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KORAN commands to kill infidels:
Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. - Sura 2:98
On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. - Sura 2:161
Slay them wherever ye find them and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. - 2:191
Fight against them until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme. (different translation: Kill them قاتلوا من فعل قتل ) - Sura 2:193 and 8:39
Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it. - 2:216

"To kill Americans and their allies, civilians, and military is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it." Osama bin Laden, Feb. 23, 1998

"The current situation in Afghanistan is related to a bigger cause — that is the destruction of America. If God's help is with us, this will happen within a short period of time — keep in mind this prediction. The real matter is the extinction of America, and God willing, it will fall to the ground." Mullah Omar, Taliban's Supreme Leader, 15 Nov., 2001

Islam, touted as a religion of "peace and tolerance" is anything but peaceful or tolerant. The avowed goal of a majority of Arab countries is the total destruction of the State of Israel, Jews, Christians and America. A religion of peace and tolerance? Not hardly.

Muslims preach tolerance only when they are a religious minority. When they achieve a religious majority, they are practically intolerant of any other religion practicing in their nations. Practicing, answering questions about, or preaching any religion other than Islam carries the death penalty in most Islamic countries. There are very few or no Christian or Catholic churches in most Arab and Islamic countries. Yet there are hundreds of mosques operating all over the world in the nations that are tolerant and peaceful.

Islam also touts itself as a religion of peace, yet their clerics regularly issue death decrees and urge all Muslims to murder foreign leaders, innocent civilians, authors, etc. for any perceived slight, real or imagined, where ever they may be. Does this sound like your average Catholic Priest conducting Mass or your local Minister giving his sermon?

Where was Islam on Sept. 11, 2001? Islam was hijacking jets and flying them into the World Trade Center Twin Towers, intentionally murdering thousands of innocent civilians from dozens of nations, including Muslims. They planned this nefarious deed for more than 2 years while they lived and learned to fly here in America.

Where was Islam on Sept. 11, 2001? Islam was hijacking a jet and crashing it into the Pentagon, killing hundreds more. Islam was hijacking a jet over Pennsylvania and heading to Washington, D.C.. Only the heroic actions of the passengers, true American patriots, prevented what could have been another cowardly terrorist attack, sacrificing themselves for America, and all Americans.

Where was Islam on Sept. 11, 2001? Hundreds of thousands of Muslims across the globe were dancing and rejoicing in the streets upon hearing of the murder of thousand of Americans. Al Jazeera, the leading satellite network in the Arab world, called it a grand day in the history of the world.

Islam is a religion of total contempt for human rights and life. Islamic clerics train and send homicide bombers and terrorists across the globe to carry out attacks on innocent civilians. Anyone who disagrees with their point of view is a potential future target of one of their homicide bombers, snipers or other assassins.

Islamic clerics regularly issue decrees (called a fatwa) demanding the death of people they believe insult Islam or their prophet. It is the religious duty to murder some people, no matter where they may be, no matter how long it takes. This is peaceful and tolerant?

This hateful religion indoctrinates their children from birth to hate and to kill Jews and Americans. They teach their children in school to hate Jews and Americans and preach of how honorable it is to murder them wherever they are. They are promised an eternity of sexual pleasure in heaven with 72 virgins (among other things) as a reward for being a homicide bomber and murdering innocent children and women.

Muslim mothers and fathers send their sons and daughters out wearing vests full of explosives studded with nails, for the express purpose of killing and maiming as many innocent civilians as possible. The Palestinian Authority (Yassir Arafat) then pays the mothers and fathers of these homicide bombers a $25,000 bounty after their son/daughter has murdered innocent Jews and/or Americans. Saddam Hussein (until April, 2003) also sent the families of homicide bombers a bounty of approx. $25,000.

Islam's holy warriors shoot elderly, handicapped men in wheelchairs, shoving the wheelchair (with the elderly man still in it) over the side of a cruise ship and laugh about it. They attack and murder numerous innocent athletes during the Summer Olympics. They kidnap Americans and hold them hostage for ransom. They operate in dozens of countries worldwide with the support of the local Muslim populations. They use their mosques as recruiting stations and as meeting rooms for planning activities.

Islam's holy warriors murder dissidents living in foreign countries. They attempt to assassinate the President of the United States. They blow up jetliners packed with innocent civilians. Their mosques collect money that is then used to pay homicide bombers families and to train more homicide bombers.. They operate terrorist training camps where they learn to shoot, kill, torture, make bombs and produce poisons. They run terrorist organizations in numerous countries seeking to destabilize governments. Remember Afghanistan and the Taliban?

Where is the condemnation of Islam's contemptible actions from Muslim leaders in America and worldwide? Answer, there is very little if any. Any condemnation is qualified with excuses about America supporting Israel, American imperialism or American colonialism. To most Muslims, Christians, Jews and Americans are fair game.

Is Islam a religion of peace and tolerance or is it a religion of hatred and intolerance? The facts seem to speak for themselves.

Islam and the truth are mutually exclusive terms. They should never be used in the same sentence together.

Palestinian militants wearing vests laden with plastic explosives blow themselves up and kill innocent civilians, children and women. Islamic militant groups proudly claim responsibility for these heinous acts. This act is repeated hundreds of times over the past 3 years in one country alone (Israel). Hundreds of innocent civilians are murdered in this fashion.

Islam touts these "homicide bombers" as being decent, honorable and peace loving Muslims. Islam then pays the family of the homicide bombers a $25,000.00 bounty for sending their children off to slaughter innocent civilians.

Muslim families dress up their babies in mock explosive vests just as Americans dress their children up in suits and dresses to wear to church. Muslim families teach their children to hate and to murder, for no other reason than to hate and to murder.

When retaliation occurs due to the heinous acts of the homicide bombers, they are usually surgical strikes, aimed at eliminating the leaders and planners of the terrorist acts. Innocent civilians are NEVER targeted for murder. Children are NEVER targeted for elimination. Old men and women are NEVER targeted for murder. This is strictly an Islamic tactic. The retaliating countries go to extraordinary lengths to not incur civilian casualties, often not even retaliating because of the chance of civilian casualties.

In retaliation for a homicide bombing that murdered 13 people recently, Israel targeted the planner of the bombing for elimination. His car was struck by 2 missiles, fired approximately one minute apart. This was captured live on video cameras. The Israeli's went to great lengths to follow the car and to minimize the risk of civilian casualties. They waited until the car was in a sparsely populated area, with no people on the streets in the immediate area.

The cameras clearly show the car being hit, then being struck by a second missile. No civilians were in the immediate area when either missile struck the car. This is clearly shown to be true on video tape of the attack. Yet, the Islamic version of events couldn't be more different.

The Palestinian Authority and Islamic media reported the missiles purposely struck a throng of civilians, murdering 70 innocent people (including women and children) and injuring hundreds, even though video evidence proves otherwise. There were NO women or children, or innocent civilians targeted, period. The Muslim world has rallied behind this LIE for two weeks now, and continually condemns Israel and their allies. There is solid proof that the Palestinians are blatantly lying, as they always do, yet the world condemns Israel for their actions. Even America's NPR takes up and supports the Palestinian's cause.

Why do Muslims continually lie, and distort the truth in every single instance of this type of action? Why do Muslims seem to be incapable of telling the truth, even if it would be in their best interest? Why can't Muslims just be honorable and honest?

Why? No one knows. But, in Islam, it is perfectly alright, and condoned to lie to, cheat, steal, rape, torture, beat, mutilate or murder "infidels". To Islam/Muslims, an infidel is anyone they don't like on any given day, for any reason of their choosing. Their hated group of infidels, though always includes Americans, Christians, Catholics, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, etc..

Does any other religion, other than Islam, condone murdering those they don't agree with? Does any other religion, other than Islam, issue edicts urging murder of innocent men, women and children? Does any other religion, other than Islam, teach their children to hate for the sake of hating? Does any other religion, other than Islam, send their children out with explosive vests to murder innocents? Does any other religion, other than Islam, pay a bounty to the parents of these "homicide bombers"?

Hateful? Intolerant? Liars? Murderers? Yes, and all with the blessing of their peaceful and tolerant God, Allah.

It is truly amazing that a religion can be so two-faced as is Islam. In Fallujah, four American contractors were burned earlier this year to the joy of Muslims worldwide. They partied, passed out candies and happily had their photos taken while mutilating the bodies. Al Jazeera showed the videos for weeks on end and exhorted Muslims to celebrate the burning and mutilation of the "infidels".

Yet when American forces burned the bodies of two dead Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan, Muslims are totally outraged at the desecration. They are stating that it is against Islam and all it stands for to burn bodies, of course without mention of the Fallujah incident they were so happy about.

The military started its inquiry into the incident last month after TV footage showed U.S. soldiers using the cremation to taunt other Islamic militants — an act that sparked outrage in Afghanistan and the entire Muslim world.

The soldiers involved are being disciplined but are not being charged with a crime because they burned the body for hygienic concerns. Corpses can become disease ridden and spread disease easily. Cremation is a quick sanitary way to dispose of bodies in a rocky, frozen ground as is found in Afghanistan where digging a grave often requires the use of a backhoe.

Islam bans cremation and considers it a serious crime to burn any body for any reason.

What the American soldiers did was culturally insensitive and offensive to Muslims, and they should be reprimanded, not jailed.

What the "good Muslim people" of Fallujah did was more of a crime. Not only did they burn the bodies, they then mutilated them, hung them from a bridge, poked holes in them with sticks and tools, dismembered them a piece at a time and committed what can be considered crimes against humanity.

Why is what the Muslims did a "good thing" to Muslims, but the Americans did a "bad thing"? Just another example of the workings of the Muslim majority. Whatever they do is good, whatever America does is bad.

We build schools and hospitals in Iraq and it is a "bad" thing. They use schools and hospitals as weapons storage depots and as a forward bases of military operations, that's a "good" thing. We kill terrorists and it's a "bad" thing. The terrorists kill innocent women and children and it's a "good" thing.

The Muslims need to come to grips with the evil elements of their religion, and quickly. Things can only go so far before there is all out war against their violent religion. They are alienating the US, Britain, France, Russia, Jordan, Israel, Australia, China and a host of other countries, Islamic and other religions, with their actions.

On January 9th, top representatives of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, joined a religious convention headed by the General Secretary of the Hezbollah, Hassan Nasser Alla in Beirut.

The conference was attended by Muslim clerics from Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, Sudan, The Arab Emirates, Morocco, Algeria and Jordan. The next day, the participants issued an official declaration in support of suicide bombings against Israel, stating that “the suicide attacks against Israel are legitimate according to the Koran.” Suicide attacks, they stated, are “a strategic weapon which enable us to regain the strategic balance with the Zionist enemy”(1)
This conference, and its vehement endorsement of suicide terrorism, should be seen against the backdrop of Lebanon’s rejection of a call by the United States on January 11th to crack down on the militant Hezbollah movement, which had vowed to continue attacks against Israel.

U.S. National Security Adviser Condolezza Rice told the private Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. the previous day that “the Lebanese government should do with Hezbollah what the United States and other governments are doing with other terrorist organizations: freezing assets, not allowing them to operate freely, not allowing them to run arms freely, not allowing their territory to be used as sanctuary.”(2) The U.S. State Department accused the Iranian-backed group of involvement in the arms-smuggling ship intercepted by Israeli forces in the Red Sea. Hezbollah has not denied the charge, but has said that none of the crew were members of the organizations.

Meanwhile, Lebanese Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud rejected the labeling of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. “We know the U.S. viewpoint (on Hezbollah) and it is not new. We stick to our position, which considers the resistance a legitimate right for all countries whose lands are occupied. Lebanon still has a part of its territory under occupation,” Hammoud told reporters.(3) However, Hzballah’s activities have long been viewed with concern by the United States. The organization has been involved in numerous attacks against Americans in Lebanon, and against Jews in other countries. In 1983, the organization carried out the suicide truck bombing of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. servicemen. Militant Shiite Muslims linked to Hezbollah are also believed to have been involved in the kidnapping of scores of Americans, Frenchmen, Britons, Germans and other foreigners in Lebanon during the same period.

Last week’s convention of Islamic clerics thus comes at an interesting time. Nor is it purely coincidental that the Islamist terrorist groups in the disputed territories chose to step up their activities last week. There may well be a connection between the radical Islamic statement published in Beirut and the attack by Hamas militants on a military outpost in southern Israel, shattering a three-week cease-fire and killing four Israeli Bedouin soldiers. It would seem more than a coincidence that on the same day that the Beirut statement was published, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad announced that it was scrapping a deal with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to halt attacks in Israel. In an announcement on January 10th, the group’s “Jerusalem Brigades” declared that they would no loner adhere to their understanding with the PA, reached after a December 16 cease-fire call made by Arafat under international pressure, and would reserve their right to continue the jihad “to the last drop of blood in our veins.” While a senior Islamic Jihad representative said the group would “not necessarily” resume attacks, “There is no justification to keep our hands tied behind our backs as Sharon is continuing his massacres against us.”

Recently, Palestinian security officers have complained that Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists often provoke confrontations when PA security forces attempt to arrest them. They also refuse to give themselves up to the Palestinian Police, despite agreements between the PA’s security services and the groups’ leaders. One Palestinian source said it is possible the leadership of Hamas and Islamic Jihad abroad are trying to create trouble for the PA and U.S. peace efforts.

Conclusions
The Beirut convention of Islamic clerics may well put Lebanon in the spotlight of the U.S. administration’s anti-terror campaign. Not only did the convention endorse suicide terrorism as the method by which “the Muslim world defends its honor and dignity,” it also came out strongly against the inclusion of any of the Islamist groups on the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorist organization.

Meanwhile, the U.S. has already warned publicly that those regimes that sponsor terrorists will not escape punishment, even if the process goes on for months or years. Not only does the U.S. regard Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, but the FBI has added the former head of Hezbollah’s operational wing, Imad Mughniya, to the agency’s “most wanted list.” All of this should signal to Hezbollah’s sponsors—Lebanon, Syria, and Iran—that the days when the U.S. could accept attacks on civilians as a political tool are over. In fact, those days came to an end on 11 September 2001.

If these steps are to have any meaning, the U.S. will have to demand that Syria, the main powerbroker in Lebanon, cease its support to the terrorist organizations on the American list. This will mean dismantling the military, political, logistical and propaganda infrastructures of these organizations in Syria and Lebanon. The Syrian regime may also be held accountable for the arrest, trial and/or extradition of wanted terrorists. The bottom line will be that these groups and the states that sponsor them will be forced to adopt a new strategic approach, turning to negotiations and dialog for solutions to the present conflict, rather than terrorism and violence. Whether the governments of Syria, Lebanon, or Iran will be equal to this task remains to be seen.

Muslims supposedly pride themselves on "honor". This is, theoretically at least, one of their time honored traditions that they take very seriously, or so they "say". But then again, Muslims preach one thing, and do another.

The Geneva Convention lays out the rules for warfare. Some of those accepted rules are:

So the Islamic fighters in Iraq (and elsewhere all over the world) routinely use women and children as "human shields" and fire upon their "enemies" from behind them.

Islamic fighters routinely use mosques, schools and hospitals to conduct offensive fire from. They then cry "foul" when fire is returned. When a mosques is used as a firebase, it loses it's status as "untouchable". They also store weapons and ammunition in these "off limit" facilities.

The "honorable" Islamic fighters routinely move soldiers, ammo and weapons in ambulances and Red Cross convoys to avoid detection. They have been caught numerous times, yet they routinely use ambulances for these purposes. Does the Muslim community say one word about this abhorrent behavior? Not one word.

After the murderous bombing of Americans in Saudi Arabia this past spring (2005), what comments did the Egyptian daily, Al-Akhbar have to make? Please read carefully, and note the third comment.

Wake up America! This is the mindset of Islam and most Muslims. We are not real humans, we are but lowly animals, not worthy of living and breathing the same air as them. They consider all Americans and Jews to be sub-human, like a cockroach. Peaceful and tolerant Muslims are showing their true colors again. Their hatred and intolerance are showing, again and again.

Of course, the Dems, liberals and other leftists prefer that we bow to Islam and "be their friend", no matter what heinous acts they perpetrate. Hey, it's only a few thousand Americans that Islam/Muslims have murdered so far. If Islam ever takes over America, the leftists and media will be the first ones that go "missing". Islam has no use for freedom of the press, freedom of speech, etc.. But the left is too stupid to realize the truth. Their little dream world is full of lollipops, candy, ice cream and nice children murdering terrorists. There are no bad people except for the Americans.

John Kerry states we will have to pass the "Global Test", meaning we need France and the UN's permission to defend ourselves. He would prefer the total destruction of our way of life rather than possibly offend Islam.

We have received many emails regarding our stance about Islam being violent, intolerant and hateful religion. Many of these emails put forth the "theory" that Islam is violent at this time only because of the threats from Israel and America. Many of these emails contain threats of violence and death. This is peaceful and tolerant?

Muslims can't even write an email without wanting to commit acts of violence! Need we say more about the average Muslim? Muslims are incapable of holding a peace rally without resorting to violence and murder.

Many of the emails push the lie that the acts of violence attributed to Muslim terrorists are actually committed by American soldiers dressed as Muslims. Is there really anyone that believes this is true? And why would we?

If Israel didn't exist, and America was a Muslim country, none of the current violent acts being carried out by Islam/Muslims would be required. Required? Where does it state Israel and America cannot exist? Only in most Mosques.

Tell me, "peaceful and tolerant" Islamists/Muslims, answer the following questions honestly, even though honesty, truth and honor are not your strong points.

1. When was the last time Christians, Baptists, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus or any religion except Islam hijacked airliners and rammed them into office buildings?
Answer: NEVER!

2. When was the last time Christians, Baptists, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus or any religion except Islam strapped vests full of explosives onto their children and sent them to murder innocent women and children so that they could collect a $25,000 bounty?
Answer: NEVER!

3. When was the last time Christians, Baptists, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus or any religion except Islam issued "death decrees" (i.e. fatwa's) ordering all them to murder Muslims where ever they could find them?
Answer: NEVER!

4. When was the last time Christians, Baptists, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus or any religion except Islam indiscriminately killed innocent children, women and men using car bombs?
Answer: NEVER!

5. When was the last time Christians, Baptists, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus or any religion except Islam savagely saws the heads off of innocent civilians, tape the murders, publish and brag that they did it for their "God"?
Answer: NEVER!

6. And since the purported reason behind many of the acts of violence committed by Islam/Muslims is because of the "occupation" of Palestine, when was the last time in the past 20 years that any Islamic country invited the Palestinians into their country?
Answer? NEVER!

7. When was the last time Christians, Baptists, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus or any religion except Islam invaded a grade school, took hundreds of children hostage and raped them? Tortured them? Shot them in the back? Murdered hundreds of them?
Answer? NEVER!

Only ONE religion condones these actions, and it is Islam. Most Muslims are complicit in these actions, morally, financially and spiritually. They support these terrorist groups by contributing money weekly in their mosques, or terrorist support centers, whichever you prefer to call them. They know where the money is going.

Islam touts itself to be a religion of "peace and tolerance". Islam runs hundreds of charities and other beneficial organizations in many countries. Islam has mosques in over a hundred countries of the world. Islam's foundational principles are decent, honorable and beneficial to society as a whole. Islam used to be peaceful and tolerant.

There are hundreds of millions of peaceful and tolerant Muslims in the world today, but they not only refuse to refute the more radical form of Islam that has hijacked their religion, they tacitly support them. Thousands of mosques collect money that is then promptly funneled to terrorists. The Muslim people themselves and their religious leaders support the terrorists morally, financially and spiritually. This is not a localized, it is worldwide, in every country where Islam exists.

In reality and as it's generally practiced now, Islam is showing itself to be a religion of mindless violence and extreme intolerance. Women are treated especially harshly under Islamic rule. They are strictly 2nd class citizens. The Islamic mantra is convert to Islam or die.

Today's Islam is being perverted by those who choose to murder and plunder rather than live in peace and harmony, and they do it in the name of their God. Muslim people as a whole are very righteous, it is Islam that is murderous and hateful. Islam is being used as a license to kill anyone, anywhere, at anytime. This is peaceful and tolerant?

"To kill Americans and their allies, civilians, and military is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it." Usama bin Laden, Feb. 23, 1998

Usama Bin Laden. Remember him? He is one of the most beloved Muslims in the world. A poll conducted in June, 2003 showed that a clear majority of Muslims worldwide said they trusted Usama Bin Laden to do the right thing in world affairs over George Bush and Tony Blair. This is today's Islam. Dedicated. Deliberate. Deadly.

In peaceful and tolerant mosques and Islamic centers across the globe you hear the call to take up arms and kill the infidels, calls of "jihad". The Imams tell their young men they will get a lifetime of sexual bliss with 72 virgins, and all they have to do is kill Jews, Americans, or Christians. They incite them to hatred, violence, murder and acts of terrorism, with the promise of sex.

Peaceful and tolerant Islamic clerics regularly issue "fatwa's", ordering indiscriminate murders. Americans. Christians. Jews. Children. Women. Old men. Kill them wherever they are. Kill them at every opportunity. It is the duty of every "good Muslim" to do murder. Does Christianity have any mantra like this? I think not. Does Judaism? Nope. What about Catholics? Sorry. It is Islam that orders murder and mayhem, children to be tortured and slaughtered in front of their parents, bombings and much more.

Ask author Salmon Rushdie about his life on the run from a "fatwa" issued by peaceful and tolerant Islamic clerics from around the world in the late 1980's. He has been on the run and in hiding from Islamic assassins since that time. Assassins sent by peaceful and tolerant Islamic leaders.

On Jan. 9, 2003, top Muslim clerics worldwide endorsed continued homicide bombings against the infidels. They state that murders are sanctioned and ordered by the Koran, their peaceful and tolerant holy book. Indiscriminate murder of women, children and other innocents they affirm, are “a strategic weapon which enable us to regain the strategic balance with the enemy".

Peaceful and tolerant young Muslims growing up today are inundated with teachings of hatred. Murder the infidel Jews, Americans and Christians. This is all that they know. It is not their fault they hate so many, so much. Blame those that lead the Islamic faith. They have failed their people miserably.

Nearly every country in the world is infested with these peaceful and tolerant Muslims that are committed to the destruction of freedom, liberty and human rights.

Peaceful and tolerant Muslim men fly passenger jets into skyscrapers murdering thousands, including other Muslims and peoples of all faiths.

Peaceful and tolerant Muslim men and women blow themselves up in crowds, restaurants and on buses full of innocent women and children, murdering indiscriminately.

And after they murder people? Muslim leaders award a "bounty" payment of $25,000 to the families of homicide bombers if they result in the deaths of Jews, Americans, Christians, children, women or men. This "bounty" is for each homicide bomber. Peaceful and tolerant Muslim families can make a decent income by sending their children to their death while killing other children.

Peaceful and tolerant Muslim charities and mosques send of millions of dollars to Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Al Fatah, Hamas and many other peaceful and tolerant organizations so that they may continue their murderous activities. They do this knowing what the money is being used for.

Islam's peaceful and tolerant reply to the "Road Map to Peace" that was recently accepted by the Palestinian prime minister and Israel was to send 5 peaceful and tolerant homicide bombers into Israel to murder innocent civilians. The Islamic extremists absolutely refuse to recognize or make peace with Israel.

Many peaceful and tolerant Islamic clerics and Arab leaders vow that the murders, terrorist attacks and bombings will continue as long as there are Jews, Americans or Christians living anywhere in the world. Every day you see on cable TV, or in the newspaper that another devout, peaceful and tolerant Muslim is carrying out an act of terror, kidnapping, murder, bombing, hijacking, etc.. They are just doing what they have been told to do by their religious leaders.

Let's look at three very popular figures in the Arab world, Usama Bin Laden, Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein. To most educated people they are a psychopathic mass murderer, a homicidal master terrorist and a brutal, sadistic dictator that murdered 1½ million people. To Muslims they are a holy man, a freedom fighter and a great protector of Arab rights, peaceful and tolerant all.

Peaceful and tolerant? We are still trying to ascertain who Islam is peaceful towards and what Islam is tolerant of.

Louis Gene Walcott Farrakhan is not a Muslim, nor is his doctrine Islam. Farrakhan is the leader of a black racist cult called "the Nation of Islam," (NOI) founded in Detroit, Michigan in the 1930's. While the group calls its followers Muslims, in reality, they have very little to do with the faith of Islam. Islam believes in the total transcendence of almighty God (called in Arabic, Allah), the NOI teaches that black people are angelic gods. Islam maintains universal brotherhood, the NOI says that Islam is for blacks only. Islam teaches that prophethood ended with Muhammad ibn Abdullah, more than 1400 years ago. The NOI teaches that Farrakhan's teacher, Elijah Muhammad, is the last prophet. Islam teaches principles of spiritual and moral decorum such prayer, fasting, charity, pilgrimage, etc., Elijah Muhammad cast these out or altered them beyond recognition.

Yet, it is an error to oversimplify the issue by denouncing Farrakhan's racist diatribes while playing down Farrakhan's God-is-a-man and Prophet-after-Muhammad beliefs. Racism has very little to do with the issue. Sure, racism is contrary to Islamic principles and Islam rejects it. However, the deviation of Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan are MUCH more serious than racism. It is the sin which Allah DOES NOT forgive. If Farrakhan would leave his man-is-god and prophet-after-Muhammad beliefs, but was still a raving racist, he would be much better off than the other way around! Let me say very clearly, that there is NO ideology on the face of this earth which could be farther from Islam than that of Louis Farrakhan. NONE!

The NOI's origins are found in

(a) two black self-improvement movements that began shortly before World War I: the "Moorish Science Temple of America," founded in 1913 by Timothy Drew, and the "Universal Negro Improvement Association," founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey.

(b) the NOI was also shaped by a Depression-era con-man, and convicted drug dealer, Wallace Dodd Ford. Upon Ford's 1929 release from California's San Quentin Prison, he moved to Detroit to start a new life. Ford used a number of names, including Wali Farad and Master Fard and claimed to be from Mecca, Arabia. Being that Ford's parentage was a mixture of white and South Pacific Maori, he used his skin color and his prison con skills to pass himself off to blacks as a "mystic" and a "prophet" from the Middle East.

Working as a door-to-door rug salesman by day, Ford blended the ideas of Garvey and Drew along with a smattering of Islam, to form what would later become the Nation of Islam. Among his first students was an unemployed Georgia migrant worker, Elijah Poole, who Ford renamed "Elijah Muhammad." In later years, Ford disappeared and Elijah assumed leadership of the NOI which he held until his death in 1975.

Elijah developed an convoluted belief system based on ideas extracted from everything from Christianity to Masonry to Islam. He elevated Ford's status to that of the Creator of the heavens and earth, and he developed a myth which he dubbed, "Yacub's History." This racist doctrine is still maintained by Louis Farrakhan.

In brief, the doctrine states that the first humans, a race of black people, whom the NOI calls 'the Original Man,' created white people in a genetic experiment 6,000 years ago. Elijah claimed that they (the whites) would rule the world for 6,000 years and then be destroyed at the 'end of their time' by the blacks. He said that 'Judgment Day' means that at the 'end of time' the Gods (i.e., blacks) would destroy the entire white race (devils) and then establish a Paradise (nation) on this earth ruled forever by the blacks (i.e., Gods).

For a number of years, Farrakhan has managed to present himself as a champion for the oppressed masses, this also is a distortion. Like his teacher, Farrakhan has for more than 35 years engaged in hoodwinking blacks out of money in the name of black self improvement. The only self-improvement however, that has taken place has been for Farrakhan's family and their associates.

Additionally, his entire inspiration for the "Million Man March" is based on his alleged, "vision of being swept into a UFO that took him to a larger mothership." While in the UFO, he claims to have spoken to the late Elijah Muhammad before being beamed back to earth. (The Washington Post, Sept. 18, 1995, p. D3).

What many do not realize, is that Farrakhan has repeated this doctrine for more than 35 years! Indeed, Farrakhan's UFO "vision" is an inseparable, doctrinal link to the heretical claims of Elijah Muhammad. Elijah explained that blacks were originally, "moon people" and that the UFO "mother wheel" was piloted by 13 youths who perpetually orbited the earth, waiting to unleash global destruction on whites, while rescuing all blacks. Farrakhan to this day, teaches this same doctrine- his inspiration for the Million Man March. The Million Man March in fact, was planned with the following goals in mind:

(a) To hold it in Washington, and aim for a turnout of one million, so as to surpass the number of attendees at Martin Luther King's 1963 March on Washington, and thereafter be promoted as being greater than Dr. King and Malcolm X.

(b) By being mentioned in the same context with Dr. King, Farrakhan hopes to be remembered likewise as a charismatic, messianic black figure who commands a large and politically significant following among US blacks.

(c) To remove the cloud of suspicion which still surrounds Farrakhan regarding his involvement in Malcolm X's assassination.

(d) Most importantly, Farrakhan has to find a new way to pay for his and his family's ornate palaces in Chicago and Phoenix, his Lexus, Mercedes, Rolls Royce and Lincoln Town Cars, a Mexican villa, a new 77-acre Michigan estate and over $1.5 million dollars in unpaid back taxes. This is the reason he had an $11 registration fee, a $3.99 per minute 900 number for call-in registration (Average call is three minutes), a $700 vendor's fee, (reduced from $1000), and even ads in his newspaper soliciting for "donations" to "help defray the astronomical costs of the march," in exchange for listing the donor's name and city under appropriate categories (Platinum, Gold, etc.): $1000 or more (Platinum), $500 or more (Gold), $100 or more (Silver), $25 or more (Patron) not to mention $2 "special issues" of his 'Final Call' newspaper. Louis. A true high-tech con-man. You want to see Louie's real vision?: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

It is thus impossible for anyone to try to make a distinction between Farrakhan and his UFO inspiration, or "endorse the goals of the march without endorsing Farrakhan," or say that Farrakhan is greater than Malcolm X. Malcolm's greatness was as a result of his renouncement of Elijah's false teachings, and his acceptance of true Islam, factors which Farrakhan has yet to achieve.

ISLAM, and so-called NATION OF ISLAM, are two different religions. The only thing common between them is the jargon, the language used by the both. The Nation of Islam is a misnomer; this religion should be called Farrakhanism, after the name of its propagator. The religion of Elijah Muhammad and W.D. Fard died with their death because their officially and popularly elected successor, W.D. Muhammad, integrated the community with the Muslim community at-large, following the Quran and Hadith of Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Louis Farrakhan joined W.D. Muhammad and gave his pledge of allegiance to him after Elijah Muhammad's death; he later rebelled and broke his oath with impunity, or without paying any expiation, and restarted The Nation of Islam.

Examine the following comparisons between Islam and Farrakhanism with regard to the belief or practice in each:

BELIEF/PRACTICE

1. GOD/ALLAH ALONE

ISLAM: One Unique, never appeared in any physical form; hence, no physical representation is possible. He is recognized through his 99 names.
FARRAKHANISM: ...Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July 1930; the long awaited Messiah of the Christians and the Mahdi of the Muslims.

2. PROPHET/MESSENGER

ISLAM: Muhammad (S) is the last Prophet and the last Messenger. No messenger or prophet will come after Muhammad (S).
FARRAKHANISM: Elijah Muhammad was a Messenger of Allah. Are there any more messengers or prophets to come? Not clear.

3. THE LAST DAY/THE LIFE HEREAFTER

ISLAM: The life on earth as we know it will come to an end; it will be followed by the life hereafter which includes physical resurrection of the entire humankind, judgement and the life of paradise or hell.
FARRAKHANISM: ...BELIEVE in the resurrection of the dead - not in physical resurrection, but in mental resurrection. No already physically dead person will be in the Hereafter; that is slavery belief, taught to slaves to keep them under control. When you are dead, you are DEAD.

4. THE QURAN (KORAN)

ISLAM: It was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (S) between 610 and 632 C.E.
It is the last revelation of Allah to mankind.
FARRAKHANISM: Contradictory beliefs. On one side, ...BELIEVE in the Holy Quran and in the scriptures of all the Prophets of God, and on the other side, We, the original nation of the earth ... are the writers of the Bible and Quran. We make such history once every 25,000 years ... it is done by twenty-four of our scientists. Both the present Bible and the Holy Quran must soon give way to the Holy Book...

5. THE BIBLE

ISLAM: It was revealed to prophets and messengers from Moses (alaihis salam) to Jesus (A) but was corrupted. Authenticity of statements in the Bible are judged by the Quran.
FARRAKHANISM: (See their beliefs above regarding the Quran)

6. SHAHADAH

ISLAM: It means what it says, that is, Allah is Unseen, He is the Creator, the Sustainer. Mankind is accountable to Him Alone, and Prophet Muhammad (S) of Arabia is the final and ultimate ROLE MODEL; no one can substitute for him.
FARRAKHANISM: A cover up to deceive gullible Muslims. Allah (God) appeared in the person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, and Muhammad of Arabia (S) was one of the prophets, not a role model for our times. The real role model and lawgiver for our times is Elijah Muhammad.

7. SALAH

ISLAM: Five times a day is required; SALAH (prayer) includes QIYAM (standing), RUKU (bowing), SAJDA (prostration), JALSA (sitting on the floor) and recitations.
FARRAKHANISM: No five times daily SALAH (prayer); prayer, when done has no RUKU or SAJDA. Friday is a major congregational prayer day, not for SALAH, but to say DUA and to listen to a Minister.

8. ZAKAH (CHARITY)

ISLAM: Required on accumulated wealth after having in possession for one year above the NISAB (certain limits), as defined in SHARIA (Islamic law).
FARRAKHANISM: It is a tax as poor due on income, similar to income tax.
Who benefits?

9. SAWM (FASTING)

ISLAM: Fasting is required in the month of Ramadan, ninth month of Islamic calendar.
FARRAKHANISM: Fasting is required in December only. Fasting in the month of Ramadan is optional.

10. HAJJ

ISLAM: Required once in a lifetime if conditions of finances, health, and safety of travel are met.
FARRAKHANISM: No Hajj requirement. Farrakhan and his cronies take trips to Saudi Arabia, and by the way, to Makkah (Mecca) for the main purpose of image building and to raise funds from gullible rich Arabs.

11. LAWFUL (HALAL); UNLAWFUL (HARAM)

ISLAM: Determined by Allah, the God Alone, announced in the Quran or by the Prophet Muhammad (S), recorded in the authentic Hadith sources.
FARRAKHANISM: Determined by W.D. Fard and announced by Elijah Muhammad. The Quran and Prophet Muhammad have no relevance nor authority with regard to lawful and unlawful.

12. AUTHENTIC HADITH

ISLAM: An indispensable source of Islamic beliefs and practices, the only source after the Quran. Indispensable for the understanding of the Quran itself.
FARRAKHANISM: Ignored, if not totally rejected by Farrakhanis. However, the leadership, including Farrakhan himself, may invoke Hadith if it suits their purpose to fool gullible Muslims.

In the past two weeks Russian has experienced the horrible hate and violence of the "peaceful and tolerant" Muslims in our midst. They have come to realize what we have been telling them for years, that Islam must be contained. It must be cleansed. There is no more time to play games with this murderous religion and it's blood lust.

The US realized this on 9-11-2001, but the rest of the world called us "reactionary", "war crazed" and much worse. Michael Moore still insists is America that is the greatest danger to world peace, that America is murderous and a terrorist nation.

How many terrorist attacks has America planned and perpetrated? How many planes have we run into buildings? How many buses full of women and children have we blown up? How many schoolchildren have we held hostage and then tortured, raped and murdered? Answers: None. None. None. None.

Let us check out the Islamic terrorist actions of the past 2½ weeks in just one country, Russia. Two Russian planes blown out of the sky killing 90 innocents. A Russian bus exploding 10 killing innocents. Then, the most heinous of crimes, torturing and murdering nearly 350 innocents, including about 200 SCHOOL CHILDREN in the name of their "God". Almost 500 people murdered in 2½ weeks in just one country, all in the name of the "peaceful and tolerant" Allah.

And then there is Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia, Israel and a host of other countries that are under attack from Islam, every day of every week of every year.

What God glorifies the torture and murder of innocent children? ALLAH is the only supposed "God" that murders children with glee and promises of virgins and unbridled sex in heaven. This is the "God" Muslims worship and follow commands from. Allah wishes all children and women and men that are non-Muslim to die like filthy rats. Yet they profess themselves to be peaceful and tolerant.

And their allies, the US leftist press, reports the Muslim murderers as separatists, freedom fighters, militants, captors, rebels, gunmen, poor lost souls, etc., when in actuality they are Muslims murdering children in the name of their "God". Two large articles in the USA Today on Sept. 7th about the horrible murder of the school children, and NOT ONE MENTION OF ISLAM OR MUSLIMS. Nope, they are freedom fighters, killing for a noble cause, plain and simple.

And naturally, most Muslims make lame excuses for their murdering deeds. Excuses such as, "America supports Israel", and the " the way America treats the poor downtrodden Palestinians" and the " unfair US policies". Blah blah blah. Yada yada yada. And this is reason enough to murder 200 children? Yes, good enough for Allah!

Now do any of you remember reading anything like that in your newspaper over the weekend? You didn't, and neither did I. We didn't read such a story because something like that didn't happen .. and hasn't happened since Islamic jihadists declared war on the West. We will never read a story like this. Only a couple of Islamic leaders denounced the murder of the children, and even then there was always the "but the poor treatment of the Palestinians and US policies are at fault"..... blah blah blah

If there were no Palestinians (a noble thought), the "peaceful and tolerant" Muslims would still murder innocents, because this is what they do. It is fun and sport to them, not survival. Survival is working, supporting your family, providing for them. Not sending your sons and daughter out to blow themselves up with homicide vests. Not murdering schoolchildren. Not blowing up planes.

The entire Palestinian issue is a smokescreen, an alibi, an excuse. Why don't they spend their millions on the "poor Palestinians" instead of homicide vests, bombs, missiles, grenades and guns? Why don't the Muslims educate their children to achieve greatness instead of blowing up schoolchildren, running jets into building and setting off car bombs? Why?

Because they HATE our culture, our political system, our social structure. Why? Because they cannot match our greatness and humanity. So they settle for destruction, it is much easier to achieve than construction.

If the truth be known, most Muslims hate the Palestinians because they are a bunch of thieves, thugs, and criminals. They have been kicked out of every country that ever tried to give them refuge, because they act like animals and are murdering thieves. Their crazed leader, Arafat, is a murderer of children and women also. But this is who the Muslims always use as an excuse to murder innocent women and children. The "poor Palestinians".

Islam's followers only care about murdering, raping, torturing, mutilating and creating mayhem against innocents. This is the "peaceful and tolerant" Islam as it is being practiced today. Behind all the lies, there is a great truth. Islam is "intolerant and violent", without respect to anyone for any reason. Where is the huge Muslim outcry against the horrible deeds that Islamists have perpetrated in the name of Allah?

There is NO CONDEMNATION! Only rejoicing over the deaths of innocent children, innocent women and innocent men. They party in the streets, pass out candy, dance (which is forbidden in most Muslim societies unless you are celebrating the death of infidels re: Innocent children and women) and rejoice over the deaths of 200 schoolchildren.

Over 200 schoolchildren were killed by those Islamic thug terrorists in Russia on Friday. Many children were shot in the back as they were trying to flee. Doctors have verified that the Muslim terrorists raped many of the teenage girls. The New York Times reported on one child who walked up to one of his captors to ask for a glass of water. Without so much as a second thought the "peaceful and tolerant Islamic freedom fighter" (otherwise known as another murdering Muslim thug) ran the child through with his bayonet.

Murdered a child for asking for a drink of water? What a brave Muslim that is! Just another day to a Muslim. Remember, the dead children were not Muslim. Only Muslims should be allowed to exist on our planet according to the Koran. The children were just children, innocent and carefree, until they were tortured, raped and murdered by the "peaceful and tolerant" Muslims.

There are also reports of Al Qaeda involvement with the Islamic terrorists who murdered these kids. 10 of the dead "freedom fighters" were from Arab countries and had ties to Usama bin Laden's group. This is the same Usama bin Laden that receives spiritual, financial and moral support from hundreds of millions of "peaceful and tolerant" Muslims from around the world.

Let's call a spade a spade. There are NO "peaceful and tolerant" Muslims. They all want one thing. You dead. Your sons and daughters dead. Your brothers and sisters dead. Your mother and father dead. Your extended family dead. Your neighbors dead. Your friends dead. There is no middle ground with the Muslim animals.

The time has come to give them what they want. Their ultimate goal is to meet Allah, correct? Let's assist them! Very simple! A few well placed nukes, and most of the world's problems are solved. It may sound cruel, but Islam is dedicated to murdering all non-Muslims. Once again, there is NO MIDDLE GROUND!

There is no negotiating with these people, there is not a "sensitive" way to deal with them. Islamic terrorists must be sought out, identified and destroyed. The ONLY thing they understand is the application of brute force, even though John Kerry says he will fight a more "sensitive" war against terrorists. How is that John?

Offer up our children to them as sacrificial lambs? Offer them Koolaid and candy? Give them the virgins of America? John, you took too many trips to Cambodia. They do have that good smokin' stuff there don't they? Oh, that's right, you never really were in Cambodia, sorry.....

This whole thing about Islam being a wonderful religion of peace is starting to wear a bit thin. It may well be that the vast majority of devout Muslims in the world simply want to live their lives in accordance with their religious teachings without violence and without bothering anyone else.

If that is so, then those peace loving Muslims are going to have to show that they are as disgusted, distressed and fed up with the actions of Islamic terrorists as the rest of us are. Instead, I suspect that what we will see is more condemnation of those who cross the politically correct line and identify the murdering terrorists for what they are .... Muslims.

The sad truth is that this will never happen, because Muslims (save for a very few) want us all dead, plain and simple. Remember, these are the same Muslims that worshiped and loved the Taliban. Read about Islam's beloved Taliban by clicking here.

What has happened to Islam? The Islamic world once was the center of learning in the entire world. Muslim scholars preserved the classic texts of Mediterranean civilization during Europe's Dark Ages. Then the Islamic world made centuries of bad decisions, closing its intellectual gates against the social and intellectual progress that fostered the West's ascent to power and wealth.

Islam once boasted splendid universities, the envy of the world. Today, even the few Middle Eastern universities that offer some hope hardly rise to the level of a third-rate U.S. community college.

A millennium ago, Islam ruled much of this earth — not just with arms, but with knowledge and culture — while the West lay mired in ignorance. Now the situation is reversed. And, instead of laboring to become competitive again, the most dynamic forces in the Muslim world have declared knowledge their enemy. They wish to plunge the entire world into the Dark Ages ages once more, as they are now.

It is up to the educated, peaceful and tolerant people of the world (this does not include the Muslims!) to stop the spread of Islamic murder, rape, mutilation and torture. We have a choice, kill or be killed, it is very simple. What do we choose?

The young US Marine that shot a supposedly wounded terrorist to death in the spring of 2005 is being crucified by the media. The media in the Middle East, the media in Europe and the media in America. Why? For doing his job. For doing what he was trained to do, which is to kill "bad guys". Enemies of our great country. For this he should receive a medal, but what he is receiving is death threats, hate mail and the wrath of the world's elitist media.

No, they are touched, ecstatic actually, that a US Marine is being called on the carpet over the death of a terrorist that was dedicated to all of the heinous acts and devices described above.

Several things stand out in this incident (and others) that the media is refusing to report.

Granted, the media would rather see US Troops die, and not any terrorists, but the reality is both sides lose men. This is the nature of war. Sooner or later, CBS, NBC, NPR, ABC, CNN, etc. will have to answer for their selective outrage. At some point the American people will come to collect.

Footnote: The Marine was found not guilty at his trial. What else did you expect? Guess what liberals? People die in war, and the enemy of the US Marines die in much larger quantities than the Marines themselves. This is due to excellent training and execution of their orders.

American Airlines Flight 11 was in line for takeoff from Logan International Airport, the passengers already reminded to turn off personal electronic devices, when Mohamed Atta, in seat 8D in first class, dialed his cell phone for the last time.

The call rang aboard another sparsely occupied jetliner a bit farther back on the same tarmac, on a cell phone belonging to Marwan Al-Shehhi, in seat 6C on United Airlines Flight 175.

The conversation between the two men, so close that they called each other cousin, lasted less than one minute -- just long enough, investigators say, to signal that the plot was on.

That simple communication was the culmination of months of meticulous planning and coordination that by 10 o'clock on the morning of Sept. 11 would become the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.

With all the suspects dead and no evidence, as yet, from any accomplices, investigators have been left to re-create the architecture and orchestration of the plot largely from the recorded minutiae of the hijackers' brief American lives: their cell phone calls, credit card charges, Internet communications and ATM withdrawals.

What has emerged, nearly two months into the investigation, is a picture in which the roles of the 19 hijackers are so well defined as to be almost corporate in their organization and coordination.

LEADERS, SOLDIERS AND SUPPORT STAFF

Investigators now divide the 19 into three distinct groups:

Atta, considered the mastermind, and three other leaders who chose the dates for the attack and flew the planes; a support staff of three who carried out the logistics of renting apartments, securing driver's licenses and distributing cash to the teams that would take the four planes; and beneath them, 12 soldiers, or "muscle," whose sole responsibility seems to have been restraining the flight attendants and passengers while the leaders took over the jets' controls.

The leaders had researched their plans so well that they knew just when each of the four cross-country flights would reach its cruising altitude -- the moment, investigators say, when the hijackers stormed the cockpits to confront the pilots with box cutters. The coordination was so thorough that each of the four hijacking teams had its own ATM card, and they all used a single personal identification number. The slightest misstep could result in intense frustration: More than once last summer in Florida, when money transfers from abroad had not arrived on the expected dates, security cameras captured several hijackers glaring impatiently into ATM screens.

The hijackers made a true technophile's use of the Internet, online chat rooms and e-mail. But when it came to their most crucial communications, they did what an al Qaeda manual on terrorist operations instructs: They met in person. They chose as their meeting place the same locale where generations of American conventioneers have met to exchange information about their crafts: Las Vegas, where investigators now say they believe the most crucial planning for Sept. 11 occurred.

But unlike traditional conventioneers who cluster in casino hotels that replicate the Pyramids or the New York City skyline, the leaders and their logistics men stayed at the seediest end of the famous Las Vegas Strip, next to the "Home of the $5 Lap Dance," at a cheap motel guaranteed not to have surveillance cameras. They stayed briefly, only as long as it took to exchange important information, and apparently did not visit the casinos in America's City of Sin.

Many of the 19 hijackers, perhaps all of them, spent time in Osama bin Laden's Afghan training camps, investigators now say. Some of the Sept. 11 soldiers appear to have met there. And like Atta and the other pilots, the muscle did not seem to fit the profile of suicide bombers as desperate and impoverished young men. With the exception of one, they were all Saudis, relatively well off and well educated. Yet while the leaders seemed to be Islamic zealots, the muscle did not, indulging often in pornography and liquor.

There is still much that investigators do not know. While they believe, for instance, that the plot cost nearly $500,000, they have been able to trace only half of it to a suspected al Qaeda source. They know where the leaders met but not what information they exchanged -- among hundreds of e-mails seized from computers in Florida and Las Vegas, there is no "smoking gun" or description of the Sept. 11 attacks, a senior investigator said.

The investigators say they are unsure how the soldiers were recruited. And they do not know how those men thought the story was going to end, if they knew they had signed on to die.

"This went totally by the book," one senior government official said. "It has all the earmarks of al Qaeda. It was well organized, far from a half-baked operation. They had good coordination, excellent communication that is hard to track, and a good, simple plan. Somebody did their homework."

MEETING IN HAMBURG AT LEAST 2 YEARS AGO

Investigators say their best theory is that Sept. 11 was a franchise operation and the leaders closely hewed to the dictates of the al Qaeda terror manual.

The plot was first pieced together, they believe, at least two years ago, in Hamburg, Germany, where three of the men who would later be leaders and pilots -- Atta, Al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrahi -- were living as students. Senior enforcement officials say those three men then received the blessing -- and, crucially, cash -- from al Qaeda, although investigators say they do not know who in Osama bin Laden's organization approved the operation. Several officials say they suspect it was bin Laden himself.

"They met with somebody else who was calling the shots" in Germany, one official said. "But we don't know who that person is.''

Al-Shehhi and Atta received visas to enter the United States in January 2000, and Jarrahi arrived in June of that year. Another pilot, Hani Hanjour, had been living in California since 1996, and two of the logistics men, Nawaf Alhamzi and Khalid Al-Midhar, had moved to San Diego in 1999. Hanjour originally had obtained a student visa to study at an Oakland language school but never enrolled.

Investigators do not know for certain how the Hamburg and California groups came together. But evidence suggests it was through al Qaeda channels. Al- Midhar had been captured on a secret videotape at a meeting of suspected bin Laden operatives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in January 2000.

The money for the operation began arriving in bank accounts in the United States, at SunTrust Bank and Century Bank in Florida, in the summer of 2000. Atta received slightly more than $100,000, Al-Shehhi just less than that amount. About half of the $500,000 used to pay for the operation, senior FBI officials believe, was sent in wire transfers from banks in the United Arab Emirates, and much of the rest from Germany, but one official said the authorities suspected it originated in Pakistan.

Travel records show each of the men making several trips in and out of the United States in 2000 and early 2001 -- to Prague, Czech Republic; Bangkok, Thailand; Spain and Saudi Arabia. Atta took seven international trips; Al- Shehhi took five. In the United States, they all had begun taking flying lessons, in Phoenix, San Diego and South Florida.

By spring 2001, the 12 men whom investigators call the muscle had begun to arrive from Saudi Arabia.

15 OF THE HIJACKERS WERE SAUDIS, FBI SAYS

The Saudi government, stung by American reports that most of the hijackers received visas from their country, initially claimed that the hijackers used fake identities stolen from innocent citizens. But the FBI says that it has confirmed the identities of all 19 of the hijackers, and that 15 were Saudis.

While the Saudi government has restricted the FBI and reporters from interviewing the families of the men, the families of the group the FBI labels the muscle have told Arab newspapers that their sons left within the past 18 months, variously claiming they were going to seek religious counseling, on pilgrimage or on jihad in Chechnya. An investigator said there was evidence that the muscle spent at least a year in al Qaeda training camps.

The family of one, Mohald Alshehri, said he had studied at Imam Muhammed Ibn Saud Islamic University in Abha, Saudi Arabia, for one semester. The father of two others, Wail and Waleed Alshehri, said his sons had studied to become teachers. Another, Ahmed Alnami, had studied law in Abha. And the man the FBI identifies as the third logistics man, Majed Moqed, studied at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the faculty of administration and economics, according to Arab newspapers.

Most hailed from poor villages where fundamentalism thrives. But their families appeared to be on the upper rungs; their fathers were religious leaders, school principals, shopkeepers and businessmen.

None had visited the United States before, and several appeared to speak little or no English. Once they arrived, the logistics men helped them fade into the hum of American life. Hani Hanjour helped some rent an apartment in Paterson, N.J. Others cycled through one apartment in Delray Beach, Fla. Al- Midhar helped some obtain illegal driver's licenses and photo identification in Virginia.

The leaders and logistics men seemed to "buddy up" with their junior partners. One muscle member had an ulcerated leg, and a pilot-leader took him to a hospital in Palm Beach County, Fla. At first, Atta and Al-Shehhi lived together in Florida; Al-Shehhi then moved in with Fayez Ahmed, and Atta with Abdulaziz Alomari, the last hijacker to arrive.

Most of the 19 obtained Social Security numbers, which enabled them to open bank accounts and obtain credit cards. They seemed, the FBI says, to remain self-contained, with little or no help from a support network in the United States. Investigators suspect the help came from money men in the United Arab Emirates and several key lieutenants in Germany and Afghanistan.

RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EXECUTION

The al Qaeda manual, which prosecutors say was used in the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Africa, outlines three stages of any operation: research, planning and execution.

Investigators say the research began in earnest in May of this year, when the leaders and logistics men began taking trial flights on the same cross- country routes as the planes they would later hijack -- though none ever took the exact flights they would later hijack. As the manual instructs, "In order to discover any unexpected element detrimental to the operation, it is necessary, prior to execution of the operation, to rehearse it in a place similar to that of the real operation."

After each flight to the West Coast, they flew to Las Vegas. And each time, they flew first class -- as they would Sept. 11. Although they traveled first class, they stayed in the Econolodge on the faded end of the Strip.

Although several of the hijackers are believed to have had numerous meetings in South Florida and Paterson, senior investigators say they are convinced that the important American planning occurred in that dingy hotel room.

Investigators say they can confirm only one overlapping visit to Las Vegas, on Aug. 13 and 14, although they say the picture may not be complete. An Algerian who is believed to have helped train the pilots, Lotfi Raissi, drove to Las Vegas at least once last summer, and hijackers may have done the same.

Alhamzi and Hanjour arrived together and appear to have spent most of their time together. Atta spent most of his time alone; he disappeared into the dark cavern of Cyberzone, an Internet cafe where young men slouch in front of a half-dozen brightly lighted computer terminals, surfing the Web.

Investigators are not sure why they chose Las Vegas. "Perhaps they figured it would be easy to blend in," one senior official said. FBI agents have found no local terrorist cells there.

The men were probably following the al Qaeda manual's protocol: Meet at a place that offers good cover.

It is not unusual for criminals to launder money in Las Vegas casinos, but surveillance tapes show no trace of the hijackers. Based on that and on interviews, the FBI believes the hijackers did not gamble.

There was one curious disruption in the hijackers' pattern, on the last trip east from Las Vegas. On prior trips, and on the way out, they had flown first class. In the flights in May, June and July, they booked nonstop, round- trip tickets. But on that final flight, they bought one-way tickets to different destinations, and they flew coach.

Investigators speculate that with their test flights completed, they now wanted to save money. They may also have wanted to see if they could buy one- way tickets without attracting attention -- which is what they did over the next two weeks as they purchased tickets for Sept. 11.

TAKING POSITIONS TO EXECUTE THE PLAN

Those return flights put the men in position to execute the plot. Hanjour and Alhamzi flew to Baltimore, where they would join their soldiers in nearby Laurel, Md. From there, on the morning of Sept. 11, they would leave for Dulles International Airport and American Airlines Flight 77.

Atta flew from Las Vegas to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where much of the muscle was living. The group worked its way to Boston and New Jersey in early September.

On Sept. 10, Atta and his charge, Alomari, drove to Portland, Maine.

Why Portland? Again, it may have been protocol: The manual warns against traveling in large groups and suggests boarding "at a secondary station" to deflect notice.

The next morning, they almost missed their connecting flight at Logan Airport in Boston, making it with minutes to spare.

As the hijackers may have anticipated from test runs, the planes hit cruising altitude about 40 minutes in. The hijackers began their work.

Four of the five men on American Flight 77, the jet that plowed into the Pentagon, had helped with the logistics or are considered by investigators to have been leaders. It is assumed that several of the logistics people, including Al-Midhar, also carried box cutters and served as muscle.

That plane, apparently piloted by Hanjour, began to jerk wildly in the air. There was perhaps a struggle with the pilots, but investigators believe it was more likely a result of Hanjour's poor skills -- his flying school teachers would later say he had been a sorry student.

Based on one cell phone call from one of the planes, the FBI now believes that the muscle began to herd passengers into the back of the planes, and forced the pilots from the cockpit by telling them it was a traditional hijacking, one where, if demands were met, the passengers and crew would be released without harm.

Investigators say the dozen men they call the muscle may have believed the same thing. This question remains the subject of debate within the FBI. Some investigators note that in surveillance photographs taken at a Portland ATM the previous night, Alomari appears to be grinning, an expression more befitting a petty thief about to go on a stealing spree.

One FBI official said the prayers found at the crash sites seemed to exhort the foot soldiers to be strong in prison -- unlike the instructions found in Atta's luggage, which made it clear he believed he was going to his eternal paradise.

And investigators in the United States and abroad note that this would be in keeping with terrorist and al Qaeda patterns.

As the al Qaeda manual instructs, "The operation members should not all be told about the operation until shortly before executing it in order to avoid leaking of its news."

Just a little reminder for democrats, Michael "I hate America Moore", Sean Penn Laden, Martin "Love The Dictators" Sheen, Susan "America Need Humbled" Sarandon", Tim "America Sucks" Robbins and their ilk think these individuals are simply "freedom fighters" that deserve respect and tolerance for their ideals.

*The first World Trade Center bombing was on February 26, 1993, one month into the Clinton Administration. The terrorists - Egyptians and Palestinians -- blew a hole six stories deep beneath the North Tower intending to topple it onto the South Tower and kill 250,000 people. It was - in the words of the definitive account - "the most ambitious terrorist attack ever attempted, anywhere, ever." Clinton did nothing. He did not even visit the site. Worse, he allowed the attack to be categorized as a criminal act by individuals, even though its mastermind - as the administration soon discovered -- was an Iraqi intelligence agent named Ramzi Youssef.

*The second attack took place 10 months later in Mogadishu, Somalia. It was an attack on American military forces who were in country to bring food to the starving Somalis. In the battle, which has been memorialized in Black Hawk Down, eighteen American soldiers were killed and the body of one was dragged through the streets in a gesture designed to formally humiliate the world's greatest super power. Clinton's response? He turned tail and ran.

*In 1995, Ramzi Youssef was captured in the Philippines with plans to use commercial airliners to blow up CIA headquarters among other targets. This al-Qaeda plot was termed "Operation Bojinka," which means "the big bang."

*After the discovery of "Operation Bojinka," Al Gore was appointed to head a task force to tighten airport security. Its key recommendations, which would have prevented 9/11, were rejected by the White House on the grounds that they might be construed as "racial profiling."

*In 1996 the Khobar Towers - a barracks housing U.S. soldiers was blown up in Saudia Arabia by Iranian and Palestinian terrorists acting on behalf of al-Qaeda. Nineteen U.S. servicemen were killed but the Saudis refused to cooperate in tracking down the killers. The Clinton Administration did nothing.

*In 1998, the year of Lewinsky, al-Qaeda blew up the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania- under any circumstances an act of war. Two-hundred-and-forty-five people were killed and 6,000 injured, mainly Africans. Clinton's response? The infamous strike on a medicine factory in the Sudan and a spray of missiles into an emptied terrorist camp in Khost.

*In October 2000, al-Qaeda attacked the U.S.S Cole, an American warship, killing 17 servicemen. Another act of war. The Clinton response? Nothing. Every year that these terrorist attacks were taking place, Democrat congressional leaders supported bills to cut U.S. intelligence funding and/or hamstring CIA operations, and/or prevent the tightening of immigration controls - all of which would have strengthened American defenses against an al-Qaeda attack.

*Meanwhile, the principle ally of Saddam Hussein, the architect of suicide bombing, the creator of the first terrorist training camps, and the apostle of terror as a redemptive social cause -- Yasser Arafat -- was a "partner in peace" and the most frequent guest at the Clinton White House among foreign heads of state.

*Despite the fact that Republicans had fought Democrats for eight years over the military and intelligence budgets, over immigration and security issues, despite the alliances that leftwing Democrats had made with America's enemies in the UN, despite the obstructionism of Senate Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy in opposing domestic security measures and efforts by the Justice Department to bring al-Qaeda to heel, Republicans refused to point a partisan finger on issues of war and peace. Now their self-restraint has come back to haunt them as the Democrats seek to shift the blame they have done so much to earn to the shoulders of their political opponents.

*The Democratic attack on George Bush is based on an intelligence analysis he received a month before 9/11, which indicated that al-Qaeda terrorists were planning to hijack planes. The described threats in this analysis came under the category "general" meaning they did not specify time, place or method, and they were uncorroborated. The reports the President received in the months prior to 9/11 described targets that were mainly overseas - in the Arabian Peninsula, Israel, Italy, Paris, Rome and Turkey. On the slim reed of the existence of a possible hijacking threat in the United States - included with all these others -- the Democrats have built their treacherous case.

The Left in the US has become totally out of bounds with their incessant calls for retribution in the wake of the so called "prison scandal" in Iraq. Yes, some very stupid, childish, and sexually warped service members did put many Iraqi prisoners in sexually embarrassing positions. Yes, they did humiliate them. Yes they did things they should not have done. It was illegal. It was warped. It was humbling. It was embarrassing. But was it torture?

Does putting a dog collar around the neck of someone qualify as torture? Does pointing at their privates and laughing qualify as torture? Does having someone strip naked and pretend to be performing oral sex qualify as torture? Does putting panties on ones head qualify as torture? The answer is NO.

Does cutting off someone's head qualify as torture? Does cutting up a little baby a piece at a time to extract information from their parents qualify as torture? Does putting a live human into a wood chipper qualify as torture? The answer is YES. These are things that Muslims normally do. It is their way.

These are the differences between Muslims and Americans. Yes, a few of our troops behaved very badly, but practically all Muslims wish us a speedy death and thousands of Muslim practice torture, mutilation and murder, on orders from their religious leaders, the Imams and their "God", Allah.

The Arab World and the American Left have been outraged for two weeks over the photos of the Iraqi prisoners with panties on their heads. What terms do they use to describe the photos?

Horrible. Despicable. Torture. Horrendous. blah...blah...blah...yada...yada...yada...

When Nick Bergs head was cut off by peaceful servants of Allah, what does the Arab street and the American Left say? What about Eugene Armstrong?

There were no tears. Only rejoicing and the passing out of candy to children, for the mutilation and death of Americans is a blessed event for Muslims.