American Muslim leader arrested

Washington Times ^ | 9/30/03 | Jerry Seper

[kattracks]

A founding member of a U.S. Muslim group that endorsed an Army chaplain now accused of espionage has himself been arrested on criminal charges.

Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi, 51, who helped organize the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veteran Affairs Council and is a board member of the Washington, D.C.-based American Muslim Council, was taken into custody Sunday by agents from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI.

[JeepInMazar]

Keep repeating....

Islam is a religion of peace.

Islam is a religion of peace.

Islam is a....

[Tailback]

I'm shocked!

[Bobby777]

The affidavit also noted that British customs officials found $340,000 in sequentially numbered $100 bills last month in Mr. al-Amoudi's luggage. Although not charged at the time with a crime, he told officials he received the cash from an unknown person at a London hotel after a visit to Libya's Islamic Call Society in Tripoli.

you know ... you're trying to relax at your hotel and some stranger keeps coming up and handing you 3,400 $100 bills ... ruins the whole trip, if you ask me ...

[goodnesswins]

TOO BAD....so sad......NOT!!!

[stylin19a]

Mr. al-Amoudi also was charged with illegally accepting $10,700 from the Libyan mission to the United Nations. The affidavit also noted that British customs officials found $340,000 in sequentially numbered $100 bills last month in Mr. al-Amoudi's luggage.

Seems like both these amounts automatically should bring in the IRS...also, could/should be grounds for a RICO investigation for starters...
Then investigate the 50k hillary contribution....

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - The net is being cast over the Religion of Peace

[mcenedo]

Mr. al-Amoudi, who defended Hamas during a visit to the Clinton White House, donated $50,000 to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign during a June 2000 fund-raiser in Boston. The donation, which later was returned, initially was listed by the Clinton campaign as having come from the American Muslim Council, although that later was described as a typographical error.

Thought it was the American Museum Council.

[XHogPilot]

posted earlier here:

FBI Arrests Man Linked to American Muslim Groups

[Mo1]

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[windchime]

"The donation, which later was returned, initially was listed by the Clinton campaign as having come from the American Muslim Council, although that later was described as a typographical error."

"Thought it was the American Museum Council."


You are right. The Washington Times is wrong.

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/529571/posts

Hillary Accepts Contributions from Boston Area Muslim Terrorist Supporters
National Review Online ^ | 10/31/00 | Deroy Murdock, NRO


Posted on 09/21/2001 4:43 PM PDT by True Capitalist


10/31/00 3:45 p.m.

No Easy Ride for Hillary!

Her reluctance to speak candidly is her biggest obstacle.

By Deroy Murdock, a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service

As New Yorkers prepare to elect a new U.S. senator on November 7, Hillary Rodham Clinton remains hounded by twin suspicions about her honesty and commitment to Israel. Her plunging support among Jewish voters in a recent survey suggests that these nagging questions may be causing grave damage to her Senate candidacy.

Mrs. Clinton fueled these lingering doubts in November 1999 when she kissed Yasser Arafat's wife, Suha, immediately after Mrs. Arafat delivered a speech accusing Israel of murdering Arab children — with poison gas, no less. Mrs. Clinton said she did not understand the simultaneous translation of Mrs. Arafat's Arabic remarks. In any case, why the smooch? Given the PLO's legacy of violence, wouldn't a handshake have sufficed?

Mrs. Clinton sparked further questions when she claimed that she asked President Clinton to veto an anti-Israel resolution in the United Nations Security Council on October 7. The U.S. abstained instead. But did she really urge that veto, or simply concoct that story afterward to limit the damage to her candidacy after the abstention drew fire? Mrs. Clinton has been very uncomfortable discussing this matter. When I asked her about this at an October 17 Council on Foreign Relations meeting, she huffed: "That question does not even deserve a response. I have said everything about that I have to say."

Now Hillary Clinton has puzzled Jewish voters and friends of Israel with yet another stumble. The New York Daily News reported on October 25 that her Senate campaign has returned $50,000 collected at a Boston fundraiser attended by Muslims and Americans of Arab descent. The First Lady posed for photos holding a plaque given to her by the event's organizers. It expressed the appreciation of the American Muslim Alliance for her human-rights activism. Mrs. Clinton now says she didn't know the award was from the Alliance, even though the group's name was emblazoned on the trophy in large letters. "I get handed thousands of plaques," Mrs. Clinton now says. Alas for the First Lady, the American Muslim Alliance's national president, Agha Saeed, favors the Palestinian struggle for independence from Israel and believes the Palestinians "have the right to resist by armed force."

Mrs. Clinton has hosted events at the Executive Mansion "to which individuals opposed to the Mideast peace process and Israel's existence were invited," the Daily News reported. Her Senate campaign returned a $1,000 contribution from one of those visitors, Abduraham Alamoudi of the American Muslim Council. According to the Daily News, Alamoudi once declared: "We are the ones who went to the White House and defended what is called Hamas," the Palestinian terrorist group whose 1994-1996 suicide-bombing campaign killed 130 people and wounded some 600 others. Shortly after one of its bombs exploded in Jerusalem in August 1997, Alamoudi told Fox News about Hamas: "I think it's a freedom-fighting organization."

Mrs. Clinton's June 30, 2000 Federal Election Commission filing cited Alamoudi's May 25 donation of $1,000 to her war chest. Oddly enough, his occupation is not listed as "American Muslim Council" but "American Museum Council." The Clinton campaign calls this a typo. (To see Alamoudi's contribution record, search under his surname here.)

A reasonable voter might give another candidate the benefit of the doubt here. But this is the same Hillary Rodham Clinton who is associated with the "bureaucratic snafu" that led to Filegate.

This is the same First Lady whose Rose Law Firm billing records vanished for two years, then magically reappeared in the White House residence just days after the Resolution Trust Corporation concluded a Whitewater-related probe in which the records would have been relevant. "I do not know how the billing records came to be found where they were found," the First Lady shrugged back in January 1996.

This is the same woman who special prosecutor Robert Ray believes gave deceptive sworn testimony in the Travelgate affair. As Ray's October 18 report concludes: Mrs. Clinton "played a role in the decision to fire the [White House Travel Office] employees and…thus, her statement to the contrary under oath to this office is factually false."

As Bill Clinton's presidency wanes, a Hillary Clinton Senate term could be waxing around the corner. For now, her Republican opponent stands in the way. In a Zogby poll published October 31 in the New York Post, Rep. Rick Lazio led the Dutchess of Chappaqua 47.8 percent to 42.9 (margin of error: plus or minus 3.8 percent).

Mrs. Clinton's collapsing popularity among Jewish voters also spells trouble. On October 29, Zogby found her leading among Jews by 68.8 percent to 27.3 for Lazio. (Margin of error: plus or minus 4 percent). Two days later, in the aforementioned October 31 poll, only 46 percent of Jews favored Mrs. Clinton while Lazio's support climbed to 45 percent.

But the biggest obstacle between Hillary Clinton and her Capitol Hill dreams may be her reluctance to speak candidly about the scandals that nip at her heels like Park Avenue poodles. New Yorkers soon may decide that they deserve better in the Senate than a politician's wife who parachuted into the Empire State with ambitions nearly as awesome as her allergy to the truth

[windchime]

Thanks, Grampa Dave! I think this is the story they're trying to bury by resurrecting the Wilson-Wife-Leak story.

If the dems point you in a direction, it's more enlightening to look somewhere else.

[Allan]

Does anybody remember this?

Supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah File Suit Against Bush

btw. Al-amoudi gave $50,000 to Hillary Clinton's campaign.
(But she returned it)

[Mixer]

How many more sleepers are working for our military? That is the scariest question of all.

[Stultis]

    The Muslim groups also are the focus of a pending inquiry by the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism, technology and homeland security. Chairman Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, has focused on the effort by Islamist radicals to infiltrate and recruit terrorists within the United States, primarily on chaplains in the prison systems and in the U.S. military.
    Mr. Kyl said an Oct. 14 hearing will focus on exactly who allowed the two groups, along with the Islamic Foundation of North America, to become the determining bodies for chaplains.
    "It is remarkable that people who have known connections to terrorism are the only people to approve these chaplains," he said.

John Kyl? Who is John Kyl? According to everything I've been reading in the NY Times and Washington Post for the past week, this investigation was spearheaded and instigated soley by Chuckie Schumer. No Republican was ever mentioned! </HEAVY DRIPPING SARCASM>

[Stultis]

Oh, yeah, Jon (not John) Kyl. I always forget that. Sorry, Senator.

[reagan_fanatic]

Tip of the iceberg bump.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

BUMP

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Mr. al-Amoudi, who defended Hamas during a visit to the Clinton White House, donated $50,000 to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign during a June 2000 fund-raiser in Boston. The donation, which later was returned, initially was listed by the Clinton campaign as having come from the American Muslim Council, although that later was described as a typographical error.