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To: Technogeeb
Thanks for the heads up on this; time has a way of getting away from you and this is a steep learning curve for most of us. Glad to know there are those among us on top of this thing. Is it very closely monitored or loosely accepted and if the latter what can be done legally to shut these things down or force closer scruitny of them?
289 posted on 09/20/2003 6:30:53 PM PDT by winker
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To: winker
Is it very closely monitored or loosely accepted and if the latter what can be done legally to shut these things down or force closer scruitny of them?

Right after 9-11, there were a couple of FBI raids after the obvious nature of the organizations were pointed out to them (even so, the FBI seemed strangely reluctant to do anything about it); the result was that the bank accounts of the "Holy Land Foundation" were frozen, and a few people were arrested. There was another front company (Infocorp, or something similar named; located in Richardson) also involved that was transferring funds to al qaeda in Malaysia. A few of their company officers were arrested, but the organization behind it remains, and is still regularly funding terrorist operations (the initial heat from the FBI made them a little more careful about how they did it).

On the bright side, a lot of the shops and restaurants that used to have the Hamas donation boxes no longer do; so perhaps 9-11 was a wakeup call for at least some Americans.

301 posted on 09/20/2003 8:18:00 PM PDT by Technogeeb
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