The Struggle for Civilization

[Guest guest]

The Struggle for Civilization

 

has been long and hard and is not getting any easier. As always we

have a variety

of action items to discuss.

 

 

Action Items Tell Fred Thompson to Just Say No to Spencer Abraham

Stop the Saudi and arab Gulf States arms deal, Stop arming arafat's

successor

and his gang, Just Say No to a so-called " palestinian state " . Stop

Edwards, Clinton, and Obama. Tell President Bush to be a Churchill

not a Chamberlain.

 

Probably the biggest reason for the defeat of so many Republicans in

the 2006 House and Senate elections was the failure of President

Bush to remain stalwart in his opposition

to the enemies of civilization.

 

When President Bush supported the Dubai Ports Deal he harmed not

only his own political ability to accomplish very much, he harmed

other Republicans because disenchanted Republicans and Independents

and Democrats who support the struggle for civilization stayed home

while Defeatist Democrats and other Isolationists turned out to vote

against Republicans in those elections. Today President Bush

continues to call for a so-called

" palestinian " state. By doing so he makes a terrible mistake which

will continue to weaken support for Republicans in future Federal,

state and local elections. The President also is arming the so-

called " palestinian " terrorist faction led by Abu Abbas, a.k.a. Abu

Mazen, arafat's long time henchman and deputy, and is also seeking

to arm the Saudis and other Arab Gulf States. These terrible

mistakes by the President must be reversed.

 

please go to http://www.whitehouse.gov

and tell President Bush to end his support for a so-

called " palestinian " state, and to stop arming the terrorist gang

led by arafat's long-time henchman and deputy, the Holocaust Denier

Abu Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen, and to stop supporting the arms deal

that would arm Saudi Arabia and other Arab Gulf States.

 

 

 

In politics one does not usually get very many second chances.

Voters tend to

judge Presidential candidates early on, often by who they pick as

their running

mates once they are nominated, or through other gaffes. In 1972 for

example

George McGovern picked Senator Eagleton as his running mate.

Eagleton, turned

out to have been given shock therapy. McGovern quickly said he was

supporting

Eagleton one thousand percent, shortly before getting Eagleton off

the ticket,

and choosing a new running mate. But the bad first choice of a

running mate

helped to doom the McGovern Presidential campaign.

 

Fred Thompson's choice of Spencer Abraham as his campaign manager

for the 2008

Presidential race makes McGovern's choice of Eagleton look good by

comparison.

 

We like Fred Thompson, and all of the other mainstream Republicans

who are

running for President this year. We do not like any of the Democrats

who are

running for President this year, though we could support a write in

campaign for

Joe Lieberman, or a draft Lieberman campaign on either ticket for

President or

Vice President given the right circumstances. For instance if the

Republicans

picked a Defeatist as its nominee, someone who would cut and run

from Iraq, and

the Democrats picked Lieberman we would support Lieberman over such

a Republican

nominee. We hope that you would too.

 

We like a whole lot about Fred Thompson.

 

for instance, take this new item:

 

" Wednesday, June 06, 2007 by Staff Writer

 

 

Fred Thompson coming to Israel

 

Fred Thompson, US presidential hopeful and former star of the hit

television

series " Law & Order, " is scheduled to make his first visit to Israel

in the

coming days.

 

Thompson, who is said to have a fair chance of winning the Republican

presidential nomination, will meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,

Foreign

Minister Tzipi Livni and various other senior officials during his

tour of

Israel.

 

Of the dozen or so candidates contesting the nomination, Thompson is

among the

most supportive of Israel.

 

The former actor, who has also served as a US senator, bucked popular

international sentiment by insisting in a hard-hitting editorial

column that

Israel has been almost too careful in its war on Palestinian

terrorism.

 

" Israel is at war, " Thompson wrote for the conservative website

Townhall.com.

And the Jewish state has gone to " incredible lengths to stop the war

against

them without harming Palestinian non-combatants. "

 

Thompson is also on record as supporting an Israeli military strike

against Iran

should international diplomacy fail to prevent the Islamic Republic

from

obtaining nuclear arms.

 

.....Thompson was one of the sponsors of the Jerusalem Embassy Act

demanding that

the US government move its embassy to the Israeli capital in

defiance of

Palestinian claims to the city. "

 

source:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178 & nid=12993

 

We were shocked and horrified to hear that Fred Thompson had

selected Spencer

Abraham as his campaign manager. We love Fred Thompson and need your

support to

reach out to Fred Thompson to tell Fred Thompson to Just Say No To

Spencer

Abraham as his campaign manager.

 

We found some material on Spencer Abraham to share with you here.

We hope that you will find it helpful in prompting you to tell Fred

Thompson to

Just Say No to Spencer Abraham as his campaign manager and to just

say no to the

rest of the pro-arabist appeasers out there who do not recognize

that what

President Bush has said is true:

 

" President Bush Discusses Terror Plot Upon Arrival in Wisconsin

Austin Straubel International Airport

Green Bay, Wisconsin

THE PRESIDENT: The recent arrests that our fellow citizens are now

learning

about are a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic

fascists who

will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt

our nation.

 

I want to thank the government of Tony Blair and officials in the

United Kingdom

for their good work in busting this plot. I thank the officials in

Washington,

D.C. and around our country who gather intelligence and who work to

protect the

American people. The cooperation on this venture was excellent --

cooperation

between U.K. and U.S. authorities and officials was solid. And the

cooperation

amongst agencies within our government was excellent.

 

This country is safer than it was prior to 9/11. We've taken a lot

of measures

to protect the American people. But obviously, we're still not

completely safe,

because there are people that still plot and people who want to harm

us for what

we believe in. It is a mistake to believe there is no threat to the

United

States of America. And that is why we have given our officials the

tools they

need to protect our people.

 

Travelers are going to be inconvenienced as a result of the steps

we've taken. I

urge their patience and ask them to be vigilant. The inconvenience

is -- occurs

because we will take the steps necessary to protect the American

people.

 

Again, I appreciate the close cooperation between our government and

the

government of the United Kingdom. The American people need to know

we live in a

dangerous world, but our government will do everything we can to

protect our

people from those dangers.

 

Thank you.

 

 

source:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060810-3.html

 

To quote President Bush's statement above:

" This nation is at war with Islamic fascists. " It is also at war

with arab

racists who want to see arabs as the new Aryans. The Baath Party,

which ran

Iraq, and still runs Syria, was founded in Syria when Syria was a

French colony

and France was under nazi control.

 

Baathism, is pure and simple, nazism repackaged with arabs as the

new Aryans.

 

While we supported President Bush in 2004 and continue to support

the liberation

of Iraq and of Afghanistan the President has made some mistakes. The

Dubai Ports

Deal was one such blunder. Arming arafat's deputy and successor, Abu

Abbas,

a.k.a. Abu Mazen, is another such mistake, as is the proposed arms

deal to

provide weapons to the Saudis and other arab Gulf States.

 

 

When President Bush is right we support him, when he is wrong we

call upon him

to change his mind.

 

Those of us who are opposed to appeasement know that it does no good

for our

cause to have our President bowing and scraping to the appeasers.

 

Whether that President is George W. Bush today or Fred Thompson

tomorrow, we

want a strong President, who is Pro-America and Pro-Israel, not a

President, or

a Presidential candidate who is in bed with the enemies of America

and Israel.

 

URGENT ACTION ITEM:

We have a mixed bag of news about Fred Thompson.

We were very happy that Former Tennesse Senator Fred Thompson,

served on the advisory board of the legal defense fund for Libby,

and urged President Bush

to pardon him. If Fred Thompson enters the race for the Republican

nomination for President in 2008 he may be the odds on favorite to

win that nomination, at least

according to a variety of political observers, and could thus be

well on the way to becoming the next President of the United States.

 

It is refreshing to note that Fred Thompson, who played a prosecutor

on TV's " Law and Order " series, was not taken in by real life

prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

 

" I am very happy for Scooter Libby, " Thompson said. " I know that

this is a great relief to him, his wife and children. This will

allow a good American, who has done a lot for his country, to resume

his life. "

 

 

 

Happily Fred Thompson is not the only person not to be taken in by

real life federal prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. See more on that

issue in

STOP THE COUP.

 

URGENT ACTION ITEM:

We hope that Thompson will also not be taken in by his campaign

manager. In fact

we urge everyone who can do so to DEMAND that Fred Thompson name a

different

campaign manager altogether.

 

" Fred Thompson names anti-Israel ex-senator as campaign manager

 

Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson, who has yet to

officially announce his candidacy, has chosen as his new campaign

manager and ex-senator who is reviled by many within the party for

being soft on Islamic terrorism and an enemy of the Jewish state.

 

As of last week, Thompson's campaign is being run by former Michigan

senator Spencer Abraham, who is best known for his total opposition

to

almost any form of realistic border control between the US and

Mexico.

 

But Abraham, who is a Christian of Lebanese descent, has also carved

out an image of himself as a facilitator and supporter of anti-US and

anti-Israel Islamic fundamentalism.

 

During his one term in the Senate, Spencer was the driving force

behind a bill that granted more than $250 million in US taxpayers'

money to Hizballah-controlled southern Lebanon. Nearly every penny

went into the terror group's pocket.

 

His next move was to exhort American Muslim Association (AMA)

director

Agha Saeed as a positive influence on the US political scene. That

despite the fact that the AMA had recently sponsored events that

incited violence against the Jews and upheld Hizballah and Hamas as

models for Muslims everywhere.

 

In 2000, just months before his electoral defeat and the end of his

short legislative career, Spencer was one of only two senators who

refused to sign an open letter condemning escalating terrorist

attacks

by Yasser Arafat's PLO against Israeli civilians.

 

It was previously reported that Thompson was planning to visit Israel

in the coming months in order to gain more perspective on the Middle

East peace process. That visit, if it still happens, is expected to

take on a whole different tone with Spencer Abraham in charge of

Thompson's schedule. "

source:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178 & nid=13601

 

URGENT ACTION ITEM:

We were also disturbed by a recent Thompson comment broadcast on

CSPAN, which

covered him, in which Thompson came out for religious displays, in

this case a

" creche " , on public property.

 

We hope that Thompson turns out to be " a uniter not a divider " , and

will change

his position on that issue, and support the Strict Constructionist

Constitutional separation of religion from government at all levels.

It should

be recalled that most Americans whose ancestors came voluntarily to

America to

escape religious persecution,which the unity of government and

religion so often

brings with it, seek a nation that is tolerant of all faiths, and

sponsors no

particular faith over any other faith.

URGENT ACTION ITEM:

Contact Fred Thompson and tell him that America needs " a uniter not

a divider " .

 

Contact Fred Thompson's supporters too. To reach Fred Thompson's

supporters with

the message that while we love Fred Thompson we do not want to see

Spencer

Abraham as Fred Thompson's campaign manager. click on the urls below:

 

http://www.imwithfred.com/

 

http://fred08.com/

 

http://draftfredthompson.com/

 

http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.78,filter.all/scholar.asp

as the data at the url above indicates, Fred Thompson is with the AEI

The American Enterprise Institute

1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20036

Main telephone: 202-862-5800

Main fax: 202-862-7177

 

the url below provides contact information for the AEI itself

one can only hope that they would forward material to Fred Thompson

 

http://www.aei.org/about/filter.,contentID.20038142214500071/default.

asp

 

 

if you click on the url below

http://article.nationalreview.com/?

q=ODhhNjIyZGI0OTE1MjA1Njc2Yzg5YTM3Yjg3MzM4NTI\

=

 

you will be taken to this article:

 

" Hamas Does Disney

 

By Fred Thompson

 

Just when you think you've seen just about everything; in this case

I'm talking

about that video of the Palestinian children's show featuring a

costumed Mickey

Mouse character. An awful lot of you have watched this footage,

posted on

websites and then played on television news shows. For the few who

haven't, the

squeaky-voiced Disney icon is shown encouraging Palestinian children

to become

martyrs in the struggle to achieve worldwide domination — starting

with the

destruction of Israel.

 

This message isn't new by the way. The ruling Palestinian party,

Hamas, produces

music videos that encourage the youngest children to become suicide

bombers. The

Hamas website for children is filled with the same hateful

fanaticism.

Public-service announcements on Palestinian television feature a boy

in heaven,

supposedly killed by Israeli soldiers, calling out to other children

to follow

him through martyrdom.

 

We hardly ever hear about this stuff though. What made the Mickey

Mouse video go

viral, to use the Internet term, was its use of an image we're all

familiar

with. We know Mickey Mouse as a symbol of childhood happiness and

innocence.

It's shocking to see this image used to encourage children to become

terrorists.

 

It's even more shocking given the current political situation. The

Palestinian

people are suffering badly right now. The flow of international aid

to them has

been slowed — because their government refuses even to pretend it

will stop

trying to destroy Israel.

 

Nevertheless, support has been growing in the U.N. and Europe for

restoring

financial aid. The two competing Palestinian factions, Hamas and

Fatah, had

agreed to stop killing one another and get back on message — blaming

Israel.

Once again, the international press was parroting the notion that

Palestinian

violence is caused by Israel's security fence and border

checkpoints. The tide

seemed to be turning.

 

So, naturally, somebody decided it was the perfect time to launch a

murderous

new kid's show. Some people never miss an opportunity to miss an

opportunity.

 

But the Internet has changed things in good ways and bad. In the old

days,

Yasser Arafat could condemn terrorism in English and promise more

attacks in

Arabic — and almost no one would hear about it. In this new age, one

subtitled

video posted to the web can get the world's attention and trigger

international

repercussions.

 

That's a good thing but, of course, the same technology can also be

used for

evil. According to press reports, the six New Jersey terror plotters

were

immersed in extremist videos and propaganda from pro-jihad websites.

Their

message of hatred is so powerful and widespread that it persuaded

grown men,

living in the United States, to give up their own lives to murder

Americans.

 

Think how much more effective this type of propaganda must be when

it is aimed

at children. Now think about an entire generation of Palestinians,

Pakistanis,

Iranians, and others — saturated with this message their whole

lives. That's the

real message we should take from that Mickey Mouse video. "

 

at that same url is a link you can click on labeled E-mail Author

presumably you can email Fred Thompson using that link

If you do we hope that you will tell him to remove Spencer Abraham

as his

campaign manager and to remove Spencer Abraham from his campaign

altogether.

 

 

Another real life federal prosecutor, GOP presidential candidate and

former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said: " After evaluating the

facts, the president came to a reasonable decision and I believe the

decision was correct. "

 

Predictably the appeasers were vocal in their criticism of President

Bush's brave

decision in the Libby case.

 

 

 

The piece below includes a mention of Spencer Abraham and others.

It is by an ally in the war against the appeasers.

 

" Hezbollah has Friend Close to White House

 

Terrorist allies of al-Qaida supported by billionaire

booster of Bush,Powell

 

December 12, 2002

By Joseph Farah

WorldNetDaily.com

 

 

Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shi'ite jihadist group

based in Lebanon, is on

the U.S. State Department list of international

terrorist organizations.

 

Just yesterday, Canada officially added Hezbollah to

its list of 14

terrorist groups banned from operating in the country.

 

According to intelligence experts, Hezbollah maintains

an operational

alliance with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror

network.

 

Hezbollah remains the prime suspect in the truck

bombing of the Marine

barracks in Lebanon in 1983 - a terrorist attack that

killed 243.

 

Immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United

States, Hezbollah's Al

Manar Television celebrated the events by replaying

footage of the Sabra and

Shatilla refugee camps in 1982 along with inflammatory

speeches by the

group's leader, Hasan Nasrallah, warning America's day

of judgment would

come. Yet, a man with close financial and personal

ties to the Bush

administration continues to use his influence to push

for the dropping of

Hezbollah from the terrorist list and calls the group

" a resistance party

fighting the Israeli occupation. "

 

That man in the middle is Issam Fares, deputy prime

minister of Lebanon, a

self-made billionaire and a close associate of Maj.

General Ghazi Kanaan,

head of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon and the man

known as the " kingmaker "

in a small country dominated by Syria's occupying

military forces.

 

" It is a mistake to make a comparison between the

al-Qaida network ... and

Hezbollah, " Fares told Agence France-Presse last year.

" Hezbollah did not

carry out any resistance operation against American

interests in Lebanon or

abroad and did not target civilians in its resistance

activities as happened

on Sept. 11 at the World Trade Center. "

 

Fares, through his son, Nijad, a permanent resident

alien of the U.S., and

his U.S.-based businesses, has contributed heavily to

the senatorial

campaigns of now Department of Energy Secretary

Spencer Abraham. The family

also contributed $100,000 to the Bush inaugural. And

Fares sponsored a

speech by Secretary of State Colin Powell at Tufts

University for a reported

$59,000.

 

Fares oversees a worldwide, diversified conglomerate

of oil, real estate and

media interests. In 2000, he became deputy prime

minister of Lebanon.

 

The family's main U.S. business holding is the

Houston-based Wedge Group, a

big player in the oil services industry headed by

William White, the former

No. 2 official at the Energy Department during the

Clinton administration.

 

That the Fares family is attempting to buy influence

in high places in the

United States seems self-evident.

 

" Arab-Americans must substantially increase

contributions to political

candidates, " wrote Nijad Fares in an opinion page

article for the Detroit

News, Dec, 16, 1996. " Even modest contributions help

ensure that members of

Congress and their staffs take phone calls and are

more responsive to

requests. Furthermore, the contributor must make

explicit an interest in

Middle East-related issues. "

 

The connection between the Fares family and the Bush

family precedes the

current administration. After leaving office in 1993,

President George H.W.

Bush received a $100,000 speaking fee from Fares. He

also made a trip around

the Persian Gulf in Fares' private jet with the

Lebanese businessman by his

side. Former Secretary of State James Baker also

received a $100,000

speaking fee.

 

When the news of Fares' support of the inauguration

broke in the Jerusalem

Post in 2000, Fares said he was happy with the " noble

relationship " between

himself and the Bush family.

 

" If the Zionist lobby and those revolving in its orbit

are displeased with

this relationship, it's their own business, " he told

the paper. " Anyway,

envy is a killer. "

 

Beirut's Daily Star reported last year that Fares has

cultivated a network

of connections with senior American officials that

" would make most people

blush with envy. "

 

It's not unusual that a man of means like Fares would

find friends in high

places in America. But it is Fares' allies in Lebanon

- from Hezbollah to

Kanaan - that make those connections shocking to some.

 

" Kanaan is the man who protects, assists and harbors

most terrorists and

terror-related organizations in Lebanon, " explains

Nagi Najjar, the

spokesman for the Government of Lebanon in Exile, a

group fighting for

independence from Syria. And, Hezbollah, he says, is

" the father of all

terrorism. "

 

He charges that Hezbollah has sleeper cells planted

around the world with a

mission to target Jewish and U.S. interests.

 

" Hezbollah is to the Shiaa Muslim world what al-Qaida

is to the Sunni Muslim

world, " he says. " They're a bunch of murderers

structured in a terrorist,

military organization, financed, trained and

manipulated by Syria and Iran.

This terrorist organization must be neutralized,

dismantled and all its

leadership arrested on charges of terrorism and

subversion. Southern Lebanon

has been transformed into a major terror base whose

sole objective is to

torpedo, with the consent of other terror regimes in

the area, any U.S.

peace initiative in the Middle East. "

 

Najjar counters Fares' claim that Hezbollah is a local

resistance movement

by citing the group's actions in hijacking planes, the

bombing of the Marine

barracks, the bombing of the U.S. and French

embassies, the kidnapping of

foreign nations, including CIA operative William

Buckley, and a bombing in

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

According to the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin,

Kanaan has the power to

order the arrest and indefinite detention of anyone in

the country. He is

deeply immersed in narcotics production and

trafficking in the Bekaa Valley

and oversees counterfeiting and other illegal

activities that have made him

a wealthy man. He reportedly holds great sway over all

terrorist groups

operating in Lebanon and all militia groups.

 

" He is the most feared man in Lebanon, " wrote Daniel

Nassif.

 

Fares called on Washington to remove Hezbollah from

its terrorist list Nov.

10, 2001. A day later, Hezbollah chief Nasrallah

called on the international

community to oppose the U.S. operation in Afghanistan

and said its purpose

was to establish " American hegemony " over the world.

 

Bush and Powell have both praised Fares and denounced

questions raised about

his influence in Washington.

 

Fares' companies around the world employ about 70,000

people and boast

revenues in excess of $4 billion, according to his

website. In 1987, his

company increased its holdings in TVX Broadcast Group

of Virginia Beach, the

largest owner of independent television stations in

the United States

reaching about 15 percent of U.S. households. Federal

law prohibits foreign

investors from controlling more than 20 percent of the

voting stock of

broadcast licensees.

 

 

Joseph Farah is editor and chief executive officer of

WorldNetDaily "

 

 

 

This next piece dates back to the 2000 election.

In that election we supported Al Gore, who was then a friend of

Israel and an

enemy of terrorism, and who had chosen an even bigger friend of

Israel and an

even bigger enemy of terrorism: Joe Lieberman as his running mate.

This was

before Al Gore went crazy, grew a beard and shaved it off, got so

fat he himself

said he could no longer put his wedding ring on, and effectively

divorced

himself from Israel and from America by opposing the liberation of

Iraq.

 

It was also before September 11th, 2001 which marked a real turn

around for

President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

 

In 2000 George W. Bush was a very different person from the

President he became

on September 11th, 2001.

 

Bush-Gore Presidential Debate October 12th,2000 " MR. BUSH: there is

other forms of racial profiling that goes on in America. Arab

Americans are racially profiled on what's called secret evidence.

People are stopped. And we got to do something about that. My friend

Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan is pushing a law to make sure

that, you know, Arab Americans are treated with respect. "

 

Spencer Abraham's name pops up again in the next piece:

 

 

" Terror

suspects San Antonio Express-News 07/11/2002 From their jail cells,

two of three

men accused by a stripper of threatening to blow up local military

bases said

Wednesday they had no idea how they wound up embroiled in a high-

profile

terrorism investigation. Ribhi Abdalla and his cousin, Jadallah

Abdalla, both of

Palestinian descent, spent their second day in jail after failing to

post a bond

of $2 million each.

Ribhi, 25, (is) a naturalized American citizen from (the region of

Judea and Samaria).

 

 

The cousins and their friend, Makram Hijaz, 20, of

Mesquite, were arrested at the XTC Cabaret late Monday and charged

with making terroristic threats against a public service, namely San

Antonio's military bases, a third degree felony punishable by up to

10 years in

prison.

 

 

A stripper told police the men claimed they were

going to wage " holy war " by carrying out the work of the Sept. 11

terrorists.

 

 

" I don't want to undermine (the Police Department's)

case " said an FBI special agent based in San Antonio. " We take all

threats seriously at this point and time, for obvious reasons. " A

spokeswoman for the San Antonio Police Department said. " We're not

just going to write up a report and then throw it away " Jim Kopp,

chief of the Bexar County District Attorney's intake division, said

the men's bonds did not appear excessive, given the seriousness of

the

allegations.

 

 

(The stripper) said you have a nice accent and she asked

where we are from, " said Jadallah Abdalla, 21. " The cousins said the

FBI and police interrogated them Tuesday about possible terrorist

connections. Ribhi, the older cousin said he was somewhat concerned

that so many inmates seemed to know about his charge. No one's

threatened him, he said, but at least one has asked point blank if he

was a terrorist. Jadallah Abdalla immigrated from Ramallah 17 months

ago. " 07/11/2002

http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?

xla=saen & xlb=180 & xlc=755195 & xld

0

" Kiareldeen, 31, a Palestinian immigrant, was released Monday night

after a

19-month sojourn in two New Jersey jails. He had been detained on

the basis of

secret evidence alleging that he had links to terrorists, including

one of the

men convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.. Among other

things, they

said, they proved that Kiareldeen was not politically active or an

observant

Muslim, as those convicted in the bombings were, and even frequented

go-go bars

when he was single. This became known, Fernandez said jokingly,

as " the go-go

bar defense. " A spokesman for Senator Spencer Abraham, Republican of

Michigan,

said he was pursuing discussions with the Justice Department about

" administrative changes " in the use of secret evidence. "

http://www.nlg.org/nip/news/secretevidence.html

http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2000/kiareldeen.html

http://www.adc.org/press/1999/26Oct99.htm

http://www.house.gov/judiciary/kiar0523.htm

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/1999/October/502ins.htm

http://www.arabinfo.org/news1.html

 

Lest we forget, it is our opinion that the most likely nominee for

the Democrats

in 2008 will be John Edwards, or is it Jon Edwards? Democrats have

won the

White House with Harry S. Truman, a " white " Southern man from

Missouri, in 1948,

with Lyndon Baines Johnson, a " white " Southern man from Texas in

1964, with Jimmy

Carter, a " white " Southern man from Georgia in 1976, with Bill

Clinton, a " white " Southern

man from Arkansas in 1992 and 1996, and Democrats got more popular

votes than

Republicans for the Presidency in 2000 with Al Gore, a " white "

Southern man from Tennessee.

 

John Edwards, or is it Jon Edwards, is a " white " Southern man who

served in the US Senate from North Carolina, and was born in South

Carolina. We will be shocked if Edwards is

not the person picked by the Democrats as the 2008 Presidential

nominee.

 

We also think Edwards will win the White House against any

Republican currently in the race, and against any Republican who

might get into the race: i.e. against Fred Thompson and or against

Newt Gingrich.

 

We think it would be a disaster for America, for Israel, and for the

world if Edwards won the 2008 Presidential election and hope that

with your help Edwards can be exposed before he becomes the next

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Please help us to stop Edwards by exposing him. Please Google the

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" John Edwards's Left-Hand Man David Bonior isn't your typical

campaign manager—a member of Congress for a quarter century, whose

voting record lines up to the left of his candidate.

By Arian Campo-Flores

Newsweek

March 13, 2007 - Gearing up for his second presidential run, John

Edwards picked an unconventional campaign manager. Rather than

choosing a behind-the-scenes staffer, he selected David Bonior, a

Michigan Democrat who served 26 years in the U.S. House of

Representatives (1976-2002) and earned a reputation as his party's

pit bull for the aggressive posture he took with the GOP. He and

Edwards are similar in some ways (both were the sons of blue-collar

workers and were college-football players), but Bonior looks more

liberal on paper than Edwards does. And with his long voting record,

he may offer an attractive target for his boss's political

opponents. " source:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17596069/site/newsweek/

 

" The Friends of Our Foes

Jewish World Review Sept. 15, 2000 /14 Elul, 5760

Jonathan Tobin

The Arab lobby gears up to punish pro-Israel politicians

in the latest issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

The Washington Report is a glossy monthly that serves as the

guidebook to the Arabist lobby in the United States.

The Washington Report specializes in defaming Israel. But far from

being the product of fringe Islamic fundamentalists, it is written

and published by a Washington, D.C., outfit that is staffed by

former U.S. foreign-service officers who haven't stopped hating

Israel even though they are no longer on the federal payroll. As

such, it is a must-read for friends of Israel who want a reliable

indicator of the thinking of the anti-Israel crowd.

One of the most noteworthy features of the magazine is an election-

year report card on Congress that evaluates members of the Senate

and the House on hostility to Israel and related causes. In other

words, if you want to know who is on the list of good guys and bad

guys for Israel, all you have to do is look at the pro-Arab

crowd's " Hall of Fame " and " Hall of Shame. "

ANTI-ISRAEL LITMUS TESTS

The 535 House and Senate members were evaluated on, among other

issues, the following: opposition to the use of anti-Semitic

propaganda in the Palestinian media and textbooks; opposition to

asking the Palestinian Authority and Syria about the whereabouts of

missing Israeli soldiers and linking aid to that issue; support for

Palestinian statehood prior to the achievement of a peace agreement;

support for a bill prohibiting the use of intelligence on terrorism

for evaluating immigration cases (as in supporters of Hamas who are

liable to deportation); the signing of a letter opposing commutation

of the sentence of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard; opposition to

moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; and

opposition to sanctions on rogue nations like Libya and Iraq.

As far as the Arab lobby is concerned, the more members of Congress

opposed anti-Semitism and terrorism and/or were willing to support

Israel, the less The Washington Report liked them.

WHO ARE THEIR HEROES?

Chief among the members of The Washington Report's " Hall of Fame " is

Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich. Bonior's animus for Israel is no

surprise, given the large number of Arab-Americans in his Detroit-

area district. It is ominous .... "

"

Among the other anti-Israel House favorites are John Conyers, D-

Mich.; John Dingell, D-Mich.; Amos Houghton, R-New York; Jesse

Jackson Jr., D-Ill.; John Lewis, D-Ga.; Jim McDermott, D-Wash.;

Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga.; Ron Paul, R-Texas; John Sununnu, R-N.H.;

and Maxine Waters, D-Calif.

In the case of Jackson and Sununu (sons of their famous namesakes),

the anti-Israel apple didn't fall far from the tree.

The Washington Report's favorite senators are Spencer Abraham, R-

Mich.; Robert Byrd, D-W.V.; Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I.; Chuck Hagel, R-

Neb.; Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Charles Robb, D-Va.; Strom Thurmond, R-

S.C.; and Paul Wellstone, D-Minn.

While nobody should be surprised at the high marks given ex-klansmen

Byrd and Thurmond, the pro-Arab ranking of Wellstone may surprise

some, since he is one of the Senate's 11 Jews. Wellstone, is,

however, also the far-left Tikkun magazine's idea of a good

politician, and thus way out of the pro-Israel mainstream.

The Arabist " Hall of Shame " included Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y.; Peter

Deutsch, D-Fla.; Michael Forbes, D-N.Y.; Bob Franks, R-N.J.; Sue

Kelly, R-N.Y.; Rick Lazio, R-N.Y.; Nita Lowey, D-N.Y.; Jerold

Nadler, D-N.Y.; Ileana Ross-Letinen, R-Fla.; Matt Salmon, R-Ariz.;

Jim Saxton, R-N.J.; and Brad Sherman, D-Calif.

Only four of the House's 23 Jews made it to the list: Deutsch,

Lowey, Nadler and Sherman.

While both parties are well-represented on both sides of the ledger,

it's worth noting that two of the Republican Party's most notable

challengers for the Senate made it to The Washington

Report's " shame " list: Bob Franks, who is facing an uphill battle

against billionaire financier Democrat Jon Corzine in New Jersey;

and Rick Lazio, who is the man who hopes to defeat Hillary Clinton

in her bid for a New York Senate seat.

Surprisingly, of the Senate's 11 Jews, only one, Philadelphian Arlen

Specter, R-Pa., made it to the Arabist " Hall of Shame. " He was

joined there by Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Connie Mack, R-

Fla. .... "

 

" ...September issue also provided a chart showing just how much pro-

Israel PAC money each member of their halls of " fame " and " shame "

received.

Their chart illustrated the fact that the pro-Israel community is

often far more interested in backing long-time incumbents and

legislators in leadership positions -- no matter what their policies

on key issues -- than anything else.

Thus, anti-Israel stalwarts such as David Bonior and Robert Byrd got

big bucks from friends of Israel despite their awful records.

On the other end of the spectrum, while some of the good guys were

rewarded by friends of Israel, that wasn't true in every case.

Specter received $366,123 in pro-Israel money, but, put together,

the pro-Israel PAC contributions received by Lazio, Franks, Kelly

and Salmon did not equal the amount Bonior got! Pro-Israel sentiment

from those backbenchers apparently isn't as valued by some people as

much as Bonior's leadership position. "

source: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/tobin091500.asp

 

 

Pelosi donated $5,000 to McKinney

" [ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 8/3/02 ]

" Some McKinney donors probed for terror ties By BILL TORPY

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer Rep. Cynthia McKinney is

backed by many Islamic individuals and groups. Rep. Cynthia

McKinney's re-election campaign has accepted contributions from

several people who have come under federal investigation for

suspected

links to Middle Eastern terrorists or have voiced support for

extremist groups. The outspoken DeKalb County Democrat, a frequent

critic of U.S. Middle East policy, has long drawn Arab and Muslim

financial support.

 

Most of McKinney's individual donors listed on

disclosure reports in 2001 and this year have Arabic names and live

out of state. According to a review of federal campaign disclosure

records, they include:

Abdurahman Alamoudi, leader of a Muslim organization, who during a

2000 rally outside the White House expressed support for the violent

Palestinian group Hamas and for Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite party

linked to bombings.....A professor who

was

jailed in 1998 on contempt charges for refusing to answer a grand

jury's questions about alleged money-laundering links to Hamas. Five

businessmen whose homes or businesses were searched in March during

an

FBI raid investigating financial links to terrorism. Another was an

officer in one of the groups under investigation, according to

Federal

Election Commission reports.....The McKinney

campaign reported most of those contributions as having come Sept.

11,

the date of the terror attacks in New York and Washington. FEC

spokeswoman Kelly Huff said the date listed on disclosure reports is

supposed to be, by law, the date the campaign received the money. But

FEC officials said it was up to the campaign to document the proper

date.....McKinney caused a tempest

earlier this year by suggesting President Bush knew the Sept. 11

attacks were coming but did nothing so his associates could make

money

in the ensuing war. And last October, she also caused controversy for

apologizing to a Saudi prince whose $10 million donation for terror

victims was rejected by New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The prince

had laid part of the blame for the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. policy.

 

The following week, McKinney collected $32,150 in a fund-raiser, her

best fund-raising day in 2001.

 

McKinney's support for Arab causes is well known. The Council on

American-Islamic Relations, an Islamic advocacy group whose director

was named on the Sept. 11 listing as giving McKinney $500, recently

asked members to support her. " She is our strategic choice. Pro-

Muslim

candidate. Supporter of (so-called) " palestinian state for over

seven years.

Against secret evidence. Against aid to Israel. "

Steven Emerson, who runs a private counterterrorist institute in

Washington, called McKinney's contributors " the A list of militant

Islamic front groups. " Two years ago, Emerson warned a Senate

committee about increasing terrorist activity in America, sometimes

in

the name of charity. Alamoudi, the president of the American Muslim

Foundation who expressed support for Hamas and Hezbollah, gave the

maximum allowable contribution of $2,000....Alamoudi did not return

phone calls seeking comment. Another donor,

Abdelhaleem Ashqar, now a Howard University professor, who gave $250,

was jailed for six months in 1998 after refusing to testify before a

federal grand jury investigating money laundering in the United

States

by Hamas.

 

Ashqar told the grand jury that he would not testify...Six of

McKinney's donors were officers with companies and

organizations that are under investigation.

On March 20 and 21, Treasury agents served warrants on the Herndon

Va.-based Saar Foundation, Safa Trust, the International Institute of

Islamic Thought and 13 other locations. The groups are part of a

Saudi-based financial empire that U.S. investigators say has handled

$1.7 billion since the mid-1990s, allegedly sending some of it to

groups that authorities have linked to terrorists, The Washington

Post reported....Listed as McKinney donors on Sept. 11 are M. Yaqub

Mirza, Mohamed

Omeish and Ahmad Totonji.

Federal agents in March searched the offices of Mirza, who

contributed

$500.

 

The former president of Saar, Mirza was the central figure in

the interlocking multinational corporations being investigated. He is

the president of Mar-Jac, which includes investment firms and a North

Georgia poultry plant, which also was searched in March. He did not

return phone calls seeking comment.

Omeish is president of Success Foundation, a refugee relief

organization whose office was searched in March. He is listed as

having given $500.

 

Omeish said investigators returned computers taken

from his office. Totonji, founder of Saar and the IIIT, gave $1,000.

Federal agents carted away numerous computers from his offices in the

March raid.

 

Two weeks later, on Sept. 26, Jamal Barzinji, Taha

Alalwani of Herndon, Va., and Hisham Al Talib of California all gave

$500 to McKinney's campaign, according to FEC records. Barzinji, a

business associate of Mirza's, is also president of Mar-Jac Poultry

in

Gainesville. Alalwani is a founder of the IIIT and Al Talib, was the

treasurer for Safa and the IIIT vice president. "

Pelosi donated $5,000 to McKinney

Father of Ousted McKinney Spells Defeat `J-E-W-S'

By ELI KINTISCH

FORWARD STAFF

ATLANTA — The father of Rep. Cynthia McKinney is blaming Jews for

her defeat in Georgia's Democratic primary, but observers said that

Tuesday's outcome had less to do with dueling donations from pro-

Israel and pro-Palestinian activists than with high Republican

turnout in the open primary and tepid support from black voters and

congressmen.....her father, civil-rights stalwart and DeKalb County

community

leader Billy McKinney, pointed a finger at her pro-Israel critics.

When asked by a local television reporter what the election had

hinged on, he responded: " J-E-W-S. "

 

In a press release, Anti-Defamation League southeast director

Deborah Lauter condemned Billy McKinney's remark, calling

it " classic anti-Semitism. " He caused a similar stir in 1996 after

calling his daughter's opponent a " racist Jew, " ....Among leaders of

mainstream Jewish groups, McKinney was considered a

more controversial member of Congress than other black lawmakers on

the left. Along with her support of the Palestinian cause, McKinney

refused in 1994 to condemn a fiery speech by a Nation of Islam

spokesman, the late Khalid Muhammed. More recently, she also

infuriated otherwise indifferent Republicans in her district when

she suggested that President Bush might have known about September

11 before it happened, and possibly profited from it.

 

 

Last October, after New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani returned a $10

million gift to the city from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after

the prince criticized Israel in published comments, McKinney issued

a public letter supporting the prince, asking that he donate the

money to black charities.

 

In May, along with Hilliard, McKinney was one of 5 of the 36 voting

members of the Congressional Black Caucus to oppose a pro-Israel

resolution that put the bulk of the blame for the conflict on the

Palestinians. McKinney said the measure would " undermine America's

vital role as peacemaker " ...Democratic institutional support for

McKinney, who has been a solid member of the Democratic caucus in

the House, was weak. In the Hilliard race the Democratic

Congressional Campaign Committee took much heat for its financial

support of the five-term incumbent, with some asking why the

committee was using resources on a solidly Democratic district. In

this race, the committee, whose function is to help increase the

Democratic ranks in the House, stayed out.

 

The committee declined to comment on the McKinney race, but Rangel,

who donated $5,000 to her campaign, said: " Some Republicans and

Democrats support incumbents, and others don't. " Rangel is board

chair of the committee.

Democratic House Whip Nancy Pelosi of California also donated $5,000

to McKinney's effort.

 

National Jewish Democratic Committee executive director Ira Forman

declined to comment on Pelosi's funding. But a Jewish Republican

activist slammed Democratic support of McKinney.

" For the Democrats and the NJDC and other groups to remain silent is

an abdication of their responsibility, " the activist said. Pelosi's

office did not return a call for comment. "

http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.08.23/news2.html

Pelosi donated $5,000 to McKinney

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Pelosi donated $5,000 to McKinney

The issue of Democratic conflicts over Israel policy took center

stage

last month, when the House voted 352 to 21, with 29 members voting

" present, " for a pro-Israel resolution sponsored by Majority Whip Tom

DeLay (R-Tex.) and Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.). Many of those voting

" present " were expressing their unwillingness to support a resolution

that strongly endorsed Israel while condemning " the ongoing support

and coordination of terror by Yasser Arafat and other members of the

Palestinian leadership. "

 

Of the 50 " no " and " present " votes, 44 were cast by Democrats and six

by Republicans. More significantly, five of the most senior Democrats

voted against the resolution, including Democratic whip David E.

Bonior (Mich.), and four members in line to become committee chairmen

if Democrats win back the House: David R. Obey (Wis.), John D.

Dingell

(Mich.), George Miller (Calif.) and John Conyers Jr. (Mich.).

[...]

The vote also forced to the surface long-standing tensions between

the

Jewish and black communities. Of the 37 members of the Congressional

Black Caucus, a total of 17 either voted no on DeLay-Lantos (4),

voted

present (8) or did not vote at all (5).

Two black Democratic House members, Earl F. Hilliard (Ala.) and

Cynthia McKinney (Ga.), have become lightning rods in the Jewish

community, and their primary challengers are raising hundreds of

thousands of dollars from Jewish supporters determined to defeat the

two incumbents because of statements they have made.

Not to mention her father's notorious remarks. This piece from 1996

fairly

covers, however, anti-Semitism on both sides of the aisle. There's

enough to

go round. Bonior, on the other hand, is significant, particularly

because he's

so consistently wobbly on Israel. http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/

 

" Five congressional aides from the House of Representatives left

Friday on an independent fact-finding mission to Iraq. ADC, one of

the

co-sponsors of the delegation, applauds the five members of Congress

whose aides are participating in the delegation. *** The

congressional

offices participating in the delegation are: Rep.Danny K. Davis

(D-IL), Rep. Sam Gejdenson (D-CT), Rep. Earl F. Hilliard (D-AL), Rep.

Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), and Rep. Bernard Sanders (I-VT).

McKinney and Davis are members of the House International Relations

Committee; Gejdenson is the Ranking Minority Member. The

congressional

staffers are accompanied by Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for

Policy

Studies "

http://www.cin.org/archives/al-bushra/199908/0036.html.

" The caucus would not provide a full list of the corporate donors

here. But a partial list included Philip Morris, the tobacco giant;

Anheuser- Busch, the brewing company;

Entergy, the energy company; Lockheed Martin, the defense contractor;

Household Finance, the consumer- credit company, and the American

Gaming Association, which represents the casino industry. "

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0827-02.htm

 

" Mr. Thompson, the event's host, said the two casinos that helped

underwrite the weekend, the Horseshoe and the Grand, had each pledged

$50,000 in services and cash donations, which allowed them to call

themselves platinum sponsors of the event. Gold donors pledged

$25,000, while silver donors promised $10,000. A similar fund-raising

event here last summer raised $500,000 for the caucus. As he took a

seat in the Horseshoe's hospitality suite, Representative Earl F.

Hilliard of Alabama, whose district is listed as the seventh poorest

in the country, said that he saw a soft-money ban as " a threat to my

continued service in the Congress. "

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0827-02.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This next piece, which also mentions Spencer Abraham, reminds us of

the movie :

TRADING PLACES, in which , well why spoil the story, see the movie

if you have

not seen it already. Suffice it to say that

in that movie , well, go see it.

 

We wish that Al Gore's feelings for Israel and for America had

withstood the

test of the horrible blow to Gore's psyche that not being able to be

sworn in as

President of the United States on January 20th, 2001 must have been.

 

We think that Al Gore went insane after the Supreme Court ordered a

halt to the

Florida recount in December of 2000. We think George W. Bush stole

that

election, but in retrospect, considering how the loss of the

Presidency we

believe Al Gore really won that year, as he was cheated out of the

electoral

votes of Florida, evidently caused Al Gore to go insane it seems to

have been

better for America, for Israel, and for the world that George W.

Bush did steal

that election. In the nuclear age we cannot afford to have a person

who would

crack under pressure, as Al Gore evidently has, as President of the

United

States.

 

When reading this next piece keep in mind that it was written in

2000, before Al

Gore was cheated out of the Presidency, before Al Gore lost his

mind. Before Al

Gore's true feelings of hatred for Israel and for America came out.

 

 

Anyone who would oppose the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein

implicity was

endorsing the continuation of the paying by Saddam Hussein of

$25,000 to the

familes of genocide bombers for the murder of Jews. When Al Gore

chose to oppose

the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein he was implicitly saying

yes to more

such payments to the families of those genocide bombers. Al Gore was

saying:

" DEATH TO THE JEWS " just as surely as any terrorist would. Anyone

who opposed

the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein is saying the very same

thing.

 

 

 

 

" Gore's true feelings of friendship for Israel have withstood the

test of time. "

On March 3rd 2000 Jerusalem Post Washington correspondent Janine

Zacharia wrote:

" [Gore] is the clear-cut Jewish favorite in the upcoming presidential

elections. " American Jewish commentators are equally outspoken about

George W.

Bush's almost total lack of support among Jewish voters.

 

 

Highly respected columnist J.J. Goldberg wrote in the Jewish Week of

New York on

March 3rd,2000 " Hardcore hawks make up about

10 percent of the Jewish vote. Bush won't draw even them, given his

family name. " And Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said in a March

23 seminar of Orthodox Jewish leaders that the Jewish vote for Bush

" could be pretty bad. The only question is whether Bush will do

better or worse

than his Dad. "

 

 

 

Kristol added that if Gore picked an Orthodox Jew like Sen. Joseph

Lieberman as

his vice presidential running mate, " it will be truly unbelievable

how small

Bush's Jewish vote will be. " As for the candidates themselves, Gore

told the

Council of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations this

year,(2000),

that (on) moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, his

personal views

" are the same as yours. "

 

 

Bush has changed his answer on relocating the U.S.Embassy from a vow

to move it

immediately upon assuming office to saying he would not do or say

anything to

hurt the peace process. When he speaks of America's wealth of

religious

institutions, he refers to them as " the synagogues, churches, and

mosques of

America. " Picking which candidate to support should be easy.

 

 

What Difference Does It Make? In a very close election, as it

appears this one

will be, if nearly all of the Muslim- and Christian Arab-American

votes are cast

as a bloc in the United States, that bloc vote probably will

determine which

candidate Other states where the Muslim vote can be very influential

are Texas,

Florida, Virginia and Pennsylvania.

 

 

 

If Muslim voters demonstrate the discipline this year to turn out

their

communities to vote as a bloc, the United States will never again be

the same

U.S. South Asia policy may also be liberated from the current strong

influence

of the Israel-Indian alliance, as will U.S. policy toward Iran and

probably

Iraq. "

 

 

" Guided by Sen. Spencer Abraham, himself a Lebanese-American, the

Bush team has

been courting the Arab-American vote assiduously. Bush foreign-

affairs adviser

Condoleezza Rice met with Arab-American groups in the Detroit area

two weeks

ago;

 

 

Mr. Bush himself met with AAPAC members a day later. " Bush clearly

is a man who

listens, " says Abed Hammoud, president of AAPAC (the Arab-American

Political

Action Committee) " . While Vice President Gore has done all he can to

fight arab

terrorists " In 1996, in the wake of the TWA 800 disaster, President

Clinton

asked Mr. Gore to chair a White House Commission on Aviation and

Security. The

Gore commission adopted several recommendations for heightened

security,including a Computer Assisted Passenger Screening system to

weed out

possible terrorists. " (source " Gore's Arab-American Problem How

the " racial

profiling " issue might help Bush win Michigan. BY THOMAS J.BRAY Mr.

Bray is a

staff columnist at the Detroit News. His OpinionJournal.com column

appears

Tuesdays. Tuesday, October 17, 2000)

 

 

 

" Bush forces are ecstatic over the endorsement they won Sunday from

the Arab-American Political Action Committee. " " The AAPAC endorsement

wasn't cemented until a few days later. In the second debate Mr. Bush

made several points that may have gone over the heads of most

Americans but struck home forcefully in places like Dearborn- Mr.

Bush went out

of his way to stress the importance of talking to " moderate " Arab

nations like

Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Second and even more

decisive was Mr.

Bush's deft handling of an extended discussion of hate-crime

legislation. Mr.

Gore placed nearly all of his focus on the need to protect African-

Americans,

the vast majority of whom are sure to vote Democratic.

 

 

Mr. Bush, by contrast, went out of his way to add Arab-Americans to

the

equation. Other forms of racial profiling go on in America, Mr. Bush

noted:

" Arab-Americans are

profiled in what's called secret evidence. People are stopped, and we

got to do something about that. My friend, Sen. Spence Abraham, is

pushing a law to make sure that Arab-Americans are treated with real

respect. " Though the answer conflated two different

issues-law-enforcement profiling and the use of secret evidence to

deny entry to immigrants suspected of having terrorist ties-the

sentiment behind the response drew thunderous applause from

Arab-Americans.

 

 

" When he said that, I turned to my wife and said,

'Bush just won Michigan,' " David Mack, vice president of the Middle

East Institute, a Washington think tank, told the Detroit Free Press.

And sure enough, the 100-member board of AAPAC voted almost

unanimously to endorse Mr. Bush. " The (Nearly) Barefoot " Crusader "

" Bush visited a mosque and bought coffee for a cafeteria full of

aides on Monday

as he appealed to Americans to get back to everyday business and not

turn

against their Muslim neighbors. In his socks, as is Muslim practice,

Bush padded

through the ornate mosque on Washington's Embassy Row and heard

stories from his

hosts about Muslim-American women afraid to leave their homes for

fear of

prejudiced backlash after last week's terrorist strikes. "

http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2001/09/17/bush_mosque/

 

" Edwards and Israel: Word that a 2008 presidential aspirant, John

Edwards, has tapped a former House minority whip, David Bonior, to

manage his campaign has the pro-Israel lobby cooling on the former

Democratic senator's likely run.

 

The Associated Press yesterday reported that Mr. Edwards had tapped

Mr. Bonior, who retired as a Democratic representative from Michigan

in 2002, to manage his campaign if he chooses to run.

 

Mr. Bonior, however, earned a reputation in Congress as one of the

least friendly members toward Israel. In 2002, for example, he was

one of 21 lawmakers in the House to vote against House Resolution

292 expressing solidarity for the Jewish state after a year of

bloody terrorist attacks. "

SOURCE: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=806827

 

 

" Bush's Big Blunder - [meeting with heads of American Islamic groups

that support terror] " The president of the Council on American-

Islamic

relations, Nihad Awad, who attended the session with Mr. Bush, said,

'We thank " (Bush) Daniel Pipes, a former Reagan administration Middle

East aide who now runs the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia and the

wonderfully informative Web site DanielPipes.org: Mr. Pipes says:

" CAIR is a particularly worrisome organization because it has

succeeded in portraying itself as a public affairs organization

promoting 'interest and understanding among the general public with

regards to Islam and Muslims in North America.' In fact, this

organization is radical to the core; it seeks nothing less than the

imposition of Islamist mores on the United States. "

 

 

 

Mr. Pipes notes that CAIR's record includes the

following: " Apologizing for such

killers as Hamas (a group associated with the murder of 7 Americans)

and Usama bin Ladin (charged with the Tanzania and Kenya embassy

bombings a year ago). . . . Helping promote terrorism: In the words

of Steve

Pomerantz, a former Chief of Counter-terrorism for the FBI,

'CAIR, its leaders, and its activities, effectively give aid to

international terrorist groups.' . . . Intimidation of patriotic

Muslims who disagree with CAIR's chauvinist agenda: In one case

(Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani), the FBI is looking into charges

that he

received death threats after renouncing the chauvinists. . .

Defense of even the most archaic and barbaric of customs associated

with Islam: When a prosecutor in Cleveland argued that the bail of

two young men

being held for an 'honor killing' of their female cousin should be

increased,

CAIR replied by accusing him of 'ethnic and religious stereotyping'

and called

for a formal investigation into the prosecutor's actions. "

 

 

In addition, as anti-terrorism expert Steven

Emerson has noted in Congressional testimony, CAIR co-sponsored a May

24, 1998, all-day program in the Walt Whitman Auditorium of Brooklyn

College in Brooklyn, New York. As Mr. Emerson testified, " In Arabic,

Wagdi Ghuniem, a militant Islamic cleric from Egypt, mesmerized his

audience, with his relentless tirade against the Jews, reminding them

of the Jews' 'infidelity,' 'stealth' and 'deceit.' Known for his

folksy deliveries and exhortations to commit violence against the

Jews, Ghuniem did not disappoint his crowd, several of whom had come

just to hear him. The conflict with the Jews, he said, was not over

land but one of religion. 'The problem of Palestine is not a problem

of belief. suppose the Jews said " Palestine-you [Muslims] can take

it. " Would it then be ok? What would we tell them? No! The problem is

belief, it is not a problem of land.' "

 

 

 

Mr. Emerson continued: " Ghuniem

then led his rapt audience, which numbered as many as 500, in a

special song, the audience responsively repeating each refrain: 'No

to the Jews,

Descendants of the Apes.' " Says Mr. Pipes: " In short, CAIR

represents not the

great civilization of Islam but a radical utopian movement

originating in the

Middle East that seeks to impose its ways on the United States.

Americans should

consider themselves warned: a new danger exists in their midst. " So

much for

CAIR. But, according to the CAIR Web site, CAIR wasn't the only

radical,

terrorist-sympathizing American Muslim group that Bush met with

yesterday, less than a week after the worst terrorist attack in

American history. In fact, according to the CAIR web site, the

meeting yesterday

also included " representatives from the American Muslim Alliance "

and the Muslim

Public Affairs Council. The Muslim Public Affairs Council is a group

founded and

headed by Salam Al-Marayati.

 

 

 

He's the man whose views on terrorism were so problematic that, after

an outcry, Rep. Richard Gephardt withdrew his support for Mr.

Al-Marayiti as a nominee to a federal anti-terrorism commission.

According to an article in the August 22, 1998, Los Angeles Times,

the Muslim

Public Affairs Council called America's 1998 missile strikes on

Osama Bin

Laden's training camps in Afghanistan " illegal " and " immoral. "

Again, Daniel

Pipes, in an article posted on

DanielPipes.org, is instructive.

 

 

Mr. Pipes writes of Mr. Al-Marayati:

" Here are three elements of his radicalism: First, he wraps the

American flag around some of the least attractive features of Middle

Eastern life. In 1993, he memorably asserted that 'When Patrick Henry

said, " Give me liberty or give me death, " that statement epitomized

jihad [islamic holy war].'

 

 

 

In 1996, he made the silly and inaccurate

observation that 'American freedom fighters hundreds of years ago

were also

regarded as terrorists by the British.' Mr. Al-Marayati's intent

here is

obvious: to render jihad and terrorism acceptable to

Americans. " Mr. Pipes continued: " Second, Mr. Al-Marayati apologizes

for the most ghastly Middle Eastern regimes and draws moral

equivalencies between them and America. In his view, Iraq is no

better or worse

than America: 'Saddam Hussein's behavior in and around Iraq has been

characterized as reckless. The same can be said about U.S. policy as

a result of

its reactionary mode.' . . .

 

 

 

Third, Mr. Al-Marayati turns a blind eye to terrorism if it is of a

fundamentalist Muslim persuasion (not a great credential for someone

hoping to serve on a counter-terrorism commission).

 

 

 

Take the February

1996 incident when a Palestinian named Muhammad Hamida shouted the

fundamentalist war cry, Allahu Akbar (Allah is Great), as he drove

his car

intentionally into a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem, killing one

Israeli and

injuring 23 others. Before he could escape or hurt anyone else,

Hamida was shot

dead. Commenting on the affair, Mr. Al-Marayati said not a word

about Hamida's

murderous rampage but instead focused on Hamida's death, which he

called 'a

provocative act,' and demanded the extradition of his executors to

America 'to

be tried in a U.S. court' on terrorism charges. "

 

 

Then there is the American Muslim Alliance, another group that CAIR

reports had

a representative at the Bush event yesterday. That's the group so

extreme that

even Hillary Rodham Clinton, no anti-Muslim extremist, decided to

return $50,000

it had raised for her senate campaign. The American Muslim Alliance

was also a

sponsor of the " No to the Jews, Descendants of the Apes " rally at

Brooklyn

College. And, as Steven Emerson has reported on

OpinionJournal.com, " AMA's head,

Agha Saeed, has openly sanctioned the use of 'armed resistance'

against Israel

and declared that the 'Zionist occupiers of Palestine can be beaten

back.'

 

 

 

At its 1997 annual convention, the AMA distributed an article by

S.A. Ahsani,

head of the AMA's Texas chapter, denying the existence

of 'Auschwitz, Birkenau

and Majdanek.' At AMA national conferences in 1997, 1998 and 2000,

numerous

speakers numerous speakers condemned the 'Jewish and Zionist'

lobbies and their

'control' of the United States. " it is possible that Mr. Bush's

actions are

being driven in this critical hour not by his national security team

but by his

political aides with a misguided eye on the 2004 vote in Michigan

and other

swing states with large Arab and Muslim populations.

 

 

Regardless of the reason,

though, describing the CAIR, MPAC and AMA gang as " good folks " is so

inappropriate that the Times would have been wise to at least probe

further into what exactly Mr. Bush was doing at this event. " IMRA -

Independent Media Review and Analysis Website: http//www.imra.org.il

 

 

Here is another mention of Spence Abraham, this one is from 2002.

 

" As he helped the Bush administration write its national energy

report last

year, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham heard from more than 100

energy industry

executives, trade association leaders and lobbyists, according to

documents

released by the Energy Department.

Mr. Abraham did not meet with any representatives of environmental

organizations

or consumer groups, the documents show.

 

In a press release on Monday night, the Energy Department summarized

the

secretary's calendar by saying that Mr. Abraham met with 36 industry

representatives on task force matters. Most news organizations

reported that

figure today.

 

But Mr. Abraham actually met with 109 representatives of energy

industry

companies and trade associations, according to a comprehensive

review of his

daily calendar from late January 2001 to May 17, 2001, the day the

White House

released its national energy report. Many of the executives were

leaders of

corporations that were among the most generous financial supporters

of President

Bush's presidential campaign and the Republican Party.

 

Among the individuals and groups that met with Mr. Abraham, 18

contributed a

total of $16.6 million to the Republican Party since 1999, nearly

three times

what they gave to the Democratic Party, according to an analysis of

data

compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. "

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/27/business/27ENER.html

 

 

" Jewish World Review July 12, 1999 /28 Tamuz 5759

Jonathan Tobin ....

Bonior is best known for being the Democrat who led the charge

against former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. But he should also be

known as the biggest supporter of the anti-Israel Arab lobby in

Congress. Friends of Israel need to be on the lookout for trouble

from him... " SOURCE:

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/tobin071299.asp

 

We are not happy with those we need to keep America strong sell out

to oil

companies. Where does that oil come from? Who owns oil companies?

 

 

" Our history in the Kingdom began over a half-century ago when

Standard Oil

Company (New Jersey) and Socony Vacuum Company (subsequently renamed

Exxon and

Mobil, respectively) acquired ownership shares of the Arabian

American Oil

Company, or Aramco. The expansion of Aramco and the great work done

more

recently by Saudi Aramco have contributed enormously to the creation

of the

modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

 

The fruitful relationship continues today between ExxonMobil and the

Saudi

Arabian Oil Company, or Saudi Aramco, created by Royal Decree to

manage the

Kingdom's energy resources. ExxonMobil is the largest private-sector

oil company

in the world; Saudi Aramco is the largest public-sector oil company.

We are the

largest foreign purchaser of crude oil and other hydrocarbons from

Saudi Aramco;

Saudi Arabia is ExxonMobil's largest supplier of raw materials –

crude oil,

refined products, gas liquids and petrochemical feedstocks. With

more than $5

billion invested in Saudi Arabia, primarily in partnership with

Saudi Basic

Industries Corporation and Saudi Aramco, ExxonMobil is the Kingdom's

largest

foreign investor.

 

Energy investments contribute enormously to the growth of the

Kingdom's economy

and the excellent housing, roads, schools and medical systems that

result from

that prosperity. Building on current successes and the wisdom and

foresight of

leaders in previous generations, we believe the cooperation between

the Kingdom

and ExxonMobil will be as extraordinary in the future as it has been

in the

past, and that the benefits to the Kingdom from those successes will

be even

greater in the future than in the past.

 

ExxonMobil's commitment to Saudi Arabia is genuine, resilient and

long-lasting.

We look forward to continuing a relationship of mutual respect and

mutual

benefit as we, together with our partners in Saudi Arabia, focus on

new

opportunities to expand the Kingdom's energy infrastructure. "

source:

 

http://www2.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Newsroom/Publications/XOMSaudi/p

age_1.html

 

" Over the decades, ExxonMobil has forged ties with various Saudi

Arabian

enterprises in massive pipeline, refinery and petrochemical

projects. These

alliances have helped generate economic expansion, diversification

and job

growth.

 

For example, we are joint-venture partners in the Saudi Aramco Mobil

Refinery at

Yanbu, the world's largest single-train petroleum refinery. It

started up in

1984 and today, with a capacity of 375,000 barrels a day, it has the

flexibility

to operate in various modes to meet seasonal demand patterns and a

variety of

global product markets.

 

Our partnerships in the Kingdom include two major petrochemical

joint ventures

with Saudi Basic Industries Corporation. Saudi Yanbu Petrochemical

Company,

known as Yanpet, started up in 1985 and is the world's largest

polyethylene

plant. Al-Jubail Petrochemical Company, or Kemya, was Saudi Arabia's

first

polyethylene producer at start-up in 1984 and is one of the largest

polyethylene

plants in the world. These plants and their varied products are

strong

competitors in Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific markets.

 

Two lube refineries, which started up at Jiddah in 1978 and Yanbu in

1998, are

part of our Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Company joint

venture. The

plants produce more than 90 percent of the lube oil components

marketed in Saudi

Arabia.

 

Large-scale pipeline projects in the Kingdom created new sources of

export

revenues as well as industrial development and job creation.

ExxonMobil

contributed financial strength and expertise that led to the

completion of the

1,200-kilometer Trans-Arabian Pipe Line in the 1950s, which moved

crude oil from

the Eastern Province to the Mediterranean coast. We designed and

constructed the

East-West Crude Oil Pipeline that started up in the early 1980s. It

helped make

possible the development of the Yanbu area and provided a major

export outlet

for the Kingdom on the Red Sea coast.

 

ExxonMobil, throughout most of its history in the Kingdom, has

participated and

continues to partner with the Saudi private sector in numerous

ventures spanning

a wide range of activities, including lube additives manufacturing,

lubes

blending, lubes and fuels marketing, and chemicals terminaling.

 

ExxonMobil is proud of its relationships in Saudi Arabia. They

represent the

success that results when governments and private industry cooperate

in energy

development. "

 

source:

http://www2.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Newsroom/Publications/XOMSaudi/p

age_3.html

 

" The joint ventures in which ExxonMobil participates recruit

qualified Saudi

employees from various universities and technical institutions in

the Kingdom

and around the world, ensuring that these ventures have the most

talented,

highly skilled work force in our industry. The joint ventures also

provide

abundant training and development opportunities.

 

Saudi employees learn our businesses and gain familiarity with our

joint-venture

facilities, products and technology. Similar to employees at

ExxonMobil

operations around the world, they receive training in safety, health

and

environmental practices, including personnel safety-awareness

systems to manage

potential hazards.

 

The talented and dedicated Saudi employees working in our joint-

venture

operations make vital contributions at every level. Much of the

credit for

ExxonMobil's success in the Kingdom must be given to them.

 

 

source:

http://www2.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Newsroom/Publications/XOMSaudi/p

age_6.html

 

" List of anti-Israeli US members of Congress

The New York Times (www.nytimes.com) has published the list of the

23 anti-Israel members of Congress.

It's the 23 members -- two in the Senate and 21 in the House -- who

voted against House and Senate resolutions of support for Israel. If

you are a U.S. citizen and contribute to political campaigns in the

U.S., you may want to contribute to the opponents of the members

below, regardless of party, so long as these incumbents' opponents

are pro-Israel.

If you don't or can't contribute to campaigns, please feel free to

forward this list to anyone who might. In my opinion, no other issue

and no U.S. political party allegiance is more important in these

times than the safety and security of the State of Israel.

Following is a list of legislators who voted " No " on the resolutions

in support of Israel:

SENATORS VOTING " NO " (2)

(The vote was 94-2 in favor of the pro-Israeli resolution)

Robert Byrd, Dem., W.Va.

Ernest Hollings, Dem. S.C.

HOUSE MEMBERS VOTING " NO " (21)

(The vote was 352-21 in favor of the pro-Israeli resolution)

Neil Abercrombie, Dem. Hawaii

David E. Bonior, Dem., Mich.

Rick Boucher, Dem., Va.

Gary A. Condit, Dem., Calif.

John Conyers Jr.,Dem., Mich.

Peter A. DeFazio, Dem., Ore.

John D. Dingell, Dem., Mich.

Earl F. Hilliard, Dem., Ala.

Jay Inslee, Dem., Wash.

Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Dem., Ill. (Please note this is Jesse

Jackson's son)

Gerald D.Kleczka, Dem., Wisc.

Barbara Lee, Dem., Calif.

Cynthia A. McKinney,Dem., Ga.

George Miller, Dem., Calif.

David R. Obey, Dem., Wisc.

Ron Paul, Rep., Tex.

Thomas E. Petri, Rep., Wisc.

Nick J. Rahall II, Dem.,W.Va.

Dana Rohrabacher, Rep., Calif.

Nick Smith, Rep., Mich.

Fortney Pete Stark, Dem., Calif.

Notice that out of the 23 anti-Israeli legislators, 19 are from the

Democratic party. "

source: http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000255.html

 

Saudis Pick Exxon Mobil and Shell for Huge Gas Projects

 

" June 3, 2001, Sunday

(Bloomberg News); Foreign Desk

Late Edition - Final, Section 1, Page 8, Column 4,

Exxon Mobil Corp, world's largest publicly traded oil company, is

chosen to lead

$17 billion gas development project in Al Ghawar field in Saudi

Arabia, world's

largest oil field; Royal Dutch/Shell Group will head $4 billion

development of

Shaybah, also in Saudi Arabia; Foreign Min Saud al-Faisal says two

companies

were chosen for lead roles because of their expertise. "

 

 

" Company News; Shell-Saudi Oil Pact

REUTERS

Published: April 25, 1981

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group said that it had concluded an agreement

with Saudi

Arabia giving it access to about 1.33 billion barrels of Saudi crude

oil over

the next 15 years. Dirk de Bruyne, group president, said in his

annual report

that the supply stemmed from an agreement to build a petrochemicals

complex and

refinery at Jubail. The refinery would be a joint venture with the

Saudi state

concern, Petromin, and the petrochemicals complex would be a joint

venture

between the Shell Oil Company of the United States and the Saudi

Basic Resources

Corporation, he said. "

 

 

" Consumer Groups Left Out, Data Show

By Dana Milbank and Mike Allen

Washington Post Staff Writers

Tuesday, March 26, 2002; Page A01

 

Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham met with 36 representatives of

business

interests and many campaign contributors while developing President

Bush's

energy policy, and he held no meetings with conservation or consumer

groups,

documents released last night show.

 

The information was released by the Energy Department just a few

hours before a

court-ordered deadline, and after 11 months of resistance by the

administration

to lawsuits by public interest groups seeking to determine who

influenced the

writing of the administration's energy plan.

 

A first review of the 11,000 pages of documents bolsters the

contention of

Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups that the Bush

administration

relied almost exclusively on the advice of executives from utilities

and

producers of oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy while a White House

task force

drafted recommendations that would vastly increase energy production.

 

Of the corporations that met with Abraham, all but a few were large

contributors

of unregulated soft money to the Republican Party during the 2000

election

cycle. A dozen of the companies that had meetings with Abraham

contributed $1.2

million to the GOP, mainly for Bush's election. Ten of the 12 gave

more soft

money to Republicans than Democrats.

 

Large portions had been deleted from the documents released last

night by the

Energy Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the

Agriculture

Department and the White House Office of Management and Budget. Most

attachments

were missing and in many cases documents were withheld except for

the subject

line. Thousands of other documents were withheld entirely, and the

groups that

won release of the documents through lawsuits said they may return

to court. "

source:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16943-2002Mar25?

language=printer

 

 

 

 

 

Spencer Abraham of Michigan..

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/11/politics/12CND-TEXT.html

 

 

 

" Bush-Gore Presidential Debate Excerpt October 13th,2000 " MR.

LEHRER: ON HATE CRIMES LAWS? " " MR. BUSH: No. We've got one in

Texas and guess what.

 

The three men who - who murdered James Byrd.

Guess what's going to happen to them? They're going to be put to

death. A jury found them guilty and -it's going to be hard to punish

them any worse after they get put to death. And it's the right

cause so it's the right decision. "

 

 

 

" Secondly, there is other forms

of racial profiling that goes on in America. Arab Americans are

racially profiled on what's called secret evidence. People are

stopped. And we got to do something about that.My friend Senator

Spencer Abraham of Michigan is pushing a law to make sure that, you

know, Arab Americans are treated with respect. "

http://www.arab-aai.org/campaign2000/cand_page.asp?candid=1

 

 

 

 

" Specific to (the arab American) community is the use of secret

evidence,a process approved by Congress in 1996 allowing state

prosecutors to keep charges secret from the accused in

cases of suspected terrorism. Today there are more than

two dozen such cases pending, the bulk of which involve

Arab Americans. Another gripe is airport profiling, a

practice pushed by Gore after the TWA airplane crash

off Long Island several years ago. "

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/10/26/Features/Features.14364.html

" Arab-Americans prefer Bush. With the help of George Salem, a

Palestinian-born Washington lawyer,the Texas governor has raked in

more than $1 million from Arab-American donors. Aides of GOP Sen.

Spencer Abraham, the Senate's only Arab-American, urged Bush to

hammer

Gore on anti-Arab discrimination during the debate. "

http://www.acj.org/oct_23.htm

" Spencer Abraham, the Republican Chairman of the Senate's Immigration

Subcommittee, plans to place reorganization

of the INS at the top of his agenda. Other items on Abraham's agenda

include INS detention rules for criminals and asylum applicants, "

http://www.visalaw.com/99feb/2feb99.html

" Kiareldeen, 31, a Palestinian

immigrant, was released Monday night after a 19-month sojourn in two

New Jersey jails. He had been detained on the basis of

secret evidence alleging that he had links to terrorists, including

one of the men convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center

bombing. **** Among other things, they said, they proved that

Kiareldeen was not politically active or an observant Muslim, as

those

convicted in the bombings were, and even frequented go-go bars when

he

was single. This became known, Fernandez said jokingly, as " the go-go

bar defense. " ***A spokesman for Senator Spencer Abraham, Republican

of Michigan, said he was pursuing discussions with the Justice

Department about " administrative changes " in the use of secret

evidence. " http://www.nlg.org/nip/news/secretevidence.html

http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2000/kiareldeen.html

http://www.adc.org/press/1999/26Oct99.htm

http://www.house.gov/judiciary/kiar0523.htm

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/1999/October/502ins.htm

http://www.arabinfo.org/news1.html

 

" STRIP-CLUB CRUISERS

BOASTED OF 'BLOODSHED'

September 14, 2001 -- MIAMI - Three men spewed anti-American

sentiments in a bar and talked of impending bloodshed the night

before

the terrorist attacks on NewYork and Washington, a Daytona Beach

strip-club

manager interviewed by the FBI said yesterday.

" They were talking about what a bad place America is.They said 'Wait

'til tomorrow. America is going to see bloodshed,'

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32601.htm

Slip up at strip club " Only once did anyone let slip a hint of the

wholesale destruction they planned. The night before the attacks,

three men in a Daytona Beach strip club warned that the next day

America would see bloodshed, said the club manager, adding that they

spent $200 to $300 apiece on lap dances and drinks and left behind a

copy of the Koran, the Muslim scripture. The manager didn't report

the comments to authorities until after the carnage. "

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-

hindsight916.s

tory

" November 1 2001 WASHINGTON (AP) - The government

is increasing vigilance at the nation's borders with better

background checks and coordinated enforcement designed to bar

suspected terrorists and their supporters. "

http://dailynews./h/ap/20011101/us/attacks_investigation.htm

l

 

 

 

" How open are our borders to arab terrorists? One wonders

not only who will come INTO the US absent " secret evidence " , but what

will go OUT of the country, such as perhaps nuclear secrets, if not

nuclear weapons, but who knows, maybe those too. "

 

 

 

" Why is Senator Spencer Abraham trying to make it easier for

terrorists like Osama bin Laden to export their war of terror to any

city street in America?*** the reason Abraham's votes might make

easier the entry of foreign terrorists into the United States is that

the senator opposed legislation requiring

federal immigration authorities to keep track of aliens with

temporary

visas who don't leave the country when their visas expire *** aliens

allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden's international terrorist network

were nabbed at the U.S. Canadian border trying to sneak into the

country to strike American targets ***These terrorist suspects were

arrested because they carried false passports, but had they gained

entry, and

Abraham's efforts to weaken the law been successful, they would have

been all but impossible to catch. "

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/samfrancis/sf000407.shtml

 

Abraham also opposes the so-called " secret

evidence " procedures used to fight terrorists and is also for " open

borders " which would allow foreign computer skilled people to

replace American workers and terrorists to kill Americans!

Manchurian Candidates Selling US out. At a time when news stories

like

" Terrorist threat puts U.S forces in Bahrain, Qatar and Turkey on

highest alert, Pentagon says "

" An inside look at the furious hunt for the Cole bombers "

" Pre-emptive strike discussed " " U.S. forces in 2 nations on highest

state of alert "

 

 

" February 20th, 2007 Edwards: Israel's threat to world peace

Ed Lasky

National Review's HillarySpot catches John Edwards spouting the

popular European view that Israel is the greatest threat to world

peace:

Hillary Spot reader Michael points out this little gem in Peter

Bart's column on John Edwards' comments in Hollywood:

There are other emerging fissures, as well. The aggressively

photogenic John Edwards was cruising along, detailing his litany of

liberal causes last week until, during question time, he invoked

the " I " word - Israel. Perhaps the greatest short-term threat to

world peace, Edwards remarked, was the possibility that Israel would

bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. As a chill descended on the

gathering, the Edwards event was brought to a polite close.

[emphasis in original]

Maybe he has been listening a bit too much to former Congressman

David Bonior (his so-called labor adviser and a long-time fierce

critic of Israel). " source:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/02/edwards_israels_threat_to

_worl.html

 

 

" A Connecticut Jewish Ledger Editorial:

George W. Bush, Jr.'s Hezbollah Problem

 

 

George W. Bush, Jr., the governor of Texas and leading candidate for

the Republican nomination for president, recently met with

representatives of a prominent Arab-American organization, the

Arab-American Anti-Discrimination, known as the ADC.

In doing so, Bush meet with a group whose leaders have expressed

sympathy for the terrorist organizations Hezbollah and Hamas. This is

the same Hezbollah that blew up the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon

in

1983, causing 270 American deaths. It is the same Hamas that is

responsible for the deaths of 12 Americans in Israel in the past six

years. Critics of Bush's meeting with the ADC, like the Zionist

Organization of America, also note that Governor Bush met with

leaders

of the ADC's Austin, Texas chapter.

 

 

 

Last year that group sponsored a

rally at which its members carried signs with slogans challenging

Israel's very right to exist. The rally featured signs and messages

such as " 50 Years of Israel, 50 Years of Occupation " and " Apartheid

South Africa/Israel - 1 Down, 1 to Go. "

 

 

 

 

 

 

While Arab-Americans have

progressed in the world of American politics to the point that a

group

such as the ADC is able to secure a meeting with a major presidential

candidate, it still must be held to account for the groups to whom

they give their blessing. The endorsement of groups on the State

Department's official list of terrorist organizations would qualify

for disavowal for any political movement striving to be part of this

political system.

 

 

 

The public record of ADC's alignment with Hamas and

Hezbollah is clear. ADC president Hala Maksoud has praised Hezbollah

for its " heroic resistance. "

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maksoud's predecessor, Hamzi Moghrabi,

said of Hamas: " I will not call it a terrorist organization. I mean,

I

know many

people in Hamas. They are very respectable. They don't accept

violence. " Hezbollah's firing Katyusha rockets into homes and schools

in northern Israel ought to be condemned and not condoned by groups

that participate in the American political system. And there is

nothing " respectable " about Hamas suicide-bombers blowing up Israeli

buses in downtown Jerusalem, killing both Israelis and Americans.

Aside from its vocal support of terrorist groups, the ADC has accused

the United States of committing " genocide " against Iraq and made

statements about Israeli " racism, " " apartheid, " and " ethnic

cleansing. "

 

 

 

Politics and hyperbole can often travel the same road, but

evasion of terror activities amounts to indirect justification, even

incitement and must not be tolerated by those who would uphold

democratic societies. But part of the problem with the ADC's

positions

is that they seem to

reflect the views of the Arab-American community. The ADC is not

considered a fringe organization among Arab-Americans; it is

considered mainstream.

 

 

 

The views it expresses about anti-Israel

terrorist groups are echoed by many other Arab-American and American

Muslim organizations and they are the only ones being heard. In a

group new to political activity, speaking out is also a new activity.

Unfortunately its voice has been co-opted by those within that

community who have little experience with the rights and

responsibilities of our system and, to judge by their rhetoric,

little respect for the lives of those they oppose.

 

 

 

The outcome is an

appearance of a monolithic opinion at the extreme end of the

spectrum. Curiously, this is a problem throughout the Islamic world,

in which extremists who've turned their religious interpretation into

a violent political ideology have confronted little or no effective

resistance from intellectuals, or political and theological leaders

who disagree with them. Call it the Salman Rushdie syndrome. Thus,

any

presidential

candidate who wants to hear the views of Arab-Americans is all too

likely to find himself or herself face to face with apologists for

Hezbollah or Hamas.

 

 

 

Still, there is no excuse for surrendering a basic

principle: terrorists and their supporters should be treated as

pariahs. It is the obligation of civilized society and its putative

leaders to oppose those groups that take advantage of our free

society to undermine democracy.

 

 

 

Opening up the process to those who

support terrorism and its practitioners is a step in the wrong

direction.

 

 

We hope that as the Arab American community gains political

maturity and finds its voice, or better, voices, they will repudiate

those who support or encourage the violence of terror here or

abroad. "

 

 

 

" Spencer Abraham first Arab-American named to cabinet post SPECIAL TO

WORLD TRIBUNE.COM

Thursday, January 4, 2001

LONDON - President-elect George W. Bush has appointed the first

Arab-American to the U.S. Cabinet.

Bush appointed Spencer Abraham, 48, as secretary of energy. The

announcement was made on Tuesday as Bush appointed the last three

secretaries of his 14-member Cabinet.

 

 

 

Abraham, a U.S. senator from Michigan, is of Lebanese descent and is

described as a leading activist in the Arab community in the United

States. He was said to have been active in opposing anti-terrorist

legislation that would make it difficult for Arabs and Muslims to

enter the United States. "

http://www.worldtribune.com/wta/Archive-2001/ss-arabamerican-01-

04.htm

l

 

 

 

" To gratify Arab-American voters in the swing state of Michigan, in

the October 11th Presidential debate Republican nominee George W.

Bush

called for weakening two counter-terrorism policies. " Arab-Americans

are [racially] profiled in what's called secret evidence. People are

stopped, and we got to do something about that, " Governor Bush said.

" My friend, Sen. Spence Abraham [the Arab-American Republic Senator

from Michigan], is pushing a law to make sure that Arab-Americans are

treated with real respect. "

 

 

 

 

Although Governor Bush conflated two issues, Arab Americans

appreciated the gesture. According to a spokesperson for a leading

Arab-American organization, their highest domestic priority is the

repeal of the " secret evidence " section of the 1996 Effective

Counter-Terrorism Act.

 

 

 

To prevent terrorist gangs from murdering U.S.

government secret informants, this law allows the government to

provide evidence from unidentified moles in the immigration hearings

of foreigners suspected of terrorist links.*** people of Arab descent

are stopped and searched at airports more often than many other

ethnic

groups.

 

 

 

This is because the secret " profiles " given security workers

advising them whom to watch most closely are believed to refer to the

fact that a disproportionate number of hijackers and bombers have

been

arabs. ***The day after Governor Bush's remarks, 17 American sailors

died in a terrorist attack in the Arab nation of Yemen.

***Ironically,

on October 20th an Egyptian-born immigrant Ali A. Mohamed plead

guilty

in Federal District Court to helping Osama Bin Laden plan the 1998

bombing of the America Embassy in Kenya. "

Excerpted from

" Terrorist-enabling neighbors "

 

by Debbie Schlussel

 

" there are those Arab- and Muslim-American leaders that allow

terrorists from their communities to flourish in this country and

actively defend them. They oppose reasonable measures to prevent

terrorism here and support those living here that are suspected of

committing and/or facilitating it. Arab and Muslim leaders, like Arab

American Institute head Jim Zogby and Arab-American News publisher

Osama Siblani, actively oppose the use of secret evidence and racial

profiling for terrorists.

 

 

 

Secret evidence, intelligence from agents

abroad about individuals' involvement with terrorist groups, is the

strongest counter-terrorism tool we have in matters involving the

entry into the U.S. of potential terrorists.

 

 

 

The evidence cannot be

revealed because it will compromise U.S. foreign intelligence

gathering and result in the certain death of our agents.

But thanks to the pressure of the Arab community, it is rarely

successfully used, and federal agents are crippled without it.

 

 

 

President Bush kowtowed to the Arab community here and then-senator

and now Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, an Arab American,

campaigning against both secret evidence and racial profiling of

Arabs.

 

 

 

" The present administration has pursued policies that, in

practice, have adversely affected your community, " Bush said in a

campaign video to Arab-Americans regarding secret evidence and

profiling, according to The New Republic. Once in office, in his

first

address to a joint session of Congress, Bush spoke about ending the

practices, and in February, he issued a directive to Attorney General

Ashcroft, ordering him to " work in cooperation with state and local

law enforcement in order to assess the extent and nature of any such

practices. "

 

 

 

With secret evidence and profiling in place, we could have

prevented many of Tuesday's terrorists from entering the U.S. But

Arab

American leaders actively defend and support many suspected

terrorists, primarily Muslims, who are charged as terrorists by INS

officials. But even without profiling, Arab-American leaders dismiss

even the strongest cases against Arab-American terrorists with the

convenient " profiling " label.

 

 

 

In November, the FBI's joint

counter-terrorism unit and U.S. Customs agents caught Arab-American

brothers, Ali and Mike Boumelhem, trying to ship weapons and weapons

parts to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, intercepting them at the

Ambassador Bridge to Canada. In 1982, Hezbollah killed 240 U.S.

Marines in Lebanon.

 

 

 

 

Hezbollah also tortured, murdered and hung the

body of U.S. military attaché Col. Higgins on display. Ditto with the

U.S. Embassy in Lebanon's CIA Agent Butler.

 

 

But U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh, an Arab American, ordered

Mike Boumelhem released on an unsecured bond and dismissed two counts

in the indictment, because a witness recanted. And rather than

hailing

this anti-terrorism success by law enforcement, the bust - the

culmination of tips from FBI-informants and an extensive nine-month

investigation - was quickly attacked by Arab leaders Siblani and

Adrian Baydoun, as profiling. Siblani's wife, M. Kay Siblani, also an

officer of his Arab American News, is an official of the Council on

American Islamic Relations, a group that actively defends Arab

terrorist groups, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others that kill Americans.

 

 

 

In 1997, Detroit Arab leaders objected to the official release of the

State Department list of terrorist groups.

 

 

 

Siblani told the Detroit

Free Press that Hezbollah does " wonders for the Lebanese. "

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee legal director Houeida

Saad announced the group was preparing legal challenges to

antiterrorism laws that prohibited donations to terrorist groups.

Ismael Ahmed, executive director of the Arab Community Center for

Economic and Social Services said it would be hard to find Arab

Americans who didn't support at least one of the groups.

 

 

 

 

In June 2000, Arab American leaders objected to most proposals of the

National Commission on Terrorism, including monitoring of foreign

students, fund-raising in the U.S. by terrorist groups, and

involvement of the military in domestic terrorism cases, according to

the Detroit Free Press. Imad Hamad, regional director for the ADC,

who

objected to the anti-terrorism measures, was a suspected terrorist

the

INS wanted to deport, but is now a U.S. citizen, thanks to

Arab-American political pressure against the use of secret evidence.

 

 

 

 

Don't blame federal agents for Tuesday's lapse in national security.

Blame my

neighbors - the Arab American and Muslim leaders who've actively

blocked the

fight against terrorism for years. "

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/debbieschlussel/ds20010918.shtml

" The bipartisan CAIR congress

By Michelle Malkin • November 16, 2006 10:59 AM....

During the first Gulf War, for instance, Conyers fought FBI outreach

efforts in the Arab and Muslim community in Detroit that were

designed to gather intelligence on potential cells and protect the

home front. Conyers and other Detroit-area Democrats at the time,

David Bonior and John Dingell, threatened to hold hearings unless

the FBI stopped counterterrorism interviews. The FBI met with them

privately to explain the national security benefits of outreach, but

could not allay their concerns. In the end, the FBI backed off.

Today, Hamas, Hezbollah and the al-Qaida-tied Muslim Brotherhood are

all active in the area. "

source: http://michellemalkin.com/2006/11/16/the-bipartisan-cair-

congress/

 

 

" April 17th, 2002 Muslim Invasion?

What increased Muslim immigration could mean for U.S. Israeli policy-

and American Jews.

By Mark Krikorian....

Most notable among Michigan Democrats championing Muslim causes is

David Bonior, former Democratic whip and current candidate for

governor. He has enthusiastically embraced the Muslim political

agenda, especially the effort to force the disclosure of classified

evidence used in deportation proceedings — the power to keep such

evidence secret has been used by the Justice Department in a handful

of cases where the alien being deported has ties to terrorism.

Another sign of growing Muslim political power is the fact that

Bonior's Secret Evidence Repeal Act of 2001 (H.R. 1266) had 101

sponsors as of Sept. 10, and only one (Alcee Hastings) had the

decency to withdraw his name after the attacks.

 

 

 

Perhaps even more disturbing is Bonior's assessment that accepting

money from supporters of anti-Israel terrorist groups is no longer

politically damaging. Bonior has proudly refused to return

contributions from two high-profile apologists for anti-Israel

terror groups: Abdurahman Alamoudi, a founder of the American Muslim

Council who has publicly declared support for Hamas and Hezbollah;

and Sami AlArian, a University of South Florida professor who was

fired following revelations about his connections with Islamic Jihad.

As Muslim immigration continues, we can expect to see a lot more

David Boniors — politicians who no longer feel the need to burnish

their philo-semitic credentials, and in fact might be hurt by such a

perception.

 

 

 

 

AGENTS OF INFLUENCE

Muslim immigration can undermine U.S. support for Israel in two

other ways, as well. First, Muslim " civil-rights " groups, made

possible by mass immigration, provide the most effective long-term

vehicle for foreign money and groups seeking to influence U.S.

foreign policy. Campaign contributions from foreigners are

prohibited, hired lobbyists can be effective but are clearly seen

for what they are, and foreign-policy advocacy by wealthy

individuals is too often eccentric and irrelevant. But organizations

that can claim to be spokesmen for " victimized " Americans,

parasitically benefiting from the struggles of black Americans, are

more likely to be viewed as legitimate and important participants in

the political game — groups like, to select from the list of

visitors to the White House, the American Muslim Council, the

Islamic Institute, the American Muslim Alliance, the Arab-American

Institute, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the American Arab Anti-

Defamation Committee, and the Council on American Islamic Relations.

 

 

 

 

A final, longer-term threat to Israel from U.S. Muslim immigration

comes from the possibility of terrorism fatigue. Muslim immigration

helps facilitate domestic terrorism, with immigrant communities

serving, as Mao might have said, as the sea within which the

terrorists swim as fish. The vast majority of Muslim immigrants, of

course, are not terrorists; rather, immigrant communities provide

unintentional cover for terrorists because of their insularity, just

as Italian-immigrant communities generations ago provided cover for

the Mafia. And to the extent that domestic Muslim terrorism is

explained as a reaction to our Middle East policies, more such acts

over time cannot help but erode support for Israel among the

American public, even among people well-disposed toward the Jewish

state. In effect, domestic terrorism may come to be seen as a cost

of our support for Israel, a cost that increasing numbers of people

may be unwilling to bear — and it is a cost attributable directly to

Muslim immigration. "

source: http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-

krikorian041702.asp

 

 

 

" US steps up nuclear security There are more than 80 nuclear plants

in

the US The United States has tightened security around major nuclear

facilities following a new warning about the threat of further

terrorist attacks.

 

 

 

 

The Federal Aviation Authority has placed a

week-long ban on any aircraft movements within 20 kilometres of more

than 80 nuclear plants. Aircraft can only pass over these sites at

altitudes above 5,500 metres, which means commercial flights should

not be affected.

FAA administrator Jane Garvey called for co-operation from the

aircraft industry. " The FAA realises these

restrictions inconvenience general aviation pilots and airports, " Ms.

Garvey said in a statement.

" As the FAA and other federal agencies continuously review measures

to ensure national security, we

look for the understanding and co-operation of the general aviation

community. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1629000/162936

7

..stm

 

EXCERPTED FROM: " Arab-American Group Endorses Bush " Monday,

Oct. 16, 2000 DEARBORN, Mich.-An influential organization of

Arab-American political leaders from the Detroit area gave a

unanimous

endorsement to Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush on

Sunday Many

told the Detroit Free Press Bush has reached out for Arab-Americans'

support,

while Democratic rival Al Gore has not. But a few also said they

were uneasy

with Gore's Orthodox Jewish vice

presidential candidate, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman.

 

 

 

Bush is " someone who listens, who's flexible on Middle Eastern

issues, " said

committee member Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab American News

in Dearborn.

" Lieberman's culture and religion are embedded. Lieberman is already

committed

in his soul to Israel. "

 

 

 

The committee is an influential political force among the nearly

300,000

Arab-Americans living in the Detroit metropolitan area Bush is

locked in a

virtual dead heat with Gore in Michigan - " Despite their efforts the

Gore-Lieberman ticket beat Bush-Cheney in Michigan last fall. Arab

Americans

were active at the Republican National

Convention in the summer of 2000. " Arab Americans and the RNC

Convention " " More than 600 delegates, guests and friends joined Arab

Americans from across the country and Philadelphia for a tribute to

the Republican Convention on Tuesday, August 1. The theme of the

evening was " Midnight at the Oasis " and featured performances by

Shimon Shaheen and a traditional dance troupe. As delegates

celebrated, they heard from prominent Arab Americans including

Senator Spencer

Abraham... "

 

 

So what did all of this pandering to arab-Americans in the vain hope

of winning

Michigan's electoral votes in the 2000 Presidential election result

in?

 

Nothing! Michigan voted for Gore in 2000 and for Kerry in 2004.

 

click on the url below for the 2000 electoral college map:

 

http://www.sptimes.com/election2000/map.shtml

 

click on the url below for the 2004 electoral college map:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:United_States_Elections_2004_Elect

oral_Colleg\

e_map.svg

 

Fred Thompson clearly has a second chance, but time is running out.

If he fails to dump Spencer Abraham as his campaign manager, and

indeed dump

Spencer Abraham from his campaign altogether we cannot see our way

clear to

supporting his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination.

The choice

is Fred Thompson's to make. We hope that you will add your voice to

ours and

those of so many others who are urging Fred Thompson to dump Spencer

Abraham as

his campaign manager, and from his campaign altogether.

 

" Fred Thompson, Israel and the Spencer Abraham factor

 

 

Here are some facts about Spencer Abraham:

 

He was Energy Secretary for Bush and Senator from Michigan....

 

 

 

He is the new campaign manager for Fred Thompson, soon to be an

official

Republican candidate for the Presidency.

 

He is of Lebanese decent.

 

He was one of only a handful of Senators refusing to sign a letter

calling on

President Bill Clinton to condemn Palestinian terrorism and

Palestinian leader

Yasser Arafat.

 

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, an Arab friendly (and

some will

say anti-Israel) publication, ranked him fairly high in its

evaluation of

American Senators. In 2000, it has stated that Abraham was

instrumental in

getting earmarked aid for Lebanon increased from $12 million to $15

million, and

getting $860,000 specified for the " Seeds of Peace " program.

 

 

 

The anger against Abraham's appointment by Thompson is starting to

build in

conservative circles, some of it relates to Israel.

 

" I don't know anybody who isn't at least a little bit worried about

this " , a

Thompson supporter told the NY Post. And those worried are talking

about a wide

variety of reasons. Not just Israel and Israel related issues, but

also because

of his stance of issues like borders and terror. One example: " Don't

believe

Thompson's claim that he understands the Islamist jihadist threat to

America.

His announcement, yesterday, of his choice of Spencer Abraham as

campaign

manager, told us everything we need to know. Although Abraham, of

Lebanese

descent, is a Christian, he is a career water carrier for Islamists

of the most

extremist stripe and made that the cornerstone of his failed, one-

term Senate

career and equally lousy tenure as Energy Secretary " .

 

" Debbie Schlussel: Jihad Spence: Fred Thompson's Pan-Islamist

Campaign Manager

 

 

By Debbie Schlussel

 

He hasn't entered the Presidential race yet, but Fred Thompson,

yesterday,

showed us why he's the scariest Republican Presidential candidate.

And maybe the

scariest of both parties.

 

Don't believe Thompson's claim that he understands the Islamist

jihadist threat

to America. His announcement, yesterday, of his choice of Spencer

Abraham as

campaign manager, told us everything we need to know. Although

Abraham, of

Lebanese descent, is a Christian, he is a career water carrier for

Islamists of

the most extremist stripe and made that the cornerstone of his

failed, one-term

Senate career and equally lousy tenure as Energy Secretary.

 

As a conservative--but more important, as an American concerned

about the future

of this country in the face of a terrorist threat--Thompson's choice

of Spencer

Abraham was the final nail in the coffin for me in opposing Fred

Thompson's

quest for the White House.

 

I know Spencer Abraham. He wrote one of my recommendations for law

school. And

the Spencer Abraham that I and all of America have since experienced

is bad news

for everyone except CAIR, ADC, MPAC, ISNA, and all Islamists who

want to

endanger America.

 

In 2003, I wrote the definitive column on Spencer Abraham a/k/a

Spence a/k/a

Edward Spencer Abraham (which was quoted in The Washington Post),

and I

re-publish it below, with several additions I've made, updating it.

At the time

Spence was still Energy Secretary, but he left to become a lobbyist

for Islamist

countries.

 

As a Senator, he took marching orders from James Zogby of the pan-

Islamist Arab

American Institute, opposing profiling of Arabs, the use of secret

evidence

against Muslims (at the behest of Muslim groups), attempting to

repeal the

Clinton counterterrorism package, refusing to fund computer tracking

of student

and other foreign aliens, giving millions in our tax money right to

Hezbollah,

and putting CAIR on the map on Capitol Hill (taking the group's

officials around

to meet other Senators and Members of Congress). He took campaign

contributions

from the relatives of Hezbollah-backed top Lebanese officials after

he got the

group millions in our tax money.

 

Spence was one of only two Senators in the entire U.S. Senate who

refused to

sign a letter calling on President Clinton to condemn Palestinian

terrorism and

Yasser Arafat. This was at the height of a series of homicide

bombings in Israel

in 1999 and 2000.

 

As Energy Secretary, he gave top secret tours of nuclear facilities,

as well as

detailed information on how we secure them to Muslim nations who are

our

enemies. And he gave out undue post-9/11 awards to Al-Qaeda money-

launderers . .

.. at the White House. The money launderers were raided by U.S.

Customs Service

agents.

 

After he left the Bush cabinet, Spence became a lobbyist for Mid-

Eastern Muslim

countries that practice the Arab boycott of Israel and don't really

like us too

much either. He took their money and until the Thompson race, did

their bidding.

 

Do you really support a guy, Fred Thompson, who picked this man to

head up his

team? Either Thompson is clueless about Abraham, which should

immediately

disqualify him for the White House and frighten all of us about how

he makes

decisions. Or he knows about Abraham, and went with him anyway. Just

as bad.

 

If you want to say no to jihad, you WILL say NO to Fred Thompson. He

chose, and

now we must choose against him:

JIHAD SPENCE: Bush's Dangerous Energy Secretary is Now Fred

Thompson's Campaign

Manager

 

By Debbie Schlussel

 

Since the Blackout of 2003, he's gotten lots of TV face time. But

should U.S.

energy policy be entrusted to Spencer Abraham?

 

In 2000, President Bush said his Cabinet would " look like America, "

nominating

Abraham, the defeated Lebanese-American Senator from Michigan, to

Energy

Secretary--part of the Bush strategy targeting the Arab vote.

 

But was this political strategy in the best interest of the country?

Abraham's

record suggests otherwise.

 

In the two years since 9/11, Abraham did absolutely nothing to

improve our

precarious electric power situation.

 

That would be bad enough.

 

But, since 9/11, Abraham continued a controversial UN-sponsored

program allowing

foreign visitors from countries on the State Department terrorist

list to tour

U.S. nuclear reactors. A course sponsored by the UN International

Atomic Energy

Agency, taught by U.S. nuclear weapons lab security personnel, gives

tours of

Nuclear Regulatory Commission facilities and teaches participants

from 57

countries--including Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia--security

techniques employed

at American nuclear sites. " They were teaching them to black out

systems, which

they could use against us at labs, " an official told a popular

newssite. This

was reported on extensively by investigative reporter Paul Sperry,

author of

" Infiltration. "

 

The Clinton Administration taught the course to foreign

representatives, too.

But that was pre-9/11. In the post-9/11 era, Abraham irresponsibly

continued it,

despite protests.

 

Then there's Jamal Barzinji. Abraham enlisted him to find parties

who helped and

reached out to Muslims after 9/11, with Abraham hosting an awards

ceremony for

them. Problem is, Barzinji is an officer and/or director in SAFA

Trust, Mar-Jac

Poultry, and International Institute for Islamic Thought, all raided

by Customs

in March 2002 for laundering over $1.7 billion to Al-Qaeda and

Islamic Jihad

(through University of South Florida terrorist professor and Islamic

Jihad

founder and frontman, Sami Al-Arian).

 

More troubling is Abraham's Senate record, ignored by his former

Senate

colleagues in an easy confirmation hearing.

 

Should a Senator who deliberately endangered national security for

Arab/Muslim

votes and campaign money be entrusted to oversee U.S. energy policy

and access?

 

Abraham's frightening national security record included:

 

Liberal immigration policy, including lax foreign visitor tracking,

at the

behest of Arab/Muslim groups; Tried to End Profiling, Secret

Evidence Use

Against Terrorists

 

Abraham was Senate Immigration Subcommittee Chairman through the end

of 2000.

Abraham routinely caved to the demands of Arab/Muslim leaders, such

as the Arab

American Institute's James Zogby, on national security matters,

especially

immigration.

 

" Ever since (I first met) him, Abraham has been coming to us and

giving advice,

support and the benefits of his leadership, " Zogby told The Detroit

News.

 

And taking Zogby's advice, too.

 

Abraham actively worked to delay computer systems to track foreign

visitors,

which Arab/Muslim groups, including Zogby's, strongly opposed. 1996

immigration

law required computerized entry and exit tracking of all temporary

visas, but

was gutted by Abraham and other legislators. They refused to

allocate money for

the program and delayed its full implementation until 2005. In 2000,

Abraham, as

Chairman of the Immigration Subcommittee, delayed implementation of

other

requirements of the 1996 immigration measure, including university-

assisted

enforcement student visa laws and collection of fees from foreign

students to

pay for computer tracking.

 

These programs might have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks. But Abraham

desperately craved the Arab/Muslim vote in Michigan.

 

Abraham also sponsored and pushed for the repeal of the use of

secret evidence

against terrorists, a vital portion of the Clinton counterterrorism

package. He

also sought to outlaw profiling of Arabs and Muslims by federal law

enforcement.

 

Foreign aid funding for Hezbollah, rewarded by pseudo-foreign

campaign

contributions

 

In July 2000, Abraham sought over $268 million in tax-funded USAID

grants for

Hezbollah terrorist-controlled Southern Lebanon, at Arab American

Institute's

Zogby's request. Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah, has targeted

and murdered

many Americans. Millions in similar USAID grants (which have scant

strings and

accountability attached) to Afghanistan were misspent on Taliban

terrorist

activities. Abraham enlisted Michigan Republican Congressman Joe

Knollenberg, on

the House International Relations Committee, to push the

questionable aid

package in the House. They ended up obtaining $86 million, which

went straight

to Hezbollah and which was never tracked thereafter. They knew this,

and that's

why they and Zogby sought the money for their Hezbollah friends.

 

Abraham and Knollenberg were repaid for their efforts, receiving

thousands in

campaign contributions from Nijad Fares, the Houston-based greencard-

holding son

of Syrian-backed Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares.

 

Soft on terrorism

 

Abraham was one of only two U.S. Senators who refused to sign an

October 2000

letter to President Clinton condemning terrorist acts by Yasser

Arafat and the

P.L.O.

 

Abraham led the nearly successful June 2001 attempt to reverse the

use of

classified evidence against terrorists, sponsoring the legislation

at the behest

of Islamist groups, including the American Muslim Association (AMA)

and the

American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC), both headed

by Agha

Saeed.

 

In July 1999, Abraham wrote to Saeed, AMA, and AMPCC asking their

support: " Your

efforts are truly needed in the political arena. . . . You can truly

make a

difference in the political and policy arenas, and I remain

committed to helping

you achieve that goal. "

 

But Saeed openly praised Palestinian terrorism as " armed resistance "

and

appeared at lectures and events sponsored by Hamas front groups,

including one

panel, in which he was joined by the indicted Al-Arian,

entitled: " Zionism: A

Racist and Colonialist Ideology. " AMA-sponsored events featured these

exhortations: " The trees and the stones will say, oh Muslim, there

is a Jew

hiding behind me. Come and kill him! " " Victory comes from Allah and

Hezbollah is

our model. " " Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of

Hamas. "

 

Given Spencer Abraham's record of kowtowing to Arab, Muslim, and

foreign

interests on virtually every national security issue, his hegemony

at Energy is

disturbing. He should control no form of power--political or

electric.

 

Posted by Debbie at July 25, 2007 04:20 PM "

 

source:

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/07/jihad_fred_fred.html

 

 

 

" A couple of weeks ago, when Rudy Giuliani assembled his team he was

praised by

some pro-Israel advocates (of certain political tendencies) for

choosing, among

others, Norman Podhoretz, the former Commentary editor and a hard-

liner on Iran,

and Martin Kramer, an Israeli-American expert on Islam. But with

Giuliani it

was quite obvious even without those appointments that he is pro-

Israel.

 

This is not the case with Thompson. " Thompson " , I wrote for The

Israel Factor

project, " was as friendly as one could ask toward Israel in his

short career as

a senator " . However, he has yet to make his more specific views

known. That's

why our panel wasn't quick to rank him as high as some of his peers.

 

 

 

How significant is such appointment in revealing ones policy is

debatable. The

group Giuliani assembles is his foreign policy team. Thompson hired

Abraham for

other purposes, and didn?t mince any words regarding his own true

feelings about

Israel: " Let me ask you a hypothetical question, " Thompson wrote in

defending

Israel's response during the Palestinian second Intifada. " What do

you think

America would do if Canadian soldiers were firing dozens of missiles

every day

into Buffalo, N.Y.? I can tell you, our response would look nothing

like

Israel's restrained and pinpoint reactions to daily missile attacks

from Gaza. "

 

Does the hiring of Abraham overshadow Thompson's rhetorical support?

 

 

 

That's basically the question Thompson needs to answer: how do you

reconcile a

candidate perceived as strongly pro-Israel with a campaign manager

suspicious of

being much more, well, reluctant?.... "

 

source:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?

itemNo=887435 & contrassID=25 & \

subContrassID=0 & sbSubContrassID=1 & listSrc=Y & art=1

 

" Frederick Dalton " Fred " Thompson (born August 19, 1942) is an

American

politician, lawyer, lobbyist, and character actor. He represented

Tennessee as a

Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1994 through 2003. Thompson

resides in

McLean, Virginia near Washington D.C.[1]

 

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Visiting

Fellow with

the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security

and

intelligence "

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson

 

 

" Pro-Israel Lobby Cools to Edwards' Likely 2008 Bid

By ELI LAKE

Staff Reporter of the Sun

December 6, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

WASHINGTON — Word that a 2008 presidential aspirant, John Edwards,

has tapped a former House minority whip, David Bonior, to run his

campaign has the pro-Israel lobby cooling on the former Democratic

senator's likely run.

 

 

 

The Associated Press yesterday reported that Mr. Edwards had tapped

Mr. Bonior, who retired as a Democratic representative from Michigan

in 2002, to manage his campaign if he chooses to run.

Mr. Bonior, however, earned a reputation in Congress as one of the

least friendly members towards Israel. In 2002, for example, he was

one of 21 lawmakers in the House to vote against House Resolution

292 expressing solidarity for the Jewish state after a year of

bloody terrorist attacks.

The executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major

American Jewish Organizations, Malcolm Hoenlein, yesterday said, "

Edwards has always had a strong, supportive record in the Senate,

and it is disappointing that he chose somebody whose position is at

such variance from his, specifically on Israel. "

Mr. Hoenlein added, " People make decisions about candidates based on

their assessments of the individual's character, positions and

judgment. One would have to think that Edwards anticipated and

factored in the implication of his choice of Bonior. "

A former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs

Committee, Morris Amitay, said yesterday, " This seems like an odd

choice for someone who is a presidential candidate, picking someone

who was one of the least friendly congressmen toward Israel to

manage his campaign. It says something about Edwards' political

judgment. "

source: http://www.nysun.com/article/44645

 

 

While we are normally loathe to differ with Malcolm Hoenlein it

strikes us that anyone

who opposes the liberation of Iraq by definition supports the

alternative, which would

have been Saddam Hussein continuing to pay the families of GENOCIDE

BOMBERS

a bounty for Jewish scalps. Saddam upped that bounty from $10,000 to

$15,000 to $25,000

and would not doubt be paying more now if he were still alive and in

power in Iraq.

While Edwards did vote for the liberation of Iraq, he now calls that

vote a mistake.

In our view a vote for Edwards would be a mistake, for America, for

Israel, and for the

world.

 

" July 27, 2007

Spencer Abraham, no way in H---, Fred Thompson.

Fred Thompson has been my favorite for President in the 2008

election, until

now. If what I'm hearing about Spencer Abraham, Thompson's new

campaign manager,

then Fred's campaign is dead in the water. Spencer Abraham,

according to

reports, is a supporter of open borders. That by itself is enough to

turn most

conservative voters off. On top of the border security question, I'm

hearing

that Spencer Abraham is an apologist for the Islamists. No way Fred

can get

elected if this is true. No way in h---.

 

Are you not aware that immigration restrictionists loathe Abraham as

an

open-borders true-believer, and that your appointment of him as your

most

important staff person throws into doubt your main selling point as

a candidate?

Did you have a reason for doing this, or are you just thick?

(LibertyPost.com)

 

Michelle Malkin mentioned Spencer Abraham in her book " Invasion " :

 

In my 2002 book Invasion (p. 71, 76), I noted the open-borders

obstructionism of

former Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-Michigan), who fought to block the

implementation

of two different tracking databases–one for foreign student visa

holders and the

other for all temporary visitors (which was mandated by Section 110

of the 1996

Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act).

Abraham led

efforts to starve the first database of funding and crusaded several

times to

kill Section 110 altogether. On September 11, 2001, neither of those

databases

was in place. To this day, they remain incomplete. "

 

source:

http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2007/07/immigration-3.html

 

the following is excerpted from material found at:

http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=MI & VIPID=401

 

" This document is a record and analysis of all of Sen. Abraham's

immigration

related congressional votes, cosponsorships, and other immigration

actions

during his career in Congress. Immigration Profiles is the only

exhaustive

source for this information available in one place.

Voted as part of the Senate Judiciary Committee to end chain

migration and crack

down on illegal immigration in 1996

 

Voted in 1996 to continue chain migration

 

Voted to strip legal reforms from 1996 bill

 

Voted in favor of chain migration in 1996

Voted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in

2000.

 

 

 

Voted in 2000 to triple the number of

H-1B visas available annually

 

 

 

Voted in committee to maintain

H-1B cap increase in 2000

 

Voted in committee against including

worker safeguards in H-1B bill in 1998

 

 

Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans

to make room for foreign workers in 1998

 

Voted to grant amnesty to nearly one million

illegal aliens

 

Tried to kill voluntary pilot programs

for workplace verification in 1996 "

 

 

 

for more details click on:

http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=MI & VIPID=401

 

" August 19, 2003

Spencer Abraham: Bush's Dangerous Energy Secretary

By Debbie Schlussel

 

Since the Blackout of 2003, he's gotten lots of TV face time. But

should U.S.

energy policy be entrusted to Spencer Abraham?

 

In 2000, President Bush said his Cabinet would " look like America, "

nominating

Abraham, the defeated Lebanese-American Senator from Michigan, to

Energy

Secretary--part of the Bush strategy targeting the Arab vote.

 

But was this political strategy in the best interest of the country?

Abraham's

record suggests otherwise.

 

In the two years since 9/11, Abraham did absolutely nothing to

improve our

precarious electric power situation.

 

That would be bad enough.

 

But, since 9/11, Abraham continued a controversial UN-sponsored

program allowing

foreign visitors from countries on the State Department terrorist

list to tour

U.S. nuclear reactors. A course sponsored by the UN International

Atomic Energy

Agency, taught by U.S. nuclear weapons lab security personnel, gives

tours of

Nuclear Regulatory Commission facilities and teaches participants

from 57

countries--including Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia--security

techniques employed

at American nuclear sites. " They were teaching them to black out

systems, which

they could use against us at labs, " an official told a popular

newssite.

 

The Clinton Administration taught the course to foreign

representatives, too.

But that was pre-9/11. In the post-9/11 era, Abraham irresponsibly

continued it,

despite protests.

 

Then there's Jamal Barzinji. Abraham enlisted him to find parties

who helped and

reached out to Muslims after 9/11, with Abraham hosting an awards

ceremony for

them. Problem is, Barzinji is an officer and/or director in SAFA

Trust, Mar-Jac

Poultry, and International Institute for Islamic Thought, all raided

by Customs

in March 2002 for laundering over $1.7 billion to Al-Quaida and

Islamic Jihad

(through indicted University of South Florida professor and alleged

Islamic

Jihad frontman Sami Al-Arian).

 

More troubling is Abraham's Senate record, ignored by his former

Senate

colleagues in an easy confirmation hearing.

 

Should a Senator who deliberately endangered national security for

Arab/Muslim

votes and campaign money be entrusted to oversee U.S. energy policy

and access?

 

Abraham's frightening national security record included:

 

Liberal immigration policy, including lax foreign visitor tracking,

at the

behest of Arab/Muslim groups

 

Abraham was Senate Immigration Subcommittee Chairman through the end

of 2000.

Abraham routinely caved to the demands of Arab/Muslim leaders, such

as the Arab

American Institute's James Zogby, on national security matters,

especially

immigration.

 

" Ever since (I first met) him, Abraham has been coming to us and

giving advice,

support and the benefits of his leadership, " Zogby told The Detroit

News.

 

And taking Zogby's advice, too.

 

Abraham actively worked to delay computer systems to track foreign

visitors,

which Arab/Muslim groups, including Zogby's, strongly opposed. 1996

immigration

law required computerized entry and exit tracking of all temporary

visas, but

was gutted by Abraham and other legislators. They refused to

allocate money for

the program and delayed its full implementation until 2005. In 2000,

Abraham, as

Chairman of the Immigration Subcommittee, delayed implementation of

other

requirements of the 1996 immigration measure, including university-

assisted

enforcement student visa laws and collection of fees from foreign

students to

pay for computer tracking.

 

These programs might have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks. But Abraham

desperately craved the Arab/Muslim vote in Michigan.

 

Foreign aid funding for Hezbollah, rewarded by pseudo-foreign

campaign

contributions

 

In July 2000, Abraham sought over $268 million in tax-funded USAID

grants for

Hezbollah terrorist-controlled Southern Lebanon, at Zogby's request.

Iranian-

and Syrian-backed Hezbollah, has targeted and murdered many

Americans. Millions

in similar USAID grants (which have scant strings and accountability

attached)

to Afghanistan were misspent on Taliban terrorist activities.

Abraham enlisted

Michigan Republican Congressman Joe Knollenberg, on the House

International

Relations Committee, to push the questionable aid package in the

House.

 

Abraham and Knollenberg were repaid for their efforts, receiving

thousands in

campaign contributions from Nijad Fares, the Houston-based greencard-

holding son

of Syrian-backed Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares.

 

Soft on terrorism

 

Abraham was one of only two U.S. Senators who refused to sign an

October 2000

letter to President Clinton condemning terrorist acts by Yasser

Arafat and the

P.L.O.

 

Abraham led the nearly successful June 2001 attempt to reverse the

use of

classified evidence against terrorists, sponsoring the legislation

at the behest

of Islamist groups, including the American Muslim Association (AMA)

and the

American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC), both headed

by Agha

Saeed.

 

In July 1999, Abraham wrote to Saeed, AMA, and AMPCC asking their

support: " Your

efforts are truly needed in the political arena. . . . You can truly

make a

difference in the political and policy arenas, and I remain

committed to helping

you achieve that goal. "

 

But Saeed openly praised Palestinian terrorism as " armed resistance "

and

appeared at lectures and events sponsored by Hamas front groups,

including one

panel, in which he was joined by the indicted Al-Arian,

entitled: " Zionism: A

Racist and Colonialist Ideology. " AMA-sponsored events featured these

exhortations: " The trees and the stones will say, oh Muslim, there

is a Jew

hiding behind me. Come and kill him! " " Victory comes from Allah and

Hezbollah is

our model. " " Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of

Hamas. "

 

Given Spencer Abraham's record of kowtowing to Arab, Muslim, and

foreign

interests on virtually every national security issue, his hegemony

at Energy is

disturbing. He should control no form of power--political or

electric. "

 

 

Posted by Debbie at August 19, 2003 08:55 AM "

 

 

source:

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2003/08/by_debbie_schlu.html

 

 

" Wahhabi Lobby Spreads Its Wealth; Terrorist sympathizers Abdurahman

Alamoudi and Sami al-Arian used donations to federal lawmakers as a

means of manipulating antiterror policymaking - The Nation

Byline: J. Michael Waller, INSIGHT

On Sept. 11, 2001, as people around the world opened their hearts

and their checkbooks to victims of the terrorist attacks on New York

City and Washington, a prominent Muslim activist laid out $3,000 of

his own. But he didn't have the victims in mind. He used the

occasion to help re-elect one of his favorite federal lawmakers: a

feisty left-winger who kept the FBI in her political

crosshairs.According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records,

Abdurahman Alamoudi wrote two checks that day totaling $3,000 to the

campaign committee of Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia Democrat

who would spend the next and last year of her short tenure in office

attacking President George W. Bush and the post-9/11 war on

terrorism. Twelve months after McKinney's electoral defeat, in

September 2003, Alamoudi would be a federal prisoner facing

allegations that he laundered money from Libya to finance his

political activity in Washington and that he served as a Virginia-

based paymaster for terrorists whose members included al-Qaeda.

 

 

 

He was caught in London with a suitcase containing $380,000 in cash

that he admitted he had been given in Libya.

In Tampa, Fla., the alleged chief of the North American cell of the

Palestinian Islamic Jihad had been buying political access of his

own. Sami al-Arian, a University of South Florida computer-science

professor and prominent Muslim activist, handed out $1,000

contributions to McKinney and other lawmakers during a short burst

of political giving between 1998 and 2001. Al-Arian, Alamoudi and

some of their close associates, who collectively are alleged to have

formed a terrorist-support network across the United States, bought

themselves political access and political cover in Washington in

what appear to have been attempts to undermine existing federal

counterterrorism laws and weaken new laws as they were being enacted.

 

 

 

The individual sums are not a lot, say critics. But when taken

together, and compared with the campaign contributions of other

identified leaders of what has become known as the " Wahhabi lobby, "

a pattern emerges. Members of Islamist terrorist groups in the

United States and their followers appear to have channeled their

campaign contributions to elect or re-elect lawmakers from both

parties who for the most part have had significant roles to play in

the war against terrorism.

So far these radicals appear to have had little success. Most of

their candidates either lost the elections or returned the money.

Some of the recipients were candidates of Arab or Muslim heritage.

Others were lawmakers liberal or libertarian enough to be counted on

to challenge counterterrorism laws that directly affected Alamoudi

and al-Arian's alleged terrorist-support operations inside the

United States. Several were members of congressional committees

concerned with judiciary, law-enforcement and counterterrorism

issues and with budgetary power and oversight of the FBI.

Alamoudi's first registered campaign contribution was a $500 check

in 1997 to Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio Democrat now running for

president. Subsequently he would donate to Reps. David Bonior (D-

Mich.), Tom Campbell (R-Calif.), Jim Moran (D-Va.) and John Sununu

(R-N.H.), as well as Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-Mich.), now U.S.

secretary of energy. He also donated $1,000 each to the Senate

campaign of former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, on May 25,

2000, and to the presidential campaign of Texas then-governor George

W. Bush five days later. FEC files show that Bush returned the

contribution on Oct. 25, 2000, with Clinton, Bonior, Moran and

Sununu following suit.

 

 

 

Al-Arian's first legal campaign contribution on record was a $200

donation in 1998 to re-elect his local congressman, Rep. Jim Davis

(D-Fla.), according to FEC records. Between 1999 and early 2001, the

Islamist leader and his wife, Nahla, gave larger, multiple

contributions to the campaigns of McKinney ($2,000), Bonior ($3,200)

and Campbell ($1,300). Nahla al-Arian also made at least one $1,000

contribution to the campaign of Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), then-

chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which was responsible for

antiterrorism legislation. Hyde ordered the money be given to

charity upon learning of the al-Arian connection, his friend,

Chicago attorney David Schippers, tells Insight.

The al-Arians told reporters that they volunteered to help the Bush

presidential campaign in the summer of 2000. Their son, Mohammed,

worked for Bonior as an intern in 2001.

Alamoudi also donated at least $1,000 to Bonior's campaign, which

returned the money on the same day, FEC records show. Bonior left

the House in a failed attempt to run for governor of Michigan in

2002. Records obtained through Opensecrets.com indicate that Bonior

did not return the contributions from Nahla and Sami al-Arian.

Leaders of Alamoudi's American Muslim Council (AMC) and American

Muslim Foundation funneled at least $58,400 to a handful of

candidates in the last three election cycles, with a former Alamoudi

deputy contributing another $24,950 in that same period, according

to a compilation distributed by the Center for Security Policy based

on FEC filings.

 

 

 

What did the Islamic Jihad leader and the al-Qaeda funder stand to

gain from their modest political contributions? Their public

statements at the time show they wanted Congress to do away with

provisions of the 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty

Act, which allowed federal authorities to use classified information

as a basis on which to hold foreign terrorist suspects and to deny

that information to the suspects' defense attorneys. The thinking

behind the law, congressional sources say, was to allow domestic law-

enforcement services to use foreign intelligence as evidence on

which to detain and deport the foreign suspects. Much of that

intelligence could not be revealed to the defense because it would

put the sources of that intelligence in physical danger.

Alamoudi and al-Arian received the active support of Rep. Campbell,

who had a Pakistani-American staffer serve as point man on the

issue. That staffer, according to the program and subsequent AMC

newsletter, spoke to an event for training Muslim activists on " How

to Lobby Congress. " The published agenda of the AMC's June 2001

national conference shows that al-Arian was another AMC lobbying

coach who helped train activists from around the country in lobbying

Congress. Campbell left Congress in 2002 in an unsuccessful campaign

for the U.S. Senate.

 

 

 

Other figures implicated in federal investigations of alleged

Wahhabi terrorist financial operations in the United States include

Jamal Barzinji of Herndon, Va. A board member of Alamoudi's AMC

organization, Barzinji is a longtime supporter of al-Arian,

according to federal investigators

The FEC records show that Barzinji donated to the campaigns of

former Sen. Abraham and of Reps. Bonior, Campbell, McKinney, Moran

and others. Moran returned $3,750 to Barzinji in October 2002.

 

 

 

David Kane, a senior special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Customs

and Border Protection, testified in a March 20, 2002, affidavit to

U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Carroll Buchanan that Barzinji is a

major figure among " a group of individuals that are suspected of

providing material support to terrorists, money laundering and tax

evasion through the use of a variety of related for-profit companies

and ostensible charitable entities under their control. "

Barzinji, through a lawyer, insists he is innocent. Kane, however,

alleges that Barzinji " committed and conspired to commit the

following offenses: transit money internationally for the purpose of

promoting offenses against foreign nations involving murder or the

destruction of property by means of explosive, fire, kidnapping or

extortion ...; provide material support or resources to foreign

terrorist organizations ...; and provide material support or conceal

or disguise the source of ownership of material support intended for

use in preparation for or in carrying out a terrorist act. "

Kane also told the judge that Barzinji is " closely associated " with

the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and with Hamas.

J. Michael Waller is a senior writer for Insight magazine. "

 

 

 

source:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2003_Nov_24/ai_1103641

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" By JILL GARDINER

Staff Reporter of the Sun

February 1, 2007

Tonight's (American Israel Public Affairs Committee at the Marriott

Marquis in Times Square) dinner comes nearly two months after Mr.

Edwards tapped a former Michigan congressman and vocal critic of

Israel, David Bonior, to run his campaign. The candidate's choice of

Mr. Bonior elicited a puzzled response and put a damper on support

from the pro- Israel community. "

source: http://www.nysun.com/article/47843

 

" Militant Muslims and the GOP: The Islamic Institute was founded by

Republicans to reach out to conservative Muslims, but critics say

its leaders have anti-Israel and pro-terrorist connections - Nation:

Coalition Politics

Despite those denials, Saffuri did not condemn Hezbollah and Hamas

when INSIGHT gave him the opportunity to do so. Instead, he spoke of

moral equivalence between the terrorist groups and the Israeli

government. " I always condemn all attacks on civilians as terrorism,

whether it's done by Hamas, whether it's done by Hezbollah, whether

it's done by Israeli soldiers. "

 

 

 

Some also question Saffuri's claims to be a conservative Republican.

The Islamic Institute Website features photos of him with Bill

Clinton and other Democratic politicians. Federal Election

Commission records show that in 2000, as executive director of the

Islamic Institute, he gave money to liberal " anti-Israel " Democrats

David Bonior of Michigan, Jim Moran of Virginia and Nick Rahall of

West Virginia. " I support them on certain issues, " Saffuri

says. " Bonior is pro-life, Nick Rahall is against gun control and

Jim Moran's my congressman and a good friend. "

 

 

 

And in late October last year, during Republican Rick Lazio's

campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, Saffuri signed up with his

Islamic Institute affiliation to a statement with eight other groups

condemning Lazio for " anti-Muslim racism " declaring: " Mr. Lazio is

trying to turn Muslims into the Willie Horton of 2000. " Lazio had

made an issue of Clinton taking contributions from Saffuri's old

boss Alamoudi and from a fund-raiser sponsored by another Islamist

group, the American Muslim Alliance, whose president had called for

the use of " armed force " against Israel. Under fire, Clinton

returned the contributions. Saffuri stands by the statement he

signed.

David Silverstein, a Republican political consultant, says Lazio was

not attacking Muslims, but going after terrorist

sympathizers. " Lazio's efforts to expose the efforts of some

individuals in colluding with the Democratic Party are in retrospect

100 percent on the money " he says.

 

 

Silverstein adds, " It's hard to imagine how anyone can assume the

Islamic Institute or Khaled Saffuri can act on behalf of Republicans

when both have a long history of promoting the Democratic Party and

its constituents. "

JOHN BERLAU IS A WRITER FOR Insight. "

 

 

SOURCE:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_45_17/ai_80681417/pg_4