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I pray to GOD that our Government DOES expose these groups!!

To do so, many in government, in both parties, will have to expose themselves and their friends.

There is a nexus between Sami Al Arian, Grover Norquist, Sami Al Arian, and Suhail Khan, the depths of which haven't been fully explored. Al Arian raised money for Campbell's 2000 Senatorial campaign, for which Suhail Khan was the Campaign Spokesman. After Campbell's defeat, Norquist got Khan into the Bush White House. Al Arian gave an award to Norquist for his efforts in fighting anti-terror legislation two months before someone, yet unnamed, in the Bush White House overruled Secret Service objections and allowed Al Arian on the premises. I don't find the "well, the Clintons let him in too," excuse to be especially compelling, especially in light of this article from 1996...

In October 1995 Ramadan Abdullah Shallah took over as head of the Islamic Jihad, based in Damascus, Syria. From 1991 through early 1995, Mr. Shallah was a professor at Tampa's University of South Florida and director of the World Islamic Studies Enterprise, ostensibly an academic research center.

After the ex-professor assumed his Islamic Jihad post, the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service raided his former campus office, as well as the offices and home of his USF colleague Sami Al-Arian, the founder of WISE and an affiliated "religious charity" called the Islamic Committee for Palestine. Federal investigators uncovered overwhelming evidence that both organizations were arms of Islamic Jihad. Under the cover of legitimacy its university affiliation provided, WISE actually brought terrorists into the U.S. and raised funds for Islamic Jihad. Mr. Al-Arian, now under federal investigation, organized a series of conferences for "Islamic leaders and thinkers" in Chicago and St. Louis between 1988 and 1992, which featured a number of the world's top, terrorist leaders. The evidence found in his home and office constitute one of the largest collections of raw terrorist material ever seized in the U.S.

According to federal sources, documents and testimony connected with the Florida investigation, the Islamic Jihad front groups in Tampa had extensive financial and political ties with many Islamic extremist groups world-wide.They collaborated with Sheik Omar Abdul-Rahman and others involved in the World Trade Center bombing. They also laundered millions of dollars, worked with Hamas leaders in the U.S. and elsewhere, and helped oversee terrorist cells in the Middle East. The spiritual head of Islamic Jihad, Abdul Aziz Odeh, who visited Tampa and stayed with Mr. Al-Arian several times, was an unindicted co-conspirator in the World Trade Center bombing.

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At the same time, the Clinton administration has established close ties with groups like the American Muslim Council, which has supported Hamas and other radical groups. Hillary Clinton has worked particularly closely with the head of the AMC, Abdulrahman Al-Amoudi, who has openly collected funds for the legal defense of Mr Marzuk, the Hamas chieftain arrested at JFK Airport, and for Mr. Abdul-Rahman, who organized the World Trade Center bombing. Raising money for a criminal defense fund is perfectly legal, of course. But would Mrs. Clinton meet with the head of the defense committee for Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh? Earlier this year Mrs. Clinton met at the White House with Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American Islamic Relations. CAIR, based in Washington, was founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad, the former public relations director of the Texas-based Islamic Association of Palestine, which Oliver Revell, the FBI's former head of counterterrorism and now a security consultant, calls a Hamas front. Both CAIR and IAP have disseminated Hamas communiqu‚s and championed the policies of other radical Islamic groups. A recent CAIR report listed as a "hate crimes against Muslims" the conviction of Mr. Abdul-Rahman and the arrest of Mr. Marzuk. CAIR's Board of Advisors includes a number of radicals known for their virulent anti-Semitism and
Stop Aid and Comfort for Patrons of Terror
Wall Street Journal - August 5th, 1996
By Steven Emerson support of the World Trade Center defendants.

All of these guys, along with Ali Tulbah, can be found at the National Conventions of terror sympathizing orgs like the American Muslim Council and the American Muslim Alliance, over the past several years. A glance at other featured speakers turns up many other shady names, like Khaled Saffuri, Muzzamil Siddiqi, Nihad Awad, Ibrahim Hooper, Dr. Yahya Basha, Abdulrahman Al-Amoudi, ect.

Here are some threads worth investigating. Lots of supporting links as you scroll through them.

Muslim council takes complaints to Bush (Grover Norquist Alert)
			Posted by Sabertooth On 02/21/2003 8:47 AM PST with 74 comments Washington Times ^ | February 21, 2003 | Ralph Z. Hallow The Muslim council posted this call for action on its Internet site, together with praise for Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, who has worked with Islamic groups in behalf of the Republican Party (see below - ST). Mr. Norquist has accused Mr. Gaffney of "racism" and religious bigotry, but he said he has had nothing to do with the criticism of Mr. Keene and Mr. Gaffney by the Muslim council, which he described as a "Democrat" group with which he has little contact. The National Journal reported that Mr. Norquist once arranged a meeting between the Muslim...
			Posted by Sabertooth On 02/28/2003 8:23 PM PST with 23 comments The New Republic ^ | November 19th, 2001 | Grover Norquist CORRESPONDENCE Wild Pitch? Post date 11.08.01 | Issue date 11.19.01 To the editors: Franklin Foer is right to be bitter and fearful that George W. Bush and the Republican Party increased their support among American Muslims from 40 percent in 1996 to more than 70 percent in 2000 ("Fevered Pitch," November 12). That increase alone won Florida many times over. Bush demonstrated that a conservative can speak with respect, seriousness, and compassion to immigrants and minorities; that we earn their votes, not by moving left and offering patronage and welfare, but by campaigning for lower taxes, reforming social security, strong...
Islamist 'enabler' threatens 'grave harm to Bush presidency,' Gaffney warns
			Posted by Fred Mertz On 02/26/2003 1:50 PM PST with 390 comments Center for Security Policy ^ | 26 February 2003 | Frank Gaffney Headline Story | Islamist 'enabler' threatens 'grave harm to Bush presidency,' Gaffney warns > Norquist's group took seed money from an avowed supporter of Hezbollah, the terrorist group that killed 241 US Marines in a 1983 Beirut bombing. A prominent conservative leader who allegedly has used undeclared foreign money and top political connections to promote terrorist sympathizers is an 'enabler' who threatens 'to do grave harm to the Bush presidency.' Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney issued the warning in a letter to Grover Norquist, founding chairman of the Islamic Institute, after Norquist publicly accused Gaffney of 'racism...
Muslim Extremists seeking to foster One Islamic World
			Posted by Seeking the truth On 02/24/2003 8:53 AM PST with 71 comments The Hill ^ | February 24, 2003 | David Keene Muslim extremists seeking to foster one Islamic worldPresident Bush has come under some criticism recently for his outreach to the U.S. Muslim community because administration officials have apparently met with some groups that have ties -- direct or indirect -- with extremist groups here and in the Middle East.Still, and in spite of the criticism he continues to reach out.The president's position is understandable and even commendable. He doesn't want to do anything to make it appear that he's leading an anti-Muslim crusade because this would drive millions of Muslims into the extremist camp with Osama bin Laden and...
Muslim Extremists Seeking to Foster One Islamic World: Wahhabis scream down pro-freedom "bigots."
			Posted by JohnHuang2 On 02/19/2003 11:28 PM PST with 16 comments FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | Thursday, February 20, 2003 | By David Keene Muslim Extremists Seeking to Foster One Islamic WorldBy David KeeneTheHill.com | February 20, 2003 President Bush has come under some criticism recently for his outreach to the U.S. Muslim community because administration officials have apparently met with some groups that have ties -- direct or indirect -- with extremist groups here and in the Middle East.Still, and in spite of the criticism he continues to reach out.The president's position is understandable and even commendable. He doesn't want to do anything to make it appear that he's leading an anti-Muslim crusade because this would drive millions of Muslims into the extremist...
Grover Norquist's Strange Alliance With Radical Islam
			Posted by testforecho On 11/01/2001 4:14 PM PST with 45 comments The New Republic ^ | November 11, 2001 | Franklin Foer GROVER NORQUIST'S STRANGE ALLIANCE WITH RADICAL ISLAM. Fevered Pitch by Franklin Foer Post date 11.01.01 | Issue date 11.12.01 On the afternoon of September 26, George W. Bush gathered 15 prominent Muslim- and Arab-Americans at the White House. With cameras rolling, the president proclaimed that "the teachings of Islam are teachings of peace and good." It was a critically important moment, a statement to the world that America's Muslim leaders unambiguously reject the terror committed in Islam's name. Unfortunately, many of the leaders present hadn't unambiguously rejected it. To the president's left sat Dr. Yahya Basha, president of the ...
Pocketbook morality: Debbie Schlussel denounces terrorist's favorite college
			Posted by JohnHuang2 On 12/25/2001 2:31 AM PST with 12 comments WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, December 25, 2001 | Debbie Schlussel The more terrorist sympathizers change, the more they stay the same. At long last, the University of South Florida has fired Islamic Jihad's U.S. chief, Professor Sami Al-Arian. But Al-Arian's long overdue firing is not enough. He should be deported, at the very least – and more deservedly, he should be punished with a long prison term. And the University of South Florida should be punished along with him for waiting so long to do the right thing, and for doing so for the wrong reasons. In my previous columns, I've outlined how Dr. Al-Arian operated the U.S. front ...
Getting the story straight: Grover Norquist replies to Ratner's accusation of selling out America
			Posted by JohnHuang2 On 06/07/2002 1:16 AM PDT with 4 comments WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, June 7, 2002 | Grover Norquist Ellen Ratner and Gareth Schweitzer attempt to criticize me in their article "Removing Norquist's burkha" (WorldNetDaily, May 31) for a series of sins. I count 10 attacks, and each is a falsehood. One is always aware of one's very real deficiencies and failures – and thus, being attacked for things one didn't do is only mildly annoying, and as Churchill said, like being shot at without effect. The personal attacks are all borrowed without attribution from an article that printed in the New Republic last fall. I am not angry at Ms. Ratner, but disappointed that she could have avoided...
Has anyone on the Right taken Grover Norquist to task?
			Posted by Gurn On 04/11/2002 10:22 AM PDT with 30 comments Various FR threads | April 11, 2001 | self A couple weeks back someone posted an article from the New Republic about Grover Norquist's going in the tank for Islam, and engineering Dub's "Islam is a religion of Peace" PR strategy. There was also an article from National Review Online on the topic.Someone in one of the threads mentioned that Grover is on the NRA board of directors. I informed the NRA that I wouldn't renew my membership if that remained the case.My question is, have there been any recent developments? I know that Weyrich and a couple other folks had mildly chastised Norquist; but it seems that if...
Norquist-Gaffney feud leads to exile
			Posted by Sabertooth On 02/26/2003 5:39 AM PST with 180 comments The Hill.com ^ | February 26th, 2003 FEBRUARY 26, 2003 OPEN SECRETS OF THE HILL BANISHEDNorquist-Gaffney feud leads to exileThe ongoing spat between tax reformer Grover Norquist and defense expert Frank Gaffney may have reached the point of no return. In the latest escalation, Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, informed Gaffney he was no longer welcome at meetings of his weekly discussion group. The reason, said Norquist, is the disparaging remarks he claims Gaffney made about Muslims at a convention of the Conservative Political Action Committee last month. Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, accused Norquist and the Islamic Institute, which Norquist...
Frank Gaffney on Hugh Hewitt Right Now
			Posted by Sabertooth On 02/25/2003 3:32 PM PST with 22 comments HughHewitt.com ^ | February 25th, 2003 Go to HughHewitt.com for station info.
OUTREACH TO TERRORISTS?
			Posted by Fred Mertz On 02/25/2003 11:53 AM PST with 9 comments New York Post ^ | 25 February 2003 | FRANK J. GAFFNEY JR. February 25, 2003 -- WHAT to make of the fact that a Muslim extremist (or "Islamist") named Sami Al-Arian was arrested and indicted last week on 50 counts, among them conspiracy to finance terrorist attacks that killed more than 100 people - including two Americans? It is not, as Al-Arian claimed when federal agents led him away, "all about politics." After all, this alleged leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad - which Attorney General John Ashcroft has described as "one of the most violent terrorist organizations in the world" - was allowed into the Bush White House on at least one...
The plot thickens: Al-Arian in the White House
			Posted by SJackson On 02/25/2003 5:24 AM PST with 46 comments Jewish World Review ^ | Feb. 25, 2003 | Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. What considerations, political or otherwise, prompted members of Mr. Bush's staff to believe that Al-Arian was the kind of person they wanted on their team? Who bears responsibility for making those calculations? And are they continuing to do so with respect to other individuals and organizations that could, at the very least, embarrass Mr. Bush and, at worst, seriously undermine his efforts in the war on terror? What are we to make of the fact that a Muslim extremist (or "Islamist") named Dr. Sami Al-Arian was arrested and indicted last week on 50 counts, among them conspiracy to finance terrorist...
Hiding in Plain Sight (Al Arian at the White House)
			Posted by Sabertooth On 02/23/2003 8:53 AM PST with 352 comments Newsweek ^ | March 3rd, 2003 | Michael Isikoff For George W. Bush, it was just another campaign stop. But for Sami Al-Arian, a University of South Florida engineering professor, it was a golden opportunity. When Bush appeared at Tampa’s Strawberry Festival in March 2000, Al-Arian sidled up to the candidate and had his picture taken. < -snip- > Al-Arian’s politics took on a decidedly darker cast last week when federal agents arrested him at his home in south Florida and charged him with being a top leader of one of the world’s most violent terrorist organizations: Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). < -snip- > Al-Arian certainly didn’t act like...
THE STRANGE CASE OF SAMI AL-ARIAN
			Posted by Utah Girl On 02/22/2003 10:43 PM PST with 5 comments NRO ^ | 2/21/2003 | David Frum The arrest of Sami al-Arian on terrorism charges marks an epoch not only in the War on Terror, but in the history of the Bush administration. But let's rewind: Al-Arian, of course, is the professor at the University of South Florida who was yesterday charged with financially masterminding Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian terror group responsible for dozens of murders. He's now probably best known for his television confrontation with Bill O'Reilly - which ended with O'Reilly telling al-Arian that if he (O'Reilly) were the CIA, he'd follow al-Arian everywhere he (al-Arian) went. Well it looks as if the FBI has...
Removing Norquist's burkha (Grover Norquist Alert)
			Posted by Sabertooth On 02/22/2003 7:19 PM PST with 43 comments WorldNetDaily ^ | May 31st, 2002 | Ellen Ratner Everybody knows that the issue of patriotism belongs to the right – right? And everybody knows that all those Americans who consort with those hostile to America are all left – right? You know, "Hanoi" Jane Fonda and Alger Hiss and the rest of those liberals – right? Well, here's a newsflash, folks – in this new millennium, it's not just my friends on the left playing footsie with the unfriendlies, they're also the right – right here in old (Potomac) River City, as "The Music Man" sang it. It's a Bushie, in fact – a man who has...
Professor Terror
			Posted by kattracks On 02/21/2003 9:30 PM PST with 5 comments Washington Times ^ | 2/22/03 The indictment Thursday of a college professor and seven other men on charges of conspiring to finance attacks by Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a reminder that al Qaeda is hardly the lone terrorist group operating in the United States. The 50-count indictment, delivered by a federal grand jury in Tampa, Fla., provides a detailed account of how Palestinian Islamic Jihad raised money and coordinated terrorist activities in the Middle East from the United States. Specifically, it charges that Sami Al-Arian, a professor at the University of South Florida, "directed the audit of all monies and property of the Palestinian Islamic...
Alleged Terrorist Met With Bush Adviser (Al-Arian Part of Muslim Outreach)
			Posted by Sabertooth On 02/22/2003 10:45 AM PST with 50 comments Washington Post ^ | February 22nd, 2003 | Mike Allen and Richard Leiby The meeting was controversial within the White House even before it took place. The group that included Al-Arian was scheduled to be briefed by Vice President Cheney, but Cheney canceled. That morning, the Jerusalem Post had run a front-page article headlined, "Cheney to host pro-terrorist Muslim group." (see below - ST) Several pro-Israel and conservative activists had warned administration officials not to meet with the American Muslim Council contingent because the group had courted controversy for years, knowledgeable sources said. Abduraham Alamoudi, a member of the organization also at the meeting with Rove, said at a White House demonstration in...
Bush's Terrorist Buddy (Al-Arian)
			Posted by joemurphy On 02/21/2003 10:25 AM PST with 137 comments worldnetdaily.com ^ | 2001 | Debbie Schlussel Sami Al-Arian is a University of South Florida professor and the author of this speech: "We assemble today to pay respects to the march of the martyrs and to the river of blood that gushes forth and does not extinguish, from butchery to butchery, and from martyrdom to martyrdom, from Jihad to Jihad." But, according to the July 16 Newsweek, during a campaign speech in Tampa, last year, candidate Bush singled his son, Abdullah, out in the crowd, something done for specially selected, pre-screened individuals to which a candidate wants to draw attention. Calling Abdullah, "Big Dude" – one...

Lot's of extra evidence of the Radical Islamic penetration on those links, as you scroll though them.

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I think there is more to Al-Arian being let into the whitehouse than meets the eye. It has come out that he was being investigated at the time. Perhaps he was allowed in, in an effort to throw him off balance, to watch him even more closely? I think this whitehouse is way more savvy than even I'm able to give them credit for at times. They probably followed his every move after he was in the whitehouse, and obviously they have the dirt on him or he wouldn't be behind bars!!

There were (in the past) a few times I said "What in the world are they thinking??".. but was later proved wrong, and impressively so by this administration.

They inherited a HUGE HUGE mess. Fixing it, isn't a job I would relish, or want. I think history will show us just how lucky/blessed we were to have this administration in power at this time in our nations history.

I'm not one to show bias because of party affiliation. In fact, I've even defended McKinney's campaign contribution (for now anyway) by Al-Arian. There were members from both parties that rec'd them. It is an extremely complex system, and I think it needs changing.. but it would be at present, impossible for every candidate to know EVERY donor to their campaigns. It was pointed out to me that Rep. Henry Hyde found out Al-Arian had donated to his campaign, and then donated the money to charity. Once a candidate finds out that someone with shady dealings has donated, it is more interesting to see how they react to the news, and what they do with the money.

Until the system is fixed/improved upon, there is no way to change what happened with people like Al-Arian. After all, we/our government was only "watching" Al-Arian at the time of the political donations.

Like I said, the political donation system could certainly be improved upon, but I like the fact that average citizens can donate to a candidate of their choice. Unless a candidate shows a pattern of courting a certain group, one with ties to radical groups, etc, then we should give all candidates the benefit of the doubt when it comes to donations like Al-Arians. It really is HOW they treat the knowledge that counts for now.

Just MHO :o)

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US Conservatives dispute Bush’s portrayal of Islam