Are you an American terrorist sympathizer but don’t know how to strike back at the Great Satan? Afraid of getting arrested while your plot to blow up something or other is still half-baked? You don’t have to worry anymore. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency want to hire you.
Both the FBI and CIA are running recruitment advertising with a pro-terrorist magazine,Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. The magazine is well known for its anti-Israel, pro-terrorist writing, except, it seems, to the human capital managers. One glance at the magazine’s homepage today reveals, for instance, five articles on “The Ordeal of Dr. Sami Al-Arian,” who pleaded guilty in 2006 of conspiracy to provide funds to the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
It’s as if they’re inviting the terrorists to infiltrate. If you are one, you may as well go ahead and infiltrate now, because it’s going to take a couple of years for these thickheaded government human capital managers to catch on.
It is the same lack of judgment that led the Department of Justice to set up a recruitment booth and serve as a co-host for the annual Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention in September. Four months earlier, the same Justice Department designated ISNA as an unindicted co-conspirator (PDF) in Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) case as part of the Hamas-Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy in the United States. U.S. Reps. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., and Sue Myrick, R-NC, protested the Justice Department’s recruitment effort with ISNA in a letter (PDF) to then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales asserting that ISNA is a Jihadi organization.
The Justice Department blithely dismissed the concerns, saying other organizations did it, too. That was true. That willful blindness was evident in the fact that, in 2006, the Department of Defense dispatched Deputy Secretary Gordon England to an ISNA conference and sent another representative to the annual conference in 2007. The Department of Homeland Security was there, too, with its recruitment booth adjacent to the Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical movement which endorses the use of violence and is devoted to establishing a global Islamic state governed by Shariah law.
After that embarrassment, the FBI placed a full-page recruiting ad (PDF) in the November 2007 issue of ISNA’s magazine Islamic Horizons. “Help us light the way to a new era of understanding,” the ad reads.
Just what types of recruits are the FBI and CIA looking for? Apparently, these agencies do not learn from experience, even recent experiences. Just last November, former FBI and CIA agent Nadia Nadim Prouty was arrested and pled guilty to fraudulently obtaining American citizenship through a sham marriage, and using her illegally acquired status to attain employment with both the FBI and CIA. Prouty is the sister of Elfat Al Aouar, who is the wife of Talal Chahine — the Detroit-based restaurateur linked to Hizballah. — The Investigative Project on Terrorism
That’s right. It’s not just the FBI and CIA. It’s Homeland Security too. And the State Department will get 1,000 new diplomats in President Bush’s 2009 budget. How many terrorist sympathizers will they hire? Government is growing so fast and in so many different directions that the opportunities to cause mayhem from within — or just to run interference so your buddies can carry out their next attack — grow by the day.
Steven Emerson from IPT closes by saying that “Congress should investigate immediately,” but really, will that help? Congressional hearings take months to set up, and months more to accomplish anything. By the time they call these wayward human capital managers onto the carpet, who knows how many enemies of the state could be in the pipeline? And that’s assuming Congress bothers to do anything. Maybe they just won’t see a problem.
So, let’s get serious. The federal government’s own internal security is so bad that it’s recruiting among the “enemy.” You expect these idiots to keep you safe? They can’t. They never could, and they never will.
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Bob
Feb 10, 2008
One of the biggest problems facing our government and all western governments in the battle against the Moslem fanatics is a complete lack of intelligence(no pun intended). Spies, I’m talking about.
Moslem families are close and play a big part in the movement. Each terrorist cell is made up of mostly brothers or cousins or uncles and so on, so it is hard to get a spy on the inside to let you know what’s going on. There are thousands of cells all doing their own thing but following suggestions from higher up. Even if you do get a spy inside, you won’t find out any more than what’s going on in that particular cell. You would never get someone in a cell close to the top of the chain of command. They are too close. The spy has to be of the same racial profile and have a working knowledge of the religion, culture and language. It’s almost impossible to find a fanatical relative with extreme Moslem views that can be enticed with earthly rewards to give you reliable information. The whole culture is based on the idea that it is okay to lie, cheat and steal when you deal with the infidels. You might get information from someone you think is a spy, but he just told you a load of crap to get your money because he needed it to buy another load of AK’s or RPG’s.
I’m sure that this search for spies is what’s behind the recruitment drive but you are absolutely right that it is beautifully set up to backfire. Back in the old days you could just find somebody that spoke German and send ‘em in. These guys are tougher nuts to crack.
Ben
Feb 11, 2008
Actually, the biggest problem is all the motivators we give those fanatics to fanatically hate the U.S.
If American jackboots weren’t tromping all over their home soil, they’d care a lot more about their neighbors, and being constructive in their own countries, rather than traveling 7,000 miles to kill strangers.
Bob
Feb 11, 2008
They hate us because we are not Moslem. People don’t seem to get that. Study up on what it means to be an infidel.
Religion
Feb 12, 2008
The world needs to stop this. Religion should never divide people but, should bring them together!!! If people are actually religious souls this would be true.
susan28
Feb 16, 2008
religion is something people invoke when they feel helpless or frustrated, or belittled, marginalised etc. this is why, for instance, the American working class votes for the very people causing their economic woes because those people wave the Bible and give them a sense of being a part of something bigger, like “kicking towelhead arse”.
if they really thought about it they’d be kicking globalist neocon arse – and would be able to recognise it in members of either party so they could be effective in the primaries – but because they’re just not educated enough to figure out who’s screwing them, their frustration is easily redirected toward whomever is posed as the boogeyman.
so we’ve got the Sauds schooling people to hate America because they threaten Islam and us inciting people to hate Muslims because they threaten Christianity while the Bush family has the Saud family – good Christians and Muslims all – over to Crawford for a lil family bonding and some friendly price-fixing.
it’s not always the case, but by and large the dumber people are the more fundie they are – no matter what the religion -and the others that engage in it are frustrated or envious in some other way. like maybe Osama is just jealous that despite how rich he is, white people still run the place. he doesn’t like that we come in whether we’re invited or not and he can’t do crap about it. we ARE belligerent and condescending, and for some people, that’s enough. plus the Israel thing.
but whenever you need an instrument blunt enough that even an idiot can wield it, or if you’re a Machiavellian genius who needs an army of idiots ready to die for your cause, religion’s the weapon of choice.
susan28
Feb 16, 2008
sooooo.. i wonder if this is where they got the one they used for the first WTC bombing? the one where the well-meaning field agent who set up the sting was told to stand down at the last minute because the bomb “needed to go off”?
bless the hearts of agents like him who are courageous enough to blow the whistle on such treachery.
Shawn-Earnest
Mar 01, 2010
Quote: “Both the FBI and CIA are running recruitment advertising with a pro-terrorist magazine,Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. The magazine is well known for its anti-Israel, pro-terrorist writing, except, it seems, to the human capital managers.
I think this, What if an Islamic extremist group did the exact same recruitment tactic the FBI and CIA did in America? What If an Islamic terrorist group where to place an ad in a pro-American Political Magazine, or booth at a political gathering for recruitment purposes then would you feel more safe? Would you feel they are at your front door about to stair you and your family down into submission? Would you have more restful sleep at night? How would you feel about this, comforted? Would you feel threatened, weakened, and Vulnerable? I am certain the Islamic extremist felt exactly that and more, cause they are also extreme conservatives and they tend to blow everything out of proportion for martyrdom attention.
Corporate and or U.S.Federal Counter Intelligence associated groups and agencies always are hard at work as a prime objective in all public affairs, news media, and behind closed doors, but that is just at a glance.