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Brigitte Gabriel was born in 1965 in Lebanon to a Maronite Christian family.Gabriel has said that during the Lebanese Civil War Muslim militants launched an assault on a Lebanese military base near Gabriels house and bombed her home,collapsing it.Just ten years old at the time,Brigitte was severely injured and spent2 1/2 months in a hospital recovering.The only child of elder parents,their life savings were destroyed in the attack,as their money,their restaurant and their rental rooms all perished in the bombings.Gabriel reports that she and her parents were forced to live in an8x10bomb shelter underground for seven years with no heat,save for a small kerosene heater,no sanitary systems,no electricity,no running water and little food.To get water she had to crawl in a ditch alongside a road to a spring in order to evade Muslim Snipers.Before they left, they said prayers,because they did not know if they would come back alive.[citation needed]Later,in 1978,a man she called Chuck,warned Brigittes family of an impending attack on Christians by Islamic militias.She claims her life was saved that night when Israelis invaded Lebanon in Operation Litani.Later,her mother was seriously injured and was taken to an Israeli hospital where Brigitte noted the humanity of the Israelis in contrast to the propaganda against the Jews she had endured as a child Brigitte Gabriel was a news anchor for"World News,"an evening news program on the South Lebanon Army-affiliated Middle East Television,that was broadcast weeknights throughout Israel,Egypt,Syria,Jordan,Cyprus and Lebanon.She immigrated to the United States in 1989.Gabriel founded the ACT,"American Congress For Truth,"in late 2001.She has appeared on news and information TV shows,talk radio and made numerous public speaking engagements.She speaks four languages:Arabic,French,English and Hebrew.She is featured in the documentary Obsession:Radical Islam's War Against the West.She was interviewed on CNN where she denounced Hezbollah and sided with Israel in the2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis,thanking Israel for their efforts in her home country.She has also accused CAIR of failing to condemn extremism,radical Islam and terrorism,which in her opinion is necessary for the elimination of extremism and the discovery of a more moderate, secular approach to Islam.It is important to note that CAIR have repeatedly and unequivocally condemned extremism according to their website.The Official Website of Hasbara Fellowships,IsraelActivism.com,lists Gabriel as one of its Hasbara Fellowship speakers,and arranges speaking engagements for those interested in contacting her.Gabriel spoke as part of a lecture series organized by Duke University's Jewish community to provide counter-programming after the fourth Palestinian Solidarity Movement student conference was held there in October2004.She angered many members of the crowd when she referred to Arabs as"barbarians"and Dukes Freeman Center for Jewish Life later apologized for her comments.Gabriel has written a book entitled,"Because They Hate:A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America".In the book she responds to the incident at Duke University:"When I gave a speech at Duke University in2004 condemning suicide bombers and the culture that nurtures them,saying,'The difference between the Arab world and Israel is a difference in values and character.Its barbarism versus civilization.Its dictatorship versus democracy.Its evil versus goodness,'I was criticized and condemned.Duke's Freeman Center for Jewish Life apologized for my comments to the Arabs at Duke.I admit today that some so called"terrorists"do not,I repeat,do not represent the bulk of all Arabs and Muslims.Terrorists supported the killing of innocent civilians but Arabs and Muslims were willing to criticize and condemn terrorism."

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