Doc's Talk: Policy and Judgment Lapses – “Tamerlane, The Sword of Islam”

Friday, April 26, 2013

Policy and Judgment Lapses – “Tamerlane, The Sword of Islam”

Denise Simon, edited by Scott W. Winchell
UPDATE – 11PM Saturday – A link is embedded below but needs more prominence because it pertains to where Tamerlan Tsaraev was trained by Islamist/terrorists – “Getting the Caucasus Emirate Right” we hope this helps all understand the whole story!
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Named after the Turkic conqueror ‘Timur the Lame’, or ‘Tamerlane’; a vicious warrior of the 15^th century who envisioned an Islamic recreation of the Mongol Empire as the ‘Sword of Islam’, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, born in Russia is now dead. His brother Dzhokhar, born in Kyrgyzstan, is on life support.
Four are now dead, three innocent civilians and one MIT police Officer, and so many more are injured, some gravely, including an MBTA police officer on their hands. Now it appears that to a debatable level, much of the blame can also be attributed to federal governmental failures, coupled with abominable appeasement policies, both foreign and domestic.

Those in Massachusetts are relieved this ‘week of terror’ is over, but all of America breathes a bit easier as well. We all shared in the grief and terror as we watched for untold hours as the events unfolded. Upon the capture of the last suspect, the Boston area broke out in unscripted and unplanned patriotic demonstrations, and those of us outside of New England felt their relief with a lump in each of our throats as we watched and cheered ourselves.
The scene at Fenway Park and in the Garden at the Red Sox and Bruins games today was also a sight to behold. All across the land that patriotic fervor can be seen and felt in unison.
Twelve years ago, the Tsarnaev brothers’ mother and father, who are now divorced; also the parents of their two sisters left war torn Kyrgyzstan and Dagestan due to Soviet occupation and strife in the region of the Northern Caucasus area where atrocities and radicalism were daily events. A few months later, the children reached the United States along with their Aunt. Some variation of both ‘refugee’ and ‘asylum’ status application was made. In about 2004, their father, Anzor, returned to Russia permanently.
Their mother is allegedly in Russia as well, as she left the U.S. earlier after being arrested on shoplifting charges, stealing approximately $1,200 worth of dresses, from a Lord and Taylor store located in the Boston Area.
Now, in the aftermath, we all wonder why these two young men became radicalized; turning to al Qaeda/Chechen style terror, purportedly in the name of Islam. We need to understand how people treated so well by their new country could turn on her so viciously. Perhaps we need to examine some recent history.
Two years ago, Vladimir Putin assigned Ramzan Kadyrov, who has now been accused of human rights violations and is a separatist fighter, to rule the Republic of Chechnya. Washington, DC has taken notice and secretly placed this man on a list making him eligible for sanctions over human rights violations. This is one of the causes for the resurgence of anger and radicalization of Chechen/Islamic extremists and separatist fighters. It is important to remember that this is the area that family ostensibly escaped from and is part of the reason they were brought to the Boston area.
In 2009, Tamerlan, the oldest of the four Tsarnaev children, was arrested for domestic violence and assault against a girlfriend, yet no additional red flag was placed on his name in the family file that would have been part of their refugee/asylum status. This is important due to their special status, the U.S. Attorney General’s office could have revoked his status at any time if laws were broken, in fact Tamerlan held a permanent resident visa. The youngest brother Dzohkar, had requested asylum status and later became a U.S. citizen on September 11, 2012. Tamerlan’s application for citizenship never hit the radar screen either.
In 2011, Vladimir Putin’s Russian intelligence agency reportedly contacted the FBI with a set of conditions and high concerns over this family and countless numbers of other radical Chechens (Chechnyans) in the United States. The SVR, the Russian External Intelligence Agency had material evidence on members of this particular family and their foreign extremist connections. They requested that the FBI open a case file and perform a complete investigation. (Read the FBI press release on this here.)

Younger brother Dzohkar Tsaraev entering the boat where he was captured in Watertown, Massachusetts

The FBI fulfilled the request and eventually closed the file after concluding they did not find anything substantial and made the judgment to take the matter no further. The FBI office in Boston formally closed the file and no more investigations or tracking was performed. The FBI notified the SVR of their findings.
Once again, Vladimir Putin, remaining concerned for Chechen extremists contacted Barack Obama late this week, earnestly offering support in the Boston bombing investigation, tendering additional unspecified cooperation. Both leaders recognized the urgent need for a more robust future collaboration on counter-terrorism and security issues. The White House declined to provide further or specific details on this case of cooperation as it related to the Tsarnaev brothers with specific emphasis on Tamerlan or others associated with the investigation.
There was an arrest now on his record, especially noting his special status, and after the FBI investigation case was closed, yet Tamerlan was allowed to travel to Russia? Tamerlan left via JFK in New York in January of 2012, arriving at Sheremetyevo Airport near Moscow and then traveled the 1,200 miles to Dagestan, an area bordering Cechnya. It is unknown at this time neither what other locations he visited while in Russia nor what his objectives, or now obvious, the training location, were during the six months he was in the volatile and heavily Islamic region. Tamerlan returned from this trip with a full beard, a common sign of sympathy and subscription to radical Islam.

It is also important to mention that he was not debriefed upon his return. This is often a procedure conducted when foreign travel includes regions that are of particular interest. Wouldn’t it have been prudent to at least question him? This would be especially true of travel in such well-known violence plagued regions such as the Northern Caucasus. This area is historically known for being a virulent anti-Russian/pro-jihadist zone, the site of so much bloodshed in the past. It is also a place with a reputation for breeding some of the nastiest fighters on Earth. Clearly, this area is always one of Putin’s concerns and should have been one of ours.
Allegedly after his return, the FBI chose to reveal that they watched Tamerlan’s internet activity to key radical websites and postings, and had his own YouTube channel according to his own mother and Rudy Giuliani. They also monitored the same of his brother Dzhokhar on sites that include VKontakte which is a radical Islamist website. Despite all this activity, the FBI had still chosen not to place either of these two brothers on a terror watch list.
It is important to look again at whom the Chechens are, and who their affiliations are in their history:

Beslan School body bags – children

2002: Chechen fighters armed with explosive vests attacked a Moscow theater and killed 130 people.
2004: Chechen insurgents took over a school (Beslan) in North Ossetia killing 331 people, mostly children.
2010: Two Chechen suicide bombers attacked a subway in Moscow killing 40.
2011: The same radical fighters attacked an airport in Domodedovo killing 34.
2012: There are many documented Chechen fighters in Syria and other war torn areas.

Apparently no good deed or U.S. pacification goes unpunished when the Obama administration demonstrates its passivity and deference to all things Islamic.
Both the Tsarnaev boys attended the Islamic Society of Boston mosque located in Cambridge. The Imam there is one Suhaib Webb, who invited Barack Obama to be a marquis keynote speaker on civil rights outreach for the American Islamic Congress. He was supposed to represent the Muslim Faith at the event Obama spoke at on Thursday in Boston but was replaced. It is also important to note that Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Menino have often been invited guests. Mayor Menino showed such generosity to the Imam and the mosque, that he sold land valued at $400,000 to the mosque for a mere $175,000.
But the kindness of America does not stop there. With refugee/asylum statuses (green-card) being so liberally doled out, the U.S. taxpayers also pay for programs that move these people to automatic ‘super status’, food and housing, with protections above that of regular citizens. This includes special legal protections, along with cash and medical assistance; all fully funded by the Federal government. This kindness is frequently extended to spouses, children, and other relatives as well. How nice of us?
There is an important difference between ‘refugee’ and ‘asylum’ status, especially concerning the Tsarneav family. ‘Refugee’ status only applies if the applicant is outside the United States; ‘asylum status’ only applies if they are already within the United States. There are countless Immigration and Naturalization judges that are in place to review cases of abuse or violations under these status designations. In the case of members of this family and particularly Tamerlan, he was in violation several times and the U.S. Attorney General’s office did nothing nor did the State Department or the Department of Homeland Security which is charged with monitoring all immigration and green cardholders.
The failures of the FBI, the DoJ, the State Department, and DHS, just in the case of the Tsarnaev brothers alone, are countless it appears barring more information coming forward. In the end however, had there been better follow through, the Boston Marathon would have likely ended successfully, and not led to a week of terror. Now we struggle with designating the only surviving terrorist – is it enemy combatant of the United States, or is it U.S. citizen who committed a crime?

Understanding that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security had historical information on Tamerlan, this begs the question; did the FBI and or Fusion Center ever provide the Boston or neighboring Police Departments with an alert on Tamerlan or other associated people within his circle? What good is a Fusion Center if not? The likely response is no, otherwise, the Boston and area police would and could have been more proactive in the case prior to the Marathon or even alerting the universities of a potential threat assessment.
The FBI on April 18, 2013, after several starts, postponements and cancellations, held the now famous press conference where they revealed images and video. They provided special remarks about the two suspects involved in an effort to identify people already known to them?
Was this press briefing just meant to provide political and procedural cover for prior failures concerning at least Tamerlan Tsarnaev? There is no denying that there were major gaps and lapses in judgment in the case of these brothers, so we have to ask, what else do they know about other similar cases? What about those who possibly provided aid to these terrorists? Do we need to get the FBI to go back over what could be thousands of similar cases considering how many similarly situated people across the globe were give the same types of status?
The Obama Administration, including but not limited to DHS Director Napolitano, FBI Director Mueller, DoJ Director Holder, and Hillary Clinton, through her replacement John Kerry, Secretary of State are ultimately responsible! It is their policies, foreign and domestic, that appear to have created these “perfect storms”.

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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