Daniel Pipes at DanielPipes.Org ("Opine briefly on diverse topics, mostly within his areas of specialization") recognized excellent counterterrorism at work.
Money quote(s):
"U.S. law enforcement agencies have generally responded to 9/11 with a pretend counterterrorism policy. They still insist that naming the enemy as Islamism causes terrorism, that Islamist violence poses no more threat than that of neo-Nazis, racial supremacists, et al., and that counterterrorism primarily involves feel-good measures such as improving civil rights, passing anti-discrimination laws, and displaying goodwill to Islamists.
And then there is the New York Police Department, an institution uniquely spurred by 9/11 to abandon its former laxity and get serious. The force that had mishandled prior terrorist incidents (e.g., the assassination of Meir Kahane) quickly transformed itself into an outstanding counterterrorist agency under the remarkable leadership of Raymond Kelly. (Andrew McCarthy calls him a "godsend"). Unlike other law enforcement institutions, NYPD names the enemy, acknowledges the predominant threat of Islamist violence, and built a robust intelligence operation."
Counterterrorism means countering terrorists. If "improving civil rights, passing anti-discrimination (?) laws, and displaying goodwill" will get you there, more power to you. But catering to Islamists surely won't.
"(T)he department dispatched officers to Pakistani neighborhoods and "instructed them to look for reasons to stop cars: speeding, broken tail lights, running stop signs, whatever. The traffic stop gave police an opportunity to search for outstanding warrants or look for suspicious behavior. An arrest could be the leverage the police needed to persuade someone to become an informant." NYPD established the Terrorist Interdiction Unit to handle these informants, including "mosque crawlers," "café crawlers," shopkeepers, and nosy neighbors."
Enforce the laws on the books. Novel concept. Target extra attention on the neighborhoods most likely to be harboring terrorists and their sympathizers (i.e., their support infrastructure).
This obviously doesn't mean that terrorists can't base themselves elsewhere, false-flag themselves, or even recruit from other neighborhoods and national groups, but it's just silly to ignore the obvious (and thereby create a sanctuary).
"It established the Special Services Unit to handle operations outside of New York City, where NYPD lacks jurisdiction, including several American states and eleven foreign countries. The effort has its share of successes; for example, a Muslim NYPD officer working undercover in New Jersey had a major role in Operation Arabian Knight, the June 2010 arrest of two New Jersey Muslims who pleaded guilty of planning to join the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab and then kill American troops.
It also established the Demographics Unit to "map ethnic residential communities within the Tri-State area [New Jersey, Connecticut, and New York State]" and to send undercover police officers, or rakers, to monitor Muslims. Made up of 16 officers speaking among them Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu, the unit lists 29 "ancestries of interest," all of them predominantly Muslim, including one described as "American Black Muslim." In all, NYPD identified 263 of what it calls "ethnic hot spots" in the city, plus 53 "mosques of concern." "
All in all, a chronicle of solid intelligence/counterintelligence work on the domestic front. This is what the FBI should be doing (and hopefully, quietly, is doing) rather than playing snuggle-bunnies with CAIR and other unindicted co-conspirators.
9/13
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