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Feds Spied on Prominent Muslim-Americans, Report Claims
ABC News ^ | July 9, 2014 | By JAMES GORDON MEEK, BRIAN ROSS and RHONDA SCHWARTZ

Posted on 07/09/2014 6:33:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A new report based on NSA documents taken by Edward Snowden has revealed the names of prominent American Muslims whose emails it claims were monitored by the FBI and the NSA for years – the most specific allegation yet of the U.S. government's domestic spying and one that officials said could compromise ongoing operations.

The report, published overnight by Glenn Greenwald at the fledgling news outlet The Intercept, identifies five of some 202 “U.S. Persons” listed in NSA documents whose emails were allegedly swept up over a six-year period ending in 2008: Nihad Awad, Executive Director of CAIR, the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the country; Faisal Gill, who served with the Department of Homeland Security and ran for public office in Virginia as a Republican; Asim Ghafoor, a defense attorney who has taken on terrorism-related cases; Hooshang Amirahmadi, an international relations professor at Rutgers University; and Agha Saeed, a former political science professor at California State University and National Chairman of the American Muslim Alliance.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: muslims; nsa
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1 posted on 07/09/2014 6:33:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We should have spied on those Boston muzzies...like Russia told us to do....more than once. Obama told Putin to go to hell.


2 posted on 07/09/2014 6:35:04 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Looks as if we’re doing at least one thing right.


3 posted on 07/09/2014 6:38:17 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is it improper to spy on people who want to kill you in the name of their religion or don’t speak up when millions of their fellow believers want to?


4 posted on 07/09/2014 6:38:29 AM PDT by golf lover (goingf)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yep, got that right.


5 posted on 07/09/2014 6:38:54 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One can only hope.

Muslim=evil.

Period.

Not spying on the vermin constitutes treason.


6 posted on 07/09/2014 6:38:57 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

good


7 posted on 07/09/2014 6:45:10 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: All
Muslim money-laundering modalities finance global jihad.

freedomoutpost.com (EXCERPT)---the American Freedom Law Center, has been engaged in a long and drawn out lawsuit againstHamas front group, CAIR. Hamas-CAIR has been running a global criminal money laundering operation out of Washington, DC. "The money laundering scheme was discovered in the course of legal discovery in unrelated federal litigation arising out of allegations by five of CAIR's former clients that CAIR defrauded them by failing to provide the legal services they had been promised."

THE MODUS OPERANDI To avoid reporting these millions of dollars from the dubious Islamist sources and to avoid registering as an agent for a foreign sovereign as required by federal law, CAIR created a separate company called CAIR-Foundation, Inc---an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

CAIR itself quit filing any federal tax returns from 2008-2010 and allowed the IRS to withdraw its status as a 501(c)(4), converting itself to a regular for-profit corporation. CAIR also stopped all of its operations and became simply a holding company, transferring, at least on the books, all of its employees and equipment to CAIR Foundation. --snip--

SOURCE http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/09/muslim-brotherhood-hamas-front-group-cair-money-laundering-us-capital/#ixzz2jOgy8k7H

=========================================================================== 6/21 Muslim Killer on US Disability and Food Stamps secreted Diamonds and 200 Credit Cards
Front Page Magazine ^ | 6/20/2014 | Daniel Greenfield /FR Posted by Dqban22

This sort of thing is surprisingly common. The only reason it has come to light is because the Muslim settler committed two murders, one of which he actually got away with. The Point has discussed the murder of Gelareh Bagherzadeh before.

Gelareh Bagherzadeh was an Iranian Christian who came to this country only to be murdered by a Muslim because she encouraged his daughter to marry the Christiaan man she loved. He was too disabled to work. But not too disabled to kill. The father, a strict Muslim, was furious when his Jordanian-American daughter married a man without his permission.

Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan blamed his daughter’s husband, relatives say. They say he also faulted one of her closest friends, 30-year-old Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a Christian convert who widely denounced Islam. First Bagherzadeh was killed, gunned down outside her parents’ Galleria townhouse complex in January 2012.

Eleven months later, Irsan’s son-in-law died after being shot multiple times in the northwest Harris County apartment he shared with his wife. And Ali thought he could get away with it because he had already gotten away with so many other things. Federal authorities executed a search warrant at Irsan’s sprawling, 5-acre property 40 miles north of Houston, where they allegedly found cash, diamonds, pearls, weapons and phony passports hidden in attic rafters, in secret compartments throughout a cluster of trailers and outbuildings and even inside the buried drum of a clothes dryer at the Conroe property.

Irsan, his wife Shmou Ali Alrawabdeh, and another daughter were subsequently arrested on a variety of federal fraud charges and are in federal custody.

A federal criminal complaint detailing the discoveries recounts a saga of nearly 20 years in which the 57-year-old naturalized citizen from Jordan and his family allegedly scammed taxpayer disability assistance funds claiming “fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue symptoms,” and “affective disorders” while secreting real estate, vehicles and cash in U.S. and foreign bank accounts.

The complaint also alleges Irsan was receiving taxpayer funds for a son not living in the U.S., maintained several addresses on the property to facilitate various schemes and once disabled a safety feature on a saw then purposefully cut himself to receive a $75,000 settlement. Ali was certainly industrious and entrepreneurial, just not quite in the way amnesty advocates like to claim.

Also found on the property was a makeshift gun range, which witnesses said “five or six Muslim families” frequently visited to fire AK-47s and information about Irsan’s attempts to get a silencer. Nothing to do with Islam I’m sure.

The rest of the scam ...... While there have been no allegations of terrorist ties regarding the family’s alleged foreign bank accounts and suspicious wire transactions, Irsan’s strict adherence to radical Islam may have been a motive in the alleged murders.Authorities are also re-examining a 1999 case in which Irsan was not indicted after claiming self-defense in the shooting of son-in-law Amjad Alidam, who was married to Nasemah Rachelle Irsan. And that’s not all.

Prosecutors also revealed, in connection to the social security fraud and credit card charges against Irsan, that they found more than 200 credit cards with various names and multiple variations of his own name throughout the Irwin Keel home. Arresting officers say they also found more than 40 similar credit cards in his wallet the morning he was arrested.

His daughter also alleges, among multiple other schemes detailed in court documents, that Ali Irsan purposely disabled the safety device on a Ryobi rotary saw and purposely cut his own foot. Prosecutors say he used that injury to receive a $75,000 settlement from the manufacturer.

SOURCE http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/muslim-killer-on-disability-and-food-stamps-had-diamonds-and-200-credit-cards/print/

8 posted on 07/09/2014 6:50:29 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ghafoor with President George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton

9 posted on 07/09/2014 6:55:02 AM PDT by Theoria (End Socialism : No more GOP and Dem candidates)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All citizen Muslims should have been under surveillance from 9/12/01 forward, and all non-citizen Muslims deported. They didn’t have time to watch the Tsarnevs because they had to keep tabs on that dangerous Tea Party crowd!


10 posted on 07/09/2014 6:56:43 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Doing something right?? For a change??

Reminds one of the old saw concerning the Blind Hog and acorns.


11 posted on 07/09/2014 6:57:13 AM PDT by Flintlock (islam is a LIE, mohamuud a PEDOPHILE, sharia is POISON.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NOW the media is outraged.


12 posted on 07/09/2014 7:15:15 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the problem with this is...?


13 posted on 07/09/2014 7:48:58 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So?


14 posted on 07/09/2014 7:51:26 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The NSA is spying on all of us.


15 posted on 07/09/2014 7:55:12 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is scandalous. Why only prominent Muz-scuzz?


16 posted on 07/09/2014 8:31:46 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE! --- ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

During the War On Terror, which is still ongoing in a big way, no matter what the Obamanauts say, it is very reasonable to spy on people who are affiliated, even loosely, with enemy combatants. There was no problem at all in spying on German-Americans, Italian-Americans and Japanese-Americans during World War II; nor of spying on any American persons descended from the eastern bloc or Asia during the Cold War.

That the US is *not* using all its resources to spy on *every* Muslim and Muslim sympathizer since the 1980s, can only be called dereliction, which has resulted in the loss of life of thousands of Americans.

Yes, it is “profiling.” It is justifiable, legitimate profiling, with no relation to Civil Rights era espionage against African-Americans. And even that was reasonable, given Soviet attempts to infiltrate and influence that movement.


17 posted on 07/09/2014 8:34:30 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Sacajaweau

Not just them, but their friend Abdulrahman Ali Al Harbi too.


18 posted on 07/09/2014 8:38:13 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Liz

Dr. ichael Savage’s lawsuit against CAIR shows that the money CAIR raised on its website after 9/11 went to the Holy Land Foundation, also a terrorist front.


19 posted on 07/09/2014 8:40:38 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: skeeter
I hope this is a setup for future releases of names on people on the right and left that were targeted by the NSA.

This is a great story to get the attention, and then release more.

20 posted on 07/09/2014 8:55:33 AM PDT by Theoria (End Socialism : No more GOP and Dem candidates)
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