Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Governor’s aide: National Security meeting “surreal”

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“During both of their presentations… the best way that I can explain it, it was like listening to a teacher in health class giving a lecture about sex to a pre-teen, yet prohibited from or unwilling to use certain proper anatomical terms or even the necessary anatomical references,”

she stated, adding that both Napolitano and Brennan were very careful to avoid using words and phrases that in any way associated terror concerns with Islam or Islamic ideology.

For example, this source described Napolitano talking about Najibullah ZAZI, a 24-year-old, Afghan-born Muslim resident of Denver and a follower of al Qaeda. ZAZI, who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction on Monday, was identified by federal authorities as a key player in what has been described as the most serious terror plot since 9/11. Investigators found evidence that ZAZI was motivated to kill and injure Americans based on of his beliefs in Islamic jihad.

Napolitano instead described him generically as a “domestic extremist” and “never once used the phrase Islamic terrorism” or made any reference to Islam, jihad, or the ideology and mechanism that motivated ZAZI and his co-conspirators to plot attacks in New York...

Rather, Napolitano spoke of the “need to study and analyze the motivation behind these extremists", something that I thought should have been quite obvious based on the amount and type of evidence uncovered in that case...

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