Political Quotes

“There is an article dated February 9, 2010, in The Washington Times by Bill Gertz that says, the Army was warned about the jihadist threat in '08. It says: Almost 2 years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting by a radicalized Muslim officer, the U.S. Army was explicitly warned that jihadism--Islamic holy war--was a serious problem and threat to personnel in the U.S., according to participants at a major Army-sponsored conference. It references Patrick Poole, Army Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Myers, and Terri Wonder as individuals that participated. It says: The shooting at a recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas, in June and the November shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 people have exposed the problem of the Army's deficiencies in understanding the nature of the domestic Islamic terrorist threat, Mr. Poole said. The incidents have raised questions about whether the Army made any effort to ``operationalize'' the threat warnings from the 2008 conference and develop policies to counter the threats. ``The answer quite clearly is no,'' Mr. Poole said. And then it goes on to discuss this whole problem, and Mr. Poole said: I noted because of our lack of understanding of Islamic doctrines, Islamic jihad and my view that our counterintelligence function is broken, outdated, being usurped in some cases by public affairs and equal opportunity officials, we were going to get soldiers killed in America on our own bases for that professional ignorance.…”