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Hiding in Plain Sight (Al Arian at the White House)
Newsweek ^ | March 3rd, 2003 | Michael Isikoff

Posted on 02/23/2003 8:53:24 AM PST by Sabertooth

For George W. Bush, it was just another campaign stop. But for Sami Al-Arian, a University of South Florida engineering professor, it was a golden opportunity. When Bush appeared at Tampa’s Strawberry Festival in March 2000, Al-Arian sidled up to the candidate and had his picture taken.

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Al-Arian’s politics took on a decidedly darker cast last week when federal agents arrested him at his home in south Florida and charged him with being a top leader of one of the world’s most violent terrorist organizations: Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

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Al-Arian certainly didn’t act like a sponsor of suicide bombings. Far from keeping to the shadows, he repeatedly lobbied Congress on civil-liberties issues, made thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to influential members of Congress and renounced violence during appearances on TV talk shows. In June 2001 Al-Arian was invited to a White House briefing for 150 Muslim American activists, at which political director Karl Rove talked about the Bush administration’s "outreach" efforts. A law-enforcement official told NEWSWEEK the Secret Service had flagged Al-Arian as a potential terrorist prior to the event. But White House aides, apparently reluctant to create an incident, let him through anyway. Such access had its advantages. "He always told me the charges were garbage," said Khaled Saffuri, chairman of the Islamic Institute. "When you hear he’s going to the White House, you figure what he’s saying must be true." In fact, federal prosecutors charged last week, Al-Arian carried out his secret terrorist agenda "under the guise of promoting and protecting Arab rights"—making his public profile a critical part of his MO. "It was the perfect cover," said Steven Emerson, a terrorism analyst who has followed Al-Arian for years.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alarian; alitulbah; enemywithin; grovernorquist; islamicinstitute; khaledsaffuri; norquist; saffuri; suhailkhan
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So, who are the unnamed White House aides who overruled the Seret Service and allowed Sami Al Arian into the White House?

Notice that Khaled Saffuri, co-founder with Grover Norquist of the Islamic Institute, which has received donations from the Holy Land Foundation, the Safa Trust, and Qatar, is backpedalling mightily from this scandal.



1 posted on 02/23/2003 8:53:24 AM PST by Sabertooth
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To: CheneyChick; vikingchick; Victoria Delsoul; WIMom; one_particular_harbour; kmiller1k; mhking; ...
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2 posted on 02/23/2003 8:54:19 AM PST by Sabertooth
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To: Sabertooth
Bump
3 posted on 02/23/2003 8:59:49 AM PST by Valin (Age and Deceit, beat youth and skill)
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To: Sabertooth
A law-enforcement official told NEWSWEEK the Secret Service had flagged Al-Arian as a potential terrorist prior to the event. But White House aides, apparently reluctant to create an incident, let him through anyway

So, who are the unnamed White House aides who overruled the Seret Service and allowed Sami Al Arian into the White House?

That will be the White House "offical line " ..some unnamed schmook did it ...do not believe it.

It is the policy of this White Houise to court the Muslims ( oil and potential votes rule)..Just as the WH turns the other way as people of all kind cross without problems at the southern border...just as they WH is silent as people in this country illegally are getting STATE issued driver licenses

Politics rule not security.The offical message is get your plastic and duct tape and shut up!!

4 posted on 02/23/2003 9:06:54 AM PST by RnMomof7
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To: Sabertooth
"Al-Arian certainly didn’t act like a sponsor of suicide bombings. Far from keeping to the shadows, he repeatedly lobbied Congress on civil-liberties issues, made thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to influential members of Congress and renounced violence during appearances on TV talk shows."

American polititians are gaining the same despicable notoriety of their counterparts in the rest of the world by being able to be bought, sold, traded and manipulated like street whores.

Bush (and his advisors) need to get a grip - very quickly on who they distance and who they welcome into their bosoms (for the sake of political correctness and votes).

Bush Praises Islam For It's Morality

Twenty-Year Plan for USA: Islam Targets America

PLEASE PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO ITEM #8.

The True Furqan can be located on HERE or HERE

The following is Dr. Shorrosh's analysis of Islamic invasion of America, the agenda of Islamists and visible methods to take over America by the year 2020! Will Americans continue to sleep through this invasion as they did when we were attacked on 9/11?

1. Terminate America's freedom of speech by replacing it with hate crime bills state-wide and nation-wide.

2. Wage a war of words using black leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and other visible religious personalities to promote Islam as the original African-American's religion while Christianity is for the whites! Strange enough, no one tells the African-Americans that it was the Arab Muslims who captured them and sold them as slaves, neither the fact that in Arabic the word for black and slave is the same, "Abed."

3. Engage the American public in dialogues, discussions, debates in colleges, universities, public libraries, radio, TV, churches and mosques on the virtues of Islam. Proclaim how it is historically another religion like Judaism and Christianity with the same monotheistic faith.

4. Nominate Muslim sympathizers to political office for favorable legislation to Islam and support potential sympathizers by block voting.

5. Take control of as much of Hollywood, the press, TV, radio and the internet by buying the corporations or a controlling stock.

6. Yield to the fear of imminent shut-off of the lifeblood of America - the black gold. America's economy depends on oil,1000 products are derived from oil), so does its personal and industrial transportation and manufacturing -41% comes from the Middle East.

7. Yell, "foul, out-of-context, personal interpretation, hate crime, Zionist, un-American, inaccurate interpretation of the Quran" time Islam is criticized or the Quran is analyzed in the public arena.

8. Encourage Muslims to penetrate the White House, specifically with Islamists who can articulate a marvelous and peaceful picture of Islam. Acquire government positions, get membership in local school boards. Train Muslims as medical doctors to dominate the medical field, research and pharmaceutical companies. Take over the computer industry. Establish Middle Eastern restaurants throughout the U.S. to connect planners of Islamization in a discreet way.

Ever notice how numerous Muslim doctors in America are, when their countries need them more desperately than America?

9. Accelerate Islamic demographic growth via:

a. Massive immigration (100,000 annually since 1961)

b. No birth control whatsoever - every baby of Muslim parents is automatically a Muslim and cannot choose another religion later.

c. Muslim men must marry American women and Islamize them (10,000 annually). Then divorce them and remarry every five years - since one cannot have the Muslim legal permission to marry four at one time. This is a legal solution in America.

d. Convert angry, alienated black inmates and turn them into militants (so far 2000 released inmates have joined Al Qaida world-wide). Only a few have been captured in Afghanistan and on American soil. So far - sleeping cells!

10. Reading, writing, arithmetic and research through the American educational system, mosques and student centers (now 1500) should be sprinkled with dislike of Jews, evangelical Christians and democracy. There are 300 exclusively Muslim schools with loyalty to the Quran, not the U.S. Constitution.

11. Provide very sizeable monetary Muslim grants to colleges and universities in America to establish "Centers for Islamic studies" with Muslim directors to promote Islam in higher education institutions.

12. Let the entire world know through propaganda, speeches, seminars, local and national media that terrorists have hijacked Islam, not the truth, which is Islam hijacked the terrorists. Furthermore in January of 2002, Saudi Arabia's Embassy in Washington mailed 4500 packets of the Quran, videos, promoting Islam to America's high schools--free. They would never allow us to reciprocate.

13. Appeal to the historically compassionate and sensitive Americans for sympathy and tolerance towards the Muslims in America who are portrayed as mainly immigrants from oppressed countries.

14. Nullify America's sense of security by manipulating the intelligence community with misinformation. Periodically terrorize Americans of impending attacks on bridges, tunnels, water supplies, airports, apartment buildings and malls. (We have experienced this too often since 9-11.) 15. Form riots and demonstrations in the prison system demanding Islamic Sharia as the way of life, not American's justice system.

16. Open numerous charities throughout the U.S. but use the funds to support Islamic terrorism with American dollars.

17. Raise interest in Islam on America's campuses by insisting that freshman take at least one course on Islam. Be sure that the writer is a bonafide American, Christian, scholarly and able to cover up the violence in the Quran and express the peaceful, spiritual and religious aspect only.

18. Unify the numerous Muslim lobbies in Washington, mosques, Islamic student centers, educational organizations, magazines and papers by internet and an annual convention to coordinate plans, propagate the faith and engender news in the media of their visibility.

19. Send intimidating messages and messengers to the outspoken individuals who are critical of Islam and seek to eliminate them by hook or crook.

20. Applaud Muslims as loyal citizens of the US by spotlighting their voting record as the highest percentage of all minority and ethic groups in America.

5 posted on 02/23/2003 9:17:00 AM PST by Happy2BMe (There is no jihad war on America - it's all in you head.)
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..."made thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to influential members of Congress."

Any College Professor making that kind of contribution to Congress members might be in need of a second look. It's not like he was involved in research at a prestigious college....

6 posted on 02/23/2003 9:29:05 AM PST by goodnesswins (Thank the Military for your freedom and security....and thank a Rich person for jobs.)
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To: goodnesswins
Can anybody characterize how advanced Al-Arian's computer-science research was?
7 posted on 02/23/2003 9:39:13 AM PST by aristeides
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To: RnMomof7
So that's what the duct tape is for.... I had it all wrong. Dang.
8 posted on 02/23/2003 9:43:26 AM PST by CheneyChick
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To: CheneyChick
Well it will give you a life it you need it:>)
9 posted on 02/23/2003 9:45:40 AM PST by RnMomof7
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To: Sabertooth
A law-enforcement official told NEWSWEEK the Secret Service had flagged Al-Arian as a potential terrorist prior to the event. But White House aides, apparently reluctant to create an incident, let him through anyway.

Newsweek says that unamed White House aides knew that an unnamed law-enforcement official said, that an unamed Secret Service source said that the Secret Service flagged Al-Arain.

You conclude things from that chain of laudered unamed sources -- I don't!

10 posted on 02/23/2003 9:45:56 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: RnMomof7
So, who are the unnamed White House aides who overruled the Seret Service and allowed Sami Al Arian into the White House?


Good question and I would hope there are answers because the longer the WH wait's to amswer the longer this will drag on. Sabertooth and I warned about this problem That Frank warned of at Cpac. Instead those that warned were smeared. Now the left has this story and it's not going to end if there is no response from the WH on what the heck is going on.
11 posted on 02/23/2003 9:50:34 AM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: FreeReign
Drudge now has the story at his site...

12 posted on 02/23/2003 9:52:40 AM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: TLBSHOW
I wonder if there's any relationship between who the White House aide is and how vociferously people here have been defending Norquist and attacking Gaffney.
13 posted on 02/23/2003 10:00:29 AM PST by aristeides
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To: TLBSHOW
There is a policy of at the White House..

You know TL..sometimes it is necessary to risk and take hard stands..The president needs to do that now. If he does what is right he will be reelected , if he keeps dodging and weaving to keep on good terms with eveyone he will loose

14 posted on 02/23/2003 10:01:03 AM PST by RnMomof7
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To: FreeReign
You conclude things from that chain of laudered unamed sources

Well we could tell ya the conclusion but then it wouldnt be unamed anymore and wheres the fun in that? /sarcasm/

15 posted on 02/23/2003 10:04:08 AM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (An American Fellowship of Freedom loving Conservatives..... <*[[[[[><)
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To: RnMomof7
THIS IS LINKED OFF OF THE SITE CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY
HERE you are correct and this is no joke anymore as answers are needed...

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=today

AMC Chairman to Discuss Muslim Community’s Concerns with the FBI Chief


For Immediate Release

WASHINGTON, DC, February 13, 2003: The FBI Director has invited
leaders of major Muslim and Arab organizations to address the issues
“regarding the FBI response to terrorist threats and backlash hate crimes”
against the members of the American Muslim community. AMC Chairman of the
Board Dr. Yahya Mossa Basha has been invited to the meeting.

“American Muslims are fearful of backlash, discrimination, and hate
crimes against them and against other American minorities, including new
immigrants and people with dark complexion as the levels of threats are
raised,” said Dr. Yahya Basha, Chairman of the Board of Directors. The
current difficult climate is giving rise to hate crimes, abuse, and
mistreatment of the community members, he added.

The American Muslim Council is nation’s oldest Muslim political
organization. It was established in 1990 to promote Muslim participation in
mainstream political arena. It also works to ensure Muslims’ involvement
in public dialogue on our nation’s socio-cultural and religious and
political issues.

http://www.amconline.org/cgi-bin/release/viewnews.cgi?newsid1045877164,94565,
16 posted on 02/23/2003 10:06:10 AM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: aristeides
bttt
17 posted on 02/23/2003 10:07:44 AM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: TLBSHOW
We don't need "patriot acts"... We need PATRIOTS!
18 posted on 02/23/2003 10:09:34 AM PST by jd777
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To: jd777
We are here.......

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/845727/posts?q=1&&page=

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/848113/posts?page=

Question is: why people are defending Grover?
19 posted on 02/23/2003 10:12:58 AM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: TLBSHOW
Drudge now has the story at his site...

So now Drudge says, that Newsweek says, that unnamed White House aides knew, that an unnamed law-enforcement official said, that an unnamed Secret Service source said that the Secret Service flagged Al-Arain. I want you to tell me what conclusions we should draw from that long chain of unnamed laudered sources.

...there is no response from the WH on what the heck is going on.

We do know that Al-Arian’s was invited by the WH last year and we do know that last week, Al-Arian was charged as a terrorist.

The WH does need to respond.

20 posted on 02/23/2003 10:14:43 AM PST by FreeReign
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