OBAMA AND HIS MUSLIM LEGACY -- IT GETS WORSE.

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December 4, 2015

There is much confusion about the policies and direction of the Obama presidency. Pundits and politicians alike flounder when trying to explain the actions of President Obama. The reason for this confusion and misunderstanding is the lack of courage to identify and integrate the unmistaken evidence of what they are dealing with.

Obama and His Muslim Legacy

The recent defense of Islam at the prayer breakfast was a central clue to what is going on in Obama’s mind. Searching for some way to downplay the role of other religions and therefore equivocate atrocities performed today with those of other religions in the past can only be described as evasion of context. Denying the words Islamist terrorists and constantly referring to Islam as a religion of peace only confirms his basic premise that translates into action to promote Islam consistently and almost openly. When you look at the words of the Koran and Obama’s actions you see a pattern that cannot be misinterpreted.

First take the Islamic tenet that lying to promote Islam is perfectly acceptable. This includes such practices as evading and distorting. We know the man is a liar from his claims on healthcare, his shovel ready jobs and “ You didn’t build that”. Why would we accept that he was truthful when he swore to defend the Constitution. That has been an obvious lie.

Now consider that what if a man with Muslim proclivities decides that his contribution to Muslim dominance can best be served by using his oratorial talents to become President of the United States and then undermine the county with weak leadership, massive debt and doing all that he can to diminish America and her defenses? Could not a person’s intent on Muslim dominance accomplish this mission to some extent? It was pointed out by Laura Ingram that Obama seems well qualified to accomplish what he wants to accomplish and she pointed to his elections, his free college program, his stimulus , etc. But when it comes to dealing with ISIS he seems feckless. Is this because he doesn’t know what to do or is it because his agenda is far different than an American President who would want to protect and promote the American Dream?

President Obama seems to have little interest in his legacy as an American President. No one would want their country to become more mediocre, weak, and debt ridden if they had a spark of rationality in them. Yet these destructive avenues keep being advocated and reflect only a mission to boost Muslim stature and diminish America. His foreign apologist speeches can only point to such a mission.

In Obama’s mind where he displays many of the attributes identified by Patai in his book ,” The Arab Mind”, we see the notion that speech is more potent than action, lying to promote Islam is perfectly acceptable and a central drive to avoid denouncing Islam is evident by the weak leadership regarding national defense. Releasing terrorist leaders and attempting to close Gitmo also fit with the overall objective of a Muslim legacy.

At the end of his term of office he will be able to say to his Islamic cohorts, “ See what I have done to promote your case and diminish the power and stature of the nation of infidels as asked by the Prophet. Such a legacy will sit well with the Muslims who will see a path to dominance they had not envisioned. Infiltration will be the strategy of the Muslim future and although simple bombing will continue, infiltration into the institutions and government will play a major part. Identifying and challenging this invasion will require more than simple vigilance. A lock step party will only accelerate the invasion as we have already seen. If no one is willing to identify this mission for what it is America will be degraded to the status the Muslim religion seeks. The land of the free without the home of the brave will cease to exist.

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ECHOES OF SAN BERNARDINO -- WHERE RADICAL MUSLIMS INTRODUCE THEMSELVES. AGAIN.

Echoes of San Bernardino -- where radical muslims introduce themselves. Again. 

December 3, 2015

Bob Collins Copy and paste this on ALL muslim stories! Flood them with the truth!

OVERWHELMING

The Paris bombers were Muslim
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
The underwear Bomber was a Muslim
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims
The Bafi Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims
The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Musiims
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims
The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims
The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims
The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims
The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims'
Think of it:
Buddhists living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Christians = No Problem
Hindus living with Jews = No Problem
Christians living with Shintos = No Problem
Shintos living with Confucians = No Problem
Confusians living with Baha'is = No Problem
Baha'is living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Atheists = No Problem
Atheists living with Buddhists = No Problem
Buddhists living with Sikhs = No Problem
Sikhs living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Baha'is = No Problem
Baha'is living with Christians = No Problem
Christians living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Buddhists = No Problem
Buddhists living with Shintos = No Problem
Shintos living with Atheists = No Problem
Atheists living with Confucians = No Problem
Confusians living with Hindus = No Problem
Muslims living with Hindus = Problem
Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem
Muslims living with Christians = Problem
Muslims living with Jews = Problem
Muslims living with Sikhs = Problem
Muslims living with Baha'is = Problem
Muslims living with Shintos = Problem
Muslims living with Atheists = Problem
MUSLIMS LIVING WITH MUSLIMS = BIG PROBLEM
**********SO THIS LEAD TO *****************
They’re not happy in Gaza
They're not happy in Egypt
They're not happy in Libya
They're not happy in Morocco
They're not happy in Iran
They're not happy in Iraq
They're not happy in Yemen
They're not happy in Afghanistan
They're not happy in Pakistan
They're not happy in Syria
They're not happy in Lebanon
They're not happy in Nigeria
They're not happy in Kenya
They're not happy in Sudan
******** So, where are they happy? **********
They're happy in Australia
They're happy in England
They're happy in Belgium
They're happy in France
They're happy in Italy
They're happy in Germany
They're happy in Sweden
They're happy in the USA & Canada
They're happy in Norway & India
They're happy in almost every country that is not Islamic! And who do they blame? Not Islam... Not their leadership... Not themselves... THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN!! And they want to change the countries they're happy in, to be like the countries they came from where they were unhappy and finally they will be get hammered!!!!!!!!

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CANCER WALK . . . I BELONG

CANCER WALK

I belong . . .

BY VERNE STRICKLAND  December 1, 2015

I belong in this place. With these people.

There are not many times in our lives when any of us can say this with assurance.

Here I belong.

We are bound together by one common thread that brought us together – cancer.

Our meeting place is the chemo suite at the Cape Fear Cancer facility in Wilmington.

This is not designed as a social center. Its purpose is to treat cancer victims with sophisticated, individually designed chemotherapy treatments administered intravenously. These high-tech drugs kill cancer. Boost survival rates. Offer more precious time to patients.

There are usually twenty or more patients here at any one time. I am one of them. We sit in comfortable padded recliners, as registered nurses circulate about, hooking us up to IV units that drip measured amounts of cancer-fighting drugs into our bodies.

Some read, some sleep, others may chat quietly with those in neighboring chairs.

There is not a sense of urgency here. Or a sense doom or fear. We know why we are here. We know this is the serum of life that is poured drop by drop into our veins. And it is this that kindles the spirit of togetherness we seem to feel as a group. We are all on a mission of life or death.

Patients with a wide array of cancers in various stages are in this room. I have a bone and blood cancer – multiple myeloma – diagnosed by highly-respected oncologist, William McNulty. I have endured a lot of pain, and a lot of fatigue, weight loss, and other side effects from the treatments.

But I am one of the lucky ones.

The kind and gentle registered nurses move with efficiency and purpose throughout the room. Each may care for three or four patients. Using their computers, they monitor the cancer-fighting fluids going into each individual. This is the stuff of life and survival they administer. It is comforting to note their dedication, professionalism, and caring attitude. To us they are guardian angels.

I will spend about two hours once a week in chemotherapy. People with more serious illness may spend as much as eight hours in treatment. It’s a sacrifice they are willing to make for the benefits of the powerful medicines that kill cancer.

Today I strike up a conversation with a pleasant well-spoken cancer patient seated beside me. Bob is about sixty, a retired U.S. Naval officer. He has lung cancer. Compared to him I have a garden variety malignancy. But my cancer can also kill.

There is no bitterness in this wonderful man. It cannot be said that he is resigned to his fate, because he fights with courage and tenacity. But he knows that, short of a miracle, he may prolong the fight, but is not likely to win it.

“Do you have a faith that is helping you through this?” I ask. He looks at me with a steady, alert gaze. “Of course. God watches over me.”

I discover references to the Almighty throughout this Wilmington cancer ward. Earlier, as I conversed with a sweet lady of about seventy, she confided that she had been healed by one of those miracles Bob was talking about. She is back with another threat – pancreatic cancer. I believe in miracles – I have had my own -- and told her I would pray fervently for her. She inspired me greatly. But this may be a tall order. Then I think of Lazarus.

On a previous session in the chemotherapy suite, I met a seemingly robust gentleman with a jovial spirit. He looked tanned and fit. He lives here on the coast, retired from a successful career with his own chemical company. He likes boating, fishing, and enjoying his family. He has esophageal cancer, but evidences no outward concern or burden with his illness. It is like this at every turn with these people – a special breed in every way.

But back to my Navy pal Bob. He was good company, and I think each of us bolstered the mood of the other as we got acquainted.

He said, “You know this is actually a wonderful thing we share here. All of us are struggling with similar problems. It just helps to gather like this, knowing that the person next to us understands. I think we gather strength from this, even when we don’t talk. We’ve all been brought here. We all belong here. It’s a path we have to take.”

It was a profound statement. And I feel it too. In the midst of the sickness, the pain, the unknown destinies each of us face, there is a special camaraderie that is palpable.

It’s a feeling of hope, understanding, tenderness toward others, resignation, love. God gives us that along with the suffering, which, incidentally, we are each promised. The experience strengthens us, focused our attention on the important things in this life. It somehow seems a fair trade.

Thank you, Lord.

Until the day break , and the shadows flee away

Till the day break , and the shadows flee away

   Until the day break, and the shadows flee away' 
   Song of Solomon 4:6


    This is on my Grandfather's tombstone. He died June 22,1941

    It has a stunning effect on me. He took his own life on this day.

    I am so desperately sorrowful. I perceive his last moments.

   Here is how I envision him on his day of everlasting Glory:



     I see him rising fresh-faced from his torment
    And hear the flutter of a small dove's wings

    Rays of a morning sun seep through leafy boughs, dappling his face -- It is pale,
    lean, luminescent

    There is a light of wonder in his eyes --
    drenched by dew, God-sent tears 
    like sprinkled holy water
    as from a stone baptismal font 

    My grandfather, young again, his time unspent,

    smiles joyfully as he sees
    the face of Jesus

    He is risen -- risen indeed
    Thank you Precious Lord

    Verne Strickland

ONCE A POET by Verne Strickland,

 ONCE A POET by Verne Strickland, 

 November 11, 1976

  ONCE A POET By Verne Strickland

November 11, 1976 Crown Center

  

  good god it’s dark in Baltimore
  and cold in Kansas City
  and I’m headed for the bright lights
  in a first class jet airplane

  I have come across the country
  in my prominence and glory
  and the people who are waiting
  hope I’ll let them buy me whiskey

  I am living in the high time
  but inside I’m sick and heavy
  for my boys and my sweet woman
  are at home cut loose and drifting.

  that’s a winter sun that’s sinking
  and it’s colder than my insides
  and my mind is pale and sighing
  maybe dying

  but my life and times are fat
  and stuffed with fortune fame and favor
  and my vest is smart and fitted
  and admired by poor Chinese

  it is mine the dream you crave
  I have bought it with my greed
  and it’s all the hell and loneliness
  you’ll need.

WHY THE MARINE CORPS HYMN CONTAINS THE VERSE "TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI"

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By Samuel James

NOV. 28, 2015

Why the Marine Hymn Contains the Verse "To the Shores of Tripoli" 

Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago the United States had declared war on Islam and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!
At the height of the eighteenth century, Muslim pirates were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic.
They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their government and family members to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.
These extortionists of the high seas represented the Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers – collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast – and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic.
Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain. When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France. However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets.
Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, seventeen years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became America's Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States rather than engaging them in war.
In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments. Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace. A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli's ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.
The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran that all nations who would not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."
Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over twenty percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800.
Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming. That changed everything. Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States. Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit. Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense, but, having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic thugery for long enough, decided that is was finally time to meet force with force.
He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to "cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify".
When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the right to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli. The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years, and raged up again in 1815. The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn, and they would forever be known as "leathernecks" for the leather collars of their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships.
Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply.
America had a tradition of religious tolerance, the fact that Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen. A religion based on supremacism, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers, was unacceptable to him. His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States.
This should bother every American. That Muslims have brought about women only classes and swimming times at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judged; Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities; ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah; public schools are pulling pork from their menus; on and on and on and on....
It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America.
By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our own culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife, and helping to further the Islamists agenda. Sadly, it appears that today America's leaders would rather be politically correct than victorious!
Any doubts, just Google "Thomas Jefferson vs. the Muslim World."

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PAUL CRUICKSHANK -- CNN FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT PAR EXCELLENCE

Verne Strickland USA DOT COM  November 23, 2015

Paul Cruickshank, Editor in Chief, "The Sentinal"

Here's the new star newsman of global television reporting. I took to Cruickshank when I first spotted him via CNN in an ISIS battle zone in Europe. He even stood out above CNN's stellar Anderson Cooper.

I like what he delivers and the way he delivers it. Cruickshank is a brooding, no-nonsense hard-ass. He glowers at the camera, uses up no smiles on the interviewer when he's being quizzed, and fiercely serves up the facts.

He's going far. Right now he's the top male journalist on the international circuit. Try to catch Paul on CNN, mainly in the prime time hours. I think you'll be impressed too.

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Paul Cruickshank has reported extensively on al Qaeda, ISIS, and other Salafi Jihadi groups. He regularly appears on air as CNN's Terrorism Analyst and is the Editor-in-Chief of "The Sentinel" the independent flagship publication of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.

He is the co-author of the 2014 book "Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA" 

The book is a true life spy thriller: the memoir of the Danish double agent Morten Storm, who was Western intelligence’s most important spy inside al Qaeda. He led the CIA to some of al Qaeda’s most dangerous operatives, including the American terrorist cleric Anwar al Awlaki, and single-handedly thwarted terrorist attacks in the West, including in the UK.

The book has been translated into twelve languages. The UK edition was published by Penguin in July 2014 and the US edition by Grove Atlantic in September 2014. In the Summer of 2014 the book was optioned for a Hollywood movie.

The book was also featured in a special exhibit at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC. In September 2014 CNN aired "Double Agent: Inside al Qaeda for the CIA" a one hour documentary on Storm's story which Cruickshank helped produce. The documentary was awarded a silver world medal for "best investigative report" by the New York Festivals.

Cruickshank is the editor of "Al Qaeda" a five volume collectionof the key scholarly research on the terrorist network, which was published by Routledge in November 2012. It includes a comprehensive introduction to each volume newly written by the editor placing the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. Routledge described the collection as "an essential work of reference destined to be valued as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource." The collection was described by a leading terrorism studies journal as “monumental … to date the most comprehensive resource published on the terrorist organization and its worldwide affiliates.”

Cruickshank contributed a chapter on the al Qaeda 2006 transatlantic airline plot for the book "The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat" (Columbia Studies in Terrorism & Irregular Warfare, October 2014) and a chapter on terrorist training in the book "Understanding Terrorism Innovation and Learning" (Routledge, 2015).  

Cruickshank has regularly contributed to CNN's reporting of Al Qaeda terrorism from a range of locations including the United States, Europe, and the Middle East and has frequently been a guest on CNN programs such as The Situation Room, The Lead, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Tonight, Larry King Live, Piers Morgan Tonight, New Day, as well as CNN International to provide on-air analysis and reaction to breaking news events.

He was part of CNN's on-air breaking news coverage immediately after news broke of the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011 and provided on-air analysis on numerous major stories including the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the 2012 Toulouse terrorist shootings, the 2010 attempted bombing of Times Square,  the 2009 Christmas day attempt to bomb an airliner over Detroit,  the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, and the 2006 Transatlantic Airlines plot. 

Between 2006 and 2009 Cruickshank was a research fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University’s School of Law and previously worked as an investigative journalist in London, reporting on al Qaeda and its European affiliates and was part of the CNN reporting team that covered the London July 7, 2005 attacks. 

Cruickshank has written about Al Qaeda and Islamist groups for a variety of international publications and news outlets including The New Republic, The Guardian, Newsweek, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, Mother Jones, Marie Claire, The Independent, Die Welt, The National Post, The New York Daily News, The Australian, Janes, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.

Cruickshank also previously provided commentary on national security issues to a range of television and radio networks including the BBC, Channel 4 Evening News, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, NPR, BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme,  Canada's CTV, Reuters, Fox News, and Al Jazeera English.

In July 2011 the New America Foundation published a 66 page study by Cruickshank on the militant pipeline between the West and the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region that has continued to provide al Qaeda an opportunity to target the West. 

Cruickshank is the author of the introductory guide  "Al Qaeda: the Current Threat," (Pocket Issue, October 2008).

In July 2012 CNN aired "Caging Terror" a thirty minute documentary produced by Cruickshank on a former cage fighter's pioneering program to rehabillitate convicted terrorists in the UK.

In April 2012 Cruickshank and CNN colleagues Nic Robertson and Tim Lister revealed for the first time al Qaeda's internal account of the July 7, 2005 London bombings and 2006 Transatlantic Airline Plot. The document, authored by Rashid Rauf, the British al Qaeda coordinator responsible for the operations,  was seized from an al Qaeda operative arrested in Berlin in 2011 and shed significant new light on the plots. CNN International aired a 30 minute special on the story and it was a lead story on AC360.

In February 2012 CNN aired "Deadly Cargo" a 12 minute magazine report produced by Cruickshank on the 2010 AQAP "printer" bomb plot and the threat posed by the group to international aviation.

In September 2011 Cruickshank worked with CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson and Executive Editor Tim Lister to put together several reports on the al Qaeda threat ten years after 9/11, incuding an in-depth investigative report on the threat to air cargo and an analysis of the threat of lone wolf terrorism.

In September 2010 CNN aired a 9/11 anniversary special report "Bin Laden's New Jihadis" to which Cruickshank contributed reporting.

In May 2010 CNN aired the hour long documentary "American Al Qaeda" which Cruickshank produced, and appeared in. The special report was the result of a ten month investigation by Senior CNN International Correspondent Nic Robertson, Senior CNN Producer Ken Shiffman and Cruickshank into  the story of American Al Qaeda recruit Bryant Neal Vinas in which CNN tracked down the individuals who allegedly radicalized Vinas and connected him to militants in Pakistan.

In February 2010 the New America Foundation published an in-depth study by Cruickshank on the Militant Pipeline between the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region and the West an update edition of which was published in July 2011.

In December 2009 CNN aired "Homegrown Terror," a 30 minute CNN Special Report. The program contained several reports from a CNN Special Investigations Unit series on the domestic terrorist threat which Cruickshank proposed and helped put together. Later that month Cruickshank reported for CNN from London on the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an airliner in Detroit.

In November 2009 CNN aired "The Jihadi Code" a documentary produced by Cruickshank on the repudiation of Al Qaeda by the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, one of the world's most prominent Jihadist groups. The documentary was the result of two years of investigative reporting during which Cruickshank and colleague Nic Robertson obtained exclusive access to Abu Salim prison in Tripoli and exclusive interviews with key players in the talks that led to the breakthrough.

In February 2009 Cruickshank produced a half hour CNN documentary "One Woman's War," which profiled "Al Qaeda living legend" Malika el Aroud. The program was nominated in the category of "best documentary" in the 2009  Monte Carlo Global Television Awards.

In October 2008 Cruickshank's on-camera reporting was featured in the CNN International half-hour documentary  "Deadly Recruits: Female Suicide Bombers." 

Cruickshank was the co-producer of an hour-long Dateline NBC documentary on the 2006 "Airline Plot," which aired in September 2008. The report was awarded second place in theNational Headliner Awards for the "best news magazine program" of the year on US network television.

In June 2008 Cruickshank co-authored a cover story in the New Republic with Peter Bergen entitled "The Jihadist Revolt against Bin Laden." The story was reprinted in several leading publications around the world and was picked up by several newspapers, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,Economist, Financial Times, and the London Times. Their report also helped generate a Congressional Hearing and a Capitol Hill Panel on Al Qaeda’s ideological vulnerabilities.

In March 2007 Cruickshank co-authored with Peter Bergen the"Iraq Effect," an NYU Studywhich measured the impact of the Iraq war on the rate of terrorist attacks. The study, published in Mother Jones, found a significant increase in terrorism around the world in the period after the US invasion of Iraq, generated a front page story in the Independent.

In 2006 Cruickshank worked with CNN on a two-hour Emmy-nominated documentary “In the footsteps of bin Laden,” based on Peter Bergen's 2006 Oral History "The Osama Bin Laden I Know," which he helped research.

Cruickshank graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in history, and has a Masters degree with Honors in International Relations from the Paul. H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He has also worked in the European Parliament in Brussels and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C.

Below:  With CNN anchor Anderson Cooper in New York City on May 2, 2011 after news broke that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

Above: On assignment with CNN, Tripoli, Libya, 2009

Below: US edition of "Agent Storm" 

Below: On the Larry King Show, New York, 2007Below: UK edition of "Agent Storm" 

Below: On CNN International discussing Navy Seal Raid in Somalia, October 2013

Below: Interviewing "Al Qaeda living legend" Malika el Aroud for CNN "In the Footsteps of bin Laden" documentary, February 2006.  She was later arrested and convicted of terrorism offences.

Below: Discussing the Boston Marathon Bombing with Christiane Amanpour, CNN April 2013

At a vending machine in Gadhafi's Libya in 2009:



Below: In Libya in 2009 for CNN Senior International Corresondent Nic Robertson's interview with Saif al-Islam Gadhafi in his Tripoli residence for our documentary "The Jihadi Code." 

Below: we were first journalists allowed into the notorious Abu Salim jail in Tripoli in 2009 to meet "Jihadi" prisoners.



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