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Monday, November 18, 2002
HOMELAND INSECURITY
Are 'jihadists' infiltrating U.S. military?
Low-security positions could be used by potential terrorists
Posted: November 18, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jon Dougherty
� 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
A disturbing pattern of infiltration of lower levels of the U.S.
military by would-be Islamist jihad warriors is emerging, cautions
one analyst of military affairs and terrorism.
The Defense Department heavily screens all personnel competing for
high-security positions involving nuclear weapons and military
intelligence. Before applicants are ever allowed inside those small
elite circles, they are subjected to rigorous background and
criminal checks, as well as comprehensive psychological evaluations.
The reason is obvious: Only the fittest of mind, body and soul can
be trusted with such positions of vital importance. The wrong person
in the right place at the wrong time could wreak untold levels of
havoc on an unsuspecting nation and � in terms of nuclear weapons �
the world itself.
But the Pentagon is much less thorough in screening its "average"
soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines, troops who are slated for the
much more numerous and mundane positions that comprise most of the
cogs in the world's most powerful military machine � the average
trooper, the logistics and supply personnel, the cooks, clerks and
typists, the fuel handlers, the mechanics and maintenance personnel.
And yet, many of these troops � while not individually significant,
per se � could transform themselves quickly into terrorist assets
simply because they have access to important components of the
United States military, some professionals believe.
"The threat of enemy operatives within our homeland is not a new
challenge to those charged with our security. There exists a long
history of hostile governments seeking to take advantage of our open
society to turn or plant operatives within the American government
and military," writes military analyst and writer Tom Knowlton, for
the Nov. 13 issue of Defense Watch, an Internet- based magazine
published by Soldiers For the Truth.
"For the most part, these operatives are people who had access to
information or technology that would be of value to our enemies
during times of war: diplomats, intelligence agents, key military
personnel, scientists and federal agents," Knowlton says. But in
these times of terrorism, jihadists -- those looking to infiltrate
America and turn U.S. citizens into pawns of terrorist warfare � may
be looking to penetrate lower echelons within the U.S. military.
Writes Knowlton: "On Nov. 5, 2002 Abdul Raheem Al Arshad Ali, a
former Marine and Gulf War veteran, became the third suspected
terrorist associated with the Dar-us-Salaam mosque in Seattle (now
renamed the Dar ul Islam Masjid mosque) to be arrested for alleged
ties to al- Qaida."
Authorities earlier had arrested James Ujaama and Semi Osman, he
notes, on charges connected to the scouting of a ranch in Bly, Ore.,
as a possible terrorist training site in 1999. On an anti-
American website, operator James Ujaama said, "My brother and I will
join those who fight in the cause of Allah." That brother,
authorities learned, is Mustafa Ujaama, who was converted or
recruited to radical jihadist Islam while serving in the U.S.
military.
Meanwhile, Osman was a drilling Construction Mechanic 3rd Class in
the U.S. Naval Reserve at the time of his arrest. Osman "served in
the U.S. Navy's Supply Support Battalion 1, Company F, a fueling
unit based in Tacoma, Wash., with access to fuel trucks similar to
the type used by al-Qaida in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers
and the 2002 bombing of a synagogue in Tunisia," Knowlton said.
"Such converted fuel truck bombs possess the equivalent energy of 10-
15 tons of TNT."
Add to this mix John Allen Muhammad, a former U.S. Army Gulf War
veteran and prime suspect in the Washington-area sniper attacks, and
there appears to be an emerging pattern that jihadists are eyeing
"recruits" in key positions in the U.S. military.
"Ali, Mustafa Ujaama, and former Army sergeant and alleged sniper
John Muhammad appear to be indicative of an emerging threat of
jihadists attempting to infiltrate or turn members of the U.S.
military," Knowlton writes. "However, at this time only Osman,
former Green Beret Ali Muhammad (a conspirator in the Tanzania and
Kenya embassy bombings), and former Army reservist Jeffrey Leon
Battle, indicted in October 2002 of conspiring to levy war against
the United States and 'enlisting in the Reserves to receive military
training to use against America,' have definitively been proven to
participate in jihadist activities concurrent with their military
service."
"While all military personnel undergo background screening when
entering the service," he writes, "heightened and continuous
scrutiny is generally only paid to those in occupations that require
enhanced levels of clearance.
"A jihadist operative in a food service or supply unit could
potentially contaminate the meals of our troops, similar to the
salmonella attacks by Rajneeshee cultists in Oregon in 1984, or the
clothing articles of military personnel in a method reminiscent of
British colonials giving smallpox-tainted blankets to Indians in
1763 and 1767," Knowlton said.
Referencing former CIA Director Allen Dulles' 1963 comments about
why an operative betrays his country � namely, blackmail, money,
sympathy for the cause, for "kicks," or for "reasons that defy
rational analysis" � Knowlton points out that "all of these reasons
apply to potential jihadist operatives."
Jon E. Dougherty is a staff reporter and columnist for
WorldNetDaily, and author of the special
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