, NPR has learned. About a dozen of those
> cases are considered serious.
>
> Officials define that as a case requiring a formal investigation to gather
> information against suspects who appear to have demonstrated a strong intent
> to attack military targets. This is the first time the figures have been
> publicly disclosed.
>
> The FBI and Department of Defense call these cases "insider threats." They
> include not just active and reserve military personnel but also individuals
> who have access to military facilities such as contractors and close family
> members with dependent ID cards.
>
> Officials would not provide details about the cases and the FBI would not
> confirm the numbers, but they did say that cases seen as serious could
> include, among others things, suspects who seem to be planning an attack or
> were in touch with "dangerous individuals" who were goading them to attack.
>
> Details Revealed At Closed Congressional Hearing
>
> The FBI and the Department of Defense declined to discuss the figures on the
> record, but three sources with direct knowledge confirmed that the numbers
> were revealed in a closed session of a House-Senate committee hearing in
> December. The FBI also declined to say whether it has compiled more
> up-to-date figures since that time.
>
> "I was surprised and struck by the numbers; they were larger than I
> expected," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut and
> chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, told NPR. He stopped
> short of confirming the numbers.
>
> The Oft-Delayed Trial Of Maj. Nidal Hasan
>
> Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shootings, has had
> his trial postponed several times already. At a pretrial hearing last
> Tuesday, a military judge kicked him out of the courtroom and barred him
> from future hearings as long as he keeps his beard, which violates military
> regulations.
>
> Hasan, who was warned about his beard previously, was taken to a nearby room
> to watch the proceedings on a closed-circuit television.
>
> His trial is now set for Aug. 20, and prosecutors are seeking the death
> penalty for the shooting rampage that left 13 dead and more than 30 injured
> at the Texas military base.
>
> Hasan was shot by police that day. He is paralyzed from the waist down and
> uses a wheelchair. He remains jailed, though he still draws his military pay
> for now.
>
> - Greg Myre
>
> "I know one can say that as a percentage of the millions of people in active
> military service or working with contractors, the numbers you talk about are
> a small percentage of the total, but the reality is it only took one man,
> Nidal Hasan, to kill 13 people at Fort Hood and injure a lot more,"
> Lieberman said.
>
> Hasan was an Army major at Fort Hood in Texas who is charged with opening
> fire on soldiers in the base's processing center in November 2009. The
> rampage is considered the most serious terrorist attack on U.S. soil since
> the Sept. 11 attacks.
>
> Prosecutors say Hasan had been in touch with an American-born radical imam,
> Anwar al-Awlaki, to ask for spiritual guidance ahead of the shooting; and
> Awlaki is said to have blessed it. Awlaki was killed in a drone attack in
> Yemen last year.
>
> Investigators also say Hasan had been displaying signs of increasing
> radicalization before the shooting took place, but the behavior had not been
> properly reported. Hasan's court-martial is set to begin on Aug. 20, and he
> faces the death penalty.
>
> The FBI compiled its tally of Islamic extremist cases in the military late
> last year for a joint hearing that Lieberman co-chaired. The hearing was
> looking at possible threats to military communities inside the United
> States, and the number of cases was revealed at that time.
>
> About A Dozen Cases Face Full Investigation
>
> The FBI typically divides investigations into three categories: assessment,
> preliminary investigations, and then full investigations in which agents
> have enough evidence to justify using all the investigative tools at their
> disposal. As of last December, there were a dozen cases in that last
> category.
>
> "This number speaks not only to the reality that there is a problem of
> violent Islamic extremists in the military, but also that the Department of
> Defense and the FBI since the Nidal Hassan case are working much more
> closely together," said Lieberman.
>
> Officials stressed that the FBI and the Department of Defense track all
> kinds of extremism within the military community from white supremacists to
> neo-Nazis, not just Islamic extremists.
>
> But the Fort Hood shooting inspired new reporting procedures aimed at
> catching plots before they unfold. Since 2001, law enforcement officials
> have foiled and prosecuted more than 30 plots or attacks against military
> targets within the United States.
> U.S. Army soldiers attend a Nov. 10, 2010, service for the 13 people killed
> in the shooting rampage five days earlier at Fort Hood.
> Enlarge Joe Raedle/Getty Images
>
> U.S. Army soldiers attend a Nov. 10, 2010, service for the 13 people killed
> in the shooting rampage five days earlier at Fort Hood.
>
> A Conviction Last Month
>
> Just last month, an AWOL Muslim soldier named Naser Abdo was convicted of
> plotting to attack Fort Hood. Officers found components for an explosive
> device in Abdo's hotel room not far from the base.
>
> Abdo told the judge that the plot was supposed to exact some "justice" for
> the people of Afghanistan and Iraq. In an audio recording played during the
> trial, Abdo said his Islamic faith was part of the reason he planned the
> attack.
>
> Lieberman says that Abdo actually called out Major Hasan's name shortly
> after he was found guilty of conspiring to attack a restaurant just outside
> Fort Hood where active service members often went with their families. Abdo
> is expected to be sentenced in July. It is not clear whether his case was
> one of the cases on the FBI's list.
>
> Military Bases Considered Likely Targets
>
> Officials say for many aspiring violent jihadis a military base is seen as
> fair game for an attack. Al-Qaida's narrative revolves around the idea that
> America is at war with Islam the world over, and the perception is that the
> U.S. military is at the forefront of that battle.
> Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor named as a suspect in the
> shooting death of 13 people and the wounding of 31 others at Fort Hood,
> Texas.
> The Two-Way
>
> Senate Report: Authorities Could Have Prevented Fort Hood Shootings
>
> Counterterrorism officials say that for many freshly minted jihadists, a
> military target is an easier choice and easier to justify than targeting a
> shopping mall or other soft civilian targets - precisely because it is seen
> as part and parcel of the battle.
>
> "After the Fort Hood shooting, having just one serious case, much less
> having a dozen, is cause for concern," says Bruce Hoffman, a professor and
> counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University and a distinguished scholar
> at the Wilson Center.
>
> "You have to think about how people in the military community aren't just
> your run-of-the-mill jihadis," Hoffman says. "These are people who have
> access to guns and to bases and are supposed to have security clearances.
> This is not the community you want to be radicalizing."
>
> ==========================================
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On Jun 25, 11:58 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> :
>
> But too incompetent to remove them?
>
> FBI Tracking 100 Suspected Extremists In Militaryhttp://www.npr.org/2012/06/25/155710570/fbi-checking-100-suspected-ex...
> s-in-military?ft=1&f=2&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Fe
> ed:+NprProgramsATC+%28NPR+Programs:+All+Things+Considered%29
>
> by Dina Temple-Raston
>
> The FBI is investigating more than 100 suspected Muslim extremists who are
> part of the U.S. military community, officials tell NPR. U.S. authorities
> have increased scrutiny since the 2009 shooting attack at Fort Hood, Texas,
> that left 13 dead. Maj. Nidal Hasan, charged with the killings, is shown
> here in an April 2010 court hearing.
>
> June 25, 2012
>
> The FBI has conducted more than 100 investigations into suspected Islamic
> extremists within the military, NPR has learned. About a dozen of those
> cases are considered serious.
>
> Officials define that as a case requiring a formal investigation to gather
> information against suspects who appear to have demonstrated a strong intent
> to attack military targets. This is the first time the figures have been
> publicly disclosed.
>
> The FBI and Department of Defense call these cases "insider threats." They
> include not just active and reserve military personnel but also individuals
> who have access to military facilities such as contractors and close family
> members with dependent ID cards.
>
> Officials would not provide details about the cases and the FBI would not
> confirm the numbers, but they did say that cases seen as serious could
> include, among others things, suspects who seem to be planning an attack or
> were in touch with "dangerous individuals" who were goading them to attack.
>
> Details Revealed At Closed Congressional Hearing
>
> The FBI and the Department of Defense declined to discuss the figures on the
> record, but three sources with direct knowledge confirmed that the numbers
> were revealed in a closed session of a House-Senate committee hearing in
> December. The FBI also declined to say whether it has compiled more
> up-to-date figures since that time.
>
> "I was surprised and struck by the numbers; they were larger than I
> expected," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut and
> chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, told NPR. He stopped
> short of confirming the numbers.
>
> The Oft-Delayed Trial Of Maj. Nidal Hasan
>
> Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shootings, has had
> his trial postponed several times already. At a pretrial hearing last
> Tuesday, a military judge kicked him out of the courtroom and barred him
> from future hearings as long as he keeps his beard, which violates military
> regulations.
>
> Hasan, who was warned about his beard previously, was taken to a nearby room
> to watch the proceedings on a closed-circuit television.
>
> His trial is now set for Aug. 20, and prosecutors are seeking the death
> penalty for the shooting rampage that left 13 dead and more than 30 injured
> at the Texas military base.
>
> Hasan was shot by police that day. He is paralyzed from the waist down and
> uses a wheelchair. He remains jailed, though he still draws his military pay
> for now.
>
> - Greg Myre
>
> "I know one can say that as a percentage of the millions of people in active
> military service or working with contractors, the numbers you talk about are
> a small percentage of the total, but the reality is it only took one man,
> Nidal Hasan, to kill 13 people at Fort Hood and injure a lot more,"
> Lieberman said.
>
> Hasan was an Army major at Fort Hood in Texas who is charged with opening
> fire on soldiers in the base's processing center in November 2009. The
> rampage is considered the most serious terrorist attack on U.S. soil since
> the Sept. 11 attacks.
>
> Prosecutors say Hasan had been in touch with an American-born radical imam,
> Anwar al-Awlaki, to ask for spiritual guidance ahead of the shooting; and
> Awlaki is said to have blessed it. Awlaki was killed in a drone attack in
> Yemen last year.
>
> Investigators also say Hasan had been displaying signs of increasing
> radicalization before the shooting took place, but the behavior had not been
> properly reported. Hasan's court-martial is set to begin on Aug. 20, and he
> faces the death penalty.
>
> The FBI compiled its tally of Islamic extremist cases in the military late
> last year for a joint hearing that Lieberman co-chaired. The hearing was
> looking at possible threats to military communities inside the United
> States, and the number of cases was revealed at that time.
>
> About A Dozen Cases Face Full Investigation
>
> The FBI typically divides investigations into three categories: assessment,
> preliminary investigations, and then full investigations in which agents
> have enough evidence to justify using all the investigative tools at their
> disposal. As of last December, there were a dozen cases in that last
> category.
>
> "This number speaks not only to the reality that there is a problem of
> violent Islamic extremists in the military, but also that the Department of
> Defense and the FBI since the Nidal Hassan case are working much more
> closely together," said Lieberman.
>
> Officials stressed that the FBI and the Department of Defense track all
> kinds of extremism within the military community from white supremacists to
> neo-Nazis, not just Islamic extremists.
>
> But the Fort Hood shooting inspired new reporting procedures aimed at
> catching plots before they unfold. Since 2001, law enforcement officials
> have foiled and prosecuted more than 30 plots or attacks against military
> targets within the United States.
> U.S. Army soldiers attend a Nov. 10, 2010, service for the 13 people killed
> in the shooting rampage five days earlier at Fort Hood.
> Enlarge Joe Raedle/Getty Images
>
> U.S. Army soldiers attend a Nov. 10, 2010, service for the 13 people killed
> in the shooting rampage five days earlier at Fort Hood.
>
> A Conviction Last Month
>
> Just last month, an AWOL Muslim soldier named Naser Abdo was convicted of
> plotting to attack Fort Hood. Officers found components for an explosive
> device in Abdo's hotel room not far from the base.
>
> Abdo told the judge that the plot was supposed to exact some "justice" for
> the people of Afghanistan and Iraq. In an audio recording played during the
> trial, Abdo said his Islamic faith was part of the reason he planned the
> attack.
>
> Lieberman says that Abdo actually called out Major Hasan's name shortly
> after he was found guilty of conspiring to attack a restaurant just outside
> Fort Hood where active service members often went with their families. Abdo
> is expected to be sentenced in July. It is not clear whether his case was
> one of the cases on the FBI's list.
>
> Military Bases Considered Likely Targets
>
> Officials say for many aspiring violent jihadis a military base is seen as
> fair game for an attack. Al-Qaida's narrative revolves around the idea that
> America is at war with Islam the world over, and the perception is that the
> U.S. military is at the forefront of that battle.
> Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor named as a suspect in the
> shooting death of 13 people and the wounding of 31 others at Fort Hood,
> Texas.
> The Two-Way
>
> Senate Report: Authorities Could Have Prevented Fort Hood Shootings
>
> Counterterrorism officials say that for many freshly minted jihadists, a
> military target is an easier choice and easier to justify than targeting a
> shopping mall or other soft civilian targets - precisely because it is seen
> as part and parcel of the battle.
>
> "After the Fort Hood shooting, having just one serious case, much less
> having a dozen, is cause for concern," says Bruce Hoffman, a professor and
> counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University and a distinguished scholar
> at the Wilson Center.
>
> "You have to think about how people in the military community aren't just
> your run-of-the-mill jihadis," Hoffman says. "These are people who have
> access to guns and to bases and are supposed to have security clearances.
> This is not the community you want to be radicalizing."
>
> ==========================================
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> permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials
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Re: FBI Tracking 100 Suspected Extremists In Military
the reality that there is a problem of
violent Islamic extremists in the military
---
yet they continue to recruit muzzies
The U.S. military is taking concrete action against an instructor, Lt.
Col. Matthew A. Dooley, who taught U.S. military officers at the Joint
Forces Staff College (JFSC) to wage "total war" on Islam.
The JFSC has been plagued by reports that course presentations
delivered by visiting instructors as well as active duty U.S. military
personnel cited numerous prominent American Islamophobes and promoted
taking a war on Islam "to the civilian population wherever necessary."
Dooley's suspension, as reported by Wired's Danger Zone, marks a step
forward in removing blatantly anti-Muslim teaching materials from the
JFSC.
ThinkProgress has obtained one of Dooley's PowerPoint presentations.
The presentation (which can be downloaded here) offers a stark example
of the Islamophobic curriculum taught to U.S. military officers.
The presentation, dated from July, 2011, offers a "counter-jihad op
design model." Dooley's "model":
"[Calls] for a direct ideological and philosophical confrontation
with Islam (as it is self-defined, in Islam's own words). This
confrontation will likely make anyone who sees the world in morally
equivalent and/or religiously equivalent terms very uncomfortable."
"Presumes that Islam (as it currently defines itself) is an
ideology rather than solely a religion, with the normally associated
protections we afford such beliefs."
"Asserts Islam has already declared war on the West, and the
United States specifically, as is demonstrable with over 30 years of
violent history. It is, therefore, illogical to continue along our
current global strategy models that presume there are always possible
options for common ground and detent with the Muslim Umma without
waging near 'total war.'"
Dooley acknowledges that some of the examples provided in his class
"will be seen as not 'politically correct." These include disregarding
the Geneva Convention as "no longer relevant" and "taking war to a
civilian population wherever necessary."
His presentation concludes with a "theoretical STRATCOM message
(Issued with the 'Jihadist' in Mind)." It reads:
In exploring Islam's own stated doctrine, its own stated laws, and
its own stated goals for the world, it is clear that Islam remains an
ideology and system of governance that demands the extermination of
anyone who does not subscribe to each and every one of its tenants.
Given the factual basis of what "Islamists" say they seek to impose in
this world, the United States has come to accept that radical "true
Islam" is both a political and military enemy to free people
throughout the world. [...]
It is therefore time for the United States to make our true
intentions clear. This barbaric ideology will no longer be tolerated.
Islam must change or we will facilitate its self-destruction.
Dooley's presentations threatening the destruction of Islam have now
struck a chord with the military's top brass, leading Marine Corps
Col. David Lapan to declare, in a Defense Department statement
released yesterday, "institutional failures in oversight and judgment"
permitted Dooley's blatantly Islamophobic curriculum to be taught at
the JFSC since at least July, 2011.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/06/21/503598/dooley-total-war-isalm/?mobile=nc
----
fwiw:
The South accounts for more than 40 percent of new enlistees-a
proportional overrepresentation.
The Northeast is underrepresented in the enlisted population, while
the Midwest and West are roughly proportionally represented.
Hispanics are underrepresented among new recruits, with troop-to-
population ratios of 0.64 in 2006 and 0.65 in 2007. Compared to the
previous versions of this paper, the Hispanic indicator variable had
more complete responses, with many fewer recruits declining to
indicate Hispanic ethnicity. However, the nonresponse rates for the
Hispanic ethnicity indicator variable were still large enough that
they may confound the results of the Hispanic analysis. If only
recruits who responded to the Hispanic ethnicity question are
considered, we still find that this group is underrepresented in the
military.
On Jun 25, 11:58 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> :
>
> But too incompetent to remove them?
>
> FBI Tracking 100 Suspected Extremists In Militaryhttp://www.npr.org/2012/06/25/155710570/fbi-checking-100-suspected-ex...
> s-in-military?ft=1&f=2&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Fe
> ed:+NprProgramsATC+%28NPR+Programs:+All+Things+Considered%29
>
> by Dina Temple-Raston
>
> The FBI is investigating more than 100 suspected Muslim extremists who are
> part of the U.S. military community, officials tell NPR. U.S. authorities
> have increased scrutiny since the 2009 shooting attack at Fort Hood, Texas,
> that left 13 dead. Maj. Nidal Hasan, charged with the killings, is shown
> here in an April 2010 court hearing.
>
> June 25, 2012
>
> The FBI has conducted more than 100 investigations into suspected Islamic
> extremists within the military, NPR has learned. About a dozen of those
> cases are considered serious.
>
> Officials define that as a case requiring a formal investigation to gather
> information against suspects who appear to have demonstrated a strong intent
> to attack military targets. This is the first time the figures have been
> publicly disclosed.
>
> The FBI and Department of Defense call these cases "insider threats." They
> include not just active and reserve military personnel but also individuals
> who have access to military facilities such as contractors and close family
> members with dependent ID cards.
>
> Officials would not provide details about the cases and the FBI would not
> confirm the numbers, but they did say that cases seen as serious could
> include, among others things, suspects who seem to be planning an attack or
> were in touch with "dangerous individuals" who were goading them to attack.
>
> Details Revealed At Closed Congressional Hearing
>
> The FBI and the Department of Defense declined to discuss the figures on the
> record, but three sources with direct knowledge confirmed that the numbers
> were revealed in a closed session of a House-Senate committee hearing in
> December. The FBI also declined to say whether it has compiled more
> up-to-date figures since that time.
>
> "I was surprised and struck by the numbers; they were larger than I
> expected," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut and
> chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, told NPR. He stopped
> short of confirming the numbers.
>
> The Oft-Delayed Trial Of Maj. Nidal Hasan
>
> Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shootings, has had
> his trial postponed several times already. At a pretrial hearing last
> Tuesday, a military judge kicked him out of the courtroom and barred him
> from future hearings as long as he keeps his beard, which violates military
> regulations.
>
> Hasan, who was warned about his beard previously, was taken to a nearby room
> to watch the proceedings on a closed-circuit television.
>
> His trial is now set for Aug. 20, and prosecutors are seeking the death
> penalty for the shooting rampage that left 13 dead and more than 30 injured
> at the Texas military base.
>
> Hasan was shot by police that day. He is paralyzed from the waist down and
> uses a wheelchair. He remains jailed, though he still draws his military pay
> for now.
>
> - Greg Myre
>
> "I know one can say that as a percentage of the millions of people in active
> military service or working with contractors, the numbers you talk about are
> a small percentage of the total, but the reality is it only took one man,
> Nidal Hasan, to kill 13 people at Fort Hood and injure a lot more,"
> Lieberman said.
>
> Hasan was an Army major at Fort Hood in Texas who is charged with opening
> fire on soldiers in the base's processing center in November 2009. The
> rampage is considered the most serious terrorist attack on U.S. soil since
> the Sept. 11 attacks.
>
> Prosecutors say Hasan had been in touch with an American-born radical imam,
> Anwar al-Awlaki, to ask for spiritual guidance ahead of the shooting; and
> Awlaki is said to have blessed it. Awlaki was killed in a drone attack in
> Yemen last year.
>
> Investigators also say Hasan had been displaying signs of increasing
> radicalization before the shooting took place, but the behavior had not been
> properly reported. Hasan's court-martial is set to begin on Aug. 20, and he
> faces the death penalty.
>
> The FBI compiled its tally of Islamic extremist cases in the military late
> last year for a joint hearing that Lieberman co-chaired. The hearing was
> looking at possible threats to military communities inside the United
> States, and the number of cases was revealed at that time.
>
> About A Dozen Cases Face Full Investigation
>
> The FBI typically divides investigations into three categories: assessment,
> preliminary investigations, and then full investigations in which agents
> have enough evidence to justify using all the investigative tools at their
> disposal. As of last December, there were a dozen cases in that last
> category.
>
> "This number speaks not only to the reality that there is a problem of
> violent Islamic extremists in the military, but also that the Department of
> Defense and the FBI since the Nidal Hassan case are working much more
> closely together," said Lieberman.
>
> Officials stressed that the FBI and the Department of Defense track all
> kinds of extremism within the military community from white supremacists to
> neo-Nazis, not just Islamic extremists.
>
> But the Fort Hood shooting inspired new reporting procedures aimed at
> catching plots before they unfold. Since 2001, law enforcement officials
> have foiled and prosecuted more than 30 plots or attacks against military
> targets within the United States.
> U.S. Army soldiers attend a Nov. 10, 2010, service for the 13 people killed
> in the shooting rampage five days earlier at Fort Hood.
> Enlarge Joe Raedle/Getty Images
>
> U.S. Army soldiers attend a Nov. 10, 2010, service for the 13 people killed
> in the shooting rampage five days earlier at Fort Hood.
>
> A Conviction Last Month
>
> Just last month, an AWOL Muslim soldier named Naser Abdo was convicted of
> plotting to attack Fort Hood. Officers found components for an explosive
> device in Abdo's hotel room not far from the base.
>
> Abdo told the judge that the plot was supposed to exact some "justice" for
> the people of Afghanistan and Iraq. In an audio recording played during the
> trial, Abdo said his Islamic faith was part of the reason he planned the
> attack.
>
> Lieberman says that Abdo actually called out Major Hasan's name shortly
> after he was found guilty of conspiring to attack a restaurant just outside
> Fort Hood where active service members often went with their families. Abdo
> is expected to be sentenced in July. It is not clear whether his case was
> one of the cases on the FBI's list.
>
> Military Bases Considered Likely Targets
>
> Officials say for many aspiring violent jihadis a military base is seen as
> fair game for an attack. Al-Qaida's narrative revolves around the idea that
> America is at war with Islam the world over, and the perception is that the
> U.S. military is at the forefront of that battle.
> Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor named as a suspect in the
> shooting death of 13 people and the wounding of 31 others at Fort Hood,
> Texas.
> The Two-Way
>
> Senate Report: Authorities Could Have Prevented Fort Hood Shootings
>
> Counterterrorism officials say that for many freshly minted jihadists, a
> military target is an easier choice and easier to justify than targeting a
> shopping mall or other soft civilian targets - precisely because it is seen
> as part and parcel of the battle.
>
> "After the Fort Hood shooting, having just one serious case, much less
> having a dozen, is cause for concern," says Bruce Hoffman, a professor and
> counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University and a distinguished scholar
> at the Wilson Center.
>
> "You have to think about how people in the military community aren't just
> your run-of-the-mill jihadis," Hoffman says. "These are people who have
> access to guns and to bases and are supposed to have security clearances.
> This is not the community you want to be radicalizing."
>
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violent Islamic extremists in the military
---
yet they continue to recruit muzzies
The U.S. military is taking concrete action against an instructor, Lt.
Col. Matthew A. Dooley, who taught U.S. military officers at the Joint
Forces Staff College (JFSC) to wage "total war" on Islam.
The JFSC has been plagued by reports that course presentations
delivered by visiting instructors as well as active duty U.S. military
personnel cited numerous prominent American Islamophobes and promoted
taking a war on Islam "to the civilian population wherever necessary."
Dooley's suspension, as reported by Wired's Danger Zone, marks a step
forward in removing blatantly anti-Muslim teaching materials from the
JFSC.
ThinkProgress has obtained one of Dooley's PowerPoint presentations.
The presentation (which can be downloaded here) offers a stark example
of the Islamophobic curriculum taught to U.S. military officers.
The presentation, dated from July, 2011, offers a "counter-jihad op
design model." Dooley's "model":
"[Calls] for a direct ideological and philosophical confrontation
with Islam (as it is self-defined, in Islam's own words). This
confrontation will likely make anyone who sees the world in morally
equivalent and/or religiously equivalent terms very uncomfortable."
"Presumes that Islam (as it currently defines itself) is an
ideology rather than solely a religion, with the normally associated
protections we afford such beliefs."
"Asserts Islam has already declared war on the West, and the
United States specifically, as is demonstrable with over 30 years of
violent history. It is, therefore, illogical to continue along our
current global strategy models that presume there are always possible
options for common ground and detent with the Muslim Umma without
waging near 'total war.'"
Dooley acknowledges that some of the examples provided in his class
"will be seen as not 'politically correct." These include disregarding
the Geneva Convention as "no longer relevant" and "taking war to a
civilian population wherever necessary."
His presentation concludes with a "theoretical STRATCOM message
(Issued with the 'Jihadist' in Mind)." It reads:
In exploring Islam's own stated doctrine, its own stated laws, and
its own stated goals for the world, it is clear that Islam remains an
ideology and system of governance that demands the extermination of
anyone who does not subscribe to each and every one of its tenants.
Given the factual basis of what "Islamists" say they seek to impose in
this world, the United States has come to accept that radical "true
Islam" is both a political and military enemy to free people
throughout the world. [...]
It is therefore time for the United States to make our true
intentions clear. This barbaric ideology will no longer be tolerated.
Islam must change or we will facilitate its self-destruction.
Dooley's presentations threatening the destruction of Islam have now
struck a chord with the military's top brass, leading Marine Corps
Col. David Lapan to declare, in a Defense Department statement
released yesterday, "institutional failures in oversight and judgment"
permitted Dooley's blatantly Islamophobic curriculum to be taught at
the JFSC since at least July, 2011.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/06/21/503598/dooley-total-war-isalm/?mobile=nc
----
fwiw:
The South accounts for more than 40 percent of new enlistees-a
proportional overrepresentation.
The Northeast is underrepresented in the enlisted population, while
the Midwest and West are roughly proportionally represented.
Hispanics are underrepresented among new recruits, with troop-to-
population ratios of 0.64 in 2006 and 0.65 in 2007. Compared to the
previous versions of this paper, the Hispanic indicator variable had
more complete responses, with many fewer recruits declining to
indicate Hispanic ethnicity. However, the nonresponse rates for the
Hispanic ethnicity indicator variable were still large enough that
they may confound the results of the Hispanic analysis. If only
recruits who responded to the Hispanic ethnicity question are
considered, we still find that this group is underrepresented in the
military.
On Jun 25, 11:58 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> :
>
> But too incompetent to remove them?
>
> FBI Tracking 100 Suspected Extremists In Militaryhttp://www.npr.org/2012/06/25/155710570/fbi-checking-100-suspected-ex...
> s-in-military?ft=1&f=2&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Fe
> ed:+NprProgramsATC+%28NPR+Programs:+All+Things+Considered%29
>
> by Dina Temple-Raston
>
> The FBI is investigating more than 100 suspected Muslim extremists who are
> part of the U.S. military community, officials tell NPR. U.S. authorities
> have increased scrutiny since the 2009 shooting attack at Fort Hood, Texas,
> that left 13 dead. Maj. Nidal Hasan, charged with the killings, is shown
> here in an April 2010 court hearing.
>
> June 25, 2012
>
> The FBI has conducted more than 100 investigations into suspected Islamic
> extremists within the military, NPR has learned. About a dozen of those
> cases are considered serious.
>
> Officials define that as a case requiring a formal investigation to gather
> information against suspects who appear to have demonstrated a strong intent
> to attack military targets. This is the first time the figures have been
> publicly disclosed.
>
> The FBI and Department of Defense call these cases "insider threats." They
> include not just active and reserve military personnel but also individuals
> who have access to military facilities such as contractors and close family
> members with dependent ID cards.
>
> Officials would not provide details about the cases and the FBI would not
> confirm the numbers, but they did say that cases seen as serious could
> include, among others things, suspects who seem to be planning an attack or
> were in touch with "dangerous individuals" who were goading them to attack.
>
> Details Revealed At Closed Congressional Hearing
>
> The FBI and the Department of Defense declined to discuss the figures on the
> record, but three sources with direct knowledge confirmed that the numbers
> were revealed in a closed session of a House-Senate committee hearing in
> December. The FBI also declined to say whether it has compiled more
> up-to-date figures since that time.
>
> "I was surprised and struck by the numbers; they were larger than I
> expected," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut and
> chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, told NPR. He stopped
> short of confirming the numbers.
>
> The Oft-Delayed Trial Of Maj. Nidal Hasan
>
> Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shootings, has had
> his trial postponed several times already. At a pretrial hearing last
> Tuesday, a military judge kicked him out of the courtroom and barred him
> from future hearings as long as he keeps his beard, which violates military
> regulations.
>
> Hasan, who was warned about his beard previously, was taken to a nearby room
> to watch the proceedings on a closed-circuit television.
>
> His trial is now set for Aug. 20, and prosecutors are seeking the death
> penalty for the shooting rampage that left 13 dead and more than 30 injured
> at the Texas military base.
>
> Hasan was shot by police that day. He is paralyzed from the waist down and
> uses a wheelchair. He remains jailed, though he still draws his military pay
> for now.
>
> - Greg Myre
>
> "I know one can say that as a percentage of the millions of people in active
> military service or working with contractors, the numbers you talk about are
> a small percentage of the total, but the reality is it only took one man,
> Nidal Hasan, to kill 13 people at Fort Hood and injure a lot more,"
> Lieberman said.
>
> Hasan was an Army major at Fort Hood in Texas who is charged with opening
> fire on soldiers in the base's processing center in November 2009. The
> rampage is considered the most serious terrorist attack on U.S. soil since
> the Sept. 11 attacks.
>
> Prosecutors say Hasan had been in touch with an American-born radical imam,
> Anwar al-Awlaki, to ask for spiritual guidance ahead of the shooting; and
> Awlaki is said to have blessed it. Awlaki was killed in a drone attack in
> Yemen last year.
>
> Investigators also say Hasan had been displaying signs of increasing
> radicalization before the shooting took place, but the behavior had not been
> properly reported. Hasan's court-martial is set to begin on Aug. 20, and he
> faces the death penalty.
>
> The FBI compiled its tally of Islamic extremist cases in the military late
> last year for a joint hearing that Lieberman co-chaired. The hearing was
> looking at possible threats to military communities inside the United
> States, and the number of cases was revealed at that time.
>
> About A Dozen Cases Face Full Investigation
>
> The FBI typically divides investigations into three categories: assessment,
> preliminary investigations, and then full investigations in which agents
> have enough evidence to justify using all the investigative tools at their
> disposal. As of last December, there were a dozen cases in that last
> category.
>
> "This number speaks not only to the reality that there is a problem of
> violent Islamic extremists in the military, but also that the Department of
> Defense and the FBI since the Nidal Hassan case are working much more
> closely together," said Lieberman.
>
> Officials stressed that the FBI and the Department of Defense track all
> kinds of extremism within the military community from white supremacists to
> neo-Nazis, not just Islamic extremists.
>
> But the Fort Hood shooting inspired new reporting procedures aimed at
> catching plots before they unfold. Since 2001, law enforcement officials
> have foiled and prosecuted more than 30 plots or attacks against military
> targets within the United States.
> U.S. Army soldiers attend a Nov. 10, 2010, service for the 13 people killed
> in the shooting rampage five days earlier at Fort Hood.
> Enlarge Joe Raedle/Getty Images
>
> U.S. Army soldiers attend a Nov. 10, 2010, service for the 13 people killed
> in the shooting rampage five days earlier at Fort Hood.
>
> A Conviction Last Month
>
> Just last month, an AWOL Muslim soldier named Naser Abdo was convicted of
> plotting to attack Fort Hood. Officers found components for an explosive
> device in Abdo's hotel room not far from the base.
>
> Abdo told the judge that the plot was supposed to exact some "justice" for
> the people of Afghanistan and Iraq. In an audio recording played during the
> trial, Abdo said his Islamic faith was part of the reason he planned the
> attack.
>
> Lieberman says that Abdo actually called out Major Hasan's name shortly
> after he was found guilty of conspiring to attack a restaurant just outside
> Fort Hood where active service members often went with their families. Abdo
> is expected to be sentenced in July. It is not clear whether his case was
> one of the cases on the FBI's list.
>
> Military Bases Considered Likely Targets
>
> Officials say for many aspiring violent jihadis a military base is seen as
> fair game for an attack. Al-Qaida's narrative revolves around the idea that
> America is at war with Islam the world over, and the perception is that the
> U.S. military is at the forefront of that battle.
> Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor named as a suspect in the
> shooting death of 13 people and the wounding of 31 others at Fort Hood,
> Texas.
> The Two-Way
>
> Senate Report: Authorities Could Have Prevented Fort Hood Shootings
>
> Counterterrorism officials say that for many freshly minted jihadists, a
> military target is an easier choice and easier to justify than targeting a
> shopping mall or other soft civilian targets - precisely because it is seen
> as part and parcel of the battle.
>
> "After the Fort Hood shooting, having just one serious case, much less
> having a dozen, is cause for concern," says Bruce Hoffman, a professor and
> counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University and a distinguished scholar
> at the Wilson Center.
>
> "You have to think about how people in the military community aren't just
> your run-of-the-mill jihadis," Hoffman says. "These are people who have
> access to guns and to bases and are supposed to have security clearances.
> This is not the community you want to be radicalizing."
>
> ==========================================
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> these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed
> within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with
> "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976.
> The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The
> Copyright Act of 1976. "Fair Use" legally eliminates the need to obtain
> permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials
> if the purposes of display include "criticism, comment, news reporting,
> teaching, scholarship, and research." Section 107 establishes four criteria
> for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies
> as a "fair use". A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four
> criteria to qualify as an instance of "fair use". Rather, "fair use" is
> determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not
> substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use
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