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Friday, August 10, 2012

Pepe Escobar: "American (jihadi) Idol''

From Asia Times

''The messenger of "terra" in this CFR case is one Ed Husain, described as "a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies" at the CFR. Before he set up the first-counter terrorism think tank in Britain, he was "an activist of Jamat-e-Islami, Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), and Muslim Brotherhood front organizations in the United Kingdom". But thanks Allah he repented, and became "a strong critic of extremism and Islamism".

Syria proves once again that the West loves defectors. Still, our Islamist defector is careful to cover all bases, adding, "the unspoken political calculation among policymakers is to get rid of Assad first - weakening Iran's position in the region - and then deal with al-Qaeda later.''

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