See Something, Say Nothing by Philip Haney

Author:Philip Haney [Haney, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-12T04:00:00+00:00

AS SEEN ON TV

After the meeting, I went back to work on the modification project, which took until March 2010 to finish.

On December 10, 2009, I received my ten-year pin and certificate for “recognition of service in the Government of the United States of America.” With a decade of government service now officially in the books, I recall wondering where I might be ten years later and where our country might be in the year 2019.

A couple of weeks later, on December 25, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear while on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route from Amsterdam to Detroit.

Within moments, I ran some queries and discovered that Abdulmutallab was not only linked to Anwar al-Awlaki, the senior al-Qaeda recruiter, but was also president of the University College London’s Islamic Society.14 He was the fourth president of a London student Islamic society to face terrorist charges in the three years prior to 2009.

I also found that some of the individuals and organizations linked to Abdulmutallab were already part of the Hamas Network case, or would subsequently be linked to either the Tablighi Jamaat Initiative, or to the sixty-seven records in the Islamic Institute of Education report that were deleted in September 2012.

Additionally, I discovered that Abdulmutallab had received a multiple-entry visa from the American embassy in London, valid from June 12, 2008, to June 11, 2010, which he used to visit the Al-Maghrib Institute in Houston, Texas.

The Al-Maghrib Institute already had ties to other organizations in the Hamas network, and an Al-Maghrib leader would later be linked to the Dar Al Uloom al Islamiyah of America mosque in San Bernardino, California, attended by San Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook.

The small office where I worked on the modification project had a TV, and I followed the Abdulmutallab case from the original news reports to the congressional hearings on C-SPAN.

As one member of Congress after another expressed concern about the radicalization of American citizens and permanent residents, and the failure to connect the dots,15 I was literally removing those very dots from TECS, the system we all used to track the activities of individuals and organizations with known or suspected ties to terrorism.

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