America's Untapped Resource

Former head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat was caught on more than one occasion speaking peacefully in English while preaching hate in Arabic. As a former member of the PLO, Walid Shoebat insists that such tactics are part of the overall strategy to deceive the west. In Islam, says Shoebat, the standard is to use Muruna (stealth, flexibility), Taqiyya (Guarding the faith), and Kitman (Concealing the true intent); in plain English–lying.

Shoebat insists that westerners are not used to the concept of lying in order to further the agenda of a religion but that is what we are facing. He also states that the motives behind the ground zero mosque are not all that dissimilar from the motives behind the murder of seven CIA officials in Khost, Afghanistan last year–the difference is in approach only.

Since converting to Christianity in 1993, Shoebat has made it his life’s work to warn the west of the threats it faces from Islam. He is ready to help in any way he can but when his phone rings, it’s never the CIA, the FBI, or the DOD on the other end. Instead, it’s often another radio talk show host fascinated by his story and wanting him to share it with the audience.

On December 30^th, 2009, at Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi detonated a bomb that killed himself and seven high ranking CIA officials, including the base chief who had been tracking Osama bin Laden since 1997. Narrowly escaping death was the #2 CIA Chief in Afghanistan. A supposed informant with allegedly time sensitive intelligence about al Qaeda’s number #2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Balawi was a actually a triple agent.

In the days after the bombing, a video of al-Balawi was released in which he was seen revealing his intentions in Arabic prior to the bombing.

However, Shoebat maintains that al-Balawi had been communicating his intentions on the internet long before that fateful day at Camp Chapman. Had the CIA cared to enlist him in the effort to interpret them, seven American lives may have been saved.

Here are al-Balawi’s words–translated by Shoebat–that appeared on an internet blogpost before he murdered those seven CIA officials:

When I drive my car at a traffic police station on the side of the road, my surroundings change by a push of a flash button. I find myself going for martyrdom driving a booby trapped Laurie with a bomb heading towards the pagan guards. The hand brake turns into a switch waiting for the last press. My tongue utters the name of Allah and the Shahadatan. I cry out Allah Akbar (Allah is Great) Allah Akbar. Allah pay them back…

Or how about this one?

Oh how I wished to be in Gaza. I am a man killed by his own wishes or that I pray Allah has mercy on my condition. My desire to be a mortar bomb placed in the believer’s canon, Or to be operating as a taxi driver booby trapped with a bomb to send as many Jews to hell.

Despite these very bold red flags, the CIA allowed itself to be convinced that al-Balawi had a falling out with al Qaeda. Shoebat insists this was wishful thinking on the part of Americans while the Arab world considered it laughable. “Americans do not understand their enemy,” Shoebat says matter-of-factly.

In New York City, Shoebat maintains, is a threat to America that far too many of its citizens fail to comprehend. Feisal Abdul Rauf, otherwise known as the Imam heading up the Cordoba Initiative, has uttered words in Arabic that Shoebat says should ring alarm bells for every American. For example, in a May 9^th, 2009 article that appeared in a Jordanian newspaper, Shoebat translates Rauf as saying the following:

If someone in the Middle East cries out, “where is the law”, he knows that the law exists. The only law that the Muslim needs exists already in the Koran and the Hadith. People asked me right after the 9/11 attack why do movements with political agendas carry [Islamic] religious names? Why call it ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ or ‘Hezbollah (Party of Allah)’ or ‘Hamas’ or ‘Islamic Resistance Movement’? I answer them this–that the trend towards Islamic law and justice begins in religious movements, because secularism had failed to deliver what the Muslim wants, which is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

“In english,” Shoebat says, “Rauf speaks of building bridges when he talks about why he wants to build a mosque in the shadow of ground zero. The real reason is to implement Shariah law in the United States through incremental, peaceful means. It is taqiyya. Those in power know how to reach me but, like Glenn Beck’s red phone, mine doesn’t ring either.”

Shoebat began warning people about his former religion when he converted to Christianity in 1993. He would tell westerners to “look at the foreheads”. He was referring to what in Arabic is known as the Zabiba–the mark left from daily prostration. The direct translation is “raisin” and Shoebat warned that Muslims who dress as westerners while sporting the Zabiba should be considered extremely suspect–yes, he attempted to warn us of this years before 9/11.

Perhaps if Shoebat had been listened to then, thereby prompting the TSA to be trained without regard for absurd political correctness, the twin towers – along with 3000 Americans–would still be standing. Before a symbol of Islamic conquest is constructed blocks away from where the World Trade Center once stood, maybe the CIA, the FBI, and the DOD should listen to him now.

Of course, president Barack Obama has now publicly expressed his support for Rauf’s efforts to build the ground zero mosque so Shoebat’s phone, like Beck’s, is unlikely to ring anytime soon – unless it’s a talk show host on the other end.

Ben Barrack is a talk show host on KTEM 1400 in Texas and maintains a website at www.benbarrack.com