9/11 BY THE NUMBERS
Nearly $1.3 trillion has been spent by the State Department and the DOD in the last decade in just two hotspots. Spending on homeland security has been far less.
fi scal year: 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 SOURCE: Congressional Research Service
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piece of the war for the free world that the Muslim Brotherhood calls “civilization jihad.” To date, succes- sive U.S. administrations have failed to recognize that the Brotherhood has operatives and front organiza- tions in America that seek the same outcomes as al-Qaida and other so- called “violent extremists.” They are pursuing Shariah — Islam’s politico- military-legal doctrine, and its appli- cation worldwide under a Muslim ruler known as the caliph. The dif- ference is that the Brotherhood seeks these objectives through an array of
9/11 HEROES • by James Ryder, NYPD
ALL POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREMEN were ordered to respond to their command posts. So I headed to the city, leaving my wife home with a 4-year-old set of twins and knowing she was pregnant with our second set of twins. We had no family nearby, so I knocked on my neighbor’s door and asked if she could watch out for her.
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You really couldn’t tell what block you were on. There were no landmarks or signs to identify unless you were looking up. You had to look at the higher parts of buildings to identify them.
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The thing I remember the most about ground zero itself was seeing tons and tons of police cars that were just crushed — I mean crushed like a piece of cardboard or cardboard boxes that had bricks on top of them. And they were just piled up on the side of the road to get them out of the way. Once you entered the area around ground zero, there was a fog in the air that went up 10 or 20 stories at least.
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You couldn’t just pull up to an intersection and read a street sign because they were all just caked in soot. And there was a smell. It wasn’t a bad smell, but just a very obvious smell. It wasn’t pungent or disgusting in any way, it was just very thick.
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There was nothing that survived the fall [of the twin towers] that was larger than a briefcase. There were no desks, there was nothing large; but we found a whole ton of photographs with love notes on the back.
stealthy techniques until the condi- tions are ripe for the effective use of terrifying jihadist practices. In other words, the Muslim Brotherhood is not engaged in non-violence but rath- er pre-violent practices.
Such a failure to understand our enemy and react appropriately may doom us to defeat.
Frankly, this willful blindness, as former
federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy calls it, worries me even more than what is going wrong in Iraq, Afghanistan and the “Muslim world” more broadly.
Afghanistan Iraq
–– Homeland Security
We have enemies who seek to insinuate a toxic, anti-constitutional Shariah program into our country and they are operating “inside the wire.” I am talking not only about home-grown jihadists, but also about those associated with the Muslim Brotherhood who, despite what we think is their professed commitment to non-violence, have as their mis- sion in America “destroying Western civilization from within,” by our own hands.
They strive to achieve this alarm- ing goal through the implementation of a phased plan and believe they are making steady progress towards its realization under our very noses and thanks to our witlessness about their true character and purposes: the triumph of Shariah, the estab- lishment of a worldwide caliphate, and the destruction of everybody, including the United States and its Constitution, that stand in the way. Don’t take my word for it. This is what the Brotherhood’s own docu- ments say regarding its purpose and program inside America. And our government simply doesn’t get it. It is nothing less than a scandal
that we fi nd ourselves at risk of los- ing ground to such enemies abroad and at home 10 long years after 9/11. We must take corrective actions in both spheres now, before we lose any more ground and lives.
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