June 9th 2009
Keeping Your Enemies Too Close?
Janet “It’s Not Terror, It’s Man-Caused Destruction” Napolitano has appointed the executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC, to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, in what appears to be a dangerous application of the adage, “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”
The appointee, Kareem Shora, heads an organization that argued against even routine security measures after 9/11, has called jihadists “heros,” has opposed labeling Hamas a terrorist organization, and has close ties to anti-Israel professor and Obama buddy Rashid Khalidi.
The council to which Shora was appointed is an outside group of “national security experts” that advises the secretary. Shora is the first Arab rights advocate on the panel – and hopefully also the first to be short on national security experience and long on jihad endorsement.
From the WND report:
Scores of senior ADC officials have expressed positive views toward terrorist organizations.
In 1994, during one of the main peaks of Hamas suicide bombings against Israeli civilians, then-ADC President Hamzi Moghrabi said, “I will not call [Hamas] a terrorist organization. I mean, I know many people in Hamas. They are very respectable. … I don’t believe Hamas, as an organization, is a violent organization.”
Discover the Networks notes that two years later, Moghrabi’s successor, Hala Maksoud, defended the Hezbollah terrorist group.
“I find it shocking,” Maksoud said, “that [one] would include Hezbollah in … [an] inventory of Middle East ‘terrorist’ groups.”
In 2000, new ADC President Hussein Ibish characterized Hezbollah as “a disciplined and responsible liberation force.”
When Israel released Hezbollah prisoners in early 2004, Imad Hamad, ADC’s Midwest Regional Director, openly celebrated the freedom of “the heroes.”
A look at the other members of the committee reveals how out of place Shora is:
William Webster (Chair), former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Gary Hart (Vice Chair), former senator and Chairman of the American Security Project.
Norman Augustine, retired Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp.
Leroy Baca, Sheriff of Los Angeles County.
Richard Cañas, Director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.
Kenneth Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Jared Cohon, President of Carnegie Mellon University, member Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
Ruth David, former CIA Deputy Director for Science and Technology.
Manny Diaz, mayor of Miami and President of the United States Conference of Mayors.
Clark Kent Ervin, Director of the Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Program.
Louis Freeh, former FBI Director.
Ellen Gordon, Associate Director and Faculty for the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
Lee Hamilton, former congressman and vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission.
Raymond Kelly, Police Commissioner of the City of New York.
John Magaw, former Under Secretary for Security at the Department of Transportation.
Jeff Moss, Founder and Director of Black Hat and DEFCON Computer Hacker Conferences.
Martin O’Malley, Governor of Maryland.
Sonny Perdue, Governor of Georgia.
Harold Schaitberger, General President of the International Association of Fire Fighters.
Joe Shirley, Jr., President of the Navajo Nation.
Lydia Thomas, board member, the Cabot Corporation, the United States Energy Association, and the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
Frances Fragos Townsend, former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.
Chuck Wexler, former assistant to the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
John Williams, Provost of The George Washington University (GWU) and Vice President for Health Affairs at the GWU Medical Center.
When these folks meet, is it wise to have a jihad fan sitting at the table, gaining intelligence, hearing their approaches to defense against terror? Maybe if you think terrorism is just man-caused destruction, but if you’re sane, Shora would not be allowed anywhere close to their meetings.
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