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Jerusalem News 860
3 Sivan 5769, 26 May 2009
Contents:
1. Syria sends Suicide Bombers Against
US in Iraq
2. TARGET POLITICAL ISLAM AND SAUDI ARABIA
3. Steven Emerson: How to Stop the Muslim Extremists Recruiting Inmates to
Terrorism
4. News Item: EU
Ambulances Turned into Arab Army Trucks
5. Report: Israel Remains Among Healthiest Countries in the World
1. Syria sends Suicide Bombers Against
US in Iraq
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 13:45:32 -0400
From: Debka@thejmg.com
Subject: DEBKA Weekly Newsletter
US Treasury targets Syria-based al Qaeda facilitator for Iraq
DEBKAfile Special Report
18 May: Damascus has ordered Syrian intelligence to permit Saad Uwayyid Ubayd
Mujil al Shammari aka Abu Khalaf - named by Washington as the senior leader of
al Qaeda's Syria-based support network to step up the flow of suicide bombers
into Iraq to 20-30 a month.
Abu Khalaf is a threat to "the safety of Coalition forces and the stability of
Iraq," said Stuart Levey, US Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial
intelligence.
In the early stages of its diplomatic exchanges with Washington, Syrian
president Bashar Assad ordered the al Qaeda facilitator to slow down the traffic
of foreign al Qaeda terrorists into Iraq. But when US presidential envoys
started visiting Damascus on a regular footing, he lifted these restraints. As a
result, al Qaeda reactivated its smuggling route for suicide bombers, weapons
and explosives through the Euphrates River into Iraq's Anbar province.
In April, therefore, the US military death toll in Iraq shot up to 18 - double
the March figure.
Special US Marine forces patrol the river by boat to intercept them. On May 1, a
patrol was ambushed in Anbar by al Qaeda suicide killers, who left two US
marines and a seaman dead after a firefight.
Assad is not expected to heed the renewed US sanctions over his backing for
terrorists. Since last year, Abu Khalaf has also been recruiting North Africans
for al Qaeda's Iraq networks.
2. TARGET POLITICAL ISLAM AND SAUDI
ARABIA
From: eidelberg@foundation1.org
Target Political Islam and Saudi Arabia*
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
Extracts Only:
Six years ago, I wrote an article on Robert Baer?s Sleeping with the Devil.
Baer, a former CIA operative in the Middle East, reveals how America's cynical
relationship with Saudi Arabia and dependence on Saudi oil has put the U.S. at
risk for further acts of terrorism.
Baer warned that the arms and money the U.S. sends to Saudi Arabia are "used to
cut our own throat." Here are some of his startling revelations:
(1) Between 1993 and 2003, Saudi Arabia transferred half a billion dollars to al
Qaeda and at least $100 million to the Taliban.
(2) With American complicity, the Saudis provided aid, shelter, and material
comfort to the Muslim Brotherhood.
(3) Saudi Arabia?s Wahhabi-controlled mosque schools are hothouses of militant
Islamic extremism. Terrorist acts in Bali, Kenya, Bosnia, and Chechnya all
point back to these schools. So do the 3,000 deaths of 9/11.
(4) Almost everyone who is anyone in Washington?from George Bush Sr. to Henry
Kissinger, Al Gore, and Dick Cheney, has stuck a hand in the Saudi cookie jar.
The Saudis contribute to both political parties, and they reward their
supporters lavishly.
(5) Private investment groups like the Carlyle Group and leading American
corporations like Boeing McDonnell Douglas line up to do business with the
Saudis, and U.S. government officials, after leaving office, join the Saudi
payroll.
The Saudi-U.S. nexus should be of profound interest to Prime Minister
Netanyahu. Saudi Arabia has long been the major financial and diplomatic
supporter of the PLO, Israel's mortal enemy. The Saudi peace plan, which calls
for a Palestinian state, would shrink Israel back to its indefensible pre-1967
borders.
Saudi Arabia not only wields power in Washington; it also influences American
universities where it bankrolls Middle East programs that propagate
anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism.
I think this conclusion would be supported by Dr. Moorthy Muthuswamy, to whom I
referred in a previous report. Muthuswamy, an American nuclear physicist who
hails from India, refers to Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan as the "axis of
jihad." Here are some important conclusions from his book Defeating Political
Islam:
(1) The resurgence of political Islam, which threatens the West, is mostly due
to Saudi funding of Muslim institutions and distribution of literature around
the world that promotes Wahhabi Islam, hence jihad.
(2) Using charities, Saudi Arabia continues to sponsor the Talibanizing of
Muslim majority nations such as Bangladesh and Muslim communities around the
world.
(3) Within the past 60 years, in every Muslim-majority area of South Asia,
without exception, Muslims have set about expelling most non-Muslims to nearby
non-Muslim areas. This data unequivocally proves that a growing Muslim
population can be an existential threat to the local non-Muslims.
Here let me interject that most Arab Palestinians identify with Wahhabi
Islam, enough reason why the Saudis support the PLO in Washington. Returning to
Muthuswamy:
(4) Statistical analysis of the Islamic trilogy: Quran, Hadith, and Sira, shows
that it is the theology of Islam that is driving political Islam's inability to
coexist with unbelievers.
(5) Prominent Islamic theologians and scholars, ever since the birth of Islam,
have emphasized the duty to wage jihad on unbelievers. This emphasis is by no
means a minority view. (Emphasis added.)
What drives Islam throughout its 1,400 year history is jihad, and this militant
ideology is plainly rooted in the Quran, as any candid person can see.
Of course, to say that political Islam is rooted in the Quran is to question the
religious beliefs of more than a billion people, not all of whom endorse
jihad, so this is an extremely delicate as well as dangerous matter. But since
those beliefs constitute the driving force of jihad, and since we see that Islam
is conquering Europe and that its ultimate ambition is worldwide supremacy,
failure to identify the enemy is sheer cowardice, which cannot but lead to the
demise of freedom.
If the United States did not have a peacock for a president, I would suggest
targeting the primary purveyor of jihad, Saudi Arabia, and have the 82nd
airborne division take over its oil facilities. I would station two of aircraft
carriers in the area plus 10,000 marines. But the U.S. is lead by Clinton
retreads. I conclude that only Israel with God's help can save us.
3. How to Stop the Muslim Extremists
Recruiting Inmates to Terrorism
by Steven Emerson
Written for the New York Post
May 24, 2009
For annotated version including sound clip:
www.investigativeproject.org/1041/radicals-in-our-prisons
Extracts Only:
Amid all the shocking details in the disrupted plot to bomb Bronx synagogues
and fire missiles at American military aircraft, one component of the case
should come as no surprise - three of the alleged culprits converted to
radical Islam in prison.
Radical Islamists have targeted prison populations for recruitment for
years. That's where Jose Padilla, suspected of plotting to detonate a dirty
bomb and convicted of conspiracy to murder people overseas and of providing
material support to terrorists, converted and was radicalized.
That's where a California man, Kevin James, created his own cell, called the
Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (JIS), and recruited other inmates to plot
attacks against military and Jewish targets in and around Los Angeles.
In New York, the man who was the head Muslim chaplain for state prisons
considered the 9/11 hijackers to be martyrs. Warith Deen Umar spent 20 years
working with New York prisons, overseeing the hiring of Muslim chaplains and
leading prayer services.
Radicalism in prisons is a problem that has been festering for years. The
Department of Justice's Inspector General issued a report in 2004 with a
host of recommendations for tamping it down, but there's little sign any
action has been taken.
That President Obama now wants to transfer hundreds of hardened jihadists
into American prisons is a guarantee that they will serve as emissaries and
proselytizers of jihad to the thousands of prisoners they are exposed to. In
virtually no time, it is all but certain - based on past patterns of radical
Islamic growth in jails that we have investigated - that we will witness the
number of radical Islamic inmates multiply by thousands, maybe more.
The Guantanamo prisoners will be looked up as jihadi rock stars and each one
could potentially produce a hundred new ticking time bombs ultimately
walking the streets of America. Although the President tried to reassure us
that no inmate has ever escaped from a super maximum security prison, what
about the newly indoctrinated jihadists among the existing inmates who will
be certainly released after their terms are up? In light of the massive
damage and death that only four converts to Islam in prison could have
carried out as witnessed in the interdiction of the recent terror plot, one
cannot even begin to imagine the potential for damage and death a thousand
times greater were there to be a whole new generation of hardened jihadists
walking the streets of the US with an agenda of nothing but murder and
destruction. FBI agents with whom I have spoke say that the transfer of <
prisoners to the US is insane, pure and simple.
Part of the problem is that there is no single agency which can change the
nation's prison system, since states are responsible for their own
penitentiaries and each has its own religious programming. Imams recruited
by the likes of Umar continue to work, library shelves are stocked with the
words of radical ideologues like Syyed Qutb and Sayyid Mawlana Abul Ala
Maududi. Some prison libraries include the Nobel Quran, an extreme
interpretation of Islam's holy book that includes a call for jihad.
Meanwhile, federal records identified by the Investigative Project on
Terrorism and available on the Internet show a number of Muslim
Brotherhood-tied organizations receiving government contracts, including
contracts with the Bureau of Prisons, to perform work such as chaplain
services and Islamic studies.
Some, like the Muslim American Society, have dedicated prison projects in
which they specifically collect money to send religious dogma to prisoners
and underwrite volunteer chaplains. This effort is aimed not only at
existing Muslims convicts but to convert non-Muslim inmates.
In light of the 2004 IG report, these contractual relationships with radical
Islamic groups show that there still is very little oversight concerning the
messengers importing religion into U.S. prisons.
Wednesday night, we saw what happens when they leave prison and follow an
extremist path, buying into propaganda that the America is at war with Islam
and they mobilize to act. It is time someone paid attention.
Wahhabist literature, Muslim Brotherhood tracts calling for Jihad, Saudi
produced Qurans that exude hatred for Jews and Christians - all of this
continues to flow into federal and local prisons unhampered.
Unless prison authorities start collecting intelligence on those in prison
who belong to radical groups and who talk about carrying out violence once
they get out, law enforcement is faced with a total blank slate, critically
dependent upon confidential informants to help them thwart terrorist
attacks. If not for the serendipitous appearance of a confidential informant
in the current Bronx case, chances are that today we would be witness terror
and death in the Jewish Community Center of Riverdale.
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Steven Emerson is head of the Investigative Project on Terrorism
(investigativeproject.org) a counter-terrorism organization that tracks and
investigates that threat of radical Islam on American soil.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism
202-363-8602 - main
202-966-5191 - fax
4. News Item:
EU
Ambulances Turned into Arab Army Trucks
The rival Fatah faction, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud
Abbas, also has charged Hamas recently received 50 ambulances from European
countries and immediately painted them black, removed medical equipment and put
them into service for its army.
Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Sunday, May. 24 '09, Sivan 1, 5769
5. Report: Israel Remains Among
Healthiest Countries in the World
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131532
by Yehudah Lev Kay
(IsraelNN.com) Israel remains in the top tier of healthiest countries in the
world to live in, according to the 2009 World Health Organization Statistics.
Life expectancy in Israel reached 81 in 2007, the most recent year for which
statistics are available. That was only 2 years short of Japan's 83 and put
Israel among the top 14 countries in the world, longevity-wise.
Israel was highly ranked in almost all other health categories in the WHO
report. Israel?s health rankings were consistently higher than the average in
European countries and much higher than the average in the Middle East country
group, to which Israel belongs geographically (the WHO lists Israel in the
European group, however).
The newborn mortality rate in Israel (3 per 1,000), the under five-years-old
mortality rate (5 per 1,000) and the maternal mortality rate at childbirth (4
per 100,000) were much lower than the European averages of 10 per 1,000, 15 per
1,000 and 27 per 100,000 respectively.
In addition, the report said that in Israel 100 percent of people have access to
improved drinking water sources, higher than the European average of 97 percent.
Israel also has an average of 37 doctors per 10,000 people, which is higher than
the European average of 32.
According to the report, Israel has low incidences of infectious diseases across
the board, while also having a population which has consistently high rates of
immunization.
In Israel, 121 people per 100,000 die from cardiovascular disease in Europe the
average is 332.
Israel lagged behind, however, on hospital beds per person. In the Jewish state
there are 60 beds per 10,000 people, but in Europe the average is 63. In
addition, Israel spent eight percent of its Gross Domestic Product on health,
but the European average is 8.4 percent.
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