When will we learn? Paul Sperry, veteran investigative journalist, Hoover Institution fellow, and author of the explosive “Muslim Mafia,” reports on yet another security-undermining scandal at Gitmo.
Must-read in the NYPost today:
A number of Arabic and Pashtu interpreters at the terror-war detention center at Guantanamo Bay are under active investigation for omitting valuable intelligence from their translations of detainee interrogations, among other security breaches. This could taint some of the evidence at the “9/11 trial” in New York and proceedings against other detainees.
Remarkably, the Pentagon never cleaned up the “mole infestation” at its highest-security facility after the FBI busted a Muslim spy ring at Gitmo in 2003.
Another spy scandal at Gitmo: Arab and Pashtu interpreters omitted info from their translations of detainee interrogations
Their loyalties, if this is true, were with Islam, not with the United States. That should not be surprising: it is a staple of Islamic thought that loyalty to one’s fellow Muslims trumps all other loyalties. “Another spying scandal at Gitmo,” by Paul Sperry for theNew York Post, December 1 (thanks to Pamela) via Jihad Watch
The 2003 probe involved at least two Arabic interpreters with high-level security clearance. Senior Airman Ahmad al-Halabi, a Syrian native, and former Army linguist Ahmed Mehalba, an Egyptian native, were later convicted of stealing or mishandling classified documents.
Six years later comes a new problem with Muslim personnel who have virtually unfettered access to detainees and intelligence at Gitmo. Professional military security and intelligence officials at Gitmo did the preliminary probe, then prepared a classified summary and are now briefing top officials and members of Congress in Washington. An active FBI criminal probe is also under way.
The possible new spy ring involves several Arabic linguists, some also Egyptian and Syrian immigrants. They’re suspected of, among other things:
* Omitting valuable intelligence from their translations of interrogations.
* Slipping notes to detainees inside copies of the Koran.
* Coaching detainees to make allegations of abuse against interrogators.
* Meeting with suspects on the terror watchlist while back in the United States.
Officials say some of the suspected “dirty” linguists — who met privately in a locked mosque at Gitmo — have had access to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other high-value al Qaeda detainees.
“Three years of investigations have revealed the presence of pro-jihad/anti-Western activities among the civilian-contractor and military-linguist population serving Joint Task Force Guantanamo,” states a copy of a classified Gitmo briefing, prepared in May for the FBI, CIA and Congress’ intelligence committees.
Related Links:
- Gitmo detainees will use trials as “platform” to bash America
- Here we go: World meddling in 9/11 show trials begins
CAIR, you won’t be surprised to learn, sued “Muslim Mafia” co-author David Gaubatz and demanded that documents obtained by his son (who worked undercover at CAIR) be returned. Late last week, a judge ordered the documents returned — but the FBI intervened and now wants the docs:
FBI agents swooped in last night on attorneys representing the co-author of the top-selling controversial book, Muslim Mafia, as they prepared to comply with a federal court order to return documents obtained from the Council on American-Islamic Relations in an independent undercover operation.
FBI agents, who served a warrant at a Washington, D.C., law office, want to see the thousands of pages of documents and audio and video recordings that P. David Gaubatz, and his son, Chris Gaubatz, gathered in a daring undercover penetration of CAIR where Chris Gaubatz posed as an unpaid intern. The material appears in Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America, which the elder Gaubatz co-authored with investigative journalist Paul Sperry.
“Obviously, we were prepared to honor the court order,” said Joseph Farah, chief executive officer of WND and its subsidiary, WND Books, who has been raising money for the defense. “Now we will have to confer with the attorneys to determine what happens next. Which takes precedence – a federal court order or an FBI warrant? … Personally, I would like to see these papers in the hands of trained FBI investigators. The revelations raised about CAIR in Muslim Mafia have clearly piqued the agency’s interest.”
…CAIR–whose litigious history includes suing American citizens for reporting suspicious activity on a commercial flight–claimed the material recovered in the investigation was obtained without consent or stolen by Chris Gaubatz. As an unpaid intern, Chris was frequently tasked with shredder duty. Realizing the sensitive nature of the information, he salvaged it instead.
Garbus said Americans have an interest in seeing the CAIR documents, because they are relevant to federal law enforcement officials’ concerns about the group’s ties to terrorist operatives that threaten the nation’s security.
“The more information you have, the better able you are to form a judgment about the organization,” he said.
This isn’t the first time the FBI has turned a close eye on CAIR. It cut off ties to the organization, which lauds itself as a Muslim civil-rights group, in January after CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case in Texas, the largest terrorism-finance case in U.S. history.
Related: Frank Gaffney has much more on CAIR at BigGovernment.com.See the IRS and CAIR for the latest.
Israel has all kinds of people who are native speakers of Arabic. And some of those Arabic-speaking Jews live here. So do many Copts, who while they may go along with the party-line when still trapped in Egypt, start to speak more forthrightly once they are in the free West, showing that they are well aware of the menace of Islam. Assyrian and Chaldean Christians are leaving Iraq, some of them coming here, and some already here. There is no need — none — to hire Arabic-speakers who are Muslim. What needs to be acquired, and it isn’t hard, is some acquaintance with the Qur’an and the events of Muhammad’s life, which are both sources of everyday allusion in the speech of Muslims.
One particularly successful practitioner of both intelligence and counter-inteligence, against the Muslim threat, is Jean-Louis Bruguiere, who has just retired from his official duties in France. Why not hire him, and possibly one or two Israelis, to bring some no-nonsense realism to the task, and let them “train the Americans” in such intelligence work just a sthe Americans are trying to “train the Afghanis” — but, one hopes, with better success.
Americans are not naturally deceptive but rather, naively open, friendly and ready to be fleeced. See American tourists in the souks of Tangier, or Cairo, or anywhere. Muslims, on the other hand, are naturally deceptive, and especially in dealing with still-powerful Infidels. Musliims in the Western world have, after all, until now managed the fantastic feat — even as they continue to pour in to all of our countries — of limiting severely the numbers of those who both know about, and fully understand, Islam, and its astonishing and fearful hold on the minds of its adherents — or who at least understand the need to finrd out and understand. There’s deception every which way but up, and possibly up, too. A little less of the attitudes expressed in the faces of those graduating seniors in the high-school yearbooks of this country — why, just look at the naive faces in those American yearbooks, and compare them to the faces in similar productions in France, or Russia. Something a little less trusting is in order, and has been in order, for many decades. Please. It’s not much to ask.
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I readed that on WZ……Putain,ça va mal !
One of the arguments in favour of recruiting muslims into the armed forces and intelligence agencies is that they can speak arabic, pashtun & the like, and we need “diversity” above common sense at any expense.
Don’t expect any anything to be done about Moslems in the armed forces and our government under the present Moslem-accomodating administration.
now we need to hire agency to watch those rats and spy on them to see if they are unest and truthfull to their home land country who open up their door and heart to them , educated them , support them in any way , and now what they still back up their own , its the same picture over and over , we can not rust these people ever , how hard it is to sink in our agency and goverment mind . so now we need to spend more money on hiring agency to watch those rats and see if they are not what they say they are , very smart ????