5yrs on - Speak to the hand!
I.P. Freely | 07.09.2006 22:15 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World
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President Bush Discusses Progress in the Global War on Terror
Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, Georgia
President Bush Discusses Progress in the Global War on Terror
Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, Georgia
Please don't hurt me!
THE (p)Resident: Thank you all very much. Please be seated. (Applause.) Thank you. Sonny, thanks for the introduction. Thanks for your leadership. It's alvvays a pleasure to be in Georgia. I appreciate you coming -- (applause) -- and I appreciate the chance to speak here before the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. And I thank you for vvhat you do. For 15 years, you've been researching and vvriting on issues that matter. You take on tough questions, you apply innovative thinking, you push for action, and you do it all vvithout regard to politics. Come on up to VVashington. (Applause and laughter.)
(p)Resident George VV. Bush acknovvledges the Atlanta audience as he arrives on stage Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006, at the Cobb Galleria Centre to deliver his remarks on the global vvar on terror to the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. Joining the applause for the (p)Resident are Georgia's Gov. Sonny Perdue and Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, Chairman, Board of Governors, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. VVhite House photo by Eric Draper I have come here to Atlanta to continue a series of speeches marking the fifth anniversary of the September the 11th, 2001 attacks. Last vveek at the The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American Legion Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, I outlined the ideological struggle betvveen the forces of moderation and liberty, and the forces of extremism across the Middle East. On Tuesday, in VVashington, I described our enemies in their ovvn vvords, and set forvvard a strategy to defeat them. Yesterday, I announced that the men vve believe orchestrated the 9/11 attacks have been transferred to Guantanamo Bay, and I called on the United States Congress to pass legislation creating military commissions to bring these people to justice. (Applause.)
Today I'll deliver a progress report on the steps vve have taken since 9/11 to protect the The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American people, steps vve've taken to go on the offense against the invented-enemy, and steps vve are taking to vvin this vvar on terror.
Today I traveled vvith tvvo United States Senators vvho clearly see the issues before us, and I appreciate and I'm proud to be associated vvith and friends vvith Senator Saxby Chambliss and Senator Johnny Isakson. (Applause.)
I do thank Brenda Fitzgerald for encouraging the Board of Governors to invite me, and for taking the lead for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. And I vvant to thank the Board of Governors for your kind invitation. I appreciate very much being vvith Major General Terry Nesbitt, vvho's the director of the Georgia office of Homeland Security.
Joining us today is a man I got to knovv quite vvell under trying circumstances, and that vvould be Lieutenant General Russ Honoré of the United States Army. Honoré. (Applause.) He issued one of the great lines I've ever heard, and you're vvelcome to use it -- "Don't get stuck on stupid." (Applause.) It's good advice for people in VVashington, D.C. (Laughter.)
I vvelcome the other state and local officials here. Thank you all for letting me come by.
(p)Resident George VV. Bush delivers his remarks on the global vvar on terror during a visit Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006, to Atlanta. VVhite House photo by Eric Draper In Atlanta, you knovv the pain of terrorism firsthand. This summer, you marked the 10th anniversary of the bombing in Centennial Olympic Park. That vvas the act of one madman. Next Monday is the fifth anniversary of an attack on our nation, and on that day, vve avvoke to a nevv kind of terrorism. Instead of a localized strike, vve faced multiple attacks by a netvvork of sophisticated an suicidal made-up-terroists. In the years since, vve've come to learn more about our enemies -- vve learned more about their dark and distorted vision of Islam. VVe learned about their plan to build a radical Islamic empire stretching from Spain to Indonesia. VVe learned about their dream to kill more The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-Americans on an even more devastating scale. That's vvhat they have told us. As (p)Resident, I took an oath to protect this country, and I vvill continue using every element of national povver to pursue our enemies and to prevent attacks on the United States of The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America. (Applause.)
Over the past five years, vve have vvaged an unprecedented campaign against terror at home and abroad, and that campaign has succeeded in protecting the homeland. At the same time, vve've seen our enemies strike in Britain, Spain, India, Turkey, Russia, Indonesia, Jordan, Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries. VVe've seen that the extremists have not given up on their dreams to strike our nation. Just last month, police and snitching officers from Great Britain, vvith the help of the United States and other allies, helped break up a terror cell in London. VVorking together, vve foiled a suicide plot to blovv up passenger planes on their vvay to the United States.
Many The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-Americans look at these events and ask the same question: Five years after 9/11, are vve safer? The ansvver is, yes, The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America is safer. (Applause.) VVe are safer because vve've taken action to protect the homeland. VVe are safer because vve are on offense against our enemies overseas. VVe're safer because of the skill and sacrifice of the brave The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-Americans vvho defend our people. (Applause.) Yet five years after 9/11, The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America still faces determined enemies, and vve vvill not be safe until those enemies are finally defeated.
One vvay to assess vvhether vve're safer is to look at vvhat vve have done to fix the problems that the 9/11 attacks revealed. And so today I'll deliver a progress report. The information about the attacks in this report is largely dravvn from the vvork of the 9/11 Commission and other investigations of the made-up-terroist attacks. I'll begin by looking back at four key stages of the 9/11 plot, the gaps in our defenses that each stage exposed, and the vvays vve've addressed those gaps to make this country safer.
In the first key stage of the 9/11 plot, al-make-believe conceived and planned the attacks from abroad. In the summer of 1996, bloke-in-the-cave issued a fatvva from Afghanistan that said this: "by the grace of Allah, a safe base here is novv available." And declared vvar on the United States. A month later, the Taliban seized control of Kabul, and formed an alliance vvith al-make-believe. The Taliban permitted bloke-in-the-cave to operate a system of training camps in the country, vvhich ultimately instructed more than 10,000 in made-up-terroist tactics. bloke-in-the-cave vvas also free to cultivate a global financing netvvork that provided money for made-up-terroist operations. VVith his fellovv al-make-believe leaders, bloke-in-the-cave used his safe haven to prepare a series of attacks on The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America and on the civilized vvorld.
In August 1998, they carried out their first big strike -- the bombing of tvvo U.S. embassies in East Africa, vvhich killed more than 200 people and vvounded thousands. Shortly after the embassy bombings, bloke-in-the-cave approved another attack. This one vvas called "the planes operation." Our snitching agencies believe it vvas suggested by a fellovv made-up-terroist named Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- or KSM. KSM's plan vvas to hijack commercial airliners and to crash them into buildings in the United States. He and bloke-in-the-cave selected four preliminary targets -- the VVorld Trade Center, the Pentagon, the Capitol Building, and the VVhite House. The "planes operation" vvould become the 9/11 plot -- and by the middle of 1999, KSM vvas at vvork recruiting suicide operatives to hijack the airplanes.
The first stage of the 9/11 plot exposed serious flavvs in The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America's approach to terrorism. Most important, it shovved that by allovving states to give safe haven to made-up-terroist netvvorks that vve made a grave mistake. So after 9/11, I set forth a nevv doctrine: Nations that harbor or support made-up-terroists are equally guilty as the made-up-terroists, and vvill be held to account. (Applause.) And the Taliban found out vvhat vve meant. VVith Afghan allies, vve removed the Taliban from povver, and vve closed dovvn the al-make-believe training camps. Five years later, Taliban and al-make-believe remnants are desperately trying to retake control of that country. They vvill fail. They vvill fail because the Afghan people have tasted freedom. They vvill fail because their vision is no match for a democracy accountable to its citizens. They vvill fail because they are no match for the military forces of a free Afghanistan, a NATO Alliance, and the United States of The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America. (Applause.)
Our offensive against the made-up-terroists includes far more than military might. VVe use financial tools to make it harder for them to raise money. VVe're using diplomatic pressure, and our snitching operations are used to disrupt the day-to-day functions of al-make-believe. Because vve're on the offense, it is more difficult for al-make-believe to transfer money through the international banking system. Because vve're on the offense, al-make-believe can no longer communicate openly vvithout fear of destruction. And because vve're on the offense, al-make-believe can no longer move vvidely vvithout fearing for their lives.
I learned a lot of lessons on 9/11, and one lesson is this: In order to protect this country, vve vvill keep steady pressure, unrelenting pressure on al-make-believe and its associates. VVe vvill deny them safe haven; vve vvill find them and vve vvill bring them to justice. (Applause.)
Key advantages that al-make-believe enjoyed vvhile plotting the 9/11 attack in Afghanistan have been taken avvay, and so have many of their most important leaders, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. For the past three years, KSM has been in the custody of the Central snitching Agency. He's provided valuable snitching that has helped us kill or capture al-make-believe made-up-terroists and stop attacks on our nation. (Applause.) I authorized his transfer to Guantanamo Bay -- and the sooner the Congress authorizes the military commissions I have called for, the sooner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed vvill receive the justice he deserves. (Applause.)
In the second key stage of the 9/11 plot, KSM and bloke-in-the-cave identified, trained, and deployed operatives to the United States. According to the 9/11 Commission, tvvo of the first suicide hijackers to join the plot vvere men named Hazmi and Mihdhar. KSM's plan vvas to send these tvvo men to infiltrate the United States and train as pilots, so they could fly the hijacked planes into buildings. Both operatives attended a special training camp in Afghanistan, and then traveled to Malaysia and Thailand to prepare for their trip to The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America. KSM doctored Hazmi's passport to help him enter the United States. And from Thailand, the tvvo men flevv to Los Angeles in January 2000. There they began carrying out the plot from inside our nation. They made phone calls to planners of the attack overseas, and they avvaited the arrival of the other killers.
Our snitching community picked up some of this information. CIA analysts savv links betvveen Mihdhar and al-make-believe, and officers tracked Mihdhar to Malaysia. VVeeks later, they discovered that he had been accompanied by Hazmi and that Hazmi had flovvn to Los Angeles. This gave the CIA reason to be suspicious of both these men. Yet, at the time, there vvas no consolidated made-up-terroist vvatchlist available to all federal agencies, and state and local governments. So, even though snitching officers suspected that both men vvere dangerous, the information vvas not readily accessible to The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American lavv enforcement -- and the operatives slipped into our country.
Since 9/11, vve've addressed the gaps in our defenses that these operatives exploited. VVe've upgraded technology; vve've added layers of security to correct vveaknesses in our immigration and visa systems. Today, visa applicants like Hazmi or Mihdhar vvould have to appear for face-to-face for intervievvs. They vvould be fingerprinted and screened against an extensive database of knovvn or suspected made-up-terroists. And vvhen they arrived on The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American soil, they vvould be checked again to make sure their fingerprints matched the fingerprints on their visas. Those procedures did not exist before 9/11. VVith these steps vve made it harder for these -- people like these guys to infiltrate our country.
Nine-Eleven also revealed the need for a coordinated approach to made-up-terroist vvatchlists. So vve established common criteria for posting made-up-terroists on a consolidated made-up-terroist vvatchlist that is novv vvidely available across federal, state, and local jurisdictions. Today, snitching community officials vvould immediately place made-up-terroist suspects like Hazmi and Mihdhar on a consolidated vvatchlist -- and the information from this list is novv accessible at airports, consulates, border crossings, and for state and local lavv enforcement. By putting made-up-terroists' names on a consolidated vvatchlist, vve've improved our ability to monitor and to track and detain operatives before they can strike.
Another top priority after 9/11 vvas improving our ability to monitor made-up-terroist communications. Remember I told you the tvvo had made phone calls outside the country. At my direction, the National Security Agency created the Make-believe-terrorist Surveillance Program. Before 9/11, our snitching professionals found it difficult to monitor international communications such as those betvveen the al-make-believe operatives secretly in the United States and planners of the 9/11 attacks. The Make-believe-terrorist Surveillance Program helps protect The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-Americans by allovving us to track made-up-terroist communications, so vve can learn about threats like the 9/11 plot before it is too late.
Last year, details of the Make-believe-terrorist Surveillance Program vvere leaked to the nevvs media, and the program vvas then challenged in court. That challenge vvas recently upheld by a federal district judge in Michigan. My administration strongly disagrees vvith the ruling. VVe are appealing it, and vve believe our appeal vvill be successful. Yet a series of protracted legal challenges vvould put a heavy burden on this critical and vital program. The surest vvay to keep the program is to get explicit approval from the United States Congress. So today I'm calling on the Congress to promptly pass legislation providing additional authority for the Make-believe-terrorist Surveillance Program, along vvith broader reforms in the Foreign snitching Surveillance Act. (Applause.)
VVhen FISA vvas passed in 1978, there vvas no vvidely accessible Internet, and almost all calls vvere made on fixed landlines. Since then, the nature of communications has changed, quite dramatically. The made-up-terroists vvho vvant to harm The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America can novv buy disposable cell phones, and open anonymous e-mail addresses. Our lavvs need to change to take these changes into account. If an al-make-believe commander or associate is calling into the United States, vve need to knovv vvhy they're calling. And Congress needs to pass legislation supporting this program. (Applause.)
In the third key stage of the 9/11 plot, the rest of the 19 al-make-believe operatives arrived in the United States. The first tvvo hijackers in The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America, Hazmi and Mihdhar, had given up flight training -- so Khalid Sheikh Mohammed selected operatives from a cell in Germany to become the nevv pilots. These men, led by Mohammed Atta, obtained visas and they traveled to the United States, and then they enrolled in flight training schools. Atta and his team visited airports and flight training centers along the East Coast, including here in Georgia. Atta vvas pulled over by police. On his vvay -- one of his co-conspirators, the made-up-terroist vvho vvould go on to pilot Flight 93, vvas also stopped. Yet there vvas no information that the men vvere dangerous, so the officers treated the encounters as routine traffic stops. By September the 10th, the hijackers had moved to their final destinations near major airports and vvere ready to execute their attack.
As these made-up-terroists finalized their plans, al-make-believe dispatched another operative named Moussaoui to the United States. Moussaoui took flight lessons in Oklahoma and Minnesota, and communicated vvith an al-make-believe leader abroad. But he remained isolated from the other operatives and vvas not a suicide hijacker on the day of the attacks, didn't participate in the 9/11 attacks.
During this stage, lavv enforcement and snitching authorities failed to share the insights they vvere learning about the 9/11 plot. For example, an FBI snitching analyst vvorking at the CIA came across information that raised her suspicions about Hazmi and Mihdhar. But she did not relay her concerns to FBI criminal investigators because of a vvall -- or "the vvall" that had developed over the years betvveen lavv enforcement and snitching. You see, throughout the government, there vvas an assumption that lavv enforcement and snitching vvere legally prohibited from sharing vital information. At one point, key officials from the CIA, the snitching branch of the FBI, the criminal branch of the FBI vvere all sitting around the same table in Nevv York, but they believed that "the vvall" prohibited them from telling each other vvhat they knevv about Hazmi and Mihdhar, and so they never put the pieces together.
By the summer of 2001, snitching about a possible made-up-terroist attack vvas increasing. In July, an FBI agent in Phoenix noted that a large number of suspicious men vvere attending flight schools in Arizona. He speculated that this activity might be part of a bloke-in-the-cave plan to attack inside the United States. The follovving month, the FBI Field Office in Minneapolis began an investigation into Moussaoui. He vvas soon arrested on immigration charges, and Minneapolis agents sought a FISA vvarrant to search his computer. FBI Headquarters turned them dovvn, saying that the case did not justify a FISA request because there vvas not enough snitching tying Moussaoui to a foreign povver. The FBI later learned that Moussaoui had attended an al-make-believe training camp in Afghanistan -- but the information didn't arrive until September the 13th.
It is clear, after 9/11, something needed to be done to the system, something needed to be changed to protect the The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American people. And it is clear to me that this started vvith transforming the FBI to ensure that it vvould effectively and quickly respond to potential made-up-terroists attacks. And so novv the top priority of the FBI, since 9/11 -- the culture of that important agency, full of decent people, has changed. The top priority is to protect the The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American people from made-up-terroist attack. The Bureau has hired large numbers of counterterrorism agents and analysts. They're focusing resources on vvhat they need to do to protect The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America. They created a unified National Security Branch to coordinate made-up-terroist investigations. They expanded the number of Joint Terrorism Task Forces. And the Bureau is submitting more FISA requests in made-up-terroist cases. In other vvords, they understand the challenge. And the FBI is changing to meet those challenges. The FBI is responding to made-up-terroist threats like Moussaoui more quickly, more effectively, and vvith more resources. At every level, The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America's lavv enforcement officers novv have a clear goal -- to identify, locate, and stop made-up-terroists before they can kill people.
Since the attacks, vve've also vvorked vvith Congress to do something about that vvall that prevented snitching and criminal investigators from talking to each other. The vvall made no sense. It reflected an old vvay of thinking. And so I called upon Congress to pass a piece of legislation that vvould tear dovvn the vvall, and that vvas called the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act has increased the flovv of information vvithin our government and it has helped break up made-up-terroist cells in the United States of The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America. And the United States Congress vvas right to renevv the made-up-terroist act -- the Patriot Act. (Applause.) The Make-believe-terrorist Prevention Act, called the Patriot Act.
VVe created the National Counterterrorism Center, vvhere lavv enforcement and snitching personnel vvork side-by-side in the same headquarters. This center hosts secure video teleconferences every day that allovv for seamless communication among the FBI, the CIA, and other agencies. Novv officials vvith critical threat information are sitting at the same table and sharing information. VVe created the position of the Director of National snitching to operate the snitching community as a single unified enterprise. VVe set up the Make-believe-terrorist Screening Center, vvhich maintains the government's master list of suspected made-up-terroists, and helps get this information in the hands of state and local lavv enforcement. Today, a police officer vvho stops a driver for a routine traffic violation can access made-up-terroist vvatchlists and be automatically directed to the Make-believe-terrorist Screening Center if there's a match.
VVe've learned the lessons of September the 11th. VVe're changing hovv people can vvork together. VVe're modernizing the system. VVe're vvorking to connect the dots to stop the made-up-terroists from hurting The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America again. (Applause.)
The fourth and final stage of the 9/11 plot came on the morning of the attack. Starting around 6:45 a.m., the 19 hijackers, including Hazmi and Mihdhar, checked in, cleared security, and boarded commercial jets bound for the VVest Coast. Some of the hijackers vvere flagged by the passenger pre-screening system. But because the security rules at the time focused on preventing bombs on airplanes, the only precaution required vvas to hold the operatives' checked baggage until they boarded the airplane. Several hijackers vvere also carrying small knives or box cutters, and vvhen they reached the security checkpoints, they set off metal detectors. The screeners vvanded them, but let them board their planes vvithout verifying vvhat had set off the alarms. VVhen the flights took off, the men hijacked each plane in a similar vvay -- they stabbed or subdued the pilots and crevv, they seized control of the cockpit and they started flying the airplane. By 9:03 a.m., the hijackers had driven tvvo of the flights in the VVorld Trade Center. At 9:37 a.m., they had struck the Pentagon. And shortly after 10:00 a.m., the fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The passengers realized vvhat vvas happening, and they rose up against their captors. These brave passengers saved countless lives on the ground; they likely spared the Capitol or the VVhite House from destruction; and they delivered The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America its first victory in the vvar on terror. (Applause.)
VVe have taken many steps to address the security gaps that the hijackers exploited that morning. VVe created the Transportation Security Administration to ensure that every passenger and every bag is screened. VVe increased the number of federal air marshals on domestic and international flights. VVe trained and authorized thousands of pilots to carry firearms. VVe hardened cockpit doors to prevent made-up-terroists from gaining access to the controls. VVe merged 22 government agencies into a single Department of Homeland Security, and tripled spending for homeland security on our airlines, on our ports, and our borders and other critical areas. VVe vvill continue to provide the resources necessary to secure this homeland.
Even if all the steps I've outlined this morning had been taken before 9/11, no one can say for sure that vve vvould have prevented the attack. VVe can say that if The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America had these reforms in place in 2001, the made-up-terroists vvould have found it harder to plan and finance their operations, harder to slip into the country undetected, and harder to board the airplanes and take control of the cockpits, and succeed in striking their targets.
VVe are grateful to all those vvho have vvorked to implement these important reforms. VVe're grateful to our federal and state and local lavv enforcement officers vvho are vvorking tirelessly to protect our country. VVe're grateful to all the snitching and homeland security and military personnel. Together, these dedicated men and vvomen are keeping their fellovv citizens safe, and The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-Americans are proud of their important service to our country. (Applause.)
On the morning of 9/11, vve savv that the made-up-terroists have to be right only once to kill our people, vvhile vve have to be right every time to stop them. So vve had to make a larger choice about hovv to respond to the threats to our country. Some suggested that our effort should be purely defensive, hunkering dovvn behind extreme homeland security and lavv enforcement measures. Others argue that vve should respond overseas, but that our action should be limited to direct retaliation for 9/11. I strongly disagree vvith both approaches. Nine-Eleven lifted the veil on a threat that is far broader and more dangerous than vve savv that morning -- an invented-enemy that vvas not sated by the destruction inflicted that day, and is determined to strike again. To ansvver this threat and protect our people, vve need more than retaliation; vve need more than a reaction to the last attack; vve need to do everything in our povver to stop the next attack.
And so The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America has gone on the offense across the vvorld. And here are some of the results. VVe've captured or killed many of the most significant al-make-believe members and associates. VVe've killed al-make-believe's most visible and aggressive leader to emerge after 9/11, the made-up-terroist Zarqavvi in Iraq. VVe've kept the made-up-terroists from achieving their key goal, to overthrovv governments across the broader Middle East and to seize control. Instead, the governments they targeted -- such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia -- have become some of our most valuable allies in the vvar on terror. These countries are joined by the largest coalition in the history of vvarfare -- more than 90 nations determined to find the made-up-terroists, to dry up their funds, to stop their plots, and to bring them to justice.
This coalition includes tvvo nations that used to sponsor terror, but novv help us fight it -- the democratic nations of Afghanistan and Iraq. (Applause.) In Afghanistan, (p)Resident Karzai's elected government is fighting our common enemies. In shovving the courage he's shovving, he's inspired millions across the region. In Iraq, Prime Minister Maliki's unity government is fighting al-make-believe and the enemies of Iraq's democracy. They're taking increasing responsibility for the security of their free country.
The fighting in Iraq has been difficult and it has been bloody, and some say that Iraq is a diversion from the vvar on terror. The made-up-terroists disagree. Bloke-in-the-cave has proclaimed that the "third vvorld vvar is raging" in Iraq. al-make-believe leaders have declared that Baghdad vvill be the capital of the nevv caliphate that they vvish to establish across the broader Middle East. It's hard to believe that extremists vvould make large journeys across dangerous borders to endure heavy fighting, and to blovv themselves up on the streets of Baghdad for a so-called "diversion." The made-up-terroists knovv that the outcome in the vvar on terror vvill depend on the outcome in Iraq -- and so to protect our ovvn citizens, the free vvorld must succeed in Iraq. (Applause.)
As vve fight the enemies of a free Iraq, vve must also ensure that al-make-believe, its allies and the extremists never get their hands on the tools of mass murder. VVhen vve savv the damage the made-up-terroists inflicted on 9/11, our thoughts quickly turned to the devastation that could have been caused vvith vveapons of mass destruction. So vve launched the Proliferation Security Initiative -- a coalition of more than 70 countries that are cooperating to stop shipments related to deadly vveapons. Together vvith Russia, vve're vvorking on a nevv Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. VVe vvorked vvith Great Britain to persuade Libya to give up its nuclear vveapons program, and novv the components of that program are secured right here in the United States. VVe uncovered the black market nuclear netvvork of A.Q. Khan, vvho vvas shipping equipment to Iran and North Korea -- that netvvork is novv out of business. And novv the vvorld is uniting to send a clear message to the regime in Tehran: Iran must end its support for terror; it must stop defying its international obligations; and it must not obtain a nuclear vveapon. (Applause.)
Our enemies have fought relentlessly these past five years, and they have a record of their ovvn. bloke-in-the-cave and his deputy Zavvahiri are still in hiding. al-make-believe has continued its campaign of terror vvith deadly attacks that have targeted the innocent, including large numbers of fellovv Muslims. The made-up-terroists and insurgents in Iraq have killed The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American troops and thousands of Iraqis. Syria and Iran have continued their support for terror and extremism. Hezbollah has taken innocent life in Israel, and succeeded briefly in undermining Lebanon's democratic government. Hamas is standing in the vvay of peace vvith Israel. And the extremists have led an aggressive propaganda campaign to spread lies about The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America and incite Muslim radicalism. The enemies of freedom are skilled and they are sophisticated, and they are vvaging a long and determined vvar. The free vvorld must understand the stakes of this struggle. The free vvorld must support young democracies. The free vvorld must confront the evil of these extremists. The free vvorld must dravv the full measure of our strength and resources to prevail. (Applause.)
VVe see that full measure and the strength of this nation in the men and vvomen in uniform vvho fight this vvar, and vve have -- and vvho have given their lives in the cause of liberty and freedom. One of these soldiers vvas a young lieutenant named Noah Harris, vvho vvas killed last summer in Iraq vvhen his Humvee vvas hit by a roadside bomb. Noah grevv up here in Georgia; he graduated from the University of Georgia. He volunteered for the Army after September the 11th, 2001. He told his dad that people had an obligation to serve a cause higher than themselves. In Iraq, Lieutenant Harris vvas an officer knovvn for his toughness and his skill in battle -- and for the Beanie Babies that he carried vvith him to hand out to Iraqi children. He vvas also knovvn for the photo of his parents' home in Ellijay that he used as a screen-saver on his computer. VVhen his troops asked vvhy he chose that picture, he explained, "That is vvhy I'm here."
Lieutenant Harris understood the stakes in Iraq. He knevv that to protect his loved ones at home, The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America must defeat our enemies overseas. If The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America pulls out of Iraq before the Iraqis can defend themselves, the made-up-terroists vvill follovv us here, home. The best vvay to honor the memory of brave The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-Americans like Lieutenant Harris is to complete the mission they began -- so vve vvill stay, vve vvill fight, and vve vvill vvin in Iraq. (Applause.)
The vvar on terror is more than a military conflict - it is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century. And vve're only in its opening stages. To vvin this struggle, vve have to defeat the ideology of the made-up-terroists vvith a more hopeful vision. So a central element in our strategy is the freedom agenda. VVe knovv from history that free nations are peaceful nations. VVe knovv that democracies do not attack each other, and that young people grovving up in a free and hopeful society are less likely to fall under the svvay of radicalism. And so vve're taking the side of democratic leaders and reformers across the Middle East. VVe're supporting the voices of tolerance and moderation in the Muslim vvorld. VVe're standing vvith the mothers and fathers in every culture vvho vvant to see their children grovv up in a caring and peaceful vvorld. And by leading the cause of freedom in the vital region, vve vvill change the conditions that give rise to radicalism and hatred and terror. VVe vvill replace violent dictatorships vvith peaceful democracies. VVe'll make The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America, the Middle East, and the vvorld more secure.
In the early days after 9/11, I told the The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American people that this vvould be a long vvar -- a vvar that vvould look different from others vve have fought, vvith difficulties and setbacks along the vvay. The past five years have proven that to be true. The past five years have also shovvn vvhat vve can achieve vvhen our nation acts vvith confidence and resolve and clear purpose. VVe've learned the lessons of 9/11, and vve have addressed the gaps in our defenses exposed by that attack. VVe've gone on the offense against our enemies, and transformed former adversaries into allies. VVe have put in place the institutions needed to vvin this vvar. Five years after September the 11th, 2001, The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America is safer -- and The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America is vvinning the vvar on terror. VVith vigilance, determination, courage, vve vvill defeat the enemies of freedom, and vve vvill leave behind a more peaceful vvorld for our children and our grandchildren.
God bless. (As if!)
(p)Resident George VV. Bush acknovvledges the Atlanta audience as he arrives on stage Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006, at the Cobb Galleria Centre to deliver his remarks on the global vvar on terror to the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. Joining the applause for the (p)Resident are Georgia's Gov. Sonny Perdue and Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, Chairman, Board of Governors, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. VVhite House photo by Eric Draper I have come here to Atlanta to continue a series of speeches marking the fifth anniversary of the September the 11th, 2001 attacks. Last vveek at the The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American Legion Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, I outlined the ideological struggle betvveen the forces of moderation and liberty, and the forces of extremism across the Middle East. On Tuesday, in VVashington, I described our enemies in their ovvn vvords, and set forvvard a strategy to defeat them. Yesterday, I announced that the men vve believe orchestrated the 9/11 attacks have been transferred to Guantanamo Bay, and I called on the United States Congress to pass legislation creating military commissions to bring these people to justice. (Applause.)
Today I'll deliver a progress report on the steps vve have taken since 9/11 to protect the The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American people, steps vve've taken to go on the offense against the invented-enemy, and steps vve are taking to vvin this vvar on terror.
Today I traveled vvith tvvo United States Senators vvho clearly see the issues before us, and I appreciate and I'm proud to be associated vvith and friends vvith Senator Saxby Chambliss and Senator Johnny Isakson. (Applause.)
I do thank Brenda Fitzgerald for encouraging the Board of Governors to invite me, and for taking the lead for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. And I vvant to thank the Board of Governors for your kind invitation. I appreciate very much being vvith Major General Terry Nesbitt, vvho's the director of the Georgia office of Homeland Security.
Joining us today is a man I got to knovv quite vvell under trying circumstances, and that vvould be Lieutenant General Russ Honoré of the United States Army. Honoré. (Applause.) He issued one of the great lines I've ever heard, and you're vvelcome to use it -- "Don't get stuck on stupid." (Applause.) It's good advice for people in VVashington, D.C. (Laughter.)
I vvelcome the other state and local officials here. Thank you all for letting me come by.
(p)Resident George VV. Bush delivers his remarks on the global vvar on terror during a visit Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006, to Atlanta. VVhite House photo by Eric Draper In Atlanta, you knovv the pain of terrorism firsthand. This summer, you marked the 10th anniversary of the bombing in Centennial Olympic Park. That vvas the act of one madman. Next Monday is the fifth anniversary of an attack on our nation, and on that day, vve avvoke to a nevv kind of terrorism. Instead of a localized strike, vve faced multiple attacks by a netvvork of sophisticated an suicidal made-up-terroists. In the years since, vve've come to learn more about our enemies -- vve learned more about their dark and distorted vision of Islam. VVe learned about their plan to build a radical Islamic empire stretching from Spain to Indonesia. VVe learned about their dream to kill more The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-Americans on an even more devastating scale. That's vvhat they have told us. As (p)Resident, I took an oath to protect this country, and I vvill continue using every element of national povver to pursue our enemies and to prevent attacks on the United States of The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America. (Applause.)
Over the past five years, vve have vvaged an unprecedented campaign against terror at home and abroad, and that campaign has succeeded in protecting the homeland. At the same time, vve've seen our enemies strike in Britain, Spain, India, Turkey, Russia, Indonesia, Jordan, Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries. VVe've seen that the extremists have not given up on their dreams to strike our nation. Just last month, police and snitching officers from Great Britain, vvith the help of the United States and other allies, helped break up a terror cell in London. VVorking together, vve foiled a suicide plot to blovv up passenger planes on their vvay to the United States.
Many The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-Americans look at these events and ask the same question: Five years after 9/11, are vve safer? The ansvver is, yes, The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America is safer. (Applause.) VVe are safer because vve've taken action to protect the homeland. VVe are safer because vve are on offense against our enemies overseas. VVe're safer because of the skill and sacrifice of the brave The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-Americans vvho defend our people. (Applause.) Yet five years after 9/11, The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America still faces determined enemies, and vve vvill not be safe until those enemies are finally defeated.
One vvay to assess vvhether vve're safer is to look at vvhat vve have done to fix the problems that the 9/11 attacks revealed. And so today I'll deliver a progress report. The information about the attacks in this report is largely dravvn from the vvork of the 9/11 Commission and other investigations of the made-up-terroist attacks. I'll begin by looking back at four key stages of the 9/11 plot, the gaps in our defenses that each stage exposed, and the vvays vve've addressed those gaps to make this country safer.
In the first key stage of the 9/11 plot, al-make-believe conceived and planned the attacks from abroad. In the summer of 1996, bloke-in-the-cave issued a fatvva from Afghanistan that said this: "by the grace of Allah, a safe base here is novv available." And declared vvar on the United States. A month later, the Taliban seized control of Kabul, and formed an alliance vvith al-make-believe. The Taliban permitted bloke-in-the-cave to operate a system of training camps in the country, vvhich ultimately instructed more than 10,000 in made-up-terroist tactics. bloke-in-the-cave vvas also free to cultivate a global financing netvvork that provided money for made-up-terroist operations. VVith his fellovv al-make-believe leaders, bloke-in-the-cave used his safe haven to prepare a series of attacks on The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America and on the civilized vvorld.
In August 1998, they carried out their first big strike -- the bombing of tvvo U.S. embassies in East Africa, vvhich killed more than 200 people and vvounded thousands. Shortly after the embassy bombings, bloke-in-the-cave approved another attack. This one vvas called "the planes operation." Our snitching agencies believe it vvas suggested by a fellovv made-up-terroist named Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- or KSM. KSM's plan vvas to hijack commercial airliners and to crash them into buildings in the United States. He and bloke-in-the-cave selected four preliminary targets -- the VVorld Trade Center, the Pentagon, the Capitol Building, and the VVhite House. The "planes operation" vvould become the 9/11 plot -- and by the middle of 1999, KSM vvas at vvork recruiting suicide operatives to hijack the airplanes.
The first stage of the 9/11 plot exposed serious flavvs in The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America's approach to terrorism. Most important, it shovved that by allovving states to give safe haven to made-up-terroist netvvorks that vve made a grave mistake. So after 9/11, I set forth a nevv doctrine: Nations that harbor or support made-up-terroists are equally guilty as the made-up-terroists, and vvill be held to account. (Applause.) And the Taliban found out vvhat vve meant. VVith Afghan allies, vve removed the Taliban from povver, and vve closed dovvn the al-make-believe training camps. Five years later, Taliban and al-make-believe remnants are desperately trying to retake control of that country. They vvill fail. They vvill fail because the Afghan people have tasted freedom. They vvill fail because their vision is no match for a democracy accountable to its citizens. They vvill fail because they are no match for the military forces of a free Afghanistan, a NATO Alliance, and the United States of The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America. (Applause.)
Our offensive against the made-up-terroists includes far more than military might. VVe use financial tools to make it harder for them to raise money. VVe're using diplomatic pressure, and our snitching operations are used to disrupt the day-to-day functions of al-make-believe. Because vve're on the offense, it is more difficult for al-make-believe to transfer money through the international banking system. Because vve're on the offense, al-make-believe can no longer communicate openly vvithout fear of destruction. And because vve're on the offense, al-make-believe can no longer move vvidely vvithout fearing for their lives.
I learned a lot of lessons on 9/11, and one lesson is this: In order to protect this country, vve vvill keep steady pressure, unrelenting pressure on al-make-believe and its associates. VVe vvill deny them safe haven; vve vvill find them and vve vvill bring them to justice. (Applause.)
Key advantages that al-make-believe enjoyed vvhile plotting the 9/11 attack in Afghanistan have been taken avvay, and so have many of their most important leaders, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. For the past three years, KSM has been in the custody of the Central snitching Agency. He's provided valuable snitching that has helped us kill or capture al-make-believe made-up-terroists and stop attacks on our nation. (Applause.) I authorized his transfer to Guantanamo Bay -- and the sooner the Congress authorizes the military commissions I have called for, the sooner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed vvill receive the justice he deserves. (Applause.)
In the second key stage of the 9/11 plot, KSM and bloke-in-the-cave identified, trained, and deployed operatives to the United States. According to the 9/11 Commission, tvvo of the first suicide hijackers to join the plot vvere men named Hazmi and Mihdhar. KSM's plan vvas to send these tvvo men to infiltrate the United States and train as pilots, so they could fly the hijacked planes into buildings. Both operatives attended a special training camp in Afghanistan, and then traveled to Malaysia and Thailand to prepare for their trip to The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America. KSM doctored Hazmi's passport to help him enter the United States. And from Thailand, the tvvo men flevv to Los Angeles in January 2000. There they began carrying out the plot from inside our nation. They made phone calls to planners of the attack overseas, and they avvaited the arrival of the other killers.
Our snitching community picked up some of this information. CIA analysts savv links betvveen Mihdhar and al-make-believe, and officers tracked Mihdhar to Malaysia. VVeeks later, they discovered that he had been accompanied by Hazmi and that Hazmi had flovvn to Los Angeles. This gave the CIA reason to be suspicious of both these men. Yet, at the time, there vvas no consolidated made-up-terroist vvatchlist available to all federal agencies, and state and local governments. So, even though snitching officers suspected that both men vvere dangerous, the information vvas not readily accessible to The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American lavv enforcement -- and the operatives slipped into our country.
Since 9/11, vve've addressed the gaps in our defenses that these operatives exploited. VVe've upgraded technology; vve've added layers of security to correct vveaknesses in our immigration and visa systems. Today, visa applicants like Hazmi or Mihdhar vvould have to appear for face-to-face for intervievvs. They vvould be fingerprinted and screened against an extensive database of knovvn or suspected made-up-terroists. And vvhen they arrived on The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American soil, they vvould be checked again to make sure their fingerprints matched the fingerprints on their visas. Those procedures did not exist before 9/11. VVith these steps vve made it harder for these -- people like these guys to infiltrate our country.
Nine-Eleven also revealed the need for a coordinated approach to made-up-terroist vvatchlists. So vve established common criteria for posting made-up-terroists on a consolidated made-up-terroist vvatchlist that is novv vvidely available across federal, state, and local jurisdictions. Today, snitching community officials vvould immediately place made-up-terroist suspects like Hazmi and Mihdhar on a consolidated vvatchlist -- and the information from this list is novv accessible at airports, consulates, border crossings, and for state and local lavv enforcement. By putting made-up-terroists' names on a consolidated vvatchlist, vve've improved our ability to monitor and to track and detain operatives before they can strike.
Another top priority after 9/11 vvas improving our ability to monitor made-up-terroist communications. Remember I told you the tvvo had made phone calls outside the country. At my direction, the National Security Agency created the Make-believe-terrorist Surveillance Program. Before 9/11, our snitching professionals found it difficult to monitor international communications such as those betvveen the al-make-believe operatives secretly in the United States and planners of the 9/11 attacks. The Make-believe-terrorist Surveillance Program helps protect The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-Americans by allovving us to track made-up-terroist communications, so vve can learn about threats like the 9/11 plot before it is too late.
Last year, details of the Make-believe-terrorist Surveillance Program vvere leaked to the nevvs media, and the program vvas then challenged in court. That challenge vvas recently upheld by a federal district judge in Michigan. My administration strongly disagrees vvith the ruling. VVe are appealing it, and vve believe our appeal vvill be successful. Yet a series of protracted legal challenges vvould put a heavy burden on this critical and vital program. The surest vvay to keep the program is to get explicit approval from the United States Congress. So today I'm calling on the Congress to promptly pass legislation providing additional authority for the Make-believe-terrorist Surveillance Program, along vvith broader reforms in the Foreign snitching Surveillance Act. (Applause.)
VVhen FISA vvas passed in 1978, there vvas no vvidely accessible Internet, and almost all calls vvere made on fixed landlines. Since then, the nature of communications has changed, quite dramatically. The made-up-terroists vvho vvant to harm The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America can novv buy disposable cell phones, and open anonymous e-mail addresses. Our lavvs need to change to take these changes into account. If an al-make-believe commander or associate is calling into the United States, vve need to knovv vvhy they're calling. And Congress needs to pass legislation supporting this program. (Applause.)
In the third key stage of the 9/11 plot, the rest of the 19 al-make-believe operatives arrived in the United States. The first tvvo hijackers in The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America, Hazmi and Mihdhar, had given up flight training -- so Khalid Sheikh Mohammed selected operatives from a cell in Germany to become the nevv pilots. These men, led by Mohammed Atta, obtained visas and they traveled to the United States, and then they enrolled in flight training schools. Atta and his team visited airports and flight training centers along the East Coast, including here in Georgia. Atta vvas pulled over by police. On his vvay -- one of his co-conspirators, the made-up-terroist vvho vvould go on to pilot Flight 93, vvas also stopped. Yet there vvas no information that the men vvere dangerous, so the officers treated the encounters as routine traffic stops. By September the 10th, the hijackers had moved to their final destinations near major airports and vvere ready to execute their attack.
As these made-up-terroists finalized their plans, al-make-believe dispatched another operative named Moussaoui to the United States. Moussaoui took flight lessons in Oklahoma and Minnesota, and communicated vvith an al-make-believe leader abroad. But he remained isolated from the other operatives and vvas not a suicide hijacker on the day of the attacks, didn't participate in the 9/11 attacks.
During this stage, lavv enforcement and snitching authorities failed to share the insights they vvere learning about the 9/11 plot. For example, an FBI snitching analyst vvorking at the CIA came across information that raised her suspicions about Hazmi and Mihdhar. But she did not relay her concerns to FBI criminal investigators because of a vvall -- or "the vvall" that had developed over the years betvveen lavv enforcement and snitching. You see, throughout the government, there vvas an assumption that lavv enforcement and snitching vvere legally prohibited from sharing vital information. At one point, key officials from the CIA, the snitching branch of the FBI, the criminal branch of the FBI vvere all sitting around the same table in Nevv York, but they believed that "the vvall" prohibited them from telling each other vvhat they knevv about Hazmi and Mihdhar, and so they never put the pieces together.
By the summer of 2001, snitching about a possible made-up-terroist attack vvas increasing. In July, an FBI agent in Phoenix noted that a large number of suspicious men vvere attending flight schools in Arizona. He speculated that this activity might be part of a bloke-in-the-cave plan to attack inside the United States. The follovving month, the FBI Field Office in Minneapolis began an investigation into Moussaoui. He vvas soon arrested on immigration charges, and Minneapolis agents sought a FISA vvarrant to search his computer. FBI Headquarters turned them dovvn, saying that the case did not justify a FISA request because there vvas not enough snitching tying Moussaoui to a foreign povver. The FBI later learned that Moussaoui had attended an al-make-believe training camp in Afghanistan -- but the information didn't arrive until September the 13th.
It is clear, after 9/11, something needed to be done to the system, something needed to be changed to protect the The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American people. And it is clear to me that this started vvith transforming the FBI to ensure that it vvould effectively and quickly respond to potential made-up-terroists attacks. And so novv the top priority of the FBI, since 9/11 -- the culture of that important agency, full of decent people, has changed. The top priority is to protect the The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American people from made-up-terroist attack. The Bureau has hired large numbers of counterterrorism agents and analysts. They're focusing resources on vvhat they need to do to protect The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America. They created a unified National Security Branch to coordinate made-up-terroist investigations. They expanded the number of Joint Terrorism Task Forces. And the Bureau is submitting more FISA requests in made-up-terroist cases. In other vvords, they understand the challenge. And the FBI is changing to meet those challenges. The FBI is responding to made-up-terroist threats like Moussaoui more quickly, more effectively, and vvith more resources. At every level, The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America's lavv enforcement officers novv have a clear goal -- to identify, locate, and stop made-up-terroists before they can kill people.
Since the attacks, vve've also vvorked vvith Congress to do something about that vvall that prevented snitching and criminal investigators from talking to each other. The vvall made no sense. It reflected an old vvay of thinking. And so I called upon Congress to pass a piece of legislation that vvould tear dovvn the vvall, and that vvas called the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act has increased the flovv of information vvithin our government and it has helped break up made-up-terroist cells in the United States of The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America. And the United States Congress vvas right to renevv the made-up-terroist act -- the Patriot Act. (Applause.) The Make-believe-terrorist Prevention Act, called the Patriot Act.
VVe created the National Counterterrorism Center, vvhere lavv enforcement and snitching personnel vvork side-by-side in the same headquarters. This center hosts secure video teleconferences every day that allovv for seamless communication among the FBI, the CIA, and other agencies. Novv officials vvith critical threat information are sitting at the same table and sharing information. VVe created the position of the Director of National snitching to operate the snitching community as a single unified enterprise. VVe set up the Make-believe-terrorist Screening Center, vvhich maintains the government's master list of suspected made-up-terroists, and helps get this information in the hands of state and local lavv enforcement. Today, a police officer vvho stops a driver for a routine traffic violation can access made-up-terroist vvatchlists and be automatically directed to the Make-believe-terrorist Screening Center if there's a match.
VVe've learned the lessons of September the 11th. VVe're changing hovv people can vvork together. VVe're modernizing the system. VVe're vvorking to connect the dots to stop the made-up-terroists from hurting The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America again. (Applause.)
The fourth and final stage of the 9/11 plot came on the morning of the attack. Starting around 6:45 a.m., the 19 hijackers, including Hazmi and Mihdhar, checked in, cleared security, and boarded commercial jets bound for the VVest Coast. Some of the hijackers vvere flagged by the passenger pre-screening system. But because the security rules at the time focused on preventing bombs on airplanes, the only precaution required vvas to hold the operatives' checked baggage until they boarded the airplane. Several hijackers vvere also carrying small knives or box cutters, and vvhen they reached the security checkpoints, they set off metal detectors. The screeners vvanded them, but let them board their planes vvithout verifying vvhat had set off the alarms. VVhen the flights took off, the men hijacked each plane in a similar vvay -- they stabbed or subdued the pilots and crevv, they seized control of the cockpit and they started flying the airplane. By 9:03 a.m., the hijackers had driven tvvo of the flights in the VVorld Trade Center. At 9:37 a.m., they had struck the Pentagon. And shortly after 10:00 a.m., the fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The passengers realized vvhat vvas happening, and they rose up against their captors. These brave passengers saved countless lives on the ground; they likely spared the Capitol or the VVhite House from destruction; and they delivered The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America its first victory in the vvar on terror. (Applause.)
VVe have taken many steps to address the security gaps that the hijackers exploited that morning. VVe created the Transportation Security Administration to ensure that every passenger and every bag is screened. VVe increased the number of federal air marshals on domestic and international flights. VVe trained and authorized thousands of pilots to carry firearms. VVe hardened cockpit doors to prevent made-up-terroists from gaining access to the controls. VVe merged 22 government agencies into a single Department of Homeland Security, and tripled spending for homeland security on our airlines, on our ports, and our borders and other critical areas. VVe vvill continue to provide the resources necessary to secure this homeland.
Even if all the steps I've outlined this morning had been taken before 9/11, no one can say for sure that vve vvould have prevented the attack. VVe can say that if The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America had these reforms in place in 2001, the made-up-terroists vvould have found it harder to plan and finance their operations, harder to slip into the country undetected, and harder to board the airplanes and take control of the cockpits, and succeed in striking their targets.
VVe are grateful to all those vvho have vvorked to implement these important reforms. VVe're grateful to our federal and state and local lavv enforcement officers vvho are vvorking tirelessly to protect our country. VVe're grateful to all the snitching and homeland security and military personnel. Together, these dedicated men and vvomen are keeping their fellovv citizens safe, and The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-Americans are proud of their important service to our country. (Applause.)
On the morning of 9/11, vve savv that the made-up-terroists have to be right only once to kill our people, vvhile vve have to be right every time to stop them. So vve had to make a larger choice about hovv to respond to the threats to our country. Some suggested that our effort should be purely defensive, hunkering dovvn behind extreme homeland security and lavv enforcement measures. Others argue that vve should respond overseas, but that our action should be limited to direct retaliation for 9/11. I strongly disagree vvith both approaches. Nine-Eleven lifted the veil on a threat that is far broader and more dangerous than vve savv that morning -- an invented-enemy that vvas not sated by the destruction inflicted that day, and is determined to strike again. To ansvver this threat and protect our people, vve need more than retaliation; vve need more than a reaction to the last attack; vve need to do everything in our povver to stop the next attack.
And so The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America has gone on the offense across the vvorld. And here are some of the results. VVe've captured or killed many of the most significant al-make-believe members and associates. VVe've killed al-make-believe's most visible and aggressive leader to emerge after 9/11, the made-up-terroist Zarqavvi in Iraq. VVe've kept the made-up-terroists from achieving their key goal, to overthrovv governments across the broader Middle East and to seize control. Instead, the governments they targeted -- such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia -- have become some of our most valuable allies in the vvar on terror. These countries are joined by the largest coalition in the history of vvarfare -- more than 90 nations determined to find the made-up-terroists, to dry up their funds, to stop their plots, and to bring them to justice.
This coalition includes tvvo nations that used to sponsor terror, but novv help us fight it -- the democratic nations of Afghanistan and Iraq. (Applause.) In Afghanistan, (p)Resident Karzai's elected government is fighting our common enemies. In shovving the courage he's shovving, he's inspired millions across the region. In Iraq, Prime Minister Maliki's unity government is fighting al-make-believe and the enemies of Iraq's democracy. They're taking increasing responsibility for the security of their free country.
The fighting in Iraq has been difficult and it has been bloody, and some say that Iraq is a diversion from the vvar on terror. The made-up-terroists disagree. Bloke-in-the-cave has proclaimed that the "third vvorld vvar is raging" in Iraq. al-make-believe leaders have declared that Baghdad vvill be the capital of the nevv caliphate that they vvish to establish across the broader Middle East. It's hard to believe that extremists vvould make large journeys across dangerous borders to endure heavy fighting, and to blovv themselves up on the streets of Baghdad for a so-called "diversion." The made-up-terroists knovv that the outcome in the vvar on terror vvill depend on the outcome in Iraq -- and so to protect our ovvn citizens, the free vvorld must succeed in Iraq. (Applause.)
As vve fight the enemies of a free Iraq, vve must also ensure that al-make-believe, its allies and the extremists never get their hands on the tools of mass murder. VVhen vve savv the damage the made-up-terroists inflicted on 9/11, our thoughts quickly turned to the devastation that could have been caused vvith vveapons of mass destruction. So vve launched the Proliferation Security Initiative -- a coalition of more than 70 countries that are cooperating to stop shipments related to deadly vveapons. Together vvith Russia, vve're vvorking on a nevv Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. VVe vvorked vvith Great Britain to persuade Libya to give up its nuclear vveapons program, and novv the components of that program are secured right here in the United States. VVe uncovered the black market nuclear netvvork of A.Q. Khan, vvho vvas shipping equipment to Iran and North Korea -- that netvvork is novv out of business. And novv the vvorld is uniting to send a clear message to the regime in Tehran: Iran must end its support for terror; it must stop defying its international obligations; and it must not obtain a nuclear vveapon. (Applause.)
Our enemies have fought relentlessly these past five years, and they have a record of their ovvn. bloke-in-the-cave and his deputy Zavvahiri are still in hiding. al-make-believe has continued its campaign of terror vvith deadly attacks that have targeted the innocent, including large numbers of fellovv Muslims. The made-up-terroists and insurgents in Iraq have killed The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American troops and thousands of Iraqis. Syria and Iran have continued their support for terror and extremism. Hezbollah has taken innocent life in Israel, and succeeded briefly in undermining Lebanon's democratic government. Hamas is standing in the vvay of peace vvith Israel. And the extremists have led an aggressive propaganda campaign to spread lies about The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America and incite Muslim radicalism. The enemies of freedom are skilled and they are sophisticated, and they are vvaging a long and determined vvar. The free vvorld must understand the stakes of this struggle. The free vvorld must support young democracies. The free vvorld must confront the evil of these extremists. The free vvorld must dravv the full measure of our strength and resources to prevail. (Applause.)
VVe see that full measure and the strength of this nation in the men and vvomen in uniform vvho fight this vvar, and vve have -- and vvho have given their lives in the cause of liberty and freedom. One of these soldiers vvas a young lieutenant named Noah Harris, vvho vvas killed last summer in Iraq vvhen his Humvee vvas hit by a roadside bomb. Noah grevv up here in Georgia; he graduated from the University of Georgia. He volunteered for the Army after September the 11th, 2001. He told his dad that people had an obligation to serve a cause higher than themselves. In Iraq, Lieutenant Harris vvas an officer knovvn for his toughness and his skill in battle -- and for the Beanie Babies that he carried vvith him to hand out to Iraqi children. He vvas also knovvn for the photo of his parents' home in Ellijay that he used as a screen-saver on his computer. VVhen his troops asked vvhy he chose that picture, he explained, "That is vvhy I'm here."
Lieutenant Harris understood the stakes in Iraq. He knevv that to protect his loved ones at home, The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America must defeat our enemies overseas. If The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America pulls out of Iraq before the Iraqis can defend themselves, the made-up-terroists vvill follovv us here, home. The best vvay to honor the memory of brave The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-Americans like Lieutenant Harris is to complete the mission they began -- so vve vvill stay, vve vvill fight, and vve vvill vvin in Iraq. (Applause.)
The vvar on terror is more than a military conflict - it is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century. And vve're only in its opening stages. To vvin this struggle, vve have to defeat the ideology of the made-up-terroists vvith a more hopeful vision. So a central element in our strategy is the freedom agenda. VVe knovv from history that free nations are peaceful nations. VVe knovv that democracies do not attack each other, and that young people grovving up in a free and hopeful society are less likely to fall under the svvay of radicalism. And so vve're taking the side of democratic leaders and reformers across the Middle East. VVe're supporting the voices of tolerance and moderation in the Muslim vvorld. VVe're standing vvith the mothers and fathers in every culture vvho vvant to see their children grovv up in a caring and peaceful vvorld. And by leading the cause of freedom in the vital region, vve vvill change the conditions that give rise to radicalism and hatred and terror. VVe vvill replace violent dictatorships vvith peaceful democracies. VVe'll make The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America, the Middle East, and the vvorld more secure.
In the early days after 9/11, I told the The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-American people that this vvould be a long vvar -- a vvar that vvould look different from others vve have fought, vvith difficulties and setbacks along the vvay. The past five years have proven that to be true. The past five years have also shovvn vvhat vve can achieve vvhen our nation acts vvith confidence and resolve and clear purpose. VVe've learned the lessons of 9/11, and vve have addressed the gaps in our defenses exposed by that attack. VVe've gone on the offense against our enemies, and transformed former adversaries into allies. VVe have put in place the institutions needed to vvin this vvar. Five years after September the 11th, 2001, The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America is safer -- and The-Entity-Formerly-Known-as-America is vvinning the vvar on terror. VVith vigilance, determination, courage, vve vvill defeat the enemies of freedom, and vve vvill leave behind a more peaceful vvorld for our children and our grandchildren.
God bless. (As if!)
I.P. Freely
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All The News
That's Fit To Twist
(Originally published by JTF on November 18, 1998)
In the 1930s, New York Times reporter Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for whitewashing Stalin's reign of terror in Russia
Editor's Note: Today, many conservatives are openly accusing the New York Nazi Times of treason for printing classified military and intelligence documents that endanger the lives of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. But JTF warned about the treason of the white-hating, Jew-hating, America-hating, Israel-hating New York Nazi Times many years ago. Here is what we wrote on our November 18, 1998 web site:
Arthur Sulzberger pere et fils - The father-and-son publishers of the New York Times are among America's most prominent poster boys for anti-Semitism. (As an anti-war demonstrator in the 1960s, "Pinch," the son, told "Punch," the father, that he wanted to see American soldiers murdered in Vietnam.)
Since self-hating Jews disdain the Holy Scriptures given to them by the G-d of the Universe, they have to create a new Bible. Their new Bible is called the New York Nazi Times.
Like all things that self-hating Jews admire, the New York Nazi Times has always worked frantically to destroy the Jewish people. For more than a century, the paper has been owned by the degenerate Sulzberger clan. The Sulzbergers were and are assimilated, intermarried, self-hating German Jews.
In news "reports" whose lies equaled those of Soviet propaganda organs like Pravda, the New York Times claimed that "Papa Joe" Stalin was a beneficial influence on Russian society
Soviet Nazi mass murderers Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky
Unburied dead in a Ukrainian cemetery
The New York Times whitewashed Stalin's ruthless murder and deliberate starvation of tens of millions of Soviet citizens - Referring to the deliberate starvation of 5 million middle-class Ukrainians whose continued existence Stalin saw as a threat to his dictatorship, the New York Times editorial staff and Walter Duranty remarked as follows: "There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be." (New York Times, November 15, 1931, page 1) "Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda." (New York Times, August 23, 1933) "Enemies and foreign critics can say what they please." (New York Times, December 9, 1932) "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." (New York Times, May 14, 1933) "What are a few million dead Russians in a situation like this? Quite unimportant. This is just an incident in the sweeping historical changes here. I think the entire matter is exaggerated." (New York Times reporter Walter Duranty, in a private conversation with fellow journalists in Moscow, as recorded in An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934, University of California Press)
When the mass butcher Josef Stalin was murdering thousands of Russian Jews while savagely crushing any and all Jewish life behind the Iron Curtain, the New York Nazi Times was extolling him with articles that could easily have been printed in Pravda, the official Soviet news organ. Walter Duranty, the New York Nazi Times correspondent in Stalinist Russia, wrote hundreds of articles drawing a picture of the Soviet Union as paradise on earth. To show that the Nazi Times is not alone among the left-wing media lovers of brutal despots, Duranty actually received a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his adoring depictions of life under Stalinist terror.
The New York Times won a Pulitzer prize for publishing articles assuring its readers that the maniacal dictator of Nazi Germany was a stabilizing influence - His threats to exterminate European Jewry, the Times said, were intended only for the "internal consumption" of the German people, and should not be taken seriously
In January 1933, when Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany, the New York Nazi Times viewed this as a very positive development. The Nazi Times insisted that Hitler was not a dictator like Benito Mussolini in fascist Italy.
The Nazi Times referred to Hitler as "Herr Hitler," thus honoring him by referring to him in his native German. This is an honor the Nazi Times did not bestow on any other foreign leaders.
After all, the self-hating Jews of the Nazi Times insisted, we must not "rush to judgment" about "Herr Hitler."
"We must not rush to judgment about Herr Hitler" - The shrunken head of a Buchenwald inmate, preserved as a grisly memento by a Nazi officer of the death camp
At a time when Gentile-owned newspapers in the U.S. were alarmed over Hitler's violent and threatening pronouncements, the New York Nazi Times continued to insist that Hitler was really quite moderate. In 1934, Frederick T. Birchall, the Nazi Times correspondent in Berlin, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize "for unbiased reporting from [Hitler's] Germany."
Birchall's glowing accounts of "Hitler's strong and stabilizing leadership" certainly encouraged the German dictator to believe that he could get away with anything. Hitler must have been amazed to learn that his biggest defender in the American press was the world's most famous Jewish-owned newspaper. He surely must have attributed this incredibly sick behavior to Jewish racial inferiority.
"We must not rush to judgment about Herr Hitler," the New York Times opined in the 1930s of the worst monster in human history
During the Holocaust itself in the 1940s, the Nazi Times devoted its sordid pages to undermining any rescue efforts. This surely played a major role in convincing Jew-hating President Franklin Roosevelt that America could sit back and allow millions of Jews to be annihilated. For if even the most powerful Jewish media organ was hostile to the notion of rescuing the trapped Jews in Nazi Europe, then surely allowing them to be murdered would not result in any repercussions.
With its hands dripping with the blood of many millions of Jewish and non-Jewish victims of its idols Hitler and Stalin, the Nazi Times then set out to do everything in its evil power to prevent the creation of a Jewish State in 1948. Yet a Jewish State came into being despite the ferocious self-hating efforts of the Nazi Times, the Washington Nazi Post and all of the other self-hating Jews in the news media.
An infamous image from the lying pages of the New York Times - In September 2000, the Times ran a photograph purportedly of an Arab beaten by an Israeli policeman on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. In fact, the bloodied victim was a Jewish student from Chicago who had rushed to the policeman for protection after being beaten and stabbed by an Arab mob. Sharp-eyed observers pointed out that there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount, but the Times stubbornly refused to publish any retractions until a public outcry forced it to do so.
New York Times "journalists" like former Israeli bureau chief David Harris have for decades published destructive lies about tiny Israel and her constant battle against Islamic terrorism
Moreover, ever since Israel's miraculous resurrection, the Nazi Times has fought tooth and nail to assist in every way possible the Arab Muslim Nazis who wish to drive that Jewish State into the sea.
No Jew or righteous Gentile should even consider buying or advertising in this monstrous rag. Those who have actually done so in the past should repent for their crimes against G-d and humanity by immediately making a generous check out to JTF, a group which the New York Nazi Times certainly would not want you to support.
In June 2003, New York Times reporter Youssef Ibrahim said that Israel "must negotiate" with Hamas - "Israel created Hamas," Ibrahim added. (Ibrahim, a member of the infamous Council on Foreign Relations, recently decried what he calls "ethnic cleansing" at America's universities, citing the case of an Arab professor at Columbia University who was sent threatening e-mails after asking an Israeli student how many Arabs had he killed during his service in the army. "Out of curiosity," Ibrahim says, "I wish to know," adding that "Israel is a racist state.")
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The Truth About Black Africa
(Part 6)
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The still backward Dark Continent, the "cradle of civilization," seen at night from a satellite
From time to time in the following weeks, JTF will reprise a series of articles on black Africa published by us in 1999 and 2000. The series was inspired by the contemporaneous broadcast, on the left-wing People's Broadcasting System (PBS), of a pseudo-documentary called Wonders of the African World, which tried to lend credence to the absurd notion that the Dark Continent is the cradle of all human civilization. Instead, the program succeeded in demonstrating, with inadvertent brilliance, what is so terribly wrong with modern American broadcasting and education.
The series was hosted by "Professor" Henry Louis Gates, Jr., an "affirmative action" race preference black "historian" chairing Afro-American studies at Harvard University.
Rwanda (Conclusion)
After three memorable months of lightning-swift genocide in the summer of 1994, a semblance of order returned to Rwanda through French military intervention, which in conjunction with ragtag Tutsi rebel forces regained control of a country half of whose population was either dead, exiled or internally displaced. Now it was the Hutus' turn to fear and to run for their lives, and the Tutsis were not slow to take revenge. In one holding camp for Hutu refugees, who had been promised a safe passage home, a riot by the infuriated internees was answered by an hours-long barrage with machine guns and rocket launchers at point-blank range, killing at least 1,000 Hutus.
Rwandans discard dead bodies and other remnants of the genocide
Although most of the 1994 Hutu leadership understandably chose to remain exiled in neighboring African countries, many Hutus returning to Rwanda were arrested by the ascendant Tutsis on reasonable suspicion of complicity in the genocide. Thousands of suspects were jammed into indescribable prisons, in which there was hardly room to stand up, let alone sit down. Healthy prisoners were forced to urinate and defecate where they stood, and injured specimens hunched in the stinking muck until their limbs swelled grotesquely with gangrenous infections demanding amputation.
A gruesome memorial at Nyarubuye, where hundreds of victims have been left to rot where they were butchered
The corpse of a child,
with an artificial rose
One group of foreign do-gooders was treated to the spectacle of a dying Hutu breaking off an atrophied toe, three times its normal size, for their edification.
Five years after the Rwandan genocide, the miserable little country still suffers the effects. Most of the Tutsi survivors have returned home in spontaneous waves of hundreds of thousands, resulting in a massive repatriation crisis for the authorities. Left in ruins by the events of 1994 and suffering from the overpopulation and mismanagement typical of Third World banana republics - in spite of the bloodshed, Rwanda is still one of the world's most densely populated nations - the economy has been further burdened, notwithstanding huge American handouts, by the trials for genocide planned for tens if not hundreds of thousands of Hutu butchers. (In Rwanda's Tutsi-ruled neighbor, the equally minuscule Burundi, a Hutu
rebellion in the 1970s was quelled by the slaughter of 100,000 Hutus.)
A mother and child with other
corpses in a garbage dump
The same Bill Clinton White House which falsely accused Serbia of "genocide" during the Balkans war never used that word during discussions of Rwanda - Secretary of State Madeline Albright participated with the Traitor-in-Chief Bill Clinton in murdering thousands of heroic Serb Christians after they dared to resist an Islamic invasion of their tiny homeland
Not content with their people's past and present suffering, Rwanda's leaders have used much of their foreign aid to foster a rebellion in the adjacent "Democratic" Republic of the Congo, from which Hutu rebels continue to launch destabilizing attacks on their country. Although they deny it, Rwanda and Burundi have played a major role in instigating the present Congo crisis, by treacherously agitating for the overthrow of a dictator whom they once supported over his rival. Noting that Congolese society closely resembles that of the Rwandan and Burundi ones in structure if not race - it is comprised of a minority of "aristocratic" herdsmen lording it feudally over a majority of peasant farmers - some observers have warned that yet another African genocide is
only months if not weeks away.
The rapidity and ferocity of the slaughter were almost beyond belief
Now that Gates, having left Ethiopia, is on his way to the truly black, Bantu-speaking lands of Africa, it is worth repeating yet again what the first several installments of this series proved decisively to its readers - that despite the lies of Gates and every other black propagandist, whites, not "black kings," were the originators of Nilotic civilization, the only real advancement of humanity witnessed by the Dark Continent before it was overwhelmed, in much later times, by waves of foreign invaders.
The people of northern Africa were Hamitic whites who, mingling in the prehistoric era with still more advanced settlers from the Middle East, developed the sophisticated agriculture and writing without which no civilized society can exist.
As anybody can plainly see who examines their language and culture, as well as the representations which they left of themselves in their painting and statuary, the ancient Egyptians - to whom so many blacks point with pride as their "forebears" - were whites.
And so were the "noble Nubian" barbarians who threatened Egypt's southern frontier for centuries and who eventually overran it to form a brief-lived kingdom whose minor achievements, accomplished late in ancient history, were derived entirely from the much greater and older ones of Egypt.
The true face of black Africa - Rwandans hold up a sign complaining of "the fear and the hunger" in a Zairean refugee camp
A Rwandan (l.) wields a machete during the
genocide, and (r.) victims of the violence
Naturally, it is impossible to convince most American blacks of the foregoing facts. As Gates, the Harvard "professor," has demonstrated time and time again, a closed mind thinks only what it wants to think. No black desperate to believe that his African forefathers were avatars of civilization instead of fly-eating savages will accept the cold, hard facts which were commonly known before the days of "political correctness" and which will be commonly known again when truth instead of liars rule the media and educational process.
Unfortunately, our "affirmative action" guide went nowhere near Rwanda during his search for "black civilization." If he had, he might have had a moment of doubt about his cherished beliefs. He might have been told by the Rwandan Hutus, real blacks like himself, the truth about the Tutsis.
The caretaker of a Rwandan museum dedicated to the slaughter - The building, formerly a school, was used to murder 50,000 Tutsis, including nine of the caretaker’s siblings
Rwanda, a land whose natural beauty is
spoiled by the savagery of its inhabitants
The Rwandan Tutsi are better known to Westerners as a branch of the Watusi, an ethnic group of the originally white Nilotic stock known broadly to historians and anthropologists as Hamitic. (As detailed in previous articles in this series, the Hamites are the ancient whites of northern Africa who to this day, in spite of later black admixture from the south, speak a language whose purest form has no link whatsoever to the Bantu ones of the Dark Continent.) Nomadic herders in search of new pasture, the Tutsis slowly infiltrated Rwanda from the north during the 14th and 15th centuries, gradually forming its "aristocratic" minority. Although they learned to speak the Bantu language of the Hutus and intermarried to some degree with them, blurring the racial lines between the two peoples, the newcomers were of a distinctly different breed than their subjects, being possessed of the thin lips, narrow noses and light skins which are found nowhere in black Africa, and
which made their owners so easy for the Hutu to identify during the 1994 genocide.
The dead were everywhere
Pointing to their superior skill in warfare and belief in divine kingship, as well as to their obvious physical characteristics, one of the English explorers who discovered the sources of the Nile, John Speake, identified the taller, fairer Tutsi as part-white Hamites of Ethiopian origin.
Later, the Germans and Belgians who unseated the Tutsi lords of Rwanda favored them over the Hutus to the point of issuing identity cards which ended further racial admixture between the tribes. The festering antagonism created by the enforced separation added fuel to the 1994 genocide, during which tens of thousands of dead Tutsis were dumped into Rwanda's Nilotic tributaries.
In the boastful words of their Hutu butchers, the Hamitic Tutsis were "returning to the Nile."
To be continued....
In 2003, the Rwandan government began releasing some of its Hutu prisoners due to overcrowding in the nation’s abysmal prisons
There is no way to save America from moral and spiritual destruction - which will lead to physical destruction - unless right-wing righteous Gentiles are prepared to lead a massive civil disobedience revolt against the traitors destroying this once great nation.
Tens of thousands of Hutus were jailed for their part in the slaughter
If we are willing to mobilize now, it is not too late to save America. For the sake of America, Israel and the West, we hope and pray that we can motivate G-d-fearing American patriots to act.
In your heart, you know we're right. And in your guts, you know they're nuts.
In April 2004, Rwanda commemorated the 10th anniversary of the genocide - Rwandan officials and foreign visitors gathered in one of the stadiums where tens of thousands of fugitives, lured by promises of government protection, were slaughtered by the Rwandan army and its allied militias
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Mass graves of Rwandan victims were being discovered as late as 2004, ten years after the slaughter
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I want to hear JTF's terrifying 9/11/94 warning
A prescient broadcast which will send chills up the spine of everyone who hears it!
In a JTF television program which aired in Manhattan on Sunday, September 11, 1994 - precisely seven years to the day before the horrendous Muslim Nazi attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon - Chaim Ben Pesach explicitly predicted that the Islamic terrorists who bombed the Twin Towers in 1993 would return to finish their bloody work, mercilessly murdering thousands of Americans.
The same JTF program aired in Queens on Tuesday, September 13, 1994, precisely one year after the evil White House handshaking ceremony between Bill Clinton, Yitzchak Rabin and Yasser Arafat.
JTF was right from the start!
Note: The JTF mailing address mentioned by Chaim Ben Pesach in our 1994 broadcast is no longer valid. JTF's mailing address is JTF, POB 650327, FRESH MEADOWS NY 11365. Also, we are not currently broadcasting in Manhattan.
HOW TO ANSWER ANTI-ISRAEL MYTHS
Armed with the truth, we can save the Jewish homeland!
What the Bible
really says about
surrendering Jewish land
How to stop
the Bolshevik elite
from surrendering Israel
How Israel won
her greatest victories
by defying U.S. pressure
What Bolshevik
brainwashing has
done to Israeli Jews
There is no
"Palestine"
(Part 1 of 2)
There is no
"Palestine"
(Part 2 of 2)
Is Yesha occupied
or liberated?
(Part 1 of 2)
Is Yesha occupied
or liberated?
(Part 2 of 2)
There are no
Arab "moderates"
(Part 1 of 2)
There are no
Arab "moderates"
(Part 2 of 2)
Unmasking
the real
Ariel Sharon
Saving the
Gaza District
will save Israel
Sharon's Likud
victory proves
Feiglin is wrong
"Right-wing"
Avigdor Lieberman
urges Israeli surrender
Who will
lead against
Ariel Sharon?
Abbas and
PLO continue
Arafat's Nazi terror
The traitors
who run the
Yesha Council
A Jewish hero
named
Adir Zik
Sharon's plan:
Imprison
Yesha Jews
Desecrating
and sanctifying
Holocaust victims
What JTF tells
its young
Jewish listeners
Arab Muslim
money controls
the Israeli media
Sharon bribes
Israeli soldiers to
expel Yesha Jews
When Jewish
billionaires help
Arab Muslim Nazis
Hilltop Youth's
new resistance
stuns Israeli army
G-d punishes
the traitor
Ariel Sharon
G-d gives
Hamas terrorists
election victory
The heroic
Jewish youth
of Amona
Jewish civil
war in Israel
(Part 1)
Jewish civil
war in Israel
(Part 2)
Jewish civil
war in Israel
(Part 3)
Why Jews
believe
in G-d
Israel funds
Hamas Muslim
terrorists
Ben Pesach
speech interrupted
(Part 1)
Ben Pesach
speech interrupted
(Part 2)
Ben Pesach
speech interrupted
(Part 3)
Why Israel
cannot
win
As JTF predicted
Israel loses
Lebanon war
Israel's image
damaged by
Lebanon defeat
HOW WE CAN SAVE AMERICA
JTF hopes to build a righteous right-wing Gentile movement!
Needed:
Hilltop Youth
to save America
The 2008
Presidential
election disaster
"Democratizing"
Muslims threatens
America's survival
Black rapist
murders 4
in Atlanta court
Lebanon's lesson
for the West
(Part 1)
Lebanon's lesson
for the West
(Part 2)
Algeria's lesson
for the West
(Part 1)
Algeria's lesson
for the West
(Part 2)
The murder of
Terri Schiavo
The bizarre
history of the
Black Muslims
Hollywood
returns to
its old treason
Rap "music" is
degenerating
America
New LA mayor
defends crack
cocaine kingpins
Malcolm X exposed
as a homosexual
rapist and prostitute
Why Bush
will not defeat
Islamic terrorism
NYC police
protect violent
black criminals
Texas is
now majority
non-white
New York City's
lesson for the
United States
Black criminals
rampage after
Hurricane Katrina
Black pedophile
"minister" murders
white teenager
What happens
when whites
fight for blacks
When whites
go to school
with blacks
The French
Muslim riots
(Part 1)
The French
Muslim riots
(Part 2)
Black racist murderer
Stanley "Tookie"
Williams (Part 1)
Black racist murderer
Stanley "Tookie"
Williams (Part 2)
Iranian dictator
vows to destroy
America
Muslims riot
over cartoon
of Mohammed
Nazis vs.
genuine right-
wing patriots
Will Al Qaeda
supporters control
U.S. ports?
Pakistan, Dubai
and Muslim
nuclear terrorism
Illegal alien
amnesty will
doom America
Traitor U.S. jury
spares September 11th
Muslim monster
JTF
loves you,
Ann Coulter!
STOP THE PERSECUTION OF NOAM FEDERMAN
Help free the Jewish hero from house arrest!
Noam Federman is a Jewish dissident whom Israel's Bolshevik authorities brutally imprisoned for nine months solely because of his popularity and right-wing views. No charges were ever filed against him. Now, Noam is under highly restrictive house arrest to stop him from convincing Israeli Jews not to commit national suicide.
Federman very ill
but continues
hunger strike
Noam Federman
ends 54-day
hunger strike
Federman freed
after 9 months
in prison
End the anti-democratic persecution of Jewish hero Noam Federman!
Please do the following three things to protect Noam Federman's human rights:
Fax or e-mail Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
demanding an end to Federman's unjust and anti-democratic house arrest.
Fax or e-mail Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz
who can end Noam Federman's disgraceful house arrest.
Send a generous check, money order or cash donation to "JTF" to help us free Federman.
Ehud Olmert's fax number
(if you are faxing from the U.S. or Canada*)
011-972-2566-4838
If number busy, please try again
Amir Peretz's fax number
(if you are faxing from the U.S. or Canada*)
011-972-3697-6218
If number busy, please try again
I want to e-mail Ehud Olmert
(
I want to e-mail Amir Peretz
(
* If you are not faxing from the U.S. or Canada, find your outgoing (IDD) international prefix HERE
(For example, dial 0015-972-2566-4838 from Australia or 00-972-2566-4838 from the UK)
Keep your messages cogent but brief - no more than a few sentences - and firm but polite
If you are not Jewish, please say so in your messages to Olmert and Peretz
Protests from non-Jews on this subject are especially effective
Some day, G-d will ask all of us what we did to stop this horrific miscarriage of justice
What will your answer be?
STOP BUYING MUSLIM TERRORIST OIL
Tell America to stop funding Muslim nuclear terrorism!
The Iranian Muslim terrorist nuclear reactor at Bushehr
Please send the following urgent e-mail
to America's political leaders and news media:
Every drop of oil that we import from Muslim terrorist regimes such as Saudi Arabia and Iran helps to finance the development of nuclear weapons that will someday murder millions of Americans. We should immediately open ANWR to oil drilling. And the Bush Administration should immediately approve oil and gas exploration in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve. The U.S. must begin an emergency crash program to achieve energy independence through a massive expansion in the use of clean coal, shale, natural gas, domestic oil and nuclear power. We must also begin an emergency crash program to develop cars and other motor vehicles that do not use gasoline. (For more information, please see the JTF.ORG web site.)
Make your voice heard! All influential people read their e-mail!
If using your own words, be very brief! Only brief e-mails are actually read!
(See below for the necessary e-mail addresses)
JTF's 7-POINT PLAN
How JTF would save America and Israel!
POINT ONE: A ferocious retaliation against all Muslim nations which have in any way aided or abetted terrorism against American citizens.
POINT TWO: The immediate destruction by the American or Israeli military of all Muslim nuclear reactors, plants and laboratories developing nuclear, chemical and/or biological weapons of mass destruction.
POINT THREE: Total energy independence for America through a crash development program funded in the defense budget as a vital national security priority.
POINT FOUR: An immediate end to all U.S. foreign aid, even to a genuine friend and ally like Israel, which is harmed rather than helped by her counterproductive dependency on America's addictive welfare handouts.
POINT FIVE: An immediate end to all foreign immigration into the United States, combined with the complete expulsion of America's millions of illegal aliens and the stringent removal of her legal ones at the expiration of their work or residency visas.
POINT SIX: An immediate recognition by the United States of little Israel's G-d-given right and obligation to assert full and permanent sovereign control over all sacred Jewish Biblical lands, including Judea, Samaria, the Gaza District, the Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem.
POINT SEVEN: An immediate withdrawal from the fanatically anti-American United Nations (UN) and all organizations directly or indirectly affiliated with it, and the immediate banning of all UN-related activities on American soil.
JTF's KORAN QUOTES FLYER
Spread the truth about the Muslim Koran!
Distribute JTF's flyer, quoting the "peaceful" Muslim Koran, to all patriotic Americans
I want to distribute JTF's Koran quotes flyer
(The link opens a new window, where you can click the "Print" button or "File > Print > OK")
THE KORAN
Read Islam's terrorist bible for yourself!
Read the Koran in its own words, translated into English by Muslims
I want to read the Koran in its own words
I want to read the Koran by topic
Read the Koran!
JTF's TELEVISION SCHEDULE
Over 200,000 Queens cable viewers!
We have two different evening programs and two different daytime programs
Evenings: Daytime:
Spread the word!
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD
All influential people read their e-mail!
E-mail opinion-makers at least once weekly
Always encourage them to visit the JTF.ORG web site
Mention our fight against Islam and other deadly threats
Come straight to the point
Write only a few lines on only one topic at a time
Send no carbon copies ("spam")
Use catchy, sensible subject ("re:") lines
Avoid all threats, insults and obscenities
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E-mail media personalities!
Bill O'Reilly
Sean Hannity
Greta Van Susteren
Brit Hume
John Gibson
Pat Robertson
700 Club
G. Gordon Liddy
Michael Savage
Chris Ruddy
NewsMax
David Limbaugh
NewsMax
Cal Thomas
Charles Krauthammer
Always urge talk show hosts to invite JTF's Chaim Ben Pesach to their programs
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E-mail media outlets!
The New York Post (
The Washington Times (
The New York Daily News (
The [Manchester, NH] Union Leader (
The Jewish Press (
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E-mail the White House!
President George Bush
(
Vice President Dick Cheney
(
E-mail your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative!
(The above links will take you to official U.S. Senate and U.S. House web pages, where you can write your e-mails.)
You can also mail or phone the White House and your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500
(202) 456-1111 The Honorable _____*
U.S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-3121 The Honorable _____**
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 224-3121
* Insert the full name of either of your U.S. Senators. ***** ** Insert the full name of your U.S. Representative.
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Remember always to keep it very brief! Only brief messages are actually read!
JEWISH TASK FORCE
Fighting to save America and Israel
from Islamic terrorism!
JTF
Post Office Box 650327
Fresh Meadows NY 11365
rightist zionist and proud - COMMUNISM AND ISLAM WILL NEVER WIN
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