Posted on 09/23/2001 7:38:21 PM PDT by truther
While Bill Clinton's IRS pursued his personal enemies with great enthusiasm -- auditing Billy Dale, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick and dozens more -- America's enemies, it seems, got a free pass from the same agency.
That's the claim from the legal watchdog group Judicial Watch, which has filed a complaint with IRS Commissioner, Clinton holdover Charles Rossotti, charging that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, Hamas and others continue to use tax exempt U.S. based charities to bankroll terror unencumbered by even the hint of an audit.
At least 16 U.S.-based non-profit entities have been linked financially to bin Laden, the legal watchdog group says.
The decision not to investigate these groups is especially difficult to understand given that the information in the Judicial Watch complaint is hardly a state secret. On the contrary, the complaint is based largely on reports published over the last three years in venues like the New York Times.
One such questionable non-profit, the Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA), has been directly linked to earlier attacks on U.S. interests by bin Laden.
"IARA reportedly transferred money to Mercy International, another non-profit Muslim organization that purchased vehicles used by Osama bin Laden to bomb the U.S. embassies in both Kenya and Tanzania on August 8, 1998," the complaint notes.
Not only did Rossotti & Co. not investigate, that same year the Clinton State Department showered the IARA with $4.2 million in grants.
Other non-profits said by Judicial Watch to have ties to Hamas include:
The United Association for Studies and Research
Islamic Association for Palestine
North American Islamic Trust
The Islamic Relief Association
Muslim American Society
The Cultural Society
The Muslim Arab Youth Association
The Alaqsa Educational Fund
Council on American Islamic Relations
Islamic Society of North America
Islamic Circle of North America
American Middle Eastern League for Palestine >br>Quaranic Literacy Institute.
Though Judicial Watch doesn't say so, further investigation may lead to even closer to the Clintons' doorstep. For instance, Rossotti's decision to look the other way happens to coincide with a series of generous donations by Muslim non-profits to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign?
In Boston -- the same city where two hijacked planes departed before slamming into the World Trade Center nearly two weeks ago -- Mrs. Clinton held a June 13, 2000 fund-raiser hosted by the American Muslim Alliance.
According to a report on the group's website, "The reception was attended by nearly 100 American Muslim leaders and activists."
As NewsMax.com reported at the time, candidate Clinton "clearly understood that her hosts were concerned that the U.S. war on terrorism might be too harsh."
In her speech, "Mrs. Clinton vowed to pursue fairness and justice in the issue of secret evidence and the Anti-Terrorism Act," the AMA Web site noted.
At the Boston event, the former first lady accepted a $1,000 contribution from Abdurahman Alamoudi, an official with the American Muslim Council who once vowed to eliminate Israel and had previously boasted, "We are the ones who went to the (Clinton) White House and defended what is called Hamas."
When Mrs. Clinton's campaign reported Alamoudi's American Muslim Council donation to the F.E.C., the AMC was camouflaged as the "American Museum Council."
Alamoudi had pledged his $1,000 at a fund-raiser held a month earlier at the Washington, D.C. mansion of Yasser Arafat crony Hani Masri -- a gathering Mrs. Clinton's campaign went to great lengths to conceal.
"The event, which sources said raised more than $50,000, was closed to the press, which wouldn't have known about the event anyway, since it wasn't listed on Mrs. Clinton's public schedule," the Jewish Forward reported at the time.
Sooner or later someone's bound to start asking: Was Mrs. Clinton's active fund-raising within the radical Islamic community behind the Clinton IRS's decision to take a pass on tax exempt groups with ties to terrorists?
ARE YOU LISTENING, NY JEWS WHO HELPED TO ELECT HILDEBEAST LAST FALL?
Even though I know I shouldn't be surprised at anything the Clintons might do, the constant barrage of this kind of thing is still stunning. Another big thank you to Larry Klayman is in order.
Shorting is effectively borrowing a stock you don’t own and selling it into the market in hopes the price will fall. You then buy the stock back at the lower price, return it to the owner and pocket the difference.
Administrators of the affected markets are currently investigating massive and extraordinary shorting volume in, among others, the CASUALTY INSURANCE and AIRLINE industries THE DAY BEFORE THE WCT ATTACK. Since all such transactions leave fairly easy to follow paper trails, some answers should be forthcoming soon.
We NOW hear that evidence is building that there was HIGHLY UNUSUAL LONG action in oil and gold.
Could it be possible that Usama bin Laden – who KNEW of the attack has, through his trusted agents – who may or may not have known about it – ACTUALLY MADE MILLIONS FROM ON THE DEATHS OF OVER 6,000 INNOCENT HUMAN BEINGS?
We may never know for sure, but would ANYTHING this monster has done surprise us?
If the Treasury Department and the IRS are NOT at this moment taking as many steps as they routinely take to seize the assets and property of native born Americans who owe them money and/or fall behind in their taxes, ask your congresscritter why.
Since AMC’s inception in June 1990, Mr. Alamoudi has served as a Member of the Board of Directors and also as Executive Director for the past several years. AMC is a nonprofit organization serving the Muslim interests in the United States. It opposes discrimination against Muslims and other minorities. Its primary goal is to educate the Muslims to be an effective political force in America.
Under his leadership, each of these non-profit organizations has served the interests of the Muslim community in this country for nearly a decade. AMC has served as a resource for inter-organizational and cross-cultural cooperation.
Prior to founding the American Muslim Council and the American Muslim Foundation, Mr. Alamoudi worked as the Executive Assistant to the President of the SAAR Foundation. Among his other business activities, Mr. Alamoudi worked at the Northeast Regional Representative for Arabic Software Computers Inc., as Vice-President and Treasurer for Cambridge Computers and Instruments in Boston. He was also the regional representative for the Washington metropolitan area of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Earlier, he served as Acting President of the Muslim Student’s Association of the United States and Canada.
Additionally, Mr. Alamoudi remains an active member of many organizations dedicated to promoting cooperation among different religious, ethnic, and political communities. Among them, he heads Muslims for a Better America and the American Task Force for Bosnia. He also sits on the advisory boards of a number of organizations including interfaith Impact for Justice and Peace, on the Board of The Council on National Interest Foundation, Mercy International, the Somali Relief Fund and the American Muslims for Jerusalem. He was the first exclusive endorsing agent for Muslim Chaplains for all branches of the US Armed Forces.
Mr. Alamoudi is a widely sought-after speaker for both political and religious affairs--nationally as well as locally. He appeared on national network program such as CNN’s Crossfire, discussing important issues dealing with Islam and Muslims in America. He is also frequently sought as a speaker, by USIA, to travel abroad fostering communication and cooperation across many countries and diverse cultures.
Mr. Alamoudi holds a Master’s Degree in business administration from Southeaster University and Bachelor of Science in pharmacy from Cairo University.
Mr. Alamoudi is married and has three children.
Simply Clintonian
Blood-money questions hound Hillary.
By Deroy Murdock, a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service
n the final weekend before electing their next U.S. senator, New York voters continue to sift through constant revelations about Hillary Rodham Clinton and her pro-terrorist donors. The First Lady claims not to have known that the American Muslim Alliance (AMA) sponsored a June 13 fundraiser in Boston where she received $50,000 in donations and a plaque. Her campaign originally stated that the event was a meeting of Massachusetts Americans of Arab descent and that the AMA later tried to say it arranged the gathering.
"I resent this organization that claims to have hosted this event," Clinton declared last week.
Sunday's New York Post reports that Clinton sent a warm note on White House letterhead offering "greetings to each of you attending the American Muslim Alliance Convention" in October 1998. "I commend you for your efforts to encourage others to work to make their voices heard in the present and for the future," she continued. "Please accept my best wishes for a wonderful convention."
The event's keynote speaker was Stanley Cohen, attorney to controversial Clinton donor Abdurahman Alamoudi. Cohen told the meeting that the "true terrorists are the state of Israel and its supporter, the United States, in perpetuating the victimization of the Palestinians in their own land."
This "New Hill Flap," as the Post's front-page headline dubbed it, comes just 48 hours after further evidence of Clinton's Mideast mendacity. On Friday, after repeated press inquiries, the Clinton campaign released an August 8 letter in which the First Lady thanks the AMA for hosting her June fundraiser.
"It was a pleasure to be a part of the Massachusetts chapter meeting of the American Muslim Alliance," says the letter on White House stationery. "The plaque is a wonderful reminder of my visit. Please extend my appreciation and thanks to the entire membership." The letter to Massachusetts AMA chair Tahir Ali bears the First Lady's signature.
Clinton now says the correspondence was signed with an autopen. "I never saw the letter before," she said. "I know nothing about this...No reason to check it out with me, the form letter is sent out."
Republican rival Rick Lazio's senatorial campaign responded to this news with a satirical press release. "Autopen Casts Deciding Vote to Double Taxes on New York," said yesterday's communique. "Vicious Machine Says Money Needed to Provide Free Housing for Hollywood Homeless."
Even if Clinton is telling the truth in this instance, one of her White House aides should have searched for any such correspondence and released it to reporters with a full accounting of what really happened. Instead, in classic Clinton style, the truth has dribbled out since the New York Daily News broke the story on October 25.
The tale of the mad autopen comes on the heels of additional information about Abdurahman Alamoudi of the American Muslim Council (AMC). The Clinton campaign returned his $1,000 contribution after learning of his sympathies for Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group responsible for at least 130 deaths and over 600 injuries in a variety of Israeli bomb attacks. The Clinton campaign's June 30 filing with the Federal Election Commission lists Alamoudi's occupation as "American Museum Council" rather than "American Muslim Council." Just a typo, the First Lady's campaign has said.
Alamoudi, for his part, embarrassed Clinton further with his remarks at an October 28 rally at Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House.
"I have been labeled by the media in New York to be a supporter of Hamas," Alamoudi said. "Anybody support Hamas here?" Alamoudi thrice asked the crowd of 3,000 as it screamed with excitement. "Hear that, Bill Clinton?" he continued. "We are all supporters of Hamas. I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah...Does anybody support Hezbollah here?"
Hezbollah, of course, is the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the 1983 explosion at a Beirut barracks that killed 239 American Marines as they slept.
"It's an occupation, stupid," Alamoudi added, presumably of Israel's presence in the Middle East.< "Hamas is fighting an occupation. It's a legal fight."
When the Daily News asked Alamoudi to comment on his remarks, he replied, "You better check your Arabic." Told that he had spoken in English, Alamoudi said, "It was in English? Oh my God, I forgot!"
Alamoudi also served as a State Department goodwill ambassador. Since 1997, he has made six speechmaking trips to the Middle East, earning $200-per-day plus a $200 expense per diem. Alamoudi lectured audiences on religious tolerance.
As Middle East specialist Steve Emerson wrote in Friday's Wall Street Journal the AMA and AMC also sponsored a 1998 Brooklyn College rally where Islamic extremists demanded a "jihad" and described Jews as "pigs and monkeys."
Hillary Clinton's deceptive game of footsie with such characters raises new questions about her true sympathies. She has called for the creation of a Palestinian state. She kissed Mrs. Yasser Arafat on the cheek after Mrs. Arafat gave a speech in November 1999 claiming that Israel gassed Arab children. (Bad translation, Clinton explained.) The First Lady also denied allegations that she called a former campaign adviser "a f***ing Jew bastard" after Bill Clinton lost a congressional bid early in his career.
These facts may help clarify why Democratic assemblyman Dov Hikind, influential in New York's Orthodox Jewish community, endorsed neither Clinton nor Lazio for Senate. Indeed, Democratic city councilman Noach Dear, a Brooklyn Jew, backed Lazio's candidacy Thursday, calling him "a great friend of Israel" while handing out "Lazio/Dear" yarmulkes.
The Long Island congressman still faces tough odds. The five-point lead he enjoyed in the Zogby International poll on October 31 vanished after voters seemingly became turned off by 500,000 state GOP phone calls that overplayed the Clinton blood-money issue. They claimed that the first lady's donors support terrorists, such as those who blew up the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen last month. While Lazio did not sponsor the calls, Clinton accused him of capitalizing on the tragic murder of U.S. sailors.
For her part, Mrs. Clinton said in Rochester on November 2, "Those 17 young men and women died aboard defending our right to vote." WABC-TV reporter Dave Evans wondered if "some of the audience in Rochester thought that invoking the Cole tragedy in order to get out the vote may have been a bit over-the-top." Apart from that, the New York media have largely not commented on Clinton's Rochester remarks.
The GOP nominee gained support since yesterday's Zogby poll, but still trails Clinton who leads 49.3 percent to Lazio's 44.9 (margin of error: 3.8 percent).
This seesawing race likely will pivot on turnout. Some 2,000 members of state teachers unions are calling Democratic voters to cajole them telephonically to their precincts. Members of the United AutoWorkers and affiliated unions have received a mailing urging votes for Albert Gore and Hillary Clinton.
The intensity of Lazio's supporters may be his secret weapon. They are eager to help Hillary pack her carpetbag and go home. Since not even gale-force winds will keep them from the polls, Lazio should pray for a noreaster to sandbag Clinton's Gotham City base. Tuesday's forecast calls for 58 degrees beneath partly cloudy skies.
Klayman was suing Cheney or Bush a month or so ago, wasn't he?
Not only that, he was indirectly blaming Bush for the terrorists' attacks:
JUDICIAL WATCH BLAMES PRESIDENT BUSH FOR TERRORIST
ATTACKS --Promises Investigation (mine)
Sounds to me that Newsmax, who is sympathetic to JW and often covers JW stories, is now trying to slant Klayman's latest "investigation" (based only on NY Times reports btw) against Clinton. Here is JW's OWN press release of this same story here which I posted a couple of days ago:
JUDICIAL WATCH ASKS THAT IRS INVESTIGATE AND SHUT DOWN TERROR FINANCIAL NETWORK LIKELY LINKED TO BIN LADEN NETWORK
There was little mention of Clinton in JW's original press release of this new "investigation". Now apparently since the funds are not rolling in, there is an effort to link the attack more to Clinton (and perhaps they should be) but now drop the references to Bush.
Interesting.
there are missing pieces all over the queen hillary of york map.
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