Posted on 06/06/2003 4:02:22 AM PDT by Prince Charles
City Colleges fire lecturer with terror ties
June 6, 2003
BY ANA MENDIETA, Staff Reporter
A Bridgeview man who served five years in an Israeli prison for allegedly channeling funds to Islamic terrorists has been fired from his job at City Colleges for failing to disclose his conviction, officials said Thursday.
Mohammed Salah was terminated Wednesday from his job as a part-time lecturer at Olive-Harvey College because he failed to list his conviction on his employment application in February 2002, said Paula Bridges, City Colleges' director of marketing and public relations.
Salah, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in Jerusalem in 1993 and convicted in 1995 for allegedly helping to channel $650,000 to the terrorist group Hamas. He returned to the United States after a five-year prison sentence.
College officials were alerted of Salah's conviction by ABC News and contacted federal law enforcement officials to verify it, Bridges said. His conviction didn't surface in a procedural background check during his hiring process, Bridges added.
Salah was named in a 2000 lawsuit filed by the parents of 17-year-old David Boim, who was gunned down by Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem in 1996. The Boims used the 1992 federal Anti-Terrorism Act to target groups alleged to fund international terrorism.
Salah also was a substitute teacher in Chicago Public Schools until recently, a schools spokesman said.
Salah could not be reached.
Tuesday's action involved the seizure of about $1.25 million in cash and some $150,000 in other assets from Mohammed Salah and his wife, Azita, and the Quranic Literacy Institute in Oak Lawn near Chicago. The Institute claims to be a non-profit group devoted to the publication of Islamic texts. However, according to the FBI, the group was a front group for Hamas fund-raising activities. Justice Department officials said the assets seized were used to finance Hamas activities in Israel, including the purchase of weapons, extortion, kidnapping and murder.
They just can't bring themselves to report correctly. When someone is convicted of a crime, it is no longer "alleged". It is fact.
That this article used the phrase twice demonstrates an attempt to deny the fact that Salah is a terrorist.
Maybe it was because he was employed by our school system, sacred refuge of all liberals and now "safe house" to terrorists.
Ahhh if he served 5 yrs in prison isnt it safe to say he was convicted?...and if so how does the word "allegedly" accurately describe his condition... normally upon conviction it is established that the person actually committed the crime therefore it is no longer alleged but "in fact"
So how did a convicted terrorist (by aiding and abedding terrorism he is a terrorist-Bush doctrine) get to this country in the first place?
He is not an alleged funder of terrorism but is in fact one more convicted terrorist who slipped past our border and lives life out in the open...
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