Posted on 05/22/2006 4:02:09 AM PDT by EBH
The trio of Muslim men in a Washington, D.C., hotel room never noticed the tiny camera hidden by the FBI.
As their conversation in 2002 turned toward raising money for their group -- which agents suspected of promoting fundamentalist Islam in Iraq -- a New York doctor mentioned a friend, a poor but devout Muslim always coming up with money-making schemes.
"One of the brothers from Toledo, Marwan El-Hindi, called me several times and told me that you are able to get federal grants," the doctor, Rafil Dhafir, said. "And it is large grants..."
...The pudgy, bushy-bearded father of seven embraced a form of Islam that shuns modern ways and, at its most extreme, drives the jihadist movement against the West. He wandered through rust-belt Muslim communities, brushing against Islamic organizations and individuals, some of whom federal investigators believe are parts of an international network of terror. Federal agents shut down one charity amid allegations it funded the militant Palestinian group Hamas and believe that two other groups that El-Hindi worked with have loose ties to Osama bin Laden.
But it wasn't until El-Hindi met a smooth-talking, Special Operations Army vet that he became a suspected terrorist himself.
El-Hindi began his American life in 1984 as a college student in Syracuse, N.Y. His uncle Ahmad settled there in 1947, the year before the family's Palestinian village became part of Israel...
... link to the graphics From the MidWest to the MidEast, http://www.cleveland.com/terrorism/wide/index.ssf?/terrorism/wide/elhindi0521.html
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
For sure, they do not want an audience doing that!
As offered re DaVinci. . .more positive influence here than negative; more affirming than not. . .no matter where one's belief rests, I think in the final analysis. . .
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