by Sperry, Paul
In addition, Muslim men are not allowed to wear gold jewelry, as their prophet Muhammad commanded.
If a Muslim man desires to wear a ring or watch, they must be silver—and always worn on the right hand. Again, the pious strive to do everything opposite their enemies, and everything like Muhammad.
Wearing silk neckties or other silk garments is also taboo. Muhammad didn’t wear silk, didn’t approve of it.
Muslim clerics can also be identified as Shariah compliant by their dress. Their robes, for example, will more than likely be cut above the ankle and contain black stitching.
Their robes, for example, will more than likely be cut above the ankle and contain black stitching.
These are just a few examples of the practical tips law enforcement authorities can arm themselves with before knocking on doors in the Muslim community—as opposed to the politically correct disinformation they’ve received in “cultural-awareness” classes organized by CAIR and other fronts for the bad guys.
U.S. law enforcement must take a more proactive role investigating organizations and people linked to terrorism. We’re still handling terrorism in a traditional law enforcement way that is predicated on the bad guys acting first, which is reactionary—and always tragic.
That’s minimizing the casualties after the fact.
That’s restoring order.
That’s returning the damaged buildings and property to some form of usefulness.
That’s preparing after-action reports.
That’s holding endless hearings on what went wrong.
In short, that’s having a nice funeral.
We can no longer afford to have that kind of mindset. We shouldn’t have to bleed more to get leaders to change. We’ve already bled enough.
We need to give law enforcement—the case agents, the detectives, the beat cops—tools to collect predictive intelligence on the bad guys. And not just when the threat level is high—but all the time—because the bad guys never stop casing, infiltrating, scheming, and plotting. Recall that eight full years elapsed between the botched 1993 World Trade Center bombing and 9/11 when the terrorists returned to finish the job.
They’re relentless, and law enforcement must constantly poke and prod them and cause them to daylight; then take them out of the picture with whatever charges stick—tax fraud, visa fraud, money-laundering, perjury, obstruction. Whatever will hold up in court. Lock them up, deport them, put them out of business.
Our children deserve leaders who are proactive, who won’t be known for heroic activities performed only after responding to a terrorist event they could have prevented. It’s madness to continue to allow known terrorists and their supporters to operate inside America.
Ferreting them out and shutting them down requires going back to the basics. Cut the political red tape. Learn the enemy’s playbook. And most important, put the basic investigative work back in the hands of the street agents and detectives.
Maybe then we can honestly hope to stop another child—Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or any other belief—from becoming the victim of another major terrorist attack or possibly even worse, a country controlled more by Shariah law than our Constitution.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
MOHAMMED ODEH AL-REHAIEF rescued POW Private Jessica Lynch in Iraq in 2003. While serving there at the time, I had the opportunity—and honor—to rescue several members of Mohammed’s family, including his sister-in-law, father, brothers, nieces, and nephews. The Rehaief family and I spent several months together in Iraq. This family had suffered tragedy, yet they relied on their Prophet to help them live day by day during the war.
The brothers and I had the opportunity to conduct several missions. Their professionalism saved my life and while in Iraq, they were my family.
The Rehaiefs were the family I had left behind in America—my beautiful wife, son, daughter, brother, and sister. I missed my father more than I can describe. He was my hero. He had always been there for me as a youngster. Though he worked twelve to eighteen hours a day, he always had time to play baseball with me. My dear mother had passed away earlier.
Working counterterrorism in Iraq was dangerous, but the battles I have had since returning in 2003 have been tougher by a factor of ten.
After many years in undercover operations, I trusted few, and our lives were in each other’s hands. Members of the Al-Rehaief family are the examples of Islam and the Muslim people. I saw the nieces of Mohammed cry each night for several months. Our team rescued them and got them into a safe zone, but the living conditions were not meant for men or women, and certainly not three- and four-year-old girls.
They were all living in one of Saddam Hussein’s bombed-out bunkers. There was filthy trash everywhere, and scorpions and dangerous snakes were often seen crawling under the beds of the children. They cried. I cried.
This was the turning point in my life. I dedicated my life to trying to ensure no child ever has to suffer living under a brutal dictator, or suffer from Islamic terrorist attacks. I promised my daughter this as well. I would no longer have a badge and credentials, or the safety of having political red tape to cover for me if I made mistakes during my private research.
I was now on my own investigating Islamic terror groups and their supporters in America. The more I exposed their criminal activities, the more threats I got. I received some offers of help, but in reality, I knew the people who would be there for me were my family, which included the Al-Rehaief family.
They are Muslim, and my family and I are Christian. But we have worked together for several years to identify Islamic terrorist groups and their supporters in America. We have dedicated our lives to this cause, because we know U.S. law enforcement does not have the required training to protect our country. And politicians, for the most part, care only about their next election.
Readers should keep the name Chris Gaubatz in their memories. My son is as bright as they come, and possesses the most important trait in the intelligence field: commom sense. He is my number one asset.
In addition, I want to recognize other valuable members of my counterterrorism research team, including Charety Zhe and Stefanie Creswell, as well as Daniel, Wendy, Maryann, and Camille. They are among the many professionals who assisted in this research. And of course, special thanks to my outstanding co-author Paul Sperry, as well as WND Books’s Ami Naramor and Eric Jackson.
Personally, I owe my investigative skills and training to ret. Brigadier General Francis X. Taylor, former commander of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
General Taylor led by example, and taught me that intelligence collected for collection purposes alone is useless. The intelligence obtained serves our country only if it is utilized, shared, and not buried in political red tape.
This is the goal of our book: To share with the American people the intelligence we have gathered. Our enemy has deceit and treachery on its side. We, on our side, have the facts. And the Truth will always win.
—P. David Gaubatz
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
WHILE COUNTLESS PEOPLE deserve thanks for bringing this book to fruition, I am most indebted to Chris Gaubatz for the courage and composure he showed while operating undercover in the belly of the beast for as many months as he did. By all accounts, he was the consummate professional.
And the trove of sensitive materials he obtained from inside the dark lair of CAIR constitutes more than a bill of indictment against this terror-supporting Muslim Brotherhood front group. It provides a road map to the entire leftist, anti-American movement and its radical underground agenda.
These documents expose the larger conspiracy’s tentacles reaching into not only dozens of Islamic NGOs and hundreds of Islamic centers across the country but also their many allies on the left—from the ACLU to the DNC to the broader anti-Israel lobby to the academic establishment, and on and on. Here, for the first time, we have a clear picture of the internal workings of the Americ
a-haters and -bashers who feverishly work to undermine corporate America, the military, law enforcement, and the bedrock Judeo-Christian values upon which Western civilization was founded.
Former federal agent P. David Gaubatz and the rest of his intrepid team of undercover researchers also deserve my thanks and admiration.
Personally, this was an exceptionally difficult book to report and write due to the voluminous information and relatively quick turnaround time from manuscript to launch. The deadlines at times seemed insurmountable. But I thank my editor Ami Naramor for her patience and calm while shepherding through the detailed and fact-packed manuscript. I also thank my family for their loving support and forbearance while I was down in my book “bunker.”
Special thanks to Eric Jackson for bringing the Gaubatzes and me together on this ambitious project. I was honored they sought me out, and there was immediate synergy as I already had been investigating CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood since the publication of my book, Infiltration: How Muslim Spies And Subversives Have Penetrated Washington. This was a natural sequel—a reverse infiltration by American patriots turning the tables on the bad guys trying to infiltrate and “destroy” this great country “from within.”
My New York agent Andrew Stuart was instrumental in making this book a reality, and was a constant source of encouragement through all the heavy lifting.
I also want to acknowledge U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick, one of the few politicians in Washington who have shown the courage to confront the growing Islamofascist threat inside America. Myrick co-founded the Congressional Anti-Terrorism/Jihad Caucus to educate fellow members of Congress and the public at large about the threat from these stealth jihadists.
I’d also like to extend special thanks to the dozens of former and active law enforcement officers—in the field and on the front lines in the war on terror—who were gracious enough to share their time, experience (including internal documents), and insights with me. These FBI case agents and detectives assigned to the JTTF in Washington—unlike their timid bosses who are still slaves to political correctness and promotions—are the gutsy public servants to whom all Americans owe a debt of gratitude. Trust me when I say they care more about your safety and security than most of the politicians and political appointees in Washington. Some of these agents are mentioned by name in the book, while others spoke to me on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to publicly discuss their investigations of CAIR, ISNA, and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups.
These dedicated and no-nonsense field agents give me hope that one day we will finally dismantle the terror-support network in America and reliably protect the public from violent jihadists.
—Paul Sperry
APPENDIX
NOTES
A word about primary sourcing: The dates and modes of first-hand interviews with unnamed FBI agents and local JTTF detectives are documented extensively below. These sources requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the active investigations or open cases they are either working on or familiar with, and because they fear reprisals from management if they speak to the press.
Intermixed with these quotes are dozens of interviews on the record with former FBI agents and other key law enforcement officers. Several veteran FBI investigators and officials are quoted on the record, including: Tim Pitchford, John Guandolo, Lara Burns, John Vincent, Ben Furman, Robert Wright, and George Sadler, among others. Federal prosecutors are quoted as well, including assistant U.S. Attorneys Gordon Kromberg and Jim Jacks.
In addition to more than twelve thousand pages of exclusive documents and other material, the conclusions and allegations in this book are based on more than one hundred interviews, spanning several years, conducted with more than a dozen FBI agents and officials; half a dozen police detectives working with the JTTFs in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington, and other major cities; as well as Pentagon officials and consultants, Homeland Security officials, congressional investigators and members of Congress, and professional counterterrorism analysts and other experts.
Though numerous quotes from a particular interview may be used throughout a chapter, the interview will be cited in the notes only once to avoid repetitious citations.
PREFACE
1 Sarwat Husain, who in 2005 chaired CAIR’s San Antonio chapter, worked with Gaubatz Arabic and Counterterrorism Lecture Services training Texas Department of Public Safety troopers. Also, Saffia Meek of CAIR’s Dallas-Fort Worth chapter often lectured for Gaubatz’s company.
2 “Talking Points” memo, 2006; CAIR internal email, from Corey Saylor to Nihad Awad, 3 January 2007; “CAIR Executive Staff Meeting” memo, 3 January 2007. Also see Appendix. Beck now hosts a hit program on Fox News.
3 CAIR “Talking Points” memo, 2006.
4 CAIR email, Saylor to Awad, 3 January 2007.
INTRODUCTION
1 CAIR board meeting minutes, 5-6 January 2002, CAIR headquarters, Washington DC, 1.
2 http://umarlee.com/2009/01/22/clarification-on-the-controversy-of-my-statements-regarding-sahabah-and-jihad/
3 Ibid.
CHAPTER ONE: MUSLIMS VICTIMIZING MUSLIMS
1 CAIR Civil Rights Department, “Status Report,” Joshua Salaam, 27 June 2002, 1.
2 Email from Iqbal to Awad, et al., 11 February 2008. Also, hand-written phone message to Iqbal, 15 February 2008.
3 Undated internal CAIR ledger (computer-generated spreadsheet) listing 28 complainants and their individual claims of the “amount taken” from them by CAIR, totaling “$23,235 “so far,” 1.
4 Hand-written phone message (undated) to Iqbal describing Muslim woman’s demand that CAIR pay back “all the money” taken from her.
5 “What course of action to take – Issue with Br. Jamil and Ahmad Obaid family,” email from Iqbal to Awad, et al., 8 February 2008.
6 “Request permission to work from CAIR MD VA for the next few weeks,” email from Iqbal to Tahra Goraya, Parvez Ahmed, and Awad, et al., 11 February 2008.
7 “What course of action to take – Issue with Br. Jamil and Ahmad Obaid family.”
8 Days, who recently died of an illness, last decade served time as an inmate in Philadelphia jails. In 2001 and 2002, he pleaded guilty to DWI and other criminal offenses in Virginia. See: “CAIR ‘Lawyer’ Has Own Legal History,” IPT News, 3 December 2008. Moreover, Days signed an internal CAIR statement in March 2008 confessing: “I misrepresented to the public that I was an attorney licensed to practice law.” See also: Rene Arturo Lopez, et al., v. Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network Inc., et al., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, October 2008, 17. To wit: “Days was not and is not a lawyer. He never attended law school nor was he licensed as an attorney to practice law in any jurisdiction in the United States.” CAIR’s lawyers did not refute this statement when they filed a “motion to dismiss” the class-action lawsuit on Jan. 15, 2009.
9 CAIR ledger, 1.
10 “What course of action to take – Issue with Br. Jamil and Ahmad Obaid family.” Also, “Request permission to work from CAIR MD VA for the next few weeks.”
11 “Closing of CAIR MD VA Checklist,” undated CAIR spreadsheet, 1, 2.
12 Email from Iqbal to Awad, et al., 11 February 2008.
13 CAIR ledger, 1. Plus attached page of handwritten notes.
14 “Voluntary Agreement and Release of Claims,” 2.
15 “Anti-Hate: CAIR Refutes Racist Group’s ‘Smears,’” CAIR press release, 9 September 2008.
16 “Subject: Termination Notification,” CAIR letter to Days signed by Iqbal, 10 February 2008, 1.
17 “Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Motion to Dismiss,” Rene Arturo Lopez, et al., v. Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network Inc., et al., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, January 2009, 11.
18 Council on American-Islamic Relations MD/VA Chapter newsletter, March/April 2007, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1.
19 “Subject: Termination Notification,” 1. CAIR finall
y terminated Days on Feb. 10, 2008, following a written warning on Feb. 6, 2008. However, Days was also “informed” he was violating official policy way back on Oct. 1, 2007. He joined CAIR in June 2006. It’s not clear how many Muslim immigrants Days and CAIR helped shepherd through to citizenship over the course of his employment, or whether the Department of Homeland Security has reviewed any of those cases for possible application fraud.
20 Email from Iqbal to Awad, et al., 11 February 2008.
21 “Anti-Hate: CAIR Refutes Racist Group’s ‘Smears.’”
CHAPTER TWO: TERRORIST TURNSTILE
1 Author (Sperry) interview by phone, 1 May 2008.
2 “’Virginia Jihad’ Member Convicted of Perjury, Obstruction,” press release regarding Sabri Benkahla, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Virginia, 2.
3 U.S. v. Masoud Khan, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 4 March 2004. Also, “Two Defendants in Virginia Jihad Case Plead Guilty to Weapons Charges, Will Cooperate with Ongoing Investigation,” press release, Department of Justice, 16 January 2004, 2. CAIR’s employment records for Royer, details of which are revealed here for the first time, indicate he was first hired in July 1997 before resigning April 9, 1999, to join the jihad overseas. Then, within two months of firing live rounds at Indian targets with al-Qaida-tied terrorists in Pakistan, he was rehired by CAIR on July 10, 2000. CAIR’s national operations director Khalid Iqbal accepted his resignation letter on Oct. 1, 2001, whereby he joined the jihad against his own country. Prosecutors say Royer called LeT officials on or just before Aug. 21, 2000, to help another local Virginia terrorist join a training camp in Pakistan. They also say Royer helped other terrorists gain entry to the LeT terror-training camp following a meeting in Virginia on Sept. 16, 2001. In both instances, Royer was gainfully employed by CAIR. According to prosecutors: “Royer said that anyone who wanted to fight [with the Taliban and al-Qaida against Americans] in Afghanistan would first need to participate in military training, that the LeT camps in Pakistan were a good place to receive that training, and that Royer could facilitate their entry to the LeT camps.” Despite CAIR’s repeated denials, its former senior staffer was in fact aiding the enemy and engaging in jihadist activities while on the payroll at CAIR’s national headquarters.
