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2007-06-12 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-06-12 05:57|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Just like the most virulent bacteria survive antibiotics, only the jihadis are left.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-06-12 08:07|| 2007-06-12 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd love to see the redacted donor list. Might be interesting to see just who is funding this nest of vipers.

Oh, and when is the Major Subversive Media going to stop using quotes from this splinter organization as gospel truth?

Posted by DanNY 2007-06-12 08:26|| 2007-06-12 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 The usual suspects, Saudis and other Gulf muslims.

The United Arab Emirates recently announced that it has set up an endowment serving as a source of income for CAIR. The amount of the funding is undisclosed, but sources say it will be enough to help CAIR finance the construction of a new $24 million office building and a planned $50 million public-relations campaign aimed at repairing Islam's -- and the UAE's -- image in America.

Posted by ed 2007-06-12 09:02|| 2007-06-12 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 This fits with what I've read on FrontPage: twice this year Patrick Poole has written articles on CAIR's membership and how their rhetoric is light-years ahead of their numbers. I know that to some extent every organization likes to claim that it speaks for a portion of the population larger than the segment that actually subscribe to it (via memberships or donations or volunteers or whatever), but CAIR is ahead of them all. Scary, really.

"CAIR By the Numbers" - http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28394

"Numbers Don't Lie" -
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26860

Posted by The Doctor 2007-06-12 09:11|| 2007-06-12 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 The quote in #3 is also from a FrontPage article: The CAIR-U.A.E. Connection. It is definitely worth reading:
Before 9-11, the UAE sponsored hunting camps in Afghanistan attended by Osama bin Laden. In fact, according to U.S. intelligence, UAE Defense Minister Gen. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum requisitioned a C-130 cargo plane to deliver Toyota Land Cruisers, weapons and other supplies to bin Laden at one of the camps a year after the terrorist kingpin attacked U.S. embassies in Africa.

Sheikh Mohammed, now the ruler of Dubai, knew bin Laden was wanted by the U.S., but provided him material support nonetheless. His Al-Maktoum Foundation, which holds telethons to support families of Palestinian suicide bombers, holds the deed to CAIR's headquarters in Washington.
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The memo also determined that Dubai officials had lied to U.S. officials about visiting the camps. And they were believed to have even tipped off bin laden about U.S. plans for additional strikes on his terror-training camps.

Hunting with prized falcons is popular sport in the Middle East. The late president of the UAE, Sheik Zayed, reportedly introduced his top falcon trapper to bin Laden during a hunting trip in Afghanistan before 9-11. The trapper, Mohamed al-Qahtani, then signed on as the would-be 20th hijacker, according to recently disclosed detainee interrogation logs from Gitmo.
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U.S. intelligence officials say the secret hunting expeditions were a way for al-Qaida to safely meet with top officials of purported U.S. allies in the region, such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia. While there is no evidence to suggest they discussed the 9-11 operation as they sipped tea with bin Laden at the Afghan camps, bin Laden nonetheless chose to use Dubai as the final staging ground for the operation and the launching point from which to deploy most of his 9-11 hijackers to hit America.

Two of the hijackers, in fact, were UAE citizens, and one of them -- Marwan al-Shehhi -- served under Gen. Sheikh Mohammed as a sergeant in the UAE army. Al-Shehhi was the pilot who crashed the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

Dubai also served as the transit point for 9-11 cash. More than $100,000 in al-Qaida funds were funneled through Dubai banks to the hijackers.

Posted by ed 2007-06-12 09:19|| 2007-06-12 09:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I've read about how big the Bund was here back in the 30's. Ever hear of Fritz Kuhn, Parvez?

Posted by tu3031 2007-06-12 09:19|| 2007-06-12 09:19|| Front Page Top

#7 I have seen videotapes of UAE personnel landing in Taliban controlled Afghanistan, days before 9-11, for the noted hunting trips. The gift of 400 Toyota vehicles - it was trucks and not land cruisers - has also been confirmed. Taliban officials gave some to Al-Qaeda, of whom there are numerous videotapes of same in Toyotas.

The Koran tells Muslims, "jihad is prescribed to you." Jihad is like breathing to a Muslim. Even peaceful contacts are jihad in another form.

Posted by McZoid 2007-06-12 09:32|| 2007-06-12 09:32|| Front Page Top

#8 1. Nuke the middle east
2. Drill for oil through green glass
3. Sell what we don't use
4. Profit to pay to replace the nukes we used.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-12 09:40|| 2007-06-12 09:40|| Front Page Top

#9 If memory serves me correctly, both Bill Clinton and Ms Maddy Albright both serve (for a fee, I'm sure) as some kind of liaison between UAE and USA.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2007-06-12 12:02|| 2007-06-12 12:02|| Front Page Top

#10 CAIR was inflating the number of US muslim numbers in the USA prior to Sept 11, I don't doubt they inflated their own numbers as a force multiplier in their dealings with politicians.

I also suspect that many of the questionable folks within their numbers dropped off because they were unsure how effective the US government would be in rooting them out.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-06-12 12:53|| 2007-06-12 12:53|| Front Page Top

#11 When federal investigation of CAIR begins, they'd better be sure to use membership lists from the period of peak enrollment. Who knows how many terrorist operative members were intentionally warned away from further participation after 9-11 by CAIR's own executives. CAIR is rotten to the core and must be dissected cell-by-cell before its executive staff and select members or donors are all deported from America. They are nothing but a terrorist organization. Anyone who is not a citizen that ever subscribed to CAIR should be deported.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-12 18:51|| 2007-06-12 18:51|| Front Page Top

#12 I have seen videotapes of UAE personnel landing in Taliban controlled Afghanistan, days before 9-11, for the noted hunting trips.

Damn! I guess it's a good thing that Port Management deal fell through then, huh? Yep, them UAE folks is just plain misunderstood!

Posted by Natural Law 2007-06-12 21:41|| 2007-06-12 21:41|| Front Page Top

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