McKinney campaign donors named in 9.11 suit

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 8/17/02 | By BOB DART and STEPHEN KRUPIN

[FreedomPoster]

WASHINGTON -- Several contributors to Rep. Cynthia McKinney's campaign are among the alleged "enablers of terrorism" named in the $1 trillion lawsuit filed this week by families of some Sept. 11 victims.

The suit seeks damages from the "financial sponsors of terror" who "hide behind the facade of legitimacy." Among these alleged terrorist financiers are several individual supporters of McKinney. Among the corporate defendants is a Gainesville poultry firm.

The federal suit was filed Thursday by more than 600 relatives of people who died in the terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania. The amount sought was amended to $1 trillion from an earlier $100 trillion.

"The financial resources and support network of these defendants -- charities, banks and individual financiers -- are what allowed the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to occur," the lawsuit charges.

Among the defendants are:

Mar-Jac Poultry Inc., a Gainesville firm that the lawsuit claims has links to Saudi supporters of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorist network.

Abdurahman Alamoudi, who contributed $2,000 to McKinney's campaign. The lawsuit says Alamoudi has "openly stated his support for Hamas and Hezbollah, both designated terrorist organizations." Alamoudi is secretary of the Success Foundation, which the lawsuit charges is part of the International Islamic Relief Organization, which is "al- Qaida's charity of choice to funnel money and weapons."

Mohamed S. Omeish, who contributed $500 to McKinney's campaign. The suit says Omeish is president of the U.S. branch of the Islamic Relief Organization.

Yaqub Mirza, president of Mar-Jac Investments, who also gave $500 to McKinney's campaign. He is secretary-treasurer of the Muslim World League, an organization named as a defendant in the lawsuit. "The MWL has numerous connections with al-Qaida operatives," the lawsuit alleges.

Jamal Barzinji, a Mar-Jac Investments manager, who gave $500 to McKinney's campaign. Barzinji is president of SAAR Foundation, another organization named as a defendant in the lawsuit. "The SAAR Network financially supports terrorism and its main contributors, the al-Rajhi Family, has a long history of same," the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit said the "co-conspirators, aiders and abettors of the al-Rajhi family" include Mar-Jac Poultry Inc. The al-Rajhi family was included among the Saudi Arabian financiers of bin Laden.

Ahmad Totonji, who contributed $1,000 to McKinney's campaign. The lawsuit lists him among the "co-conspirators, aiders and abettors of the SAAR Network."

The lawsuit defendants who contributed to McKinney's campaign could not be reached Friday and did not respond to telephone messages.

Telephone calls on Friday to the McKinney campaign were not returned. The congresswoman faces former DeKalb County State Court Judge Denise Majette in the 4th District Democratic primary Tuesday.

In a televised debate earlier this month, McKinney responded to questions about her donors.

"All of our contributions are legal," she said. "My opponent, on the other hand, has an awful lot of Republican money going into her coffers."

McKinney has long enjoyed support from within the nation's Islamic community.

In an earlier interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, McKinney had said, "My relationships with the Arab-American and American Muslim communities are based on the belief that they, like Americans of all ethnic and religious backgrounds, are full members of the American family."

But McKinney campaign coordinator Wendell Muhamad had played down FBI investigations of some of these same donors. He had said that the agency historically has hounded minorities and now is targeting Muslims and people with Arab-sounding names.

About one-fourth of the individuals who have contributed to McKinney's campaigns over the past five years have names that appear to be Arab-American or Muslim, according to an informal study of Federal Election Commission records by the Journal- Constitution.

Their contributions total $142,950, one-third of the money McKinney collected from individuals over the last five years, the AJC review indicated.

Arab-American leaders call McKinney a longtime supporter.

Staff writers Melanie Eversley and Bill Torpy of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution contributed to this article.

[FreedomPoster]

No surprises here.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping. The AJC is ratting her out; it's a beautiful thing.

[Atlantian]

It's about time.

[Catspaw]

Telephone calls on Friday to the McKinney campaign were not returned.

Gee, you'd think they'd want to talk to the press, given that the primary's a few days away. I suppose they're far too busy with plans for Farrakhan's visit to talk to the AJC.

And now let me finish giggling, laughing & guffawing.

[SuzanneC]

Cynthia's little house of cards is coming tumbling down.

[backhoe]

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[mewzilla]

Ping.

[mewzilla]

You must have been reading my mind :)

Hope these people are checking out the funding from committees, too, not just individuals. I think a lot of it may be going through the committees now.

[backhoe]

Hope these people are checking out the funding from committees, too, not just individuals. I think a lot of it may be going through the committees now.

My rather cursory searches using the above sites reveals and awful lot ( take that any way you care to interpert it! ) of large corporate donors, foundations, and fat cats of all stripes.

[alnick]

They left out the fact that many of McKinney's donations came in ON 9/11.

[Clara Lou]

A nail in her political coffin, I hope.

[YaYa123]

And ratting her out 3 days before the primary, ouch!

SuzanneC, all these last minute revelations, the bad publicity, scare me. Cynthia, Daddy, their thugs, the walking-round money, outside pressure on voters...no telling what will go down in order to save her seat.

With the DNC, mainstream democrats and the media going against Cynthia, (finally), she's on her own. Look for broken voting machines in precincts unfriendly to McKinney. Look for anything suspicious that will prove advantageous to McKinney, and have you noticed the high number of McKinney ads all over local tv? They are nasty to the max, but all of them contain the same false allegations McKinney put out in the debate...I'm betting they hurt McKinney at this point, more than they hurt the Judge.

[Boxsford]

This ought to cook her goose! If not, there are some pretty dense and ignorant Georgians.

[FreedomPoster]

There are some *really* dense and ignorant Georgians in the SW part of her district.

[lodwick]

bttt - nice digging there. Thanks.

[Tazlo]

... have you noticed the high number of McKinney ads all over local tv? They are nasty to the max, but all of them contain the same false allegations McKinney put out in the debate . . .

I've noticed. There's quite some irony in Cynthia painting herself as the candidate who's "lily white."

[randita]

Telephone calls on Friday to the McKinney campaign were not returned.

If they were returned, here's what their response would be:

"I do not profile my contributors. I accept funds from terrorists of all skin colors and nationalities."

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking!

[YaYa123]

Mar Jac Poultry

Not a clue that this company is owned and run by middle easterns. Check em out on the web.

For folks from other parts of the country, chicken growing and processing is big business and has a long history in North Georgia. Reading Mar Jac's homepage, you'd think it's just another good ole mountain boy operation that's been around forever.

But let me make y'all feel better. You know my word is my bond, right? That I don't overstate or repeat rumor, just the facts mam. Right after 9-11, the feds moved in on Mar Jac and took computers, records, documents, the works, so while this middle eastern - chicken plant - Cynthia McKinney connection is news to me, it's not news to the feds. I feel better already.

I mean, if the FBI was hot on the trail of this one company, up in the foothills of north Georgia, I have to think they were all over the country doing the same kind of work.

Now here comes my speculation: It's all coming out now in the AJC (and elsewhere), to affect McKinney's primary race. No wonder Jesse's complaining the DNC and Democrat congress critters aren't down here stumping for Cindy? Mainstream democrats have thrown McKinney overboard...glub glub....but we still have to worry about desperation tactics and illegal activity at the polls. Cynthia's not going to go down easy...daddy will see to it.

[aristeides]

Yes, mainstream Dems have decided to dump Jihad Cindy. Did you notice how the McKinney campaign announced Ralph Nader was doing ads for them? Maybe these black radicals, feeling dissed, will move to the Greens.