I thought there was no one worse in Congress than Cynthia McKinney, aka Jihad Cindy, D-Ga. Posted on 11/28/2001 2:39:51 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
I thought there was no one worse in Congress than Cynthia McKinney, aka Jihad Cindy, D-Ga.
But I was wrong. She's met her match on the other side of the aisle, in the form of Arab-American Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., – Jihad Darrell. He makes McKinney – who wrote an egregious apology letter to Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal in which she attacked the U.S. and New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for returning the prince's $10 million after he justified the attacks – look like a patriot extraordinaire.
During a just-concluded trip to the Middle East, Jihad Darrell announced that terrorist group Hezbollah is legitimate and has never been involved with terrorist activities, according to the Teheran Times, IRNA (the official Iranian news agency), and the Beirut Daily Star.
Oh really? I guess he forgot about that insignificant event in the early '80s, in which Hezbollah blew at least 241 U.S. Marines to bits in Beirut – not to mention several other Americans the group murdered between 1975 and 1990, for a total of at least 261 dead Americans. This charming organization committed the torture, murder and hanging display of the body of U.S. military attaché Col. Richard Higgins' body. These are the monsters who kidnapped CIA Chief William Buckley in the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, transferred him to Iran, and tortured and bludgeoned him to death.
They are all turning over in their bloody graves, thanks to congressional useful idiot, Darrell Issa. Talk about aid and comfort to the enemy.
Then there's that stubborn little fact that Hezbollah, Arabic for "Warriors for Allah," or "Party of Allah" (hint: it's not a birthday party), is one of the three major components of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network, according to the Wall Street Journal and countless other sources.
Jihad Darrell's new Hezbollah buddies officially support "the use of hostages" and "suicide in jihad operations." When the State Department released this year's terrorist list, Hezbollah was on it – yet again. Hezbollah's response: "We regard the hostile [act] of the American administration as proof that we are following the right path." Hezbollah declares that, "it is the duty of all Muslims to engage in Islamic jihad if it ensures the ultimate goal, which consists in inflicting losses on the enemy." That enemy is the West, particularly America. Maybe these were the "humanitarian" actions of Hezbollah that Jihad Darrell was quoted as praising.
"I have a great deal of sympathy for the work that Hezbollah tries to do," he told the Beirut Daily Star. Hmmm. To which work is Jihad Darrell referring? Is it 1986 Hezbollah's torturing to death of Ibrahim Benesti, aged 54, of Beirut, and his elderly relatives, Yehudah and Yosef, whose only crime was being Jewish? Benesti, whose family – like many Lebanese Jews – had been in Lebanon since 2,000 B.C. (before the birth of Mohammed), was a charitable and kindly candy store owner who gave free candy to children of all religions. Or maybe Jihad Darrell was referring to the "humanitarian" 1985 Hezbollah torture-murder of Isaac Tarab, 63, and Chaim Halala Cohen, 39, also guilty of being Jewish.
This man, Darrell Issa, is digusting.
More disgusting is that Issa was representing the House International Relations Committee on which he serves, leading a congressional delegation including Arab-American Congressman Nick Joe Rahall, D-Va.
And he hangs out with disgusting people. Issa partied with terrorist-in-chief Yasser Arafat, gushing over him as "a charismatic individual, despite being a very small man and very old. He gives you food off his plate if you sit next to him."
Sickening.
Political consultant and columnist, Michael Andreen, an Issa constituent, is outraged, saying it's time for apologist Issa to go. But he still has "a good laugh at Arafat using the naïve junior congressman as his own personal food taster."
Issa also hung out in Syria, the country which sanctions Hezbollah and other terrorist groups, and which allowed Hezbollah to get its explosives through security checkpoints to kill the 241 U.S. Marines.
Issa buddy Arafat provided much of the explosive weaponry and was involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, mining the perimeter of the U.S. embassy in Iran during the hostage crisis, the torture-murders of U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Cleo Noel and Charge D'Affaires George Curtis Moore (the highest ranking black in the U.S. Foreign Service at the time) – beaten so badly authorities couldn't tell which was black and which was white.
If he sounds familiar, Jihad Darrell is the same congressman who threw a temper tantrum, screaming about profiling, when he showed up an hour late for an Air France flight, with a suspicious one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia, and was refused entry to the already boarded plane. Issa didn't fool security, but he managed to charm others with his phoniness. Columnist Debra Saunders wrote a whole column, "Ahsan Baig's Molehill," lauding Issa for denouncing racial profiling lawsuits and advocating that Arabs "adjust" and make "sacrifices in wartime." Problem is, at the same time, he was telling every other press source about his plans for new, anti-profiling legislation against airlines, to line Arabs' and their trial lawyers' pockets and risk our security.
Many advocate that America emulate Israel in its dealings with terrorism. That's a great idea, with regard to Issa. Recently, Israel stripped Arab Member of the Israeli Knesset, Azmi Bashara, of his immunity from prosecution for urging the Palestinians to attack Israel and copy Hezbollah, its murders and suicide bombings. Israel is prosecuting Bashara, and we should do the same with the treasonous Issa.
Ironically, Jihad Darrell's last name, Issa, means "Jesus" in Arabic. But, instead of turning the other cheek in 2002, voters in his 48th district should eagerly mark the ballot for his opponent.
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He sounds like a mole for the PLO. I hope that he does not have access to secret military information.
And how can the Republican Party afford to support him?
The PLO is just being smart. By having Congressmen in both parties, it does not matter which party controls Congress.
First, Roger is a no nonsense conservative Republican. He was quite friendly to Issa, who serves North San Diego County. Issa was saying that this person's article was totally incorrect, that she was dead wrong. Sorry, but I did not get to hear his point by point refutation. I can say that Hedgecock seemed to be very supportive of him.
When the news of his airport fiasco came out, I posted criticisn of him here. But this story does look fishy, and I would never believe something published in a Middle East newspaper without proper corroboration.
”Arab-American Congressman: Hizbollah Legitimate”
TEHRAN TIMES INTL. DESK
TEHRAN A U.S. Congressman was quoted on Sunday as saying that he believed that the Lebanese resistance Hizbollah acts legitimately and has never been involved in terrorist activities.
The official Iranian news agency, IRNA, quoted Republican Darrell Issa in Damascus as saying that Hizbollah and any other Lebanese group has the right to resist the occupation of its territory, in line with United Nations resolutions.
He was further quoted as saying that Hizbollah's humanitarian and governmental actions were legal and that such behavior would be customary in any country.
Issa is heading a four-member U.S. Congress delegation that is currently visiting the Middle East. They left Syria for Lebanon on Sunday on the second leg of the tour that aims to discuss the Middle East peace process and the U.S.-led war on terrorism. The U.S. Congressmen began their five-hour stay in Lebanon by meeting with the country's Deputy Prime Minister, Issam Fares. Republicans Darrell Issa (California), John Cooksey (Louisiana), Brian Kerns (Indiana), and Democrat Nick Rahall (West Virginia) were later due to meet President, Emile Lahoud, and Prime Minister, Rafiq Hariri.
While in Syria, the group met with President Bashar al- Assad
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Rep. Issa charged that Air France “profiled” him on an air flight:
Rep. Issa Says Airline Kept Him off Flight Because of His Lebanese Heritage (Oct. 26)
US congressmen to prove Hezbollah is strictly local, not a global operation by Khalil Fleihan [Corrected 11/18/01]
11/18/2001
Agence France-Presse
(Copyright 2001)
CORRECTION: ATTENTION - RECASTS throughout
BEIRUT, Nov 18 (AFP) - Lebanese President Emile Lahoud assured visiting US congressmen Sunday of a limit on the range of the militant fundamentalist Hezbollah movement's activities, in a bid to remove Hezbollah from a US list of terrorist groups.
"I am pleased that in a meeting earlier with (Lebanese) President Emile Lahoud, he has conveyed a strong message of limitation on the reach of Hezbollah which I'll take back to our State Department," California congressman Darrell Issa told reporters.
"We are taking back those assurances that Hezbollah does in fact have a limited scope. Our nations will work together to define that," he said, alluding to the US-led war on terror.
"If you're not an organisation of a global reach, then I think you fall into a different category, and it is our sincere hope to be working with the Lebanese government to ensure that Hezbollah will not be an organisation of a global reach," he said.
In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks on the United States, Hezbollah, which is sponsored by Syria and Iran, was slapped on a US State Department list of terrorist organisations on November 2, with the aim of freezing the movement's financial assets.
But Lebanon and Syria have rejected the US list, which also includes Palestinian militant groups who endorse armed struggle against Israeli occupation, arguing that these are resistance groups and not terrorist movements.
Since Israel ended its 22 year occupation of south Lebanon in May 2000, Hezbollah, which is also a political party and welfare organisation, has waged guerrilla warfare on the Israeli army in a disputed border territory, kidnapping several Israelis and killing a handful more.
Issa stressed his commitment to bridging the gap on Hezbollah between the US and Lebanese government.
"I remain dedicated to this. This mission was dedicated to include that as a major part of it. We take a message from your president back to our president and we hope to have further dialogue," he added.
Issa and Congressman Nick Rahall (West Virginia), both of Lebanese descent, were leading a four-member delegation which visited Lebanon for about five hours on the second leg of a regional tour to discuss the Middle East peace process and the US-led war on terrorism.
Rahall said the US administration had come under pressure to put Hezbollah on the State Department list, "due to events that happened in the past with which Hezbollah has been associated with, but not directly responsible for."
In particular, Rahall was alluding to the 1983 suicide bombing of US Marine barracks in Beirut during Lebanon's civil war, which Hezbollah was linked, although it was never fully proven.
But the group has since it transformed itself into a legitimate part of the Lebanese political system and won admiration for successfully routing Israel from south Lebanon in 2000.
"I believe that this (US) administration wants to do what's right," Rahall said.
He also praised Lebanon's intentions.
"Lebanon, of all countries, certainly knows what terrorism effects are. Lebanon has been through it, Lebanon has never attacked anybody, nor have they taken anybody as a hostage," Rahall said.
Asked about reports over a possible meeting with Hezbollah officials, Issa said: "We haven't asked to meet the leaders of Hezbollah, we came here to meet with your elected officials."
On Saturday, the US delegation met in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his first meeting with US congressmen since he came to power in July 2000.
After the meeting, Issa said: "Hezbollah must renounce terrorism. If Hezbollah limited its activities to the humanitarian and governmental work it does in south Lebanon, it would never have been on that list."
The US delegation left Sunday to Cairo on the third stop of a regional tour that will also include Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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