Al-Awlaki: The CIA thinks studying his case is not “current” or “comprehensive” enough
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Last week, the CIA didn’t hold a scheduled, three-day conference on “homegrown radicalization.” This was due in some significant part, I am hearing, to pressure from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). This shocking possibility was the subject of my most recent column. In its July 22 letter breaking the news to hundreds of confirmed attendees (many with non-refundable airfares), the CIA explained that it was “postponing” the conference to ensure that it would be “as current and comprehensive as possible.”
Right.
Below is the list of conference topics scheduled for August, approved of in June, but quite suddenly sent back to the drawing board in late July. The reason, according to my sources, was to appease CAIR.
1) “Homegrown Radicalization and Recruitment” regarding the Lackawanna Six
2) “History of Islamic Extremism in the US”
3) “From Hatred to Harmony,” a presentation by a former SkinHead leader and Neo-Nazi recruiter
4) “White Supremacy and Anti-Government Extremism”
5) Al Qaeda’s Inspire Magazine
6) “Violent Islamic Extremist Doctrines”
7) “Radicalization in the Mlitary”
8) “Domestic Jihadists in the National Capitol Region”
9) Anwar al-Awlaki Case Study
10) Farooque Ahmed Case Study
11) Gang Radicalization
12) Information Collection on Patrol
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