We are just over four months into the politicization of the struggle formerly known as the “War on Terror,” and the “hands off” policies of Barack Obama and our one-party government are already starting to pay dividends. For the terrorists.
Domestic Muslim convert Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, trained in Yemen, carried out the first successful Islamic terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11/2001 on Monday when he shot Private William Long and Private Quinton Ezeagwula outside a Little Rock, Arkansas military recruiting center. Long was killed in the attack, and Ezeagwula was wounded.
Police later characterized the attack as having “political and religious motives,” and Muhammad is said to have been “upset” with US military action as it relates to “Muslims.”
ABC News learned that Muhammad was being watched by the FBI after travelling to Yemen for jihad training and being arrested there for doing so on a fake Somali passport.
So how, after attracting the attention and suspicion of the FBI, was Muhammad able to load his SUV with guns and commit a broad-daylight terrorist act against a government location?
Stratfor Research believes it’s because law enforcement has been told to “back off” investigations into the activities of Black Muslim converts.
[P]olitics may have been at play in the Muhammad case as well as in other cases involving Black Muslim converts. Several weeks ago, STRATFOR heard from sources that the FBI and other law enforcement organizations had been ordered to “back off” of counterterrorism investigations into the activities of Black Muslim converts.
One could speculate whether increased sensitivity to the issue due to a new administration caused mid-level bureaucrats to issue such an order to field operatives, or whether it was a direct order originating either from Eric Holder’s Justice Department or the Barack Obama White House.
At this point, it is unclear to us if that guidance was given by the White House or the Department of Justice, or if it was promulgated by the agencies themselves, anticipating the wishes of President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.
Doug Ross appears to have found information indicating the “order” came from a source high up the governmental food chain rather than someone in a supervisory role, and calls for a full investigation.
Many FBI supervisors are reluctant to authorize investigations that they believe may have negative blow-back on their career advancement. In light of this institutional culture, and the order to be careful in investigations relating to Black Muslim converts, it would not be at all surprising to us if a supervisor refused to authorize a full-field investigation of Muhammad that would have included surveillance of his activities… Had the FBI opened a full-field investigation on Muhammad, and had it conducted surveillance on him, it would have been able to watch him participate in preoperational activities such as conducting surveillance of potential targets and obtaining weapons.
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