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D.C. Muslim group's shocking al-Qaida ties
CAIR's
terror connections extend to Enemy No. 1
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.
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Omar Abdul Rahman
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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."
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.
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:
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Ismail Royer
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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.
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Adnan el-Shukrijumah
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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.
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Ibrahim Hooper
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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
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Anwar Aulaqi
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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.
Muslim Mafia:
Inside the Secret
Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America
By P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry
NEW from WND Books:
You've heard about the courageous young investigators who covertly
videotaped officials of ACORN advocating illegal activities.
Now, get ready for an undercover exposé even more daring and audacious
– a six-month penetration of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
that resulted in the collection of thousands of pages of revealing
documents as well as inside secrets.
Some key smoking-gun revelations detailed in "Muslim Mafia"
include:
- New evidence that CAIR was launched to support
the Hamas terrorist group, and has transferred tens of thousands of
dollars to a group recently convicted as Hamas' top fundraising arm in
the U.S. - money that ended up aiding terrorist attacks on Israelis and
Americans;
- Internal documents showing CAIR, despite claims
of cooperating with law enforcement, actively works behind the scenes
to mislead and deceive the FBI on behalf of terrorism suspects - and
has even cultivated Muslim moles inside law enforcement who have tipped
off FBI terror targets;
- CAIR is more closely tied to al-Qaida than
previously reported;
- CAIR claims to represent all Muslim Americans,
however, it has victimized some 100 indigent Muslims in a massive fraud
and threatened them when they tried to go to the media; and internally,
personnel complaints reveal CAIR discriminates against Shiite Muslims
and Muslim women within its own headquarters;
- CAIR and its sister fronts are funded by
foreign Muslim Brotherhood sources;
- CAIR leaders share the Muslim Brotherhood's
ultimate goal to replace the U.S. Constitution with Shariah law;
- The Muslim Brotherhood investment in corporate
America will be used to pressure U.S. companies into compliance with
Islamic principles.
You'll also learn how radical Muslims in the U.S. are working to
support Palestinian terrorists, destroy Israel, gut U.S. anti-terrorism
laws, loosen U.S. Muslim immigration policies and convert Americans to
Islam.
These shocking revelations and more are catalogued and exposed in "Muslim
Mafia" – an exciting true story that promises to ignite a wake-up
call for America and all those who believe in our enduring freedoms!
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