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TERRORIST AMONG US
Exposing jihad within
our borders
How Steve Emerson lives with death threat from militant Muslims
Posted: March 21, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Editor's note: In Steve Emerson's latest book,
"American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us," he reveals how
active Islamic terror cells have infiltrated the United States and
explains the increasing threat the U.S. faces from them. Yesterday,
WorldNetDaily published the
first
part of chapter 1, in which Emerson tells how he received a
serious death threat as a result of his producing a
TV documentary revealing the jihad agenda of radical Islamists in
the U.S., forcing him to move and live underground to protect himself.
Today's excerpt is the remainder of chapter 1 of "American Jihad."
© 2002 Steve Emerson
The police taught me some techniques about living underground. Stay
away from the windows. Vary your routine. The important thing is not
to leave the house at the same time or take the same route to and from
the office every day. When driving a car, make sure no one is
following you. Do a quick U-turn every once in a while just to make
sure. I did that many times.
"Be careful when you jog," they said. That was a big problem. I
love to jog. It's my only opportunity to get outdoors and get my mind
off things for a while. But jogging through Rock Creek Park at night
promised maximum exposure. Now I had to develop a hundred different
ways of leaving my apartment and winding through different streets in
inconspicuous clothing in order to maintain my daily exercise. If I
didn't, my health and sanity would probably collapse. It was
trying and unnerving.
Along the way I had to decide whether this was all worth it. Did I
really want to live this way? Couldn't I just move on to another
subject and be just as effective as an investigator and reporter? I
weighed the idea for a long time. But there was a stubborn resistance
in me. I didn't like the idea of being intimidated. I'd be giving up
an extremely good story. I honestly believed this was an important
concern for everyone in the nation. I could see the momentum toward
domestic terror building. I decided to go on.
One incident that severely affected the course of my reporting was
the Oklahoma City bombing of April 1995. That ended up being an
albatross around my neck. Less than six hours after the bombing I was
asked on television whether I thought militant Islamic groups were
involved. There was good reason for thinking they might be. The
bombing, after all, was in Oklahoma City, where I had first
encountered such militant groups in 1992. Several Hamas operatives
were known to be living in the Oklahoma City area. At first, federal
law enforcement officials were suspicious themselves.
When asked on a news program, I responded that "federal law
enforcement officials" were investigating the possibility that
militant Islamic groups were involved. This was true. I also said that
"this [was] done with the attempt to inflict as many casualties as
possible" and that "this is not the same type of bomb that has been
traditionally used by other terrorist groups in the United States
other than the Islamic militant ones." All this was interpreted as my
saying point-blank that militant Muslim groups were involved.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the American
Muslim Council (AMC), and other organizations immediately took
offense. Then when Timothy McVeigh was arrested and it turned out
domestic terrorists were responsible, Muslim groups claimed they were
the real victims. "Surge in hate crimes against Muslims," was the
story on the front page of The New York Times based, I believe,
entirely on unsubstantiated information fed to them by CAIR. The
Boston Globe, The New York Times, ABC-TV, National Public Radio even
news outlets that had themselves originally reported that Muslims were
among the suspects now took the position that I was the only one who
had suggested this. I became persona non grata in many places,
including at CBS, which had hired me less than 24 hours after the
bombing to be a consultant. They ended up blacklisting me for five
years. Dan Rather contended, "It was Emerson who misled us."
Still, the news media didn't give up the story themselves. At one
point Newsweek called up and said, "We'll give you $10,000 to help
write our cover story." They were looking for a militant Muslim
connection. "Save your money," I told them. "They didn't do it." As
soon as the details of the McVeigh arrest emerged, it was obvious that
he was responsible and had probably acted nearly alone. Up to that
point I had suspected that Islamic radicals were involved. Now I
realized I was wrong. I've never wavered from that since then, and I
have refused to support the conspiracy theorists who insist that
McVeigh himself was actually involved with Muslim groups. But to this
day I regret my hasty comments.
Meanwhile, I continued to discover more information at The
Investigative Project. People in law enforcement would regularly come
to me with new data, records and documents. The most disturbing were
the calls I would get from federal law enforcement agents who had
information and wanted to follow up but were being prevented by their
superiors who weren't interested in these things. More and more, these
disgruntled agents turned to us with information that they weren't
allowed to pursue themselves.
Our operations became more sophisticated and far-reaching. One of
the unexplored mountains of evidence we inherited, for example, was
the trial exhibits from the first World Trade Center bombing. Included
were the records of thousands of phone calls made by the suspects to
the Middle East and other parts of the world. We knew the individuals
who were placing the calls, but we couldn't tell who had received
them. Yet it was obvious that this was the key to investigating how
far the network of international terrorism had extended.
We divided the list of calls up country by country. Then, we
engaged a number of Arabic speakers and started making cold calls.
Every night at midnight when the tolls were low and it was daylight
on the other side of the world we would begin dialing numbers in the
Middle East. When someone picked up we would engage him in random,
nondescript conversation. "How are you? How are things going? I'm
calling from the U.S. Do you want to know what's happening here?" One
way or another we tried to get them to talk to us.
More than 49 out of 50 calls would be a dead end. The person
answering would hang up or wouldn't have any idea of what we were
talking about. But that one in 50 proved to be a treasure trove of
information. At one point we ended up talking to the son of blind
Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the infamous Jersey City imam who plotted a
day of terror for Manhattan. Another time we reached the spiritual
leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Little by little it became
obvious that all these groups were coordinating their effort in a
worldwide network.
Then one day the phone rang, and we hit an absolute gold mine. The
caller was a brave Sudanese who was a member of the Republican
Brotherhood, a group opposed to Dr. Hassan al-Turabi's fundamentalist
regime in Sudan. He was now working as a plumber in Brooklyn. He was
in the basement of a building and had just come across scores of boxes
of old records that appeared to be the property of Alkhifa Refugee
Center, also known as the Office of Services for the Mujahedin, the
predecessor to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida international network. The
records had apparently been moved there after the World Trade Center
bombing from Alkhifa headquarters at the Al-Farooq Mosque on Atlantic
Avenue. He wondered if we would be interested.
We immediately contacted the FBI in New York and Washington. To our
utter amazement, they said they couldn't do anything about it. The
field agents were very interested but when they ran it up to their
superiors, they were told it wouldn't fly. We even smuggled out a few
pages to pique their interest but the superiors would not budge. Then
we got word that the documents were about to be moved or perhaps even
destroyed in about five days.
So we decided to pull off our own covert operation. Our Sudanese
contact went into the building at midnight to do his job carrying
several large toolboxes. He then immediately emptied the toolboxes and
filled them with documents. We met him at the rear of the building in
a rented van. We grabbed the toolboxes, each containing about
4,0005,000 documents, and raced off to a Kinko's in Manhattan where
we spent all night feverishly photocopying the material. Then we would
race back to the building by 6 a.m. and return them to the plumber so
he could put them back before the building owners showed up for work.
We did this for three straight nights.
The papers contained financial records, address books, information
about the fabrication of passports and countless other materials
showing the Alkhifa Refugee Center's involvement in the worldwide
jihad movement. When we returned to the building the fourth night,
however, our contact didn't show up. We waited and waited, but by 7
a.m. we were very fearful that something had happened to him. We left
and found out later that something had triggered the building owners'
suspicion and they had caught him. While we were waiting outside, he
was being questioned and threatened in the basement. He is a tough
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We ended up keeping the original records instead of copies.
Altogether, we only retrieved about one-quarter of the information
that was there, but it was great material. We got thousands of
leads. Nevertheless, I still think it would have been much better
had the FBI come in.
Although I continue to live at an undisclosed location, I
occasionally speak at universities and other public forums. The
universities usually provide some form of security, but there are
never metal detectors. I'm always looking out for somebody who
goes quickly into his jacket. One time at Ramapo Community College
in New Jersey, a group of Muslim protesters rushed the stage. For
a brief moment I thought I was finished, but the police restored
order. Another time I was speaking at Harvard Law School at a
memorial for a 20-year-old Brandeis University student, Alisa
Flatow, who had been killed in Israel in a car bombing carried out
by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The audience turned out to be 80
percent Muslim. No matter how many times I condemned the Jewish
Defense League and Christian terrorists, they continued to bombard
me with accusations that I was a racist and anti-Muslim.
Up until that point I had thought militancy was a mind-set of
impoverished and ill-educated people whose fervor was driven by
their lack of opportunity in life. But this was an audience of
privileged young people future doctors and lawyers and still
they openly supported Hamas. This brought home to me that Islamic
fundamentalism is a trans-class movement. Poverty and lack of
opportunity have little or nothing to do with it. The real proof
of militant Islam's trans-class appeal can be seen in the support
for the Islamic Fundamentalism among the unions representing
doctors, lawyers and scientists in Islamic countries and in the
support for bin Laden in such wealthy countries as Saudi Arabia,
Qatar and Kuwait.
Even at my Feb. 24, 1998, testimony before a congressional
subcommittee on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the World
Trade Center bombing, I had a police escort to and from the
hearing room. It was jarring to think that I needed police
protection right in the halls of the Senate. Afterward the police
escorted me to my car, but that was the end of it. They said
goodbye and left me on my own.
Less than a year ago, I participated in a seminar at a public
agency in Washington where we spent time trying to imagine the
worst possible terrorist calamity that could occur in the United
States. Two basic scenarios were presented. One individual
suggested that the Chinese would launch a nuclear attack using
ballistic missiles. Everybody thought that scenario was the most
likely. My suggestion was that we would be hit by a much
lower-grade attack by Islamic fundamentalists on American soil.
Moreover, I said, our response would be constrained because we
would not want to offend the sensibilities of Islamic
fundamentalist leaders and their groups. They were already
establishing a demographic base in both the United States and
Europe and would argue strenuously against any kind of effective
response.
Unanimously, the other participants responded, "This could
never happen." First, they said, fundamentalists would never
attack us here. Second, they knew that the U.S. would respond so
horrifically if such an event did occur that we would wipe them
off the face of the earth. Finally, they said, fundamentalists had
no real motive to pull anything like this off.
These were very smart people, dedicated public servants. They
had no axes to grind. They weren't arguing the case for one group
or another but were sincerely trying to evaluate America's
situation as far as international terrorism was concerned. Yet I
walked out of that meeting and e-mailed a friend, "We're doomed.
It is beyond the official imagination of this government to
conceive that we can be attacked. There is an underlying
assumption that we are such good people that nobody would ever
want to attack us here." There was nothing venal in their
attitude. It just meant our defenses were down. We were turning a
blind eye toward the many possibilities for terrorist attack and
the militants' infrastructure already in place to help coordinate
it. I wanted to grab those people by the lapels and shout, "Don't
you see how far this thing has gone already? Don't you realize
there are people in this country who hate America and everything
it stands for and have absolutely no fear or compunction about
doing something about it?"
Since Sept. 11, 2001, everything has changed and yet nothing
has changed. The only difference between Feb. 26, 1993, and Sept.
11, 2001, is that there are 3,500-odd more people dead. We are
still vulnerable. We have only a short time to prevent the next
chapter from unfolding. This is the most important battle of our
time. Today we still have a window of opportunity to prevent
further devastation. But the window won't be open for long.
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Terrorists in our midst
How and why Islamists, jihadists, sleeper cells are flocking to
U.S.
Posted: December 5, 2002
11:25 a.m. Eastern
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
Shortly after the release of his explosive PBS documentary
"Jihad in America" featuring video footage of terrorists and
their supporters holding boisterous fund-raising rallies
throughout America's heartland -- investigative journalist and
terrorism expert Steven Emerson was informed by federal officials
that an Islamist death squad had been dispatched to kill him. He
should leave his home immediately, he was told.
Ever since then, the former CNN reporter, working full-time on
tracking the spread of terrorist networks to American shores, has
ceased to maintain a home address, varies his routine, takes a
different route to work each day and practices other
"living-underground" techniques.
Emerson tells his amazing story in the December edition of
WND's acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, in an issue titled
"TERRORISTS AMONG US."
With the help of a staff of researchers, Emerson has followed
the terrorists' monetary sources, monitored their attacks and
plans, exposed their ties to charitable foundations and assisted a
variety of government agencies in the battle against them.
"What we discovered," he says, "is that, indeed, international
terrorist organizations of all sorts had set up shop here in
America. They often took advantage of religious, civic, or
charitable organizations. Usually this was more than enough to
fool the public, the police, and especially naοve leaders of
religious or educational institutions, who were more than willing
to encourage and sponsor these groups in the name of
'multiculturalism' and 'diversity.'"
Meanwhile, he adds, U.S.-based terrorists have used these
organizations to ferry equipment to Middle Eastern terror groups,
to provide financial support to the families of suicide bombers,
coordinate efforts with other terrorist networks around the world,
and ultimately, he says, "to plan and support terrorist acts in
the Untied States."
Yet, despite the extreme threat of further terror attacks on
American soil, the U.S. government and much of the news media seem
unwilling or unable to confront the radioactive religious core of
the current conflict. As expert Mideast analyst Daniel Pipes notes
in this issue of Whistleblower: "A virtual taboo exists in
official circles about Islam's role in the violence; in the words
of one senior State Department official, this subject 'has to be
tiptoed around.' As a result, the violence is treated as though it
comes out of nowhere, the work of (in Bush's description) 'a bunch
of cold-blooded killers.'"
"This issue of Whistleblower," says WND Editor and CEO Joseph
Farah, "is free of the politically correct sensitivities of the
State Department. It succeeds in effectively connecting the dots
and showing the relationships between al-Qaida, other organized
groups, 'sleeper cells,' so-called 'freelancers' like sniper
suspect John Muhammad, the Saudi rulers who fund radicalized
Islamic schools worldwide, including throughout the U.S., and much
more. If you really want to understand the threat America is now
facing, read this issue."
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