War on Terror

War on Terror

The road home leads to America lost

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From Peggy Noonan this morning We can’t fire the president right now, so we’re waiting it out:

We hire them and fire them. President Bush was hired to know more than the people, to be told all the deep inside intelligence, all the facts Americans are not told, and do the right and smart thing in response.

That’s the deal. It’s the real “grand bargain.” If you are a midlevel Verizon executive who lives in New Jersey, this is what you do: You hire a president and tell him to take care of everything you can’t take care of–the security of the nation, its well-being, its long-term interests. And you in turn do your part. You meet your part of the bargain. You work, pay your taxes, which are your financial contribution to making it all work, you become involved in local things — the boy’s ball team, the library, the homeless shelter. You handle what you can handle within your ken, and give the big things to the president.

Please set down your popcorn America and listen up. Presidents are not the CEO of America’s national security; they are, for the allotted time, the Commander-in-Chief.

For nearly 30 years, the American people have failed to fight the rise of Islamic fascism via a remote control will to fight. We tune in only long enough to adjust the volume or change the channel, to deploy and redeploy America’s TV troops before heading off to the mall, beach, or backyard barbeque.

Only, what America keeps attempting to capture on its VCRs does not replay; America’s troop were not and never will be on TV — we serve, sacrificed, and lived or died for real. No dead American — thousands of civilians and thousands of soldiers — that died at the hands of Islamic fascists since 1979 will replay.

They only thing new about the ‘normal’ so many wish to return to — the return to forcefully fooling ourselves into again believing law alone makes us safe from our enemies — is the date.

If we lose this war, the people subjugated by tyrants will be us, the liberty lost forever will be ours, and no remote control will ever bring back the America so many gave so much to win and keep.

American jihad, Iran, War on Terror

JFK airport attack plotter wanted help from Iran

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The New York Sun reports:

A Shiite imam accused of plotting to blow up fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport wanted to seek Iranian backing for the terrorist plot. The disclosure came yesterday in a court decision denying bail to the Trinidadian-based cleric, Kareem Ibrahim.

Mr. Ibrahim, 62, is one of four men arrested last month on charges connected to the plot. At the time, American law enforcement officials said Mr. Ibrahim encouraged his co-conspirators to seek funding for the attack from outside their home countries of Trinidad or Guyana. While American authorities have not provided more details, a judge in Trinidad wrote that evidence, including tape recordings, suggests Mr. Ibrahim intended to seek backing for the plot from individuals in Iran or Britain.

In those recordings, Judge Prakash Moosai wrote, Mr. Ibrahim “refers to an ‘Iranian brother’ passing through Trinidad and Tobago, and of sending a ‘trusted brother’ to Iran to speak to the top men of the revolutionary movement there about the plan.” The judge’s decision does not clarify whether “the revolutionary movement there” refers to the government of the Islamic Republic. Nor does Judge Moosai state whether the plotters actually disclosed the plan to contacts in Iran or simply considered doing so. Mr. Ibrahim also spoke of contacting “brothers in England,” the decision said.

Mr. Ibrahim’s alleged efforts to find foreign backing mark the second Iran connection to surface in a case that initially appeared confined to the Western Hemisphere. At the time of his arrest, another of the defendants, Abdul Kadir of Guyana, was preparing to travel to Iran to attend an Islamic conference, according to news reports. Two of Mr. Kadir’s children were studying in Iran at the time of his arrest, according to reports.

The extent of Mr. Ibrahim’s own international contacts is unclear. He has not left Trinidad since 1979, according to the court decision. But one lead under investigation by Trinidadian law enforcement is whether Mr. Ibrahim had ties to Shiite organizations in southern Iraq and Iran through an Islamic discussion group he hosted, the Trinidad Express reported last month.