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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Ismail Royer draws attention to this amazing letter from "investigative reporter Steven Epstein, an expert in Islamic terrorism":
Dear colleagues and fans,
If you have been following my reporting for the last few years, you are aware of my warnings about American Muslim groups like the National Muslim Students' Association (MSA). I can now announce that through my investigative reporting, I have discovered that the MSA actually engineered the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and moreover, routinely brags about it.
FACT: On a 1976 roadtrip, Billy Ray Hassenpfeffer, the brother-in-law of MSA Executive Director Altaf Hassan, once stopped for a Slurpee at the Flagstaff, Arizona 7-11 where, a mere 15 years later, one Muhammad Siddiqi would land a job as a clerk. Mr. Siddiqi, a Pakistani by nationality, had once shined the shoes of Osama bin Ladin's cousin's hairdresser in his previous job in his native Peshawar, according to unnamed intelligence sources.
FACT: Mr. Hassenpfeffer is currently under investigation for failing to return a library book he checked out as a high school student. Hassenpfeffer claims to have "lost" the book, a biography of rock star Elvis Presley. It is claimed by many Islamist Turks that Presley, a known anti-semite, was of Turkish descent. Moreover, unknown intelligence sources say the teenaged Hassenpfeffer would repeatedly disparage the then-popular rock group KISS, whose lead singer and bassist were Jewish, as "tone-deaf clowns."
FACT: Hassan, linked by marriage to an anti-Jewish fan of anti-semites and an associate of an associate of someone who served bin Ladin (by repeatedly and unapolegetically giving the terrorist leader "mullet" hairdos in the 1970s), told ABC News on Sept. 13: "We condemn this attack in the strongest of terms." Note that Hassan pointedly did not specify WHICH attack he was condemning, a deliberate omission that implies tacit acceptance and even praise for the terrorist attacks, non-existent intelligence sources say.
FACT: Mr. Anwar Hadeed, MSA's Executive Director, is a Palestinian.
I am available for lectures and media interviews.
Mr. Steven Epstein
Director
The Investigative Project
(Steve Epstein is a take-off of Steve Emerson, the wacko who heads up the 'The Investigative Project'. The only inaccuracy on the part of Mr Royer is perhaps that the evidence present in Epstein's letter is of a higher calibre and more lucid than anything Emerson could reasonably produce.) posted by Anonymous3:25 AM
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