RIGHT TRUTH
By R.J. Godlewski
© April 26, 2010, All Rights Reserved.
―Man by nature is a predator, and his ability to track and kill animals was probably the most important factor determining his survival as a species in prehistoric times. Without the ability to follow and eventually kill animals for food, early man would have used all his energy and time foraging for low-calorie vegetable foodstuffs. By killing animals and eating an abundance of highly nutritious, protein-rich fat and meat, man’s mental and creative abilities exploded, transforming him from a low-functioning subhuman to the thinking, talking, communicating ancestor of modern man." TACTICAL TRACKING OPERATIONS: The Essential Guide for Military and Police Trackers by David Scott-Donelan1
Any homeowner who confronts a mouse infestation has only one of three options: they can ignore the beasts, letting them go about defecating upon their floors and chewing through their foodstuffs; they can trap them within containers and haul them off to distant locations hoping that the vermin never return; or they can quickly and efficiently destroy them. I prefer the latter. It is not that I necessarily enjoy destroying animals, but after years of trying the more humane approach, death does hold certain benefits. At a minimum, it informs the dozen or so mice who come to the funeral that I mean business. The same holds true with Islamic terrorists.
If we ignore terrorism, it will always manifest itself in ways and times most destructive to our well-being. Consider the November 12, 2001 American Airlines crash in New York outbound for the Dominican Republic. Forensic data proved that the bomb used by Canadian Abderraouf Jdey to bring down that plane was of the same type used to destroy two airliners in Russia during the previous August.2 Odd that the United States should still insist that the commercial aircraft was brought down by structural failure – a mere two months following the 9/11 attacks and a single month before the infamous ―Shoe Bomber‖ episode. Kind of reminds me about TWA Flight 800. If it was a mere tank explosion, then why charge the Central Intelligence Agency – our foreign intelligence operation – with convincing the public of the fact through a production video. Certainly, Hollywood would have been better suited to producing a movie explaining what dozens of people saw.
Nevertheless, I am not one who subscribes to conspiracy theories. I am in the business of intelligence and intelligence requires the effective interpretation of information. For the most part, leastways. Actually, I prefer to consider my field the application of intelligence. I do not come up with suggestions for people who make policy or debate. I prepare options for people who undertake action and this is what is most needed within the battle against Islamic terrorists. I am a tracker as well as a hunter.
I understand that the war against radical Islamists did not begin in 2001, or back in 1993, 1983, or even 1979. The war against radical Muslims began with the creation of Islam itself. Any ―religion‖ whose founder routinely participated in or ordered the murder and assassination of dozens of innocent people (women, the elderly, etc.) is not my idea of divinely inspired practice.3 What we, in the West, feel is a recent manifestation of separatism or perhaps freedom fighters has always been the militant application of Islam‘s desire to conquer the world. The Russians have fought against "Moslem fanaticism" in the then form of Imam Schamyl (Shamil) since at least the early decades of the nineteenth century.4 Indeed, the ―Sword of Islam‖ and a dozen Muslim wars began as far back as 632 A.D., four centuries before the Crusades were even thought of.5
We could go on about the vile nature and brutality of the Mohammedan faith, but as with all things connected with God, for those who believe no proof is necessary and for those who do not believe no proof is possible. The Progressives in the West, for example, will always side with the terrorists, believing that America is the root cause for something that had been going on for almost a thousand years before Christopher Columbus secured passage into the New World. For the rest of us, radical Islam is as obvious as the existence of Evil within the world. It represents the perversion of the individual through the unchecked power of a group that seeks to override personal responsibility so that its practitioners could marvel in the fantasy of a global caliphate.Like the aforementioned homeowner, we need not concern ourselves with the untold millions of ―mice‖ that inhabit the fields and valleys of the planet. Our responsibility is exterminating those who invade our territory, seek to damage, and disrupt our peaceful existence. It is they, who spread filth and disease, whose actions, though purposeful in their own minds, lend to illness and financial ruin amongst our domiciles. Despite their role in God‘s plan, they need to be obliterated so that we can achieve ours. It is time to meet the exterminator…
Despite America‘s on again/off again fascination with the Muslim faith (beginning with the Barbary pirates), our two cultures have not possessed any long-term hostilities towards one another. Our primary battle with Muslims who are rather fanatical in their hatred of our being exists from only 1979 – a mere thirteen percent of our very young nation‘s lifetime. The Russians, as discussed previously, have been fighting against their radicalized Muslims for hundreds of years. Prior to 9/11, the Russian battle in Grozny against breakaway Chechnya had been the largest urban warfare operation since the conclusion of the Second World War.6 The two wars against Chechen rebels, in 1994-1995 and 1999-2000, bear scrutiny for they may very well represent what will come to America in the future.7
For starters, the Chechen terrorists have not restricted their operations to "Muslim" soil. They attacked the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow during 2002 (129 hostages and 42 terrorists killed) and the school in Beslan during 2004 (344 civilians including 186 children killed).8 Secondly, the rebels widely used the support of the local Mafiya to obtain weapons and the support of businesses.9 Third, the Chechens, historically, have been supported and financed by Pakistani intelligence (the ISI) – our "ally" in our own war against radical Islam.10 Fourth, many Chechen jihadists have been educated and trained within the United States.11 Last, but not least, the Chechens have carried out their operations often decked out in Russian uniforms and driving Russian military vehicles to penetrate defenses.12 I think that these brief examples provide us with plenty to concern ourselves about.
We can conclude, therefore, that Muslim extremists will do everything possible to carry out their beliefs and dreams. They are, in a sense, animals much like mice – they respond solely to primal needs and actions. They are not contrasting humans, such as me. I can hunt whitetail for food but still reserve sorrow over having to dispatch mice from my house. I can observe Muslim children, and shed tears over their being forced to march with wooden Kalashnikovs hung over their shoulders. Muslim terrorists forge duplicity of nature. They care about Muslim children but believe that killing Christian children is valid within Allah‘s eyes in the course of Jihad. Their straightforwardness is indicative of an inability to differentiate between Good and Evil, between intentional and unintentional.
Perhaps, however, the most revealing lesson from the Caucuses is that wherever there is a boundary between Muslim and non-Muslim lands – be it Chechnya, or Israel, or Philippines, etc. – there exists radical Muslims who initiate hostilities. Though limited in local numbers, collectively they add up to an enormous threat. If, as some "experts" routinely purport, that a mere ten-percent of Muslims are radicalized, then that number still represents a larger :army" than the total combined mobilized military forces for Germany (17,900,000), Japan (9,100,000), and Italy (also 9,100,000) during the Second World War.13 In fact, the consensus of "radicalized" Muslims may dwarf the combined militaries of all participants of the Second World War. We will never know, for the concept of al-Taqiyya – that of lying or deceiving infidels until Muslims rise to power – casts doubt upon even trustworthy adherents of the faith. This means, unfortunately, that out of any given population, there are undoubtedly more Muslims hostile to American interests than there are rapists, child molesters, and ax murderers. It is those whose hostility towards our own culture goes beyond the passive stage that represent our most fundamental threat. So how do we combat radical Islam, then? How do we proceed past behaving as mice ourselves and emerge as men (and women)?
“We can strike where we want when we want – and nobody can stop us.”14
Two points to mention. First, I do not view my government as an enemy. Those naïve boobs in Washington are not a threat to anything but, perhaps, the Constitution of the United States. Even that is going to change as more and more Americans are finally waking up to their progressive dreams amidst abject stupidity. So, no, I do not view the U.S. Government as my enemy; they are simply too moronic to harm the intelligent, the astute, and the disciplined.
Second, I do view radical Islam as an enemy. Not only have they consistently attacked my nation and my neighbors, they – in the form of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri – have openly, in writing no less, declared such a war to exist. I am not so sure about my government and the nation it serves, but I take such a war seriously. Very seriously, in fact, for this is not simply a war between al-Qaeda and Hezbollah against the United States, but between radicalized Islam and Christianity. In other words, this is a war of Godly proportions and God—lewski is determined to win. :-)
I have two things going for me in my personal crusade – yes, again, I will use the term very much, thank you – against radical Islam. The most important one is that I believe that God intends for me to be His Crusader against Islam‘s more radical elements. True, many others have falsely said such things but I believe that I actually saw my Lord in the process. Or at least His emissary. It is okay for you to question my sanity; it does not bother me in the least. Muslims, however, cannot question my ‗beliefs‘ without calling into question that of their own Prophet and that, folks, is where I have their ass in a sling. They can only question me from 1,400 years into the future and my faith has already been around for two thousand years so it is not as if I am trying to create my own religion a la Muhammad. There is twenty century‘s worth of saints for me to aspire to emulate.
My second resource is that I am relatively benign here at home within the United States. Oh, yes, I protect myself and preach that others need to protect themselves and their families as well, but I am not running around training armies or planning tactical strategies – here. This is why I do not consider the U.S. Government to be an enemy; I have always said that I cannot be a threat to those whom I do not perceive as threats and, naïve as it is, I know that my federal government does not perceive me to be a threat to them. Politically, perhaps, but not criminally or militarily. Outside the territory of the United States, things might be a little different.
As I work on this document, I can trace my Web visitors deep into Pakistani military compounds and analyze what they are reading. Obviously, I cannot produce their names, but I can only say that Pakistan‘s aid in the global war against terrorism is suspect at best. The Russians are a different kettle of fish. They should be our greatest ally after Israel, but unlike the latter, Putin‘s Kremlin is a bit too opportunistic for my tastes. Regardless, I can also observe Russian mobile Internet users travel around the roads and trains just outside of the Kremlin itself. Just like clockwork. Same time, same ―persons‖, same interests (if different downloads).
Undoubtedly, my writings have benefitted people. At least, I like to think so. Within hours of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Indian participants in my Independent Counterterrorist training program spiked. If a single person benefitted from my years of effort, then I am deeply satisfied. The war against Islam must be won one person at a time. That said, there are only a few nations whose citizens have not downloaded my counterterrorism material. At the moment, North Korea is the only one that comes to mind, which means, of course, that every single Muslim country on the planet has had people download my material. These can only be the curious, the participatory, or the hostile. Either way, I have made my mark and my adversaries understand this.
I do not think the Russians, for their part, are all that concerned, to be perfectly honest. Ol‘ Vlad Putin is smart enough to understand that my personal efforts are not a threat to his aspirations – despite centuries worth of confrontation between my family and the Russians. The Muslim terrorists, however, undoubtedly perceive me to be a threat to their existence and this probably explains the hordes of "visitors" I receive from Muslim nations. Of course, they know that I am real and determined. Otherwise, they would not dismiss my lampooning of their Prophet‘s "image" in my Dark Muhammad article. Naturally, though, any person determined enough to use his own face as the basis for the satanic side of post-Medina Muhammad cannot be threatened by mere radical Muslims. And they understand this intuitively. :-)
Inasmuch as Muhammad is the antithesis of Christ, I am the antithesis of Islamic terrorists. I can – and do –leave ordinary Muslims alone. Even defend their right to practice their religion as they see fit. I respect their culture, their faith, and their history – to a degree. Once these beliefs interfere with my Roman Catholicism or the lives of innocent peoples‘ liberties and freedoms, then I draw the line and dare anyone to cross it. Leave me alone and I aspire to be a simple farmer. Mess with me or my friends and I become the terrorists‘ worst frickin‘ nightmare. Braggadocio? Perhaps. Nevertheless, what can you expect from someone who‘s not only studied international terrorism and low-intensity/guerrilla/paramilitary operations for over three decades, but believes wholeheartedly that his Creator personally provided him with this specific mission within life? Timidity? Bullshit. I am a tracker and a hunter and I am damn good at both.
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R.J. Godlewski (GOD LESS KEY) is an independent counterterrorism consultant, the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team [INERT], and the author of several novels, commentaries, and professional articles. He is also the author and architect of the Web-based Independent Counterterrorist training program. He is currently working on his B.A. in Intelligence Studies at American Military University where his concentration includes Middle East terrorism and improvised explosive devices. He is a member of the National Military Intelligence Association, the Golden Key International Honour Society, and is a veteran of both the United States Navy and Navy Reserve. He can be reached at rjgodlewsk(at)rjgodlewski.com.
Notes
1 Scott-Donelan. 1998. Tactical Tracking Operations: The Essential Guide for Military and Police Trackers, Paladin Press. Pg. 3.
2 Bodansky, Yossef. 2007. Chechen Jihad: al-Qaeda’s Training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror, Harper Collins. Pgs. 278-279.
3 Dashti, Ali. 1994. Twenty Three Years: A study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad. Pgs. 75-77.
4 Rambaud, Alfred. 1886. The History of Russia from the earliest times to 1877 Volume II, translated by Leonora B. Lang. John B. Alden Publisher. Pg. 237.
5 Durant, Will. 1950. The Age of Faith, Simon & Schuster. Pg. 187.
6 Speyer III, Arthur L. 2001. The Two Sides of Grozny (slide presentation), Marine Corps Intelligence Activity. Pg. 59 as printed.
7 Ibid. Pg. 63.
8 Bodansky, Yossef. 2007. Chechen Jihad: al-Qaeda’s Training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror, Harper Collins. Pg. ix.
9 Ibid. Pg. 23.
10 Ibid. Pg. 35.
11 Ibid. Pg. 40.
12 Ibid. Pg. 45.
13 Ellis, John. 1995. The Military Book Club’s World War II: The Encyclopedia of Facts and Figures, Military Book Club. Pgs. 227-228.
14 Balor, Paul. 1988. Manual of the Mercenary Soldier, Paladin Press. Pg. 225.
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