Citizens need to wake up and realize that old "crimes" may have been early terrorist attacks.

We need to wake up and pay attention to past events that seemed random and unique, yet, in hindsight, they were harbingers of things to come.

Eric Fettmann of the New York Post brings to our attention the plight of Devorah Halberstam, whose 16-year old son, Ari, was murdered 12 years ago by a a Lebanese-born man who had just listened to a hate-filled anti-Jewish sermon at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge. Mr. Fettmann explains that

Dr. Douglas Anderson - the psychiatrist of killer Rashid Baz - testified at trial that Baz had attended a prayer service at the Islamic Society mosque following the massacre of 29 Palestinians by a Jewish doctor, Baruch Goldstein, in the West Bank city of Hebron. ...After hearing that sermon, Baz took a Glock semiautomatic pistol, a Cobray machine gun and a 12-gauge Streetsweeper shotgun and put them in his car. The first two were the weapons he used in attacking the van carrying Ari Halberstam.

Devorah Halberstam has been trying to emphasize for the past 12 years that officials have steadfastly refused to accept the evidence that New York was being targeted by terrorists.

[The officials] tried to dismiss cases like her son's murder, making less of it than it was.

The end result of this "see no evil" approach was 9/11. That's why, she says, Ari Halberstam's murder can't be forgotten or ignored - not just because of the precious life that was lost, but because of the important warning that it sent.

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