Mosques' Messages in English vs Arabic -- Columbia Honours Anti-Semite -- PART 2: Terrorists' weapon of choice -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammad

The Duplicity

American mosque's duplicity exposed -- Violent Arabic messages contrast 'tolerant' English teaching -- Jihad comes to Small Town, USA Laura Mansfield, April 19, 2005

Laura Mansfield is a freelance writer with over 20 years of experience dealing with Middle East issues. She is fluent in written and spoken Arabic, and has an excellent understanding of the complex cultural, religious and historical issues. Her experience includes nearly seven years living and working in the region for a wide range of private and government clients.

It happened again this week. I came out of the office to find a flyer under my windshield wipers inviting me to a special informational presentation on God and family values, and how to bring them back to the forefront in America.

I'm a parent so the flyer caught my interest. But as an analyst for the Northeast Intelligence Network, my eyes were riveted to the address on the flyer: The session was being held at a nearby mosque.

[. . . . ] I checked the mosque schedule on the Web, and discovered there was going to be an Arabic language session an hour before. So I showed up an hour early. The imam met me at the door, and told me that the presentation didn't start for an hour, and suggested I come back in an hour. Fortunately, I had anticipated this. I explained that since I had quite a bit of reading to do for a class I was taking. "Can I just sit here and read?"

He hesitated a moment, then agreed. I sat in the back of the room, with my book open, and made a mental note to remember to turn the pages every so often, as I listened to the speakers in Arabic.

The first speaker was the head of the Muslim Students' Association at the nearby university. Although I missed the beginning of the discussion, I caught up quickly. He was talking about the problems he had encountered on a recent trip, when TSA flagged him for extra screening. [. . . . ]

One of the men said, in Arabic: "Blonde Americans are good for something!" Another man advised him to be cautious, since there was an American woman in the room. The imam spoke up and told everyone I didn't speak Arabic. [. . . . ]

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TSA flagged him
his classmate from Jordan
racial profiling
a kind of peaceful civil disobedience that should be encouraged
African-American
The earlier session had been in Arabic – this one was in English.
a recruiting session
Two different doctrines are being promoted.


Columbia University’s Middle East Institute Sends Invitations for Event Honoring Notorious Anti-Semite Amiri Baraka

Philadelphia, April 19, 2005 - Columbia University’s Middle East Institute recently sent out invitations for an event honoring Amiri Baraka, Campus Watch has learned.

[. . . . ] Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, is known for his writings on jazz, but more for his Marxism and anti-Semitism. As the poet laureate of New Jersey Baraka created a firestorm with his poem “Somebody Blew Up America,” a diatribe accusing Israelis of having been warned of the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. When Baraka rebuffed calls for his resignation, New Jersey lawmakers responded by abolishing the position of poet laureate.

Baraka’s anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism reach far back into the 1960s, as does his violent animosity to whites, American society, and the West as a whole.

WND PART 2: Terrorists' weapon of choice -- 'Atomic Iran' describes how Tehran could help with bomb -- a second excerpt to follow the one posted yesterday.

Suitcase nukes made great television when Congressmen Dan Burton and Curt Weldon held up the mock suitcase nuke. The device looked lethal, but also shiny and professional. The whole deal was a neat package, even if most of us had no idea how the silver-looking apparatus inside really operated. The mechanics of the device were not the point. The packaging was the image.

That a terrorist might carry a suitcase bomb that looked like a photographer's equipment case and simply leave it in a public location (New York's Grand Central Station or Washington, D.C.'s Union Station) was a frightening idea. The terrorist could simply walk away, maybe even escape, and the device would explode before any bomb squad could decide what to do first. Even at one kiloton of yield, the image created was that the suitcase bomb could leave at least a minor mushroom cloud in the center of New York or Washington and vaporize a building or two, maybe even a few blocks, spraying the aftereffects of subsequent radioactive death for miles.

The problem was that as serious researchers looked into the question, suitcase nukes were problematic. Maybe the former USSR had let a few get away. Still, their yield was low, and the devices required constant maintenance to remain operational.

What has emerged as a more serious threat, especially with the mad mullahs going nuclear, is what is known as the improvised nuclear device (IND). The IND has become the preferred choice of serious terrorists.
Why? The answer is a simple one. [. . . . ]

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An IND produced on this model can be driven into a major city and parked.

There is "substantial and credible evidence that both terrorist groups and hostile states are actively seeking . . .

The easiest way for terrorists to get their hands on a nuclear weapon would be
small enough to fit into a corner of a shipping container . . .

The mastermind behind 9-11 was Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM), whose nephew was Ramzi Yousef, the planner of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. KSM had spent time getting an education in the United States.

no-go decision points


Part 1 excerpt
Check World Net Daily (www.wnd.com) April 20, 05, when Corsi provides a second-by-second description of the effects of a terrorist nuke attack in Manhattan.