100 Maj. Hasans Inside Military?
Fifth Column: The FBI is investigating more than 100 Muslim soldiers and military contractors with the potential to carry out Fort Hood-style attacks. The administration has kept a lid on the growing threat.
It's covering up the truth about an alarmingly widespread Islamist penetration of the military. The dangerous fifth column was discovered more than two years after Army Maj. Nidal Hasan opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 and wounding 29.
The administration whitewashed the jihadist massacre as a run-of-the-mill case of "workplace violence." Now it's trying to postpone Hasan's trial until after the election to keep Islamic terrorism out of the headlines.
Details about the 100-plus investigations of other jihadist soldiers are only now coming out after being suppressed for several months. The FBI and Defense Department first revealed the numbers in a closed House-Senate committee hearing in December.
"I was surprised and struck by the numbers," Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., told NPR. "They were larger than I expected." That's quite an understatement. The numbers show we're a long way from finishing the war on Islamic terror, as much as this administration wants to pretend we're no longer even at war.
Of the 100-plus probes, at least a dozen have advanced to full-blown investigations, which means agents have enough evidence to believe that a dozen Muslim soldiers are plotting major attacks against the military. The rest are preliminary investigations of suspect Muslim traitors in the ranks who have radicalized to the point of posing a serious threat.
It's not clear if the dozen full investigations include the case of a Muslim soldier named Naser Abdo, who was convicted last month of plotting another attack at Fort Hood. Police found components for a bomb in his hotel room not far from the base.
Abdo, citing his Islamic faith, told the judge the planned attack on the base was supposed to exact some "justice" for Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Since 2001, authorities have disrupted or prosecuted more than 30 plots or attacks against military targets within the U.S.
Still, the administration is loathe to call it a conspiracy. In briefing Congress, it mislabeled the 100-plus investigations of suspect Muslim soldiers as "insider threats," as if they came from random sources. In fact, the threats come from a common source: Islamic extremism.
Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., blames the radical Muslim Brotherhood for the jihadist conspiracy to infiltrate the military.
"This is not surprising," the retired Army lieutenant colonel told Fox, if you look at a Muslim Brotherhood memo found in 2004 by FBI agents at a Muslim terror suspect's home just across the Potomac. The document laid out a plan for American Muslims to infiltrate and "destroy" the U.S. system "from within."
"This is a wholehearted, stealth jihad type of attack" on America, said West. Yet, outrageously, this administration is working closely together with both the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, its world headquarters, and its front groups inside America. |
