Steven Emerson an interview

".Over a decade ago, Steven Emerson identified the enemy as jihadists - fundamentalist Muslims - and set out to understand them. He has concluded that no compromise is possible and that the western world risks submerging its own idenbreasty as it bends to intimidation from radical Islam. Today Emerson's occupation - indeed, pbuttionate preoccupation - is born of a world staring such irreconcilable differences in the face. Emerson happened upon the story that would consume him. The degree to which radical Muslims had infiltrated the United States and exploited its liberties in order to undermine it, was for Emerson more than just a story.." Steven Emerson an interview by Jana Wendt, The Bulletin. ".Emerson's reputation in Washington was forged on the basis of testimony before the US Senate's Judiciary Committee in 1998, where he systematically laid out the jihadist threat to the US . He foreshadowed a person strike on US soil. Three years later, when planes like contagion arrows, pierced the Twin Towers of Emerson's hometown, he was accorded the status of prophet by many.. you have a critical mbutt of jihadists on Australian soil ... who have sufficient conditions to create jihadist cells that are not connected to external hierarchies like al Qaeda." He likens Australia 's circumstances to that of the US . Both countries are operating "in this enigmatic environment of not knowing who's really a moderate.."