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The Obama administration, grappling with a spate of recent Islamic terrorism cases on U.S. soil, has concluded that the country confronts a rising threat from homegrown extremism. "We've seen an increased number of arrests here in the U.S. of individuals suspected of plotting terrorist attacks, or supporting terror groups abroad such as Al Qaeda," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a speech last week.

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This article is totally devoid of anything positive to point to or to show that something is being done to try and correct this situation... wow.

Its only a matter of time before the suicide bombing begins. Its inevitable.

>Its only a matter of time before the suicide bombing begins. Its inevitable.

Actually, in a way it already has. The Ft Hood massacre is in every way a suicide bombing -- just replacing a single, multi-projectile blast with multi, single-projectile blasts.

And why aren't the families of those victims suing the federal government? Perhaps they are. Hopefully.

Yet just last week the rcade's of the dr blog railed against prudence once again.

Life's a circle.

It has yet to be determined that Major Hasan's actions were due to ideology or severe physchotic behavior.

My eyes must be deceiving me. Are the neo-cons honestly going to quote DHS and Napolitano as an expert source on terrorism? Tell me it isn't so. Are they that retarded? Do they have such a short selective memory?

Recall almost 8 months ago, April 15. Malkin blasts DHS on their judgment.

Malkin Blog

Yesterday, Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers posted an unclassified DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis report titled:

Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.

The "report" (PDF file here) was one of the most embarrassingly shoddy pieces of propaganda I'd ever read out of DHS. I couldn't believe it was real.

I spent the day chasing down DHS spokespeople, who have been tied up preparing for a very important homeland security event later today. They were very defensive preemptively so in asserting that it was not a politicized document and that DHS had done reports on "leftwing extremism" in the past. I have covered DHS for many years and am quite familiar with past assessments they and the FBI have done on animal rights terrorists and environmental terrorists. But those past reports have always been very specific in identifying the exact groups, causes, and targets of domestic terrorism.

By contrast, the piece of crap report issued on April 7 is a sweeping indictment of conservatives. And the intent is clear. As the two spokespeople I talked with on the phone today made clear: They both pinpointed the recent "economic downturn" and the "general state of the economy" for stoking "rightwing extremism." One of the spokespeople said he was told that the report has been in the works for a year. My b.s. detector went off the chart, and yours will, too, if you read through the entire report which asserts with no evidence that an unquantified "resurgence in rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalizations activity" is due to home foreclosures, job losses, andthe historical presidential election.

From the report. p. 2:
Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.

From the report. p. 3:

(U//LES) Rightwing extremists are harnessing this historical election as a recruitment tool. Many rightwing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership and use. Rightwing extremists are increasingly galvanized by these concerns and leverage them as drivers for recruitment. From the 2008 election timeframe to the present, rightwing extremists have capitalized on related racial and political prejudices in expanded propaganda campaigns, thereby reaching out to a wider audience of potential sympathizers.

Malkin, Gingrich, Weiner (Savage), Hannity and the rest really do not have a problem with government assessments formulated in secret, so long as they are directed against their political enemies. The exposed DHS document is little more than a partisan political cudgel for the neocons and "conservatives" now "out of power," that is to say on the sidelines until the next insider selected Republican is installed in the White House.

Malkin and crew are not philosophically opposed to a police state running roughshod over the rights of the people, so long as the victims are on the "left." The DHS document is simply an excuse to bitch and moan about Democrats, who are at the end of the day no different than the Republicans, as demonstrated by the Obama administration's continuation of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama's support of wiretapping in violation of the Fourth Amendment, and the seamless transition between administrations in regard to facilitating the globalist plan to crash the global economy and allow the banksters to abscond with the nation's wealth.

AP-July 28,2009
On Monday, the feds swooped down on an alleged terror group plotting murder and mayhem in North Carolina. A federal indictment against the gang claims Raleigh drywall contractor Daniel Patrick Boyd and associates sought to wage "violent jihad" abroad and engaged in "military-style training at home," according to the Associated Press. Specific details are not provided by the government.

It is said drywall contractor Daniel Patrick Boyd a poster child for "white al-Qaeda" if there ever was one trained at a terrorist camp in Afghanistan in the late 1980s and fought against the Soviet occupation of that country.

It is said Boyd a poster child for "white al-Qaeda" if there ever was one trained at a terrorist camp in Afghanistan in the late 1980s and fought against the Soviet occupation of that country. Boyd was associated with Hezb-e-Islami, or Party of Islam.

Red flags should go up on this one. Hizb-e-Islami was led and founded by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who was carefully selected by the Pakistani ISI and the CIA to wage jihad against the Soviets. Hekmatyar, a drug dealer with little support in Afghanistan, was a favored son of the CIA and the ISI. The U.S. worked with Hekmatyar over a ten year period and over half of all U.S. aid to the mujaheddin went to his faction (see Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, pp. 475 and Robert Dreyfuss, Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, pp. 260-263).

CIA Director William Casey liked Hekmatyar because they shared a goal of extending the fighting beyond Afghanistan into the Soviet Union, according to Dreyfuss. In 1984 Hekmatyar developed a close relationship with another CIA-ISI operative, Osama bin Laden, who at the time ran Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), a front organization that funneled money and arms to the mujahideen. "MAK [is] nurtured by Pakistan's state security services, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, the CIA's primary conduit for conducting the covert war against Moscow's occupation," MSNBC reported in August of 1998, before everything changed. MAK was also known as al-Kifah and its branch in New York was called the al-Kifah Refugee Center. This branch played a pivotal role in the 1993 WTC bombing and also had CIA ties (see the History Commons profile on Gulbuddin Hekmatyar).

Following the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the CIA-ISI contrivance al-Qaeda was inserted in Kosovo to help ethnic Albanian extremists of the KLA mount their terrorist campaign against Serb targets in the region. "The United States, which had originally trained the Afghan Arabs during the war in Afghanistan, supported them in Bosnia and then in Kosovo. When NATO forces launched their military campaign against Yugoslavia [in March, 1999] to unseat [Slobodan] Milosevic, they entered the Kosovo conflict on the side of the KLA [Kosovo Liberation Army], which had already received 'substantial' military and financial support from bin Laden's network, analysts say," Isabel Vincent wrote for the National Post (see my From Afghanistan to Iraq: Transplanting CIA Engineered Terrorism, January 15, 2005).

In short, Hysen Sherifi and Daniel Patrick Boyd are intelligence operatives or more likely patsies. As Webster Griffin Tarpley has documented, patsies, dupes, useful idiots and fanatics are integral to any false flag terror operation.

The North Carolina arrests are of particular interest now that FEMA is conducting NLE 09. "The NLE 09 scenario will begin in the aftermath of a notional terrorist event outside of the United States, and exercise play will center on preventing subsequent efforts by the terrorists to enter the United States and carry out additional attacks. This scenario enables participating senior officials to focus on issues related to preventing terrorist events domestically and protecting U.S. critical infrastructure," a FEMA press release explains.

The feds claim they have prevented a terrorist attack in North Carolina. This is a well orchestrated propaganda effort timed to coincide with NLE 09. It is particularly important to note this in the wake of the manufactured deluge of propaganda and federal and state reports portraying "rightwing" domestic terrorists as a threat to the homeland.

Quoting from Michelle Malkin's blog?

Even Bill O'Reilly channeling 'Jack Mehoffer' think that that's whack.

A particular egregious instance of this propaganda was released in June when the Washington Times reported counterterrorism officials "authenticated" a video by a supposed al-Qaeda recruiter who claimed he had the ability to smuggle a biological weapon into the United States via tunnels under the Mexico border. In the video, Abdullah al-Nafisi suggested that al-Qaeda might want to collaborate with "members of native U.S. white supremacist militias who hate the federal government."

The Department of Homeland Security's "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" document conflates "white supremacists" with the militia movement, advocates of the Second Amendment, activists opposed to illegal immigration, and other loosely defined "antigovernment" groups. The Strategic Analysis Group, Homeland Environment and Threat Analysis Division of the DHS created the document during the Bush administration and it was revived by the incoming the Obama administration. Veterans in particular took exception to the report because it claims "returning military veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have joined extremist groups."

The Abdullah al-Nafisi "recruitment" video first surfaced on the Arabic news network Al Jazeera in February and was later posted on several web sites. It was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the notorious disinformation outfit linked to Israeli intelligence. Mossad and the IDF are infamous for planting stories in the media and engaging in psychological warfare.

"MEMRI is a main arm of Israeli propaganda," explains professor Norman G. Finkelstein, a well-known scholar on Israel and Palestine. It is "a Mossad operation pretending to be a media translation service." Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA case officer, says "they (MEMRI) are selective and act as propagandists for their political point of view, which is the extreme-right of Likud."

The Arab newspaper Al-Ahram has connected al-Nafisi to the Muslim Brotherhood. The "Muslim Brotherhood was created, infiltrated, or at least promoted by British Intelligence," writes Peter D. Goodgame (The Globalists and the Islamists: Fomenting the "Clash of Civilizations" for a New World Order). In addition, the CIA funded the Muslim Brotherhood as a wedge against Arab nationalism, specifically against Gamal Abddul Nasser's nationalist policies in Egypt (see Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude, and Robert Dreyfuss, Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam).

It is now a well-documented fact that al-Qaeda is a western intelligence operation. For a detailed explanation on how the CIA, in collaboration with Pakistan's ISI, created the al-Qaeda myth, see Norm Dixon's How the CIA created Osama bin Laden. The current president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, told NBC's David Gregory last month that Osama bin Laden was an "operator" for the United States. Zardari's claim was all but ignored by the corporate media.

"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida," said British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook. "And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US."

In January of 2008, the al-Qaeda myth expanded to include the cooked up specter of a "white al-Qaeda." According to the Scotsman, al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen have converted white non-Muslims. "The trend is well established in the United States. American-born Adam Gadahn is one of the FBI's top 10 most-wanted terrorists after converting to Islam and rising through al-Qaeda's ranks to become a prominent spokesman." Fox News amplified this phony threat. "If they can recruit a Scandinavian, that's the holy grail for them." Mike Baker, a former CIA agent and professional counter-terrorism expert, told Fox. "They need people who can move around freely and do their bidding."


Does anybody know what time it is.....


Does anybody really CAIR.......


-Chicago Bama and His Boys

I don't care if Michelle Malkin says water is wet, the sky is blue, and dirt tastes like Rupert Murdoch's ass...

Malkin is nothing but a vomit spewing charlatan.

Perhaps you miss the point, Malkin represents the neo-con point of view. She (and everyone) rightly blasted DHS just eight months ago. Now they claim DHS is the authority on terrorism.

DHS is more of an authority on terrorism than Malkin, Hannity, Gingrich, Savage, or who ever you're quoting... no offense.

Is everything that DHS does going to be right on the money? Of course not. Sorry, I'm not going to ever buy into what is said by those who make scaring people their own cottage industry.

I thought all the home grown terrorist were supposed to be vets with Ron Paul bumper stickers. Who would ever have suspected Muslims?

Malkin is nothing but a vomit spewing charlatan.

#15 | Posted by PinchALoaf at 2009-12-07 11:11 PM | Reply | Flag: WATCHES THE ED SHOW AND TIVOS IT TOO


Its only a matter of time before the suicide bombing begins. Its inevitable.

#2 | Posted by wurster at


and when iran gets a nuke because obama is off giving away american soverignty in copenhagen and getting the nobel.

what then? when there are possibly nukes involved.

how many arrested were former US military?

Look for more lower level terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists, similar to Fort Hood. I think the psychos have changed to less costly and easier to carry out attacks like they do in the ME.

Could you IMAGINE what a highly trained sleeper cell of 4 could do with full body armour, automatic weapons, explosives/hand grenades. Now imagine this coordinated attack on a rush hour soft target.

Keep in mind there are THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS IN THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. How many are waiting to attack?

#20 afk
cut the neo-con psychobabble. You are among the most clueless on the DR. The ramifications of this treaty are so grave in their own right, but you obviously have no clue.

I fear this fear.

Now they claim DHS is the authority on terrorism.

#16 | Posted by L_RContrarian

janet (the dyke) is an authority on nothing. She left AZ in terrible shape when she went to DC. Nobody in AZ misses her sorry ass.

Napolitano is nothing but a paid whore incapable of an original thought. She was hired to push an agenda. Not run an agency.

bog, that would be a dike whore. I'll bet she gets more pussy than you do.

Ooo Terrorists are coming!! Booga boo!!

Everybody spy on your neighbors and let the government through your mail, phone records, credit card receipts! That'll keep us safe.

WELL I CALL BULLSHIT. I refuse to live my life in fear, especially an imaginary one.

And i'd rather die an early death than live a long scared life behind ducktaped windows as my rights are stripped away 'for the common good' of 'security'.

Terrorism only works if youre terrified. Just like Fox's ratings.

The left and some on the right have figured out the secret a long time ago. It wasn't just a rumor: DHS was designed for Americans.

The left was unmistakenly convinced after the 2004 RNC DHS fiasco. The others were convinced (if not already convinced) after the MAIC & extremism lexicon document was first leaked.

Read the Extremism Lexicon document. Honestly ask yourself whether some portion includes most Americans. The MIAC Report was pulled and apologies made, but scanned version here.

Recall the Elway DHS Video. Also the DHS video /FEMA video on police training.


I wouldn't click on PP site if you paid me.

Just a front for investigative arm of HS.

Designed to collect all IP's and addresses (your address) so they know who to pick up.

We have nothing to fear but imaginary fear itself.

Its all the same group making look like they're doing something useful, and collecting paychecks from our taxes.

Wow, a homegrown threat. Man, they better check every citizens house for,like, papers and computers and other dangerous things.

To:spunksoftly

What do all of the following have in common?

wtc attack 1
wtc attack 2
fort hood massacre
yahweh ben yahweh
zebra killings

That's right, they were terrorist attacks by ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS. BE SCARED, REAL SCARED!
***********************
Ooo Terrorists are coming!! Booga boo!!

Everybody spy on your neighbors and let the government through your mail, phone records, credit card receipts! That'll keep us safe.

WELL I CALL BULLSHIT. I refuse to live my life in fear, especially an imaginary one.

And i'd rather die an early death than live a long scared life behind ducktaped windows as my rights are stripped away 'for the common good' of 'security'.

Terrorism only works if youre terrified. Just like Fox's ratings.

#28 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2009-12-08 05:09 PM | Reply | Flag:

And i'd rather die an early death than live a long scared life behind ducktaped windows as my rights are stripped away 'for the common good' of 'security'
#28 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

Too young to buy a gun, Wyatt?

I thought Jane said that we didn't need to worry about Mooslums only soldiers getting out of the army. Who woke her up, the ghosts from Fort Hood?

" Man, they better check every citizens house for,like, papers and computers and other dangerous things"

No need, just check for Koran's.

Everybody knows the greatest threat today comes from the religion of exploding body pieces.

Check for "Koran's" what?

#30 rr
are you really that ignorant
or are you just deflecting the point made?

....and when iran gets a nuke because obama is off giving away american soverignty in copenhagen and getting the nobel.

When Iran gets it's nukes it will because Bush invaded Iraq. Saddam would have never tolerated that happening and by parking our army there in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran accelerated it's plans.

But not homegrown white extremism?

"No need, just check for Koran's."

go for it...

you nut jobs want a civilization ending war?
then start it...

you fringers talk a big game but have no cajones to back up yer internet posts with.

#15 | Posted by PinchALoaf at 2009-12-07 11:11 PM | Reply | Flag: WATCHES THE ED SHOW AND TIVOS IT TOO

#19 | Posted by The_Chapel at 2009-12-08 11:18 AM |

Why don't you list Malkin's anti-terrorist bona fides?

Why did you ignore Kerry lying about being in Cambodia? So you could make shit up about his service?

#41 klif
Don't get worked up over the brainless provocateurs.

Don't get worked up over the brainless provocateurs."

true :)

The Obama administration, grappling with a spate of recent Islamic terrorism cases on U.S. soil

Chapel would have people think that there are legions of suicide bombers streaming into your precious malls, McDonalds, and houses of worship.

Let's see... the feds have busted a bunch of ambitious amateurs (Islamic and rightwing), and a man previously recognized as a lunatic shot some people on an army base.

Yep. I'm terrified.

#46 z
... would have people think that there are legions of suicide bombers streaming into your precious malls, McDonalds, and houses of worship.

Very true. Why would they have us believe this? Concurrent to the neo-con delusion, what is happening?

I wonder if the American people are thinking this episode through? Think of it: in the post-9/11 world, a world that has invented the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), body scanners, retina readers, the Patriot Act, hundreds of laws and regulations restricting the freedoms and liberties of the American people, thousands of cameras photographing our public movements, and satellite spy devices, a couple can walk right into the White House and meet the President and Vice President without being invited!

1., #3 Pinchloaf,
Yet to be determined whether Hasan's murder spree was ideology or pyscho-based??

Right. Guess we could say the same about the loads of scum who flew planes into buildings on 9/11 too.

What the hell will it take to drag Americans' heads out of the sand (no pun intended)? Unbelievable.

2. We still have an FBI??

3. Court martial(!) proceedings for the three Navy Seals -- fantastic. I feel much safer knowing how much this administration respects our true national HEROES!

JM

CounterTerror Officials Claim AlQ to Launch Bio Attack from Mexico but not long afterwards: Bomb Materials Smuggled into Fed Bldgs
Federal investigators had no trouble smuggling bomb-making materials past ill-trained and poorly supervised guards at federal buildings, senators were told at a hearing Wednesday.

"This is the broadest indictment of a federal agency I have ever heard," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., said at a Homeland Security Committee hearing on the performance of the Federal Protective Service, the office responsible for the safety of some 9,000 federal facilities. "This is really serious stuff."

The committee, chaired by Lieberman, heard how Government Accountability Office investigators on 10 occasions carried the components for an improvised explosive device through checkpoints monitored by FPS guards. In all 10 cases the bomb-making materials went undetected.


DHS Border Patrol to Target Aggressive Drivers

3000 Behavior Detection Officers

Bill Amendment Gives Holder Authority to Decide Who is a Terrorist

DHS Issues Warnings on Sports Arenas

ABC News
March 4, 2008

As the spring sports season moves into high gear, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI today issued an assessment, called "Potential Threats to Popular Sports and Entertainment Venues," that said arenas and stadiums are attractive "potential targets during events."

The assessment repeatedly noted that the FBI and DHS have no "information on any credible or specific current terrorism plots to attack stadiums or arenas in the United States."

The report, however, said "operational planning and surveillance against sporting facilities are often difficult to detect," and college and professional basketball playoffs, the stock car racing season, hockey playoffs and horse racing's Triple Crown are among the events that "regularly bring tens of thousands of fansinto large open-access facilities."

Prepared at the request of the private sector with input from federal agencies, the report is intended to provide "decision makers with the broad, analytically-based threat information necessary to inform investment priorities and program design."

So DHS admits there is absolutely no credible evidence but states it is an attractive venue and warn us because "surveillance against sporting facilities are often difficult to detect".

papers, please.
We are now forbidden by Federal regulations from leaving or entering the USA, anywhere, by any means by air, by sea, or by land, to or from any other country or international waters or airspace unless the government chooses to issue us a passport, passport card, or "enhanced" drivers license (any of which "travel documents" are now issued only with RFID transponder chips), or unless the Department of Homeland Security chooses to to exercise its standardless "discretion" to decide in secret, with no way for us to know who is making the decision or on what basis to issue a (one-time case-by-case) "waiver" of the new travel document requirements.

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