#anwar al awlaki

[sporadicarbiterearthquake-blog]

THE STORY THAT COLORADO MEDIA REFUSES TO REPORT:

COLORADO LINKS TO 9/11 PAST AND PRESENT

R. Roy Blake and Michael Jurgens

Perhaps one of the most shocking, cynical, dangerous and cowardly cover-ups in the history of American journalism is the Colorado and especially Denver’s media refusal to investigate and report on the extensive involvement of Colorado based actors in 9/11.  While none of the 9/11 hijackers are known to have traveled to Colorado, pre-9/11 communications between bin Laden and Al Qaeda operatives in the US and several Colorado based actors were key to 9/11 including one that the FBI considered at “the heart of the 9/11 story.”  Shockingly, while downplaying or ignoring altogether the Colorado connection to 9/11, the media has become a shill for the Denver organization whose members likely played a major role in the event. 

After 14 years of pressure, the Obama Administration finally declassified a heavily redacted version of the 28 missing pages of the 9/11 report. The redacted version did not mention names such as Anwar al-Awlaki, that had been mentioned as being in the 28 pages by a 60 Minutes report on the subject.  Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico, the son of New Mexico State University professor who had been born in Yemen.  Awlaki attended Colorado State University in Fort Collins, where he was President of the Muslim Student Association.  He later served as Imam (Islamic minister) at the Denver Islamic Society on Birch Street just south of Evans Avenue in Denver. 

In the months prior to 9/11 Awlaki left Denver and became the spiritual advisor to two of the 9/11 hijackers that had summered in San Diego and met with three others who were in Fall Church, Virginia and attended the notorious Saudi financed mosque there.  It was also reported that Awlaki was in constant contact with the Saudi embassy in the months immediately prior to 9/11.  An FBI agent had said that he felt that Awlaki was “at the heart of the 9/11 story.” 

When in 2002, al Awlaki attempted to flee the US to avoid answering more questions about 9/11 he was briefly detained at JFK airport in New York, accused of passport fraud before being released to a Saudi government representative.  Awlaki then fled to the UK and two years thereafter to Yemen. 

While in Yemen, Awlaki joined up with Al Qaeda’s franchise there, known as Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).  During Awlaki’s association with AQAP the went on to conduct terrorist attacks throughout the Arabian peninsula that killed Americans, Belgians, Spaniards, South Koreans and hundreds of Saudis and Yemenis.  AQAP also trained the underwear bomber and plotted attacks on Jewish community centers in the US using mail bombs loaded into printer cartridges, plotted using smuggled explosive liquids onto US bound airlines.  Awlaki was also the spiritual inspiration for the Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas that killed 12 and wounded 31.

Others had reported that among the missing names was Homaidan al Turki, a member of the Saudi royal family who had relocated to Denver, Colorado.  Al Turki is currently serving a life sentence in Federal prison for holding an underage Indonesian girl that he had purchased in Saudi Arabia as a slave in his Aurora, Colorado basement.  Al Turki also founded a company called “Al Bashir Publications and Translations” that featured the speeches and sermons of Anwar al Awlaki urging Muslims to violence against non-Muslims and especially the US and the West.  It is difficult to overestimate the effect of Awlaki’s speeches and sermons had, and even after his death, continues to have in terms of inspiring terrorism. 

Even in view of the fact that a significant amount of the 28 pages remained classified, some witting or unwitting Saudi apologists claimed that the redacted portion of the 28 pages “contained no smoking gun” and argued that the matter ought be put to rest. Senator Graham, however, said it did in fact did confirm Saudi government links to the hijackers and that the redacted portions of the 28 pages  ought to be released along with the over 80,000 pages from 9/11 investigations.

The FBI also learned that the two Saudis traveled to Washington to attend a symposium hosted by the Saudi Embassy in collaboration with the Institute for Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America, which was chaired by the Saudi ambassador. Before being shut down for terrorist ties, IIASA employed the late al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki as a lecturer. Awlaki ministered to some of the hijackers and helped them obtain housing and IDs.

In 1994, well prior to 9/11 and just following the first attack large attack on the World Trade Center, the London based “Advice and Reformation Committee” (ARC), widely considered Osama bin Laden’s publicity office, established a “secure system for communications between Saudi Arabia and London for Osama bin Laden.  Incredibly, the system reportedly made use of US Army lines!  In the US the system was centered in Denver, Colorado and initially set up by Denver resident Lujain al-Imam, wife of London based Islamic “activist” Mohammad al Massari.  The calls are routed from Saudi Arabia to Britain through Denver using “toll free lines established for US servicemen during the Gulf War.” 

In addition to al Turki and al Awlaki, other Denver residents suspected of involvement with al Qaeda prior to 9/11 include Khalid al Fawwaz who will later be indicted for his involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa.  Another is Ziyad Khaleel, vice president of the Denver Islamic Society until 1994.  Together with al Fawwaz, Khaleel is suspected of purchasing a satellite phone for bin Laden. 

No doubt the one of the reasons that the Denver and Colorado media have ignored the Colorado 9/11 connection has to do with behind the scenes Saudi Arabian money, such as checks written to Denver super law firm Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber and Schreck.  On its website the Brownstein firm touts its “…deep experience…and political connections” which include hosting major Colorado Republican events.  What the website does not disclose is the fact that the Saudi Arabian government pays the firm to fight off the lawsuits of 9/11 victim families and to otherwise lobby on behalf of the Saudis. 

The Denver Post did a few articles on Anwar al Awlaki that were characterized as would be “puff pieces” by talkshow host Rev. Bob Enyart.  One, written before a drone strike in Yemen killed, the man whom after bin Laden was the world’s most wanted terrorist, contended that Awlaki made little impression in Denver despite the fact that the speeches he gave while in Denver inspired and continue to inspire terrorism to this day. 

The Post article made much of the fact that a Denver Islamic Society elder who wished to remain anonymous stated that he had opposed Awlaki’s recruitment of a young Muslim to fight in Chechnya where he was killed.  A careful reading of the article, however, revealed that the reason for the opposition to the young man’s recruitment wasn’t a rejection of jihadi warfare.  It was the fact that due to the age of the young man, he should not go off to jihad without his parent’s consent. 

The fact that the elder at the Denver Islamic Society did not feel safe enough to reveal his identity speaks volumes about the fact that the influence of Awlaki, al –Turki and the others continue to have on the Denver Islamic Society.  Perhaps the worst part of all of this is that the refusal of the Colorado media to report this allows for influence and infiltration that endangers us all.  The current president of the Denver Islamic Society, Mohammed Malki, has held, and probably continues to hold a sensitive position as an “information security officer,” in the Colorado state government. 

[swords-of-islam]

“When a believer reaches to that stage where everything in his heart depends on what pleases Allah, that’s true imaan ”

╰┈➤ Imam Anwar al-Awlaki رحمة الله عليه

[linusjf]

Margaret J. Wheatley: Aggression

“Aggression only moves in one direction – it creates more aggression. ” —Margaret J. Wheatley.

[repentingxnafs]

❝ We always complain that we are not able to fulfil our Islamic duties because we have work. People before used to work in their farms or markets from Fajr until Maghrib. Nevertheless, they still made جihāد, and they still made Qiyam, read Qur'ān, memorised it and they learned.

Allah put barakah in their time because they had true intentions. Have Taqwā and Allāh will teach you. Allāh will provide knowledge for you. ❞

—Imām Anwar al-Awlaki تقبله الله

[milatibrahiim]

“ we do not custom make Islam to serve us, we change ourselves to fit in Islam, we do not make Islam change, we change our own characters to fit Islam, because this is the meaning of the word Islam, it is complete submission! Submission to Allah سبحانه وتعالى “

- Imam Anwar Al Awlaki رحمه الله

[eelhound]

"Sometimes I see people darkly warning that prosecuting Trump could set a precedent that would be used to prosecute Democratic presidents for their crimes. My response to this warning is best expressed in the title of a classic song by the band Panic! at the Disco: 'Don’t threaten me with a good time.'

I would love to see President Barack Obama, for example, face criminal prosecution for the many drone strikes he ordered around the world — including the strikes that killed radical imam Anwar al-Awlaki and his sixteen-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, both of whom were US citizens. These strikes amounted to extrajudicial executions of terrorism suspects who hadn’t been convicted of any crime and who were nowhere near anything that could remotely be construed as a battlefield. In the case of al-Awlaki, there’s reason to think that it was an extrajudicial execution not even for clearly illegal acts but for the inflammatory words in his sermons.

And that brings us to the real double standard here. Trying to overturn an American election is the kind of crime the Justice Department takes seriously. Extrajudicially slaughtering scary Muslims in a foreign country, even ones with US citizenship, is not. Even George W. Bush invading Iraq based on lies doesn’t count. Hundreds of thousands of people died and millions became refugees, but those were the wrong kind of victims for our justice system to take an interest in them.

The solution to that double standard, though, isn’t to let Trump off the hook for conspiring to overturn a democratic election. It’s to indict George W. Bush. One president finally being subject to prosecution for some of his crimes isn’t nearly enough, but it’s a start."

- Ben Burgis, from "Donald Trump Being Prosecuted for His Crimes Is Good, Actually." Jacobin, 4 August 2023.

[collapsedsquid]

I should say that most times the chatbot doesn't let itself get caught out like this on these questions. When I asked "Can the US government kill US citizens without trial?" it carefully answered "Not under normal circumstances" and when I asked for the follow-up it did mention Anwar al-Awlaki like I was obviously hinting at. When I asked it "Did the FBI kill MLK jr" it judiciously replied starting with "The official position of the U.S. government..." Got it with the move bombing though

[eruhamster]

I feel like voteblue people have such insular lives. Because they always treat democrat war crimes as some kind of thing that happens to an 'other.'

I know it's largely racist white people who aren't recent immigrants, but it just makes me wonder.

You know your life could just as easily be ruined by an American war campaign, right? Without a draft.

If you have family, even distant family, who live in another country. If you scrounge enough money to ever go abroad on a vacation. If you have an online friend who lives in a different country than you.

It could be you. It could be yourself, stranded with the US embassy refusing to save you. It could be your family under rubble. It could be your friend, murdered by your own taxpayer dollars.

There is nothing special about Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, etc that makes it specifically bombable. If politics in a region you have any connections to takes a wrong turn, that region would end up just the same.

The US war machine is indiscriminate. You will not find peace from fascism by voting for fascists. Politicians have continued to move right and have continued to strip us of our freedoms. The Democratic playbook is centered on making you think the other is worse, and yet the creation of the DHS and ICE were bipartisan, and the ACA was a Republican plan.

They promise things will get better if you vote Democrat enough, but Obama was at least four full months of a supermajority, but after promising to codeify Roe v Wade his first day in office and having the Freedom of Choice act introduced to Congress, he simply 'put it on the backburner.' Instead, he was the first US president to extrajudicially kill Americans. He did this with a drone strike, murdering Samir Khan and Anwar al-Awlaki. Al-Awlaki's sixteen year old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, was killed the same way days later. In Yemen. In a country we were not at war with.

Even when they promise it, even when they have the means to fulfill that promise, even when that promise is sitting right in front of them, Democrats will not act. Because they only care that they use that boogeyman of "Republicans" as a carrot on a stick for votes. And the worse Republicans get, the better it makes them look, the less they have to reign themselves in on actions that would be unfanthomable to even a Republican 20 years ago - Biden has done less to reign in Israel than Bush, Nixon, or Reagan, our three worst presidents.

Things will never get better because a democrat is in office. Things won't even stop getting worse.

But it could be you, who's life is ruined by an American bomb.

It could be you.

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

FUCKING KNEW IT

To take one platform as an example, in 2010 YouTube removed hundreds of videos featuring Anwar Al-Awlaki, the notorious leader of Al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula, after Roshonara Chaudhry, who was inspired by Al-Awlaki’s online videos, was convicted of the attempted murder in London of Stephen Timms MP (Chaudhry is a rare example of an individual apparently driven to terrorism by consuming online content). Seven years later, YouTube removed a further 50,000 videos associated with Al-Awlaki. But even this is small-scale compared to what is now being done with machine-learning algorithms. Link

KNEWWWWWWW ITTTTTTTT

I was not fucking crazy! THERE WAS THIS SHIT ON YOUTUBE

[azspot]

The corporate state eviscerates enshrined rights by judicial fiat. This is how we have the right to privacy, with no privacy. This is how we have “free” elections funded by corporate money, covered by a compliant corporate media and under iron corporate control. This is how we have a legislative process in which corporate lobbyists write the legislation and corporate-indentured politicians vote it into law. This is how we have the right to due process with no due process. This is how we have a government — whose fundamental responsibility is to protect citizens — that orders and carries out the assassination of its own citizens, such as the Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son. This is how we have a press which is legally permitted to publish classified information and our generation’s most important publisher sitting in solitary confinement in a high security prison awaiting extradition to the United States.

Chris Hedges

[sporadicarbiterearthquake-blog]

What is the most dangerous foreign power to the US?

If you ask me which nation is the greatest threat to America, I will not say Russia, China or Iran.  We know that those nations do not wish us well.  Instead I will point to Saudi Arabian financed and directed 9/11.  The only proof necessary to demonstrate that the Kingdom has compromised American leadership is that instead of imposing the cost of 9/11 on the Saudis, their involvement in 9/11 was covered up.  Saudi election interference makes Russian election interference look laughable.  Saudi Arabia finances and/or controls an estimated 80% of US mosques.  It funds CAIR, the organization that claims to be an Islamic "civil rights organization," but is in fact, a front for terrorists.  The Saudis are attempting to brainwash America's college students by funding and controlling the many "Islamic studies" programs now at most of our largest universities.  Saudi propaganda efforts are not limited to college age students.  They also fund Islamic organizations that seek to insert, often very deceptive Islamic material into all K-12 classes, aided by their army of paid lobbyists, that include some the most powerful and strategically connected law and public relations firms in the U.S.,such as the Brownstein law firm in Denver and Washington, D.C.

The Saudis also conduct covert operations inside the US, many of which are efforts to smuggle Saudi citizens (most often Saudi students) charged with crimes (most often sexual in nature) out of the country, just as they smuggled Anwar al Awlaki, of whom an FBI agent declared was "at the heart of the 9/11 story," out of the US in 2002.  The link to the book is above.  Saudi oil is sold at Shell stations.  Let's boycott Shell as well as Citibank and Chase Bank both of which the Saudis have invested heavily and essentially control.

[daughterofmytribe]

جزاك الله خيرا 🤍🤍

Yes subhan allah I’ve listened to the one of sheikh Ahmad musa jibril, May allah سبحانه وتعالى reward him immensely

May allah سبحانه وتعالى grant imam anwar al awlaki firdous al a3la, his lectures hit different subhan allah I could stay listening to him for hours

I don’t like comparing the two as they both have done so much for the dawah in the West. And you know what I love most about the dawah back then, is how simple it was, no fancy edits, most are just audio files. But Shaykh Anwar deffo has a very soft way of delivering his lectures, I think this has a lot to do with him being Yemeni, as Rasul Allah ‎ﷺ‎‬ describes Yemenis as having soft hearts.

May Allah have mercy on him and accept him

[merangkulmakna]

‎#Diary—Agung Moehadji Soemo Soemadi

❝Jika engkau meletakkan tanggung jawab dalam meninggikan pesan ALLAH, maka engkau akan digantikan tak peduli siapa dirimu, karena ALLAH tak memiliki hubungan khusus dengan siapapun. Itulah masalah yang terjadi pada Yahudi, mereka pikir merekalah orang-orang pilihan dan mereka dipilih karena mereka Yahudi, mereka tak mengerti bahwa alasan dulu mereka dipilih karena saat itu mereka adalah Muslim, mereka adalah pembawa panji Islām dan "Lā ilāha illa ALLAH". Dan segera setelah mereka meninggalkan ‘aqīdah itu, mereka berubah dari sebaik-baik manusia menjadi seburuk-buruk makhluk. Maka jika engkau meletakkan/ meninggalkan/ menyerahkan tanggung jawabmu maka engkau akan digantikan, tak peduli siapa dirimu.

Masalah yang muncul saat ini adalah beberapa orang atau kelompok menganggap karena kita telah melakukan sesuatu di masa lalu, maka kita masihlah jamā’ah yang benar. Karena kita telah berjuang bagi dien sepuluh tahun lalu atau dua belas tahun lalu atau tiga belas tahun lalu, maka adalah jaminan bagi kita kalau kita berada di jamā’ah yang benar. Sungguh bukan itu masalahnya, tapi ketika engkau meletakkan tanggung jawabmu, engkau akan digantikan. Ini merupakan Sunnatullāh yang sangat berbahaya dan kami berhati-hati untuk tidak tergantikan.

Jalan Jihād dan membela ummat adalah sebuah perjalanan seumur hidup yang seseorang harusnya takkan pernah menyerah, masa lalu takkan membenarkan masa depan bagimu, engkau harus terus melakukan hal yang sama sampai mati karena amal terakhir yang kau lakukan adalah yang terpenting.❞

—Syāikh Anwar al-Awlaki [rahīmahullāh]

[papasmoke]

On the 2000 election, which I without a shadow of a doubt know you hold third party voters the most responsible for:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/11/15/its-insanity-how-brooks-brothers-riot-killed-recount-miami/

On Trump's Supreme Court case, which you act like is some unprecedented bit of authoritarianism.

Trump is arguing his actions are legal explicitly based on the extrajuducial killing of American citizens carried out under Obama. He is right that American president's are immune to prosecution for the crimes they commit while in office. Being the president is a job consisting mainly of committing unspeakable crimes and kicking the can down the road on taking responsibility for any of it. Trump had a protestor assassinated by US Marshalls (which he is not on trial for and lets be real the dems would never want him prosuecuted for), Obama had the teenage son of the guy Trump references him having airstriked also killed in a separate airstrike several years later, Obama massively expanded the scope of the US's drone mission and handed the keys off to Trump, Obama bailed out the banks after the financial crisis, in any sane society all of these actions would be crimes worthy of at the minimum a life in prison. Bush killed a million fucking people in Iraq, he's not in jail. Clinton bombed a fucking major pharmaceutical factory in Sudan and shrugged and washed their hands of itwhen their bullshit justification for the targeted strike disintegrated. These are all crimes that democratic and republican presidents alike have gotten away with. If Trump wins his supreme court it will not only be due to the undemocratic nature of the court itself but off the back of his criminal predecessors.

On Biden's supposed uninvolvement with the nationwide police crackdown on student protestors, where the near universal justification for police intervention has been to fight rampant violent antisemitism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/21/columbia-university-protest-biden-antisemitism/

If you feel like defending Biden's stance here feel free.

[repentingxnafs]

lecture recommendations?

Tawheed series and furū al- fiqh by shayhk Mūsā Ahmed Jibril حفظه الله

You can find both series and more lecture by shaykh Mūsā Ahmed Jibril in https://youtube.com/@alnasrmedia

The life of Muhammad ﷺ and the lives of prophets by imam anwar al awlaki رحمه الله

[milatibrahiim]

imam Anwar Al Awlaki رحمه الله تعالى