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SAE Productions, Inc.
Air Date: September 21, 1994
Publication #101
"Jihad in America"

Documentary by Steve Emerson

ANTHONY RICHARDS: We were on top of the roof. Out in the open.
Snow falling. Cold--you were very cold.

GLEN GANEY: Walking by the elevator, I could hear people yelling
for help. The smoke was getting thicker and I knew it was time
for me to leave. I was very, very frustrated and saddened that I
had to leave these people. I didn't know what was going to happen
to them.

TOM O'KEEFE: People were breaking windows.

CHRISTINE HENRIKSEN: I just remember not being able to breathe.

ANTHONY RICHARDS: Smoke was just gushing up on top of the roof. I
was scared. I was terrified.

NEWSCASTER: [Bomb Blast Footage] There has been an explosion deep
below the 110 story tower of the World Trade Center in New York
City.

CHRISIINE HENRIKSEN: You suddenly realized that for a split
second, you, you would be dead. That, you know, you just can't
comprehend it, that you just, you would have been dead and it
would all have been over.

STEVEN EMERSON: For those who survived the 1993 bombing of the
World Trade Center, the trauma lingers on, but for the rest of
us, it was a spectacular news event that has come and gone.
But has it really? The answer appears to be no. I've reported on
international terrorism for the past ten years. And since the
World Trade Center bombing, I have been investigating the
networks of Islamic extremists committed to Jihad in America. For
these militants, Jihad is a holy war, an armed struggle to defeat
non-believers or infidels. And their ultimate goal is to
establish an Islamic empire. Most Americans understand little
about Islam, and it is very important to point out that the
overwhelming majority of Muslims are not members of militant
groups. During the next hour, you will hear what these militants
say among themselves, and witness some of their secret activities
here on American soil. The trail began 15 years ago with the
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Hoping to halt the spread of
Communism, the United States actively backed the Mujahideen,
Afghanistan's Islamic rebels, dedicated to spreading Jihad. The
CIA channeled almost three billion dollars to the Mujahideen
through the intelligence service of neighboring Pakistan. Charles
Cogan helped run the operation for the CIA.

CHARLES COGAN, Former Chief of CIA, Near East Division: As far as
the U.S. side of it was concerned this was an agency operation.
The training was carried out by the inter-services intelligence
directorate at, at camps along the border. And, in, in the
interior of Pakistan too. I would say that over the sweep of the
Cold War this was the most successful covert action that the U.S.
engaged in. This was a very remarkable event. The Soviet Union
had invaded a country which was not within their orbit and they
were forced to withdraw from it and this was a clear reversal of
Communism.

STEVEN EMERSON: Meanwhile, in nearby Iran, the revolution led by
Ayatollah Rhomeini was underway, and fanned the names of the
anti-Western sentiment that had been growing in much of the
Middle East. In 1981, Islamic militants assassinated Egyptian
president Anwar Sadat, America's closest Arab ally. The 
assassination gave the radicals confidence they could strike
their enemies at will. It was in this environment that Sheik
Abdullah Azzam rose to prominence. Born in Palestine, Azzam (photo)
fought against Israel and against Arab regimes he believed were
puppets of the west. In the early 1980s Azzam went to Peshawar,
Pakistan, to set up a support network for the holy warriors. The
American headquarters was called the Al-Kifah refugee center but
when translated, the Arabic on their own letterhead reads: the
Office of Services to the Holy Warriors. It provided money,
weapons -- and most important -- recruited thousands of Muslim
fighters from outside Afghanistan.

Azzam helped transform the war against the Soviets into a
full-blown international Jihad, or holy war. Now, the enemy was
no longer just the Communists, but Jews, Christians and moderate
Muslims -- who they accused of being part of a conspiracy to defeat
Islam.

ABDULLAH AZZAM: The world today is arbitrarily ruled by Jews and
Christians. The Americans, the British. And others. And behind
them, the fingers of international Jewry, with their wealth and
their women and their media.

STEVEN EMERSON: At the same time, Pakistan was funneling more and
more of the CIA's money to the most radical Afghan Muslims. In
the end, they would contribute to the expansion of Jihad around
the world.

CHARLES COGAN: We sought to maintain a balance and never allow it
to get too far in favor of the fundamentalists. We had really very
few illusions, that's not to say that we could have predicted that
some of these Mujahideen might have turned against the U.S. or the
West later on. But as I say our focus was on hitting and hurting as
much as possible the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. I don't think we
have really anything to be apologetic about. These were the
fighting assets and we had to aid them. What came later, came later.

STEVEN EMERSON: The Mujahideen had succeeded in driving out a
superpower. It showed men like Abdullah Azzam that they could now
defeat any enemy of Allah, no matter how powerful.

ABDULLAH AZZAM: [Oklahoma City, 1988] O, brothers, after
Afghanistan, nothing in the world is impossible for us anymore.
There are no super powers or mini-powers -- what matters is the
will power that springs from our religious belief.

STEVEN EMERSON: Jihad battle fronts expanded throughout the
Middle East. Islamic holy warriors began launching terror attacks
against Israel, Egypt and Algeria.

PAUL BREMER, Former Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism, U. S. State
Department: The terrorists portrayed themselves as freedom
fighters and many in the West fell for this. They said, "well,
they're just freedom fighters, we're for freedom and we're for
fighting for freedom and why not just accept them for what they
are?" -- whereas they were, in fact, terrorists. So, it's not a
new problem thst terrorists will hide behind definitions.

STEVEN EMERSON: Paul Bremer was ambassdor at large for
counter-terrorism for the State Department in the 1980's.

PAUL BREMER: I always felt when I was involved in the
counter-terrorism efforts that it was important to make a
distinction. We were not anti-Islamic. The vast majority of
Islamic people, the vast majority of Arab people are
peace-loving, peace keeping people, like most Americans.
Terrorists in every society are very small minority of corrupt,
criminal, violent people, many with a political agenda who should
be singled out for specific attention. But it should never be we
say in anything that gives the impression that we think that the
fight against terrorism is a fight against Islam or a fight
against the Arabs.

STEVEN EMERSON: Ironically, anti-Western militants soon found
that the United States was the best place to raise funds,
disseminate propaganda and build up their political
organizations.

OLIVER B. REVELL, Former Chief, Dallas Bureau, FBI: Coming to the
United States gives them a platform that they can use for the
rest of the world. They can produce their films, their videos,
their publications. They can collect money and they can use it to
support their movement.

STEVEN EMERSON: Oliver "Buck" Revell was one of the FBI's top
counter-terrorism agents.

OLIVER REVELL: Many, many acts of terrorism have been carried in
the name of religion so certainly this extremist element of Islam
is not unique. What is unique is the international nature, the
connection all the way from North America, Europe, the Middle
East, Pakistan, Afghanistan, over into Southeast Asia. It is much
more global than any type of terrorist network that we've had to
deal with in the past.

STEVEN EMERSON: Abdullah Azzam and others would go around the
country raising money and preaching holy war.

ABDULLAH AZZAM: There is no turning back from the stone to the
pistol to the Uzi to the cannon to the RPG and then you can
expect Allah's ultimate victory.

STEVEN EMERSON: The Al-Kifah refugee center set up an elaborate
support and recruiting network coast to coast, with branches in
more than 38 American cities. These centers became clearing
houses and recruiting offices to support Jihad around the world.
It was Azzam's top aide, a Palestinian sheik named Tamim
Al-Adnani, who did some of the most vigorous fundraising. He is
seen here appealing for funds in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1988.

TAMIM AL ADNANI: So one of our purposes is to collect money for
the Mujahideen, donations. As much as we can. And -- Alhamdu
lillah! -- today, as our brothers noticed, we have got from
Columbia, the greatest sum so far. Before Columbia we had $9,500
from Corvallis, a town called Corvallis in Oregon-- very near
Portland. Now today we have got much more. We have got $15,256
plus about 4,500 gold. Gold. So about $20,000 from the town of
Columbia. And this is the peak now.

STEVEN EMERSON: But it wasn't just money he was interested in.
Adnani was actively recruiting fighters to take part in the
Jihad.

TAMIM AL-ADNANI: The only politics we understand is tah, tah,
tah. This is the best politics. Shooting we say [Arabic of next
line] "we solve all our problems in the trenches, not in the
hotels." Our problems are solved in the trenches fighting, not in
the hotels around tables. Nonsense.

STEVEN EMERSON: But Adnani was not just referring to the trenches
in Afghanistan. his vision of Jihad was a worldwide liberation
movement waged in the name of Allah. Listen to him here as he
explains to his followers the scope of the holy war.

TAMIM AL-ADNANI: The best thing is to continue Jihad. Nothing but
Jihad. Even after liberation of Afghanistan. Wallahi! The leaders
have agreed in front of me to continue Jihad. Fi sabil Illah!
Even after the liberation of Afghanistan, even after the Islamic
government, they will not stop. They will go up to the Muslim
countries of Russia, Islamic republics. They will go down to
Palestine, to al-Quds. They promised Allah to liberate Palestine.
Anybody stops in their way, Oh my God! I will sit over him
myself. Smash them. Any ruler, he will not let us go by force!
Jihad. Allahu Akbar and then -- imagine the Afghanis, who gave
very hard time to Russia, the Soviets. What will they do with the
Israelis? They will eat them. Afghanis are a very crazy people.
They are very brave. I have never seen like this, Wallahi! One
hundred, all of them. Allahu Akbar! And they run. Machine guns,
bombs, nothing stops them. Wallahi! Nothing. When they want to
die in Shahada then they want Shahada. Allahu Akbar! And they
come.

STEVEN EMERSON: But the militants rage was not limited to their
enemies in the Middle East. Increasingly, the Islamic holy
warriors focused their anger on the west -- especially America.
Abdullah Azzam was the keynote speaker at what was called the
first conference of Jihad, held not in the Middle East, but in
Brooklyn, New York. Azzam instructed his audience to wage Jihad
wherever they were. Even in America.

ABDULLAH AZZAM: The Jihad, the fighting is obligatory on you
wherever you can perform it. And just as when you are in America
you must fast -- unless you are ill or on a voyage -- so, too,
must you wage Jihad. The word Jihad means fighting only, fighting
with the sword.

STEVEN EMERSON: In 1989, Azzam was assassinated in Pakistan by
unknown assailants. His death made him a martyr to radical
Muslims around the world. Back in America, the calls for Jihad
grew even louder from leaders like Azzam's cousin Fayiz speaking
in Atlanta in 1990.

FAYIZ AZZAM: [Atlanta, Georgia, 1990] Allah's religion -- be he
praised -- must offer skulls, must offer martyrs. Blood must
flow. There must be widows, there must be orphans. Hands and
limbs must be cut, and the limbs and blood must be spread
everywhere in order that Allah's religion stand on it's feet.

STEVEN EMERSON: Groups of militants began weapons training on
American soil. Islamic radicals, including several suspects in the
World Trade Center bombing, attended this meeting in Brooklyn,
where Sheik Tamim Al-Adnani ordered them to prepare for the Holy
war.

TAMIM AL-ADNANI: Brothers, I encourage you to attend the shooting
practice. There is nothing greater than the power of the shot.
Learn to shoot. The skill of shooting is so important. He who has
begun learning how to shoot and did not go through with the
training is not one of us. And, from here, we move onto the true
shooting, against the enemies of Allah, God willing.

STEVEN EMERSON: Followers answered the call. Radicals conducted
military exercises at shooting ranges and training camps in at
least nine U.S. locations, including this one in Connecticut.
Groups of Islamic militants fired semi-automatic weapons and
trained with explosives. According to FBI intelligence reports,
groups would come every weekend and shoot a thousand rounds a day
into silhouette-shaped targets. One of the leaders was an Egyptian
immigrant narned El-Sayyid Nossair. In November 1990, Nossair was
arrested for the murder of militant Rabbi Meir Kahane. Nossair was
shot while fleeing the murder scene. He was brought to the same
emergency room as Kahane. Nossair survived his wound and was later
sent to Attica prison. Rabbi Kahane died on this table. Alvin
Schlesinger was the judge at the trial.

JUDGE ALVIN SCHLESINGER, New York State Supreme Court: I had
never in my life, I must tell you, ever seen such raw, red hatred
that existed between any groups or any persons; I mean it was the
kind of hatred that went far beyond doctrine, far beyond the
cause; it was raw, red, and violent hatred.

JOSEPH BORRELLI [NYPD Pres Conference, November 1989]: We have
murder in the second degree, the second charge of attempt to
murder in the first degree. Third charge is assault, second
degree. Fourth charge is criminal possession of a weapon.

STEVEN EMERSON: Even though Nossair had ties to an international
radical network, police never investigated the possibility of a
larger conspiracy.

JOSEEPH BORRELLI: There is no indication at all of any conspiracy
of a nature that we have spoken of. The facts indicate at this
point that it was a lone gunman who committed a homicide.

STEVEN EMERSON: Nossair was ultimately convicted of weapons
charges but, unexpectedly, the jury acquitted him of the Kahane
murder. His supporters were elated.

CROWD [Chanting outside Courtroom]: Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!
Allahu Akbar!

JUDGE ALVIN SCHLESINGER: It was totally against the weight of the
evidence; it was irrational almost, in terms of the evidence that
I saw at that trial. It just, it made no sense, common or
otherwise, to have reached that verdict -- particularly with the
other verdicts that were reached. So I think it was outrageous.

STEVEN EMERSON: Nossair was brought to this holding cell in lower
Manhattan after his arrest. By then, detectives had searched his
apartment and found 47 boxes full of personal possessions and
papers. But investigators dismissed those papers as irrelevant
religious materials. It was only after the bombing of the World
Trade Center that law enforcement re-examined those papers and
realized they had overlooked one of the largest collections of
terrorist materials ever found in the United States. The papers
included plans to blow up American skyscrapers. The documents
would reveal that Nossair was at the heart of a worldwide
terrorist network headquartered right here in the United States.

MICHAEL CHERKASY: Unfortunately, we had that information. It was
there. And we didn't see it.

STEVEN EMERSON: Michael Cherkasky was the Chief of Investigations
for the Manhattan District Attorney at the time of the bombing.

MICHAEL CHERKASY: Looking back at it there was an enormous amount
of significant material in those boxes. Whether they were the
precise plans, no I don't think so. But were there very strong
indications that this man and a group of compatriots were
involved in terrorist activities that could ultimately lead to a
disaster like the World Trade Center? The answer is yes.

STEVEN EMERSON: The boxes included formulas for bomb making,
detailed instructions on attacking aircraft, assassination
targets, and even classified U.S. military documents. Yet by far
the most important document was a hand-sized spiral notebook full
of neatly written Arabic text, in which Nossair, spells out his
plans for the destruction of the enemies of Allah.

"We have to thoroughly demoralize the enemies of God....by
means of destroying and blowing up the towers that constitute the
pillars of their civilization such as the tourist attractions
they are so proud of and the high buildings they are so proud
of."

MICHAEL CHERKASKY: Only when we started looking at that material,
and we started finding things and seeing things clearly for the
first time that we became agitated because, honestly, because we
hadn't seen it before and excited because in fact we now thought
we had more of a clue about tracing the, the history of this
group and more of an idea about what had actually happened here,
that in fact, a long term conspiracy that had been hatched by
Sheik Rahman.

STEVEN EMERSON: Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, leader of a militant
Egyptian movement, came to the United States in 1990. He would
soon assert control over the Jihad movement in the U.S.
The killing of Kahane was the first act of terrorism planned and
carried out by Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman's foot soldiers.

SEIF ASHMAWY: Omar Abdul Rahman was accused in Egypt of enticing
people to kill Sadat. He got away with it. He came here. I heard
him myself talking about Jihad. And I heard him and I understand
how he could convince people in the way of Jihad, in the wrong
meaning of the word of Jihad.

STEVEN EMERSON: Seif Ashmawy publishes an Arabic newspaper called
The Voice of Peace. Despite threats to his life, he has been a
vocal critic of Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman.

SEIF ASHMAWY: Islam is a very new baby in United States. It just
been introduced to the American in the past 10 years. They heard
of it but they don't know anything about it. In the past 10 years
they start to listen to it. And all the image they had at that
time was Imam Khomeini. Now they have worse than Imam Khomeini
after the World Trade Center.

STEVEN EMERSON: Sheik Abdul Rahman actively recruited followers
across the country.

SHEIK OMAR ABDUL RAIIMAN [Detroit, 1991]: The obligation of Allah
is upon us to wage Jihad for the sake of Allah. It is one of the
obligations which we must undoubtedly fulfill, and we conquer the
lands of the infidels and we spread Islam by calling the infidels
to Allah and if they stand in our way, then wage Jihad for the
sake of Allah.

STEVEN EMERSON: The Jihad movement in the United States attracted
a group of followers willing to put word into action. Like
Mahmoud and Mohammed Abouhalima, identified here for the first
time at this Jihad rally in Brooklyn in 1989 and charged four
years later as conspirators in the World Trade Center bombing.
And Siddiq Ali, a Sudanese radical accused of being an architect
of Sheik Abdul Rahman's campaign of terror. Here, just in months
before the World Trade Center bombing, he is recruiting followers
in New Jersey.

SIDDIQ ALI: The sword is to be absolutely used and implemented.
This is as a principle.

RODNEY HAMPTON-EL [New YorK, 1991]: Jihad is something that has
to be implemented. Its not a thing that we speak of, it is a
thing that we do.

STEVEN EMERSON: And Clement Rodney Hampton-El, an American who
was wounded in Afghanistan fighting the Jihad. Hampton-El was a
follower of Sheik Abdul Rahman and allegedly helped plan the
killing of Rabbi Meir Kahane. He would later be charged in the
World Trade Center conspiracy.

RODNEY HAMPTON-EL: Jihad! Allahu Akbar! Jihad!

STEVEN EMERSON: From his prison cell, Nossair continued to
organize the campaign of terror. Prison logs show that he met
with several of the conspirators to help plan the World Trade
Center bombing.

MICHAEL CHERKASKY: He was a soldier when he shot Kahane and in
some ways his status was elevated to be a soldier, a trainer, an
example, a martyr for the movement who was allegedly continually
demanding that the movement move forward. That they take more
strident action that he was sitting in jail for what he had done
and that others had to pick up the mantle.

STEVEN EMERSON: But the plot did not shift into high gear until
the arrival of two men in the United States five months before
the bombing. One was Ahmed Ajaj. He was arrested at Kennedy
Airport for carrying false passports. Police found in his
possession a vast array of bomb-making manuals and video tapes,
including this one produced by a group called the International
Islamic Resistance. Ajaj's partner Ramzi Yousef managed to enter
the country. He immediately went to a New Jersey safe house where
he began building the bomb. He spoke regularly to Ajaj in prison.
Yousef escaped hours after the blast. His whereabouts today are
unknown. In the summer of 1993, Sheik Abdul Rahman and fourteen
followers were indicted for the bombing of the World Trade
Center. They were also accused of conspiring to blow up the
Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, and the United Nations building, and
planning the assassination of prominent Americans.

In April 1994, in the first of a series of trials, four followers
of Sheik Rahman's -- Mohammed Salemeh, Mahmoud Abouhalima, Nyyal
Ayad, and Ahmed Ajaj -- were sentenced to 240 years each. But
Sheik Abdul Rahman's followers are not alone. Our investigation
has revealed that they are just one of several radical groups
who have set up networks throughout the United States to support
international terrorism. These networks include two of the most
notorious terrorist organizations in the world -- Hizbullah and
Hamas.

OLIVER REVELL: The Hizbullah and the Hamas are very active in the
United States. We now know that they have carried out military
training operations including firearms practice, the creation and
construction of explosive device and bombs. We know that they are
taking munitions and materials into areas of the world where they
are carrying out assassinations and acts of terrorism and they
are also putting together arsenals within the United States for
the same purposes.

STEVEN EMERSON: U.S. law enforcement officials say Brooklyn's
Al-Rifah Refugee Center has, in the past, supported Hamas and
other international terrorist groups. It is now headed by Sheik
Abdul Wali Zindani. In addition to raising funds for humanitarian
purposes, members of the Al-Rifah organization are believed to
have been invoived in bombings and assassinations around the
world.

Zindani refused to speak to us, and denied any involvement with
radical Islamic politics. But this speech at a mosque in Brooklyn
reveals Zindani as a leading Islamic holy warrior.

SHEIK ABDUL WALI ZINDANI: [Brooklyn, New York] Allah, the most
high and exalted, ordered us to kill the idol worshippers, the
enemies of Allah. Fight the idol worshippers altogether, just as
they fight all of you. When you go into battle, fight the idol
worshippers wherever you find them. Pursue them and finish them
off!

STEVEN EMERSON: Richardson, Texas is a sprawling suburb of
Dallas. Located here, in a nondescript industrial park, is the
headquarters of Hamas' principal American support group. IAP
stands for the Islamic Association for Palestine. The IAP
publishes Hamas books, magazines and pamphlets, and has dozens of
offices and affiliates around the country.

[Editor's Note: The IAP changed its name and is now known as the
Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.] 

MOHAMMED AL-HASSAN: Our general aim is to inform the public about
the Palestinian issue.

STEVEN EMERSON: Mohammed Al-Hassan is the editor of the Muslim
World Monitor published by the IAP. He denies any connection to
Hamas.

[interviewing]: Do you support the Hamas Covenant? Do you support
the Hamas point of view?

MOHAMMED AL-HASSAN: I don't support any point of view as such.

STEVEN EMERSON: Does the Muslim World monitor support that point
of view?

MOHAMMED AL-HASSAN: I wouldn't say it does, no.

STEVEN EMERSON: Does the IAP support the Hamas point of view?

MOHAMMED AL-HASSAN: Not as, the Hamas point of view, no. It
supports liberation of Palestine, it supports informing the
public about the Palestinian issue, it supports informing the
public about the different groups, the different activities which
are going on in Palestine. But it doesn't take a position in
support of any one group per se.

STEVEN EMERSON: Yet IAP released this Hamas communique that urges
Muslims to die in the holy war against Jews who they call
"enemies of humanity, the bloodsuckers, and the killers of
prophets." IAP routinely publishes anti-Jewish literature, such
as this pamphlet, which it has distributed for years. We got a
copy at an Islamic conference in August 1994.

There was a publication put out by IAP that I got a hold of. It
says "America's greatest enemy: the Jew."

MOHAMMED AL-HASSAN: Well, I have never seen that publication
myself. I don't know how many years ago it was put out, I mean I
would have to read it to comment on it.

STEVEN EMERSON: Under the name Aqsa Vision, the IAP produces
informational videos on a variety of subjects.

[interviewing]: I have heard that there is a tape distributed by
Aqsa Vision that glorifies Jihad and the killing of infidel or
the occupier.

MOHAMMED AL-HASSAN: I mean I would have to ask. I don't know
about that myself personally.

STEVEN EMERSON: You don't know of any types of films distributed
out of the offices?

MOHAMMED AL-HASSAN: I don't know exactly no.

STEVEN EMERSON: IAP's Aqsa Vision produced this Hamas video,
which takes credit for executions, torture and terrorist
operations in Palestine.

Our investigation has uncovered more than 30 groups that
fund radical islamic activities and operate under tax exempt
status.

OLIVER REVELL: They're engaged in many instances in illegal
actions not collecting money for purposes of simply supporting
humanitarian aspects but for munitions and weapons and military
capabilities. And in addition, if you listen to what they're
really saying, they are not just aimed at the Israelis, they are
not just aimed at the Jewish State. Their goals are completely
and totally to eradicate any opposition to Hamas and to Islam and
to move against the United States ultimately.

PAUL BREMER: They probably have set up an organization that,
allegedly, only does fund-raising. And they probably only tell
people who give money that the fundraising is only going to nice
soft things like hospitals and child care. But in fact, money
raised in this way is fungible. It can be used to buy AK-47s or
bomb makings.

STEVEN EMERSON: In 1989 some of the world's most influential
leaders of radical Islam held a conference attended by: Sheik
Mohammed Siyyam, a leader of Hamas from Palestine; Abdullah Anas,
a leader of the Algerian Islamic front; Rashid Ghannushi, head of
the radical Tunisian fundamentalist group called Al-Nahdha;
Tawfiq Mustapha, a leader of the Muslim liberation party based in
Jordan; Yousef Al-Qaradhwi, a militant Muslim leader, originally
from Egypt. This conference was never intended to be broadcast.
It was a secret gathering to expand Jihad networks and terrorist
operations. Actual Hamas terrorists--veiled to protect their
identities--boasted of their successful executions.

[Editor's note: The name of Yousef Qaradhwi is more commonly
written as Yusuf Qaradawi.]

TERRORIST: Sixteen Jewish soldiers were killed!

STEVEN EMERSON: But this gathering did not take place in the
Middle East. It happened in the heartland of America, Kansas
City, Missouri. All of these groups have established bases in the
United States and have many graduates.

Like Mohammed Saleh, a Palestinian-American who was arrested in
Israel in early 1993 for financing the purchase of weapons that
were used to murder four people. He had attended secret workshops
on terrorist warfare at another conference held in the midwest in
1990. In other parts of the United States, FBI officials have 
confirmed the existence of several command centers and
communication posts. Like this Texas hamburger stand, which
relayed telephone calls between the World Trade Center bombers
as a means of avoiding detection. This letter was sent to a
Hamas command center operating out of a Chicago grocery store.
It is a request for money and further instructions from their
American-based military commanders.

We request that you give us orders telling the conditions under
which it is permissible to kill a collaborator ... or torture a
collaborator to force him to confess.

OLIVER REVELL: Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are two
of our most precious liberties in the United States. And it's
exactly within that fold, within that protection that these
groups can function. So it poses a real threat to us that they
can come to full blown fruition before we really know the scope
and the, the intensity of their involvement and their potential
for violence within the United States. I think that's the biggest
threat is that it, it may well be that we don't know the extent
of their capabilities and their intentions until we actually see
them in action.

STEVEN EMERSON: We have documented at least a dozen similar
conferences that have taken place in America in the past five
years, where militant leaders from around the world have praised
acts of terrorism and urged their followers to wage Jihad.

PAUL BREMER: If you take the case of the kinds of speeches that
Sheik Rahman was giving before the attack in, in The World Trade
Center, it's sort of the equivalent of yelling "fire" - in a
crowded movie theater. It has, you can't say that the freedom of
speech extends to shouting "fire" - in a crowded movie theater.
Words have consequences and when you go every Friday to the
mosque and give this kind of a stem-winding, blood-curdling
speech, at some point you have to be responsible for those
consequences.

OLIVER REVELL: We ought to listen to what they intend to do.

YOUSEF AL-QARADHWI: [Kansas, 1989] On the hour of judgment,
Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them.

OLIVER REVELL: It's their own words, their own actions, and their
own deeds that are the key to our understanding of their
intentions.

SAM IDHAFAR, President, Islamic Charity Project International:
[New York 1992] We want this small Muslim community to serve as a
dagger in the center of this civilization.

OLIVER REVELL: And their intentions are to harm the United States
in very significant ways and to reduce its ability to oppose
their international agenda.

KAMAL HILBAWI [Kansas 1990]: Open the borders of Jordan to the
Muslim youth so they may confront the Jews and the Americans at
once.

OLIVER REVELL: That's what we need to be concerned about, what
they themselves intend to do.

STEVEN EMERSON: Hamas supporters are celebrating the return of
their leaders to the West Bank and Gaza.

This could be a scene from the Middle East, but in fact this
rally was held in New Jersey in November 1993 and was organized
by the IAP. The singers are saying "we solve our problems with the
Kalashnikov" -- a Russian semi-automatic rifle. Some even brought
their own guns. The rejoicing continues with lyrics like "we buy
Paradise with the blood of the Jews." Book store literature
preaching hatred and intolerance is increasingly found in Islamic
book stores throughout the United States. [Books on shelves]
Titles that demonize Judaism and attack Christianity. A culture
of violence has begun to spread to the next generation in the
United States. 

[Summer camp kids singing] These American Muslim children are
attending a summer retreat in the Midwest. But this in not your
typical summer camp. [Pan of campers singing] Here, the children 
are taught to praise armed struggle and terrorism. In this Jihad
chant they are praising the leader of Hamas. This young camper
just said: Butcher the Jews.

It's a Friday afternoon in Washington D.C. Devout Muslims are
coming for prayer services. Across the street Sheik Mohammad
Al-Asi leads a demonstration against the leaders of this mosque.

MOHAMMAD AL-ASI: In the past eleven years we've been coming here,
and we cannot go into the masjid. Is this freedom? Is this what
is included in the Bill of Rights?

Sheik Al-Asi is the religious leader of the Islamic Education
Center in Potomac, Maryland.

MOHAMMAD AL-ASI: I would say the the Jews have improportionate
control over the instruments of government. I would say Capitol
Hill is Zionist occupied territory. I would say the executive
building, the White House, is also under a cloud of Zionist, a
Zionist umbrella, and so can be said about the State Department,
the Pentagon, et cetera.

STEVEN EMERSON: He routinely calls for the destruction of Israel,
Egypt, and any regime allied with the United States.

MOHAMMAD AL-ASI: We're not picking on the United States -- we're
not picking on anyone. We're just dealing with the people who are
coming and causing us all these problems. Why is the United
States placing itself in the middle of all of these problems? If
it extricates itself from all of this, it will not force us to do
what we are forced to do. But if it stirs a hornets' nest, the
hornets are not going to, ha-ha, respond lackadaisical manner.

STEVEN EMERSON: [interviewing] Do you believe then in the use of
violence? Even as a last resort?

MOHAMMAD AL-ASI: Yes, I believe in the in the use of violence,
well, I, look wait a minute, don't, you know, take this issue or
put words in the mouth of the interlocutor. Violence is not the
word. The use of arms, I think, would be the word, the more
accurate word to use here. And the Koran teaches us that
sometimes the use af arms is inevitable, we, in order for justice
to be done this is the only recourse we have.

STEVEN EMERSON: What About Egyptian leaders like Mubarak or
Israeli leaders who come to the United States -- since they are
running their governments policies, are they legitimate targets?

MOHAMMAD AL-ASI: No, unless the United States becomes a war
front, they're not legitimate targets.

STEVEN EMERSON: Unless the U.S. becomes a war front.

MOHAMMAD AL-ASI: Unless the United States becomes a war front.

STEVEN EMERSON: And what become, at what time would it become a
war front?

MOHMMAD AL-ASI: When do places become war fronts? When you have a
war.

STEVEN EMERSON: Is there emerging a war front condition at this
point?

MOHAMMAD Al-ASI: No, I don't think there's a war here, a war
front here in the United Shtes at this point. I think that if the
whole scenario continues the way it has, inevitably the United
States is going to be reaching a type of war front. Yeah. But not
right now.

STEVEN EMERSON: How much longer do we have?

MOHAMMAD AI-ASI: (Ha, ha, ha), That's very hard to predict, I mean
that's that's, if I knew the answer to that, I'd probably be
somewhere else. (laughter).

STEVEN EMERSON: Sheik Al-Asi is a frequent speaker at radical Muslim
conferences. He made this speech in Chicago during the buildup for
the Persian Gulf War.

MOHAMMAD AL-ASI: [Chicago, 1990]: If the Americans are placing their
forces in the Persian Gulf, we should be creating another war front
for the Americans in the Muslim world -- And specifically where
American interests are concentrated. In Egypt, in Turkey, in the
Indian subcontinent, just to mention a few. Strike against American
interests there.

STEVEN EMERSON: That conference was sponsored by the Islamic 
Committee for Palestine. The committee describes itself as a
charitable organization. The group it supports -- the Islamic
Jihad -- has been responsible for some of the bloodiest terrorist
acts of the past ten years, including the mutilation of three
Israeli factory workers and a stabbing attack on a Tel-Aviv
street that killed one school child and seriously wounded several
others. It seems a long way from mall global acts of terrorism to
this suburban shopping mall, but its not.

The Islamic Committee for Palestine is based here in Tampa,
Florida. This used to be its headquarters, but in early 1994,
the committee vacated this office and moved to an undisclosed
address here in Tampa.

STEVEN EMERSON: "Peace Be With You" is a cable access show in
Tampa that reaches 60,000 homes. Its host is a professor of
engineering at the University of South Florida. He is also the
president of the Islamic Committee for Palestine.

SAMI AL-ARIAN: It does not try to abolish other ideologies and
other religions. I have my religion and you have yours.

STEVEN EMERSON: Sami Al-Arian's Organization, acording to law
enforcement, serves as the primary support group in the united
States for Islamic Jihad. ICP promotes Islamic Jihad's activities
in both the U.S. and he Middle East.

PAUL BREMER: Palestine Islamic Jihad is a terrorist organization.
It's a group of radical, fundamentalist Palestinians which came
together in the 1970's with the objective of basically
establishing a fundamentalist State on the terrain of Israel --
destroying Israel. That's their objective. And they've engaged
in terrorism against Israelis, both civilians and military and 
against moderate Arabs and other Palestinians who disagree with
them.

STEVEN EMERSON: Sami Al-Arian denies any connection between the
Islamic Committee for Palestine and the Islamic Jihad.

SAMI AI-ARIAN: We are not really a political organization, we are
more a charitable, social, cultural type group. We are trying to
really stress the existence of the Palestinian community here in
the West. We are trying to educate them about, especially in
cultural terms because I've seen lot of tragedies about the
children and that's why basically we're trying to focus our
efforts right now.

STEVEN EMERSON: [Interviewing] Would you say you support the
Islamic Jihad factions?

SAMI AL-ARIAN: No, we don't support any political groups at all.

STEVEN EMERSON: Yet the Islamic Jihad's newspaper -- Islam and
Palestine listed the ICP Tampa address as one of its main offices.

SAMI AI-ARIAN: There was never affiliation. I mean I'm not sure
that Islam and Palestine was, to start with, a Jihad. I saw most
of the issues and neve saw the word Jihad.

STEVEN EMERSON: In fact, many of the issues openly promote holy
war against the west. Dr. Al-Arian himsef wrote this speech
published by the ICP, urging Jihad. It says, "we assemble today
to .... pay respects to the march of the martyrs ... and to the
river of blood that gushes forth and does not extinguish, from
butchery to butchery, and from martyrdom to martyrdom, from Jihad
to Jihad."

ICP conferences the Islamic Committee for Palestine has also
sponsored conferences featuring some of the most radical Islamic
leaders in the world today, including Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman.

SAMI AL-ARIAN: I reject the terms fundamentalist, radical, all
that.

STEVEN EMERSON: Sheik Omar?

SAMI AL-ARIAN: He is more of a conservative type. Again he dropped
in, he was never invited. You wouldn't find his name, and when he
dropped in, he was giving lecture believe it or not to the youth
and children, he was not giving a forum to the adults.

STEVEN EMERSON: Another radical leader who has been consistently
invited to ICP conferences is Sheik Abdul Aziz Uda, the spiritual
leader of Islamic Jihad.

[Interviewing] But Abdul Aziz Uda has been here?

SAMI AL-ARIAN: Well, he's been to the conferences.

STEVEN EMERSON: But he has been to this mosque, yes, no?

SAMI AL-ARIAN: Ah, was he? He might have been. I need to check my
records. Actually, many, many, many people have been to this mosque.

STEVEN EMERSON: Sheik Abdul Azziz Uda has in fact visited
Al-Arian's mosque in Tampa, and frequently travels in and out of
the United States. U.S. authorities say Uda was an active member
of Sheik Abdul Rahman's group in Brooklyn. He was named as an
unindicted co conspirator in the World Trade Center bombing. At an
ICP conference in Chicago, Sheik Uda delivered this speech.

Abdul-Azziz Uda: "Now Allah is bringing the Jews back to Palestine
in large groups from all over the world to their big graveyard,
where the promise will be realized upon them, and what was
destined will be carried out."

STEVEN EMERSON: [interviewing] If someone were to say to you that
Israel, Israel is to serves as the mass graveyard for the Jews.
What would your reaction be to that?

SAMI AI-ARIAN: Yeah some people may say that, yeah. I've read
that, I know some people may have said it.

STEVEN EMERSON: Would you be surprised if you found out that
Sheik Abdlul Aziz Uda of the lslamic Jihad came to the United
States quite frequently for the past six years?

PAUL BREMER: I, I would be very surprised. I think it would
indicate another, another time how lax our immigration procedures
are dealing with terrorists. It's shocking because, what it means,
in effect, is it's easier to come to the United States as a
terrorist than as a refugee.

STEVEN EMERSON: One way they get in is through groups like ICPI,
the Islamic Charity Project International. ICPI claims to be a
humanitarian relief organization. "Wipe a tear," it says in its
brochure, "make an orphan smile." Law enforcement officials say
ICPI money goes to Jihad activities. And as a non-profit
religious organization, it poses as a front to bring radical
extremists into the united States. This is footage of a 1992
ICPI Conference held in the United States and shows the
organization's darker side.

AHMAD NOFAL: All those operations that comfort our hearts, all of
them were perpetrated by Muslims. Isn't it so? The operation of
the bus. Aren't you following history, who is behind it, the
killing of Kahane, who is behind it? These lessons speak for
themselves.

STEVEN EMERSON: Sheik Ahmed Nofal is a known recruiter of Hamas
terrorists in Jordan. One of the operations he was applauding is
this terrorist act in Israel. An Islamic fundamentalist
commandeered a bus and drove it off a cliff. Sixteen people,
including one American were killed. One of ICPI's most prominent
members is Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, seen here, sitting next to
Sheik Nofal at another ICPI conference.

MICHAEL CHERKASKY: Sheik Rahman is the leader, is the organizer,
is, has the impetus that pushes forward these group of individuals,
these foot soldiers, to strike at America as the Great Satan. And
try to damage America and unnerve America and sap the will of
America by terrorist acts.

STEVEN EMERSON: Some radical groups here say their only enemy
is Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and they are not enemies of the United
States.

OLIVER REVELL: If you listen to what they're saying, Israel,
Egypt, Jordan are surrogates for the United States, that they are
puppets and we're the puppeteer and the way to strike at Israel,
Egypt and so forth is at the United States because without the
United States, they could not and would not exist so we are the
ultimate, we are the great Satan that is their primary and
ultimate target.

STEVEN EMERSON: As the activities of Muslim radicals expand in
the United States, future attacks seem inevitable. Combating
these groups within the boundaries of the Constitution will be
the greatest challenge to law enforcement since the war on
organized crime.

OLIVER REVELL: I think because we have this guaranteed free
speech, guaranteed free religion that their Statements have
gone largely unnoticed. We in the United States, the law
enforcement communities cannot collect public information
unless they have an ongoing criminal investigation. So those
things that you as a journalist or other journalists may know
or academicians may know, law enforcement will not necessarily
and probably will not know.

STEVEN EMERSON: Most Americans cannot grasp the militant
Islamic threat. But moderate Muslims must live with it every
day. Adil Yousif is a Sudanese Muslim who knows several of the
defendants in the conspiracy, and rejects their interpretation
of Islam.

ADIL YOUSIF: They believe all the Westerners are the enemy of
Islam, all the Christian and Jewish group. They are the enemy of
Islam. And they believe then there are some Islamic groups
working with those Western people they are the enemies of Islam
and they said those are even dangerous than the Western
themselves.

SEIF ASHMAWY: These people have their own doctrine. They could
accuse you that you are infidel. They could accuse you that you
are not a Muslim by saying that which is the word Kaffir or
Infidel, by saying that you are being put out of the community.
In, in other words your blood became lawful. Anyone could kill
you and anyone if he does so, so he did it in the way, in the
way of God.

STEVEN EMEBSON: Seif Ashmawy knows many of the militants and
says that democracy means something entirely different to them.

SEIF ASHMAWY: Hitler came to power in a Democratic means.
Mussolini came to power in Democratic means. Those people are
using that democracy just to reach the power, once they have
the power there will be no democracy. I heard it over and over
and over for many of them. I read their publication. They are
saying there is no Democracy in Islam.

OLIVER REVELL: The very freedoms that allow them to function
and operate are what they despise. And it is a paradox that we
have not come to grips with and that we can't understand as a
nation why people that we allow to come in and benefit from our
system and our protections turn around and in essence hate us
for it.

STEVEN EMERSON: Last summer, the world saw what could have
happened in the World Trade Center blast. Using an almost
identical bomb, suspected Islamic terrorists blew up the
Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. More than
100 civilians were killed. Thc terror of islamic militants is
no longer a problem confined to the Middle Esst. While some
militant organizations may portray themselves as moderates, it
is in fact moderate Muslims who are most threatened. The
militants' agenda demands confrontation with any group that
disagrees with their radical vision. Although the militants
may claim to speak on behalf of all Muslims, Islam as a religion
does not condone violence. The radicals represent only
themselves -- an extremist and a violent fringe.


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Editor's notes:

The Islamic scholar Khalid Duran was an editorial consultant
on this piece. He would later coin the phrase "Islamofascism"
in an interview with the Washington Times in 2001.


The "Books on shelves" at the 1993 IAP rally include:
 * The Case of Israel: a study of Political Zionism, by Roger Garaudy
 * A book titled Jewish Conspiracy
 * A book titled Islam Versus The West
 * A book titled The Talmud Unmasked
 * The Thirteenth Tribe, by Arthur Koestler
 * A book titled The Jews
 * A book titled World Hoax
 * The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, by A. R. Butz
 * A book titled West vs. Islam
 * A book titled You Gentiles
 * A book titled Jewish Conspiracy and the Muslim World
 * Zionism and Racism, by Mohammed Siddique Qureshi 
 * Crucifixion or Cruci-Fiction, by Ahmed Deedat
 * What the Bible says about Muhummad, by Ahmed Deedat
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