FBI raid on Detroit mosque leads local Muslims to redouble efforts to cooperate with authorities -- no, wait...

Actually -- surprise! -- the local Muslims are angry about the FBI's use of informants.

Apparently no one is allowed to know what is going on inside the mosques, and we are all supposed to take it on trust that inside them they are preaching love for non-Muslims, peaceful coexistence with them as equals on an indefinite basis, equality of rights for women, the importance of the Constitution's non-establishment of a state religion, and the virtues of a non-Sharia state.

"Deadly FBI raid in Dearborn prompts concern over informants: Muslims, civil rights advocates decry tactic," by Niraj Warikoo for the Detroit Free Press, January 17:

He called himself Jabril. Two years ago, a white man who claimed he was an ex-con and convert to Islam started attending a predominantly African-American mosque on a run-down street in Detroit.

He touted his Islamic ways while offering poor members of the mosque cash for odd jobs at an auto shop on the city's west side. He told tales of sick family members and brought a young boy to the mosque who he said was his son.

Jabril soon became a brother in faith and a confidante of the mosque's fiery leader, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was killed in a shootout during an Oct. 28 raid by FBI agents to arrest men suspected of dealing in stolen goods.

Members now believe Jabril was an FBI informant who infiltrated their mosque.

"He built up trust in the community," said Omar Regan, 34, one of Abdullah's sons.

The case -- one of several in the past year involving informants in Muslim-American communities -- has prompted growing concern among Muslims and civil rights advocates about undercover surveillance in religious institutions.

Federal officials say they don't send informants into congregations without reason. But last week, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Detroit Democrat, called upon the U.S. Justice Department to review its policies on using informants in houses of worship. [...]

For two years, the man known as Jabril to many at Masjid Al-Haqq ingratiated himself with members of the mosque, according to Abdullah's followers. They accepted him as a brother in Islam.

On Oct. 28, Regan said Jabril asked mosque members to help him move some goods in a Dearborn warehouse. Authorities said the men were there to deal in stolen items.

Once inside the warehouse, Jabril reportedly told the mosque members: "I'm going to go get some water, a drink of water," Regan said in an interview with the Free Press.

Jabril then disappeared.

Moments later, federal agents stormed inside. Abdullah, 53, was shot dead by FBI agents after an exchange of fire during the raid.

Jabril was never seen again by members of the mosque.

The story of Jabril's alleged infiltration offers a rare look into the use of FBI informants in Muslim-American communities in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001. Members of the Detroit mosque say they believe Jabril was a key undercover informant in helping the FBI build a case against Abdullah and his followers.

Muslim advocates say there's a growing problem of improper use of informants, particularly in houses of worship. Some accuse the informant of luring Abdullah to his death in the fatal shooting, which has raised questions about excessive force.

But the FBI and federal prosecutors have said that agents acted appropriately in trying to apprehend members of a criminal operation led by Abdullah. They said the group preached violence and hatred against law enforcement and non-Muslims.

Abdullah and his followers were not charged with any acts of terrorism. The charges against the 11 men arrested include dealing in stolen goods such as laptops and fur coats, firearms violations and tampering with vehicle identification numbers. The criminal complaint, however, highlights the radical views of the group. "America must fall," Abdullah once said, according to the complaint.

While some Muslim leaders have expressed concern about civil rights, federal officials say informants are vitally needed, especially with the recent surge in domestic terrorism....

Read it all. The usual suspects, including CAIR, show up and say the usual things.

With thanks to JihadWatch

The Islamic infiltration, parts 1 and 2

I wrote about some of the revelations incidental to the government's prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for NRO in "Coming clean about CAIR."

CAIR and other prominent Muslim organizations were named as unindicted co-conspirators of the Holy Land Foundation at the criminal trials that ultimately resulted in the HLF's conviction of supporting terrorism as a Hamas front.

Though exposed at the two Holy Land Foundation trials, CAIR et al. continue to operate as partners of the United States government.

At PJTV, Bill Whittle updates the story in an in-depth interview with an anonymous former FBI Special Agent in "The Islamic infiltration, part 1: Inside our government, armed with our secrets" and "The Islamic infiltration, part 2: From influence to insurrection."

These segments mimic the format of 60 Minutes, but Whittle and PJTV go where 60 Minutes fears to tread.

With thanks to Power Line

Infiltration: Muslim Spies Setting Muslim Policy at the Pentagon

Unlike the terrified and Islamist media, Investors Business Daily is exposing the enemy within. Atlas covered the infiltration at the Pentagon described below here. Patriots at the Pentagonwere routed by devout Muslims.

Penetration Even At The Pentagon: Muslim Spies Setting Muslim Policy Paul Sperry, www.Investors.com

The internal threat from Muslim extremists in the military extends to high-level Defense Department aides who have undermined military policy. In fact, one top Muslim adviser pushed out an intelligence analyst who warned of the sudden jihad syndrome that led to the Fort Hood terrorist attack.

An honored guest of the Ramadan dinner at the Pentagon this September was Hesham Islam, who infiltrated the highest echelons of the Ring despite proven ties to U.S. terror front groups and a shady past in his native Egypt.

As senior adviser for international affairs to former deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, Islam ran interference for the Islamic Society of North America and other radical fronts for the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood, the subject of my new book "Muslim Mafia."

For example, Islam persuaded brass to sack a Pentagon analyst, Stephen Coughlin, after he advised cutting off outreach to ISNA, which he accurately ID'd as part of a covert terror-support network in the U.S. — something the Justice Department recently confirmed in a major terror finance trial.

Islam invited ISNA officials to lunch with the avuncular England, known by insiders as Gullible Gordon, who in turn spoke at ISNA confabs. Islam also helped set up a Pentagon job booth at one recent ISNA convention to recruit Muslim chaplains and linguists.

Most disturbing, Islam met regularly with Saudi and other embassy officials lobbying for the release and repatriation of their citizens held at Gitmo. He in turn advised England, who authorized the release of dozens of Gitmo detainees. Some have resumed terrorist activities.

No one really knew who Islam was when he was promoted — in fact, the Pentagon removed his bio from its Web site after reporters noted major inconsistencies in it — yet he was allowed to get inside the office of the Pentagon's No. 2 official.

"In effect," a senior U.S. Army intelligence official told me, "we've got terrorist supporters calling the shots on our policies toward Muslims from the highest levels."

Meanwhile, politically incorrect prophets like Coughlin have been frozen out. After the betrayal at Fort Hood, the military could use his analysis of Islamic doctrine more than ever.

I attended a private briefing by Coughlin in February. In a PowerPoint presentation, he detailed how jihadists use the Quran to justify their actions. Some of his slides matched almost word-for-word Hasan's own PowerPoint slides extolling the virtues of jihad and martyrdom. Both, for instance, quoted from the same Quranic passage known as the "Verse of the Sword."

Eerily, Coughlin predicted Hasan's mind-set. He first began briefing the Pentagon on this jihadist doctrine in 2002. So brass can't say they didn't know.

They were warned that the enemy was drawing on religious principles, and that our own Muslim soldiers could succumb to such thinking.

And they were warned that by using ISNA and other radical Brotherhood fronts to endorse Muslim chaplains and recruit Muslim soldiers, they were courting enemies of the U.S. — and courting disaster. But they were too drunk with political correctness to listen.

The jihadist threat to U.S.-based armed forces is external as well as internal — and far greater than reported. It comes from both inside and outside the military.

Fort Hood follows in a line of attacks or plots against military personnel and installations since 2006, when al-Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn, an American convert to Islam, appeared in a video with Osama bin Laden and encouraged fellow Muslim-Americans to "go on a shooting spree at the Marines' housing facilities at Camp Pendleton" in California.

Over the past few years, an alarming number of homegrown Muslim terrorists have targeted military installations, including:

• A North Carolina cell of white converts to Islam who trained to attack Marine headquarters in Quantico, Va.

• A New York cell of black jailhouse converts who planned to down planes at an Air National Guard base with shoulder-fired missiles.

• A lone Muslim convert who shot two soldiers at a Little Rock, Ark., Army recruiting station, killing one.

• A Los Angeles cell of black Muslim converts who plotted to hit military bases in California.

• A New Jersey cell of hardened jihadists who trained to attack Fort Dix by posing as pizza delivery drivers.

The Fort Dix terrorists had also talked about joining the U.S. Army so they could kill U.S soldiers from the "inside." They planned to hit the post just days after a National Guard unit arrived back from Gitmo. Some of them were inspired by al-Qaida preacher Anwar Awlaki, who on his Yemen-based Web site calls for jihad against U.S. military targets inside and outside the U.S.

But so do so-called moderate American clerics like Zaid Shakir. In "Muslim Mafia," I transcribe for readers a CD recording of one of his sermons circulating in mosques across America. In it, he exhorts the Muslim faithful to attack planes carrying the 82nd Airborne.

Frequently booked by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a guest speaker at its events, Shakir tells his Muslim audience: "Jihad is physically fighting the enemies of Islam to protect and advance the religion of Islam. This is jihad."

Acceptable targets of jihad, he says, include U.S. military aircraft. "Islam doesn't permit us to hijack airplanes filled with civilian people," he said, but "if you hijack an airplane filled with the 82nd Airborne, that's something else."

The 82nd Airborne is based out of Fort Bragg, which is part of North Carolina state Sen. Larry Shaw's home district. Shaw is CAIR's new chairman. He is also a minority contractor who operates Shaw Food Services Co. near Fort Bragg. According to the legislator's financial disclosure form, Shaw Food customers include the Defense Department.

Yet CAIR, like ISNA, is an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator. The FBI says CAIR is a terrorist front group and has cut off formal ties to it. So should the military.

Will Fort Bragg be next? Does anybody care?

This enemy is hiding behind a religion, making it easier for them to infiltrate our sensitive security agencies.

Communist spooks did not have such an advantage.

Read the whole thing.

With thanks to Atlas

Jihadist Spies: How Islamic terrorist groups infiltrate our military and steal our most valuable weapons technology.

By Jamie Glazov

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. He is the owner of DG Counter-terrorism Publishing. He is currently conducting a 50 State Counter-terrorism Research Tour (CTRT). He can be contacted at davegaubatz@gmail.com.

FP: Dave Gaubatz, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

While a Federal Agent you were assigned to protect some of our country’s most valuable weapons technology. Do you believe that Islamic terror groups have stolen any of the weapons technology that America has not even put into the battlefield yet?

Gaubatz: Thank you Jamie.

Although I worked with many of our country’s leading engineers and scientists who research, develop, and deploy our country’s ‘golden nuggets’ (highest classified weapons systems), my opinion is not as important as what comes directly from the terrorist groups themselves.

I routinely monitor Islamic Jihadists websites to keep up with their future plans. Recently a good friend provided me the link to one such group. The site was very interesting, but one article caught my attention more than the others. It was titled ‘EMP Grenade Technology Becoming a Reality.’ After readers finish reading this interview, I highly suggest they go to my website and review a letter I received from the Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM. The letter is on the right side of my site and titled “Gaubatz Directed Energy.” Read more ...

Source: FPM

Jihadi Penetration of Pakistan’s Armed Forces is of Central Concern to Any New U.S. Strategy

By Dr. Walid Phares

The deal between the Pakistan government and pro-Taliban forces in the Swat valley is an ominous portent of Pakistan’s slide into Jihadism, with strategic implications for India and other countries, warns Walid Phares, a counterterrorism expert and director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington. Excerpts from an interview he gave Venkatesan Vembu:

Q: How different is the Obama administration’s strategy (vis-à-vis the Bush administration’s) in pursuing the war on terror in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Family Security Matters

Source: Family Security Matters

9/11: Seven Years Later

LARRY KUDLOW:
President Bush remembering 9/11. We've been safe for seven years. That is a real blessing. But what is the terrorist risk assessment today? We welcome back our friend Steve Emerson, NBC news terrorist analyst, executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Steve Emerson, thank you for coming back on. You know, seven years safe is a remarkable, remarkable achievement. And I was just thinking, let's see, we've foiled or fended off possible terrorist plots. I'm listing Buffalo, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Miami. You may have others, but I guess I want to ask you, what is the terrorist threat out there, what is the risk assessment, and is America complacent right now?

STEVE EMERSON:
Larry, that's a great question. Law enforcement has done a great job in preventing, interdicting and stopping scores of terrorist plots since 9/11. Unfortunately, it doesn't resonate with the public because those events don't transpire, so the public doesn't see what could have happened had law enforcement failed. But the real threat, as I see it today, is not coming only from Al Qaeda and radical Islamic groups that are inspired by Al Qaeda, and Britain certainly is most certainly afflicted with this, the airline plot and the 7/11 attacks a couple of years ago, but it comes from radical jihadists that are carrying out a slow jihad best said by Yusuf al Qaradawi, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who said "we will conquer America, not by the sword but by dawah," which is conversion, proselytization and the ballot box. Video

Source: CNBC

Islamist Moles

Guarding against penetration by terrorist agents and sympathizers should be a top concern of public agencies, but it's not. Guarding against charges of job discrimination is.

Multiculturalism and political correctness have made it easier for the terrorists to use Arabs and Muslims to infiltrate the government and steal security secrets.

In the latest example, a former city 911 operator faces multiple felony counts for allegedly searching the names of friends and relatives on the FBI's terrorist watch list.

Nadire P. Zenelaj, an ethnic Albanian, says she's being singled out because she is Muslim. "I feel they targeted me because of my religion," she said.

No, she was investigated for looking up classified information on her confederates. At least one of the 227 names she checked was on the terrorist watch list, according to Rochester, N.Y., police.

A D.C.-area cop recently was convicted of doing the same thing.

Federal prosecutors say Fairfax County Police Sgt. Weiss Rasool, an Afghan immigrant, tipped off a fellow mosque member that he was under FBI investigation. When agents went to arrest the terrorist target early one morning they found him and his family already dressed and destroying evidence. They knew they had a mole and worked back through the system to find Rasool. Read more ...

Source: Investor's Business Daily
H/T: Atlas

UK: Jihadists have infiltrated government and key public utilities

Islamist extremists have infiltrated Government and key public utilities to pass sensitive information to terrorists, the security services have warned.

Counter-terrorism officials say "insiders" or their associates are almost certainly working "undetected" in sensitive posts and are actively supporting the activities of extremists.

In some cases, lifelong relationships between friends or relatives are being exploited to obtain crucial information from those in sensitive posts.

The development is detailed in intelligence reports circulated to the Home Office, police and Whitehall officials.

The London Underground, Gatwick airport and BT are cited as examples of organisations which have been targeted by individuals linked to terrorists.

Officials say the idea of "penetrating the enemy is pervasive" for Islamist extremists.

It is understood a number of suspected jihadists working in Government departments and the public services are being monitored by the security services.

Details of the threat emerged months after the Daily Mail revealed fears that Scotland Yard has been infiltrated by individuals linked to extremist groups including Al Qaeda. Read more ...

Source: Evening Standard
H/T: Jihad Watch