D.C. Muslim group's shocking al-Qaida ties CAIR's terror connections extend beyond Hamas to Enemy No. 1

(Analyst's note:  Absolutely must read this insight to America's enemy within our borders.  Are we going to wait until they "commit a crime" before we act?)

from WorldNetDaily

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations' ties to terrorism are not limited to Hamas and cross over to al-Qaida, America's No. 1 enemy, a top-selling new book alleges.

In just one of several shocking and previously unreported findings, "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America" details a secret meeting between CAIR's founding chairman and al-Qaida's spiritual leader in America – blind Sheik Omar Abdul-Rahman – who is now a convicted terrorist. Al-Qaida's top leaders have vowed revenge for the federal imprisonment of the Egyptian-born cleric.

CAIR has come under fire in the past for supporting the Blind Sheik, who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing investigation. But the group maintains "this is a lie. No evidence substantiating this falsehood has ever been offered."

Omar Ahmad

However, "Muslim Mafia" – co-authored by former federal agent P. David Gaubatz and investigative journalist Paul Sperry – reveals that around the time the Blind Sheik was plotting to bomb major New York landmarks, he traveled from New York to San Jose, Calif., to meet privately with Omar M. Ahmad, CAIR's long-time chairman, who is now under active federal investigation.

The CAIR leader allegedly hosted the senior al-Qaida figure and his phalanx of bodyguards at his home, according to the book. Just a few years later, the Blind Sheik's longtime Egyptian friend Ayman al-Zawahiri, now second in command of al-Qaida, showed up at a San Jose mosque led by Ahmad and other Muslim Brotherhood figures. The mosque hosted a fundraiser for him.

Omar Abdul Rahman

Ahmad, aka Omar Yehia, this year abruptly stepped down from CAIR's national board after U.S. prosecutors named him an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal plot led by the Holy Land Foundation charity to underwrite Palestinian terrorism. The trial, which ended in convictions on all 108 felony counts, marked the largest terror-financing case in U.S. history.

"During that trial," assistant FBI Director Richard C. Powers this April wrote in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, "evidence was introduced that demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders (including its current President Emeritus and its Executive Director) and ... HAMAS, which was designated as a terrorist organization in 1995." 

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D.C. Muslim group's shocking al-Qaida ties
CAIR's terror connections extend beyond Hamas to Enemy No. 1

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Posted: October 20, 2009
1:55 am Eastern

© 2009 WorldNetDaily
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations' ties to terrorism are not limited to Hamas and cross over to al-Qaida, America's No. 1 enemy, a top-selling new book alleges.
In just one of several shocking and previously unreported findings, "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America" details a secret meeting between CAIR's founding chairman and al-Qaida's spiritual leader in America – blind Sheik Omar Abdul-Rahman – who is now a convicted terrorist. Al-Qaida's top leaders have vowed revenge for the federal imprisonment of the Egyptian-born cleric.
CAIR has come under fire in the past for supporting the Blind Sheik, who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing investigation. But the group maintains "this is a lie. No evidence substantiating this falsehood has ever been offered."

Omar Ahmad

However, "Muslim Mafia" – co-authored by former federal agent P. David Gaubatz and investigative journalist Paul Sperry – reveals that around the time the Blind Sheik was plotting to bomb major New York landmarks, he traveled from New York to San Jose, Calif., to meet privately with Omar M. Ahmad, CAIR's long-time chairman, who is now under active federal investigation.
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The CAIR leader allegedly hosted the senior al-Qaida figure and his phalanx of bodyguards at his home, according to the book. Just a few years later, the Blind Sheik's longtime Egyptian friend Ayman al-Zawahiri, now second in command of al-Qaida, showed up at a San Jose mosque led by Ahmad and other Muslim Brotherhood figures. The mosque hosted a fundraiser for him.

Omar Abdul Rahman

Ahmad, aka Omar Yehia, this year abruptly stepped down from CAIR's national board after U.S. prosecutors named him an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal plot led by the Holy Land Foundation charity to underwrite Palestinian terrorism. The trial, which ended in convictions on all 108 felony counts, marked the largest terror-financing case in U.S. history.
"During that trial," assistant FBI Director Richard C. Powers this April wrote in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, "evidence was introduced that demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders (including its current President Emeritus and its Executive Director) and ... HAMAS, which was designated as a terrorist organization in 1995."

But Hamas is not the only terrorist group connected to CAIR, which claims to be a moderate civil-rights advocacy group. Its ties to al-Qaida raise even more alarms.

Among other revelations in the heavily footnoted book, which is based on some 12,000 pages of confidential documents collected from inside CAIR's headquarters:

Ismail Royer

• A senior CAIR official, operating out of its national building, worked closely with the imam who ministered to some of the 9/11 hijackers and whom U.S. authorities now believe to be a top al-Qaida recruiter. Former CAIR civil-rights coordinator and spokesman Ismail Royer – who was hired by CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper – also led a jihadist group who trained to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan alongside an al-Qaida sleeper agent recently convicted of plotting to assassinate President Bush.
  
  
• According to visitors logs and other records obtained by "Muslim Mafia," CAIR's acting executive director met at CAIR's headquarters with relatives of the al-Qaida agent and personally traveled to Saudi Arabia with them demanding the confessed terrorist's release from the custody of Saudi police and the FBI.
  
  
• After 9/11, a former UAE defense minister who supplied Osama bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan took a controlling $978,000 stake in CAIR's headquarters property, located just three blocks from the U.S. Capitol. UAE served as the operational and financial base for the 9/11 hijackers.
  
  

  Adnan el-Shukrijumah

• As a secret U.S. underboss of the dangerous Brotherhood, which spawned both Hamas and al-Qaida, CAIR founder Ahmad helped support a pro-jihad Islamic compound in Guyana run by the father of the most wanted al-Qaida sleeper agent in the world – Adnan El-Shukrijuma. U.S. officials believe he has been handpicked by al-Qaida leadership to carry out a nuclear 9/11. His late father served as the Blind Sheik's interpreter.
  
  
• One of al-Qaida's top fundraisers in America – convicted terrorist Abdurahman Alamoudi – served as a CAIR board member.

CAIR denies ties to terror. "Nothing we do is illegal," CAIR Chairman Larry Shaw said.

And CAIR spokesman Hooper insists the group has condemned al-Qaida.

However in 2001, when most of the civilized world condemned bin Laden for attacking New York and Washington, CAIR abstained for more than three months, while blaming instead "the Zionist network" and demanding a halt to U.S. bombing in Afghanistan, bin Laden's home base.

Ibrahim Hooper

In an interview with journalist Jake Tapper, now with ABC News, Hooper refused to condemn bin Laden outright for 9/11, even after the government stated he was clearly responsible for the attacks.

In fact, CAIR didn't assign guilt to the 9/11 mastermind, even under direct questions from the press, until bin Laden incriminated himself in a videotape aired in December 2001. (And even in Hooper's belated press release, the group does not expressly condemn bin Laden. It merely concedes the undeniably obvious fact that he is connected to "the events of September 11.")

On the other hand, CAIR has suggested Jews were behind 9/11, the book says.
A month after the attacks, with Ground Zero still smoldering, "CAIR made outrageous claims that Mohamed Atta and other hijackers were alive, that Atta's passport was stolen, that the attacks were not caused by Muslims, and that the media should investigate the Israelis," it argues.

"What about the world Zionist network?" demanded CAIR's New York executive director Ghazi Khankan. "Why are you in the media not looking at them?"

CAIR has even rushed to the defense of al-Qaida's kingpin.

In 1998, after bin Laden was fingered for blowing up the U.S. embassies, CAIR demanded that Los Angeles-area billboards with his picture under the headline "Sworn Enemy" be taken down.  CAIR has received funding from two of bin Laden's favorite charities.

In 2000, for example, CAIR research director Mohamed Nimer solicited $18,000 from the Global Relief Foundation, reveals an internal letter featured in "Muslim Mafia."

The donation was made a year before the Bridgeview, Illinois-based foundation was shut down as a charitable front for al-Qaida. Global Relief, in fact, helped fund the bombings of the U.S. embassies, according to the Treasury Department.

And the U.S. offices of the Saudi-based International Islamic Relief Organization contributed at least $12,000 in financing to CAIR. The Treasury Department has blacklisted IIRO's branches in the Philippines and Indonesia for fundraising for al-Qaida and affiliated terrorist groups.  CAIR has maintained that it receives "no foreign support." However, "Muslim Mafia" uncovered wire transfers showing members of the Saudi royal government pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars directly into CAIR's bank account at Citibank.

Cementing CAIR's support for bin Laden is a 2004 political "talking points" memo found by the authors in CAIR chief Awad's personal files dealing with the agenda of the so-called American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections, which CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood fronts formed after 9/11 to help elect more sympathetic politicians, including the president. The memo is basically a wish list for pro-Islamist changes in Washington policy.

Under the heading "American-Islamic Relations," which are the last three words in CAIR's name, the memo recommends Washington abandon Israel and start currying favor with bin Laden and al-Qaida to avoid another 9/11.

Under talking point No. 8, the memo advises the U.S. to "attempt to understand Islamic movements in the area, and start supporting Islamic groups including Mr. bin Laden and his associates."

CAIR and the 9/11 imam
 

Anwar Aulaqi

The 9/11 imam, top al-Qaida recruiter Anwar Aulaqi, is considered a rock star among jihadists, and has cultivated some fans among CAIR officials. Hooper's protege Royer and his terrorist cell chauffeured Aulaqi around Washington as he looked for new terrorist recruits. Prosecutors also found his phone number stored on their cell phones.

Currently heading his booster club within the organization, with Royer now behind bars, is the civil-rights coordinator for CAIR's Los Angeles chapter, Affad Shaikh, who has listened to Aulaqi's lectures and posted links to his Web site on his blog Muslamics, the book says.

Shaikh, who in 2008 was questioned by Homeland Security agents near San Diego, appears to have a death wish.

"In death there is something to celebrate," he recently wrote on his blog in a post titled "Celebrating Death." The essay mirrors one Aulaqi previously posted on another Web site titled "Why Muslims Love Death."

"Our culture of martyrdom needs to be revived," the imam preaches, "because the enemy of Allah fears nothing more than our love of death."Global Islamic domination is the goal.

"We will implement the rule of Allah on earth by the tip of the sword whether the masses like it or not," Aulaqi has written.

The U.S. Justice Department recently blacklisted CAIR as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator and a U.S.-based front for the dangerous Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide jihadist movement that seeks to institutionalize Shariah law in America through mass conversion and political infiltration.

The FBI last year severed ties to CAIR, citing evidence that its leaders were participating in an "ongoing" conspiracy to support terrorists.

An FBI official in Washington says the Brotherhood and al-Qaida share the same goals but use different methods to achieve them.

 

"The only difference between the guys in the suits and the guys with the AK-47s is timing and tactics," "Muslim Mafia" quotes the official saying.

U.S. decision can't wait for Afghan legitimacy: Gates

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - The United States cannot wait for problems surrounding the legitimacy of the Afghan government to be resolved before making a decision on troops, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said. ....

Sharia advancing in Iraq -- for non-Muslims, too

Democracy on the march. "Sharia slowly advancing in Najaf and Basra, for non-Muslims too," by Layla Yousif Rahema for Asia News, October 20 (thanks to C. Cantoni): ....

Saudi Arabia: 70 lashes for text messages

by Robert Spencer

Couldn't she just have put him on her blocked list? Isn't a sentence of 70 lashes rather severe in this case? Maybe, but it is not out of sync with the draconian character of Sharia in general. Sharia Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places: "181 love messages = 70 flogs," by Abdullah Bajubair for Al-Eqtisadiah via Arab News, October 13 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): ....

Joe Biden Says We Are In A Depression

by Erick Erickson

I thought the stimulus was working.

Sean Hannity brings us some video of Joe Biden this week contradicting everything we have heard from the White House so far. According to Joe Biden, the American economy is not in a recession, but a depression.

We’ve got the video. And we owe Hannity a big thanks because you and I both know everyone else would bury this but for Sean and Fox News. No wonder the White House has declared war on them.

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Video: Fox News Reacts to White House Urging Other Networks to Disregard Them

Does Sharia Law Promote Women’s Rights?

(Analyst's note:  What are we now propagating out of our tax-payer supported White House?  Absolute rubbish re women's rights.)

by Cinnamon Stillwell

In thinking about women’s rights, sharia law, or Islamic law, doesn’t typically come to mind.  Yet, according to a survey conducted by Dalia Mogahed, executive director and senior analyst of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and appointee to President Obama’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the two are closely intertwined. Her survey alleges that a majority of Muslim women believe sharia law should either be the primary source or one source of legislation in their countries, while viewing Western personal freedoms as harmful to women.

.... Claiming that the brutality of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the mullahs in Iran are distortions of sharia law rather than examples of its true implementation, Nawaz promised that under the proposed caliphate, rulers would be democratically elected and accountable to the people, while women’s rights would be protected.

.... She spoke last month by phone to the UK-based Islam Channel women’s television program “Muslimah Dilemma.” Hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the Islamist organization Hizb ut Tahrirhere; complete transcript here) presented a biased, pro-Islamist platform for discussing Muslim women’s rights. Hizb ut Tahrir’s self-described objective is “to resume the Islamic way of life by establishing an Islamic State that executes the systems of Islam and carries its call to the world.”  (Party of Liberation), and featuring national women’s media representative for Hizb ut Tahrir, Nazreen Nawaz, the interview (view

Claiming that the brutality of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the mullahs in Iran are distortions of sharia law rather than examples of its true implementation, Nawaz promised that under the proposed caliphate, rulers would be democratically elected and accountable to the people, while women’s rights would be protected. ....

 

Sharia-compliant feminism: Dalia Mogahed claims that Islamic law protects women’s rights.

9/11 Families Demand Military Trials for Gitmo Detainees

Mary Novotny, 72,  says she never thought she'd become an activist but as the White House evaluates how to close the detention facility on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, she is riling up families of Sept. 11, 2001 victims to demand military trials for the remaining detainees.

It's official! U.S. government is bankrupt 'It's only a matter of time before the public realizes it'

(Analyst's note:  Absolutely must read.)

from Jerome Corsie's Red Alert reports

The real 2008 federal budget deficit was $5.1 trillion, not the $455 billion previously reported by the Congressional Budget Office, according to the 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government released by the U.S. Department of Treasury, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.

The difference between the $455 billion "official" budget deficit numbers and the $5.1 trillion budget deficit based on data reported in the 2008 financial report is that the official budget deficit is calculated on a cash basis, where all tax receipts, including Social Security tax receipts, are used to pay government liabilities as they occur.

The calculations in the 2008 financial report are calculated on a GAAP basis ("Generally Accepted Accounting Practices") that includes year-for-year changes in the net present value of unfunded liabilities in social insurance programs

such as Social Security and Medicare. Under cash accounting, the government makes no provision for future Social Security and Medicare benefits in the year in which those benefits accrue.

Economist John Williams, who publishes the website Shadow Government Statistics, told Corsi, "As bad as 2008 was, the $455 billion budget deficit on a cash basis and the $5.1 trillion federal budget deficit on a GAAP accounting basis does reflect any significant money reflected to the financial bailout or Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, which was approved after the close of the fiscal year."

He continued, "For 2009, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the fiscal year 2009 budget deficit as being $1.2 trillion on a cash basis, and that was before taking into consideration the full costs of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, before the cost of the Obama nearly $800 billion economic stimulus plan, or the cost of the second $350 billion tranche in TARP funds, as well as all current bailouts being contemplated by the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve."

Williams told Corsi the federal government's deficit is hemorrhaging at a pace that threatens the viability of the financial system. He said the 2009 budget deficit will clearly exceed $2 trillion on a cash basis and the full amount must be funded by Treasury borrowing. He noted that it's not likely to happen without the Federal Reserve acting as lender of last resort by buying Treasury debt and monetizing the debt.

Corsi explained, "'Monetizing the debt' is a term used to signify that the U.S. Treasury will ultimately be required to print cash to meet Treasury debt obligations, acting in this capacity only because the Treasury cannot sell the huge amount of debt elsewhere, possibly not even to the Federal Reserve."

So far, the Treasury has been largely dependent upon foreign buyers, principally China and Japan and other major holders of U.S. dollar foreign exchange reserves, including Middle East oil-producing nations purchasing U.S. debt through their financial agents in London.

"The appetite of foreign buyers to purchase continued trillions of U.S. debt has become more questionable as the world has witnessed the rapid deterioration of the U.S. fiscal condition in the current financial crisis," Williams noted.

Corsi wrote, "The sad reality is that the U.S. Treasury has not reserved any funds to cover the future Social Security and Medicare obligations we are incurring today."

Williams said there are no funds held in reserve today for Social Security and Medicare obligations each year. He said it's only a matter of time until the public realizes that the government is truly bankrupt.

Corsi wrote that if President Obama adds universal health care to list of entitlement payments the federal government is obligated to pay, the negative net worth of the United States government will only get worse.

Calculations from the 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government show that the GAAP negative net worth of the federal government has increased to $59.3 trillion, while the total federal obligations under GAAP accounting now total $65.5 trillion.

Williams explained the federal government is truly bankrupt and argued that in a post-Enron world, if the federal government were a corporation such as General Motors, "the president and senior Treasury officers would be in federal penitentiary." ....

Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets

By Noah Shachtman

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.

Visible crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. (It doesn’t touch closed social networks, like Facebook, at the moment.) Customers get customized, real-time feeds of what’s being said on these sites, based on a series of keywords.

“That’s kind of the basic step — get in and monitor,” says company senior vice president Blake Cahill.

Then Visible “scores” each post, labeling it as positive or negative, mixed or neutral. It examines how influential a conversation or an author is. (”Trying to determine who really matters,” as Cahill puts it.) Finally, Visible gives users a chance to tag posts, forward them to colleagues and allow them to response through a web interface.

In-Q-Tel says it wants Visible to keep track of foreign social media, and give spooks “early-warning detection on how issues are playing internationally,” spokesperson Donald Tighe tells Danger Room.

Of course, such a tool can also be pointed inward, at domestic bloggers or tweeters. Visible already keeps tabs on web 2.0 sites for Dell, AT&T and Verizon. For Microsoft, the company is monitoring the buzz on its Windows 7 rollout. For Spam-maker Hormel, Visible is tracking animal-right activists’ online campaigns against the company.

“Anything that is out in the open is fair game for collection,” says Steven Aftergood, who tracks intelligence issues at the Federation of American Scientists. But “even if information is openly gathered by intelligence agencies it would still be problematic if it were used for unauthorized domestic investigations or operations. Intelligence agencies or employees might be tempted to use the tools at their disposal to compile information on political figures, critics, journalists or others, and to exploit such information for political advantage.

That is not permissible even if all of the information in question is technically ‘open source.’”