2024: The FAR, Federal Acquisition Regulations - Part 26
James Feldkamp discusses military, FBI, and terrorism
1. James L. Feldkamp
Discusses U.S. Navy, FBI Special Agent, and Politics
What the military, and FBI look for in recruitment, and
benefits of public service
Theory and Politics of Terrorism. Why people become
terrorist, and the state of radical Islamic terrorism
(aka Jihadist) after 9/11
10. A Definition of Terrorism
Not just Criminals, Crazy’s and Crusaders!
Violence (or threat thereof) against civilians (or those who cannot defend
themselves) for a Political purpose aimed against a legitimate political order.
Recipe:
1. Violence (or threat thereof)
2. Civilians
3. Political
So….can terrorism work ?
17. Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916 The Balfour Declaration 1917
Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour
& Lord Lionel Rothschild
King of Hejaz,
Sharif of Mecca King of Iraq King of Jordan
Husayn ibn Ali Faisal Abdullah
18. 18
1979: Momentous year for relations between the democratic nations
of the West and the Arab and Muslim world
1. Witnessed the establishment of a theocratic dictatorship in Iran
2. Extremists set siege to the Grand Mosque in Mecca, to “cleanse”
the holiest sites in Islam from the influence of the apostate House of
Saud
3. USSR invaded Afghanistan (MAK, proto-AQ, created)
21. Violent
Islamists
The Current Dangerous and Fallacious Threat Analysis
“Pure” Islamists Political Islamists Violent Islamists
Pure
Islamists
Political
Islamists
Quintan Wiktorowicz’s argument:
The REALITY:
22. One Enemy: One Goal
Violent Jihadists
AQAM, Al Shabaab, etc.
Non-Violent Jihadists:
Muslim Brotherhood
Undemocratic
Theocracies
Strategic Goal
From: Dr. Sebastian Gorka
23. Mohammed
via Ali and
Fatima
Mohammed
(622)
ISLAM
Shia Muslims: Choose to follow a line of Imams
which they believe have been appointed by Prophet
Muhammad or God Himself.
"Shia" comes from the Arabic word "Shia-t-Ali,“
or "the Party of Ali”.
Shia
End of WWI
(1918)
Caliph
Ali
656-661
Caliph
Umar
634-644
Caliph
Uthman
644-656
“rightlyguidedcaliphs"
Sunni (75%)
Sunni Muslims: New leader should be elected
from among those capable of doing the job.
"Sunni" in Arabic comes from a word meaning
“One who follows the traditions of the Prophet.”
Sunni vs. Shia: What’s the DIFF?
Ayatollah Ali Khamen
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Father-in-law,
Cousin & son-in-law,
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Jaysh al-Mahdi,
24. Sunni vs. Shia
What’s the Difference?
Islam was founded by Mohammed.
In 622 he founded the first Islamic state, a theocracy in
Medina, a city in Saudi Arabia located north of Mecca.
Sunni’s: Believe that the first four caliphs-Mohammed's successors- rightfully took his
place as the leaders of Muslims.
Recognize the heirs of the four Caliphs as legitimate religious leaders.
Ruled continuously in the Arab world until end of the Ottoman Empire following
the end of the First World War.
Shiites: Believe that only the heirs of the fourth caliph, Ali, are the legitimate
successors of Mohammed.
Here Ali becomes the central figure at the origin of the Shia / Sunni split which
occurred almost immediately following the death of the Prophet in 632.
Sunnis regard Ali as the fourth and last of the "rightly guided caliphs"
following on from Abu Bakr 632-634, Umar 634-644 and Uthman 644-656.
Shias feel that Ali should have been the first Caliph and that the Caliphate
should pass down only to direct descendants of Mohammed via Ali and Fatima
25. Sunni vs. Shia
(e.g. the Hatfield's and McCoy’s)
When Uthman was murdered while at prayer, Ali finally succeeded to the Caliphate.
Mu'awiya Ummayad, (Uthman's cousin and governor of Damascus) refused to
recognize Ali until Uthman's killers had been apprehended.
Meanwhile: Ali's elder son Hassan accepted a pension in return for not pursuing his
claim to the Caliphate. He died within a year, allegedly poisoned.
Ali's younger son Hussein agreed to put his claim to the Caliphate on hold until
Mu'awiya's death.
However, when Mu'awiya finally died in 680, his son Yazid usurped the Caliphate.
So a bitter and angry Hussein, who had his title stolen, led an army against Yazid but,
hopelessly outnumbered, he and his men were slaughtered at the Battle of Karbala (in
modern day Iraq).
However, Hussein's infant son, Ali, survived so the line continued.