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Fairfax Cop Who Tipped Terror Suspect Helped Kill Training Program

A Fairfax County Police sergeant who admits tipping off a terrorism suspect that he was under FBI surveillance also helped kill what had been a successful intelligence and terrorism-related training program within his police department.
Weiss Rasool joined with an officer from a nearby sheriff's office to say the Higgins Center for Counter Terrorism Research program was anti-Islam. Now that Rasool admits aiding a suspected terrorist, the Higgins Center is asking to be reinstated.

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The Mystery at CAIR-Tampa

The Council on American-Islamic Relations appears to have parted ways with one of its highest profile executives, but no one is saying why.




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Kind Words for Co-Conspirators

In a recent New York Times profile, the former head of the city's first Arabic-themed public school is portrayed as a hapless victim of circumstance and a misdirected “right-wing” smear campaign. Then Debbie Almontaser took her case to a radio interview and showed she is anything but.

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Investigative Project Releases Gov't Memos Curtailing Speech in War on Terror

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is refusing to identify the "influential Muslim Americans" and "leading U.S.-based scholars and commentators on Islam" who met with Secretary Michael Chertoff in helping shape a softer approach to government lexicon about terrorists and their ideological motivations.
"Our policy is we don't comment on the Secretary's private schedule," spokeswoman Amy Kudwa told the IPT. Nor would she identify any of the participants' organizational affiliation.
DHS and the State Department's Counterterrorism Communications Center each issued reports urging government employees to avoid words like "jihad," "mujahedeen" or any reference to Islam or Muslims, especially in relation to Al Qaeda. The Investigative Project on Terrorism is making the documents available for the first time.

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BREAKING NEWS & TOP HEADLINES

Advisor to US general visited Gaza: Palestinians (AFP)

U.S. man jailed for 20 years for eco-bombing plot (Reuters)

'Eco-terrorist' gets 20 years for plotting bombing campaign (AFP)

Judge orders CIA to turn over "torture" memo: ACLU (Reuters)

Radical Muslim preacher Abu Qatada granted bail in Britain (AP)

Report: US lacks plan to counter terrorist messages (AP)

Guantanamo judge threatens to halt Canadian case (Reuters)

Vietnam to try American for terrorism (AP)

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