September 11

American jihad, September 11, War on Terror

South Carolina jihadist verbally blasts Fox News

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South Carolina resident Samir Khan responded to a Fox News report implying he runs a web site promoting violent jihad by doing a poor imitation of Jeremiah Wright, Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor. Here is Khan’s response (or someone appearing to be him):

And you call Usaamah bin Laadin a terrorist because of the September 11th attacks. His men destroyed the WTC and a part of the Pentagon and in the process, it had killed over 3,000 people. Therefore, you call him a terrorist. But when America shamelessly bombed Hiroshima (and many, many other Countries) with a weapon that was much stronger than 4 airplanes combined, you don’t call her a terrorist nor live as a people who disassociate themselves from her. We all know that Hiroshima killed more than 3,000 people. Why the double standard? Why is Usaamah a “terrorist” but the American Government isn’t? Is it because white people are more valuable than dark skinned people?

The reason why you don’t call America a terrorist is because she did an act of “retaliation” against the nation of Japan. They did this because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor – a large military base full of military personnel – and it killed quite a lot. So as an act of retaliation, America bombed Hiroshima to nothing and it killed way more than those that were killed in the Pearl Harbor incident. Of course, many Americans probably couldn’t swallow this, but the vast majority were OK with it because they knew that “Japan deserved it” for their attack on Pearl Harbor, thus the act of retaliation was justifiable even though it killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people that had absolutely nothing to do with Pearl Harbor or the Japanese military; in fact many were women and children. But hey, it was justified after all, right??

Unlike Jeremiah Wright, Samir Khan is not a well read man. Despite what Salim Khan would have his readers believe, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not in retaliation for Pearl Harbor; Japan’s fourteen years of aggression — from 1931 through 1945 — in the Pacific resulted in the deaths of millions of civilians, including in these places:

16,200,000 in China
1,000,000 in French Indochina
4,000,000 in the Dutch East Indies
378,000 in Korea
90,000 in the Philippines
57,000 in the Pacific Islands
55,000 in Portuguese Timor
50,000 in Singapore.

In addition, millions more were enslaved, tortured, raped, deliberately starved, and experimented upon by Japan.

While the expectations varied back in 1945, “A study done for Secretary of War Henry Stimson’s staff by William Shockley estimated that [invading] Japan would cost 1.7 to 4 million American casualties, including 400,000 to 800,000 fatalities, and five to ten million Japanese fatalities. The key assumption was large-scale participation by civilians in the defense of Japan.” While the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima will likely never be viewed as humane, all told, Japan suffered but 2,120,000 military deaths and 580,000 civilian killed during all of World War II.

On Khan’s site, Fox News also reported he (or someone) stated this:

“So in reality, you are calling my Prophet, Muhammad — peace be upon him — a terrorist,” the blog post continues. “But of course, you guys won’t say that directly because you fear the wrath of the Muslims.”

I do not know what his long dead “Prophet, Muhammad” was but Samir Khan and company sure act like they are terrorists or, should I say, Islamic jihadists.

Hat tip to Jihad Watch.

9/11, Guantanamo, September 11

Charges against 20th 9/11 hijacker dropped, can be filed later

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The Associated Press reports the charges against the alleged 20th 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Mani Ahmad al Kahtani, a.k.a. Mohammed al-Qahtani, were dropped without prejudice by a military judge at Guantanamo yesterday, meaning the charges can be filed later. The AP’s breathless headline ‘US drops charges against Saudi in Sept. 11 attacks’ left the last part out.

A search of immigration service records after 9/11 revealed that Mohamed Mani Ahmad al Kahtani landed in Orlando International Airport on August 4, 2001. Yet, according to the 9/11 Commission, “Upon arrival … Kahtani was denied entry by immigration officials because he had a one-way ticket and little money, could not speak English, and could not adequately explain what he intended to do in the United States.”

While their interrogations were obviously conducted separately, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh both confirmed al Kahtani was to become the 20th hijacker and that Mohamed Atta went to meet his arrival in Orlando. In addition, a later review of intercepted communications that occured on August 3, 2001, indicate why al Kahtani travelled to America:

In addition to the operatives who eventually participated in the 9/11 attacks as muscle hijackers, Bin Ladin apparently selected at least nine other Saudis who, for various reasons, did not end up taking part in the operation: Mohamed Mani Ahmad al Kahtani, Khalid Saeed Ahmad al Zahrani, Ali Abd al Rahman al Faqasi al Ghamdi, Saeed al Baluchi, Qutaybah al Najdi, Zuhair al Thubaiti, Saeed Abdullah Saeed al Ghamdi, Saud al Rashid, and Mushabib al Hamlan. A tenth individual, a Tunisian with Canadian citizenship named Abderraouf Jdey, may have been a candidate to participate in 9/11, or he may have been a candidate for a later attack. These candidate hijackers either backed out, had trouble obtaining needed travel documents, or were removed from the operation by the al Qaeda leadership. Khallad believes KSM wanted between four and six operatives per plane. KSM states that al Qaeda had originally planned to use 25 or 26 hijackers but ended up with only the 19.
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A week after he returned from meeting Binalshibh in Spain, Atta traveled to Newark, probably to coordinate with Hazmi and give him additional funds. Atta spent a few days in the area before returning to Florida on July 30.The month of August was busy, as revealed by a set of contemporaneous Atta-Binalshibh communications that were recovered after September 11.

On August 3, for example, Atta and Binalshibh discussed several matters, such as the best way for the operatives to purchase plane tickets and the assignment of muscle hijackers to individual teams. Atta and Binalshibh also revisited the question of whether to target the White House. They discussed targets in coded language, pretending to be students discussing various fields of study: “architecture” referred to the World Trade Center, “arts” the Pentagon, “law” the Capitol, and “politics” the White House.

Binalshibh reminded Atta that Bin Ladin wanted to target the White House. Atta again cautioned that this would be difficult. When Binalshibh persisted, Atta agreed to include the White House but suggested they keep the Capitol as an alternate target in case the White House proved too difficult. Atta also suggested that the attacks would not happen until after the first week in September, when Congress reconvened.

Atta and Binalshibh also discussed “the friend who is coming as a tourist”- a cryptic reference to candidate hijacker Mohamed al Kahtani (mentioned above), whom Hawsawi was sending the next day as “the last one” to “complete the group.” On August 4, Atta drove to the Orlando airport to meet Kahtani. Upon arrival, however, Kahtani was denied entry by immigration officials because he had a one-way ticket and little money, could not speak English, and could not adequately explain what he intended to do in the United States. He was sent back to Dubai. Hawsawi contacted KSM, who told him to help Kahtani return to Pakistan.

During his own interrogation, Mohamed Mani Ahmad al Kahtani (ISN 063) further corroberated he was sent to the United States to become a martyr and arrived in Orlando on August 4, 2001.