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More on Conyers- the Khaled ElGindy mentioned below is closely related to Anthony Elgindy, a person who did some creative stock trading before 9/11. The ElGindy family was actively involved in the Balkans and in bringing immigrants to this country from the region - I suspect some of those immigrants handpicked for the move are hostile. One of the Elgindy's worked for the State Department; one of them ran a sort of crude travel service for Hajj pilgrims heading to Mecca. There's tons of material on the family in FR's archives.

JUNE 1998 : (AAADC, AAI, KHALED ELGINDY, CONYERS) The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee sponsors a congressional briefing to publicize the letter. Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit spoke at the briefing and described the deplorable health conditions he found during his recent visit to Iraq. In July, the Arab American Institute (AAI) sponsored a similar congressional briefing, at which Khaled Elgindy of the AAI showed slides of his visit to Iraq and Carl LeVan of Representative Conyers’ office described the letter in detail and urged the staff members in attendance to encourage their congressmen to sign on. LeVan said that the letter will probably not be sent until October, so as to get as many signatures as possible. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/695883/posts?page=70