Sniper misfire. (Insider Report).

During the Washington, D.C.-area sniper rampage that left 10 innocent people dead, left-wing activist Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State-San Bernadino, confidently told the Christian Science Monitor that the perpetrator "is kind of a wallpaper white male, a disenfranchised, disrespected man who's getting back at society. That's one of the reasons he's kept his distance from inner D.C., where he might lose his cover." So far as we know, Levin has not commented about the arrest of two black suspects, John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo -- one of whom is an illegal alien.

Levin, like most left-wing ideologues, is consistently wrong, but never in doubt. Shortly after the 9-11 attack, Levin told a wire service reporter that the so-called "right wing" in America is the natural ally of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. The American right and bin Laden, Levin insisted, are united by "a rigid philosophy on how society should be ordered. Both want their own homeland, hermetically sealed, where they can practice their own exclusionary, religion-based social order. In many ways, American racial radicals mirror the intolerant, extremist groups you see on the international scene."

Levin and other left-wing "watchdogs" consulted by the media divert public focus from leftist radical groups allied to the international terror network. Muhammad, the 41-year-old ex-Army sniper arrested for the D.C.-area killings, belongs to the Nation of Islam, a radical group with ties to America's foreign enemies. During a 1996 "World Friendship Tour," Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan visited Iran, Nigeria, Sudan, Libya, Iraq, and Syria.

In Teheran, Farrakhan laid a wreath at the grave of the Ayatollah Khomeini and praised the 1979 Islamic Revolution at a public rally while crowds chanted "death to America!"

While in Tripoli Farrakhan was warmly received by terror chieftain Muammar Qaddafi, who reportedly promised a large cash donation to help the Nation of Islam "mobilize oppressed minorities to play a significant role in American political life." According to Qaddafi, "Our confrontations with America used to be like confronting a fortress from outside. Today, we have found a loophole to enter the fortress and confront it within." Alluding to a decades-old, Soviet-inspired black separatist vision, Qaddafi told Farrakhan that "American blacks could set up their own state within the United States with the largest black army in the world."