Its Scope was Ruthlessly Ambitious

MSNBC aired on August 10th a news analysis published by the Associated Press (AP) entitled, “Thwarted plot may have been ‘the Big One.’” That AP story began, “Its scope was ruthlessly ambitious, causing destruction officials say would have been “unimaginable.” Now, the rest of the story.

The foiled plot was apparently a plan to destroy, with liquid explosives carried in hand luggage, ten or more international commercial passenger aircraft in flight, all bound from the United Kingdom to the United States. United, American and Continental Airlines were targeted and the flights were scheduled to be in the air at approximately the same time. Each aircraft would have been transporting hundreds of passengers.

The plotters, Muslims who ranged in age from 17 to 35, planned to use false-bottomed sports drink bottles to bring the liquid explosives on board. The terrorists had intended to combine the separated liquids mid-flight to create an explosive solution. The liquid to be used was likely a peroxide-based solution, similar in appearance to water or liquid eyeglass lens cleaner, which could have been detonated by an electronic device as simple as a disposable camera or a portable digital music player.

Counterterrorism officials speculated that the plot not only bore the fingerprints of al-Qaida, but may have been “the Big One” planned for the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. According to the AP article, 24 people (predominantly Pakistani Muslim), were arrested and jailed and five remain at large. Terror threat levels were raised in the United States to their highest levels and airport security procedures intensified. Hundreds of flights were canceled worldwide. Dozens of people, possibly as many as 50, could be involved in the plot.

The magnitude of this attack, had it been successful, would have been huge. The terrorist scheme had the classic al-Qaida signature of a well coordinated series of simultaneous attacks. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff reinforced those sentiments, saying the attack “… was sophisticated. It had a lot of members and it was international in scope.” For the past several days, the FBI has feverishly looked for any potential ties to terrorists in the U.S., but hasn’t found any.

As Americans, we have arrived at the point, hopefully a defining moment, when every American should pause and take stock. Even though an investigation is under way in Europe and the United States which will undoubtedly confirm what we have already been told, it is absolutely irrelevant that the terrorist plot was suggestive of al-Qaida.

The primary issue – the only issue - is that the plot was real. It was fermented, carefully planned, and well orchestrated by highly-trained Muslims. The plot was international in scope and the probable death toll would have been in the thousands. At risk was the continued viability of safe, reliable international aviation and commerce. At least one of the plotters had attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan, and more than one of the accused had already prepared a martyrdom suicide tape.

A quick review of recent history is always helpful. Since the WTC attack on September 11, 2001 which killed approximately 3000 people and injured thousands more, many for life, successful Muslim attacks on innocent people have included suicide bombers who killed 52 people in London on July 7, 2005; 58 innocent people who died in two attacks in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2003; and 202 tourists and citizens were ruthlessly killed in Bali in 2002.

Adherents of Islam killed 191 people in Madrid on March 11, 2004 and chose to blow themselves up a few days later when police were closing in to make arrests. Before 2001, recall the first Muslim attempt to bring down the World Trade Center in 1993. Before that was the Munich Olympics in 1972 during which athletes were kidnapped and massacred. The U.S. Embassy in Iran was sacked by Muslims in 1979 and hostages were held for over one year. Recall the numerous kidnappings of Americans in Lebanon during the 1980’s. The U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up in 1983 resulting in a tremendous loss of life. The cruise ship Achille Lauro was attacked in 1985 and in the process, a 70-year passenger in a wheelchair was thrown overboard and died. TWA Flight 845 was hijacked in Athens in 1987 and U.S. Navy diver trying to protect the passengers was killed. Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 resulting in 270 deaths. The U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed in 1998. Four airliners were hijacked in 2001 - three were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Center towers and Pentagon. The fourth was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed. No doubt you can think of many others including Richard Reid, the shoe-bomber and an attack at the Los International Airport ticket counters. Do you remember hearing recently about college graduate Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar who slammed a rented SUV this March into a crowd of students at the University of North Carolina, hitting nine. The Iranian-born 22-year-old told the 9-1-1 dispatcher that he was attempting to “punish the government of the United States for [its] actions around the world.” In court days later, he said he was “thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah.” And then there was Naveed Haq, hiding behind potted plants. Naveed Haq laid in wait and abducted a 14-year-old girl he could use as a hostage to enter the Seattle Jewish Federation. With a gun in her back, he pushed his way past security and through the door. He coldly, deliberately shot six women. When a wounded woman tried to flee up some stairs, he followed her, leaned over a railing and killed her.

During the Clinton administration, an undeclared war was fought ostensibly to protect Muslims from ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovinia. During the Bush (43) administration, a war of retaliation for the World Trade Center attack was fought against the Taliban in Afghanistan (and the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City which was alleged to have connections to Iraq). In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered. The list of atrocities, wanton slaughter and beheadings by Muslims goes on in the Middle East today – none of whom by the way are extremists Muslims, only the faithful. Countless unsuccessful attacks on American soil were planned by Muslims and thwarted only at the last moment by luck or good intelligence. None of the above even begins to document hundreds of Muslim attacks in the rest of the world.

There is the mounting evidence in the minds of many that TWA Flight 800 was shot down by a missile. Can you remember another incident that occurred at the Oklahoma University Stadium, a bombing attempt intended to inflict massive carnage to sports fans in a packed stadium? That incident was also linked to the same Islamic influences of one of the 9/11hijackers.

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What about the Egypt Air plane crash which killed 217? A few courageous analysts revisited the chilling 1999 disaster in which the Egyptian co-pilot, a devout Muslim, reportedly had said "Allah Akbar," Arabic for "God is great," before the plane plunged to its destruction.

And then there is the issue of the bombing by Timothy McVeigh of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995 that killed 168 people. Jayna Davis, a former investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, gathered massive evidence of a foreign conspiracy involving Saudi terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, including hundreds of court records, 24 sworn witness statements and reports from law enforcement, intelligence and terror experts, all of which she turned over to the FBI, which refused even to accept the material. Apparently in 1995, even the FBI was unwilling to accept the premise that Islam, the "religion of peace," could motivate individuals through its teachings to that level of unspeakable depravity. To an educated, civilized mind, whether secular, Jewish or Christian, it was inconceivable.

For an amazing journey back into the archives of terrorism in the United States, find a copy of "The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing" (Hardcover or Paperback) by Jayna Davis, 2004. It is available through Amazon.com and retail book stores.

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Despite Clinton impeachment prosecutor David Schippers' revelation that he was "thoroughly convinced that there was a dead-bang Middle Eastern connection in the Oklahoma City bombing" – the press was, by and large, immune from revisiting such stories, beyond reporting the official government conclusions. Only U.S. News & World Report, in a tiny news item buried in its "Washington Whispers" column, saw fit to report that some top Defense Department officials believe Timothy McVeigh, executed for his role in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, was an Iraqi agent.

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Liberal intellectuals in the United States and Europe still foolishly believe al-Qaida’s call for global jihad is the triggering mechanism that acts as an inspiration for the terrorism - which is utter nonsense. (Disclaimer: Each and every person who reads this article must realize that somebody who feels the need to be politically correct, whether out of fear or timidity, cannot by definition speak with honesty.) Forget everything you’ve been told about political correctness and the babble that not all Muslims are Islamic extremists.

Killing and/or subjugating infidels is the single mainstream core belief of Islam – statement of fact! War with Islam, death to infidels and subjugation of non-believers as “dhimmi” constitute the impenetrable hard core about which all Muslim’s form their belief system. Disagree naively out of ignorance and at your own peril. Suffer the same fate as Israel who tried to trade land for peace if you choose. Congressional victims of America’s public education system and the main stream media will soon begin saying what the Democratic Party faithful have been saying all along - there is no threat to the United States from the “Religion of Peace.” Believing any of them is a mistake. The threat to the United States, and Americans in particular, is real and will continue to exist. Why? Because peaceful coexistence with Muslims as equals in a pluralistic society is not one of our choices. Our choices as unbelievers only include three options - accepting Islam, accepting institutionalized inferior status known as dhimmi, or war with Islam.

Negotiation of any other outcome is not possible with the “Religion of Peace,” nor is it permitted by the precepts of Islam, except as a stalling tactic until such day as adherents of Islam feel they have the strength to reassert themselves. Once again, negotiation by Israel, the nations of Europe or the United Nations with Islam is not possible. Win decisively, or at the risk of the rest of humanity, attempt to negotiate and lose inevitably and violently.

Muhammad says that Muslim faithful are “commanded to fight against people” until they become Muslim, and that those who resist risk forfeiting their lives and property. Violent jihad warfare against unbelievers is not a heretical doctrine held by a tiny minority of extremists as the media and Muslim apologists would have you believe, but a constant element – the axle about which all mainstream Islamic theology revolves. In addition, the “gates of ijtihad,” or free inquiry into the Qur’an and Islamic tradition, has been closed for centuries. Islamic teaching on principal matters is settled and is not permitted to be called into question by the faithful. The Qur’an is not just a theology to the Muslim faithful; it’s is also the law.

A British police official speculated that the Muslim suspects in the most recent terrorist plot may be “homegrown.” Even if all of the suspects were not British citizens, it is totally irrelevant if the suspects were or were not British citizens. They were Muslims. Muslims have no nationalistic allegiance to anything – no country, no government, no geographic region, and even no family - just Islam. You need no other evidence that their willingness to sacrifice their children in the name of Allah. Muslims do not recognize any concept of nationalism or national boundaries – only world-wide Islamic dominion according to the precepts of the Qur’an.

The AP article on August 10th also informed us that as far back as 1995, al-Qaida attempted “to use liquid explosives to blow up a dozen airliners as they flew across the Pacific Ocean to U.S. destinations, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Honolulu and New York.” Rodolfo Mendoza, a police intelligence official in the Philippines, pointed out the obvious - that the latest plot to blow up commercial airliners simply reveals the group’s unwavering and never-ending resolve – to kill all who Islam considers infidels. “These people are obsessed,” Mendoza was reported to have said. “They will try and try and try again to accomplish their mission.”

The greatest lie of the 21st Century will be, “Islam is a religion of peace.” Knowing and accepting that to be Islam’s public relations Trojan Horse, then recognize that the conflict in the Middle East between Iran, Syria and Israel is nothing less than a war to the death (or conversion, or subjugation as dhimmi), between Islam and the infidels of Judaism and Christianity. The thousands of Christians in the Middle East who have not been protected within the borders of Israel have already been systematically repressed and many brutally slain.

The main stream media and the United Nations would have you believe that Lebanon is a sovereign nation. However, the reality is that Lebanon ceased to exist as a viable independent political entity over a decade ago and its Christian population have been undergoing intense repression. Lebanon has been assimilated by the Muslim “borg.” Today, Lebanon is a delusional figment of international imagination, a government that exists in name only at the pleasure and humor of Tehran. Lebanon was once what many thought was a paradise. Today Lebanon is only the name of a piece of ground upon which the initial battles of the Islamic Wars in the Middle East are being waged. Muslims wish that the battles were being waged inside Israeli borders, as do many in Europe and the United Nations. Fortunately Israel may have other ideas and hopefully it has strong survival instincts.

Win decisively or lose inevitably. Anything less than the defeat of Iran and Syria will be seen by Muslims as a profound defeat of Israel and the United States, which is the principal reason why liberal secular Israelites, Europeans and Americans will tragically try to prevent Israel from winning decisively.

The latest foiled international terrorist plot was only the latest attempt of Muslims to extend their Islamic Wars with all of humanity beyond the Middle East and inside the borders of the United States.

There is some potentially good news coming out of the United Nations. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is reported to be pushing the U.N. Security Council to come up with a plan for ending what Kofi Annan describes as “Israel's conflict” with Iran’s Hezbollah guerrillas based in Lebanon. This can only mean Israel must be gaining the upper hand. In a statement, Kofi Annan's office said the Secretary-General is working "very intensely" on reaching a resolution acceptable to both Israel and Lebanon. He repeated his call to end the fighting and "save civilians on both sides from the nightmare they have endured for the past four weeks."

It should be noted that Lebanon wields no independent power nor controls its own territory and that which is not currently occupied by the IDF is commanded by agents of Iran (Hezbollah) and Syria. "The Secretary-General believes that it ought to be possible for the Security Council to adopt a resolution by the end of the week," his office said. Such a ceasefire, if agreed upon by Israel, would give Iran ample time to re-supply both itself and Hezbollah with more weapons, re-organize on the battlefield, redeploy Hezbollah and Kaytusha rockets advantageously, communicate strategy with Hezbollah and Syria, and set new terrorist objectives.

Watch closely - those who fervently seek the defeat of Israel will most strongly advocate such a cease fire.

Red State Patriot

Posted August 11, 2006 01:16 PM
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