Terrorist Cell and Terrorist Recruiter in Orange County

Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter

John Loftus said on the live national radio talk show coast to coast with host George Noory, he stated, " I know for sure that a Terrorist cell is operating in Orange County Mosques and is recruiting young Moslems." Its also believed both American born and non- American born youth are receiving terrorist training. Mr. Loftus claims that the cell is operating openly and freely with no apparent investigation by law enforcement. This is potentially a very dangerous situation that needs attention by Federal, State and Local law enforcement. Its believed to be a large cell operating with a number of locally recruited and trained terrorist who could strike anywhere at anytime if unabated. John Loftus has more inside information on the terrorists abroad and at home, and asks, "When are we going to wake up?"

In June, he warned of the London bombings, and now has more on what we can expect in our country and right here in Orange County

John Loftus is President of the IntelligenceSummit.org, and can be heard weeknights on ABC's John Batchelor program. John said, I hate to say this, but I think the FBI has been asleep at the switch. A lot of people, including my private investigator Bill Warner, who I think is the best PI in America, have said there's been a real problem with the FBI leadership in Washington. People can't get search warrants in time. If it happens outside the FBI, it doesn't get pursued. If it's not invented here, it's not touched, it's put on the back burner. Unfortunately, we're in a position where we can't allow that kind of luxury any more. Because the same organizations in the United States are directly linked to the ones in London that just pulled off the subway bombings.

Al-Muhajiroun

According to John Al-Muhajiroun are here in America, and the successor organizations. These groups have been desecrating the American flag, and have demanded an Islamic nation in the United States.

Hizb al-Tahrir And al-Tahrir

Al-Muhajiroun has offices in both New York and London. They were the parent organization, the Finsbury Mosque, of the subway bombings. Their leadership in New York was responsible for planning the subway bombings. What we're finding out is that they have a sister organization called Hizb al-Tahrir. And al-Tahrir is, if you will, the operational or training arm, Muhajiroun is the recruiting arm. Now the Russian Secret Service says that Hizb al-Tahrir is the secret radical arm of the Muslim brotherhood. This is the granddaddy of all the terrorist organizations. It goes back to the old Arab Nazi movement of the 1940s. And they worked for the British Secret Service. Then our CIA dumped them in Saudi Arabia, where they were running schools for young kids like Usama Bin Laden. But these folks have come home to roost. We have found out definitely, Bill Warner has found, that the new elected leader of the terrorist group Hizb al-Tahrir lives in Orange County, California. And that he has direct ties with the same groups in London. In fact, the group, the Islamic Thinkers Society in New York--that used to be the address, the post office box, of Iyad Kilal, also called Abu Tarik. And he lives at 500 Gerry Street, in La Habra, Orange County California--

Jihad

Mr. LOFTUS said we've found out that this same guy, Iyad Hilal, has been the author of a book on self-study on how to become an Islamic extremist, if you will. And that one of his early neighbors at a previous address was a young kid named Adam Pearlman, who's now known as Azzam the American, who became an Al-Qaeda member and promised that America will see a new wave of terror, and that the streets will run with blood. Now he was recruited into Muslim society at the mosques where this same guy, Iyad Hilal, was one of the instructors. So the leader of the most radical terrorist arm of the same groups that did the London subway bombing, has a whole cell going in Orange County, California, and has recruited terrorists there. When are we going to wake up?

Connecting The Dots

So it can now be presumed that Al-Muhajiroun and Hizb al-Tahrir.has cells in at least New York, England, Germany and Orange County California. Al-Muhajiroun and Hizb al-Tahrir were the parent organization, of the Finsbury Mosque, they were the London subway bombers. Their leadership in New York was responsible for planning the subway bombings. And that there sister organizations are Hizb al-Tahrir and al-Tahrir if you will, is the operational or training arm, and Al-Muhajiroun is the recruiting arm. Add that the Russian Secret Service says that Hizb al-Tahrir is the secret radical arm of the Muslim brotherhood... and the new elected leader of the terrorist group Hizb al-Tahrir in America is allegedly Iyad Kilal, and that he lives in La Habra in Orange County, California. And that he has direct ties with the same groups in London and the Islamic Thinkers Society in New York. Iyad Kilal, is also called Abu Tarik.

MOSQUES

Orange County's Mosques that Iyad Kilal, also called Abu Tarik may have instructed or attended are: Islamic Educational Center of Orange County Costa Mesa

Islamic Educational Center-Orange

, Darul-Uloom, Santa Ana

, and OCI Foundation, Mission Viejo.

Attempted contact of the above Orange County Mosques by phone was made by the Journal and were answered by machines. By publishing time no return calls had been received by the Journal.

LEADERS CHARGED WITH PROTECTING US AGAINST TERRORIST ATTACKS

FBI Director Mueller

An attempt was made to contact the Local FBI by phone at their offices in Santa Ana California. The Journal was directed by a answering machine to call the L.A. FBI office. Which we did. A male voice answered. The Journal reporter Identified himself and asked to talk with an FBI agent. The reporter had to ask several times if he was speaking to an FBI agent. After several minutes he was finally transferred to who claimed to be the FBI Duty Agent. The FBI Duty Agent said, he did not know of this terrorist cell nor had he heard of Iyad Kilal, also called Abu Tarik. The Journal then offered the information and content of this story. The Duty agent took the information reluctantly and without further inquiry.

Photograph of Willie Hulon Willie Hulon,
Assistant Director,
Counterterrorism Division

According to Willie Hulon, Assistant Director of Counterterrorism Division's web page stated "the FBI is part of a vast national and international campaign dedicated to defeating terrorism. Working hand-in-hand with partners in law enforcement, intelligence, the military, and diplomatic circles, our job is to neutralize terrorist cells and operatives here in the U.S. and to help dismantle terrorist networks worldwide. " However if the press or the public can't reach them to report terror, and if they show little or no interest. How will they be able to accomplish their mission and protect American citizens. I can't help but wonder had this been an terrorist related life threatening emergency how could it had worked any better?

- Federal Bureau of Investigation Home Page
Seeking Terrorism Info

Homeland Security Office has not returned our calls as of yet. More then 72 hours has past with no response from DHS. http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=29

Homeland Security Secretary: Michael Chertoff

The Journal was able to contact the Orange County Sheriff's office Sunday and spoke with watch commander Lt. Boyne, who said he did not know of the Terrorist cell in question. However he was the 1st law enforcement officer that showed any interest and did take the information.

www.ocsd.org.

Sheriff's Terrorism Commentary

Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona

The La Habra Police Chief Dennis Kis said, his dept through one of his watch commanders received a tip in the form of a phone call from a resident of Marina del Rey about a week ago. The Gerry street address was then checked out by his officers and the subject in question was not living there. And the chief was not sure if the subject had lived there at any time in the past. "there is a couple living there now and they checked out OK. However we did turn the matter over to the joint FBI task force on terrorism." He also said, he believed the couple was recently on the popular John and Ken radio talk show on a LA radio station KFI. He believes the task force will keep him informed or if they need his help they will contact his dept.

John Loftus as a former Justice Department prosecutor, John Loftus once held some of the highest security clearances in the world, with special access to NATO Cosmic, CIA codeword, and Top Secret Nuclear files. As a private attorney, he works without charge to help hundreds of intelligence agents obtain lawful permission to declassify and publish the hidden secrets of our times. He is the author of four history books, three of which have been made into films, two were international best sellers, and one was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

John Loftus can be reached at http://www.john-loftus.com /

This is a developing story. Iyad Hilal if your reading this I would like to interview you and hear your side. Anyone with reliable information on this story contact the Laguna Journal’s investigative reporter Michael Webster at wibcom@aol.com

Related history of Islamic Brother lyad Hilal and the alleged new elected leader in America of the terrorist group Hizb al-Tahrir and that it is believed he lives in Orange County, California. :

EDITOR'S CHOICE: Islamic Jurisprudence (part 14)
enriching themselves in acquiring the tools necessary for performing Ijtihad.â€ Source: Studies in Usul ul Fiqh by Iyad Hilal (pages 174-181) ... http://www.adishakti.org/_/islamic_jurisprudence_part_14_taqleed.htm
Virtues of The Month Rabi'-Ul-Awwal
This is a continuation of the extract from the book "Studies in Usul Ul Fiqh {Studies in Principles of Fiqh}" by Brother Iyad Hilal. TAQLEED ... http://www.daar-ul-ehsaan.org/Rabi-Ul-Awwal.htm
Virtues of Islamic Life {Dhee Qa'datun Najeeb Vol. 1}
... even if the issue occurs in the same environment that the Mujtahid is residing in. (Studies in Usul ul Fiqh, Iyad Hilal Pg. 72 through 74) ... http://www.daar-ul-ehsaan.org/Najeebvol1.HTM [More results from www.daar-ul-ehsaan.org]
Islamic Ideology (Books IR)
Islam A Complete Way Of Life, Iyad Hilal & Shadman Baig, S, 80, $7.50. Islam A Comprehensive Guide-Book, Kherie, Altaf Ahmad, S, 469, $8.25 ... http://www.halalco.com/islamideol_ir.html
Some Aspects of Prophet Muhammad's Life
Selections From The Seerah Of Muhammad, Iyad Hilal, S, 203, $11.50. Shamaail Tirmidhi (With Commentary), Muhammad Zakariyya, H, 458, $11.25 ... http://www.halalco.com/seerah_b.html [More results from www.halalco.com]
MPACUK :: Hizb Man Sacked From The Guardian
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MPACUK
4) HT of Iyad Hilal thats something that HT dont mention very often...but there you go just blew the lid again!! sorry shabab ... http://www.mpacuk.org/index2.php?option=content&task=view&id=845&pop=1&page=0
The Jamestown Foundation
... yet another split, and HT Camp 4 are known as the Reformers of Hizb-ut-Tahrir and are led by Iyad Hilal in America and Dr. Tawfiq Mustafa in Germany. ... http://www.jamestown.org/news_details.php?news_id=38
DTN DIRECTORY GROUPS ISSUES FUNDERS INDIVIDUALS MEDIA ACADEMIA ...
... a book about Islamic Shari'ah law whose author is "Brother Iyad Hilal." Iyad Hilal is described by Sheikh Bakri Mohammed in the Jamestown Foundation ... http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6292 [More results from www.discoverthenetwork.org]
From ilm@muslimsonline.com Wed Jul 15 16:37:19 1998 Date: Mon, May ...
Extracted from: Iyad Hilal: Studies in Usul ul Fiqh available at, www.khalifornia.org and Selections from the Seerah of Muhammad (saaw) by Islamic Cultural ... http://salam.muslimsonline.com/~ilm/post51.txt
GN Online: UAE take on Syria in do-or-die match
Hilal explained added. "The players are determined and have promised to do their best ... Mohammed Budaka, Iyad Abdul Karim, Iyad Mendou and Yehya Rashid in ... http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=102280
Portal Islam w Polsce
Treaties in Islam, by Iyad Hilal International Relations; the world community in transition, by Norman D. Palmer and Howard C. Perkins ... http://www.islam-in-poland.org/index.php/weblog/tell/muzumaskie_spojrzenie_prawo_midzynarodowe_rda_i_rozwj_historyczny/

Basic Fiqh and Shariah
from "Studies in Usual Ul Fiqh" by Brother Iyad Hilal published by Cultural Workshop, ... (Studies in Usul ul Fiqh, Iyad Hilal Pg. 72 through 74) ... http://members.cox.net/arshad/fiqhandshar.html
Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, founder of Hizb-ut-Tahrir in the United Kingdom

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About 1,000 people were evacuated from 350 other houses as a precaution. Many of them are now returning home and others may be allowed back under supervision to retrieve personal belongings, Orange County (search) officials said.

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People scrambled for their lives early Wednesday, awakened by the sounds of cracking walls and exploding pipes. Five people suffered minor injuries, officials said, and miraculously, no one was killed.

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"We were very scared, my brother and I. We were freaking out," said Stevens, who suffered a minor injury from stepping on a cactus in her bare feet.

Karen Harvey, senior dispatcher with the Laguna Beach Police Department, said early Thursday that there were no new landslides reported overnight.

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"You could hear the homes breaking. You could hear the cracking wood," said Jill Lockhart, who awakened to the noise of shattering glass and walls.

She fled with her son 2-year-old son, Tyson, over her shoulder and his 4-year-old brother, Trey, stumbling along in his pajamas.

The family climbed into a neighbor's SUV, but their path was blocked by a utility pole, forcing them to flee on foot. They had to abandon the road when it began to collapse, finally scrambling down a hillside to safety. Lockhart's two-story home was destroyed.

At the top of the hill, the foundations of several homes were left exposed, their corners jutting out with nothing underneath to support them. One road ended abruptly, with the edge of the pavement hanging over a tangle of debris scattered downhill.

City manager Ken Frank expected about a third of the evacuees — those farthest from the slide — to be back in their homes in the next day or two. Others will be allowed to retrieve belongings under supervision Thursday.

Last January, a landslide crashed down into the coastal community of La Conchita (search), in Ventura County northwest of Los Angeles, killing 10 people.

Laguna Beach, offering vistas of the Pacific from coastal bluffs, has been hit before by flooding, mudslides and wildfire. In 1998, a rainstorm triggered slides that damaged 300 homes, 18 of them severely, and killed two people. A fire in 1993 swept down into the city and destroyed some 400 homes. Most were rebuilt within a half-dozen years. And in October 1978, a slide in the same canyon destroyed 14 homes.

The area has some of Southern California's most desirable real estate. The damaged homes generally sell for $2 million or more, residents said. Recently, the community was prominently featured on the MTV show "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" that debuted in September.

State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi said most residents who lost their homes probably did not have insurance coverage for landslides — something that insurers began eliminating more than a decade ago.

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To the editor,

What can one person do?

Most people I've spoken with in recent years feel they have no power, no
ability to affect the dreadful course of events unfolding around them,
especially world or national events. Cindy Sheehan shows what one person can
do.

Whether you agree with her position on Bush and Iraq or not, there can be no
doubting the magnitude of the effect that has followed her actions. By
standing along a dusty road in Texas with a sign she has done more to
successfully challenge the neo-con New World Order than the entire worldwide
anti-war movement and the entire Democratic Party combined. If more people
dared to individually stand up for what they believe in this way the police
state would wither on the vine.

During a war normal life is suspended. We are in a war, but it's not the
fake war on terror we see on Fox and CNN.

The real war is being made all over the Earth against average everyday
people like Cindy Sheehan. Right now most of the casualties are overseas but
the real focus is still right here in the US. Unless the American people can
be subjugated, intimidated, disinformed and made willing to give up their
rights those making this war will ultimately lose it.

The real war is a war against free speech, against the bill of rights,
against freedom, against conscience and against human decency. It's a war
against life, against nature and against the Earth itself. As Americans we
are uniquely both the perpetrators and the victims of this war -
perpetrators because this is all being done in our names and victims because
it is our freedom that is the ultimate target.

Deny the corporate police state what it wants and you will deny it power. To
defeat such an enemy, we must use the weapons that are most effective, the
weapons they most fear.

What are these weapons? Certainly not bombs or bullets or suicide attacks.
They are the manufacturers, distributors and perpetrators of most of the
violence we see in the world today. Using the techniques of advertising,
propaganda and human psychology, they manipulate young Americans to go to
war as readily as they brainwash young Muslims to become suicide bombers.

What they fear most are not weapons of mass destruction but sincere words.
Cardboard signs. Acts of conscience. A refusal to go along with the
propaganda of fear. A determination to not let them get away with it.

It all comes down to one person at a time non-violently standing up for what
they believe in. Anyone can refuse to be intimidated into silence or passive
acceptance. Sometimes, defending your country means fighting against it.

Like the power within a single atom, we all have this power right now freely
at our disposal.

Freedom is the gift given to all Americans. Use it or lose it.
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Dear Editor:

Our Harmonic Concordance Experience

Our local "Harmonic Concordance" ceremonial experience turned out awesome. We
had planned a small celebration at a local home wth a nice natural back yard
setting of maybe a dozen or so guests. Then at the last minute we listed our
celebration of hosting offer with the Harmonic Concordance web site. The
response was overwhelming. We had 103 requests for information and 47 showed. We
could jam in and accommodate 40 in the canyon home and back yard so we met the
others at Aliso beach in South Laguna. We had a moving time, starting with a
spectacular sunset (green flash did not show), followed by the Lunar Eclipse
(which we could not see do to cloud cover). Though payer, meditation, drumming,
rattles, flute sounds and camp fire, the evening was filled with unity joy,
peace and reconciliation.

The concordance harmonic agreement tones formed the basis for the
extraordinary sky that followed the eclipse. The cloud formations took the shape of a
huge Feather Fan others saw in it step rows of the Anasazi farming fields of the
American Southwest. Shortly thereafter the unobstructed view of the full moon
appeared a circle or halo, which we have all seen before. But then never
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of the rainbow. We named it "The Harmonic Agreement Tones". It was one of
those times when humanity was achieving significant progress in the raising of
consciousness and spiritual growth. From my viewpoint, I've experienced quite a
number of highly touted moments of great enlightenment. This to me was a
massive paradigm shift into a new enlightenment of Harmonic Concordance.
The energy that flowed forth was the light from which all knowledge and God
given talent comes from. Where dreams are visions while we sleep and visions
are dreams while wake, but they are always coming and Nov 8, 2003 they were
super charged.

Through this ceremonial experience we reached for the highest expression
possible for the development of human beings. And for what this can mean for the
world and peace. As this experience raised our consciousness, we grow in
spiritual understanding and in our ability to express our world and the marching on
of mankind.

Akkeeia
Mayan Shaman Priest (949) 697-5676 MVWSR@aol.com

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Dear Editor:
Everyone always refers to the Constitution of the United States as though they know it by heart. We have all heard the phrase "you are violating my constitutional rights". However, how many of us have actually read the document it in its entirety? Most likely, a very small percentage of us could be included in that group. It would be wonderful if it was required reading for every citizen of this great nation of ours. Maybe, then we would understand that the founding framers gave us a blueprint by which we could be a government that was by the people and for the people.

This document provides for us a model by which, we are to live as a free people. It is a constitution meant for all Americans, for all times. The Constitution instructs us to elect the President, every four years, elect the Congress and a Senate and to install a multi- tiered Judiciary system, The checks and balances instituted in this document was to perpetuate a democratic nation. Party politics came about to make for an adversarial climate. For the truth to come forth there must be a thesis, an antithesis and a synthesis of opposing ideals. It makes for good competition; after all, competition in the public sector as well as the private sector makes for a healthy America.

Now let us focus on the local governments and examine the obvious lack of competition that exists here in our California cities. The system called general law government has over 300 cities in the state operating under the format of council/manager administration. This system prides itself on being devoid of bipartisan politics and runs counter productive to the governments that exists at the National as well as State levels. Why is this the case? The answer can be found in Richard Stillman's book entitled the "The Rise of The City Manager". He argues that a city should operate as a corporation and who best to run the city than the City Manager. He is the technician, the CEO, the Council is the Board of Directors and we the people, are the shareholders. In a perfect world, this system could work for the benefit of all. However, this is not a perfect world and we the shareholders are getting a raw deal. A poll could easily verify voter dissatisfaction here in Laguna Beach. What we are forced to endure is a façade of a democratic system, which in reality is a government controlled by the City Manager, who is appointed and not elected. There in lies the unaccountability. Sources tell me that the average salary for a City Manager in the state of California is $204,000 per year. Just use common sense, City Councils are not in control of local governments. How could they be, when they are paid a mere pittance compared to the City Managers. They are merely puppets for City Managers. Is that why the City Managers are the third most powerful lobbying group in the state of California? They perpetuate their existence and in fact, no city incorporated in the state of California since 1970, has been anything but City Manager controlled. We do not have democracy at the local level, but instead a technocratic bureaucracy.

In Laguna Beach the City Manager, Ken Frank has been in power for over 25 years and there are sentiments amongst many of the citizens that the situation is out of voters' control. It does not matter who is elected to the City Council, no one will dare contest Frank. The council is in fear of the man. Why is this so? They are afraid of his power and the monopoly he enjoys. However, there are some citizens in Laguna Beach that have the courage to stand up and expose the emperor for what he is, a dictatorial leader. Just take an anonymous survey of what city employees feel and the truth would hurt. As a person who has lived here over 15 years I talked to many about their opinions. Is that why the Fire Fighters had to go forth with their initiative? Would a democratic system purposely endanger the lives of its citizens? Would a caring government sell its artistic soul to the highest bidder? Would it have little regard for the needs of its senior citizens? The answer is no to all of these questions. The spirit of freedom is in the air, here in Laguna Beach. When the people are educated about the Constitution and what it stands for, the closer we will get to having the representation of a government in Laguna Beach, that is for the people and by the people.

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