Liberty Maven

Ron Paul is vindicated yet again on his foreign policy of non-intervention. Walk by any terrorist training camp and you just might see a bunch of McCain-Palin yard signs proudly posted. Recently a message of endorsement for McCain was discovered on a known Jihadist online message board. From Wired magazine:

The supposed McCain endorsement appeared Monday on a private Islamic extremist forum, al-Hesbah. The author — a longtime contributor going by the name Muhammad Haafid — suggests that al-Qaida should launch a terror attack against the United States before the election, so that Americans would vote for McCain. Haafid argued that McCain would continue the policies of President Bush and keep the country embroiled in costly overseas wars, aggravating America’s financial crisis.

“Al-Qaida will have to support McCain in the coming election,” wrote Haafid, adding that McCain would follow the “failing march of his predecessor.”

The McCain campaign convened a conference call Wednesday to address the extremist’s endorsement, and attack The Washington Post, which ran a story about the comments.

Of course the McCain campaign and the CIA are denouncing the story and vilifying the Washington Post for running it, saying the story is inaccurate, but given Ron Paul’s words of warning during his primary campaign why is it so difficult to believe this threat and the endorsement along with it to be real?

An independent analyst suggests that the words ring true.

But  Adam Raisman, a senior analyst at the SITE Intelligence Group in Bethesda, Maryland, which monitors terrorism websites and uncovered the statement, said the Post story had been entirely faithful to the substance of Haafid’s statement.

“I don’t believe the words were twisted — this is what the jihadist said, and he’s been writing since 2003 with more than 600 posts,” Raisman said. “And there have been other posts in this regard as well — there have been many individuals saying this since early 2008.”

He added that postings on extremist websites are important because the forums serve as social communities and grassroots think tanks, generating ideas for “jihadist enthusiasts.”

“I’m not going to extrapolate that what one member writes is going to translate into an attack, but some of the members of the forum are active in the field,” Raisman said.

It seems that Ron Paul’s words during the debates in 2007 are confirmed yet again. You remember them: “They attack us because we are over there!”. The other candidates and the audience laughed at Paul at the time. People don’t seem to be laughing at him any more.