{"id":5264,"date":"2010-05-12T16:07:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T20:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5264"},"modified":"2010-05-12T16:07:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T20:07:51","slug":"connecting-the-invariable-dots-sometimes-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5264\/connecting-the-invariable-dots-sometimes-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the Invariable Dots&#8230;Sometimes Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703880304575236303698836186.html\" target=\"_blank\">pens<\/a> a chilling recall of some terrorist history in today\u2019s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In November 1990, Meir Kahane, a right-wing Israeli politician, was assassinated after delivering a speech at a Manhattan hotel by El-Sayid Nosair, quickly pigeonholed as a lone misfit whose failures at work had driven him over the edge.\u00a0 The material seized from his home lay largely unexamined in boxes until a truck bomb was detonated under the World Trade Center in 1993, when the perpetrators of that act announced that freeing Nosair from prison was one of their demands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAuthorities then examined the neglected boxes and found jihadist literature urging the attacks on Western civilization through a terror campaign that would include toppling large buildings that were centers of finance and tourism.\u00a0 An amateur video of Kahane\u2019s speech the night he was assassinated revealed that one of the 1993 bombers, Mohammed Salameh, was present in the hall when Nosair committed his act, and the ensuing investigation disclosed that Nosair was supposed to have made his escape with the help of another, Mahmoud Abouhalima, who was waiting outside at the wheel of a cab&#8230;.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire piece is yet another reminder, as if another were needed, that the organized, concentrated Islamic jihadist threat against this country cannot be wished away or denied, nor will it fade away.\u00a0 The political lives of our leaders are measured in years.\u00a0 Jihadists measure their cause in centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey pens a chilling recall of some terrorist history in today\u2019s Wall Street Journal. An excerpt: In November 1990, Meir Kahane, a right-wing Israeli politician, was assassinated after delivering a speech at a Manhattan hotel by El-Sayid Nosair, quickly pigeonholed as a lone misfit whose failures at work had driven him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1266,536,494],"class_list":["post-5264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-michael-mukasey","tag-terrorism","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5266,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions\/5266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}