Statements posted on an ‘Islamist website,’ by individuals with alleged ties to Al-Qaeda leader and former CIA protégé Osama bin Laden, claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Paul M. Johnson, a U.S. contractor in Saudi Arabia.
One of the statements said: "Our fighters of the Fallujah Brigade in the Arabian peninsula have kidnapped an American, a Christian, Paul M. Johnson Jr. born in 1955 and working as an aeronautics engineer," said the statement signed "Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula" and published on the Islamist website (www.ansarnet.ws/vb/showthread.php?t=9351).
The "Al-Qaeda group" claiming responsibility for the kidnapping posted a passport size photo of Johnson and a Lockheed-Martin business card on the website. According to their statements, he will be treated “the same the way U.S. troops have treated Iraqi prisoners.”
The news about a missing American citizen were confirmed by the US State department, just days earlier.
In an effort to serve our national security, JackBlood.com has traced the address of the alleged Islamic website, since the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are too busy tracking down 12-year-old music downloaders, strip-searching 80-year-old grandmothers at airports, gathering private information dossiers on law-abiding citizens, and giving away amnesty visas to illegal aliens.
JackBlood.com conducted a domain name search for the website www.ansarnet.ws and the following results pointed out to an address in Dallas, Texas. [...]
The German prosecutor who headed the investigation into the al-Qaida cell in Hamburg, Germany, has canceled his appearance before the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, the panel said Tuesday.
Matthias Krauss was scheduled to testify Wednesday before the 10-member panel as part of a public hearing on the 9/11 plot. [...] Krauss prosecuted the case of Abdelghani Mzoudi, a longtime acquaintance of lead hijacker Mohamed Atta, but lost after a German court cited lack of evidence. The U.S. Justice Department had barred sworn testimony from Ramzi Binalshibh, who allegedly provided money to the hijackers, and other al-Qaida prisoners in American custody on national security grounds. [...] In March, a German court also ordered a retrial for Mounir el Motassadeq, the only person convicted as part of the 9/11 plot. The judges said evidence that he aided three Hamburg-based hijackers was too weak, and specifically cited the lack of testimony from Binalshibh, who is in U.S. custody.
Relatives of Sept. 11 victims this week called on the commission to press Krauss on whether U.S. officials were justified in denying access to witnesses...
Should Americans be concerned that on March 23rd a bipartisan group of Congressmen attended a coronation at which a billionaire, pro-theocracy newspaper owner was declared to be the Messiah – with royal robes, a crown, the works? Or that this imperial ceremony took place not in a makeshift basement church or a backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building? [...] First, we're shown a rabbi blowing a ram's horn. Most Jews would hold off on this until the High Holy Days, but it probably counts if the Moshiach shows up in a federal office building at taxpayer expense. Then we see the man of the hour, Moon, chilling at a table at the Dirksen in a tuxedo, soaking all this up. He claps. He's having a ball.
Cut to the ritual. Eyes downcast, a man identified as Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) is bringing a crown, atop a velvety purple cushion, to a figure who stands waiting austerely with his wife. Now Moon is wearing robes that Louis XIV would have appreciated. All of this has quickly been spliced into a promo reel by Moon's movement, which implies to its followers that the U.S. Congress itself has crowned the Washington Times owner.
But Section 9 of the Constitution forbids giving out titles of nobility, setting a certain tone that might have made the Congressional hosts shy about celebrating the coronation on their websites. They included conservatives, the traditional fans of Moon's newspaper: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA.), Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah), Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) and Republican strategy god Charlie Black, whose PR firm represents Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. But there were also liberal House Democrats like Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) and Davis. Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) later told the Memphis Flyer that he'd been erroneously listed on the program, but had never heard of the event, which was sponsored by the Washington Times Foundation. [...]
Now that he's forged unbreakable ties with conservative Christians, Moon has moved on to African-American ministers, and, through them, allies in the Democratic Party. This has been below the radar of the press, but not for lack of outlandishness. Moon celebrated Easter Sunday, 2003 by launching a coast to coast series of "tear down the cross/Who is Rev. Moon?" events, targeting pastors in poor neighborhoods. From the Bronx to L.A., Moon's people were convincing pastors to pull the crosses off their walls and replace them with his Family Federation flag. An old hymn was invoked: "I'll trade the old cross for a crown."...
Moon's newest followers were invited to tear down the traditional symbol of Christianity, told they could swap it for a crown. But unlike the crown in the hymn, it wasn't for them. It was the one that Congressmen gave, March 23 at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to a wealthy right-wing newspaper owner, one described by Time magazine in 1976 as "megalomaniacal," not much of an exaggeration for someone who claims to be the Second Coming.
Several other congressmen were also attending the event - Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y.; Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.; Rep. Tim Holden, D-Pa.; and Sen.. Norman Coleman, R-Minn. There was a huge crown. Moon got a standing ovation after the coronation. After which Moon gave a long speech, my favorite parts of which are:
"In one sense, I am a human being living with a physical body like each of you. But in the context of Heaven's providence, I am God's ambassador, sent to earth with His full authority.
Emperors, kings and presidents who enjoyed opulence and power on earth have [...] declared to all that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."
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