Now, I don't know this guy from Adam so I did what you suggested, a little googling. Here's what I found out about the this Ismamist manica, this crazed terrorsymp, this danger to Western civilization.
Here, I'll help (the key is to add "alamoudi" to your search)... Islam Online- News Section ... man "with a Libyan accent". "He told me this is untrue, " said Kamal Nawash told IOL over the phone. But Nawash declined to comment ... www.islamonline.net/English/News/ 2003-10/01/article01.shtml - 59k - Cached - Similar pages [Weblog]Hussein Ibish's Favorite Political Candiate? ... Abdurahman Alamoudi, former head of the American Muslim ... letter urging support for Nawash: "I am ... that you join me in supporting ⦠Kamal Nawash â¦Toward that ... www.danielpipes.org/blog/86 - 17k - Dec 13, 2003 - Cached - Similar pages
[Weblog]United States of America v. Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi ... To this mounting evidence, Maher Hanania, one of Alamoudi's lawyers (and another partner of Kamal Nawash; on whom, see http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/86 ... www.danielpipes.org/blog/98 - 11k - Dec 13, 2003 - Cached - Similar pages
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Jewish World Review ... To be sure, Abdurahman Alamoudi insists he is innocent of the charges now ... terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah, his lawyer, Kamal Nawash, says: [Al ... www.jewishworldreview.com/1003/gaffney_2003_10_14.php3 - 22k - Cached - Similar pages Va. Candidate Returns $10,000 to Islamic Activist (washingtonpost. ... ... Falls Church lawyer Kamal M. Nawash, a Republican candidate for ... 15, Nawash recently returned two checks, for $5,000 each, to Abdurahman Alamoudi and his ... www.vpap.org/vpa/WPost10012003.htm - 53k - Cached - Similar pages Daily Kos || Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state ... ... Another Alamoudi lawyer, Kamal Nawash, who is presently running as a Republican for the Virginia state senate, represented the alleged terrorist at the time of ... draco.dailykos.com/story/2003/10/23/175220/77 - 17k - Cached - Similar pages LINK
Look at that, a Free Republic thread... Connecting the Islamist Dots FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 10/15/03 | Evan McCormick
Posted on 10/15/2003 2:07:38 AM PDT by kattracks To Muslim political groups in Washington, American Muslim Council founder Abdurahman Alamoudi is a respected political leader.
To the Clinton administration, Alamoudi was credible enough to be allowed to certify Islamic chaplains for the Pentagon.
To the Libyan regime of Muammar Qadhafi, Alamoudi has been a paid agent worthy of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.
To the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, Alamoudi is a bankroller of terrorists abroad and here at home.
And to U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan, Alamoudi is a danger to society and a flight risk as he awaits trial in jail as an alleged key figure in an international terror network.
Alamoudis arrest on September 29 was a crushing blow to the self-appointed groups in Washington that claim to represent American Muslims.
Federal prosecutors allege that Alamoudi broke US law by traveling to Libya, and meeting with officials who sought to use his Washington political contacts to lift sanctions on the terrorist-sponsoring regime. A criminal complaint contends that Alamoudi met with leaders of the World Islamic Call Society (WICS), a para-statal Islamic charity which Qadhafi founded and controls. WICS would give Alamoudi a cut from the funds he was able to unfreeze.
But the case became even more serious at Alamoudis detention hearing, when US Attorney Steve Ward gave a detailed outline of Alamoudis intimate connections with global terrorists and politically active Muslim organizations in the US.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Brett Gentrup testified that in a phone call to an unnamed individual, Alamoudi discussed in detail the tactical nature of terrorist attacks. In the transcripts, Alamoudi states, The Jewish Community Center. It is a worthy operation, referring to the 1994 bombing of one such center in Argentina that killed 86 people. Even though we are very sorry for the death of the innocent. You have to choose the target so as not to put the Muslim in an uncomfortable situation.
FBI Special Agent Todd Price testified that the Portland, Oregon branch of Alamoudis American Muslim Foundation made payouts to two individualsPatrice Lumumba Ford and Ahmed Bilalapprehended last October by the government on terrorist charges. Bilal pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to aid the Taliban, while Ford is awaiting trial on more serious charges of conspiracy to wage war on the US and providing material support to al-Qaeda.
As proof, the government produced copies of checks bearing the recipients names, drawn on the accounts of the Portland branch of the AMF. In a classic Wahhabi sleight-of-hand maneuver, Alamoudis lawyer May Kheder claimed that AMF Portland has no affiliation with the national organization. Special Agent Price quickly laid that fallacious claim to rest by reading from the Foundations IRS form 990 which clearly lists Portland as an affiliate. Kheders tactic was reminiscent of a recent claim by Executive Director Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in attempting to explain away the arrest of CAIR-Texas founder Ghassan Elashi. The fact that he was once associated with one of our almost twenty regional chapters, said Awad in submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, has no legal significance to our corporation.
As the evidence continues to mount in the case against Alamoudi, the outlook becomes ever bleaker for the many Wahhabi-backed Muslim groups in which he played an integral role. Since the early 1980s, Alamoudi has held posts with as many as fifteen American organizations supportive of the Wahhabi cause. Six of those groups have been raided by US federal agents since September 11, 2001, and more are currently under the scrutiny of federal investigators.
Soliman Biheiri, an advisory board member at Alamoudis most successful project, the American Muslim Council (AMC), was convicted yesterday on two counts of violating US immigration law. US prosecutors have cited Biheiri as, the financial toehold of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. At Alamoudis detention hearing, Special Agent Price reviewed the translated text of a Libyan website that identifies Alamoudi as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood as well. Although Alamoudi no longer serves with the AMC, the federal affidavit alleges that he maintains oversight of the group.
Alamoudis AMC, which was once called the most mainstream Muslim group in the US, by the spokesman for the FBI director, has enjoyed unfettered access to the Bush administration since September 11, 2001. In meetings with high level officials like FBI Director Robert Mueller and Senior Policy Advisor Karl Rove, the AMC has lobbied to oppose the Administrations policies in the War on Terror and to further their radical agenda.
One aspect of that agenda includes the recruitment of radical Muslims to serve as military chaplains. The American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council (AMAFVAC), which has come under suspicion in a widening probe of espionage activities by Muslim US Servicemen at Guantanamo bay, was first overseen by Alamoudi. Formed as a spinoff of the AMC and headed by former AMC official Qaseem Uqdah, the AMAFVAC is one of two Islamic organizations certified by the Department of Defense to endorse military chaplains. In fact, at the swearing-in ceremony of the first Muslim chaplain, Captain Abdul Rasheed Muhammad, it was none other than Abdurahman Alamoudi who pinned the crescent moon insignia on Muhammads uniform.
Even a look at Alamoudis legal team turns up familiar faces in the domestic Wahhabi network. One of Alamoudis lawyers is Kamal Nawash, an outspoken apologist for Hamas and Palestinian terrorists, who has previously served as the legal advisor at the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), a group that has worked alongside Alamoudi in opposing to the Bush Administrations War on Terror.
Though he was not present in the courtroom, Nawash sprung to Alamoudis defense in an Islam Online article in which the lawyer states, [Alamoudi] has no links whatsoever to violence or terrorism. On the contrary, he supported the US war on terrorism.
Nawash was equally quick to politically distance himself from Alamoudi in preparation for his upcoming Virginia state senate election campaign. The Washington Post reported that in August, Nawash returned two campaign donation checks of $5,000 to Abdurahman Alamoudi and his wife, Shifa. While taking up Alamoudis defense in court, it seems that the political danger of associating with a lawbreaking supporter of terrorist causes was too much.
Kamal Nawash has his own set of political connections that would be devastated if US attorneys sufficiently connect the dots during Alamoudis criminal trial. Grover Norquist, a Republican lobbyist well connected to the Bush administration through Policy Advisor Karl Rove, has been instrumental in Nawashs campaign, personally hosting a fundraiser at his residence on August 6th. Norquist also served as the Founding Chairman of the Islamic Institute, which received its initial funding from none other than Abdurahman Alamoudi.
The arrest and detention of Alamoudi is another in a succession of important victories in the War on Terror. The expanding probe into groups tainted by Alamoudis criminal extremism will only yield more. Evan McCormick is the Henry M. Jackson National Security Fellow at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC. He is a recent graduate of Boston University. Connecting the Islamist Dots FrontPageMagazine.com | 10/15/03 | Evan McCormick Posted on 10/15/2003 2:07:38 AM PDT by kattracks
More on Nawash, from Daniel Pipes... Weblog Hussein Ibish's Favorite Political Candiate? September 10, 2003
Hussein Ibish's Favorite Political Candiate? Kamal Nawash, an immigration lawyer and legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) since 1997, has thrown his hat in the ring as a Republican candidate for state senator in the 31st district of Virginia. His campaign website offers stances only on the sort of issues a state senator might deal with (baseball stadium construction, traffic, property taxes, etc.) but, as a long-standing staffer of the extremist ADC and a colleague of the notorious Hussein Ibish (who endorses Nawash as "an extremely patriotic and dedicated American"), one cannot wonder what Nawash thinks on national issues such as the need to take steps to protect the country from Islamist terrorists who wish to enter it. (September 10, 2003) Sept. 11, 2003 update: A reader points out that Mr. Nawash's views on at least one national issue are known. He was quoted extensively in June 2000 responding to the just-issued, anondyne recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorism. Nawash took the opportunity to make it known that he does not support an effective self-protection against terrorism, holding that this would violate "basic Constitutional rights." He added that "if implemented, the recommendations by the Commission would more likely than not severely damage civil liberties and facilitate abusive behavior by the government." Of particular interest (given that several 9/11 hijackers used a student cover), is Nawash's objection to the U.S. government tracking foreign students, protesting (nonsensically) that this step would indicate "a willingness to restrict scientific knowledge and scholarship to certain classes of people and to flout, basically, principles of academic freedom." Sounds like this man opposes the war on terrorism; in any case, he sure makes for a strange Republican candidate. Sept. 14, 2003 update: Nawash is getting support for his candidacy from some suspicious quarters. Abdurahman Alamoudi, former head of the American Muslim Council whose contribution was returned by Hilary Clinton, sent out a fundraising letter urging support for Nawash: "I am urging you today to ask that you join me in supporting É Kamal Nawash ÉToward that end I have personally contributed money to Kamal's election campaign." And Grover Norquist, the Republican activist who paved the way for militant Islamic groups to enter the Bush White House, is hosting a fundraiser for Nawash in his own house. Sept. 15, 2003 update: Another reader points out that Nawash wrote an interesting note that begins, "Recently, ADC has received many questions about why we dont sue pro-Israeli organizations," and goes on to explain how expensive this course of action is, but then adds that "this is not to say that we are not interested in suing" and expresses his hope that ADC will be in a financial position to do so in the future. Nawash might argue that in writing this he was "just doing his job" at ADC, but of course bashing Israel is inherent to what the legal director at ADC does. Sept. 23, 2003 update: According to a web-posting, Nawash spoke at a "Muslim Solidarity Day for Justice and Peace" rally near the White House on May 24, 2003, promoted by International ANSWER, an organization that David Horowitz has identified as a "front for a Marxist-Leninist party with ties to the Communist regime in North Korea." Pretty curious company for a Republican, no? Sept. 25, 2003 update: U.S. Senator John Warner (Republican from Virginia) is quoted on the Nawash website stating that "Kamal is an impressive candidate" and asking for votes for him: "Please join me in supporting Kamal." It's a significant endorsement and Virginians might wish to inform their senior senator that he is, to put it mildly, going out on a limb on this one. Sept. 26, 2003 update: Something called the "Islamic Political Party of America," an organization whose mission, among other goals, is "to establish the first Islamic political party in America" and which invites only Muslims to join, lists Nawash as one of the three candidates it endorses in this year's elections. (And in case an Islamic Political Party of America does not sound serious, take a look at the Islamic Party of Britain, [www.islamicparty.com] founded in 1989, which is quoted by the major media and is a factor in UK Muslim politics.) Sept. 27, 2003 update: Nawash penned a long analysis, "Are Arab Americans Being Unjustly and Illegally Deprived of Their Constitutional Rights?" for "Al-Hewar Center for Arab Culture and Dialogue" sometime between February and August 1998, in which he made some interesting statements.
- He indicates that what the U.S. government deems Palestinian terrorist organizations are for him merely "Palestinian groups who have differing views than the U.S. government concerning the Arab/Israeli peace process."
- He criticizes the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, a Clinton-era law that allows the Secretary of State to designate foreign terrorist organizations, for what he calls the "criminalization of international fundraising and humanitarian aid."
- He dismisses the whole notion of terrorism by arguing that "any liberation movement that takes up arms against a repressive regime that is friendly with the president serving at the time could receive a terrorist label," and gives as one example "those colonial soldiers who took up arms against the British during the U.S. War of Independence."
With such a record of apologetics for terrorism, do the good folk of the 31st district of Virginia want Kamal Nawash serving as their state senator? Sept. 28, 2003 update: Nawash seems not to be bothered by so-called honor-killings (when family members kill a female relative for alleged sexual trespasses). Here he discusses the subject on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," talking about the persons who carry out such murders: While they think what they're doing is bad, they don't see that what they're doing is similar to a killer who kills, for example, for financial gain or anything, because these people who do honor killings could be the most moral of people, but they--you know, because this is something that means so much to him, it will get all the rage out of him that he's never seen before and might make him react irrationally, such as killing a female member in the family.
The way Nawash puts it, these killings sound constructively therapeutic. Oct. 1, 2003 update: Abdurahman Alamoudi, the prominent Islamist leader, was arrested on terrorism-related charges on Sept. 28 (on which, see http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/98) and an Alamoudi-Nawash tie quickly emerged. (1) Alamoudi and his wife, Shifa, made the single largest donations to Nawash's campaign, in March and May 2003. (2) In August 2003, "after an emotional conversation with Alamoudi," Nawash returned the money because, as Nawash put it in the The Washington Post, "I think it could hurt me more than help me." (3) Despite this distancing of his campaign from Alamoudi, Nawash had this to say in defense of Alamoudi after the latter's arrest: "He is just a liberal Muslim, who wants more Muslims to be involved in the U.S. military and politics to be part of America." Oct. 22, 2003 update: Legal papers filed today indicate that Alamoudi is being represented by a team of three lawyers: Stanley L. Cohen, an independent practioner in New York City; James P. McLoughlin, Jr., of Moore & Van Allen, PLLC in Charlotte, N.C.; and May Kheder, of Hanania, Kheder & Nawash, P.C. in Falls Church, Va. The last of these, of course, is a partner of Kamal Nawash. Oct. 27, 2003 update: Chris Arabia has come out today, at FrontPageMagazine.com, with the first analysis of the Nawash campaign at "Islamists' Favorite Republican." Oct. 30, 2003 update: "She is a mean-spirited racist," Nawash is quoted in today's Washington Times, speaking about his opponent in the general election, Democrat Mary Margaret Whipple. The reason Whipple focuses on Nawash's connection to Alamoudi, he says, "is because she wants to draw innuendo and say, ÔLook at this guy. He is a Muslim and he has ties over here to terrorists.'" But then Nawash goes on to concede that (1) he commented publicly on the Alamoudi case, (2) he identified himself as someone who knows Alamoudi, and (3) he was identified as Alamoudi's attorney by the Islamist Internet site islam-online.net, not by Whipple. So why the vituperation against Whipple? Is this a glimpse of the ADC style of politics? Nov. 5, 2003 update: The Nov. 4 election results are in and with 94 percent of precincts reporting today as of 3:00 p.m. EST, the Commonwealth of Virginia declares that Mary Margaret Whipple received 70 percent of the vote and Kamal M. Nawash 30 percent. Despite newspaper accounts suggesting that Nawash raised more money than Whipple, the Virginia Public Access Project indicates otherwise, with $95,267 for him and $121,738 for her. Nov. 10, 2003 update: In a post-mortem on the election race, Nawash credits the "numerous hits" he received from this blog to having contributed to his defeat. Hussein Ibish's Favorite Political Candiate? Daniel Pipes.org | September 10, 2003
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