Posted on 05/20/2002 2:26:35 AM PDT by cgk
A day in the life of the McKinney fundraising apperatus. One very lucrative day in particular:
AHMED, WASEEM - LAS VEGAS, NV 89117 - CENTER FOR LUNG DISEASES/PHYSICIAN - 9/11/2001 - $250
ALAMOUDI, ABDURAHMAN - FALLS CHURCH, VA 22041 - AMERICAN MUSLIM FOUNDATION/PRESIDENT - 9/11/2001 - $1,000
ALAMOUDI, ABDURAHMAN - FALLS CHURCH, VA 22041 - AMERICAN MUSLIM FOUNDATION/PRESIDENT - 9/11/2001 - $2,000
ALKEBSI, ABDULWAHAB - POTOMAC, MD 20854 - ISLAMIC INSTITUTE/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - 9/11/2001 - $700
ASHQAR, ABDELHALEEM - ALEXANDRIA, VA 22310 - HOWARD UNIVERSITY/PROFESSOR - 9/11/2001 $250
AWAD, NIHAD - WASHINGTON, DC 20003 - CAIR/DIRECTOR - 9/11/2001 - $500
BAIG, KHALIQ - LAS VEGAS, NV 89123 - 9/11/2001 - $500
BUSHNAQ, YASER - FALLS CHURCH, VA 22041 - SELF EMPLOYED/COMPUTER CONSULTANT - 9/11/2001 - $500
CHOWDHRY, BASHIR - LAS VEGAS, NV 89120 - 9/11/2001 - $500
CHOWDHRY, SHAHEEN - LAS VEGAS, NV 89128 - 9/11/2001 - $250
FAREED, ATIF - HENDERSON, NV 89015 - SOUTHWEST AIRLINES/PILOT - 9/11/2001 - $1,000
HAIKAL, OSAMA - HENDERSON, NV 89014 SELF/PHYSICIAN - 9/11/2001 - $500
HASAN, FAISAL - FAIRFAX, VA 22032 CARFAX/GOVT. RELATIONS - 9/11/2001 - $600
IBRAHIM, HASSAN - CENTREVILLE, MD 22020 - 9/11/2001 - $1,000
IRANI, RAY - LOS ANGELES, CA 90077 - OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORP. - 9/11/2001 - $1,000
JABRI, SABAH - SAN DIEGO, CA 92130 - N/A/RETIRED - 9/11/2001 - $250
MIRZA, YAQUB - HERNDON, VA 20170 - MAR JAC INVESTMENTS INC./PRESIDENT - 9/11/2001 - $500
MONIB, AHMED - LAS VEGAS, NV 89106 - 9/11/2001 - $250
OMEISH, MOHAMED - FALLS CHURCH, VA 22041 - AMERICAN MUSLIM FOUNDATION/VICE PRESIDENT - 9/11/2001 - $500
QAZI, SAYED - LAS VEGAS, NV 89107 - QAZI MEDICAL CORPORATION/M.D. - 9/11/2001 - $1,000
SALEH, YOUSEF - SPRINGFIELD, VA 22151 - 9/11/2001 - $300
Israel Backers Show Dual Loyalty, Congressional Aide Says in Letter
excerpt: It was not, however, the first time the aide had aired such views. Before signing on with Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Atlanta in September, Raeed Tayeh worked for two organizations that reportedly are linked to the Islamic terrorist group Hamas
And here is a link to the full text of her letter to the Saudi Prince that Giuliani rebuffed $10 mill from after his lecture on America, straight from the horse's mouth (McKinney's web site):
Letter to His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Mrs Kus
Good for you. The only way to silence these hustlers is by shinning the spotlight on them until they can no longer stand the heat. When the racists finally understand that the only meaningful designation for us is "American" and not African-American or European-American or Mexican-American or even Cajun-American then we will truly be a great nation once again worthy of Gods' blessings.
Americans, period. That's what you and I are. AMERICANS!!! And damn proud of it.
Barbra Jordan is reincarnated...her now name is SheilahJackson Lee. (or at least she thinks she is)
Damn right!
I dunno - she also thinks that the astronauts went to Mars, too. Oh, and let's not forget her tantrums with the airlines about everything from her food to forgetting her purse...
Mr. Tayeh has served on the executive board of the Islamic Association for Palestine, based in Richardson, Texas and Chicago. Authorities say that the IAP's finances are entwined with those of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, also based in Richardson and Chicago. On Tuesday, the government froze the assets of the foundation, saying that it finances the terrorist group Hamas.
So we've got a guy connected with the Holy Land Foundation. I wonder just when in September 2001 Tayeh joined McKinney's staff.
Maybe you could start calling her "Lesser Owens",or "Major Minor"?
I just checked every one of the 9/11/2001 donors and none of them gave to anyone else on that day.
Also, I started with the list ordered aphabetically by donor that you get to via the link. The distribution of supposed 9/11/01 donors is heavily weight toward the front of the list.
I'm beginning to think that my first impression that this cannot be real data might be correct.
Finally, about that "Pilot" ... he was listed as a doctor on the one other donation he made. And curiously another donor, also from NV, was listed as a doctor on the McKinney donation, and as a "Southwest Airlines" employee on the one other donation he made.
ML/NJ
Oh sweetliberty, I am profoundly ashamed of my poor analogy. I have used it periodically (as in daily-lol) in reference to hitlery, billy klinton, mckinney, and assorted other individuals I consider to be total scum. I will no longer do this...and to all swine in America, I apologize.
THIS IS HORRENDOUS!!!!! O'Reilly please take note! Hannity please take note!!! Rush.....PLEASE TAKE NOTE! Drudge.......NAIL THIS CREEPESS!
Politicians fight over the checkWhen Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal gave $10 million to a New York relief fund after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Mayor Rudy Giuliani personally accepted the check. But hours later, "hizzoner" angrily returned the billionaire's donation.
Giuliani had learned that the prince, who called the attacks a crime and publicly condemned Osama bin Laden, had suggested a connection between U.S. policies in the Middle East and the attacks.
The USA "should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause. Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek," the prince said.But what Giuliani saw as an insult Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., saw as an opportunity.
Pattern of excessive force?
McKinney fired off a letter thanking the prince for his "empathy," bashing Giuliani for returning the gift and suggesting that the money might go to U.S. black charities. As if that wasn't enough to start the sparks flying, she agreed with his call for a re-examination of the U.S. role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Many Americans, she said, "have long been concerned about reports that reveal a pattern of excessive, and often indiscriminate, use of lethal force by Israeli security forces in situations where Palestinian demonstrators were unarmed and posed no threat of death or serious injury" to Israelis.
Like most who stake out a position on the region's senseless violence, McKinney seems to see only one side. Just as Giuliani fails to consider that this country's favorable treatment of Israel might ignite regional anger toward the USA, McKinney is blind to the ghoulish attacks on Israeli civilians by Palestinians.
Two wrongs, no rights
Both Giuliani and McKinney are wrong to line up so stridently on either side of this bloody feud at a time when the United States really needs to become more of an honest broker in the Middle East.
Giuliani played into bin Laden's hands when he rejected the well-intended aid from Prince Alwaleed, an influential U.S. friend in a region where our friends are in short supply. McKinney aids and abets the terrorist leader when she offers up such a one-sided condemnation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In these troubled times, what we need from people like Rudy Giuliani and Cynthia McKinney is more reasoned thought — and less mindless passion.
I think most American's feel like Rudy, and would have returned the check as well. In no way is terrorism justified, anywhere.
Here's McTraitor's Letter to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
October 12, 2001His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Embassy of Saudi Arabia
601 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20037
Dear Prince Alwaleed bin Talal:
I would like to take just a moment to thank you for your recent demonstration of empathy with those suffering from the devastating and heinous September 11 attacks on the United States, Pentagon and the World Trade Center. I would especially like to thank you for your most generous offer of $10 million to assist those Americans in need as a result of those attacks.
I was disappointed that [New York City] Mayor [Rudolph] Giuliani chose to decline your generous offer and instead criticize you for your observations of events in the Middle East. Whether he agreed with you or not I think he should have recognized your right to speak and make observations about a part of the world which you know so well.
I think Mayor Giuliani would do well to listen to the words of one of our greatest Americans, former Senator Robert Kennedy. In 1968 he said that America "is a great nation and a strong people. Any who seek to comfort rather than to speak plainly, reassure rather than instruct, promise satisfaction rather than reveal frustration--they deny that greatness and drain that strength. For today as it was in the beginning, it is the truth that makes us free." I believe Senator Robert Kennedy's remarks remain as inspirational and true today as when he first spoke them over 30 years ago.
Let me say that there are a growing number of people in the United States who recognize, like you, that U.S. policy in the Middle East needs serious examination. Indeed, on the same day that you made your remarks about U.S. policy in the Middle East, the Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, The Honorable Henry Hyde, spoke on National Public Radio and said:
"There's no question in my mind that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the most important issue in dispute, and has generated a lot of the animosity towards us because of our unwavering support for Israel, which will remain in place."
At the same time, CNN played an interview with former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski who stated that America must "deal with some of the issues that animate the hostility" against us, like "the treatment of the population of Iraq" and that "the Israelis are stronger, so they're naturally inflicting much more casualties than the Palestinians on the Israelis and that produces frustration and rage."
Your Royal Highness, many of us here in the United States have long been concerned about reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch that reveal a pattern of excessive, and often indiscriminate, use of lethal force by Israeli security forces in situations where Palestinian demonstrators were unarmed and posed no threat of death or serious injury to the security forces or to others.
Israeli peace organizations like B'Tselem accuse the Israeli Defense Forces of violating the most fundamental rules of international law in committing atrocities against Palestinians.
The Israeli Gush Shalom boldly states that "Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is the root cause of the violence and hatred. As long as the occupation continues, bloodshed will continue and increase."
Indeed, Your Royal Highness, all people of good conscience understand that this kind of mistreatment breeds a hotbed of anger and despair that destabilizes peace in the Middle East and elsewhere. Until we confront the realities of events in the Middle East our nation and the nations of the Middle East will be at risk.
Your Royal Highness, there are many people in America who desperately need your generosity. People who have been locked out, marginalized from America's mainstream. All of those people are poor and too many of them are people of color. A black baby boy born in Harlem today has less chance of reaching age 65 than a baby born in Bangladesh.
Your Royal Highness, the state of black America is not good. It is painfully visible in Washington D.C., where, just a few hundred yards from the White House, one can find black man after black man huddled in bus shelters, doorways, over subway ventilation shafts, sleeping on the street, thrown away like trash. Ironically, many of them are Vietnam veterans who, having served this nation with distinction in Vietnam, now find themselves without adequate care and accommodation.
Unfortunately, this same scene is repeated in each and every one of our major cities here in the United States.
I am ashamed to say that my home city of Atlanta is no exception. Just last night my son was out with members of Atlanta's Muslim community who, for years, have been feeding Atlanta's homeless. Sadly, no one in mainstream Atlanta knows about the tireless and generous work of the local Muslim community. But the poor know, and I guess at one level that's all that matters. But on a broader view mainstream America should know.
The Justice Department admits that blacks are more likely than whites to be pulled over by police, imprisoned and put to death.
And, though blacks and whites have about the same rate of drug use, blacks are more likely to be arrested than whites and are more likely to receive longer prison sentences than whites.
Incredibly, 80% of people in prison in the United States are people of color. Twenty-six black men were executed last year, some probably innocent; America began 2001 by executing a retarded black woman.
Government studies on health disparities confirm that blacks are less likely to receive surgery, transplants and prescription drugs than whites. Physicians are less likely to prescribe appropriate treatment for blacks than for whites and black scientists, physicians, and institutions are shut out of the funding stream to prevent all this. I serve in Congress where the Black Caucus is shrinking. Yet, sections of the Voting Rights Act will soon expire, and quite frankly, after crippling Court decisions, there is not much left of affirmative action to mend.
In the FBI's own words, its counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) had as a goal, "to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" the activities of black organizations and to prevent black "leaders from gaining respectability." And instead of real leaders, COINTELPRO offers us hand-picked "court priests" who are more loyal to the plan than to the people. Court priests who preach peace, peace when there is no peace.
As you can see, the statistics are very grim for Black America.
Although your offer was not accepted by Mayor Giuliani, I would like to ask you to consider assisting Americans who are in dire need right now. I believe we can guide your generosity to help improve the state of Black America and build better lives.
My office can provide you with a list of charities who labor under the most difficult circumstances to try and improve the lives of the people they serve. I hope you will consider reaching out to our charities and to our people who are in need.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have.
Sincerely,
CYNTHIA McKINNEY
Member of Congress
[Democrat-Georgia
Member: U.S. House Committee on International Relations
Member: U.S. House Committee on National Security]Look at the contribution on 10/25/01. No wonder she needs bodyguards and armoured SUV's.
Not uncommon with Arabic names. For example, here are the names of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers:
Al-Midhar, Khalid
Alhamzi, Nawaq
Moqed, Majed
Alhamzi, Salem
Hanjour, Hani
Al Suqami, Satam
Alshehri, Waleed M.
Alshehri, Wail
Atta, Mohamed
Alomari, Abdulaziz
Al-Shehhi, Marwan
Ahmed, Fayez
Alghamdi, Ahmed
Alghamdi, Hamza
Alshehri, Mohald
Alghamdi, Saeed
Alhaznawi, Ahmed
Alnami, Ahmed
Jarrahi, Ziad
That's 16 of 19 last names that begin with the letter "A". Obviously, a common occurrence in the world of Arabic names.
I just checked every one of the 9/11/2001 donors and none of them gave to anyone else on that day.
Which is precisely why the focus is on Cynthia McKinney.
I'm beginning to think that my first impression that this cannot be real data might be correct.
The data is a matter of public record, easily verifiable through Federal Election Commission records.
Finally, about that "Pilot" ... he was listed as a doctor on the one other donation he made.
Atif Fareed, the Southwest Airlines pilot, appears only once on this list. He is a very vocal Muslim in the Las Vegas area. His occuption is not in question and can easily be verified ( Las Vegas Weekly: Southwest Airlines Capt. Atif Fareed, a Muslim and 20-year pilot, told nearly 60 onlookers in the UNLV amphitheater that the mainstream media must think more critically (of the U.S.)."
(And curiously another donor, also from NV, was listed as a doctor on the McKinney donation, and as a "Southwest Airlines" employee on the one other donation he made.
Which name? Which list? Unless you're just repeating the above point, which was just refuted.
It sounds like you'd just rather not believe it.
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