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CI Centre President David Major talks with Dr. Walid Phares, the author of the highly recommended books, Future Jihad and The War of Ideas. They discuss the jihadist war against democracy, how jihadists have affected our education system and how we can--and must--win the war of ideas.

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Education vs Jihad Why didn't we know?

Taliban suicide bombs not strategic threat: NATO

The NATO-led force in Afghanistan on Thursday rejected Taliban rebel claims that suicide bombs were an effective weapon to drive out foreign troops, saying the effects on the military were strategically insignificant. The number of Taliban suicide attacks in Afghanistan -- more than 100 so far this year -- is set to top last year's record of 123, the United Nations says, and most victims are civilians��(Reuters, 11 Oct 07)

Beyond Islamic enlightenment

�It means that Islamic rationalism - the act of a Muslim using his (or her) individual reason to access the Quran and Islamic tradition - has triumphed so emphatically that both Muslim liberals (Wadud) and illiberals (Qutb), rely upon it. It means that the whole time people have been talking in terms of civilizations, we should have been talking in terms of individuals, because reason is an individual act. In fact, some of the most unsavoury characters of 20th century Islam have essentially confirmed that there won't be any turning back from Islam's individualist revolution� The age of individual, personal, idiosyncratic Islam, is coming if not already with us. The more one surveys the Muslim world, the more examples of idiosyncratic Islams will be found (and it is the responsibility of journalists to bring all of these to light)��(Guardian, 11 Oct 07)

Reviewing the A Q Khan saga

Benazir Bhutto's comment on allowing IAEA talk to A Q Khan sparked an interesting debate. Though nearly all felt that it was a 'calculated' remark some defended it particularly on the score that the case of A Q Khan was yet another instance of the 'army passing the buck to the civilians' in Pakistan. A stronger defence of Bhutto's remark produced yet more dazzling analysis of how A Q Khan was the army's 'Jesus Christ' going to the cross to pay for the sins that the army had committed. Some rightwing strategists working for the Pakistan government were understandably outraged that Bhutto had ignited a 'closed issue'��.(The News, 11 Oct 07)

Somali forces shut radio station after Islamist interview

Somali government forces on Thursday raided and shut a radio station that interviewed a top Islamist insurgent commander who claimed responsibility for an assassination bid on the prime minister. The forces ordered Mogadishu-based Simba Radio off the air and arrested its chief Abdullahi Ali Farak and a journalist, according to a reporter who works there��(AFP, 11 Oct 07)

Violence Has Pakistanis Debating US Tie

Violence linked to growing Islamic militancy in Pakistan has killed more than 1,000 people in a little over three months, fanning opposition to the country's close alliance with the United States. The carnage raises questions about how long this Muslim nation can sustain its six-year fight against pro-Taliban and al-Qaida militants along the Afghan border. It has also sharpened debate over whether the West's military approach to fighting extremism hurts regional stability��(AP, 10 Oct 07)

Ahmadinejad: Ground Zero like Holocaust 'false idol'

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks already have been used as the reason to attack and kill "hundreds of thousands" of people, according to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said he worries the attack will become another "false idol" like the Holocaust.  The comments came in a video statement on Iran's television news channel on Sept. 20, and were translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute's program to monitor television transmissions��(World Net Daily, 10 Oct 07)

Poster Was Aimed at Racism, Authors Say
Fliers that appeared on the George Washington University campus carrying an apparently anti-Islamic message were produced by students who were attempting to mock those they thought were trying to stir fear of Muslims, a campus newspaper was told. The GW Hatchet, an independent campus paper, posted a story on its Web site late last night saying it had heard from those behind the fliers, who said they had been misunderstood� The fliers carried in large print the words "HATE MUSLIMS? SO DO WE!!!"��.(Washington Post, 10 Oct 07)

Who's Behind the Censorship of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week?

The three co-equal branches of the Unholy Alliance � Islamic radicals, far-Left activists, and academics � have returned to their usual level of discourse � intimidation, slander, ad hominem attacks � in an attempt to ban Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week from college campuses before it ever occurs....(FrontPage, 10 Oct 07)

Denmark supports the idea of opening political talks with Taliban guerillas

Denmark's Defense Minister Soeren Gade on Wednesday backed the idea of opening talks with the Taliban guerrillas fighting NATO troops in Afghanistan. Six years after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, its President Hamid Karzai has been asking Taliban militants to meet the government for peace talks. The U.N. has said a rising number of Taliban fighters also want peace��.(AP, 10 Oct 07)

Al-Qaida-linked militants plan bombings after Ramadan, Philippine police warn

Al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf militants plan to resume a bombing and terror campaign in the southern Philippines this week when the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan ends, police said Thursday. Former members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a large Muslim rebel group in peace talks with the government, have plotted attacks against major military, police and civilian targets in the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Davao and General Santos, which could include kidnapping of foreigners and ambushes�..(AP, 11 Oct 07)

5 Criminals Exchanged for German Captive

A German engineer and four Afghans taken hostage in July were freed Wednesday in exchange for five imprisoned criminals, an Afghan official said. Rudolf Blechschmidt and the four Afghans were handed over by local elders to officials from Afghanistan's intelligence service in the Jaghato district of Wardak province, said the district chief, Mohammad Nahim��(AP, 10 Oct 07)

Attack on U.S. Base in Iraq Kills 2

A rocket or mortar attack on the main U.S. base near Baghdad killed two members of the U.S.-led coalition forces and wounded 40 people, the military said Thursday. The attack occurred Wednesday at the Camp Victory, a sprawling garrison that houses the headquarters of American forces in Iraq�..(AP, 11 Oct 07)

Suicide bomber tries attack on Somali PM

A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into an Ethiopian army base in Somalia in a bid to assassinate Somalia Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi�Gedi, who was staying in a nearby hotel in the city of Baidoa, was unhurt, but no details on the number of casualties was immediately given. Ethiopian troops and Somali forces sealed off the area. Five civilians were killed as violence pitting Ethiopian-backed government forces against the Islamist insurgency flared across the country�..(AFP, 10 Oct 07)

24 killed after Sudan government 'bombed' Darfur town

Some 24 people were reported to have been killed in a new round of bombing in Sudan's embattled Darfur region, an attack squarely blamed on the government by the head of the African Union (AU) force in the region. The attack on Muhajirya on Monday was the latest in a spate of violence in the embattled region ahead of peace talks in Libya set for Oct 27��(Hindustan Times, 10 Oct 07)

Two worshippers killed, 10 wounded in shooting inside Afghan mosque

A group of unknown militants opened fire inside a mosque in central Afghanistan as prayers were being held, killing two men and wounding 10, a local official said Wednesday.  A local tribal chief who supported the central government was among the wounded while a schoolteacher was among the dead�..(DPA, 10 Oct 07)

Suicide bomber targets Kurdish party offices near northern Iraqi city, kills 2, wounds 5

A suicide bomber slammed his minibus Wednesday into blast walls at the offices of a key Kurdish political party in the country's north, killing a local party official and a guard, and wounding five other guards, the party said. The 10:30 a.m. (07:30 GMT) attack targeted a regional office of the Kurdish Democratic Party, or KDP, some 20 kilometers (13 miles) outside the northern Iraqi city of Mosul��(AP, 10 Oct 07)

New on MEMRI TV: An Al-Jazeera Report Showing an American Citizen Training Islamist Militants

Amateur intelligence delivery methods by web sleuths, not White House, responsible for intelligence

�investigators with the Northeast Intelligence Network watched this series of events unfold, after one well respected and long-time researcher and contributor to this agency had already properly secured and provided the bin Laden video information to the appropriate contacts at the appropriate government intelligence levels. Therefore, having �no dog in this fight,� the Northeast Intelligence Network can objectively offer insight into this intelligence morass with unsurprising findings�Although our agency provides reports on the very events we reference, it is only after a very specific vetting process is completed, with those who are responsible for the security of our nation. Oftentimes, we here at the Northeast Intelligence Network do not publish our intelligence data in its purest form at the request of our government contacts or simply due to sound judgment�.(Canada Free Press, 11 Oct 07)

New Security Strategy Emphasizes Disaster Preparedness

The White House yesterday updated the nation's homeland security strategy for the first time since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, acknowledging the need to prepare for catastrophic natural disasters as well as the "persistent and evolving" threat of terrorism�Several security analysts praised the document for attempting to put such policies on more solid footing. But they also questioned its timing and long passages defending the pet initiatives of a dwindling administration, instead of reconciling security directives and plans issued over the past six years...The document supplants a 90-page strategy hastily drafted largely in private by a handful of White House advisers and released in July 2002. Criticized for overemphasizing terrorism at the expense of recurring natural events, the strategy hampered the federal government's response when Hurricane Katrina struck three years later, analysts said. The new report acknowledges: "Threats come not only from terrorism, but also from nature. . . . Effective preparation for catastrophic natural disasters and man-made disasters, while not homeland security per se, can nevertheless increase the security of the homeland." The report said ongoing threats range from infectious disease outbreaks to "catastrophic domestic accidents" such as chemical spills and power failures. The document sets four goals: to prevent and disrupt terrorist attacks; protect the public, critical assets and resources; respond to and recover from incidents; and strengthen the nation's homeland security foundation. The 2002 strategy listed only the first three goals and named prevention but not disruption of attacks��(Washington Post, 10 Oct 07)

Document: National Strategy for Homeland Security October 2007 .pdf

Blogs target jihadis online

Ordinary Americans are tracking down U.S. Web sites used by al Qaeda and jihadi sympathizers and then using the Internet to persuade the service providers to snuff out the sites� A perfect storm of complaints forced several ISPs to shut down Web sites just days before al Qaeda released a tape of Osama bin Laden in August, says Aaron Weisburd, director of the Society for Internet Research and host of the Web site Haganah.us. He released a list of 19 pro-jihad Web sites, some of which were shut down in August��(Washington Times, 10 Oct 07)

New York police probe noose incident as hate crime

A noose found on the office door of a black professor at New York's Columbia University is being investigated as a hate crime�Police said 44-year-old Professor Madonna Constantine arrived at work on Tuesday to discover the noose outside her office at Columbia's Teachers College. It was the second involving a noose to occur this week in New York�..(Reuters, 10 Oct 07)

Incident on Frontier Airlines Flight 623

.......'I can tell you this much,' he said. 'An Arab man locked himself in the front bathroom for the majority of the flight. And at orders, he refused to come out. That wasn't the end of the story, but I can't tell you any more.'....(Aviation Nation, 10 Oct 07)

Jihad Boom Postcard Follow-up

On September 17th of this year, you may recall that investigators in Marion County, Fla., announced that they were searching for the author of nine postcards sent to different schools on the same day, with the words  �9-11? 10-10 �Jihad-Boom� and cartoons drawn by hand, of a building being blown up with people inside�As of today, there have been no arrests and no further information has been released regarding the investigation. Several members of law enforcement suggested to us that if it was a prank by junior high or high school teens, more than  likely the case would wrap quickly. They indicated that when kids pull these types of �practical jokes�, they tend to brag of their exploits and word travels fast. Thus far, that apparently has not happened��(National Terror Alert, 10 Oct 07)

Panel Wants Tighter Radiation Security

The U.S. government should replace more than 1,000 irradiation machines used in hospitals and research facilities because terrorists could use the radioactive materials inside to make a "dirty" bomb, a government advisory panel has concluded. "Any one of these 1,000-plus sources could shut down 25 square kilometers, anywhere in the United States, for 40-plus years,"��(AP, 9 Oct 07)

Windows Into Al Qaeda Online Still Open, Say Experts

Private contractors working with the U.S. government to monitor and track al Qaeda Internet communications say their windows into the various operations are not closed, despite two published media reports to the contrary. "The sources, methods and techniques utilized by IntelCenter to collect terrorist video material remain intact," said Ben Venzke, the CEO of IntelCenter, a private contractor providing counterterrorism support work to the intelligence community�.(ABC Blotter, 10 Oct 07)

--Islamist Websites Monitor

--MEMRI TV Clips

--Names and nationalities of known suicide bombers in Iraq

Iraq insurgent groups form one council

Six main Iraqi insurgent groups announced the formation of a "political council" aimed at "liberating" Iraq from U.S. occupation�He said the program was based on two principles."First, the occupation is an oppression and aggression, rejected by Islamic Sharia law and tradition. Resistance of occupation is a right guaranteed by all religions and laws," he said. "Second, the armed resistance ... is the legitimate representative of Iraq. It is the one that bears responsibility for the leadership of the people to achieve its legitimate hope." The groups forming the council include the Islamic Army of Iraq, the Mujahideen Army, Ansar al-Sunna, the Fatiheen Army, the Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance (Jami) and the Islamic Movement of Hamas-Iraq�..(AP, 11 Oct 07)

PKK Expanding Urban Bombing Campaign in Western Turkey

�the latest blasts in Izmir and Istanbul bear all the hallmarks of previous PKK bombings. Unlike in eastern Turkey, where the organization has sometimes used quite large devices, the IEDs in the PKK's urban bombing campaign in western Turkey have been mostly relatively small, based around A4 or C4 explosives and usually concealed in garbage bins or plastic bags. Intelligence reports and police interrogations indicate that the operatives are usually recruited by the PKK from Kurdish migrants from the countryside who are living in the shantytowns that now surround all the major metropolises in western Turkey, such as Istanbul, Izmir and Antalya��(Global Terrorism Analysis, 10 Oct 07)

Splits Developing in Somali Insurgency

Violence in Somalia is escalating as insurgents increase the fight against the feeble Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and their Ethiopian military backers. Rifts, however, are growing between more moderate opposition and harder extremist elements of the former Islamic Courts Union (ICU), raising fears that it will drive fighting outside current conflict zones in Somalia��(Global Terrorism Analysis, 10 Oct 07)

2006 Lebanon War, Attack on Israeli Missile Boat Feature in Iranian Animated Children's Film Aired on International Jerusalem Day

The following are excerpts from an Iranian animated film which aired on International Jerusalem Day, October 5, 2007, on Iranian TV's Channel 2��(MEMRI, 11 Oct 07)

Muslim Brotherhood sets up Islamic clerical power

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's powerful opposition movement, has laid down its first detailed political platform, which would bar women and Christians from becoming president and establish a board of Muslim clerics to oversee the government, reminiscent of Iran's Islamic state. The platform has dismayed secular reform activists who have cautiously hoped the Brotherhood was becoming more moderate and who supported the movement in the face of a tough government crackdown against it. The document also complicates the debate in Egypt over how to deal with the Brotherhood�..(AP/Jerusalem Post, 10 Oct 07)

The weight of words: 'Intifada' and 'jihad' pack a punch

�Clearly, words - nouns and verbs in particular - take on contextual, historical and cultural meanings that go beyond their primary dictionary definitions. Non-English words used in an English context carry additional baggage. That's why it seems disingenuous when highly educated, English-speaking American Muslims argue that their use of the words jihad or intifada is benign and misunderstood - despite the links to violence those words have for non-Muslim Americans living in a post-9/11 world where terrorist threats persist. Esam S. Omeish is the latest Muslim official to stumble over his use of this loaded language��(Baltimore Sun, 8 Oct 07)

Hadyara village Christians fear church attack

Christian residents of Hadyara village on the outskirts of Lahore fear their church will be razed by a growing Muslim mob angry that Christian prayers were aired by loudspeaker during Fajr prayers on Wednesday. Christian villagers say young men armed with steel bars and guns stormed the New Apostolic Church, established before Partition, in the morning. They beat up worshippers including a child and damaged property, and alleged that announcements were made through mosque loudspeakers asking Muslims from nearby villages for a �final attack��..(Daily Times, 11 Oct 07)

Hyd teacher's anti-Islam remarks sparks debate

There was unrest in the streets of Hyderabad on Wednesday after a college teacher allegedly made anti-Islamic remarks. The students of Narayana College protested against the remarks made by their Vice Principal, Naresh Reddy. �The Vice principal said that Islam is useless also that 25 per cent of Islam is useless. He spoke against Islam. He cannot say anything religious. This is the second time he has said this,� says a student, Narayana College, Shahabuddin��(IBN, 10 Oct 07)

Bomb blasts hit music shops in northwest Pakistan

Suspected militants blew up six music shops in restive northwest Pakistan, while a policeman was killed in a resulting gun battle with the rebels, officials said on Thursday.  Militants also targeted a hair salon in a conservative district of North West Frontier Province, seriously injuring a barber in the bomb blast�.(AFP, 11 Oct 07)

Palestinians: Allah, Kill Americans

The Palestinian Authority (Fatah) daily newspaper�s political cartoon today illustrated a prayer for the killing of Americans. A Muslim is shown kneeling in prayer facing a US B-2 Stealth Bomber. The words of his prayer are encased in missiles aimed at Americans...(Palestinian Media Watch, 10 Oct 07)

Fatwa by Influential Islamic American Jurist: Marriage of Muslim Woman to Non-Muslim Man � Forbidden and Invalid

A fatwa issued in August 2007 by the secretary-general of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America (AMJA), Dr. Sheikh Salah Al-Sawy, states that marriage between a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man is forbidden and invalid, and that children born of such a union are illegitimate. The following are excerpts from the fatwa�.(MEMRI, 11 Oct 07)

Islam and the Submission of Women

We are going to do a two-part series with you on the most recent book. In this first part we will discuss Islam and its doctrine on the submission of women and in the next part we will discuss the matter of slavery.....(FrontPage, 10 Oct 07)

Iran's War on Women

When the women of Iran risk their own lives and that of their children and husbands to commit an illegal act of assembly for a peaceful demonstration against the unjust laws of the Islamist regime, they hope that the world is listening and supports them in their struggle for freedom and emancipation. But the world seems to be turning a blind eye to their pleas and when they get beaten, arrested and thrown in prisons, not a single government or NGO make an attempt to speak out in defense of their human rights......(FrontPage, 10 Oct 07)

Why Are Islamists Worse than Other Terror Groups?

Six years after the events that made large-scale terrorism a daily concern of American citizens, the staggering ignorance of the American citizens and many self-professed terrorism experts continues to be a frustration to many legitimate specialists in international terrorism......(FSM, 9 Oct 07)

Government to approach SC against Lal Masjid concessions

The government will file a review petition before the Supreme Court (SC), asking that the concessions given to the former clerics of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa be withdrawn, Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier (r) Javed Cheema told a weekly news briefing here on Tuesday�Cheema said the government would honour the SC order to reconstruct Jamia Hafsa � but for day-scholars only. �The government cannot fully implement the SC orders to construct the madrassa with hostel in the prevailing circumstances,��.(Daily Times, 10 Oct 07)

'Kite Runner': Danger On and Off the Screen

�Abdul Latif Ahmadi, president of Afghan Film, the state-run film company, said he and many others repeatedly warned "The Kite Runner" filmmakers, including producer E. Bennett Walsh and director Marc Forster, that that scene could provoke dangerous problems among religiously conservative Afghans, who might find it insulting. Such outbursts followed the release of the Indian movie "Kabul Express" last January, Ahmadi said. Parts of that film were considered demeaning to ethnic Hazaras, prompting death threats against the film's producer and an Afghan actor who fled the country. "This is the mentality of the people in Afghanistan," which has a 28 percent literacy rate, Ahmadi explained. "People don't realize that it's not true. When they watch a film, they accept it -- it's real, why did they do it?"�.(Washington Post, 5 Oct 07)

Number of radical Dutch Muslims growing

The Dutch intelligence and security service AIVD published a report on Tuesday indicating the number of radical Dutch Muslims is on the rise. The reports speaks about an "extremely intolerant and anti-democratic" movement which is reportedly not violent however�..(DPA, 9 Oct 07)

Netherlands: AIVD report on radical Islam

The non-violent variant of radical Islam is winning ground in the Netherlands and Europe, according to a new report by Dutch intelligence service AIVD about radical Islam in the Netherlands.  Though this variant of radical Islam is non violent, it may very well lead to problems in the relations between Muslims themselves and between Muslims and non-Muslims�..(Islam in Europe, 9 Oct 07)

Netherlands: Schools investigated for brainwashing

The AIVD is investigating possible brainwashing of young kids in a number of Muslim elementary schools. The schools are connected to radical mosques. This happens outside the regular school periods and next to the official curriculum, during special religion and Arabic language classes. A spokesperson for the intelligence service confirmed the investigation but refused further comment�..(Islam in Europe, 9 Oct 07)

U.S. tries rehab for religious extremists

A counseling program that employs Muslim clerics to rebut extremist views of detainees has steadily reduced their numbers over the past four years in Singapore, suggesting that religious-based rehabilitation may offer an alternative to indefinite detention without trial in the US-led war on terrorism. Faced with swelling detention centers, US military commanders in Iraq have begun to take note. In recent months, they have introduced religious-education programs for adults and juveniles that are modeled, in part, on Singapore's and on a much larger program in Saudi Arabia�..(Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct 07)

The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam

�This article is a segment of a series being run as part of our nation-wide campus effort, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which will be held on 200 university and college campuses on October 22-26. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a national effort to focus on all the victims of Islamo-Fascist Jihad -- as well as to counter the lies of the academic Left, which seeks to deny the evil, and even the very existence, of our enemy in this terror war. In this way, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week hopes to educate American students and to enable them to rally to defend their country��(FrontPage, 5 Oct 07)

Booklet: Violent Oppression of Women in Islam .pdf

Islam, the Greeks and the Scientific Revolution, part 1

I have written a couple of essays regarding the Greek impact on the rise of modern science, and why the Scientific Revolution didn't happen in the Islamic world. I find this to be an interesting topic, especially since there are so many myths regarding this perpetrated by Muslims and their apologists today, so I will explore the subject in some detail.  I mentioned the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in one of my previous essays. It has been claimed by one researcher that an Arab alchemist in the ninth century managed to decode some of the hieroglyphs. Even if this should be true, his research didn't leave any lasting impact and wasn't followed up by others, which is in itself significant�..(Global Politician, 5 Oct 07)

Hamas Children's Magazine Al-Fateh Encourages Terrorism, Glorifies Martyrdom
The Hamas children's magazine Al-Fateh is published biweekly in London, and is also posted online at www.al-fateh.net. It began publication in September 2002, and its 108th issue was released in mid-September 2007. The magazine, which features stories, poems, riddles, puzzles, etc., includes incitement to jihad and martyrdom and glorification of terrorist operations and of their planners and perpetrators, as well as characterizations of Jews as "murderers of the prophets" and laudatory descriptions of parents who encourage their sons to kill Jews. In each issue, a regular feature titled "The Story of a Martyr" presents the "heroic deeds" of a mujahid from one of the organizations who died in a suicide operation�..(MEMRI, 5 Oct 07)

Does Religious Law Permit Visiting Egyptian Pyramids?

Saudi religious authorities have recently been probing the issue of whether a Muslim is permitted to visit the Egyptian pyramids � a tourist site favored by the Saudis � or any other tombs of infidels. Fatwas have been issued permitting visiting the pyramids only for the sake of learning a moral lesson (pertaining to death and the world to come) based on the Prophet's words in the hadith: "Visit tombs, for they remind you of the world to come." Other religious authorities, however, have prohibited visiting the pyramids because they are tombs of infidels�.(MEMRI, 5 Oct 07)

Hamas-PA War of Fatwas Over Outdoor Prayers
As part of the political power struggle between Fatah and Hamas, Fatah has initiated a public confrontation with Hamas over the issue of Friday prayers. Claiming that Hamas has appropriated the mosques, and that the imams use their pulpits to incite the public against Fatah, the latter arranged for Friday prayers in Gaza to be held outside the mosques, in open public venues. Hamas, in response, banned these prayers on the grounds that they are meant to wreak chaos, and even forcibly dispersed the worshipers. Several senior Fatah officials, including Zakariya Al-Agha, were apprehended during a Friday prayer, and fines were levied for those who participated in demonstrations that took place after the Friday prayers outside the mosques�.(MEMRI, 8 Oct 07)

Video: Amy Zegart Spying Blind

Spying Blind

Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11, by Amy Zegart

�Zegart finds that political leaders were well aware of the emerging terrorist danger and the urgent need for intelligence reform, but failed to achieve the changes they sought. The same forces that have stymied intelligence reform for decades are to blame: resistance inside U.S. intelligence agencies, the rational interests of politicians and career bureaucrats, and core aspects of our democracy such as the fragmented structure of the federal government. Zegart argues that these three systemic adaptation barriers allowed nagging organizational weaknesses to endure--ultimately leading the CIA and FBI to miss twenty-three opportunities to disrupt the 9/11 plot�..(New America, 27 Sep 07)

VIDEOS:

"Conflict with the West: Religious Drivers and Strategies of Jihad" 

Alongside military jihad, which has been gaining momentum and extracting an ever growing price from many countries around the globe, Islamists have been developing a new form of warfare, termed "electronic jihad," which is waged on the Internet. This new form of jihad was launched in recent years and is still in its early stages of development. However, as this paper will show, Islamists are fully aware of its destructive potential, and persistently strive to realize this potential.....(MEMRI)

Middle East Media Research Institute

Mapping Sharia in America

Intelligence sources, both public (i.e., �open�) sources and clandestine ones, inform us that al Qaeda and many related, affiliated or kindred Muslim terrorist organizations and operational cells are located in the United States. Some are actively planning and preparing for the next major wave of terrorism on our Homeland. Others are �sleeper� cells, biding time and waiting for the right opportunity and command instructions from overseas....(Mapping Sharia)

New Al-Qaeda Le

DOCUMENTS:

What Americans Need to Know About Jihad

Nazi Roots of Palestinian Nationalism and Islamic Jihad

Arab & Iranian Reaction to 9/11 - 5 Years Later: