Holy Land Indictments reveal City of Dallas
Engineer is brother of top Hamas leader
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Posted on 07/28/2004 1:23:01 PM PDT by johnfrink
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.
Hamas has deployed dozens of suicide bombers who have killed hundreds of Israeli civilians in a quest to annihilate that country and replace it with an Islamic regime.
But recent threats by Hamas leadership to mount attacks on American soil provoked heightened fears within the FBI that the engineer could pass along sensitive information about the city’s vital infrastructure systems to terrorists, two sources have told CBS-11 News.
The FBI therefore has kept Abdulquader under especially close scrutiny, using a variety of surveillance methods both on and off the job, the sources said.
“The relationship did concern us,” one source told CBS-11. “I’d say it has been a concern all along.”
Sources, however, said no evidence surfaced that Abdulquader had used his city job for nefarious purposes. It remained unclear Tuesday when Dallas city officials were made aware of Abdulquaber’s family connection to Hamas or whether the city has cooperated in surveillance. City officials who would be aware of such cooperation could not immediately be reached for comment.
The government’s indictment of the seven men accuses Abdulquader of working as a top fundraiser for the Holy Land Foundation and accuses him of praising Hamas through a violent dramatic skit depicting the killing of Jewish people.
Current and former FBI terrorism experts say the city engineer’s half-brother directed suicide bombings against Israel.
“It’s hard to think that it’s permissible to carry out Jihad or blowing up a bus in Israel from the safety of the United States without ultimately creating the situation where people might do the same here,” said Steven Emerson, who heads a private intelligence gathering agency in Washington, D.C.
The indictment accuses the Holy Land Foundation of funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the families of suicide bombers. Abdulquader and the other six, including Dallas–area residents Shukri Abu Baker and Ghassan Elashi, also are accused of filing false tax returns and sending token donations to real charities as a means of hiding their more substantial activities of raising millions from U.S. muslims on false pretenses.
Dallas criminal defense attorney Tim Evans, speaking on behalf of the accused Tuesday, said they were the victims of a politically motivated investigation. He noted that the arrests took place during the Democratic national convention.
“There’s been a tremendous amount of resources expended going after these families for all these years that in my opinion quite frankly could have been used to go after some real terrorist threat,” Evans told reporters Tuesday after an arraignment of the three Dallas defendants.
Former FBI Special Agent Tino Perez, who worked on the current investigation before retiring last year, said the Holy Land Foundation sought to fool donors and silence critics by doling out some funds to legitimate causes.
“The money that was being collected here by this charitable organization was going to both the families of the needy, families of martyrs, and in some cases, the money was going toward the purchase of munitions, bombs and weapons to be used in their fight,” Perez told CBS-11.
When President Bush shut down the Holy Land Foundation’s Richardson offices two years ago, the organization’s officers insisted there was no relationship with Hamas. At the time, one of the founders of the organization, the now-indicted Shukri Abu Baker, denied it gave money to anyone but orphans and needy refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
“The Holy Land Foundation is a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” said Nancy Jardini of the Internal Revenue Service.
The foundation’s original treasurer, Ghassan Elashi also was indicted Tuesday. He is already in federal custody, having been convicted recently of illegally shipping computers to Syria.
Supporters continued to maintain the foundation was only an ordinary charity. But new information released in the government’s indictment suggests the foundation did not always act like an ordinary charity.
The indictment says the foundation taught employees how to shred documents and that it hired a security company to sweep its offices for listening devices.
Didn't Vera Katz have a member of the Portland 7 working in her office while she was mayor?
Well, yes, but as an intern, and it was well before Sept. 11. Slightly different than having a friggin' city engineer be the brother of one of the top Hamas officials.
So the question is how many blueprints and other sensitive info did he have access to and did he have access to cities other than Dallas?
SSDD to my mind. Don't they run backround checks on people with access to City Hall?
the enemy within.
I think most background checks reveal if you have a criminal background, financial issues, etc. I can't imagine very many (other than the very highest Pentagon, NSA, CIA, etc.) take a look at who your relatives are. And, even if they did a cursory check, if your sibling is a foreign citizen, there's not likely to be a paper trail connecting you to him, so it would be nearly impossible for a city government to discover that much information.
I'd still like to know if they even bothered with a cursory check.
Great ... the enemy within has access to the blueprints of every commercial and public building in Dallas. Wonder how many others in other cities there are?
Dallas' city government is corrupt beyond redemption. If money is available, they can forgive anything. But those whom they can't shake down, they destroy. Look at Sheriff Bowles... a BUSH supporter, and now out of office. District Attorney Bill Hill has been instrumental in the coverups of police and sheriff's dept. scandals, and Hill has been pivotal in dethroning Bowles.
Bill Hill is chief among those most corrupt, and I have no doubt that he and the most of Dallas' city government probably knew of Abdulquader long ago. With enough money, anything is possible in Dallas...
Info Ping
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/construction/accelerated/pega.htm
Name: Mufid Abdulqader
Title: Senior Project Manager
Company: Public Works & Transportation
Office: City of Dallas
Yeehah! C'mon cowboy. Head 'em up; move 'em out. Round all of them up and "interrogate" the heck out of them.
Not to mention the location and detail specs of every piece of the electric power transmission & feeder grid, the natural gas distribution system, the city water supply, POL pipelines & storage, MTS and broadband facilities, the whole nine yards. Perfect, just perfect. Could this guy be a sleeper? Naaaaaah, never in a million years.
Dallas is far enough north that folks don't automatically assume that foreign looking, non-English speaking, dark skinned folks have just swum the river. Yet, it is close enough that a small fleet of vehicles, 4 door pick up trucks or vans, could pick up teams of other Muslims very near the border where Muslim coyotes left them and bring them north to Dallas.
Cargo in the form of dope, guns, kerrorist materials or quantities of cash could also be carried. A cargo depot could easily be established at one or more of the hundreds of self-storage complexes in the area. So, the FBI got one of the kerrorist cells. How about all the others?
DFW Uh Oh ping
THAT would explain the extreme lack of crime control in Dallas since the current administration took over Big-D!
As was directed by Antonio Gramsci -
http://focus.gohotsprings.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=434
...C. Gradual revolution through infiltration & subversion by revolutionaries
......1. Infiltrate the State: elective & appointed office; judgeships
......2. Infiltrate the military: enlist & subvert from within
......3. Infiltrate justice: undermine and discredit state constitutions
......4. Infiltrate education: professors & administrators
......5. Infiltrate & discredit religion: scoundrels as clergymen
......6. Register, then license, then confiscate all privately held weapons
Holy Land Indictments reveal City of Dallas
Engineer is brother of top Hamas leader
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The high incidence of crime is due to the lack of oversight by previous Chief of Police, Terrell Bolton, whom Laura Miller fired almost as soon as she took office (not that I like Laura Miller).
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