Weekly Terrorism Spotlight

Volume 1, Issue 4 (April 7)

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Leitner: MOA camps are a criminal enterprise

Counter-terrorism expert Dr. Peter Leitner states Muslim of America camps can best be opposed for their criminal activities [final]

Leitner calls on law enforcement agencies to use laws against organized crime to close up Muslims of America

Muslim of America has already been noted as a subversive organization of isolated Islamist Muslim compounds linked to terrorist training, or jihad, dangerous on an alarming scale.

Counter-terrorism expert Dr. Peter Leitner, president, the William R. Higgins Counter-Terrorism Research Center, said short of listing MOA as terrorist, a thorough probe of members already charged with crimes would yield evidence of racketeering, or organized crime.

There are up to 35 Muslims of America compounds spread across the U.S., and their rural locations make them difficult to infiltrate, Leitner explained previously.

Counter-terrorist enforcement could stand aside and draw on observations of criminal cases linked to MOA, which is where Leitner continued his comments recently to Christian Action Network president Martin Mawyer.

“Those RICO statutes that are there in order to define criminal conspiracies are probably our most effective tools against domestic terrorist organizations,” Dr. Leitner said.

“It is organized crime,” he added. “We should simply use those tools…And other laws we need to use are the sedition acts.

“It is a felony to advocate the violent overthrow of the United States government and its constitutional system. Those are still on the books – we need to use them.”

The problem, Leitner said, is law enforcement leaders, especially at the national level, do not set their vision for what law enforcement means on the street, where enforcement is practical.

They are continually looking at a big picture – where the problem is one of terrorism, possible attacks, on the scale of a strategic war.

The trench-warfare mentality forgets the high-ground of simple fact: the plotting and organization of a criminal enterprise is a high crime in and of itself here on our turf, in America.

“There’s nothing wrong with these laws; they are still the laws of the land,” Leitner said. “They are really organized crime gangs, and if we prosecute them as such, we can wipe them out.”

Adding to his prior comments warning against “lack of diligence on the part of the government” leaving American citizens unprotected, Leitner said there is a failure of America’s political leaders to pursue terrorist enterprises as organized crime.

He added brave citizens, if victimized in any way, can join, or perhaps start the ball rolling on the RICO front by going after terrorist organizations through civil actions. Civil RICO includes the possibility of reward orders to the tune of triple asset damages.

In the meantime, as many Christian Action Network supporters have pointed out in their comments to CAN offices, there is a lack of action on the part of our protectors, and this leaves Muslims of America and other terrorist-linked organizations, festering in our backyards.

“They are still there because the United States government allows them to be there,” Leitner said. “There’s either indecision, or there are people within…manipulating prosecutors to prevent [them] from actually going after these organizations.”

Leitner warned against law enforcement apathy regarding the terrorist, criminal threat – and against lightly scratching the surface only to turn away because of the religious appearance of a group.

He said Muslims of America hides behind their “religious card” and is quickly ready to blame any scrutiny against them as an act of anti-Muslim bigotry.

“It’s a complete red herring, but it is used effectively on politically correct people in the United States who doubt their own system of justice,” he said.

[Dr. Leitner’s interview remarks are being processed onto video for presentation soon at YouTube. Watch future weeks at www.christianaction.org for links to the Leitner interview video.]