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.
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/