Moreover, the antiwar activists have been duped into supporting the Salafists.
Al-Timimi, for example, was staunchly against peace — he translated and agreed with the writing of the Egyptian deep thinker who opposed the Camp David Accord, adopting the blind sheik’s position that no peace with Israel is acceptable.
Invading Iraq, unfortunately, just played right into Zawahiri’s and al-Hawali’s PR. GMU microbiologist Al-Timimi arranged to have a letter from al-Hawali warning of the consequences of invading Iraq hand-delivered to every member of Congress on the first anniversary of the anthrax letters to Senator Daschle and Leahy. Mr. Seikaly would have received regular briefings on the investigation of GMU microbiologist Al-Timimi, who was in computational biology in the bioinformatics program there sponsored by the American Type Culture Collection.
In case I didn’t include it earlier, here is an article describing the claim that his sister-in-law’s work was biased and thus not entitled to government funding.
While I don’t know anything about Title IX, I suspect it was doing important work that was fully within the regulations. I’ve written Mrs. S today to ask her what she thinks of the anthrax coverage but she’s on holiday.
http://www.georgetownvoice.com/2005-11-03/news/ccas-called-biased
Let’s use the word radical instead so it isn’t as easy to poke fun at your argument. Lynne Stewart was a self-described radical. She was the blind sheik’s lawyer. The postal employee (her paralegal) and Abdel-Rahman used her to transmit messages from the blind sheik’s son, who was on the WMD committee. That son, Mohammed, spoke alongside Ali Al-Timimi at IANA conferences in 1993 and 1996. In 1996, in both July and December. The blind sheik, referring to Lynne Stewart said that “we’ll stop using doves when the government stops using secret evidence.” So I do agree with you that there are radicals in this country who support the Salafists. I just am too young to take the word “communist” seriously. It was Lynne Stewart’s partner, Stanley L. Cohen, who represented the former BIF-employee who is a listed author of the article in JAMA about how the first inhalational victim in New York died. I remember that firm’s defense of the folks who committed the armed robbery in which a guard was killed. I was clerking for the judge who heard the appeal. Funding the revolution, of course, did not strike me for as sufficient revolution to murder the innocent. So while I have great admiration for anti-war activists, I deplore those who would murder innocents such as those involved in sending the anthrax.
That former BIF employee, the Manhattan doctor, apparently lived next door to Ali Al-Timimi in Falls Church in 1999.
The question is: did Mrs. S know Al-Timimi? Although she taught statistics at GMU years ago, more recently she got a masters in sociology there.
Or did they study at the same time at GWU? Or know each other through outreach program? A senior person with that New Mexico institute lives and listed an address in Fairfax. That’s probably how Mrs. S came to be involved. Like Ali’s center, they focused on deen.