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Volume X, Issue # 202, August 15, 2008
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THE WEST'S ISLAMIST INFILTRATORS
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
THE UNSEEN INTERNAL ENEMY: THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN -- EXAMPLES OF HOW ISLAMISTS WHO INFILTRATE
THE U.S.A. & THE WEST PROCEED -- THE GREAT DAMAGE THAT WELL-PLACED ISLAMIST INFILTRATORS CAN DO TO THE
SECURITY OF THE U.S.A. & THAT OF ITS ALLIES -- THE NEED FOR EACH WESTERN GOVERNMENT TO KEEP UNDER CLOSE
SURVEILLANCE ITS EMPLOYEES WHO ADHERE TO ISLAM & WORK IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE MILITARY, & THE
DIPLOMATIC CORPS -- THE NEED FOR SUCH GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES TO BE WATCHED FOR CONNECTIONS TO TERRORISM
FULL STORY:
Aafia Siddiqui, 36, is a Pakistani mother of three, an alumna of MIT, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University.
She is also accused of working for Al-Qa'ida and was charged last week in New York City with attempting to kill American
soldiers.
Her arrest serves to remind how invisibly most Islamist infiltration proceeds. In particular, an estimated forty Al-Qa'ida
sympathizers or operatives have sought to penetrate U.S. intelligence agencies.
Such a well-placed infiltrator can wreck great damage, explains a former CIA chief of counterintelligence, Michael Sulick:
"In the war on terrorism, intelligence has replaced
the Cold War's tanks and fighter planes as the
primary weapon against an unseen enemy."
Islamist moles, Sulick argues, "could inflict far more damage to national security than Soviet spies," for the U.S.A. and the
Soviet Union never actually fought each other, whereas now, "our nation is at war."
Here are some American cases of attempted infiltration since 2001 that have been made public:
The Air Force discharged Sadeq Naji Ahmed, a Yemeni immigrant,
when his superiors learned of his pro-Al-Qa'ida statements. Ahmed
subsequently became a baggage screener at Detroit's Metro Airport,
which terminated him for hiding his earlier discharge from the Air
Force. He was convicted of making false statements and sentenced
to eighteen months in jail.
The Chicago Police Department fired Patricia Eng-Hussain just three
days into her training on learning that her husband, Mohammad
Azam Hussain, was arrested for being an active member of Mohajir
Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H), a Pakistani terrorist group.
The Chicago Police Department also fired Arif Sulejmanovski, a
supervising janitor at its 25th District station after it learned his
name was on a federal terrorist watch list of international terrorism
suspects.
Mohammad Alavi, an engineer at the Palo Verde nuclear power plant,
was arrested as he arrived on a flight from Iran, accused of taking
computer access codes and software to Iran that provide details on
the plant's control rooms and plant layout. He subsequently pleaded
guilty to transporting stolen property.
Nada Nadim Prouty, a Lebanese immigrant who worked for both the
FBI and CIA, pleaded guilty to charges of: fraudulently obtaining
U.S. citizenship; accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully
query information about her relatives and the terrorist organization
Hizballah; and engaging in conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Waheeda Tehseen, a Pakistani immigrant who filled a sensitive
toxicologist position with the Environmental Protection Agency,
pleaded guilty to fraud and was deported. WorldNetDaily.com
explains that "investigators suspect espionage is probable, as she
produced highly sensitive health-hazard documents for toxic
compounds and chemical pesticides. Tehseen also was an expert in
parasitology as it relates to public water systems."
Weiss Rasool, 31, a Fairfax County police sergeant and Afghan
immigrant, pleaded guilty for checking police databases without
authorization, thereby jeopardizing at least one federal terrorism
investigation.
Nadire P. Zenelaj, 32, a 911 emergency operator of Albanian origins,
was charged with 232 felony counts of computer trespass for
illegally searching New York State databases, including at least one
person on the FBI's terrorist watch list.
Three other cases are less clear. The Transportation Security Administration fired Bassam Khalaf, 21, a Texan of
Christian Palestinian origins, as an airport baggage screener because lyrics on his music CD, Terror Alert,
applaud the 9/11 attacks. FBI Special Agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz "showed a pattern of pro-Islamist behavior," according
to author Paul Sperry, that may have helped acquit Sami Al-Arian of terrorism charges. The Pentagon cleared Hesham
Islam, an Egyptian immigrant, former U.S. Navy commander and special assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense,
but major questions remain about his biography and his outlook.
Other Western countries too – Australia, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom – have been subject to
infiltration efforts. (For details, see:
Daniel Pipes, "Islamists
Penetrate Western Security.")
This record prompts one to wonder what catastrophe must occur before government agencies, some of which have
banished the words "Islam" and "jihad," seriously confront their internal threat?
Westerners are indebted to Muslim agents like Fred Ghussin and "Kamil Pasha" who have been critical to fighting
terrorism. That said, I stand by my 2003 statement that "There is no escaping the unfortunate fact that Muslim
government employees in law enforcement, the military, and the diplomatic corps need to be watched for connections
to terrorism."
© Daniel Pipes 2008
Originally Published in the Philadelphia Bulletin, August 12, 2008
Republished with the Permission of Daniel Pipes
Reprinted from the Daniel Pipes Mailing List, August 15, 2008
Article URL: http://www.danielpipes.org/article/5834
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The Fifth Column -- America's Internal Enemies:
Disloyalty, Subversion, Sedition, & Treason
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Dr. Daniel Pipes, a Ph.D. in Islamic History (Harvard University, 1978), is the Founder and Director of the Middle East Forum,
the Founder of Campus Watch, a signatory of the Project for the New American Century, a former board member of the U.S.
Institute of Peace, a former adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Golden Circle supporter of the
U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon, a former member of the U.S. Department of Defense Special Task Force on Terrorism and
Technology, and a former lecturer at the U.S. Naval War College, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and the
University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pipes was the Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute from 1986 to 1993.
Author or co-author of eighteen books, Dr. Pipes is a regular columnist for Front Page Magazine, the New York
Sun, and the Jerusalem Post. His analyses of world trends and of forces and developments in the Middle East
have appeared in numerous North American newspapers, including the Washington Post, the New York Times,
and the Wall Street Journal. He frequently appears on American network television, as well as at universities and
think tanks, to discuss the Middle East, Islam, and the Islamist threat to the U.S.A. and the West. He also has appeared on
BBC and Al Jazeera, and has lectured in approximately twenty-five countries.
Dr. Pipes is a Polish-American Jew whose parents fled Poland in 1939, immigrated to the U.S.A., and assimilated well into
American society and culture. His father is Richard Pipes, an American historian specializing in Russian and Soviet history
and serving as Professor of History at Harvard University from 1950 until his retirement in 1996. During the Cold War, the
worldview of Richard Pipes was strongly anti-Soviet and anti-Communist.
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