Sorry but I’m just now getting around to editing these videos, but Oliver North’s “War Stories” this past Sunday was unbelievably fantastic! Ollie had a list of first-class luminaries and experts on Islam. They included:

• Imam Karim Abuzaid, Prince George’s (MD) Muslim Association
• Robert Baer, former CIA case officer and author of “Blow the House Down”
• Mark Bowden, investigative journalist and author of “Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam”
• Imam Faizul Khan, Islamic Society of the Washington, D.C., Area
• Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge professor emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
• Uri Lubrani, former ambassador and head of Israeli Mission to Tehran, Iran
• Oliver “Buck” Revell, former FBI deputy assistant director for Operations
• Michael Rowe, California neighbor of Adam Gadahn
• James Woolsey, former CIA director
• Sgt. Armando Ybarra, USMC (Ret.), U.S. Marine wounded in the 1983 barracks attack in Beirut, Lebanon

Dr. Wafa Sultan

According to the FoxNews website:

As you will see, the jihad being waged goes far beyond terrorists taking hostages, hijacking aircraft and the horror of suicide bombers. Its leaders proclaim independence of any state or government, but employ all of the elements of contemporary warfare: propaganda; financing; logistics; communications; covert operatives; and well-trained soldiers with modern weaponry.

You will learn about the homegrown face of terror: Adam Gadahn also known as Azzam the American. Just how did a California boy raised on a goat farm become a new face in Al Qaeda’s inner circle? Why was the Iranian revolution of 1979 the turning point in today’s modern day jihad?

In an exclusive interview, Vice President Dick Cheney tells North that the War on Terror, “is a war that we can win, but it’s a war that may take 25 or 50 years. It’s a war that we absolutely have to stay at. Only the United States can provide the leadership that the world requires to deal with this threat. If the U.S. doesn’t do it there really isn’t anybody else who can.”

You will also hear from Arthur Cummings, acting FBI deputy assistant director for counterterrorism. Walid Phares and Wafa Sultan spoke to “War Stories” as critics of terror in the name of Islam. Their comments have prompted death threats against them.

Folks, if you missed this special when it aired, be sure to check it out here. There are lessons to be learned here, and the history is laid out piece by piece. I’m also going to be posting the individual segments on YouTube, as well.

For now, you can view each here with part #1, part #2, part #3, part #4, part #5 and part #6.

h/t Allah @ HotAir

Late word is that a Palestinian warlord affiliated with Hamas is the one responsible for abducting Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig. According to the DEBKAfile net weekly, “Palestinian warlord Zakaria Dughmush kidnapped the Fox News journalists on behalf of Hamas.” Further:

The Hamas team which abducted Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit on June 25 sought to ease the pressure for his release by staging a more spectacular snatch. For this reason, they hired Zakaria Dughmush and his masked men to capture the two Fox News journalists in Gaza City on Aug. 14.

Zakaria Dughmush

Although their fates are intertwined, the American Steve Centanni, 60, and New Zealander Olaf Wiig, 36, are not being held in the same place as Gilead Shalit. The Fox journalists are thought to be hidden in Gaza City by the gang which kidnapped him, while Shalit is in a Hamas team’s hands, either in Rafah or Khan Younes in the southern Gaza Strip.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s exclusive sources on Aug. 25 identified the kidnapper as Dughmush, a former follower of the late Jemal Semhadana, head of the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees who was killed in Rafah by rockets fired from an Israeli warplane on June 8, 2006.

Semhadana was the first Palestinian terrorist to attack Americans. He staged the bombing attack of October 15, 2003 on a US embassy convoy from Tel Aviv as it drove past Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

Three American security officers died in that attack.

After Semhadana’s death, his PRC fragmented into several small militias, one of them led by Dughmush, a rabid fundamentalist who set up base in Gaza City. He was adopted by Hamas, but also draws funds and weapons from al Qaeda and Hizballah elements working together in the Gaza Strip.

Our counter-terror sources reveal that Dughmush was handed the contract to kidnap one or more Americans by the abductors of the Israeli soldier when their efforts to negotiate a prisoner swap broke down. Hamas ended up refusing the quid pro quo of a promise by Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, already deposited with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, to release 600 Palestinian prisoners. They held out for a simultaneous trade and then withdrew from the talks.

They turned to Dughmush when pressure built up to end the episode from many quarters, including the Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya, the Egyptians and the head of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas.

Because neither set of abductors wanted Palestinians branded as kidnappers of Americans, they invented a group no one had heard of, calling it the Brigades of the Holy Jihad. This phantom group released a communiqué and videotape Wednesday, August 23, demanding the release within 72 hours of Muslim prisoners in American jails. The deadline was up Saturday noon with no word from the abductors.

Nothing had been said about the fate of the captives if the deadline was not met.

With three hostages in hand, the Palestinian terrorists expect a higher price for their release, such as a large number of Palestinians held in Israel and possibly the United States as well.

Additional:

DEBKAfile adds: Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniya both know exactly who kidnapped Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig. They are embarrassed enough to go through the motions of protesting the abductions, but not enough to take real action to put a stop to the Hamas scheme of holding the two Fox journalists hostage to raise the ante for the Israeli soldier.

What a couple of pussies! But then again, did we expect anything more from Abbas or Haniya? It’s time to call this government to account, and more than just Pelosi and Hastert sending letters to Abbas. The PA must be made to pay!