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NSA/GCHQ tactics are turned inward on citizens, and no one knows that better more than world-roving terrorists

NSA & its British counterpart GCHQ no threat to terrorists at large



Odious as it is, it’s not wholesale spying on John and Josephine Q. Public by the National Security Agency that is its biggest crime. It’s that the NSA, funded by billions to protect the public against a terrorist enemy, spends more of its time spying on ordinary citizens than it does on terrorists.
Watching every move of every citizen with impunity while terrorists, moving freely from country to country, are having a field day. When it comes to terrorism, the intelligence agencies of western countries are, United Nations-like, fast asleep at the switch.
 The Westgate Mall attack, in which 72 people were killed and hundreds more injured, proves that NSA’s British equivalent GCHQ fails the terrorist tracking smell test. The abysmal failure of both spy agencies, floated by billions of taxpayer dollars, can be clearly seen in the history of two top world terrorists still at large.

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Brit Samantha Lewthwaite, suspect mastermind of the Westgate Mall terrorist attack, has been on intelligence watch lists for the past two years. “Recent sightings of her were brought to the attention of the South African police intelligence by a security organisation linked to the local Jewish community.” (News24 News, Sept. 30, 2013). Two years is a long time on anybody’s calendar. For a parent having to watch a child die in a terrorist attack like the one at Westgate Mall, two minutes is an eternity. Even as a white woman with a stolen passport and up to four children in tow when traveling, Lewthwaite is still at large. Once listed as Number 1, and now Number 2 on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List, Adnan el Shukrijumah, is still at large some nine years later. “Since 9/11, homeland/national security officials have been on the hunt for Adnan Shukrijumah. He was most recently tied to the NYC 2010 bombing plot involving convicted Colorado jihadi Najibullah Zazi and I’ve been keeping track of his various alleged sightings for nearly 10 years now. (Michelle Malkin, May 3, 2011).
“Refresher: “Adnan Shukrijumah. Does the name ring a bell? It should if you have been a regular reader of this blog since its inception in 2004. “In August 2004, I reported on the FBI search for the high-profile fugitive and al Qaeda operative billed as the “next Mohammed Atta.” There’s been a $5 million bounty on his head for six years. He has been reportedly spotted at or near the Mexican border and allegedly has met with Latin American gangs. In 2007, his name came up in wiretaps related to the busted NYC/JFK bombing plot. Well, he’s still on the loose. And he’s still apparently hard at work on global jihad. “So, guess who may be harboring this fugitive and now-rising al Qaeda leader? “Surprise, surprise. “Rhymes with Smackistan: “He was not a member of the South Florida “sleeper” cell that plotted the 9-11 terrorist attacks, but former Broward County Community College student Adnan El Shukrijumah has risen to the top ranks of al-Qaida’s global operations, according to the Justice Department. “The Saudi-born El Shukrijumah, who studied computer science and chemistry at BCC, left his family’s home in Miramar for Trinidad the week before the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults. His whereabouts were a mystery for years. “But last July, the 35-year-old was charged along with four others in an alleged al-Qaida plot to attack New York’s subway system and targets in England.”
How serious are American and British authorities about capturing terrorists when their countries allow them such freedom in crossing borders? If you were a terrorist, how serious would you take potential capture in countries whose leaders are so blatantly terrorist simpatico? “Why does David Cameron refuse to admit that the terrorist attack in Nairobi is linked to Islam,” Melanie McDonagh asked in The Spectator on Sept. 23, 2013.
‘These appalling terrorist attacks that take place where the perpetrators claim they do it in the name of a religion – they don’t. They do it in the name of terror, violence and extremism and their warped view of the world. They don’t represent Islam or Muslims in Britain or anywhere else in the world,’ Cameron said. “But that’s precisely what these men didn’t do. They didn’t declare that their motivation was terror, violence or unspecified extremism. What they did mention, besides references to mujahedeen and kaffirs, if the Twitter messages allegedly from them are authentic, is the presence of Kenyan soldiers in Somalia. ‘The attack at Westgate mall,’ went one of them, ‘is just a very tiny fraction of what Muslims in Somalia experience at the hands of Kenyan invaders.’ So, it may well be that they are Somali patriots resentful at the presence of African Union troops in their country, but this is not to exclude religion from the picture, since they themselves go out of their way to make a point of it. “And while it is undoubtedly true that their actions were, are, abhorrent to the great majority of Muslims in Britain and elsewhere — certainly all the ones I know — it’s really not the case, is it, that they don’t represent Islam or Muslims anywhere in the world. They represent, to their own satisfaction, a strand of Islam which is very unwelcome to many moderate Muslims but which does have a basis in the religion and their understanding of it. “So why does the PM pretend otherwise? Really we’re back in post 7/7 territory, when the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, declared that Islamic terrorism would henceforth be labelled ‘anti-Islamic activity’. Certainly, the actions of extremists had a grave effect on ordinary Muslims, but this was by any reckoning an abuse of language. It failed to catch on.”
Back in the U.S., is Obama unaware that terrorists know he openly supports the Muslim Brotherhood and hires the supporters of radical Islam to high profile government posts? Would that be any deterrent for those planning acts of terrorism in the USA? The lions share of the NSA/GCHQ tactics are turned inward on the citizens of their own countries, and no one knows that better more than world-roving terrorists. Meanwhile if famed whistleblowers, like Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, want to protect humanity, they should focus their whistle-blowing on why the NSA is ignoring Islamic terrorism.


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Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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