Note: Photo included.
PHOTO CAPTION: “Sheikh Kifah Mustapha (third from left) touring the National Counterterrorism Center (Photo: FBI)”
“FBI Escorts Known Hamas Operative Through Top-Secret National Counterterrorism Center as “Outreach” to Muslim Community”
Posted by Patrick S. Poole Sep 27th 2010 at 3:52 am in Featured Story, Islamic extremism
SNIPPET: “A known Hamas operative and unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history – Kifah Mustapha – was recently escorted into the top-secret National Counterterrorism Center and other secure government facilities, including the FBI’s training center at Quantico, during a six-week “Citizen’s Academy” hosted by the FBI as part of its “outreach” to the Muslim Community. The group was accompanied by reporter Ben Bradley of WLS-Chicago (ABC), who filed a report on the trip to Washington D.C. on Sunday, who observed:”
Obama administration has Hamas fundraiser visit counter-terrorism center as guest, not detainee!
I think my BP just doubled. T-R-E-A-S-O-N
Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2590797/posts
“Banned by Illinois State Police, Muslim cleric melds with FBI”
Daily Herald ^ | 9/6/2010 | By Chuck Goudie | Daily Herald Columnist
Posted on September 16, 2010 8:55:28 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
SNIPPET: “If they have a “What I Did On My Summer Vacation” contest at the Bridgeview Mosque, Kifah Mustapha will probably win.
Sheikh Mustapha, the Imam in charge, was in summer school.
At the FBI.
By one measure, Mustapha was a perfect fit for the FBI’s Citizens’ Academy. The 10-session regimen is intended for business, civic and religious leaders in Chicago and the 55 other FBI field offices where it is offered.
Mustapha is the well-known leader at one of the nation’s most popular mosques and is a national figure in American Islam.”
OMG!
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2219/fbi-defends-mustaphas-visit
“FBI Defends Mustapha’s Visit”
by Bill Gertz
The Washington Times
September 30, 2010
SNIPPET: “The FBI on Thursday defended its inclusion of a Chicago Muslim cleric tied in the past to the terrorist groups Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood in a group that recently visited the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and FBI headquarters.
Ross Rice, FBI spokesman in Chicago, acknowledged in an interview that Kifah Mustapha, imam of the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, Ill., was named as an unindicted co-conspirator during a Hamas funding trial six years ago.
However, Mr. Mustapha “has never been convicted of a crime and never charged with a crime,” Mr. Rice said.
“If we thought he was a security risk, we wouldn’t have included him” in the FBI’s Citizens Academy program, Mr. Rice said.”
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/30/hamas-linked-cleric-took-part-fbi-outreach-effort/
“Hamas-linked cleric took part in FBI outreach effort”
By Bill Gertz-The Washington Times8:55 p.m., Thursday, September 30, 2010
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3945/illinois-police-terror-ties-cost-imam-chaplain
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Illinois Police: Terror Ties Cost Imam Chaplain Post”
by IPT News
Mar 12, 2013 at 4:06 pm
SNIPPET: “Court papers filed in an Illinois federal civil lawsuit make it clear that a Hamas-supporting imam would have been a state police-sanctioned chaplain in 2010 if not for disclosures made by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT).
Attorneys for the Illinois State Police (ISP) have asked a federal judge to grant their clients’ motion for summary judgment, effectively ending a lawsuit brought by Imam Kifah Mustapha. Mustapha cleared an initial background check to the ISP’s first Muslim chaplain in late 2009.
In his application, he failed to disclose his work as fundraiser for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The foundation was convicted a year earlier of illegally routing millions of dollars to Hamas. The IPT reported on Mustapha’s documented connections to the Holy Land Foundation in January 2010, after he received a state identification card.
The ISP received an e-mail alerting it to the IPT report a day later, a legal memorandum filed with the motion Thursday said. The state police “were previously unaware of Plaintiff’s association with HLF, as it was omitted from his resume,” the memo said. A second background check resulted in Mustapha’s invitation to be a chaplain rescinded. He sued, claiming violations of his 1st and 14th Amendment rights.”