A Nation Ignorant Of Being At War
By Frank Salvato
November 9, 2007
There can be little doubt that terrorist organizations have arrived on the shores of the United States of America. The thousands of lives lost on September 11, 2001 stand as testimony to this undeniable fact. The attacks signaled to the world that radical Islamofascists were serious in their declaration of war against the United States and her Western allies. An examination of Osama bin Laden's 1996 fatwa (web site) -- his declaration of war -- indicates that this conflict is a generational conflict and a confrontation as we have never experienced before.
The truth of the matter is that terrorists have been migrating to the United States, establishing their organizational cells, infiltrating and fading into our communities for decades; laying in wait for the correct moments to strike. These are precisely the events that preceded the flights that delivered the nineteen 9/11 hijackers and thousands of innocent people to their destinies.
Today, dozens of terrorist organizations (web site) with thousands of operatives exist and operate within the borders of the United States. These organizations include, Hezbollah, Hamas, Abu Sayyaf, Islamic Jihad, Jamaat al Fuqra, the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda, to name but a few. These organizations have cells in Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Washington DC, as well as Tucson, Denver, Tulsa, Detroit, Cleveland, Orlando, Kansas City, Boston and many more cities in the United States.
Radical Islamist front groups and sympathetic "philanthropic" organizations such as the Holy Land Foundation and the Council on American-Islamist Relations -- both named in evidence offered in a recent federal court case (web site) involving the funding of terrorism -- have set up regional branches around the country. They are not only raising, laundering and funneling money back to the Middle East to support their terrorist organizations, they are setting up jihadi training camps right here in the United States.
The recent exposure of a suspected Islamist jihadi training compound at Islamberg, New York, (web site) and many more like it (web site) around the country, stands as a stark warning to the American people (and our government) that we must detoxify from our caustic relationships with moral relativism and political correctness and embrace the reality that radical Islamist jihadis are here, now, and training among us for future attacks on our nation.
Many counterterrorism experts, including former CIA Director James Woolsey, (web site) founding member of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, Dr. Bruce Tefft, and Frank Gaffney, (web site) founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, agree, it is not a question of "if" there will be another attack on American soil, it is a question of "when." The only questions left unanswered about this future attack are how lethal it will be, where it will take place and whether we will have had enough foresight to have acquired the information needed to literally help save our own lives.
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