The below Fox News article on Anwar Awlaki's invitation to the Pentagon after 9-11 is nothing new, but Fox is publishing the invitation memo. Five months after 9-11, the Pentagon invited Anwar Awlaki-then thought to be some kind of moderate- to the Pentagon. Also invited were CAIR officials like CEO Nihad Awad. If you read Steve Emerson's Investigative Project on Terrorism, you already know about this ill-advised meeting.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/07/radical-muslim-clerics-pentagon-lunch-top-dod-lawyers-executive-director-cair/?test=latestnews?test=latestnews
"Fox News also asked whether Awad attended a fundraiser at UC Irvine on Sept. 9, 2001, for the defense of Jamil al-Amin who was later conficted of killing a sheriff's deputy in Atlanta Georgia. Documents show Awad provided a video message for the fundraising event and al-Awlaki went to the fundraiser. On Sept. 10 of that year, al-Awlaki, who has documented ties to three of the five Sept. 11 hijackers, flew back to Washington, landing on the morning of Sept. 11."
The UC-Irvine event has also been reported by Emerson and subsequently posted here as well. In addition to Awlaki, other attendees on September 9 at UC-Irvine included our old friend Muzammil Siddiqi and Alim Musa, the latter of whom spoke calling America the most criminal government on earth.
This is just another example of how our government and the media have reached out to the wrong "moderates" since 9-11. Until somebody in Washington wises up, there will be many more revelations of these ill-advised contacts.
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It wasn't an ill-advised meeting at all. It was precisely the kind of meeting they needed to be having, with people to meet with selected based on the data available at the time. It is not even clear that the man's thinking didn't change in the intervening years, but in any case, when you learn something new about a person, you drop them from your invite list, and even occasionally put them on your target list. The pundits who show off their 20/20 hindsight aren't worth one tenth what they are paid for this tripe.
Siarlys,
You must be the most contented man in the world. Nothing is ever a problem for you.
Scott Walker is a problem for me, not because someone once thought him a good man, but because he is wreaking havoc even now. (Anwar al-Awlaki is also a problem, now, because of what he quite openly advocates and does, now).
Fortunately, by July we should have a firm brake on Scott Walker. And perhaps, with such capable leadership as President Obama, Awlaki will soon meet the same fate as Osama bin Laden.
Oh yes, the National Right to Work for Less and Less and Less Committee is a problem. The problem I have with much of what you put up is, you dabble in things several years old, viewed in 20/20 hindsight, rather than, proposing something inspiring to do now.
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