[iwar] [fc:Terrorists'.favorite.congressmen]

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                           Debbie Schlussel
                          October 27, 2001
                   Terrorists' favorite congressmen

 "Money is like manure," said U.S. industrialist Clint Murchison. "If
you spread it around, it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in
one place, it stinks like hell."
Today, a very malodorous scent emanates from elected federal officials
who've received a concentrated pile of campaign contributions from a
Muslim Arab terrorist front-man on U.S. soil.
Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a University of South Florida professor, is Islamic
Jihad's front-man in the U.S. His favorite elected official,
Congressman David Bonior, D-Mich., the House Democratic Whip until
this month, is now a leading candidate for the Michigan governorship.
According to Federal Election Commission records, and the Center for
Responsive Politics' opensecrets.org, which tracks contributions to
federal candidates, Al-Arian and his wife, Nahla, donated at least
$3,450 dollars to Bonior's campaign in this and the previous election
cycle.
They also gave $2,000 to Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., aka
Jihad Cindy, in 2000. McKinney wrote a reprehensible letter of apology
to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's
criticism of the prince's justification for the Sept. 11 attacks. No
wonder McKinney and Henry Hyde, R-Ill., to whom Al-Arian gave $1,000,
objected to an Oct. 3rd congressional screening of "Jihad in America,"
featuring Al-Arian's "activities." Former Rep. Tom Campbell, R-Calif.,
got $1,300. Al-Arian and family also hung out with candidate Bush in
campaign 2000 and were at the White House this summer.
Al-Arian associates are tied to Osama bin Laden, including Tarik
Hamdi, former manager Islamic Committee for Palestine, a terrorist
front-group according to the FBI, of which Al-Arian is president.
According to the Tampa Tribune, Hamdi arranged a bin Laden interview
in Afghanistan for ABC News in May 1998 and provided a replacement
battery for a satellite phone prosecutors say was integral to bin
Laden's August 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania (224 people were killed). Documents in the trial of four men
convicted in May 2001, in those bombings, prove Hamdi's interaction
for al-Quaida. (Hamdi gave $250 to Campbell's campaign.)
FBI and INS affidavits document Al-Arian's "fraud and misuse of visas"
and "aiding and abetting or assisting certain aliens" involved in
terrorism to unlawfully enter the U.S., including Ramadan Abdullah
Shallah, now head of Islamic Jihad – a major component of Osama bin
Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network, according to the Wall Street
Journal. Al-Arian also "raised funds for Islamic Jihad," and was cozy
with 1993 WTC attack convicts and conspirators.
At a deportation hearing for his brother-in-law Mazen Al-Najjar – whom
the FBI and INS say is a mid-level terrorist, Al-Arian "invoked his
Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination 99 times," according
to the Associated Press. A 1988 video shows Al-Arian raising money for
the Islamic Committee for Palestine, which the event's master of
ceremonies introduces as "the active arm of the Islamic Jihad."
Al-Arian's campaign contributions and political buddies relate
directly to the Sept. 11 attacks. He is a "civil rights" leader in
America's organized Muslim Arabs' fight against the use of secret
evidence against potential and proven terrorists who try to enter the
United States, under the Secret Evidence Act under the Anti-Terrorism
and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. Parties against whom attempts
to use secret evidence have been employed, include Al-Arian, himself,
whose citizenship application is in limbo, and Al-Najjar, who is
scheduled for deportation. In campaigning to Al-Arian and other Arab
Muslims in the U.S., Bush and Bonior promised to do away with use of
secret evidence and profiling.
And they have kept their promises. In May 1999, Bonior and Campbell
introduced the Secret Evidence Repeal Act. Bush, at his first address
to a joint session of Congress declared the end of secret evidence and
profiling and, in February, issued a directive to Attorney General
John Ashcroft to "work in cooperation with state and local law
enforcement to assess the extent and nature of any such practices."
Because of this, FBI agents missed the opportunity to discover and
prevent the attacks. In August, top Justice and FBI officials turned
down Minneapolis FBI agents' requests for a special
counterintelligence surveillance warrant to open the computer hard
drive of bin Laden associate Zacarias Moussaoui. An Eagan, Minn.
Flight school tipped them off that the French Algerian sought
instruction on steering a Boeing 747, but not taking off or landing.
French intelligence alerted the FBI that Moussaoui, in custody since
Aug. 17 on immigration violations, has ties to terrorist groups.
But, under Bush's and Ashcroft's new rules against secret evidence and
profiling – competing against Democrats like Bonior for the Arab
Muslim vote – that information was deemed insufficient for a warrant.
According to Newsweek and MSNBC, when agents finally cracked into
Moussaoui's hard drive, after the attacks, they found information
detailing plans for terrorist attacks. Moussaoui, trained in Afghani
camps, has been linked to hijacking-leader Mohammad Atta's roommate,
and is now believed to have been a would-be hijacker on Flight 93 that
crashed near Pittsburgh.
Regarding Bush's and Bonior's prohibition of secret evidence, Al-Arian
told the Brown Daily Herald, "When you get involved in politics,
people start listening."
And thanks to them listening to Islamic Jihad's man in America, the
last thing 6,000 victims listened to was the sound of crashing planes
and collapsing buildings.

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