Video of Janet Napolitano interview with CNN’s Candy Crowley. Be sure to view the comments reacting to this video … AND add comments at the bottom of this article here or on YouTube …

Transcript on Department of Homeland Security on Janet Napolitano’s response … Read more from The Cardinal …

Screen shot of Twitter.com home page as it was defaced by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’

Twitter blackout. Twitter down. Tweets did not go through early Friday morning. The tweet failure on Twitter was accompanied by defacement of the front page of Twitter using some method of DNS re-assignment most likely.

What did the message from the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ say?

Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST
Take Care.

Twitter was back up in about an hour and fixed by 1:30 a.m. CT on Friday.

Tweet from Twitter that acknowledge that Twitter’s DNS was hacked early Friday morning, December 17, 2009 (twitter.com/twitter).

Iranian Revenge for the ‘Twitter Revolution’
The defacement appears to be a reprisal for Twitter’s role in the Iranian election protests in June 2009. Iranian citizen’s used Twitter to provide updates to the world about Iranian government reaction to protests. Iranian protesters beamed images from the violent protests when mainstream media was blocked from entering Iran, and forbidden from broadcasting information if there were journalist inside the country.

Twitter became so important in spreading news of the protests — and in aiding protester communication on the streets of Iran — that the U.S. State Department asked Twitter to delay a planned shutdown for maintenance.

A second site was also hacked with the same home page defacement …

Google search results fro mowjcamp.com … for more information see GLOBALCONFLICTMAPS.COM: DNS Tweet Down: ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ Hacks, Defaces Twitter Home Page

Former FDNY firefighter Tim Brown answers what is the most vivid memory: When Tower 2 was hit, ‘we all knew we were going to die’ … ‘we knew it was an act of war.’ ( Juliet Huddy’s interview of Tim Brown).

The decision to hold the 9/11 court proceedings in New York City is under protest from thousands of citizens. New York firefighter Tim Brown, survivor of the 9/11 WTC Attack, is getting the message out. Brown declares that the decision to hold the trials in New York “Mock the victims. Mock the families [of victims].” Brown believes “the [Obama] administration is in the land of make believe.” He asks, ‘Who is pushing Obama to take 9/11 enemy combatants to New York court as criminals?’

A letter was sent to President Barack Obama on November 9, 2009 giving the president notice that citizens adamantly oppose prosecuting terrorists as criminals in the courts instead of enemy combatants with military tribunals. The letter explains that the American people do not support the use of our cherished federal courts as a stage by the “mastermind of 9/11″ and his co-conspirators to condemn this nation and rally their fellow terrorists the world over. Unlike military commissions, all of the 9/11 cases will be vulnerable in federal court to defense motions that their prosecutions violate the Speedy Trial Act. One troublesome technicality? None of the 9/11 conspirators were given the Miranda warnings mandated in Article III courts. How does that play out if they were viewed by soldiers and officials as enemy combatants and not criminals at the time of their capture? Prosecutors contend that the lengthy, self-incriminating tutorials Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others gave to CIA interrogators about 9/11 and other terrorist operations–called “pivotal for the war against Al-Qaeda” in a recently released, declassified 2005 CIA report–may be EXCLUDED in federal trials. The letter is signed by family members and others close to the victims and fallen rescuers of September 11, 2001.

We adamantly oppose prosecuting the 9/11 conspirators in Article III courts, which would provide them with the very rights that may make it possible for them to escape the justice which they so richly deserve. We believe that military commissions, which have a long and honorable history in this country dating back to the Revolutionary War, are the appropriate legal forum for the individuals who declared war on America. With utter disdain for all norms of decency and humanity, and in defiance of the laws of warfare accepted by all civilized nations, these individuals targeted tens of thousands of civilian non-combatants, brutally killing 3,000 men, women and children, injuring thousands more, and terrorizing millions.

– Excerpt from the letter to Obama on November 9, 2009

Interested citizens can voice their protest by signing the letter online at keepamericasafe.com

Over 5,000 people signed up in the initial 36 hours of signing becoming available.

The petition begins …
‘I support the letter sent by 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America and theBravest.com urging you to not bring the terrorist detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to trial in Article III courts.’

See thebravest.com for more information or keepamericasafe.com to sign the letter/petition.

See also …
YouTube.com/KeepAmericaSafeCom

September 11, 2001 — “Our First Class Galley Flight Attendant and our Pursor has been stabbed.” Just before the crash of American Airlines Flight 11, flight attendant #3 Betty Ong called American Airlines Reservations/Operations to report conditions of a hijacking. [PART 1]

September 11, 2001 — “All the first class passengers have been moved back to coach … This is a confirmed hijacking … he (the hijacker) turned the transponder off … hard time breathing in First Class — may have sprayed something. [PART 2]

September 11, 2001 8:46 AM EDT — American Airlines Flight 11 (Boeing 767) was crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower. Jules Naudet, a French cameraman, and Pavel Hlava, a Czech immigrant, filmed the crash.

September 11, 2001 9:03 AM EDT — Second Boeing 767, United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower.

September 11, 2001 9:37 AM EDT — Explosion at the Pentagon, American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon.

September 11, 2001 9:59 AM EDT — ‘It’s Gone.’ South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

September 11, 2001 10:06 AM EDT — “United 93, do you hear Cleveland?” United Airlines Flight 93 crash near Shanksville, PA.

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) estimated that about 17,400 civilians were in the World Trade Center complex at the time of the attacks, while turnstile counts from the Port Authority suggest that 14,154 people were typically in the Twin Towers by 8:45 a.m.

The vast majority of people below the impact zone safely evacuated the buildings, along with 18 people who were in the impact zone in the south tower. 1,366 people died who were at or above the floors of impact in the North Tower. According to the Commission Report, hundreds were killed instantly by the impact, while the rest were trapped and died after the tower collapsed. As many as 600 people were killed instantly or were trapped at or above the floors of impact in the South Tower.

At least 200 people jumped to their deaths from the burning towers, landing on the streets and rooftops of adjacent buildings hundreds of feet below. Some of the occupants of each tower above its point of impact made their way upward toward the roof in hope of helicopter rescue, but the roof access doors were locked. No plan existed for helicopter rescues, and on September 11, the thick smoke and intense heat would have prevented helicopters from conducting rescues from the roof.

A total of 411 emergency workers who responded to the scene died as they attempted to rescue people and fight fires. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) lost 341 firefighters and 2 FDNY paramedics.

A total of 23 New York City Police Department police officers died.

A total of 37 Port Authority Police Department police officer died.

A total of eight EMT’s and paramedics from private EMS companies were killed.

A total of 92 (including 5 terrorist hijackers) on board AA Flight 11 killed on impact WTC.

A total of 65 (including 5 terrorist hijackers) on board UAL Flight 175 killed on impact WTC.

A total of 64 (including 5 terrorist hijackers) on board AA Flight 77 killed on impact Pentagon.

A total of 125 people killed in the Pentagon upon impact of AA Flight 77.

A total of 44 (including 5 hijackers) on board Flight UAL 93 killed in crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania

19* Al-Qaeda terrorists died as they hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.
(*checking discrepancy of total from each plane figure)

In total 2,993 people, including the hijackers, died in the attacks.

FEATURED ARTICLE 9-11-2009

Not a Clash of Religions, but a Class of the mentality of the Middle Ages with the mentality of the 21st Century.

“It is a clash between civilization and backwardness … between barbarity and rationality.

Transcript February 21, 2006 on Al Jazeera’s weekly 45-minute discussion program The Opposite Direction. Wafa Sultan spoke from Los Angeles, opposing host Faisal al-Qassem and Ibrahim Al-Khouli

The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations.

It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras.

It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century.

It is a clash between civilization and backwardness … between the civilized and the primitive … between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression … between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on the other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings.

What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.

Moderator/Host Faisal al-Qassem:
I understand from your words that what is happening today is a clash between the culture of the West, and the backwardness and ignorance of the Muslims?

Wafa Sultan:
Yes, that is what I mean.

Moderator/Host Dr. Faisal al-Qassem:
Who came up with the concept of a clash of civilizations?

Was it not Samuel Huntington?

It was not Bin Laden. I would like to discuss this issue, if you don’t mind.

Wafa Sultan:
The Muslims are the ones who began using this expression.

The Muslims are the ones who began the clash of civilizations.

The Prophet of Islam said:
“I was ordered to fight the people until they believe in Allah and His Messenger.”

When the Muslims divided the people into Muslims and non-Muslims, and called to fitht the others until they believe in what they themselves believe, they started this clash and began this war.

In order to stop this war, they must reexamine their Islamic books and curricula, which are full of calls for takfir and fighting the infidels.

My colleague has said that he never offends other people’s beliefs.

What civilization on the face of this earth allows him to call other people by names they did not choose for themselves?

Once he calls them Ahl Al-Dhimma, another time he calls them the “People of the Book,” and yet another time he compares them to apes and pigs, or he calls the Christians “those who incur Allah’s wrath.”

Who told you they are “People of the Book”?

They are not the People of the Book, they are people of many books.

All the useful scientific books that you have today are theirs … the fruit of their free and creative thinking. What give you the right to call them “those who incur Allah’s Wrath,” or those who have gone astray,” and then come here and say that your religion commands you to refrain from offending the beliefs of others?

I am not a Christian, a Muslim, or a Jew. I am secular human being. I don not believe in the supernatural, but I respect others’ right to believe in it.

Cleric Ibrahim Al-Khouli:
Are you a heretic?

Wafa Sultan:
You can say whatever you like.

I am a secular human being who does not believe in the supernatural …

Cleric Ibrahim Al-Khouli:
If you are a heretic, there is no point in rebuking you, since you have blashphemed against Islam, the Prophet, and the Koran …

Wafa Sultan:
These are personal matters that do not concern you.

Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don’t throw them at me.

You are free to worship whoever you want, but other people’s beliefs are not your concern, whether they believe that the Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let people have their beliefs.

The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust), and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge and not with their terror, with their work, not their crying and yelling.

Humanity owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish scientists. 15 million people scattered throughout the world united and won their rights through work and knowledge.

We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people.

The Muslims have turned three Buddha statues into rubble.

We have not seen a single Buddhist burn down a Mosque, kill a Muslim or burn down an embassy.

Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results.

The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

Wafa Sultan was born to a Sunni Muslim family in Damascus, Syria.

Dr. Faisal al-Qassem is a Syrian television personality who hosts The Opposite Direction, a talk show on Al Jazeera.

See also …
Wafa Sultan on Wikipedia
MEMRI — Middle East Research Institute
MEMRI on Wikipedia
Samuel P. Huntington on Wikipedia and The Clash of Civilizations on Wikipedia