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Muslim charity, seven men charged| Justice Department alleges ties to Hamas|
The Associated Press on www.MSNBC.com newsite ^ | 3:50 p.m. ET July 27, 2004 | Unattributed

Posted on 07/27/2004 11:52:39 PM PDT by mikvahyid

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To: Cinnamon Girl

Yes, she seems to be an amazing woman, reading this account of her life and work. She would go into all kinds of conventions and meetings, dressed in the hijab and robes, even pregnant with her last child. And with tape machine running under her clothes!

Very frightening for her at times, she wrote of one event where she was getting sick to her stomach listening to what was being said about attacking the Jews, and had to get out before she passed out and was found out!

She was not supposed to have her identity revealed in this lawsuit, but it was apparently done inadvertantly, so it's said.


41 posted on 07/28/2004 9:48:51 AM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: Cinnamon Girl

There are many more out there. Take me and most of my friends as another example.


42 posted on 07/28/2004 10:23:29 AM PDT by mench
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To: mench

I know there's a lot out there. Including me. I'm really talking about all the jews at the Dem convention acting like the Dems are so great for Israel and ignoring what Fritz Holling, Jimmy Carter, etc, have said about Israel and Jews. To them I say WAKE UP!


43 posted on 07/28/2004 10:40:24 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
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To: broadsword

Mikvahyid's OK. I just checked to make sure he's logged in...


44 posted on 07/28/2004 10:50:09 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic ("I'm John Kerry and Tah-reesa paid for this ad")
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To: Experiment 6-2-6
Add that to the fact that he posted before filling in his "about me" page..

Ruh-roh, is that a requirement? I have been here 3 1/2 years and have yet to get around to filling out my "about me" page.

45 posted on 07/28/2004 11:42:31 AM PDT by Denver Ditdat (Ronald Reagan belongs to the ages now, but we preferred it when he belonged to us.)
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To: texasbluebell
As a companion to the topic of this thread,.. what do you think about this story? Meanwhile, a *Department of Homeland Security* employee, with equally suspicious ties to arab terrorist groups, has been reinstated and given his job back. Don*t we all feel safe now? This is insanity.

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,126719,00.html

Homeland Security Appointee Under Investigation
Sunday, July 25, 2004
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
WASHINGTON — Officials at the Department of Homeland Security are investigating the reinstatement of a top political appointee to the agency who was briefly suspended for failing to disclose ties to a controversial Islamic organization, FOXNews.com has learned.

Faisal Gill, director of policy for intelligence at DHS, was forced to take a few days off in March after sources close to the FBI raised flags about Gill*s former position as spokesman for the American Muslim Council. The now-defunct American Muslim Council ( search) was founded in 1990 to lobby Washington for the interests of American Muslims and had been involved in community activism to that end. AMC was established and headed by Abdurahman Alamoudi ( search), who was indicted in 2003 on passport fraud and illegal finance activities with Libya. Court documents call Alamoudi an active supporter of Hamas (search), which the U.S. State Department considers a terrorist organization, and an official in an international charity group run by Usama Bin Laden*s nephew. Alamoudi recently told federal officials he was part of a plot to assassinate King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

According to a report first published last month by Salon.com reporter Mary Jacoby, Gill omitted his role with the American Muslim Council when he filed his employment application and requisite security clearances at the agency. Gill left off his "Standard Form 86" that he served as AMC?s spokesman in 2001. Homeland Security officials refused to comment on the report, but a spokeswoman for the department*s internal watchdog told FOXNews.com that Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin is ?looking further into the issue? of Gill*s employment at the department.

"He*s taking it seriously," said Tamara Faulkner, who would not confirm what kind of probe was being undertaken, but said reports of Gill?s re-instatement in light of his sensitive security position and failure to disclose a past affiliation with the AMC was at the heart of it. "I don*t know where it is at this point," she said. (well golly gee, .. shucks).

Capitol Hill sources as well as other sources close to the FBI confirmed Gill*s alleged omission of his ties to AMC led to his temporary removal from his post at Homeland Security. They added his employment there continues to be a source of curiosity.

According to sources close to the FBI, Gill, who also was director of government affairs for the Islamic Free Market Institute ( search) in Washington, D.C., was reinstated at DHS after a thorough background check.

Gill*s reinstatement has raised questions because of his link to Alamoudi, who was once a paid consultant of the U.S. State Department hired to forward the interests of Muslim, Jewish and Christian reconciliation. Soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, a videotape surfaced featuring Alamoudi fueling an anti-Israel rally in front of the Clinton White House in 2000 and declaring support for Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations. Gill did not return phone calls or e-mails for comment.

Concern on Capitol Hill
Lawmakers and political observers are expressing concern about men with such ties being given access to high-level positions in the White House, and Gill*s employment at Homeland Security has invigorated a smoldering debate among Republicans. If a person worked in any capacity for the American Muslim Council, that had to be disclosed;

"it*s unconscionable not to disclose that if you are going to work for the Department of Homeland Security," said Rep. Peter King ( search), R-N.Y, who serves on the House Homeland Security Committee and recently published the Sept. 11-inspired novel, "Vale of Tears." ?The fact that he didn?t disclose this I think raises some serious questions, if anything, about his judgment,? King told FOXNews.com.

46 posted on 07/28/2004 12:17:27 PM PDT by MindFire
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To: John O; Imaverygooddriver; Denver Ditdat
Read my about page. Am I a troll? ,

Look, I'm not a raving lunatic, seeing trolls under every rock, and if mikvahyid is a genuine conservative all the better. I didn't say he was a troll just because he didn't have an about page. In fact, I only used the word troll after another freeper suggested that he might be.

What I said was this:

Being a brand new member, he then posts an article (which is a duplicate from an earlier post) that has nothing to do with an alleged double standard that he then rants about. Where he just claims there's a double standard, but doesn't say who (though broadsword claims it's "the left"). Perhaps it's the arab charity that just got indicted that holds the double standard? He also asks whether these are the same arabs, when he doesn't reference any other arabs. I just thought it odd that he had this overpowering rush to show that everyone on Free Republic that he had "zeal to provide accurate timely information", but that he went about it in the weirdest way. Such as:

Late Posting
Duplicate post.
Irrelevant comments unrelated to the article posted.
Odd spelling errors. (not that I'm the spelling police, but I would think a new poster would try to make the best first impression)
The absolute FLOOD of trolls this past week.
Mikvahyid's decision to fill out an about page minutes after posting.
Mikvahyid's decision to fill out a tagline minutes after posting.
Usually one does this when they sign up, and I just thought it really weird to post this as fast as possible, then fill in the other stuff later.
Not being the only one who thinks he might be a troll due to the combination.

I guess if I wanted to go over to DU and start posting as a classic liberal, I would just start typing "No Nukes! No Nukes!", and DU would accept me with open arms. Even though my No Nukes comments would be after an article about how a photo was leaked about Kerry in a bunny suit at NASA.

It was suspicious, more than anything else.

47 posted on 07/28/2004 12:36:28 PM PDT by Experiment 6-2-6 (Meega, Nala Kweesta! Romanes Eunt Domus....)
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To: MindFire; Cinnamon Girl; mikvahyid
Take a look at this one:

Holy Land Indictments reveal City of Dallas Engineer is brother of top Hamas leader

The federal government's roundup Tuesday of seven Middle Eastern men on charges of funding the terrorist group Hamas yielded an unexpected disclosure: a link between Dallas City Hall and Hamas’ top leader in Israel’s occupied territories.

North Texas resident Mufid Abdulquader is a city of Dallas engineer who was among the men charged Tuesday in a 42-count indictment for allegedly using the Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas terrorist operations. But Abdulquader, a Palestinian and naturalized U.S. citizen, has a connection to Hamas shared by none of the others.

Abdulquader’s Syrian-based half brother is a top leader of Hamas, ranking so high that he has been a target of high-profile Israeli assassinations that have killed other organization leaders in recent months. Abdulquader’s half-brother – they share the same father – is Khaled Mishaal, Hamas’ political bureau chief and U.S. designee as a global terrorist.

Until the government unsealed its indictment Tuesday, the family relationship between the city of Dallas engineer and Mishaal was known only to a few intelligence officials who had grown increasingly concerned about it as Hamas leaders began publicly threatening to target Americans.

48 posted on 07/28/2004 1:36:54 PM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: mikvahyid
Don't sweat it dude. I waited till I had something to post before I registered. I got called a troll too. It's kind of a FR initiation ceremony. There are alot of vigilant Freepers. Thick skin is a requirement.

Welcome to FR. Enjoy the ride.

49 posted on 07/28/2004 8:23:46 PM PDT by EricT. (Join the Soylent Green Party...We recycle dead environmentalists.)
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Holy Land Indictments reveal City of Dallas Engineer is brother of top Hamas leader

Unfortunately the US has a very short memory. When the Israelis assassinated Abu Jihad in Tunis, he was not replaced be a Palestinian from a refugee camp in Gaza, nor by someone from the Syrian, Libyan, or Iranian security apparatuses (apparati), his replacement, Ramadan Abdulah Shallah, was a professor at USF Tampa. This article is so expected as to make almost un-newsworthy. But because guilt by association is somtimes a very likely, it is not an "American" value, so we had to wait 8 years before the he and his fellow Islamic Jihad Cell members were indicted. Golly Gee Whiz what a surprise. For more info see: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/flm/pr/022003indict.pdf And http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/02/20/professor.arrest/


50 posted on 07/28/2004 10:44:58 PM PDT by mikvahyid (The Islamic war against America began on June 5, 1968. Not on September 11, 2001.)
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