Newest Update Of US Army Regulation 381-12, "Threat Awareness And Reporting Program" Omits The Obvious

From Creeping Sharia:

US Army’s new Threat Awareness & Reporting Program omits the obvious


Posted on October 11, 2010 by creeping

How do you report what you’re not allowed to say? From Ci Centre, Do tell: All soldiers anti-terror informers, via Washington Times



Think of it as “do ask, must tell.” A new Army regulation requires soldiers to report behavior by their comrades that might be a sign of terrorist or extremist sympathies — a response to the failure to identify accused Fort Hood jihadist shooter Maj. Nidal M. Hasan.



Titled Threat Awareness and Reporting Program, the regulation directs the head of Army counterintelligence to set up a centralized database of such reports. It also requires soldiers to be trained about the dangers of accidentally revealing too much information online, on blogs or on social networking sites and specifies media leaks of secret data as one of the kinds of unauthorized disclosure soldiers must report.



The regulation, published Monday, updates a 1993 version titled Subversion and Espionage Directed Against the U.S. Army. It is the fifth rewrite of the rules since they were first issued in the mid-1960s.



All Army personnel “should report … information regarding [Army] personnel who exhibit any of the behaviors that may be associated with a potential espionage or international terrorist threat and those associated with extremist activity,” the new rules state. They add that anyone failing to report such behavior could be subject to administrative sanction or even court martial.



A chart of reportable behaviors includes “Expressing support for persons or organizations that promote or threaten the unlawful use of force or violence … to achieve political, ideological, or religious objectives.”And “Soliciting advice, encouragement, finances, training, or other resources from a person who advocates the use of unlawful violence to undermine or disrupt U.S. military operations or foreign policy.”



It might seem obvious that soldiers in a war against terrorism should report evidence of terrorist sympathies among their comrades, but the case of Maj. Hasan, who shouted “God is great” in Arabic before reportedly opening fire at a personnel center in Fort Hood, Texas, in November and killing 13 people, suggests otherwise.



The words Islam, jihad, Muslim nor sharia are mentioned, although they were the reason for the update, in the “Threat Awareness and Reporting Program,” (U.S. Army Regulation 381-12). (see the table below the fold)





Table 3–2

Indicators of potential (international) terrorist-associated insider threats

• Advocating support for terrorist organizations or objectives.

• Expressing hatred of American society, culture, government, or principles of the U.S. Constitution.

• Advocating the use of unlawful violence or force to achieve goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature.

• Sending large amounts of money to persons or financial institutions in foreign countries.

• Expressing a duty to engage in violence against DOD or the United States in support of an international terrorist cause.

• Purchasing bomb-making materials.

• Obtaining information about the construction and use of explosive devices or statements about acquiring materials to make a bomb.

• Expressing support for persons or organizations that promote or threaten the unlawful use of force or violence.

• Advocating loyalty to a foreign interest over loyalty to the United States.

• Financial contribution to a foreign charity or other foreign cause linked to support to an international terrorist organization.

• Evidence of terrorist training or attendance at terrorist training facilities.

• Repeated viewing of Internet Web sites, without official sanction, that promote or support international terrorist themes.

• Posting comments or exchanging information, without official sanction, at Internet chat rooms, message boards, or blogs that promote

the use of force directed against the United States.

• Joking or bragging about working for a foreign intelligence service or associating with international terrorist activities.



Table 3–3

Indicators of extremist activity that may pose a threat to DOD or disrupt U.S. military operations

• Receiving financial assistance from a person who advocates the use of violence to undermine or disrupt U.S. military operations or foreign

policy.

• Soliciting advice, encouragement, finances, training, or other resources from a person who advocates the use of unlawful violence to

undermine or disrupt U.S. military operations or foreign policy.

• Making a financial contribution to a foreign charity, an organization, or a cause that advocates the use of unlawful violence to undermine

or disrupt U.S. military operations or foreign policy.

• Expressing a political, religious, or ideological obligation to engage in unlawful violence directed against U.S. military operations or foreign

policy.

• Expressing support for foreign persons or organizations that promote or threaten the use of unlawful force or violence to achieve political,

ideological, or religious objectives.

• Participation in political demonstrations that promote or threaten the use of unlawful violence directed against the Army, DOD, or the

United States based on political, ideological, or religious tenets, principals, or beliefs.

10 AR 381–12 • 4 October 2010