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"[Grover] Norquist started the Islamic Free Market Institute. In
collaboration with [Karl] Rove, Bush's chief political adviser, he
and other institute leaders courted Muslim voters for the Bush 2000
presidential campaign. . . . To run the nonprofit's day-to-day
operations, Norquist turned to Khalid Saffuri, a Palestinian-
American raised in Kuwait. The institute's founding chairman was a
Palestinian American, Talat Othman, who had served with Mr. Bush on
the board of Harken Energy Corp.
Talat Othman has been "a longtime associate and supporter of
President Bush's family [who] gave a
benediction at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia
in August 2000 ... Othman is on the board of Norquist's Islamic
Institute, which received $20,000.00 from the Safa Trust, one of
the Treasury raid's targets. The president of the Safa Trust, Jamal
Barzinji, is a business associate of Youssef Nada, whose assets
were frozen after being designated a person suspected of giving aid
to terrorists."
Yousef Nada was a Nazi collaborator during WW II: "... known to the
Egyptian [intelligence] services, who have evidence of his
membership in the armed branch of the fraternity of the Muslim
Brothers
in the 1940's. At that time, according to the same sources, he was
working for the Abwehr under Admiral Canaris and took part in a
plot against King Farouk ..."
"Othman was a front man for [Abdullah Taha] Bakhsh, who acquired a
17.6 percent stake in Harken Energy Corp. in the 1980s. Serving
alongside Othman as Harken corporate officer: George W. Bush."
This, then, is the "shadowy network" behind the 9/11 hijackers ...
Where did several of the 9-11 "hijackers" spend the night on
September 10, 2001?
"5 of the hijackers lived in a motel right outside the gates of the
NSA"-- BBC News, June 8, 2002.
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Date: January 7, 2007 2:26:26 PM PST
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Subject: REPUBLICAN PARTY TIES TO THREE "9/11 HIJACKERS"
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Islamic "Terrorist" Leaders and their Republican Supporters
Precisely who are the "radical Muslim leaders" waging a "terrorist
war" on the United States ... Why are many of them -- and their key
financial fronts -- tied up with powerful REPUBLICANS in the
nation's seat of power ... Many "Islamic terrorist leaders" are
well-financed coevals of ... Grover Norquist ... Colin Powell ...
Heritage Education Trust ... G.W. Bush ... It is true that blood-
letting fascists are waging war on a drugged, celebrity-
worshipping, hedonistic, belligerent, xenophobic, dumbed-down
American populace -- but the radicals behind it aren't the
"Islamo-"variety ...
REPUBLICAN PARTY TIES TO THREE "9/11 HIJACKERS"
By Alex Constantine
Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman al-Hussayen was in the thick of it, all
right. On Sept. 10, 2001, three of the 9/11 hijackers stayed in
same hotel as the Saudi "Minister for the Holy Places," England's
Telegraph reported three years after the event: "A senior Saudi
Arabian official stayed at the same hotel as three September 11
hijackers the night before the suicide attacks. American
investigators are trying to make sense of the disclosure that Saleh
Ibn Abdul Rahman al-Hussayen, who returned to Saudi Arabia shortly
after the attacks, stayed at the Marriott Residence Inn in Herndon,
Virginia."
David Nevin, his nephew's American attorney, denied "any sinister
aspects to the older man's travels. ... Mr.pp Hussayen became
president of the affairs of the Holy Mosque in Mecca and the
Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the two most sacred sites in Islam,
five months after the attacks. Sources said he was already a
prominent figure in the world of Saudi-funded charities."
But the "prominent figure" lost all equanimity when asked to
explain ...
Hussayen was questioned by the F.B.I. after the air commando
operations that levelled the World Trade Center ... and he "feigned
a seizure," quaking and choking and "prompting the agents to take
him to a hospital, where the attending physicians found nothing
wrong with him..."[1]
The agents suggested that the Saudi "epileptic" should be detained
and questioned, but "as soon as flights resumed on Sept 19, Mr.
Hussayen and his wife flew home." Oops.
The F.B.I. later learned that while touring in the States, Sheikh
Hussayen "visited or contacted several Saudi-sponsored charities
now accused of links to terrorist groups."
Prosecutors later maintained that Hussayen had financed the Islamic
Assembly of North America, accused of distributing "the teachings
of two Saudi clerics who advocate violence against the United
States. His nephew, Sami Omar Hussayen, a computer student, is in
federal detention in Idaho on charges of visa fraud, accused of
failing to disclose his role as an internet webmaster for IANA."
Federal court filings alleged that the son administered "an
internet site for IANA that expressly advocated suicide attacks and
using airliners as weapons. IANA received about £2 million from
abroad since 1995, court papers allege, including £60,000 from
Saleh al-Hussayen."
Kim Lindquist, an assistant federal attorney assigned to the
investigation of Hussayen in Boise, Idaho, said: "We're
investigating the IANA. We have the money
flowing to the IANA through the nephew from the uncle. We have the
uncle visiting the United States just prior to September 11, and
upon his return to the East Coast he's in the same hotel as the
hijackers. According to F.B.I. agents he feigns a seizure. It is
something that we cannot ignore."
Lindquist wanted to "take the extra step" of connecting Saudi
rulers to September 11 because the Sheik's journeys and contacts
are seen as a 'road map' of how "Saudi money has poured into the
United States" in support of Wahhabism, the puritanical and
intolerant form of Islam backed by the Saudi royal family."[2]
A couple of weeks after this belated story on Hussayen appeared,
the wires reported that recently unsealed court documents exposed a
furtive group of "Muslim charities and businesses in Northern
Virginia [that funneled millions of dollars to foreign terrorists
-- and the network was set up with donations from a wealthy
(unnamed) Saudi family."
An affidavit from Homeland Security's David Kane charged that the
Safa Group in Herndon had pipelined "more than $26 million in
untraceable money overseas and that leaders of the organization
have committed and conspired to ... provide material support to
foreign terrorist organizations. The probe of the Herndon groups is
the largest federal investigation of terrorism financing in the
world." There was no innocent explanation "for the use of layers
and layers of transactions between Safa Group companies and
charities other than to throw law enforcement authorities off the
trail," Kane said.
Now, the express purpose of the Safa Group, "set up primarily with
donations from a wealthy Saudi family, was to fund terrorism and
hide millions of dollars." Kane insisted that the dizzying nature
of "the myriad financial transactions and the fact that much of the
money was sent to tax havens with bank secrecy laws make it
impossible to trace the final destination of much of the money."[3]
But, once again, the trail going the other way, back to the source
of "terrorist" funding, led to the District of Columbia. The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports:
• "G.O.P. heavyweight Grover Norquist, a former board member of the
foundation," was a Safa apologist. Norquist "said the group is not
political; rather it is focused on educational issues..."
• "The men have given more than $84,000 since 1990 to a variety of
federal candidates and political groups, including $5,500 to Energy
Secretary Spencer Abraham, a Michigan Republican, and $4,000 to
former Rep. Lee Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat, according to the
Center for Responsive Politics, a political watchdog group."
• "The main leaders of the Safa Group of companies include ... Taha
Alalwani, a naturalized American citizen who runs an Islamic
graduate school where nine of the 12 Muslim chaplains in the U.S.
military have been trained."
• "Khaled Saffuri, head of the Washington-based Islamic Free Market
Institute Foundation, was at the April 4 luncheon with the former
treasury secretary... Saffuri, who has met with many top-level
administration officials in recent years, including
Secretary of State Colin Powell and F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller,
is also listed in Federal Election Committee reports as the
treasurer of National Muslims for a Greater America, a defunct
political action committee that received $5,200 from people
connected to the Safa Group investigation..."
• " ... the affidavit ties the Safa Group to Abdurahman M.
Alamoudi, a politically connected Muslim activist, who was welcomed
at the White House by former President Bill Clinton and President
Bush for his work on behalf of Muslim causes. Alamoudi recently
pleaded not guilty to an 18-count federal indictment alleging that
he laundered money and violated customs laws by accepting $340,000
from the Libyan government, which the government considers a state
sponsor of terrorism. The $84,000 in contributions came from
several of the alleged principals of the Safa Group and
Alamoudi..."[4]
The Guardian, on March 25, 2002, provided details of more
"embarrassing" domestic political connections, offering this
insight into the "epileptic" Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman al-Hussayen,
the Safra Trust and 9/11:
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Guardian
F.B.I. Raids Pro-Republicans
By Duncan Campbell
March 25, 2002
The target of an anti-terrorist raid in the United States last week
provided funds for an Islamic group with close ties to the
Republican party and the White House. The Safa trust, a Saudi-
backed charity, has provided funds for a political group called the
Islamic Institute, which was set up to mobilise support for the
Republican party. It shares an office in Washington with the
Republican activist Grover Norquist.
The institute, founded in 1999 to win influence in the Republican
party, has helped to arrange meetings between senior Bush officials
and Islamic leaders, according to the report in Newsweek magazine.
Its chairman, Khaled Saffuri, and Mr. Norquist cooperated to
arrange the meetings.
The trust gave $20,000 (£14,000) to the institute, which also
received $20,000 from a board member of the Success Foundation,
according to the report. The institute has also received money from
abroad, including $200,000 from Qatar and $55,000 from Kuwait. The
institute says that none of the money came with strings attached.
Mr Norquist, who is a member of the institute's board, said that it
existed "to promote democracy and free markets. Any effort to imply
guilt by association is incompetent McCarthyism". ...
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ALL OF THIS devolves back to mysterious Sheik al-Hussayen, the
"epileptic" holy man and his room at the Marriott Residence Inn in
Herndon, Virginia on December 10, 2001 ... and those three
hijackers down the hall. Some would find this certain evidence of
Saudi sponsorship of the 911 air assaults, and have (National
Review and David Horowitz).
But not so fast ...
A little history of these particular Middle Eastern connections is
enlightening. The Wall Street Journal reports: "Mr. Norquist
started the nonprofit Islamic Free Market Institute. In
collaboration with Mr. [Karl] Rove, now Mr. Bush's chief political
adviser, he and other institute leaders courted Muslim voters for
the Bush 2000 presidential campaign. Mr. Norquist even credits
gains among Muslims with putting Mr. Bush in a position to win the
critical Florida contest . . . To run the nonprofit's day-to-day
operations, Mr. Norquist turned to Khalid Saffuri, a Palestinian-
American raised in Kuwait who had been an official of the American
Muslim Council, a political group in Washington. The institute's
founding chairman was a Palestinian American, Talat Othman, who had
served with Mr. Bush on the board of Harken Energy Corp. and later
visited the president in the White House, according to records
obtained by the National Security News Service."[5]
Talat Othman, we find in the same WSJ report, has been "a longtime
associate and supporter of President Bush's family [who] gave a
benediction at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia
in August 2000 ... But he also serves [with Barzinji] on the board
of Amana Mutual funds Trust, an investment firm founded by M. Yacub
Mirza, the Northern Virginia businessman who set up most of the
entities targeted by the Treasury and whose tax records were sought
in the raid. Two nonprofits affiliated with Mr. Mirza and named in
the search warrant, the SAAR Foundation Inc. [another title for
Safa] and the Heritage Education Trust Inc., held large blocks of
shares in Amana's mutual funds in 1997, according to S.E.C.
records. The S.E.C. documents and other records detailing
connections between Mr. Othman and the Islamic Institute [on the
board of which Mr. Othman serves] and the raided groups were
compiled by the National Security News Service, a Washington based
nonprofit research group. Mr. Othman also is on the board of Mr.
Saffuri's [and Norquist's] Islamic Institute, the G.O.P.-leaning
group that received $20,000.00 from the Safa Trust, one of the
raid's targets. The president of the Safa Trust, Jamal Barzinji, is
a former business associate of Switzerland based investor Youssef
Nada, whose assets were frozen last fall after the Treasury
designated him a person suspected of giving aid to terrorists."
A few words on these financial connections: Yousef Nada, Richard
Lebeviere informs, was a Nazi collaborator during WW II: "... known
to the Egyptian [intelligence] services, who have evidence of his
membership in the armed branch of the fraternity of the Muslim
Brothers in the 1940's. At that time, according to the same
sources, he was working for the Abwehr under Admiral Canaris and
took part in a plot against King Farouk ..."[6]
Talat Othman also had a history, as reported by the Chicago Tribune
on August 10, 2003: "In 1990, media reports implied that Othman was
a front man for [Abdullah Taha] Bakhsh, who had acquired a 17.6
percent stake in Harken Energy Corp. in the 1980s. Serving
alongside Othman as a Harken corporate officer: then-presidential
son George W. Bush."[7]
This, then, is the "shadowy network" behind the 9/11 hijackers and
the "mysterious" Sheik at the Marriott Hotel in Herndon, VA. From
one end of the terror pipeline to the other.
Speaking of where the "hijackers" spent the night on September 10,
2001, five others deserve mention: "One of the most bizarre ironies
of all this is that five of the hijackers lived in a motel right
outside the gates of the N.S.A."-- BBC News, June 8, 2002.
As for the dangling connections to B.C.C.I. mentioned in the
citations above ...
In December 1992, Senator John Kerry published a report -- it's a
virtual primal scream if you read between the lines -- in the form
of an interim statement on B.C.CI. submitted to the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, and in it Kerry complained bitterly
that the C.I.A. had refused to cooperate with his investigation.
Former C.I.A. officials, including Richard Helms, and foreign
intelligence officials, including Kamal Adham and Abdul Raouf
Khalil, dragged their feet. Principal foreign agents, "such as
Adnan Khashoggi and Manucher Ghorbanifar, float in and out of
B.C.C.I. at critical times in its history, and participate
simultaneously
in the making of key episodes in U.S. foreign policy, ranging from
the Camp David peace talks to the arming of Iran as part of the
Iran/Contra affair."
Agency officials claimed that they had no information on file
regarding contact with the above, "raising questions about ... its
candor with the Subcommittee. The C.I.A'.s professions of total
ignorance about their respective roles in B.C.C.I. are out of
character with the Agency's early knowledge of many critical
aspects of the bank's operations, structure, personnel, and history."
Some of the information given to Kerry's subcommittee early on, he
said, "was untrue." Subsequent information turned over by the
C.I.A. "was incomplete." And the Agency "resisted providing a full'
account about its knowledge of B.C.C.I. until almost a year after
the initial requests for the information.... The relationships
among former C.I.A. personnel and B.C.C.I. front men and nominees,
including [Khashoggi partner] Kamal Adham, Abdul Khalil, and
Mohammed Irvani, require further investigation..."
NOTES:
1) See Telegraph, October 3, 2003.
http://www.unknownnews.net/031003911.html
2) Ibid.
3) "Terror Probe Points to Va. Muslims," October 17, 2003.
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=8593
4) Eunice Moscoso and Rebecca Carr, "Targets of terror financing
probe had political clout," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January
2, 2003.
5) Tom Hamburger and Glenn R. Simpson, "In Difficult Times, Muslims
Count On Unlikely Advocate" Wall Street Journal, undated.
http://www.spitfirelist.com/f415.html
6) Richard Labeviere, "Dollars for Terror: The United States and
Islam," Algora, 2000, pp. 140-141.
7) Brian Grow, "Muslim financier pushes peace effort," Chicago
Tribune, August 10, 2003, p. 1.
http://www.alexconstantine.blogspot.com/
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