 By Chris Neefus
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, says the Obama administration is stalling in providing information to the leaders of the House and Senate and the congressional intelligence committees on the multiple murders allegedly committed by a radical Muslim Army officer at Fort Hood more than a month ago.
So far, the committee chairman and congressional leaders have received no detailed, substantive briefing on the event and what is known about its perpetrator.
“You know, they’re playing out the string,” Hoekstra said Thursday. “We’re going home next week, (and) they will have effectively made it through three months with giving no substantive briefings on Fort Hood.”
CNSNews.com asked Hoekstra whether it was “a constitutional affront not to have the Gang of 8 briefed on this?”
“Oh yeah, sure, absolutely,” said Hoekstra.
The Gang of 8 is a group of leaders from the House and Senate who by law are supposed to be briefed on U.S. intelligence activities when the matter is too sensitive to share with the full intelligence committees.
The group includes the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees and the majority and minority leaders of each chamber.
Additionally, the law holds that the administration must “ensure that the congressional intelligence committees are kept fully and currently informed of the intelligence activities of the United States.”
When a reporter said he thought the Gang of 8 had been briefed on the intelligence report regarding the attack, Hoekstra said the committees had been given a preliminary briefing a few weeks ago that lacked substantive information.
 The US House of Representatives Tuesday adopted a bill asking the US president to report to Congress on incitement to anti-American violence on television networks in the Middle East. Lawmakers adopted the measure in a decisive 395-3 vote. The bill asks the US president to report, six months after the text has passed, "on anti-American incitement to violence in the Middle East, and for other purposes." "For years, media outlets in the Middle East have repeatedly published or broadcast incitements to violence against the United States and Americans," the bill read. "Given the dangers such incitement poses to American soldiers and civilians in the ... region and at home, it is long past time for the US and other responsible nations to stop this growing threat," said Republican Gus Bilirakis, author of the bill. It calls for punitive measures for networks deemed to be fueling terror. Among the networks mentioned are al-Aqsa, Hamas' television station, which broadcasts from Gaza, and Hezbollah's al-Manar. The US Senate has yet to weigh in on the issue. YNet
 The first congressional hearing in the aftermath of the Fort Hood massacre took place Thursday morning, with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing from security experts, including a retired general and a former top White House advisor. Lieberman wanted to hear from FBI officials about missed signals that Nidal Malik Hasan exhibited radical viewpoints and created concern among his colleagues.
But the administration didn't allow any current government witnesses, in deference to the ongoing criminal investigation. According to the Washington Post, Lieberman said conversations with Attorney General Eric Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates left him optimistic that the committee would gain access to some of the information it is seeking soon. Thursday, the committee heard testimony on how to better identify potential radicals in the armed forces and how to empower people to report their concerns up the chain of command, even when the concerns involved an officer like Hasan.
Among the witnesses were retired Gen. John Keane, a former Army vice chief of staff; Frances Fragos Townsend, President George W. Bush's homeland security adviser, and terrorism expert Brian Michael Jenkins of the RAND Corp. The New York Times reported that the Pentagon was initiating a review of the Hasan case that would have a similar focus.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism covered the hearing and prepared a video summary below: Watch and read more at IPT
 WASHINGTON -- There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee said Friday. Democratic Sen. Carl Levin said after a briefing from Pentagon and Army officials that his committee will investigate how those and other e-mails involving the alleged shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, were handled and why the U.S. military was not made aware of them before the Nov. 5 shooting. The U.S. government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric. They were passed along to two Joint Terrorism Task Force cells led by the FBI, but a senior defense official said no one at the Defense Department knew about the messages until after the shootings. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence procedures. Levin said his committee is focused on determining whether the Defense Department's representative on the terrorism task force acted appropriately and effectively. Levin also said he considers Hasan's shooting spree, which killed 13 and wounded more than 30, an act of terrorism. "There are some who are reluctant to call it terrorism, but there is significant evidence that is. I'm not at all uneasy saying it sure looks like that," he said. He said his committee also will look into whether military members have the ability to report suspicious behavior evinced by colleagues. FBI and military officials have provided differing versions of why Hasan's critical e-mails to al-Awlaki and others did not reach Army investigators before the shooting. FBI officials have said a military investigator on the task force saw the e-mails and looked up Hasan's record. Finding nothing particularly worrisome, the investigator neither sought nor got permission to pass the e-mails on to other military officials. The senior defense official has countered that the rules of the task force prevented that military representative from passing the records on without approval from other members of the task force. Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said it appears there was enough information available to law enforcement, the military and intelligence agencies to raise alarm bells about Hasan but no one connected the dots. "Had it been gathered on one desk, someone might have said `Nidal Malik Hasan is dangerous,"' Lieberman, an independent, told reporters after the briefing. The Pentagon may reconsider rules governing participation in extremist organizations that some lawmakers say appear outdated and too narrow in light of the shooting rampage at the Army base in Texas. Lieberman said Congress may recommend such a review, and a Pentagon spokesman said Friday that the rules could be among the policies scrutinized by a wide-ranging inquiry aimed at preventing another similar attack. More at Foxnews
 A senator and five Congress members are urging the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations to determine whether the controversial Muslim group's lobbying activities on Capitol Hill violate its nonprofit status. The letter to IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman is signed by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and members of the House antiterrorism caucus, Reps. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., John Shadegg, R-Ariz., Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Paul Broun, R-Ga., and Patrick McHenry, R-N.C. The Washington, D.C.-based CAIR – which had its relationship with the FBI cut off this year after being named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror-finance case in U.S. history – has been under increased scrutiny since the release of "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America," a WND Books publication by former Air Force special agent P. David Gaubatz and "Infiltration" author Paul Sperry.
The authors present firsthand evidence CAIR is acting as a front for a well-funded conspiracy of the Muslim Brotherhood – the parent of al-Qaida and Hamas – to infiltrate the U.S. and help pave the way for Saudi-style Islamic law to rule the nation. The letter, also addressed to the House clerk, Senate secretary and Senate superintendent of records, points to evidence uncovered in "Muslim Mafia" that CAIR may be in violation of both the anti-excessive-lobbying provision of its 501(c)(3) nonprofit status and the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 by failing to register with Congress as a federal lobbying organization. As CAIR's own website states, the group's Governmental Affairs Department "conducts and organizes lobbying efforts on issues related to Islam and Muslims." CAIR says its department is "active in monitoring legislation and government activities and then, responding on behalf of the American Muslim community. CAIR representatives have testified before Congress and have sponsored a number of activities designed to bring Muslim concerns to Capitol Hill." As WND reported last month, Myrick, Shadegg, Franks and Broun formally asked the House sergeant at arms to investigate evidence from "Muslim Mafia" that CAIR is conspiring to plant "spies" inside Congress targeting sensitive security-related committees. In another letter, to Attorney General Eric Holder, the House members ask the Justice Department to reveal to Congress members why CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror-finance case in U.S. history. "Muslim Mafia" points out CAIR, as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, is severely restricted from lobbying and expressly prohibited from political campaigning. Read more at WND
 The US president has said federal and military authorities should complete their investigations into the Fort Hood shootings before a congress committee looks into the the incident. Speaking on an internet video released by the White House on Saturday, Barack Obama said the deaths of 13 people should not be used to create "political theatre" as "the stakes are far too high". The man charged with the murders, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, had previously been investigated by authorities and was suspected of links to a Muslim religious leader in Yemen. Some members of congress have called for their own investigation into what intelligence agencies knew of Hasan's contacts and suggest the administration is being guarded with the facts. Obama has already ordered a review of what was known and whether information was correctly shared and acted upon. Peter Hoekstra, the most senior Republican party official on the House intelligence committee, said last week that Hasan and the religious leader had exchanged at least 10 emails from December 2008. A Federal Bureau of Investigation terrorism task force knew last year of the pair's communication but decided that it was not linked to terrorism. Al Jazeera (English)
 By JOHN DOYLE in Fort Hood, Texas, and CHUCK BENNETT in NY The FBI knew for nearly a year before his murderous Fort Hood rampage that psycho Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had repeatedly contacted al Qaeda -- but the blundering agency last night admitted it dismissed the lead. The clueless G-men said that at the time, they simply chalked up the chilling e-mails between Hasan and a radical imam and other terror-tied Islamic figures to his "research" as an Army shrink. Outraged congressional leaders immediately called for a probe into the debacle -- and the red-faced agency vowed to get to the bottom of things itself. "I think the very fact that you've got a major in the US Army contacting [a radical imam], or attempting to contact him, would raise some red flags," Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) -- ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee -- told the Los Angeles Times. The FBI said Hasan -- who faces a court-martial -- first turned up on its radar in December 2008. That's when he sent 10 to 20 e-mails to several terror-related Islamic figures, including Anwar Aulaqi, a radical imam from Virginia who has been openly propagandizing for al Qaeda in Yemen and who had ties to several of the 9/11 hijackers, sources told the LA Times. Those messages were intercepted by a Joint Terrorism Task Force during an unrelated investigation and later referred to FBI and Army investigators in Washington, officials said. But no alarm bells went off because the communications were consistent with Hasan's research into how US combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan affect civilians, officials insisted.
The e-mails never made explicit threats or discussed plots, they added. Less than a year later, last Thursday, Hasan went on a shooting spree at the Army base in Fort Hood in Texas, killing 13 and injuring 29. Even if US authorities regarded Aulaqi's responses to Hasan as "relatively innocuous," Hoekstra told the LA Times, "I think the fact that you're getting responses should have set off red flags, regardless of the content." Federal sources admitted that Hasan was so off their radar by that point that they hadn't even been aware of his gun purchases in Texas in August. Read more here,,,, Source: NYPost
 Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Sunday he intends to launch a Senate committee hearing on whether the Fort Hood shootings were a terrorist act and if the Army should have taken pre-emptive steps due to reported signs of Islamic extremism by the suspected gunman. "I'm intending to begin a congressional investigation of my Homeland Security Committee into what were the motives of (Maj. Nidal Malik) Hasan in carrying out this mass murder," the Connecticut independent, who belongs to the Democratic caucus, said on "FOX News Sunday." If Hasan was showing signs of being an Islamic extremist, the Army should have acted on that earlier and "he should have been gone," said Lieberman, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Saying it was too early to know Hasan's exact motive, Lieberman declared that if reports of the alleged gunman's possible Islamic extremism are true, then "the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act." "We don't know enough to say now," Lieberman said, noting what he called "strong warning signs" that Hasan had become an Islamic extremist.
Lieberman cited reports that Hasan made statements justifying suicide bombers as similar to American soldiers that hurl their bodies on exploding grenades to protect others, and that some bystanders reported Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar," Arabic for "God is great," which terrorists have used as a battle cry. "If that's confirmed, it raises genuine concerns that it was a terrorist act," Lieberman said. In addition, Lieberman noted Hasan allegedly had said he understood and supported the shooting death of a Little Rock, Arkansas, Army recruiter, allegedly by a Muslim convert. His committee investigation would look into "whether warning signs were missed" regarding Hasan's behavior and how Hasan may have become a "self-radicalized homegrown terrorist," Lieberman said. However, other members of Congress counseled waiting for the military and FBI to complete their investigation of what happened before reaching any conclusions. Read more here,,,, Source: CNN
 The dead gunman, army major Hassan Malik, was believed to be a recent convert to Islam and was soon to be deployed to Iraq.
The army major is believed to have been a doctor on the military base who specialised in mental health. Military officials held two other soldiers in custody on the Soldier Readiness Centre at Fort Hood, the world's largest base, but it is not clear at this stage if they were connected with the violence. It is believed that shooting may have started during a graduation ceremony attended by large numbers of young military personnel, and could have been the work of a lone gunman. Soon after the shooting rampage, which occurred at 1.30pm Texas time, about 500 military personnel performed a security sweep of the base to prevent any further violence and to check for further suspects. Some of those killed are believed to have been shot at point-blank range with handguns, with the shooter or shooters reloading multiple times.
US President Barack Obama described the shootings as tragic and sent his condolences to the families of those murdered. "This is a horrific outburst of violence," he said. The President broke from a prepared speech to the Tribal Nations Conference in Washington to say there had been a tragic shooting in Texas but details were unclear. "What we do know is that a number of American soldiers have been killed and even more have been wounded in a horrific outburst of violence," he said. "My immediate thoughts and prayers are with the wounded, and with the families of the fallen, and with those live and serve at Fort Hood. "Theses are men and women who have made the selfless and courageous decision to risk, and at times give, their lives to protect the rest of us on a daily basis. "It is difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas. It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on American soil. The President said he had spoken to Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, and he would receive a constant stream of updates. "We are working with the Pentagon, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, all to ensure that Fort Hood is secure and we will continue to support the community with the full resources of the federal government. "In the meantime I would ask all Americans to keep the men and women of Fort Hood in your thoughts and prayers. "We will make sure that we get answers to every single question about this horrible incident and I want all of you to know that as commander in chief there is no greater honour, but also no greater responsibility for me than to make sure that extraordinary men and women in uniform are properly cared for and that their safety and security when they are at home is provided for."
Congress today held a moment of silence to honour the dead victims in the Fort Hood shootings. Source: The Australian
 WASHINGTON – German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke before the US Congress on Tuesday and said that the Iranian threat to Israel was "a threat to the free world. Anyone threatening Israel threatens us all. The safety of the State of Israel is nonnegotiable. It never was and it never will be." In a speech marking the 20th anniversary to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Merkel said that Iran must understand that the West is not willing to compromise on its atom program: "We must show zero tolerance to the possibility of Iran getting hold of nuclear weapons. It threatens us all," she said, to roaring applause. Addressing Iran's stalled response to the West's and the International Atomic Energy Agency's draft proposal, meant to regulate its nuclear program, Merkel said that "Iran knows the specifics of our proposal and it should also know where we will draw our red line. "A nuclear weapon at the hands of an Iranian president who denies the Holocaust, threatens Israel and negates its right to exist is simply unacceptable." Prior to addressing the congress, Merkel met with US President Barack Obama. The two reportedly discussed Iran, the war in Afghanistan and various climate issues. Merkel also spoke of the need to formulate an international treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol – the United Nations' framework to battle global warming.
 by Steven Emerson This article originally was published by The Hudson Institute's Hudson New York web site. To see the original, click here. In 1993, a secret meeting of the Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee—mostly senior Hamas leaders--was held in a Philadelphia Marriott.
The group discussed new ways to secretly funnel money to Hamas and of creating a new public relations organization to deceive the American about their true objectives of helping Hamas. Less than a year later, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was created to serve as a front group for Hamas. Since that time, it has morphed into a quasi legitimate "Islamic civil rights" group portrayed in some circles as the equivalent of the NAACP. For 14 years, CAIR got away with the lying to us about who they are, justifying Islamic terrorist attacks, legitimizing suicide bombings, presenting speakers who had been Holocaust deniers, making incendiary presentations about the United States and urging Muslims not to talk to the FBI.
CAIR claims that that there is no such thing as radical Islam, but rather a secret cabal to attack all of Islam, while secretly receiving millions of dollars from Saudi financiers and attacking terrorist prosecutions as somehow an "attack on Islam." CAIR now has dozens of chapters which host annual banquets featuring not only radical speakers, but outside guests including chiefs of police, congressmen, FBI and DHS officials—even getting Tampa and Houston to declare "CAIR Day' in their respective cities. (In fairness, Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio announced this year that she would no longer do so after studying CAIR's record.) On the other side, the FBI—despite 14 years of a cozy relationship with CAIR—finally decided to sever relations with CAIR in late 2008 for its ties to Hamas. In the trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, an FBI agent testified that CAIR was a front for Hamas. In other words, CAIR was a front for a terrorist group. And it was named as an un-indicted co-conspirator as well in the case. Bravo to the FBI for making the right and politically courageous decision. Last week, a new book, Muslim Mafia, disclosed or elaborated on many of these developments within CAIR. Four Congressmen, led by Sue Myrick, (R-N.C), held a press conference to protest the fact that CAIR, a Hamas front group, had a plan to insert interns into key congressional committees. The book made plenty of other disclosures that were highlighted by the Congressman. And what happened? Those other points were discarded by the media, which picked up CAIR's dissembling spin that the Congressmen advocated a witch hunt against all Muslim staffers on Capitol Hill. They said no such thing. CNN never challenged any of the demonstrably false statements made by a CAIR official it interviewed. The news website Politico whitewashed CAIR.
Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal Constitution called CAIR a "mainstream" group unfairly targeted by right wing wackos. Congressmen John Conyers and Loretta Sanchez, who had done CAIR's bidding for years, were among those who leapt to CAIR's defense. They all bought into CAIR's manifestly ludicrous claim that attacking CAIR was somehow tantamount to attacking all of Islam. That has been CAIR's modus operandi since its inception. CAIR often throws out unsubstantiated charges of bigotry to deflect attention away from its detailed and documented record of conning the American people.
My organization challenged those specious claims in a thorough report that can be seen here. Read more here,,,, Source: IPT
 By Bob Unruh 'Where there's smoke, there's fire,' says longtime Arab television anchor
A former Arab news anchor–turned–national security advocate has created a petition demanding that the subjects of the new book "Muslim Mafia" be investigated. "We call on the U.S. government to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation into the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the interest of national security," says the new petition by Brigitte Gabriel, who now runs the ACT! for America organization. Gabriel covered news throughout Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, and her work brought her into contact with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, President George H.W. Bush and Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Ariel Sharon. She moved to the United States in 1989 and founded a television production company as well as ACT! for America, which is dedicated to educating millions about the threat of radical Islam to world peace and national security. Now her petition, which already has attracted thousands of signatures, demands:
- The U.S. Department of Justice share with each member of the U.S. Congress an executive summary of the findings that led them to name CAIR as a co-conspirator in a terrorism case.
- The House Sergeant at Arms work with all members of Congress and their top staff, particularly those members who sit on the House Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Intelligence Committees, to perform background checks on staff under their employ, considering evidence that CAIR has strategically worked to place staffers there.
- The U.S. Internal Revenue Service perform a full and thorough investigation into the business activities of CAIR, specifically their lobbying activities, to judge if they are in violation of their federal non-profit status as a 501(c)(3) organization.
Her points are similar to the demands of four members of Congress who were alarmed at the revelations in "Muslim Mafia," by Paul Sperry and David Gaubatz, which was based on an extended undercover operation at the organization that lobbies for Muslim interests but is considered by many in law enforcement to be a front group for terrorists. Reps. Sue Myrick, R-N.C.; Trent Franks, R-Ariz.; John Shadegg, R-Ariz.; and Paul Broun, R-Ga., have called for an internal House investigation as well as for a review from the Department of Justice about CAIR's activities. Gabriel is a member of the board of advisers of the Intelligence Summit, lectures on global terrorism and is author of New York Times best-sellers "Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America" and "They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It." Her petition declares, "It's time for a federal investigation of CAIR." Read more here,,,, Source: WND
 Top Democratic and Republican foreign affairs leaders in the US Congress are calling on the Obama administration to quash the Goldstone Report. A non-binding resolution introduced on Friday by Rep. Howard Berman (D-California), the chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Ileana Ross-Lehtinen (R-Florida), the committee's ranking Republican, "calls on the president and the secretary of state to strongly and unequivocally oppose any further consideration of the 'Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict' and any other measures stemming from this report in multilateral fora." Also signing on as sponsors were the Middle East subcommittee's chairman and ranking member, Reps. Gary Ackerman (D-New York) and Dan Burton (R-Indiana). The report alleges Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in last winter's Gaza war.
The Obama administration has called the report flawed, but also says it raises allegations that deserve to be addressed by the parties to the conflict. The administration is opposed to furthering the report in international committees but has stopped short of unequivocally blocking such consideration. Meanwhile, Judge Richard Goldstone has turned down an invitation by the Israeli Press Council to speak at a journalism conference in Eilat, slated to be held in November, according to a statement issued on the council's Web site on Sunday. In response to the invitation, Goldstone wrote in a letter to Press Council director-general Eric Bahar that he would not be able to attend the conference, due to a prior speaking engagement at New York's Fordham University law school, according to the statement. Source: JPost
 By Walid Phares On Tuesday, September 22, 2009, Members of the US Congress, Members of European Parliament and a Member of the Canadian Parliament signed an historic document condemning Iran’s continued human rights abuses.
This document was signed at the second Trans-Atlantic Group on Counter Terrorism, or TAG, summit hosted by TAG co-chairs US Representative Sue Myrick (NC-09) and Member of European Parliament Jaime Mayor Oreja (EU-Spain). “This is historic because it is the first document signed by a group of international lawmakers addressing the Iranian regime’s human rights atrocities against the Iranian people,” said US Representative Sue Myrick (NC-09), who is also the Co-Chair of the US Bipartisan House Caucus on Counter Terrorism.
“We are keeping a close watch on the Iran nuclear weapons situation, but this will not cause us to forget the human rights atrocities committed by the Iranian regime.
We say to the Iranian people who continue their fight for freedom, ‘We have not forgotten you. We stand with you". At the signing session which took place inside the US Congress, MEP Jaime Mayor Oreja, who serves as the Vice President for the EPP at the European Parliament, said "it is the first time that legislators from both sides of the Atlantic are coming together to address the threats of Jihadi terror. We are pleased to have accomplished this first step and other important steps will follow." Oreja oversees the European Ideas Network (EIN), the Policy Think Tank of the EPP. Members of Congress who signed this declaration include: Sue Myrick (NC), Kay Granger (TX), Paul Broun (GA), Bill Shuster (PA), Ed Royce (CA), and former Congressman Bud Cramer (AL). Members of the European Parliament who signed this declaration include: Mr. Jaime Mayor Oreja (Spain), a former Minister of Interior, Mrs. Corien Worthmann-Kool (Netherlands), Mr. Timothy Kirkhope MEP (UK), Mr. Othmar Karas (Austria), Mr. Marian Jean Marinescu (Romania), and Mr. Ioannis Kasoulides (Cyprus), a former Foreign Minister. Canadian MP Irwin Cotler, a former Minister of Justice, also joined the delegations and signed the declaration. In addition, a number of former US and European legislators and politicians have participated in the meetings leading to the declaration. The declaration calls on: 1) The government of Iran to put an immediate end to the abuses of its citizens’ human rights; 2) The U.N. Secretary General to dispatch a team of investigators to Iran to inquire about the human rights abuses and report back their findings to the international community. We urge this team to visit political detainees in prisons, meet with the leaders of the opposition and with the demonstrators to present a full picture of abuse taking place; 3) Our respective governments of the United States, the European Union and Canada, and on the United Nations, to investigate the so-called "Basij militia" for alleged abuse of human rights; 4) The United Nations Human Rights Council to freeze the membership of Iran until a full investigation by the Council and the U.N. Secretary General on the mass scale abuse of human rights in Iran is completed; including the identification of those inside the Iranian regime responsible for issuing the orders to commit the atrocities. Iran should not be allowed to remain on the Human Rights Council when it does not defend human rights within its own border. The goal of TAG is to create a working relationship between legislators from Europe and North America to address terrorism and the threat it poses to democracies. The first TAG summit was held April 30, 2008, in Washington, DC. The second TAG summit helped solidify the strong counter-terrorism trans-Atlantic partnership among lawmakers. At the summit, lawmakers discussed how democracies can address terror threats, not as individual countries, but as an international community. In the US, the declaration was issued by Rep Myrick's office. In Europe it was issued by MEP Mayor Oreja's office and in Canada by MP Irwin Cotler. For Information on TAG contact the Secretariat General in Washington and Brussels transatlanticgroup@gmail.com The Signed Declaration is attached Dr Walid Phares is Co-Secretary General of the Trans Atlantic Parliamentary Group on Counter Terrorism. Source: Counter Terrorism Blog
A Muslim congressman has lashed out against a fellow Muslim on Capitol Hill.Congressman Keith Ellison denounced Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, for warning that political Islam has a militant strain that's used to justify terrorism.
Jasser told a congressional briefing that terrorism won't be stopped until his Islamic faith goes through its own Reformation to separate mosque and state.
Ellison responded by accusing Jasser of giving people a "license for bigotry."
The Minnesota Democrat said every religion has its violent extremists, and told Jasser, "I think people who want to engage in nothing less than Muslim-hating really love you a lot, because you give them freedom to do that."
But Jasser declared, "This is an Islamic problem and it needs an Islamic solution." Source: Fox NashvilleKeith Ellison
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  A war of words between U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) escalated Friday when Wolf took to the House floor and spent more than 40 minutes detailing CAIR's ties to terrorists and its habit of attacking critics as Islamophobes. It started after Wolf wrote to the FBI Feb. 2 seeking more details about the Bureau's decision to cut off contact with CAIR based upon evidence brought forth in the terror-support trial against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. Wolf wanted confirmation that the policy was, in fact, in place, and whether it was subject to change. He also asked about the depth of financial support CAIR received from foreign sources. After receiving a very general response, Wolf followed up with a second letter demanding more specifics. That prompted CAIR to issue a statement accusing the congressman of having "abused his power." Wolf's inquiries, CAIR claimed, were in retribution for the organization's opposition to Wolf's policies and statements. Since then, the FBI has offered details, explaining that the HLF evidence left officials unsure whether CAIR "continues" to have a connection to the terrorist group Hamas. Until that is resolved, the Bureau "does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner." Read more ...Source: IPT News
By David S. Cloud Democrats in Congress are joining Republicans in calling for tough new sanctions on Iran and warning the Obama administration that its policy of engagement shouldn’t last too long before turning to harsher steps aimed at halting Tehran’s nuclear program. This week, as many as 20 senators, including several senior Democrats in the House and Senate, are expected to join in introducing a bill that would authorize sanctions against companies involved in supplying gasoline and other refined petroleum products to Iran. A similar bill is also in the works in the House. Last month, seven senior Democrats, including Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), warned President Barack Obama against “open-ended engagement with Iran.” The administration is so far moving on a slower timetable, refusing to commit itself to new sanctions until it sees whether its diplomatic outreach to Iran produces results. Read more ...Source: Politico
To: U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, and Congress  On November 10, 2008, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board announced that the U.S. federal government was buying $40 billion of AIG stock making U.S. taxpayers owners in AIG's business. AIG refuses to divest its Islamic supremacist Sharia-based financial and Sharia-based insurance businesses, making American taxpayers now effectively owners of Sharia-based businesses that promote Islamic supremacism. As America is founded on the inalienable human rights of equality and liberty, it is unacceptable for American taxpayers to be forced to own any business that supports a supremacist ideology.
The American people demand the following:
(a) The American people must call for the immediate freeze of all American taxpayer funds to AIG until it divests of its Sharia financial businesses.
(b) The American federal government must give AIG an ultimatum to divest itself of its Sharia business or the America federal government must divest all ownership in AIG.
(c) Those in the American federal government responsible for the bailout and purchase of AIG stock must resign, including the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board Chairman.
(d) Leaders in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives must lead a national investigation into Sharia-Compliant Finance (SCF) and Sharia financial businesses in America to end their ability to promote the Islamic supremacist ideology in America.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Source: Responsible for Equality and LibertyH/T: JEH
 By Afua Hirsch Pressure on the government to reform the domestic libel law intensified last week after American legislators told Congress that cases heard in London were causing "concrete and profound harm" to the American people. The Guardian has learned both the Ministry of Justice and the parliamentary committee on media, culture and sport are planning consultations on libel law reforms, as the US takes steps to protect Americans from the English courts. Earlier this month, an American congressional committee singled out "ridiculous lawsuits" permitted in London and heard that "foreign individuals are operating a scheme to intimidate authors and publishers". Called by US senators Peter King, Arlen Specter and Joseph Lieberman, the committee heard that among the effects of English libel law was the suppression of information critical to American national security. Read more ...Source: Guardian
 In one of its first public interviews, the new Washington D.C. Bureau of Islam Online (IOL), the Internet news portal associated with global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi, has published what was described as an “exclusive interview” with Congresswoman Eleanor Homes Norton (D-DC) concerning alleged discrimination against Muslims at U.S. airports. According to the IOL report: Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton believes discrimination against Arabs and Muslims at US airports has reached a critical point and needs urgent investigation and remedy. “I’m fed up and the American people are fed up of American citizens and others who are legally here being treated as if they were terrorists; simply when they do what the rest of us do like board a plane, with small children,” she told IslamOnline.net in an exclusive interview. Norton has asked for a hearing over the removal of nine members of a Muslim family, including two children, from a domestic flight to Orlando, Florida, on January 1 after some passengers overheard them chatting about the “safest” seats in the plane. Read more ... Source: The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report H/T: Family Security MattersEleanor Holmes Norton
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