In early July 2002, the U.S. Air Force asked the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) for assistance in recruiting Muslim Chaplains. On July 20, 2002 , the ISNA announced that it “is recognized by the Department of Defense as an endorser of Chaplains.” As of July 22, 2002 , ISNA had vetted all 13 of the Muslim clerics serving in the U.S. military. Since then, it has endorsed four more.
Since 13 Muslim Chaplains were active before the involvement of ISNA, it is reasonable to assume that their endorsement by ISNA was pro forma. This cannot be assumed about the following four, however.
Why should this matter?
The ISNA has been in the forefront of American Islam. It has represented itself as the voice of moderation in the war of words surrounding Islamic terrorism. This is probably why the Air Force considered the ISNA an appropriate source for vetting information. My research has uncovered the additional fact that the ISNA relies upon the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (GSISS) for its actual vetting information. The GSISS also had developed a reputation for moderation, so even this further connection appears on the surface to be reasonable.
A major player in all these interactions is Dr. Jamal Barzinji, the Director of GSISS, and board member of GSISS and a related moderate organization, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). He is a well-known, articulate spokesman for moderate Islamic interests in America . Not so well known is than in 1980 he was a representative of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), which was deeply involved in providing cover for Wahhabi Muslim extremists (the Wahhabi branch of Sunni Islam is the radical branch which is home to Osama bin Laden). In 2002 the president of the WAMY office in Annandale , Va. , was Abdula bin Laden – Osama bin Laden’s younger brother.
Just one year ago, on March 20, 2002, a U.S. Treasury Task Force called Operation Green Quest raided an interrelated group of Islamic Wahhabi interests in northern Virginia Among these were the Herndon, Va., offices of Dr. Barzinji, and the Saar Foundation, created by wealthy Saudi Suleiman Abdul Al-Aziz al-Rajhi.
The Saar Foundation is connected to a former Swiss shell company, Al-Taqwa, whose leading figures included a notorious neo-Nazi and Islamist, Ahmed Huber (the term Islamist refers to Wahhabi-inspired international Islam that is both fundamentalist and terrorist oriented). Al-Taqwa had transferred operations to the United States , but was shut down after 9/11 when its assets were frozen by U.S. presidential order. But operations continued, as the Wahhabi lobby shifted to its backup institutions in northern Virginia.
Operation Green Quest linked Saar to Khalid bin Mahfouz, the former head of the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia and lead financial adviser to the Saudi royal family. Mahfouz was named by French intelligence as a backer of Osama bin Laden, in that he endowed the Muwafaq Foundation, which U.S. authorities have confirmed as part of al Qaeda. Furthermore, Muwafaq's former chief, Yassin al-Qadi, oversaw the financial penetration of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania by Wahhabi Muslim extremists in the late 1990s.
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Let’s pass that by once again: Evidence underthed in the past year strongly suggests that Wahhabi Muslim extremists indirectly control the vetting procedure for all Muslim Chaplains in the U.S. military.
The implications for this are staggering. On March 22, 2003 , an American Muslim soldier rolled grenades into the tents of the entire command structure of the 101st Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade command group at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait . One man was killed, and 11 were seriously injured. At this time it is not known whether or not he was under orders from an Islamist cleric.
What we have in place however, is a mechanism that practically guarantees that this will happen with increasing frequency. We already know that a properly motivated Muslim terrorist will willingly kill himself in order to take out an important target.
Military Chaplains have the ability to influence personnel assignments. With proper manipulation, several “sleeper” Chaplains can arrange for a significant number of undercover terrorists to be prepositioned so that they can cause maximum damage to our command structure.
