Thanks to But Three Lefts Do for the ping to this thread.
QUOTE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237254/posts
Minn. won’t penalize group in Somali piracy case
KSTP.com ^ | 4/24/09 | AP
Posted on April 24, 2009 3:40:44 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A Minnesota Republican legislator has failed in his attempt to punish a Twin Cities group that helped line up an attorney for an accused Somali pirate.
The proposal would have denied non-profit tax status and prohibited grants to groups helping alleged terrorists or high-seas pirates.
House Minority Leader Marty Seifert was aiming his proposal at the nonprofit Somali Justice Advocacy Center, which has assisted the family of a man being held in connection with an attack on a U.S. ship in the Indian Ocean.
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Blog:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/show_me_the_mullah.html
April 25, 2009
“Show Me the Mullah”
By Ed Thomas
SNIPPET: “I am struck by the lack of coverage in the media of the obvious beneficiary of the rise in Somali piracy. Let’s just ask the question; who stands to gain from this phenomenon? It’s pretty simple really. The piracy in the northern Indian Ocean raises large sums of money for fundamentalist Mullahs and puts a big hurt on Suez Canal traffic.”