Infantry Officers run the Army. As a Rifle Platoon Leader, a Rifle Company XO, an Assistant S3 (Light Infantry Battalion Chief of Current Operations), and Rifle Company CO, I did plenty to collect and analyze intel (more than the majority of MI guys).
What level security clearance?
No. I did not know that. Can you show proof of this?
Don’t Forget That Al Jazeera is Part of The Muslim Brotherhood Northern Thoughts And Reflections
Pierre Akel, founder and editor of a prominent Arabic
reformist Web site, Metransparent.com, summed it up
on February 9, 2006, When it comes to satellite
television in the region, Al-Jazeera is controlled by
the Muslim Brotherhood.
A Tunisian intellectual and director of the Netherlands
based Center for Promoting Democracy in the Arab
World, Khaled Shawkat, wrote about the connection
between Al-Jazeera and the Muslim Brotherhood in
an article for the progressive Arabic Web site
Elaph.com on July 29. Al-Jazeera has been hijacked
by the Muslim Brotherhood organization, he wrote.
In an article in Metransparent on December 22, 2004,
the Arab reformist Abu Khawla also discussed the
Muslim Brotherhoods connection to Al-Jazeera. In
addition, he wrote about the channels religious
authority, Sheik Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, who as a
member of the organization left Egypt 45 years
ago, seeking asylum in Qatar. Arabs turn nowadays
to satellite TV channels, especially Al-Jazeera
a
tool of communications that is so far completely
monopolized by fundamentalists, Mr. Khawla wrote.
In the case of Al-Jazeera, preacher Al-Qaradawi (a
leading figure of Egypts Muslim Brotherhood) is one
of its most influential founding members. And
fundamentalists are in charge of its news programs
and talk shows.
The always eloquent Youssef Ibrahim wrote about
Sheik Qaradawi and Al-Jazeera in his New York Sun
column on Monday: One of the most eminent leaders
of the Ikhwan movement, who appears weekly on Al-
Jazeeras Sharia and Life program, is Sheik Yusuf Al-
Qaradawi. He has specifically ruled that Americans
in Iraq and Israelis everywhere should be targeted
by suicide bombers, who will be considered martyrs
and heroes. Mr. Ibrahim also noted that Sheik
Qaradawi ranks among the top 10 leaders of the
Ikhwans international ruling councils.
This connection between Al Jazeera and the
Muslim Brotherhood is not only confirmed by
Jihadwatch.org, but Walid Shoebat, a former
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) militant
who converted to Christianity and has become
one of the more outspoken critics of Islam,
stated the very same thing this morning on
The Larry Elder Show. Shoebat also made the
point that the Muslim Brotherhood doesnt just
control Al Jazeera, but many other Arab news
outlets, including newspaper publications and
radio stations. They are just one part of a larger
propaganda organization.
So why is this apparently poorly kept secret still
a secret? I would imagine it has to do with our
own media perception of not only Al Jazeera, but
the Muslim Brotherhood itself.
Additionally I recently posted a link to an article
that gave the details of when the Israelies released
a top level Hezbollah terrorist in exchange for the
bodies of some murdered Israeli soldiers, the head
of the Lebanese office of al-Jazeera threw a lavish
dinner to celebrate the terrorist's freedom.
There is more in the link that I didn't quote and
there are many other sources that note the muslim
brotherhood is the power and inspiration behind and
in the actual al-Jazeera organization, it is almost
universally understood in the ummah (those who
follow the way of islam) that al-Jazeera is the voice
of the highest levels of islamic authority and all
accross Europe in every major city we now see
what are called 'satellite cities' because of all the
satellite dishes pointed toward the al-Jazeera
satellite.
Note: Ikhwan = muslim brotherhood, in the USA the
front organization of the mb is the MAS (muslim
American society.)
This is an old map, there are far more of these moslem
groups and organizations here, including one training
camp at Dover, Tennessee.
Not only that but there are many charter schools,
funded with American tax dollars the indoctrinate
children with islamic teachings.
I buy tickets and apparel.
So your point is rather vague then, ie; being a
member of an organization and supporting that
organization are not so very different.
That is interesting. In 1996, AQ only had 30 members. In 2001, it had a core of less than 200 plus a 122 member martyrdom brigade.
The thing is that actually being a member doesn't
mean that membership is isolated because many
consider themselves members of the muhjahedeen
have looked to AQ for leadership, even in 1996.
One key to understanding the whole of the
organizational makeup is to understand what the
term 'al-Qaeda' means, do you know what that
means??
The mosque was actually nicknamed the "Bin Laden Mosque" by foreigners due to the pictures of Bin Laden on the walls. This does not mean that AQ was instrumental or even involved in Kosovo (kind of hard to move the network from the Sudan to Afghanistan and to plan and finance attacks on the Cole, the WTC, and the Pentagon, while at the same time sending operatives to Kosovo when your organization has less than 350 people.
If you don't think bin Laden was heavily involved in
the Yugoslav conflict then you know nothing.
For starters he donated $500,000 to the effort early
on and for another he visited the area, confabbed
with various islamic leaders and held a bosnian
passport.
It was hard to move the network at all, there were
muhjahedeen from all over the mideast, Afghanistan
and from Chechniya involved in the actual fighting.
Let's say your accessment is true that they only
had 350 members at the time. One AQ operative
could command 50 or a 100 of the muhjahedeen
easily, when you look at it in that light then the
effective AQ fighting force grows exponentially.
For instance there were 8,000 who were fighting
in and around Srbrenica, brutally killing Serbs, in
many cases older ones who couldn't defend
themselves.
They are superb in the art of deception, when
the Serbs sent army units to protect the Serbian
population, eye witnesses saw the 8,000
withdrawing the night before the Serbs arrived
but the moslems claimed a slaughter and the
west believed it although none of their graves
have been discovered and after the conflict
many of the muhjahedeen accepted the Bosnian
offer of citizenship and over 3,000 of those who
were supposedly killed by the Serbs have
subsequently voted in Bosnian elections, most
of the rest went on to fight in Kosovo or to
join forces with their original groups.
How many of the 8,000 were actually members
of AQ itself, who knows, certainly not you.
If they are different organizations, regardless of the goals, then the truth is that they are different organizations. The truth is a big deal.
And the truth is that they share the same goals
and only bicker over methodology or who will fill
the leadership roles.
No. I could actually care less whether or not Ghadaffi remains in power or the rebels win. I want our involvement to end, though.
Well we can agree on your bottom line.
Unfortunately we both know that isn't going to
happen with our present so-called commander
in chief.
