Thursday, May 21, 2009

Recall the nonsense of Obama at Notre Dame:

where he blithely said "...violent extremism;...these things do not discriminate. ...They do not target specific ethnic groups
****Does he not realize or does he deliberately lie in the interests of political correctness? ( Or worse!)****Experts: Plot underscores threat from independent attackers By Eric Fingerhut · May 21, 2009 WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The arrest of four men accused of plotting to attack two Bronx synagogues underscores the threat to Jewish targets by individuals or small groups, several experts said.From the shooting at a Los Angeles Jewish community center 10 years ago through the attack on the Seattle Jewish federation building in 2006, to the individual targeting Jews at Wesleyan University in Connecticut earlier this month, an individual or small group not formally connected with al-Qaida or any major international terrorist group was at the center of the threat (see list of attacks).****There is, however, a common thread that it is not PC to mention: the perpetrators are Muslims, whether born so or converts ( in prison, often ) matters not. For those concerning about "profiling", it might suffice to input Heinz 57 demographic descriptors of these terrorists and let "factor analysis" come up with a computer-derived description of who is likely to be a perpetrator. While not evidence, it should provide a guide for law enforcement. (I'm sure the ACLU will disagree. )**** Steve Pomerantz, former assistant director and director of counterterrorism at the FBI, compared the lessons from Tuesday’s arrests to the popular book “All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.”“All you need to know about terrorism you can learn from this case,” he said, asserting that Jews will always be at the top of the list of targets for terrorists ****Now, does he mean "generic" terrorists including Tamil Tigers, the Irish Republican Army, Basque Separatists etc? Hardly! ****and that groups unaffiliated with a large international terrorist group are “at least as dangerous” as well-known groups such as al-Qaida because they can “more easily slip through the intelligence net.”
Paul Goldenberg, the executive director of the Jewish-organized Secure Community Network, stressed “one common denominator” present in all those past plots: hostile surveillance by the attackers.****Perhaps the ACLU will object on behalf of "watchers" of all stripes including bird, weather, human interest, etc."****...the criminal complaint for the New York plot states that last month, one of the defendants “photographed several synagogues and Jewish community centers in the Bronx and elsewhere for consideration as possible targets in a planned terrorist bombing campaign” and said bombing one of the JCCs would be a “piece of cake.”...Pomerantz also noted reports that the plotters met in prison, similar to the four men arrested in Los Angeles in 2005 on charges of plotting terror attacks on Jewish and military targets....said prisoners often are attracted to Islam when incarcerated because of the “cohesiveness of the group.”“There are different social networks in prison” and Muslims will often pray together, eat together and protect each other, she said....the First Amendment makes monitoring such materials a sensitive matter, Barsky believes that the United States needs to confront the issue....

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