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'Terror expert' Walid Shoebat's fraudulent claims exposed by CNN

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CuriousLurker7/15/2011 2:06:19 am PDT

re: #1 mdey

Actually, I’ve heard this guy was a fraud for years. He’s been pretty much been limited to Fox News, he’s been on Hannity and Beck multiple times. Outside of that, has he been taken seriously by anyone else?

Well, according to the article as recently as the month before last he had a (very well paid) speaking engagement in Rapid City, SD at a forum put on by the state Office of Homeland Security for 300 police officers and sheriff’s deputies.

Then in October of last year there was this in Las Vegas:

Kill them, including the children.”

That’s how to solve the threat of violent militant Muslims?

The above quote is from what one official involved in homeland security said was how she understood the underlying theme of a speech by Walid Shoebat at an anti-terrorism training in Las Vegas in October 2010. Our investigator had turned around after Shoebat’s speech and asked the woman seated one row back what she thought was the solution offered by Shoebat.

“Kill them…including the children…you heard him,” was the full response.

Shoebat’s speech was described by our source as “frightening.”

[…]

Full article at PublicEye.org…

Based on those two alone, I guess I’d say he’s still taken quite seriously.

If you’re interested in the in getting at the meat of how shaky some of the stuff that’s supposed to keep us safe actually is, then you might want to invest some time in reading through “Top Secret America”, a Washington Post project that involved more than a dozen journalists and two years of work.

It seeks to describe the post-9/11 buildup of “a national security and intelligence system so big, so complex and so hard to manage, no one really knows if it’s fulfilling its most important purpose: keeping its citizens safe.”