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Not surprising coming from a guy who says the war on terrorism is over and that Islam is beautiful. Brennan deserves an honorary membership in the Muslim Brotherhood. :(
Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan told an audience yesterday that the Obama Adminstration wants to reach out to the “moderate” elements of the Hezbolllah terror group.
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/crazy-dangerous-john-brennan-says-team-obama-will-reach-out-to-moderate-elelments-of-hezbollah-terror-group-video/#comments
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHaabrvVTBw
Brennan on the beauty of Islam > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VQbAhqHoAo
I'm curious if he's read the Hezbollah Charter:
We see in Israel the vanguard of the United States in our Islamic world. It is the hated enemy that must be fought until the hated ones get what they deserve.
Our behavior is dictated to us by legal principles laid down by the light of an overall political conception defined by the leading jurist (wilayat al-faqih).
We call upon all of them to pick the option of Islamic government...
We are an umma which adheres to the message of Islam. We want all the oppressed to be able to study the divine message in order to bring justice, peace and tranquillity to the world.
Allah has also made it intolerable for Muslims to participate in an unjust regime, unjust for you and for us, in a regime which is not predicated upon the prescriptions (ahkam) of religion and upon the basis of the Law (the Shari’a) as laid down by Muhammad..
We call upon you to embrace Islam so that you can be happy in this world and the next.
I'm curious if he's read the Hezbollah Charter:
Doubtful. None of them even read the Arizona immigration law before they opened their mouth.
It now appears our beloved POTUS is going to put the master of Dhimmitude into Dennis Blair’s position.
Isn’t Brennan the guy who’s content (sigh) that we only have to re-capture 20% of the GITMO detainees that have already been released?
The inmates are running the asylum :(
Obama Has "More Confidence" in Brennan?
BY Michael Anton
May 20, 2010
"...So far so good. But reading through the report by ABC’s Jake Tapper one comes across this hair-raising assertion: “… the White House made it clear that it had more confidence in others, such as counterterrorism and homeland security adviser John Brennan ..."
More confidence in Brennan? Really? To understand how terrifying that assertion is, one does not even have to look much past this week.
First, in prepared remarks in Washington, Brennan referred to his love for “al-Quds,” which happens to be the Arab revanchist name for the city that the rest of us call “Jerusalem.” This terminology is routinely used by Islamist terror groups to rally the faithful. For instance, as Andy McCarthy points out, “al-Quds Day"—every year an occasion for boisterous anti-Israeli demonstrations—“was actually started by Ayatollah Khomeini 27 years ago.” Also, the worst of the worst within the Iranian Revolutionary Guards—itself the worst of the worst within perhaps the world’s worst regime—are called the “al-Quds force.” Perhaps Brennan just thought he was being politically correct—you know, like the way we are all supposed to say “Mumbai” rather than “Bombay” nowadays. But I’ve never heard of a “Mumbai Martyrs Brigade.” Have you?
This is not even the dumbest thing Brennan has said this week. At a conference in Washington, he said that the Obama administration is exploring ways to strengthen the hand of “moderate elements” within Hezbollah. This is the same Hezbollah that in 1983 blew up a Marine barracks, killing 299 American and French servicemen, that launched an unprovoked war against Israel in 2006, and that is responsible for dozens of attacks, kidnappings and other atrocities since its inception. For years, it’s been a staple of wooly-headed American thinking that if only we could find a way to reach out to Iranian “moderates” we could put the whole 1979 misunderstanding behind us. But this naivety never extended to Hezbollah and other outright terror groups—until now. Brennan’s proposal is a bit like assuming one can negotiate with “moderate” Nazis—itself a highly debatable proposition—and then looking to find them in the SS. That’s not naďve; it’s insane.
Earlier this year Brennan said that the 20% recidivism rate of the Gitmo detainees released up to that point was “not that bad.” See, he explained, the rate for American criminals sometimes approaches 50%. Well, yes, but—terrorists are not criminals. Terrorists are by definition a special kind of mass murderer. Recidivism among, say, forgers is regrettable but among terrorists it can have cataclysmic consequences. What’s more, it’s not as though that “not bad” 20% rate is holding steady. It’s rising. A detainee released by the Obama administration in December of 2009 was already back in the terror game after only three months—far quicker than the 18 month average for most of the known terror recidivists so far.
These are only a few of John Brennan’s greatest hits. His record of insouciance, political correctness, misleading statements and naivety is long and rich.
Maybe Admiral Blair deserved to be fired and maybe he didn’t. Without knowing more, we can’t know for sure. But we can know beyond a shadow of a doubt that a White House that has “more confidence” in John Brennan on the issue of terrorism is a White House that does not understand or take seriously the fight against terrorism.
Source: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-has-more-confidence-brennan-blair
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07-07-2010, 20:12
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-reveals-intel-on-huge-hezbollah-arms-stockpile-in-southern-lebanon-1.300656
IDF reveals intel on huge Hezbollah arms stockpile in southern Lebanon
By Anshel Pfeffer
Published 00:54 08.07.10
Nearly four years after the Second Lebanon War, Israel published maps yesterday showing arms caches in some 160 southern Lebanon villages.
In a rare move declassifying confidential intelligence information, the Israel Defense Forces told reporters that Hezbollah has some 40,000 short-, medium- and long-range missiles, and a force of 20,000 guerrilla fighters based throughout southern Lebanon.
Many of the arms caches are stored in private homes, which in the event of war could turn into IDF military targets. Unlike the Second Lebanon War - in which most of the fighting between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah militants took place in thickly forested rural areas - the past four years have seen the organization concentrate most of its fighting capacity in built-up areas.
In Beirut, one Hezbollah official told reporters he would not comment on the information provided by the IDF before seeing it himself.
Hezbollah's operation has been limited considerably by the presence of UNIFIL troops deployed in southern Lebanon. In recent days, however, residents of southern Shi'ite villages sympathetic to Hezbollah have blocked the UN monitors from entering their communities.
Virtually every Shi'ite village in southern Lebanon functions as a kind of military post, including control centers, underground supply tunnels and storage of arms caches.
Most villages host cells of between 30 and 200 Hezbollah fighters trained in field operations and rocket launching. IDF planners believe that in the event of war, Hezbollah will fire between 600 and 800 rockets a day at Israel.
Yesterday the military revealed intelligence on one southern Lebanon village, Khiam, 20 kilometers from the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona. The village of 23,000 is said to include at least 10 weapons storage sites - some of them just dozens of meters from schools or hospitals - and upon the outbreak of war would likely provide a haven for at least 90 Hezbollah fighters.
Col. Ronen Marley of Brigade 300, stationed on the Lebanese border, said yesterday, "Hezbollah is hunkering down in the villages. They're gathering significant quantities of intelligence on our forces. Every day it is busy digging tunnels and building up communication infrastructure to prepare itself for war."
Over the last few months, farmers working land close to the border have reported more sightings of Hezbollah fighters perched at reconnaissance towers overlooking Israel.
Many of them, the farmers said, were accompanied by individuals speaking Iran's dominant language, Farsi. Hezbollah is believed to be operating in conjunction with hundreds of Iranian advisers, led by Hossein Mahdavi - the head of the Lebanon Corps of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard - stationed in Beirut.
Iranian officers have largely filled positions once handled by Imad Mughniyeh, the senior Hezbollah militant assassinated in Damascus two years ago in a strike the group has attributed to Israel.
Syrian-supplied rockets
Hezbollah has received over 40,000 rockets from Iran and Syria over the past four years, three quarters of which possess strike ranges of between 20 and 50 kilometers.
The group has several thousand Syrian-made rockets with calibers of between 220 and 302 millimeters, able to hit targets up to 150 kilometers away.
Another Syrian-supplied projectile, the M-600, is produced jointly by Iran and North Korea and is capable of hitting targets up to 300 kilometers away with accuracy of within 250 meters. The latter group of rockets would represent a considerable threat to communities in central Israel.
Over the last few months Syria has also delivered Hezbollah a number of SCUD missiles capable of hitting almost any target in Israel.
Commando units
While Hezbollah has invested most of its resources into bolstering its rocket-firing capacity, it has also trained disciplined commando units for more sophisticated attacks within Israel.
Still, high-ranking IDF Northern Command officers said yesterday that despite Hezbollah's growing military strength, the group remains uninterested in sparking a war with Israel - at least for now.
The last four years have been the quietest on Israel's northern border since the founding of the state: the only rocket attacks waged were the work of Palestinian terror cells affiliated with international jihadist groups, and their damage to Israeli life and property was minimal.
Northern Command officers said Hezbollah is wary of the immense damage another confrontation with Israel would wreak upon southern Lebanon, which would also harm its political status in the country and lead to international pressure on the group to disarm.
Still, one top officer said that should Israel launch a strike on an Iranian nuclear facility, Hezbollah could be expected to respond with a forceful barrage of rockets that would shatter the quiet now prevailing in the north.
See also:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=180733
FWIW - the guy who was our de facto 'ambassador' to the Palestinians during the GHWB administration when we weren't 'officially recognizing' them and had no such position on the books is a very close friend of mine. Inclusion - exclusion - delusion - such is the way of the world and politics.
Richard's $.02 :munchin