Fox Exclusive: ‘Most-Wanted’ Terrorist Al-Awlaki Dined at Pentagon After 9/11
- Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:26pm by
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Fox News has obtained documents showing that Anwar Al-Awlaki, the “first American on the CIA’s kill or capture list,” attended a lunch at the Pentagon shortly after the 9/11 attacks:
Documents exclusively obtained by Fox News, including an FBI interview conducted after the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009, state that Awlaki was taken to the Pentagon as part of the military’s outreach to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.
The incident was flagged by a current Defense Department employee who came forward and told investigators she helped arrange the meeting after she saw Awlaki speak in Alexandria, Va.
The employee “attended this talk and while she arrived late she recalls being impressed by this imam. He condemned Al Qaeda and the terrorist attacks. During his talk he was ‘harassed’ by members of the audience and suffered it well,” reads one document.





















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bobodu
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:47pmC’mon people…can’t you read?? This happened under the Holy Bush.
Report Post »So..reaching out to the terrorists isn’t anything new with the election of Obama. Maybe Bush gave him this nice dinner as a Thank You gesture for a job well done?
akw
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 5:58pmWhat a stupid comment. al-alwaki was being investigated by the FBI, but because our intelligence agencies didn’t communicate with each other, and our leaders were so anxious to placate American Muslims, one hand didn’t know what the other was doing and al-alwaki walked right through the cracks into the Pentagon.
Report Post »Ken
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:42pmI hope they burned everything the slimeball touched!
Report Post »Waiting4George
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:39pmWhat a bunch of political pantywaist brass. Send them to Ft.Hood for court martial then drum them out. Show it on c-span.
Report Post »Contrarianthinker
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:38pmWE NED TO HAVE SOME ARTICLES OF REAL MEANING FROM FREEDOMS PHOENIX A STRONG SUPPORTY OF LIBERTY AND THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT. Why isn’t this a source for some threads?
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm
Report Post »Contrarianthinker
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:35pmHERE IS A TOPIC THAT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE. AS AN ORIGINAL MEMEBER OF THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT LED BY RON PAUL’S POTUS CAMPAIGN AND RICK SANTORI, YES THE TEA PARTY HAS BEEN COOPTED. THE QUESTION NOW IS, HOW CAN IT BE BROUGHT BACK on track? FOR A GREAA ROOTS BLOG, WE DON’T HAVE ANYWAY TO START A TRULY MEANINGFUL THREAD. WHY IS THAT?
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Report Post »akw
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:32pmHere are three of three of the best websites for tracking Islamic extremism, jihad, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and all of their assorted branches and their front groups in America. Save the links and pass them around – get this info to everyone who will listen:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
http://www.investigativeproject.org/
http://www.longwarjournal.org/
The guys who run the sites are professionals, experts on Islam and terrorism.
Report Post »Madcat151
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:23pmShocker! A bunch of REMF‘s can’t spot the bad guy eating the tuna salad at the end of the table.
Report Post »akw
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:19pm“The incident was flagged by a current Defense Department employee who came forward and told investigators she helped arrange the meeting after she saw Awlaki speak in Alexandria, Va.
“The employee “attended this talk and while she arrived late she recalls being impressed by this imam. He condemned Al Qaeda and the terrorist attacks. During his talk he was ‘harassed’ by members of the audience and suffered it well,” reads one document.”
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And, there you have it, folks – proof beyond a shadow of a doubt that there are Muslims in this country who hate this country, wish to do us harm, and play us like a fiddle while pretending to be “moderate” Muslims who love this country. Our government, law enforcement, legislators and media refuse to recognize the blatant truths and the huge danger that these people pose to us, all while chastising those of us who do know and speak the truth as being Islamophobes, bigots and intolerant nuts.
I know for a fact that all Muslims in this country aren’t lying to our faces, but I also know that their religion tells them that they CAN lie to us if it serves Allah.
So, who do we trust?
Report Post »TattooQ
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:19pmFor the record , it was Kifah Mustapha , an unindicted Holy Land Foundation case co-conspirator ( can you say HAMAS ?) who was part of a Civilian panel . I just couldn’t recall his first name in my previous post.
Report Post »krjones
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:13pmlies and damn lies
Report Post »Christian Kalgaard
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:11pmThey were probably congratulating him..
Report Post »We Are Not Alone
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:11pmObama appointed two devout Muslims to homeland security posts.
Well, boys and girls, today the fox is guarding the hen house. The wolves will be herding the sheep!
Obama and Janet Napolitano appointed Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria, as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).
NOTE: Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a ‘devout Catholic,“ a ”devout Jew“ or a ”devout Protestant”…?
Just wondering.
Devout Muslims being appointed to critical Homeland Security positions? Doesn’t this make you feel safer already?? That should make our home land much safer, huh!?
Wasn’t it “devout Muslim men” who flew planes into U.S. buildings 8 1/2 years ago? Wasn’t it a “devout Muslim man” who killed 13 at Fort Hood?
Please forward this important information to any who cares about the future of our Country.
Checked this on Snopes and it’s true:
See http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dhs.asp
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:10pmgive him a stimulus ck. Obama bow down and face east, and kiss your ars goodby
Report Post »takingonissues.com
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:06pmAdd your comments
Report Post »TattooQ
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:06pmNot surprised at all. Just one in a long line of moves which are reckless and dangerous in rez; Muslim outreach. Of late , Mohammed Elibiary , once on the speakers list of an event honoring that wonderful moderate AYATOLLAH KHOMENI , and who once threatened a Dallas journalist was named to a Homeland Security advisory council by Janet “ Open Borders” Napolitano. Can’t you smell the moderation ? No ? Me neither.
A second brilliant move of late was when another “moderate” , last name Mustapha , part of a government sponsored group that toured the National Counterterrorism Center.
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:01pmwhats the big deal? Im sure bill ayres has eaten at the white house. Nothing to see here people, just move along.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:28pmWH has still not explained who was the Malik Shabazz who visited Obama!
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 5:58pmoh c’mon, everyone knows obama had the ‘black pampers’ morons who were convicted of voter intimidation to the WH for popcorn, and to thank them for starting a race war.
obama just hosted some huge FBI counter-terrorism jaunt inside our most secret places for members of the enemy as part of his “outreach”. obama wants us DEAD, period. race war, muslim attacks, he doesn’t care… anything to be able to declare martial law and fire on US AMERICANS IN OUR HOMES.
Report Post »cognitivedissonance
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:22pmI’m gong to lose my mind with you idiots, THIS HAPPENED DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION and I’m not going to construct some grand conspiracy around it, Al-Awlaki visit was probably just an intelligence oversight that was buried to avoid PR. What the hell does Obama have to do with this? Outside of the obvious fact that he is Muslim Stalin-Hitler.
Report Post »TattooQ
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:42pmTypical of the reckless and dangerous behavior of our government in its campaign to do “ muslim outreach ” . Another example :
Muslim who spoke at pro-Khomeini conference and threatened columnist named to Homeland Security Advisory Council . Article is by Robert Spencer.
He didn’t know! He didn’t know! (note; this is editorial comment from Jihad Watch)
Mohamed Elibiary was one of the speakers at a December 2004 conference in Dallas entitled “A Tribute to the Great Islamic Visionary,” Ayatollah Khomeini. When Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News called him on this, he threatened Dreher, telling him: “Expect someone to put a banana in your exhaust pipe.”
Fox Guarding Henhouse Alert: “Secretary Napolitano Swears in Homeland Security Advisory Council Members,” from the Department of Homeland Security, October 15 (thanks to Jeff):
Washington, D.C. – Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in three new members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) during her latest tri-annual meeting with HSAC, which took place at DHS headquarters this week. The HSAC is comprised of experts from state, local and tribal governments, emergency and first responder communities, academia and the private sector who provide recommendations and advice to the Secretary of Homeland Security on a variety of homeland security issues.
The new members include: former New York City Police Commissioner and Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, who will join as vice-chair to former CIA and FBI Director Judge William Webster; Massachusetts General Hospital Director of Police, Security and Outside Services Bonnie Michelman; and Freedom and Justice Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer Mohamed Elibiary. [...]
Mohamed Elibiary is the President and CEO of the Freedom and Justice Foundation, and has advised numerous federal, state and local law enforcement organizations including the Texas Department of Safety and National Counterterrorism Center Global Engagement Group on matters relating to homeland security. Recently, Elibiary served on DHS’s Homeland Security Advisory Council Countering Violent Extremism Working Group, and currently serves on the Texas Department of Public Safety Advisory Board. In December of 2009 he helped establish the Texas Fusion Center Policy Council to enhance information sharing, analytical capabilities and community relations at the state and local law enforcement levels.
I have met Mohamed Elibiary. He is a slick fellow. You can read here his dancing and obfuscation about deception in Islam and other matters, in a long exchange we had here at Jihad Watch. Read it carefully, noting the questions I ask him and the answers he gives to them, and ask yourself whether he really ought to be on the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Report Post »bmcoll3278
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:39pmWhen will they get it ?
Report Post »Their holly book says its ok to lie to an infidel. Of course he will condemn the attacks .
betterthantv
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:46pmI agree with you. My Pastor and I have gone over several parts of the Koran. Scary stuff! But try to explain that to a brain dead liberal. You get nowhere! Kinda like to talking to my pug.
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 5:02pmNo ,,your pug understands you
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:39pmWhy does this not surprise me? I‘m sure he’s even on Obama’s fb friends list! When are we going to wake up?
Report Post »cognitivedissonance
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:34pmYou do realize that the whole dinner in the pentagon thing happened during the bush admin. right? Obama is the one who put his name on a kill list.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:38pmWhen it is too late.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:13pmCog – Keep blaming Bush. When you aren’t repeating the same old line over and over here, look up this link where your precious Obama was reported to hae personally met with a Hezbollah supporter:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032877/posts
Hmmmm… A president who willingly met with a terrorist? That seems a tad worse than a president who wasn’t even in attendance at a luncheon where a terrorist was present.
Report Post »cognitivedissonance
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:24pmI’m not blaming Bush, I’m saying this event did not happen during the Obama administration. I’m not going to jump all over the intelligence community for not having the name of every terrorist right after 9/11, it was a mistake and a bad one, but it has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with the current administration.
Report Post »Grace1
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:37pm“..he suffered it well”. And we are supposed to reach out and trust? When will the American people stop being prey, rolling over and exposing their tender underbelly? I’m not sorry, I will NOT trust these people. Period.
Report Post »saneromeo
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:45pmRespect and tolerance are not the same thing as trust. Not everyone deserves trust, but most everyone deserves respect and tolerance. I respect a rattlesnake and tolerate its presence but I don’t trust it…
Report Post »neverending
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:45pmNo way and no how – herridge found out about this?
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:36pmHummm, I guess outreaching to the muslims really doesn’t change their minds after all. Too bad Obama tried that and even opologized to them for us.
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Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:13pmWhen you and me do it , its OUTreach
Report Post »When he does it , its INreach
ILFarmer
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:35pmAdd your comments
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 5:55pmUSA never should have had ANY “outreach” after 9/11, it was easy enough to see who murdered us. all the European nations ARE now trying to take their countries back.. time for America to buckle down too. BEFORE we hit 3rd World degradation status like the rest of them. Okla has a vote coming about should they ban SHARIA laws usurping AMERICAN law in their AMERICAN state courtrooms: yes!
Report Post »snowleopard3200
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:33pmIf this story is able to be confirmed and is true, then someone should start to explain why in the heck he was in the pentagon at the time?
Of course now this will just give the conspirist theorist fanatics out there another peice of “proof” that Pres Bush and VP Cheyne “had to be the masterminds behind it”
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (mix art)
Paradigmm
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:57pmNot proof, just another open question in a long line of open questions surrounding 9/11. It’s those un-answered questions and conflicts between witness statements and the 9/11 report that give them their motivation. I for one call for an independent investigation (if it’s not too late) and put all this to bed. But we must be willing to accept the facts of the investigation, no matter how difficult the facts may be to hear.
Report Post »snowleopard3200
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 5:50pm@Paradiggm
Agreed, enough serious questions still exist that this mess needs to be put to rest for good or bad once and for all. The one main problem I see though is that no matter how a investigative pannel would find, someone will challenge it as being “political expedient” or some usual nonsense such as this.
Report Post »mlakester
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:32pmAnd then his counter part, who should have been on the CIA’s kill or capture list, was elected and currently resides in the White House.
Unfortunately, this story just doesn’t surprise me.
jzs
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:45pmHere is yet another example of Obama being soft on terrorists.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:05pmCheckout the stories in British papers about how Obama will not be visiting Sikh shrine while in India , so that he doesn’t get accused of being muslim.
Report Post »The WH is lying through their teeth. The spin is so bad on this one from his people. Anyone who knows the history of Sikhism knows why he is avoiding a Sikh temple.
Ofcourse they still want us to believe that Obama doesn’t care too much about the media spin and he does whats right .
takingonissues.com
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:06pmThey can’t blame this one on George W……although they will probably try in some twisted way.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:11pmThe incident was flagged by a current Defense Department employee who came forward and told investigators she helped arrange the meeting after she saw Awlaki speak in Alexandria, Va.
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Report Post »Who is she ?
How does she know Awlaki? Why is she still inside our government ?
Taquiyya
Taquiyya
cognitivedissonance
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:36pmTHIS HAPPENED DURING “MONTHS AFTER 9/11“ IN OTHER WORDS ”DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION”!
the Obama administration issued the kill order on him.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:01pm@ Cog – Only a matter of time till someone posted that it was all Bush’s fault. I’d rather he be at fault for unknowingly inviting a terrorsit to a Muslim outreach program than being the president who had the opportunity to arrest Bin Laden BEFORE 9/11 took place, which may have saved 3,000 lives. What, you’re not going to blame Clinton as well? Sorry, I forgot – it’s not fair to blame anything on Democrats apparently.
Report Post »cognitivedissonance
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:26pmI’m not blaming Bush you illiterate nutjob, I’m just pointing out a reality that this particular news item has absolutely nothing to do with Obama.
God you people and your frothing, mind melting insanity.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 6:51pm@ cognitivedissonance
THIS HAPPENED DURING “MONTHS AFTER 9/11“ IN OTHER WORDS ”DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION”!
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Just like Nidal Hassan got invited by Hussain
Yeah, it makes sense :D
cognitivedissonance
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 7:06pmREALITY MEANS NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO YOU! I will try to say this slowly so you will understand.
This is a news story about a man who is now one of the most wanted terrorists in the world. The events described took plays in “THE MONTHS AFTER 9/11″ so this would be 2001 or 2002.
Amazingly, there was actually a different president than, his name was George W. Bush.
Now, in mentioning that there was a different president at the time I have no intention of claiming that said president is to blame for this slip in security I AM SIMPLY SAYING THAT THIS SINGULAR, PARTICULAR INCIDENT HAS ZERO, ZIP, NADA TO DO WITH THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
that’s all, I have no time for left wing conspiracies about the Bush administration, I’m not a “truther” and I don’t think Bush was a fascist, I’m just stating a FACT.
Report Post »janddjohnson
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 8:23pmIt says it happened within 6 months of 9/11. That was in 2001. Am I missing something? I can‘t stand Obama but he wasn’t president in 2001.
Report Post »mlakester
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 8:37pmThings didn’t ONLY go wrong when Obama took over presidency.
Cog and JandD…I’m not surprised to hear about this…this statement has nothing to do with Obama. My prior statement, that Obama should be on the kill or capture list has EVERYTHING to do with Obama. But this has nothing to do with the fact that he was president at that time.
I am not surprised to hear this story because evil will always find a way to infiltrate…especially in the most ironic and invasive ways.
As for Obama needing to be on the kill or capture list, I believe all terrorists should be on it. Whether they have people fooled and are in places of ‘power’ or not. This includes Obama…obviously.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 8:58pmjanddjohnson
It says it happened within 6 months of 9/11. That was in 2001. Am I missing something? I can‘t stand Obama but he wasn’t president in 2001.
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Report Post »The story is not WHO was the POTUS .
The story is that whenever ANY POTUS goes on a mission of outreach to muslims, he ends up propping up terrorists.
Someone suggested to invite Awlaki when Bush administration was looking around for some muslims to reach out to. That person may / may not have known about Awlaki’s role in 9/11 ( Dar-al -Hijrah)
but he got invited anyway. He was a jihady , maybe not well known then , but a jihady nevertheless. Yet he could be classified as a “ moderate muslim” and dine in the Pentagon.
Now if the Bush administration had known that there is no such thing as a “ moderate muslim” this might not have happened.
Similarly Obama’s people had Nidal Hassan on their insider group on Homeland Security .
Now he was in that group because he was considered to be a “ moderate muslim” ( atleast I hope so) worthy of outreach. But again, there is no such thing as a “ moderate muslim”.
Everytime you reach out your hand to a so called “ moderate muslim” it will end up blowing up in your face.
Bush did it and got the same result which Obama got.
The only difference is Bush had the same enemy as the rest of the Americans. He never forgot that and never poked the eyes of American people just to please jihadies.
jzs
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:35amFact: It happened when Obama was President, not Bush. And it shows how lax Obama has been toward terrorism. His only goal is to destroy this country and Bin Laden is his mentor. We all know that. On his inauguration day he told the CIA and FBI to lay off Muslims, which FOX reported on. That’s a fact and everyone agrees. He loves all Muslims and hates America, as you know. And so they invited this guy in for dinner. La dee dah. He killed Americans but Obama doesn’t care. End of story. If you doubt it, do the research and then you‘ll know I’m right.
Report Post »cognitivedissonance
Posted on October 22, 2010 at 2:26amno, it didn’t, unless Obama has a time machine
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 3:32pm“During his talk he was ‘harassed’ by members of the audience and suffered it well,” reads one document” Sure, and now he wants to make everyone else suffer. His time is coming, rest assured!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:00pmHe condemned Al Qaeda and the terrorist attacks.
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Just like Rauf and his wife are doing now……………….
chazman
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 4:15pmI’ll condemn this creep in 30 seconds … permanetly, and with EXTREME PREJUDICE!
Islam sucks.
Lock and load, people …
snowleopard3200
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 5:53pm@Cheezwhiz
One ancient method of playing off an enemy concerns is for an agent to appear to be dedicated to the point of fanaticism (condeming Al Quaeda) while preparing the greater betrayal.
Who knows at this time what intel or secrets he may have co-opted or arranged for to happen in his known visit.
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Large Eagle
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:17amFort Hood shooter was an advisor on the Home Land Security task force – Got the document wanna see – eaglesatlarge@yahoo.com – It is called in-fil-tra-tion folks North American Islamic Society spells it out – got the document wanna see – The head if this society opened prayer at the DNC convention 2008 – Go figure – IN-FIL-TRA-TION – wake up. Every peace loving muslim walks in fear evryday and will do exactly as they are told when – as Obama says in his book – there is a change in the political winds he will stand with the muslims. We are so screwed by this political correctness crap.
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