THE ROLE OF CHARITIES AND NGO’S IN THE FINANCING OF TERRORIST ACTIVITIES

SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE ^ | AUGUST 1, 2002

[Calpernia]

See also:

THE BUSINESS OF TERRORISM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404919/posts

[Calpernia]

There is info in here that might help link NGO funding to the

"New York 9-11 Memorial will include museums on Indian genocide, black slavery genocide, more"

[68skylark]

Why are we looking at material that's several years old? Is there something about this that you feel we should look at today?

[Velveeta]

Good stuff, Cal.

I skimmed it now, bookmarking for closer read later.

Adding this link:
http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/002957.html

Check THIS out from the mudville link:

"Their vision for the museum has caused quite a stir lately – particularly because Bernstein’s artistic vision might be influenced by his anti-war political views. Bernstein is driving a lawsuit in federal court charging Rumsfeld with torture and demanding a special prosecutor be appointed by AG Gonzalez.

THEIR WEBSITE ALSO HAS A HELPFUL ARABIC LANGUAGE VERSION."
(cap emphasis mine)

[Velveeta]

It's part of the discussion from the link at post #2.

Trying to figure out the funding for the "International Freedom Museum" 9/11 WTC Memorial HIJACK.

[68skylark]

And you suspect that Islamic "charaties" are behind some of the funding of the blame-America memorial at ground zero?

[Calpernia]

Uh yes. I believe I explained that in post 1.

[Calpernia]

This operation is the one that uncovered the most publicly accessible connection from this charitable investigation to the group that is hijacking the memorial.

Operation Greenquest
Fri Dec 6 16:54:17 2002
204.189.23.213


Agents Raid Properties Affiliated With Chairman of Islamic Fund: http://www.john-loftus.com/wsj.htm
The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, March 21, 2002
By Jerry Guidera and Glenn R. Simpson

WASHINGTON -- Federal antiterrorism agents raided 14 homes and businesses affiliated with a wealthy investor and political donor who serves as chairman of an Islamic mutual fund.

Acting on sealed warrants, Treasury Department and Federal Bureau of >Investigation agents seized records from locations used by M. Yaqub Mirza, including a Georgia poultry plant and several offices in the Washington suburbs. No arrests were made and no assets were frozen. Treasury Department officials declined to discuss the raids, saying only that they pertained to Operation Greenquest, a Customs Service operation to cut off funding for terrorism.

Mr. Mirza is chairman of the board of Amana Mutual Funds Trust, a no-load mutual-fund company with about $43 million in assets and publicly traded funds that says it invests according to Islamic principles. At least one of the addresses used by the fund and other entities associated with Mr. Mirza, 555 Grove St. in Herndon, Va., was raided yesterday.

"They're on a wild goose chase," said Phelps McIlvaine, an executive at Amana investment adviser Saturna Capital, which has a nearly 20-year relationship with Mr. Mirza. Messages left for Mr. Mirza yesterday weren't immediately returned. Saturna, of Bellingham, Wash., handles all calls to Amana. Mr. McIlvaine said he is confident the Amana funds aren't tied to terrorism. "The most transparent, well-documented, well-regulated place in the world is mutual funds," he said.

Investigators appear be most interested in Mr. Mirza's role as an officer of the Saar Foundation, a nonprofit started in the 1970s by members of Saudi Arabia's al-Rajihi family, which has interests in banking, construction, and real estate.

The group was established by Muslim scholars and scientists from the Middle East and Asia to raise money for antihunger campaigns, educational and technology projects in developing Islamic. For example, Saar has helped establish one of the largest poultry farms in Zimbabwe and built schools in Ivory Coast. Records show the U.S. arm of Saar was dissolved in December 2000, after posting $12.5 million in assets. The group has raised more than $1.7 billion, in its 17 years in the U.S.

Steven Emerson, founder of the Investigative Project, an antiterrorism watchdog in Washington, said officials are trying to determine if Saar was used to build a terrorist-funding network in the U.S. "There's a suspicion that this group was involved in money laundering for al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups," he said. A person familiar with the government inquiry said the links are under investigation.

The raid coincided with the filing of a lawsuit in Hillsborough County, Fla., by a former Justice Department prosecutor who alleges that Saar or other entities at 555 Grove St. provided funding for groups set up by Sami Al Arian, a former University of South Florida professor whom the Justice Department says is linked to the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The 555 Grove St. address has also been used by the International Institute for Islamic Thought, a nonprofit that U.S. investigators have linked to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Mr. Mirza is listed in business records as an officer of numerous companies, including Sterling Management Group, MarJac Investment Inc., and Hadid Holdings Inc.

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More on: Operation Greenquest: http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=iso-8859-1&l=any&q=Operation+Greenquest&phrase=on

Update on Tracking the Financial Assets of Terrorists: One Year Later: http://fpc.state.gov/13337.htm

Jimmy Gurule, Under Secretary of Treasury for Enforcement
Foreign Press Center Briefing Washington, DC
http://fpc.state.gov/13337.htm
September 9, 2002

[Calpernia]

Yes.

[Calpernia]

This link is broke now. Article is from Cache.

http://www.john-loftus.com/wsj.htm

The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, March 21, 2002
By Jerry Guidera and Glenn R. Simpson



WASHINGTON -- Federal antiterrorism agents raided 14 homes and businesses affiliated with a wealthy investor and political donor who serves as chairman of an Islamic mutual fund.

Acting on sealed warrants, Treasury Department and Federal Bureau of >Investigation agents seized records from locations used by M. Yaqub Mirza, including a Georgia poultry plant and several offices in the Washington suburbs. No arrests were made and no assets were frozen. Treasury Department officials declined to discuss the raids, saying only that they pertained to Operation Greenquest, a Customs Service operation to cut off funding for terrorism.

Mr. Mirza is chairman of the board of Amana Mutual Funds Trust, a no-load mutual-fund company with about $43 million in assets and publicly traded funds that says it invests according to Islamic principles. At least one of the addresses used by the fund and other entities associated with Mr. Mirza, 555 Grove St. in Herndon, Va., was raided yesterday.

"They're on a wild goose chase," said Phelps McIlvaine, an executive at Amana investment adviser Saturna Capital, which has a nearly 20-year relationship with Mr. Mirza. Messages left for Mr. Mirza yesterday weren't immediately returned. Saturna, of Bellingham, Wash., handles all calls to Amana. Mr. McIlvaine said he is confident the Amana funds aren't tied to terrorism. "The most transparent, well-documented, well-regulated place in the world is mutual funds," he said.

Investigators appear be most interested in Mr. Mirza's role as an officer of the Saar Foundation, a nonprofit started in the 1970s by members of Saudi Arabia's al-Rajihi family, which has interests in banking, construction, and real estate.

The group was established by Muslim scholars and scientists from the Middle East and Asia to raise money for antihunger campaigns, educational and technology projects in developing Islamic. For example, Saar has helped establish one of the largest poultry farms in Zimbabwe and built schools in Ivory Coast. Records show the U.S. arm of Saar was dissolved in December 2000, after posting $12.5 million in assets. The group has raised more than $1.7 billion, in its 17 years in the U.S.

Steven Emerson, founder of the Investigative Project, an antiterrorism watchdog in Washington, said officials are trying to determine if Saar was used to build a terrorist-funding network in the U.S. "There's a suspicion that this group was involved in money laundering for al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups," he said. A person familiar with the government inquiry said the links are under investigation.

The raid coincided with the filing of a lawsuit in Hillsborough County, Fla., by a former Justice Department prosecutor who alleges that Saar or other entities at 555 Grove St. provided funding for groups set up by Sami Al Arian, a former University of South Florida professor whom the Justice Department says is linked to the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The 555 Grove St. address has also been used by the International Institute for Islamic Thought, a nonprofit that U.S. investigators have linked to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Mr. Mirza is listed in business records as an officer of numerous companies, including Sterling Management Group, MarJac Investment Inc., and Hadid Holdings Inc.

[Calpernia]

One of the key connecting players from Islamic Terrorism to IAC/ANSWAR:

M. Yaqub Mirza

Background:

DR. M. YAQUB MIRZA

Dr. M. Yaqub Mirza has been President and CEO of Sterling Management Group, Inc. (“SMG”) since 1998, of Sterling Advisory Services, Inc. since its inception, and President and CEO of MarJac Investments, Inc. (“Mar-Jac”) since 1995. From 1987-1995, he served as Executive Vice President of MarJac. MarJac makes proprietary investments in U.S. and foreign securities and provides international business management services. MarJac and its affiliates operated in the United States, Canada, Chile, Egypt, Malaysia, Turkey and Zimbabwe.

Dr. Mirza also served as Vice President (1984-1994) and President (1995-2000, the year it was dissolved) of the Saar Foundation, a Virginia not-for-profit corporation. Since 1984, Dr. Mirza has been actively negotiating mergers, acquisitions and sales of various sized companies and real estate projects located in different parts of the world. After many of the acquisitions, Dr. Mirza is involved as director and officer in the development of the acquired company or real estate project by evaluating top management to maximize efficiency and profitability and then restructuring, streamlining or expanding the same. In addition, Dr. Mirza has more than 20 years of experience in stock investments and portfolio management involving assets ranging from $1-$10 million.

Dr. Mirza has served as a Trustee and Treasurer and later as Chairman (1987-February 2003), and is now an Advisor to the Board of Trustees of the Amana Mutual Funds, which are registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission as an open-end investment company and managed by Saturna Capital Corporation. In addition, Dr. Mirza currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Jugos Concentrados, S.A. (“Jucosa”), a Chilean producer of juice concentrates, traded on the Santiago Stock Exchange. He also serves on the Board of numerous other companies. He served on the Board of Mylex Corporation, a NASDAQ listed, world leader of RAID technology and network management products from December 1988 until September 1999 when Mylex was acquired by IBM for $240 million.

Dr. Mirza holds a M.Sc. from University of Karachi (1969), a Ph.D. in Physics (1974) and M.A. in Teaching Science (1975) from University of Texas at Dallas.

[68skylark]

Okay -- I just wanted to understand the point you're making. Thanks for the clarification.

[Calpernia]

SAAR Foundation:

Emphasis From below:

>>>nother focus of the probe is the SAAR leaders' links to the Muslim Brotherhood, a 74-year-old group which is under investigation by European and Middle Eastern governments for its alleged support of radical Islamic and terrorist groups. For decades the brotherhood has been a wellspring of radical Islamic activity; Hamas, the militant Palestinian group, is an offshoot of it. European officials are particularly interested in the brotherhood's ties to leading neo-Nazis, including the Swiss Holocaust denier Ahmed Huber.<<<




Clues Raise Questions About Terror Funding

Six months after they raided the Northern Virginia headquarters of some of the nation's most respected Muslim leaders, federal agents say they are pursuing a trail of intriguing clues in a top-priority search for evidence of tax evasion and financial ties to terrorists.

Federal and European investigators say that several lines of inquiry have emerged from their review of documents and computer files they carted off in a dozen panel trucks from offices and homes affiliated with the Herndon-based SAAR Foundation, a tight-knit cluster of prominent Muslim groups funded by wealthy Saudis.

One avenue of investigation is the alleged transfer of millions of dollars from the SAAR network to two overseas bankers who have been designated by the U.S. government as terrorist financiers. Another is the network officials' history of ties to the militant Muslim Brotherhood.

A third part of the investigation concerns a key mystery: whether an astonishing $1.8 billion in gifts passed through the SAAR Foundation in a single year, 1998. SAAR leaders reported that sum on a tax form, but later said it was a clerical error.

Agents are struggling to sort through and translate rooms full of documents -- many in Arabic -- and chasing leads in 17 countries. U.S. officials call the investigation one of the highest priorities of Operation Green Quest, the U.S. Customs Service task force formed after the Sept. 11 attacks to wage a financial war on terror.

The probe is part of a global crackdown the U.S. government has launched to stem the funding of terror groups since Sept. 11, 2001. That crackdown has targeted a number of large Muslim charities here and abroad.

The investigation of the SAAR officials, most of whom live and work around Herndon, infuriates some members of the Muslim community, who insist that the men are among the most moderate and progressive figures in American Islam. One of the raided institutions, for example, was denounced by Islamic radicals for issuing a fatwa, or Islamic ruling, that allowed Muslims in the U.S. military to fight in Afghanistan. Several people whose homes were raided advise the Defense and State departments on Islamic matters.

"My clients are absolutely not involved in any way in supporting terrorism," said Washington attorney Nancy Luque, who represents most of the individuals and groups raided. "It's a smearing."

Taha Jabir Alalwani, a stocky man in a flowing brown robe who has been part of the Herndon groups for years, said the searches of his home and the Leesburg-based Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences that he runs reminded him of the tactics of the secret police in his native Iraq.

"I'm moderate, I'm serving this country and I'm innocent of these suspicions," said Alalwani, whose institute trained 10 of the U.S. military's 14 Muslim chaplains. "I'm trying to convince Muslims in the U.S. this is our home, we must defend this country."

The SAAR network consists of more than 100 Muslim think tanks, charities and companies, many of which are linked by overlapping boards of directors, shared offices and the circular movement of money, according to tax forms and federal investigators. The network, named for Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Rajhi, the patriarch of the Saudi family that funded it, gives to charities, invests in companies and sponsors research, all with a goal of fostering the growth of Islam.

The SAAR Foundation officially dissolved in December 2000, and many of its functions were taken over by another group, Safa Trust, run by many of the same people.

Government officials say the investigation of the SAAR groups, which began with a probe of anti-Israel activists in Florida in 1996 and intensified after the Sept. 11 attacks, has not traced money from the SAAR entities to the al Qaeda terrorist network. But U.S. and European investigators say they have uncovered information in the Bahamas and Europe that in recent years some SAAR entities' funds have moved to two men, Youssef Nada and Ahmed Idris Nasreddin, designated by the United States as terrorist financiers. The funds moved through two offshore banks in the Bahamas that the pair controlled, officials said.

The institutions, Bank al Taqwa and Akida Bank Private Ltd., have been designated conduits for terrorist funds by the U.S. Treasury Department. In recent months they were shut down by Bahamian authorities under U.S. pressure. In an August report, Treasury said that the banks "have been involved in financing radical groups" including Hamas and al Qaeda, both before and after the Sept. 11 attacks. Bank al Taqwa and Akida Bank were described by the Treasury Department on Aug. 29 as "shell companies" that were "not functional banking institutions."

Nada and Nasreddin said they have done nothing wrong and pointed out that thousands of businesses use offshore havens like the Bahamas. In March, Nada told reporters he is a legitimate businessman and has never funded terror. Nasreddin could not be reached for comment, but his Geneva-based lawyer, P.F. Barchi, said in May that his client has no links to terror and abhors violence.

SAAR representatives say they have had no transactions with the banks and that the SAAR network's financial ties to Nada are limited to a single loan to him. Early last year, an individual connected to SAAR arranged for funds to be moved from a joint account of several SAAR executives to Nada as a loan, they said.

U.S. officials say they believe that the SAAR network moved a total of about $20 million to offshore accounts, much of it through Bank al Taqwa and Akida Bank to Nada and Nasreddin firms.

But because of the complex nature of the wire transfers, which sent money through myriad accounts, officials say they have had difficulty tracking SAAR entities' money around the world. In 1998, for example, SAAR moved $9 million to the Humana Charitable Trust, which a SAAR tax form said was based in the tax haven of the Isle of Man. U.S. investigators said they found no evidence the trust existed. Panama, another tax haven, was also the destination of millions of dollars.

"Looking at their finances," one U.S. official involved in the probe said, "is like looking into a black hole."

Questions Surround Network

Much about the SAAR entities remains in dispute, including the reported $1.8 billion in gifts in 1998.

For years, the foundation operated on annual budgets of about $1.5 million. Then it reported on its 2000 tax form that it had taken in $1.8 billion in contributions two years earlier.

SAAR representatives said that nothing like $1.8 billion has passed through the foundation over its 16-year life. They assert that investigators are chasing a simple clerical error on a tax form. They have filed an amended document stating that SAAR received no contributions in 1998.

U.S. officials say that they believe the reference to $1.8 billion was no mistake. "We are still looking at it as a real transaction," a U.S. official said. But investigators acknowledge that they haven't found evidence that sums of that size coursed through the network.

Another focus of the probe is the SAAR leaders' links to the Muslim Brotherhood, a 74-year-old group which is under investigation by European and Middle Eastern governments for its alleged support of radical Islamic and terrorist groups. For decades the brotherhood has been a wellspring of radical Islamic activity; Hamas, the militant Palestinian group, is an offshoot of it. European officials are particularly interested in the brotherhood's ties to leading neo-Nazis, including the Swiss Holocaust denier Ahmed Huber.

A number of central figures in the SAAR network, including Rajhi, were for decades involved in the brotherhood, where they befriended Nada, said representatives and friends of the SAAR officials. The one-time radicalism of SAAR network members has mellowed since they moved to the United States, SAAR associates said.

Nada, 73, a native of Egypt, has been one of the brotherhood's leading figures for years, and European officials say his network of banks and companies, including Bank al Taqwa and Akida Bank, are intimately tied to the brotherhood. European officials say the two banks handled tens of millions of dollars for the brotherhood over the years.

A wealthy construction magnate, Nada controls firms across Europe and the Arab world. Nasreddin, of Ethiopian descent, operates a business empire intertwined with Nada's out of Milan.

Founded in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has over the decades helped stir a revival in Islamic pride and militant opposition to secular Arab regimes. Governments in Egypt, Syria and Iraq have harshly cracked down on the group since the 1950s. The organization, viewed as heroic in much of the Arab world, has recently moderated some of its radical stances. The brotherhood has not been deemed a terrorist group by U.S. officials.

SAAR's defenders say it is guilt by association to accuse SAAR leaders of terrorist ties because they have connections to people like Nada.

"It's alarming that the government criticizes people for old associations that pre-date by years any questions being raised about those people," said SAAR attorney Luque. "They're being investigated for friendships formed 30 years ago."

Investigators said they have also uncovered numerous ties between SAAR entities and Bank al Taqwa. Samir Salah -- a founder of the Safa Trust, SAAR's successor, and an officer of other SAAR companies -- helped establish Bank al Taqwa in the Bahamas in the mid-1980s, according to a Treasury document. In a letter to The Washington Post, Salah said he had no role with the bank.

Ibrahim Hassaballa, another officer of some SAAR-related companies, also helped set up Bank al Taqwa in the Bahamas, according to the document. Hassaballa did not respond to numerous requests for comment.

Terrorism specialists say the significance of the SAAR network is that it could offer wealthy Persian Gulf financiers a circuitous route for money they don't want traced.

"A rich Saudi who wants to fund radical ideas or terrorists like Hamas and al Qaeda knows he can't send the money directly, so he filters it through companies and charities, often in the U.S. or Europe," said Rita Katz, a terrorism expert at the private SITE Institute in Washington.

Connections to Leading Muslim Groups

The SAAR organizations are run by approximately 15 Middle Eastern and Pakistani men, a number of whom live in two-story homes on adjoining lots in Herndon that were developed by one of their affiliated firms in 1987. SAAR representatives say most were born into devout Muslim families and some fell under the sway of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In the 1960s and 1970s, funded largely by Persian Gulf and particularly Saudi money, the men who would later form the SAAR network fled their homelands amid crackdowns on the brotherhood.

In Saudi Arabia and the United States, they helped launch groups that would evolve into some of the nation's and the world's leading Islamic organizations, including the Muslim Students Association, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth and the Islamic Society of North America.

In 1984, Yaqub Mirza, a Pakistani native who received a PhD in physics from the University of Texas in Dallas, used money from the Rajhis to start SAAR in Virginia, with the goal of spreading Islam and doing charitable work.

Mirza also sought out business ventures for SAAR. By investing the Rajhis' money with Washington real estate developer Mohamed Hadid, he made SAAR one of the region's biggest landlords in the 1980s. The SAAR network also became one of South America's biggest apple growers and the owner of one of America's top poultry firms, Mar-Jac Poultry in Georgia.

"The funds came very easily," said a businessman who dealt with SAAR. "If they wanted a few million dollars, they called the al-Rajhis, who would send it along."

But while SAAR enjoyed the largess of some of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families, it didn't hew to the Saudis' austere fundamentalism. Instead it promoted a more progressive Islam.

Ali Ahmed, a Saudi activist in Washington who denounces the Saudi regime as repressive, said he admires the Herndon group for its moderation. He said the officials engaged in a decades-long act of opportunism by taking Saudi cash and using it to promote their more tolerant agenda -- for example, allowing women to work.

"They got private Saudi money, but they weren't Saudi agents," Ahmed said.

In the mid-1990s, the Saudi government, upset with its inability to control the SAAR network, pressed contributors to stop giving money, several informed sources said.

Despite their moderate public face, the SAAR groups' leaders have had close dealings with people who were more radical. Among them were Muslim activists who ran two vehemently anti-Israel organizations affiliated with the University of South Florida in Tampa. Despite the Florida activists' denials, federal officials have been investigating them for years based on suspicions that they organized support for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which the U.S. government has declared a terrorist group because it organizes suicide bombings in Israel.

Steve Emerson, a terrorism expert who has studied SAAR for six years, said that "although the SAAR network presents a moderate profile, they have contacts and connections to Islamic groups here and abroad that are under investigation for ties to terrorism."

In a letter to a SAAR official, the Tampa groups described the SAAR network as their main funding source. SAAR allies said the money went only to conferences and publications.

Some of the Tampa activists later joined a SAAR affiliate in Virginia. One of them, Bashir Nafi, was deported as an alleged Islamic Jihad operative in 1996.

The investigation of SAAR began after a 1995 raid of the Tampa groups' offices yielded many documents showing close ties with the SAAR organizations, U.S. officials said.

Leesburg scholar Alalwani, in a 1993 letter to the Tampa groups that he said was also on behalf of several other SAAR leaders, described donations sent to the Florida activists. "We consider you a part of us and an extension of us," the letter said. "All your institutions are considered by us as ours. . . . We make a commitment to you; we do it for you as a group, regardless of the party or facade you use the money for."

After the 1995 Tampa searches, investigators widened that probe, launching a related investigation of the SAAR network, which lasted into the late 1990s. In 1998, National Security Council aides in the Clinton White House pushed the FBI to intensify that SAAR investigation. But knowledgeable sources said the FBI declined because of fears that a probe would be seen as ethnic profiling. The sources said U.S. officials also pressed senior Saudi officials to investigate SAAR and other Saudi-funded charities.

"At the end of the day the progress can best be described as marginal," said one U.S. official.

SAAR representatives said that between 1996 and 2000 they met four times with top FBI officials, who told them at the final session that the bureau had concluded that the SAAR network had committed no wrongdoing. U.S. officials dispute that account, saying that FBI officials never gave SAAR officials such blanket clearance.

Customs revived the probe after the Sept. 11 attacks, with help from Europeans probing Bank al Taqwa's Italian and Swiss operations.

"We are looking for patterns and connections, so it is very complicated," said a U.S. official. "The al Taqwa-SAAR nexus is a very high priority."

[Calpernia]

Ahmed Huber

Among the conclaves key backers was Ahmed Huber, a Swiss-German convert to Islam who traveled back and forth to Beirut to promote the event. This is the same Huber who is a primary supporter of the NPD, the German neo-Nazi party that sent 4,000 of its members marching through Berlines historic Jewish neighborhood on a recent Sabbath.

It takes money, clout and coordination to get 4,000 people to march anywhere, and clearly, people like Huber have got all three. And his contacts stretch beyond Europe and the Middle East. In a recent televised interview, Huber spoke of his many lectures in the United States and boasted that because of his strong ties to American Islamic groups, he was given advance warning that something big was going to happen here -- well before 9/11.

Against a wall filled with pictures of his heroes -- the Ayatollah Khomeini and Hitler, among others -- Huber denies that his bank has helped al Qaida, even as he gloats about his cohorts in the U.S. assuring him, 'We will bring down the power of the Israel lobby'.

[Calpernia]

The connection from Islamic funding to IAC/ANSWER

Ahmed Huber

Ahmed Huber—a principal figure in Al Taqwa’s operations and an important personage within the European far right as well—has networked with an African—American Muslim extremist cleric who was principally featured at a January/2003 anti-war rally in Washington, D.C.

International ANSWER—the parent organization behind several significant anti-war demonstrations is an important element of discussion. (This should in no way be misunderstood as impugning the motives of the vast majority of people opposing the war and/or in attendance at these rallies.) One of its most important elements is a Stalinist off-shoot of the Communist Party USA—the WWP. The head of the parent organization of ANSWER—the International Action Center—is former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Clark’s dubious political past is analyzed at considerable length.

Shifting focus dramatically, the broadcast discusses the disastrous economic policies of the Bush Administration. Coupled with anxiety about war in the Middle East and terrorism in the United States itself, this has led to significant strengthening of the euro against the dollar. Traditionally, the dollar was seen as a “safe haven” in turbulent times. That appears to be changing, at least for the time being. Now, investors see Europe as a more stable investment climate than the U.S. This element of the program must be evaluated against some of the political and economic underpinnings of pan-Germanism and geopolitics. The theoretical postulations of thinkers like Friedrich List, Karl Von Clausewitz and Karl Haushofer are central to an understanding of the analysis presented in For The Record, and for understanding the development of the Bormann organization.

[Calpernia]

>>>funding links to terrorists, stock fraud

Ok Fedora, here, I linked terror financing to the group involved with hijacking the memorial.

Now how do we get the memorial back? What is the next step?

[Velveeta]

Start first...by asking who would most enjoy seeing a "Blame America First Memorial" at ground zero?

Humanrightsfirst.org?

Yep...they're helping with funding and support

Amnesty Internation?

Yep...they're helping with funding and support

George Soros?

Yep

A.N.S.W.E.R?

Yep

Osama?
Zarqawi?


Scary, isn't it?

[Calpernia]

Terror money linked!

[photodawg]

Its always about follow the money. None of this happens without the cash. If the money is dirty, the project is dead. Its like shining a flashlight around a dark dirty kitchen and just watch the cockroaches scurry for cover. where you see one, there are hundreds more. We are just seeing the tip of the iceberg on this deal. Its frightening how tightly the American left is intertwined with international socialism and new world order extremists. I wonder who's using whom. Surely in the brave new world, communist atheists, and muslim fundamentalists, would have a little difficulty getting along, don't you think? My guess is the commies and one worlders are using the muslims to create the chaos necessary to destroy nationalism and will relegate them to christian like status once they control the world, you know, for the greater good. (smile).
Wow, things are breaking fast.

[Fedora]

Some thoughts on possible next steps, submitted for constructive criticism and improvement by FReepers experienced with organizing this type of thing:

Goals:

1. Get the International Freedom Center evicted from the building or otherwise render them incapable of completing their planned project.
2. Defund, prosecute under existing laws, outlaw under legal reforms, and publicly expose IFC.
3. Defund, prosecute, outlaw, and publicly expose IFC's accomplices.

Tactics:

1. Legal pressure against IFC and accomplices.
2. Legal reform against IFC and accomplices.
3. Financial pressure against IFC and accomplices.
4. Media pressure against IFC and accomplices.
Supplementary tactics:
5. Combinations of the above tactics against financial and politial decision makers potentially implicated by IFC's activity (e.g. the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., Chuck Schumer, Harris Wolford, Joe Trippi, etc., mentioned in previous FR posts on this subject).
6. Networking with watchdog groups monitoring terrorist funding, many of which are named above.
7. Networking with existing investigations and prosecutions of terrorist funding networks, also mentioned above, including both investigative/law enforcement agencies and Congressmen involved in these.
8. Networking with media outlets which have helped expose terrorist funding and related financial scandals (such as Bill O'Reilly's expose on the misuse of 9-11 charities, Kenneth Timmerman's expose of Jesse Jackson's shakedown scam and the Oil-for-Food scam, etc.).

BTW I have focused above on how to take the memorial back from the IFC, but I believe the information mentioned above can also be deployed for broader purposes against bigger targets, such as Soros.