Well, shame on him. There are no connections between the two. None. Nada. Zip. ...
NCPPF (National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom) Executive Director Kit Gage is a veteran legal activist, serving also as head of the National Lawyers Guild, founded in the 1930s and officially cited as a legal front group for the old Communist Party. The NCPPF has acted as a legal-aid office of sorts for members or alleged members of a wide variety of terrorist groups, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [piasa note : supported by Libya & Baathist Iraq], the Egyptian Islamic Jihad [piasa note : EIJ is a member of Al Qaeda], Hamas , the Basque ETA separatist group of Spain, the FALN of Puerto Rico, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Shining Path of Peru, and for Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of the 1975 murders of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. --------------"Undermining war on terror : Muslim groups weakening fed laws under guise of protecting civil liberties," World Net Daily, March 10, 2003
1999 to 2001 : (MERCY INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR HAMID AICH AIDS TERROR GROUPS -- INCLUDING SPAIN'S BASQUE SEPARATISTS ETA; See RESSAM, ALQAEDA, DUBLIN CELL) It is believed that between 1999 and 2001, Aich assisted 22 Islamic terrorist organizations, and even funded non-Islamic groups, for instance giving $200,000 to the ETA, a separatist group in the Basque region of Spain. Aich was also the director of Mercy International’s Ireland branch. (This charity has several known al-Qaeda connections by this time (see 1988-Spring 1995 and Late 1996-August 20, 1998).) Despite these connections, he will continue to live openly in Dublin after the newspaper discloses his location. [Mirror, 9/17/2001]--"Profile: Hamid Aich,"http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=hamid_aich_1
The old Soviet Union quite purposely brought diverse terrorist groups (e.g. Irish, South American, Palestinian, etc) together for the explicit purpose that they could share information, techniques and provide mutual support.
Just because the entity that used to host the multicultural terrorist seminars and conventions is no longer on the scene, that's no reason that, once established, this fruitful practice would be abandoned.