http://www.investigativeproject.org/2219/fbi-defends-mustaphas-visit
“FBI Defends Mustapha’s Visit”
by Bill Gertz
The Washington Times
September 30, 2010
SNIPPET: “The FBI on Thursday defended its inclusion of a Chicago Muslim cleric tied in the past to the terrorist groups Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood in a group that recently visited the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and FBI headquarters.
Ross Rice, FBI spokesman in Chicago, acknowledged in an interview that Kifah Mustapha, imam of the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, Ill., was named as an unindicted co-conspirator during a Hamas funding trial six years ago.
However, Mr. Mustapha “has never been convicted of a crime and never charged with a crime,” Mr. Rice said.
“If we thought he was a security risk, we wouldn’t have included him” in the FBI’s Citizens Academy program, Mr. Rice said.”
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/30/hamas-linked-cleric-took-part-fbi-outreach-effort/
“Hamas-linked cleric took part in FBI outreach effort”
By Bill Gertz-The Washington Times8:55 p.m., Thursday, September 30, 2010
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/440.pdf
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/2229/illinois-imam-misrepresented-role-with-hamas
“Illinois Imam Misrepresented Role With Hamas Front Under Oath”
IPT News
October 7, 2010
SNIPPET: “Officials with the FBI’s Chicago field office said they had no problem with Kifah Mustapha, an Illinois imam who was named as an unindicted coconspirator by federal prosecutors in a 2008 terror trial, participating in a Bureau Citizens’ Academy and touring the secret National Counterterrorism Center.”
SNIPPET: “An Investigative Project on Terrorism investigation has found that Mustapha, an imam at the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, Ill., has an extensive history of raising money for groups tied to Hamas, the Islamist terror organization designated by the US government. That particularly includes the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the group for which Mustapha has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. The FBI severed its relationship with CAIR in mid-2008 because of concerns surrounding the group’s connections with Hamas.
Other IPT findings include:”