Family Security Matters - Week of 8/18/08

Hezbollah and Salafists Sign Agreement
By W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

Yesterday, we broke the following story [in the Western media] at WORLD DEFENSE REVIEW:

"Shiia Hezbollah and Sunni Salafists forging an unlikely alliance?

"Lebanon's Shiia Hezbollah and Sunni Salafi extremists may be nearing an agreement of mutual respect and coordination, which could be signed-and-sealed over the next 24-to-48 hours. (Incidentally, the terrorist network Al Qaeda was born of Salafism. So when you think of Salafi extremism, think Al Qaeda and all of its affiliates.)

"Though almost nothing about this has been reported in the Western press, human intelligence and open sources are indicating the agreement could be signed in Beirut as early as Monday when Hezbollah leaders and Salafists are scheduled to meet.

"According to our sources, despite the age-old Shiia-Sunni religious opposition - as well as recent bloodshed between the two radical Islamist organizations - 'Hezbollah and Salafi leaders have been negotiating a sort of memorandum of understanding for some time.'"

"One of the catalysts for such an agreement is based on intelligence suggesting 'the Iranians have flooded the Salafists in Lebanon with money in order to undermine moderate Sunnis - even Shiias - who are attempting to move toward democracy in Lebanon; building ties with Lebanese Christians and Druze.'

"Sources say both extremist groups are issuing statements, primarily in the Arab media, such as, 'Muslims should not fight Muslims,' but should instead bring all forces to bear 'against the West which is trying to divide us.'"

Today, we learn the agreement has indeed been signed. [more...]


Obama Confirms Relationship with CPUSA Member
By Cliff Kincaid

With the release of a 40-page "Unfit for Publication" report attacking Jerome Corsi's new book, The Obama Nation, it should be obvious that the media-backed presidential candidate, Barack Obama, is terrified of having his carefully concealed communist and foreign connections exposed to public view. However, the Obama campaign's attack on Corsi's book and Corsi personally acknowledges on pages 9 and 10 of its report that the mysterious "Frank" in Obama's 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, is in fact the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) member Frank Marshall Davis. This identification by AIM and others hasn't been disputed by the media, which has desperately tried to ignore the Obama-Davis relationship, but the Obama campaign has not responded to it until now. The admission that Obama's mentor was Frank Marshall Davis, an identified CPUSA member, can only add to growing public concern about Obama's relationship with a Communist pawn of Moscow who was the subject of security investigations by the FBI and various congressional committees, which examined Soviet activities in the U.S. [more...]