This caught me off guard, when I learned of who the ex-Congressman was.
Also:
Human rights groups have accused State Foreign Minister and former paramilitary commander Ali Ahmed Farki of crimes against humanity in Southern Sudan and Darfur. Why did the U.S. grant Farki a visit to the U.S.? Do you expect to be granting more visas to senior Sudanese officials in the near future?
Deputy Foreign Minister Karti came to the United States on a private visit as a guest of former Congressman Mark Siljander of Michigan. He was not invited by the United States Government and did not meet with anyone at the Department of State.
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa27647.000/hfa27647_0.HTM
Interesting about Siljander that he was criticized as being “too Conservative” for his heavily GOP district. He won it in the 1981 special when he succeeded the flaky RINO Dave Stockman (who last I heard was indicted last year on a variety of charges). At one point, Siljander was accused of being anti-Semitic because of his support for a particular Christian Conservative candidate. When he was defeated for a 4th term in 1986 by Fred Upton in the primary, Barone dismissed him as one of the “wackiest and least effective congressmen on the right.”
I don’t know how Siljander became infatuated with Mohammadanism, but it’s hard to believe he’d be so psychotically stupid to knowingly get involved with laundering money for terrorists.