Posted on 03/26/2008 3:07:47 PM PDT by bad company
WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors say Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion.
An indictment in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam's regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary.
In exchange, Al-Hanooti allegedly received 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil.
The lawmakers are not mentioned but the dates correspond to a trip by Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California. There was no indication the three lawmakers knew the trip was underwritten by Saddam.
Yeah, and ‘no war for oil’.
Seems like that fell to pieces.
Everytime I hear whining about how Bush wrecked the economy and so forth I always make it a point to say: “Well, so much for the war for oil lie”.
True, and I’m completely with you, but you have to understand the liberal hypocrat mind! There’s simply no responsibility, just blame someone else!
I couldn’t believe Eliot Spitzer for instance, (well OK actually after the driver’s license debacle and listening to the idiot back then I could indeed believe this) his first response to getting caught with a hooker was: “this isn’t how homeland security is supposed to work”...and well you know the rest, how the evil Cheney and Rove brownshirts ended his ride on the gravy train.
Trouble is, it had ZERO to do with homeland security or W or anyone else but the BANKS.
THEY rountinely report strange transactions and the dumbass got hammered.
This the genius calling for driver’s licenses for illegals...as if tax paying citizens should somehow foot the bill for his liberal madness!
But my point is from George Soros to looney Clooney, THEY could just as easily have paid Saddam to pay their fare. These people are this deranged and you can’t make this stuff up!
You have to realize, you’re thinking like a sane person that has SOME responsibility to the public and so forth.
I’M talking about liberal unhinged moonbats where anything goes in the hate America world THEY live in!
That’s the problem...look at Sandy the Burglar stealing classified documents and stuffing them in his drawers...then you have our people going to jail for “outting” Val Plame, when she
1. clearly wasn’t “outted” and
2. even if she was it was by Richard Armitage.
We have marines on trial for nothing more than being smeared by the treasonous b@stard Murtha.
Frankly it’s quite sad what’s become of our country!
The Democratic Party is a TRAITOROUS, AMERICA HATING, CRIMINAL organization.
They are not idiots at all. none of them.
That's the real problem.
thanks for the ping
The complaint against Mr. McDermott stems from a 1996 conference call among Rep. John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, and other members of Congress, including House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Georgia Republican, in which the congressmen discussed how to respond to an ethics investigation of Mr. Gingrich.
Mr. Boehner was in Florida at the time and his cell phone call was intercepted by a Florida couple, Alice and John Martin, who recorded it.
In January 1997, the Martins gave the recording to Mr. McDermott, the top Democrat on the ethics panel [at the time]. Mr. McDermott subsequently leaked the tape to news outlets, including the New York Times. When the Martins revealed Mr. McDermott’s role in leaking the tape, the congressman resigned from the ethics panel.
...In August, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Mr. McDermott had ‘participated in an illegal transaction when he accepted the tape,’ and fined him $60,000 plus Mr. Boehner’s attorney fees.
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The Iraqi money went into McDermott’s legal defense fund for fending off a lawsuit by Mr. Boehner over the Democrat operatives “wiretapping” of the Republican conference call.
SEPTEMBER 2002 : (LEBANON : IRAQI VP TAHA YASSIN RAMADAN TELLS THE WORLD THAT HIS GOVERNMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO LAUNCH A PREEMPTIVE FIRST STRIKE AGAINST AMERICAN AND ALLIED TARGETS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD) Even as McDermott and Bonior were still on the ground in Baghdad, issuing their all’s well cry, Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan was telling the world, by way of Lebanese television, that his government reserved the right to launch a preemptive first strike—against American and allied targets, military or civilian, anywhere in the world. Where war is concerned, Ramadan promised, “we’ll decide when it happens.” Iraq “has the right to confront the aggressors on its land and in any place the aggressors are found. An enemy is an enemy....Any American, British, or Zionist interests on Arab land or within reach of Arabs, wherever they are, I consider as legitimate.”—— “Not So Innocents Abroad; “ by David Tell, for the editors, The Weekly Standard, 10/14/2002
If I remember right, Al-Hanooti is connected both to Susan Lindhauer the Iraqi “asset” who allegedly predicted 9/11 and also EPIC, the group to which our ol’ annoying former ambassador Joe Wilson belongs.
One of those investigations apparently involves [Imad] Hamad's close ties to Muthanna Al-Hanooti, Mohammed Alomari, and their charities, LIFE for Relief and Development and FAAIR (Focus on Arab American Issues and Reform). Hidden in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Southfield, Michigan, LIFE is believed to fund Hamas via contributions to Hamas front groups identified in 2001 by FBI Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, Dale Watson.One such front, Human Appeal International, believed by the FBI to be Hamas' Jordanian operation, was listed in LIFE tax returns as one of three supported organizations receiving millions in contributions. Human Appeal and another organization LIFE works with, Human Relief Foundation, are listed as participants in the "101 days campaign" website of Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood. The site is believed to raise money for homicide bombings Al-Qaradawi supports.
Alomari's book, "The Secrecy of Evil", and other writings allege Jewish control of the world and the Bush administration. His Daru Salam mosque radio website claimed Jews and the U.S. "organized" the 9/11 attacks. A 1996 LIFE fundraiser, arranged by Hanooti, featured speaker Sheik Abdulmunem Abu Zant, an ardent Hamas supporter, who said, "May G-d attack the Jews and those who stand with them. May G-d attack the Americans and those who stand with them." Hanooti appeared with indicted Islamic Jihad frontman Sami Al-Arian at a recent American Muslim Council lobbying seminar. LIFE's original registered agent (under its previous name, International Relief Association), Masood Aijazi, worked for Khalid bin Mahfouz, the financier of Mawafaq Foundation, designated a terrorist charity by the U.S. government.
Hamad's relationship with these parties is long-term and tight. A 1999 press release by Hamad's American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee credits Hamad with getting Senator Carl Levin, then-Senator Spencer Abraham, and David Bonior to grant LIFE a license to send millions to Iraq. "We have a special relationship with ADC here in Detroit." Hanooti said. "This is another example of the value of cooperation between our organizations . . . to advance our common agenda." In May 2003, Hamad visited terrorist-sponsor Syria and Lebanon with Hanooti and Alomari. Given all of this, a recent FAAIR newsletter photo of Collins (below) smilingly posing between Al-Hanooti, Hamad, and Alomari, at a FAAIR event, is disturbing. It is bad enough that a U.S. Attorney would associate with known anti- Semites. Worse, if Collins' office ever indicts them, it could be embarrassing...
--------------------- "FBI, Justice PC Buffoonery Continues ," October 15, 2003, Abridged NY Post version ----http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:fY3h0n_bnWMJ:www.debbieschlussel.com/columns/column101503.shtml+%22MUTHANNA+AL-HANOOTI%22&hl=en
I have a bumper sticker for you.
Just list the names of the Bagdad three RATS and under it put “Oil for Treason”, or...” No More Treason for Oil”.
GOOD one!
If there’s a connection to EPIC that’d be interesting. I don’t remember that off the top of my head but I’ll see if I have anything.
9.00 am - 10.30 am BRIEFING FOR LOBBYISTDomestic Issues :
A. Profiling/Secret Evidence - Sami Al-Arian,Tampa Bay Coalition For Justice and PeaceInternational Issues :
A. Jerusalem - Eugene Bird CNI
B. Lifting Sanctions on Iraq - Muthana Al-Hanooti, Education for Peace in Iraq Center
[* MY NOTE: EPIC is the group before which spoke Joe Wilson, former Ambassador to Niger & hubby of Valerie Plame]The Art of Lobbying :
A. Jameel W A Johnson, Chief of Staff, Congressman Meeks
B. Scott Paul, Legislative Assistant to Congressman Bonior-------Source: http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:_m7jCpmUhZ8C:www.amconline.org/newamc/convo/prgThu.shtml+%22Muthana+Al+Hanooti%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Excellent catch! I see Bonior’s assistant is also listed.
Rebumping this article since the FBI just raided so Khafaji’s friend Scott Ritter again...
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