FBI evidence: Ben Carson right about 'terrorist' CAIR
U.S. Muslim group reacts to presidential candidate's 'smear'
After calling for an investigation of a major Washington, D.C.-based
Muslim organization as a “supporter of terrorism,” Dr. Ben Carson warned
at the Republican primary debate Tuesday night that the Muslim
Brotherhood is exploiting the nation’s “politically correct” attitude.
Earlier Tuesday, Carson, a former neurosurgeon, posted on his campaign website
a strategy for defeating ISIS that included urging the Department of
State to “designate the Muslim Brotherhood and other organizations that
propagate or support Islamic terrorism as terrorist organizations, and
fully investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as an
offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and a supporter of terrorism.”
In the debate, Carson noted that a Muslim Brotherhood document was discovered during the Department of Justice’s prosecution of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation that revealed the Brotherhood “will take advantage of our PC attitude” to accomplish its aims.
“We have to be better than this. We have to be smarter than they are,” Carson said in response to a question from CNN debate moderator Wolf Blitzer.
Fight back against CAIR’s attack on First Amendment by making a contribution to WND’s “Legal Defense Fund.” Donations of $25 or more entitle you to free copy of “Muslim Mafia” – the book so devastating to CAIR the group is trying to ban it.
Reacting to Carson’s call for an investigation, CAIR’s executive director, Nihad Awad, wrote in a Time magazine Web commentary Wednesday that he felt a “sense of pride when someone like Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson tries to smear” an organization like his, which he contended is simply “advocating for an America that lives up to her founding ideals.”
But the evidence to support Carson’s concerns is abundant.
The Department of Justice named CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land case, which convicted the charity of funneling more than $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
In November 2014, the United Arab Emirates named CAIR as one of 82 designated terrorist organizations around the world, placing it in the company of al-Qaida and ISIS.
The Muslim Brotherhood document presented as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas in 2008 – the largest terror-finance case in U.S. history – was a “100-year plan” to gradually destroy the U.S. and Western civilization from within “so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
More than a dozen CAIR leaders have been charged or convicted of terrorism-related crimes.
FBI wiretap evidence from the Holy Land case showed Awad was at an October 1993 meeting of Hamas leaders and activists in Philadelphia.
CAIR, according to the evidence, was born out of a need to give a “media twinkle” to the Muslim leaders’ agenda of supporting violent jihad abroad while slowly institutionalizing Islamic law in the U.S.
An internal FBI memo written by the former head of the FBI’s counter-terrorism division describes “all attendees” of the meeting – including Awad – as “Hamas members.”
Along with CAIR, prominent U.S. organizations launched by Muslim Brotherhood leaders include the Muslim Students Association, North American Islamic Trust, the Islamic Society of North America, the American Muslim Council, the Muslim American Society and the International Institute of Islamic Thought.
‘Ample evidence’
As WND reported in 2010, a federal judge later determined that the Justice Department provided “ample evidence” to designate CAIR as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator, affirming the Muslim group has been involved in “a conspiracy to support Hamas.”
WND reported last year
that a former FBI official contends the Justice Department has enough
incriminating evidence to file terrorism charges against CAIR and its
founders but has chosen not to indict the group and its leaders.
John Guandolo, author of “Raising a Jihadi Generation: Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood Movement in America,” believes the government balked at throwing the book at CAIR for political reasons.
CAIR has cultivated a number of political supporters – mainly among leading Democrats in Washington – that include senior White House officials. Secret Service entry logs show CAIR officials have visited the White House several times during the Obama administration.
In 2009, however, FBI Assistant Director John Miller wrote to Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-Va., confirming that the bureau had “suspended any formal engagement” with CAIR field offices around the country.
He explained that the move came ‘in part as a result of evidence gathered through FBI investigation and presented in connection with the Holy Land Foundation trial.”
‘The true character of CAIR’
Even a number of Muslim leaders have commended the FBI for it rejection of CAIR.
The statement said the “undersigned American Muslims” have “long known the true character of CAIR and its allies.”
“CAIR’s supporters,” it said, “included American Muslims for Palestine, the Islamic Circle of North America, and the Muslim Students Association, as well as the leading pro-Iranian Muslim element in America, the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County, Ca.”
The Muslim leaders who signed the statement “observe that they denounce ‘terrorism’ in general terms but not the specific actions of Islamist groups like Hamas or Hezbollah. They denounce violence but not the ideologies behind it.”
“We observe their commitment to radical aims, their attempts to chill free speech by calling critics of radical Islam ‘Islamophobes,’ and their false, ugly accusations against moderate American Muslims who disagree with their agenda.”
The leaders say they “reject any claim that CAIR and its supporters are legitimate civil liberties advocates or appropriate partners between the U.S. government and American Muslims.”
“We congratulate the FBI for adopting a firmer attitude toward CAIR, as a defense of Americans of all faiths from the menace of radical Islam, including Muslims of all backgrounds – Sunni, Shia, Sufi, secular, etc.”
They “call on the U.S. Department of Justice to affirm and continue this decision” and on “the entire United States government to follow suit in rejecting relations with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”
The signatories include M. Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, which initiated the statement.
‘Muslim Mafia’
CAIR filed suit in 2009 against former federal investigator Dave Gaubatz and his son, Chris Gaubatz, after the two carried out an undercover investigation of the Islamic group. The Washington, D.C., think tank Center for Security Policy and three of its employees were later added to the suit for their part in commissioning a documentary about CAIR, along with attorney David Yerusalmi and his non-profit group SANE, which campaigns against the advance of Islamic law, or Shariah.
Evidence from the Gaubatzes’ investigation was published in the WND Books expose’ “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America.” The book documents CAIR’s support of radical jihad, recounting its origin as a front group for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood
In the lawsuit, CAIR, does not defend itself against the claims of “Muslim Mafia,” and the FBI seized the CAIR material from the Washington law office of one of the Gaubtazes’ three high-profile lawyers. A previous filing in the case revealed a federal grand jury was investigating CAIR for possible violation of laws that ban financial dealings with terrorist groups or countries under U.S. sanctions.
The case likely will go to trial in 2016.
In candid moments, CAIR leaders have acknowledged the Muslim Brotherhood aim of turning the U.S. into an Islamic state.
CAIR co-founder Ahmad, according to a local newspaper, told a group of Muslims in Northern California in 1998 that they were in America not to assimilate but to help assert Islam’s rule over the country.
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant,” a paper paraphrased him as saying. “The Quran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Ahmad insists he was misquoted, but WND found the reporter stood by her story, and an FBI wiretap transcript quotes Ahmad agreeing with terrorist suspects gathered at the secret Philadelphia meeting to “camouflage” their true intentions.
He compared it to the head fake in basketball.
“This is like one who plays basketball: He makes a player believe that he is doing this, while he does something else,” Ahmad said. “I agree with you. Like they say, politics is a completion of war.”
In a 2003 telephone conversation with WND, CAIR’s communications director, Ibrahim Hooper, insisted Ahmad “never made the statement, and we have sought a retraction.”
Pressed several times to specify whether CAIR already has contacted the newspaper, he repeated the statement then finally said someone from CAIR’s California affiliate made the contact.
When confronted with the fact that the newspaper’s editors say CAIR has not contacted them and the reporter stands by the story, he ended the call with, “If you are going to use distortions, I can’t stop you; it’s a free country. Have a nice day.”
Hooper called back, however, and said he wanted to change his statement to say, “We will seek a retraction, and we have spoken to the reporter about it in the past.”
Three years later, a group of Muslim leaders confronted Ahmad, expressing concern that someone from their community could voice such radical sentiments.
Ahmad told the Muslim leaders – and WND in an interview – the attribution is a “total fabrication” and assured them the newspaper, the Fremont Argus in California, issued a “clarification” after he “challenged” reporter Lisa Gardiner.
That seemed to satisfy the Muslim leaders, but WND contacted Gardiner again and she said she continued to stand by the story, and Editor Steve Waterhouse said he was confident she got it right.
Hooper also has expressed a desire to overturn the U.S. system of government in favor of an Islamic state.
“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future,” Hooper said in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.”
Rogues gallery of terror-tied CAIR leaders
As former FBI agent Mike Rolf acknowledges in “Muslim Mafia,” CAIR has had “a number of people in positions of power within the organization that have been directly connected to terrorism and have either been prosecuted or thrown out of the country.”
According to another FBI veteran familiar with recent and ongoing cases involving CAIR officials, “Their offices have been a turnstile for terrorists and their supporters.”
A review of the public record, including federal criminal court documents, past IRS 990 tax records and Federal Election Commission records detailing donor occupations, reveals that CAIR has been associated with a number of convicted terrorists or felons in terrorism probes, as well as suspected terrorists and active targets of terrorism investigations. The list is long and includes:
In the debate, Carson noted that a Muslim Brotherhood document was discovered during the Department of Justice’s prosecution of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation that revealed the Brotherhood “will take advantage of our PC attitude” to accomplish its aims.
“We have to be better than this. We have to be smarter than they are,” Carson said in response to a question from CNN debate moderator Wolf Blitzer.
Fight back against CAIR’s attack on First Amendment by making a contribution to WND’s “Legal Defense Fund.” Donations of $25 or more entitle you to free copy of “Muslim Mafia” – the book so devastating to CAIR the group is trying to ban it.
Reacting to Carson’s call for an investigation, CAIR’s executive director, Nihad Awad, wrote in a Time magazine Web commentary Wednesday that he felt a “sense of pride when someone like Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson tries to smear” an organization like his, which he contended is simply “advocating for an America that lives up to her founding ideals.”
image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2015/10/Nihad_Awad.jpg
He called CAIR a “leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding.”
Nihad Awad is executive director of CAIR (VOA Photo/M. Elshinnawi)
But the evidence to support Carson’s concerns is abundant.
The Department of Justice named CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land case, which convicted the charity of funneling more than $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
In November 2014, the United Arab Emirates named CAIR as one of 82 designated terrorist organizations around the world, placing it in the company of al-Qaida and ISIS.
The Muslim Brotherhood document presented as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas in 2008 – the largest terror-finance case in U.S. history – was a “100-year plan” to gradually destroy the U.S. and Western civilization from within “so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
More than a dozen CAIR leaders have been charged or convicted of terrorism-related crimes.
FBI wiretap evidence from the Holy Land case showed Awad was at an October 1993 meeting of Hamas leaders and activists in Philadelphia.
CAIR, according to the evidence, was born out of a need to give a “media twinkle” to the Muslim leaders’ agenda of supporting violent jihad abroad while slowly institutionalizing Islamic law in the U.S.
An internal FBI memo written by the former head of the FBI’s counter-terrorism division describes “all attendees” of the meeting – including Awad – as “Hamas members.”
Along with CAIR, prominent U.S. organizations launched by Muslim Brotherhood leaders include the Muslim Students Association, North American Islamic Trust, the Islamic Society of North America, the American Muslim Council, the Muslim American Society and the International Institute of Islamic Thought.
‘Ample evidence’
As WND reported in 2010, a federal judge later determined that the Justice Department provided “ample evidence” to designate CAIR as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator, affirming the Muslim group has been involved in “a conspiracy to support Hamas.”
Omar Ahmad, founder and former chairman of CAIR
John Guandolo, author of “Raising a Jihadi Generation: Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood Movement in America,” believes the government balked at throwing the book at CAIR for political reasons.
CAIR has cultivated a number of political supporters – mainly among leading Democrats in Washington – that include senior White House officials. Secret Service entry logs show CAIR officials have visited the White House several times during the Obama administration.
In 2009, however, FBI Assistant Director John Miller wrote to Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-Va., confirming that the bureau had “suspended any formal engagement” with CAIR field offices around the country.
He explained that the move came ‘in part as a result of evidence gathered through FBI investigation and presented in connection with the Holy Land Foundation trial.”
‘The true character of CAIR’
Even a number of Muslim leaders have commended the FBI for it rejection of CAIR.
The statement said the “undersigned American Muslims” have “long known the true character of CAIR and its allies.”
“CAIR’s supporters,” it said, “included American Muslims for Palestine, the Islamic Circle of North America, and the Muslim Students Association, as well as the leading pro-Iranian Muslim element in America, the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County, Ca.”
The Muslim leaders who signed the statement “observe that they denounce ‘terrorism’ in general terms but not the specific actions of Islamist groups like Hamas or Hezbollah. They denounce violence but not the ideologies behind it.”
“We observe their commitment to radical aims, their attempts to chill free speech by calling critics of radical Islam ‘Islamophobes,’ and their false, ugly accusations against moderate American Muslims who disagree with their agenda.”
The leaders say they “reject any claim that CAIR and its supporters are legitimate civil liberties advocates or appropriate partners between the U.S. government and American Muslims.”
“We congratulate the FBI for adopting a firmer attitude toward CAIR, as a defense of Americans of all faiths from the menace of radical Islam, including Muslims of all backgrounds – Sunni, Shia, Sufi, secular, etc.”
They “call on the U.S. Department of Justice to affirm and continue this decision” and on “the entire United States government to follow suit in rejecting relations with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”
The signatories include M. Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, which initiated the statement.
‘Muslim Mafia’
CAIR filed suit in 2009 against former federal investigator Dave Gaubatz and his son, Chris Gaubatz, after the two carried out an undercover investigation of the Islamic group. The Washington, D.C., think tank Center for Security Policy and three of its employees were later added to the suit for their part in commissioning a documentary about CAIR, along with attorney David Yerusalmi and his non-profit group SANE, which campaigns against the advance of Islamic law, or Shariah.
Evidence from the Gaubatzes’ investigation was published in the WND Books expose’ “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America.” The book documents CAIR’s support of radical jihad, recounting its origin as a front group for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood
In the lawsuit, CAIR, does not defend itself against the claims of “Muslim Mafia,” and the FBI seized the CAIR material from the Washington law office of one of the Gaubtazes’ three high-profile lawyers. A previous filing in the case revealed a federal grand jury was investigating CAIR for possible violation of laws that ban financial dealings with terrorist groups or countries under U.S. sanctions.
The case likely will go to trial in 2016.
In candid moments, CAIR leaders have acknowledged the Muslim Brotherhood aim of turning the U.S. into an Islamic state.
CAIR co-founder Ahmad, according to a local newspaper, told a group of Muslims in Northern California in 1998 that they were in America not to assimilate but to help assert Islam’s rule over the country.
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant,” a paper paraphrased him as saying. “The Quran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Ahmad insists he was misquoted, but WND found the reporter stood by her story, and an FBI wiretap transcript quotes Ahmad agreeing with terrorist suspects gathered at the secret Philadelphia meeting to “camouflage” their true intentions.
He compared it to the head fake in basketball.
“This is like one who plays basketball: He makes a player believe that he is doing this, while he does something else,” Ahmad said. “I agree with you. Like they say, politics is a completion of war.”
In a 2003 telephone conversation with WND, CAIR’s communications director, Ibrahim Hooper, insisted Ahmad “never made the statement, and we have sought a retraction.”
Pressed several times to specify whether CAIR already has contacted the newspaper, he repeated the statement then finally said someone from CAIR’s California affiliate made the contact.
When confronted with the fact that the newspaper’s editors say CAIR has not contacted them and the reporter stands by the story, he ended the call with, “If you are going to use distortions, I can’t stop you; it’s a free country. Have a nice day.”
Hooper called back, however, and said he wanted to change his statement to say, “We will seek a retraction, and we have spoken to the reporter about it in the past.”
Three years later, a group of Muslim leaders confronted Ahmad, expressing concern that someone from their community could voice such radical sentiments.
Ahmad told the Muslim leaders – and WND in an interview – the attribution is a “total fabrication” and assured them the newspaper, the Fremont Argus in California, issued a “clarification” after he “challenged” reporter Lisa Gardiner.
That seemed to satisfy the Muslim leaders, but WND contacted Gardiner again and she said she continued to stand by the story, and Editor Steve Waterhouse said he was confident she got it right.
Hooper also has expressed a desire to overturn the U.S. system of government in favor of an Islamic state.
“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future,” Hooper said in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.”
Rogues gallery of terror-tied CAIR leaders
As former FBI agent Mike Rolf acknowledges in “Muslim Mafia,” CAIR has had “a number of people in positions of power within the organization that have been directly connected to terrorism and have either been prosecuted or thrown out of the country.”
According to another FBI veteran familiar with recent and ongoing cases involving CAIR officials, “Their offices have been a turnstile for terrorists and their supporters.”
A review of the public record, including federal criminal court documents, past IRS 990 tax records and Federal Election Commission records detailing donor occupations, reveals that CAIR has been associated with a number of convicted terrorists or felons in terrorism probes, as well as suspected terrorists and active targets of terrorism investigations. The list is long and includes:
image: http://www.wnd.com/images2/gelashi.jpg FBI agents arresting CAIR founding director Ghassan Elashi in 2002. |
- Ghassan Elashi: One of CAIR’s founding directors, he was convicted in 2004 of illegally shipping high-tech goods to terror state Syria and is serving 80 months in prison. He was also convicted of providing material support to Hamas in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial. He was chairman of the charity, which provided seed capital to CAIR. Elashi is related to Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook.
- Muthanna al-Hanooti: The CAIR director’s home was
raided in 2006 by FBI agents in connection with an active terrorism
investigation. Agents also searched the offices of his advocacy group,
Focus on Advocacy and Advancement of International Relations, which
al-Hanooti operates out of Dearborn, Mich., and Washington, D.C.
Al-Hanooti, who emigrated to the U.S. from Iraq, formerly helped run a
suspected Hamas terror front called LIFE for Relief and Development. Its
Michigan offices also were raided in September 2006. In 2004, LIFE’s
Baghdad office was raided by U.S. troops, who seized files and
computers. Al-Hanooti is related to Sheik Mohammed al-Hanooti, an
unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
“Al-Hanooti collected over $6 million for support of Hamas,” according to a 2001 FBI report, and was present with CAIR and Holy Land officials at a secret Hamas fundraising summit held in 1993 at a Philadelphia hotel. Prosecutors added his name to the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case.image: http://www.wnd.com/images2/redcross%20(2).jpg
Muthanna al-Hanooti, wearing traditional headgarb
Although Al-Hanooti denies supporting Hamas, he has praised Palestinian suicide bombers as “martyrs” who are “alive in the eyes of Allah.” - Abdurahman Alamoudi: Another CAIR director, he is serving 23 years in federal prison for plotting terrorism. Alamoudi, who was caught on tape complaining that bin Laden hadn’t killed enough Americans in the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, was one of al-Qaida’s top fundraisers in America, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
- Siraj Wahhaj: A member of CAIR’s board of advisers,
Wahhaj was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World
Trade Center bombing. The radical Brooklyn imam was close to convicted
terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and defended him during his trial.
“Muslim Mafia,” citing co-author’s Sperry’s previous book “Infiltration” as well as terror expert Steven Emerson’s research, reports that Wahhaj, a black convert to Islam, is converting gang members to Islam and holding “jihad camps” for them. With a combination of Islam and Uzis, he has said, the street thugs will be a powerful force for Islam the day America “will crumble.”image: http://www.wnd.com/images2/wahhaj.gif
Imam Siraj Wahhaj
Wahhaj was a key speaker at CAIR’s 15th annual fund-raising banquet in Arlington, Virginia, in 2009. - Randall “Ismail” Royer: The former CAIR communications specialist and civil-rights coordinator is serving 20 years in prison in connection with the Virginia Jihad Network, which he led while employed by CAIR at its Washington headquarters. The group trained to kill U.S. soldiers overseas, cased the FBI headquarters and cheered the space shuttle Columbia tragedy. Al-Qaida operative Ahmed Abu Ali, convicted of plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush, was among those who trained with Royer’s Northern Virginia cell.
- Bassam Khafagi: Another CAIR official, Khafagi was arrested in 2003 while serving as CAIR’s director of community affairs. He pleaded guilty to charges of bank and visa fraud stemming from a federal counter-terror probe of his leadership role in the Islamic Assembly of North America, which has supported al-Qaida and advocated suicide attacks on America. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison and deported to his native Egypt.
- Laura Jaghlit: A civil-rights coordinator for CAIR, her Washington-area home was raided by federal agents after 9/11 as part of an investigation into terrorist financing, money laundering and tax fraud. Her husband Mohammed Jaghlit, a key leader in the Saudi-backed SAAR network, is a target of the still-active probe. Jaghlit sent two letters accompanying donations – one for $10,000, the other for $5,000 – from the SAAR Foundation to Sami al-Arian, now a convicted terrorist. In each letter, according to a federal affidavit, “Jaghlit instructed al-Arian not to disclose the contribution publicly or to the media. “Investigators suspect the funds were intended for Palestinian terrorists via a U.S. front called WISE, which at the time employed an official who personally delivered a satellite phone battery to Osama bin Laden. The same official also worked for Jaghlit’s group.In addition, Jaghlit donated a total of $37,200 to the Holy Land Foundation, which prosecutors say is a Hamas front. Jaghlit subsequently was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.
image: http://www.wnd.com/images2/awad%20(2).jpg Nihad Awad |
- Nihad Awad: Wiretap evidence from the Holy Land case puts CAIR’s executive director at the Philadelphia meeting of Hamas leaders and activists in 1993 that was secretly recorded by the FBI. Participants hatched a plot to disguise payments to Hamas terrorists as charitable giving. During the meeting, according to FBI transcripts, Awad was recorded discussing the propaganda effort. He mentions Ghassan Dahduli, whom he worked with at the time at the Islamic Association for Palestine, another Hamas front. Both were IAP officers. Dahduli’s name also was listed in the address book of bin Laden’s personal secretary, Wadi al-Hage, who is serving a life sentence in prison for his role in the U.S. embassy bombings. Dahduli, an ethnic-Palestinian like Awad, was deported to Jordan after 9/11 for refusing to cooperate in the terror investigation. (An April 28, 2009, letter from FBI assistant director Richard C. Powers to Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. – which singles out CAIR chief Awad for suspicion – explains how the group’s many Hamas connections caused the FBI to sever ties with CAIR.)Awad’s and Dahduli’s phone numbers are listed in a Muslim Brotherhood document seized by federal investigators revealing “important phone numbers” for the “Palestine Section” of the Brotherhood in America. The court exhibit showed Hamas fugitive Mousa Abu Marzook listed on the same page with Awad.
image: http://www.wnd.com/images2/omar_m_ahmad%20(2).jpg Omar Ahmad |
- Omar Ahmad: U.S. prosecutors also named CAIR’s
founder and chairman emeritus as an unindicted co-conspirator in the
Holy Land case. Ahmad, too, was placed at the Philadelphia meeting, FBI
special agent Lara Burns testified at the trial. Prosecutors also
designated him as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Palestine
Committee” in America. Ahmad, like his CAIR partner Awad, is
ethnic-Palestinian.(Though both Ahmad and Awad were senior leaders of
IAP, the Hamas front, neither of their biographical sketches posted on
CAIR’s website mentions their IAP past.)
image: http://www.wnd.com/images/headshots/Nabil_Sadoun2.jpg
Nabil Sadoun
- Nabil Sadoun: A CAIR board member, Sadoun has served on the board of the United Association for Studies and Research, which investigators believe to be a key Hamas front in America. In fact, Sadoun co-founded UASR with Hamas leader Marzook. The Justice Department added UASR to the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case. UPDATE: In 2010, Sadoun was ordered deported to his native Jordan. An immigration judge referenced Sadoun’s relationship with Hamas and the Holy Land Foundation during a deportation hearing.
- Mohamed Nimer: CAIR’s research director also served
as a board director for UASR, the strategic arm for Hamas in the U.S.
CAIR neglects to mention Nimer’s and Sadoun’s roles in UASR in their
bios.
image: http://www.wnd.com/images2/Mohamed-Nimer%20(2).jpg
Mohamed Nimer
- Rafeeq Jaber: A founding director of CAIR, Jaber was the long-time president of the Islamic Association for Palestine. In 2002, a federal judge found that “the Islamic Association for Palestine has acted in support of Hamas.” In his capacity as IAP chief, Jaber praised Hezbollah attacks on Israel. He also served on the board of a radical mosque in the Chicago area.
- Rabith Hadid: The CAIR fundraiser was a founder of the Global Relief Foundation, which after 9/11 was blacklisted by the Treasury Department for financing al-Qaida and other terror groups. Its assets were frozen in December 2001. Hadid was arrested on terror-related charges and deported to Lebanon in 2003.
- Hamza Yusuf: The FBI investigated the CAIR board member after 9/11, because just two days before the attacks, he made an ominous prediction to a Muslim audience.”This country is facing a terrible fate, and the reason for that is because this country stands condemned,” Yusuf warned. “It stands condemned like Europe stood condemned because of what it did. And lest people forget, Europe suffered two world wars after conquering the Muslim lands.”
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