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Feds Arrest Three 'Buffalo Six' Relatives
FOX News - Tuesday, December 17, 2002, Associated Press
Three relatives of a man accused of belonging to an al-Qaida terror cell in the Buffalo suburb of Lackawanna were arrested Tuesday and charged with illegally operating a money transferring business.
Head of U.S. Muslim Charity Indicted
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wed Oct 9, 7:23 PM ET, Andrew Stern
The head of a U.S. Muslim charity was charged on Wednesday with helping terrorists and deceiving donors by funneling funds to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and other militant groups.
A Safe Haven?
Newsweek - September 30, 2002, Sarah Downey and Michael Hirsh
Focusing on a fundamentalist strain of Islam, investigators are searching American mosques for signs of support for terror. It’s a delicate balancing act.
Saudis Visit Utah, Extol 'True' Islam;'All Americans would become Muslims'
Salt Lake Tribune - Monday, September 02, 2002, Matt Canham
A delegation of Saudi Arabian educators urged Utah Muslims on Sunday to capitalize on the growing interest in their faith generated by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The 10-member delegation, in the middle of a three-week U.S. tour, asked Muslims to share the tenets of Islam and to inspire others by their strict adherence to the faith.
Muslim Conference Overshadowed by Arrest
The Times (London) - September 2, 2002, Oliver Wright
For the 2,000-odd delegates, the sixth Salafi National Islamic conference in Birmingham was meant to be a chance to listen to scholars, exchange ideas and withdraw from the pressures of everyday life. But as the meeting drew to a close yesterday many expressed anger that it had been so overshadowed by the arrest of Kerim Chatty in Sweden.
Donors named in 9/11 lawsuit;Documents list some McKinney contributors
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution - Saturday, August 17, 2002, Bob Dart, Stephen Krupin
Washington --- Several contributors to Rep. Cynthia McKinney's campaign are among the alleged "enablers of terrorism" named in the $1 trillion lawsuit filed this week by families of some Sept. 11 victims.
Sept. 11 Families Join to Sue Saudis;Banks, Charities and Royals Accused Of Funding al Qaeda Terrorist Network
Washington Post - Friday, August 16, 2002, Susan Schmidt
Families of 600 people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks filed suit yesterday against Saudi Arabian banks and charities and members of the royal family, accusing them of financially sponsoring the al Qaeda terrorist network and its leader, Osama bin Laden.
Questions Raised About Donors To Georgia Lawmaker's Campaign
Washington Post - Tuesday, August 13, 2002, Thomas B. Edsall
The reelection campaign of Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) has received campaign contributions from at least 18 donors who are either officers of Muslim foundations under investigation by the FBI, have voiced support for Palestinian and Lebanese terrorist organizations or have made inflammatory statements about Jews.
A Professor's Activism Leads Investigators to Look Into Possible Terrorism Links
New York Times - Tuesday, July 23, 2002, Judith Miller
Tampa, Fla. — To his family and friends, Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian professor of computer engineering at the University of South Florida, is an innocent victim of a government witch hunt. News reports based on a lengthy F.B.I. inquiry into his support for Islamic causes prompted the college to suspend him from his tenured post last fall, and this year, to begin a process to fire him.
All the Hate That's Fit to Print;America's poison-pen Muslim press
The Weekly Standard - Monday, July 22, 2002, Stephen Schwartz
WHEN THE SHOOTER who chose July 4 to start a gun battle at Los Angeles airport's El Al ticket counter turned out to be Hesham Mohamed Hadayet--an Egyptian native with a "Read Koran" sticker on his apartment door--many people not unreasonably wondered if he had picked up his hostility to America and Israel at an extremist mosque.
'Wahhabi Lobby' Takes the Offensive
Insight on the News - Friday, July 12, 2002, J. Michael Waller
Totalitarian regimes in the Middle East have targeted the United States with a well-financed influence campaign that is being rooted in American politics. Veteran watchers of the "active-measures" programs of the former Soviet Union say this Islamist propaganda offensive bears an uncanny resemblance to the old Soviet international front operations
Muslim Group, Leader Charged;Ill.-Based Charity Linked to Bin Laden, Accused of Perjury
Washington Post - Wednesday, May 01, 2002, John Mintz and Robert E. Pierre
CHICAGO, April 30 -- A large Muslim charity based in Illinois has been intimately connected to Osama bin Laden for years, moving large sums of money to fund the operations of his al Qaeda network around the world, authorities alleged in court papers today.
O'Neill Met With Muslim Activists Tied to Charities Raided by Treasury
Wall Street Journal - Thursday, April 18, 2002, Glenn R. Simpson
WASHINGTON -- Two weeks after his agents raided the offices of several Islamic charities and businesses suspected of financing terrorism, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill met with two politically connected Muslim activists, one a longtime Bush family associate, who each had a tie to the targeted groups.
Wahhabis in the Old Dominion;What the federal raids in Northern Virginia uncovered
Weekly Standard - Monday, April 08, 2002, Stephen Schwartz
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT has kicked over quite an anthill in Northern Virginia. A U.S. Treasury task force, Operation Green Quest, has been investigating the funding of Islamic terror. Raids on March 20 struck an extraordinary array of financial, charitable, and ostensibly religious entities identified with Muslim and Arab concerns in this country, most of them headquartered in Northern Virginia.
Muslims Speak Out;Citizenship Before Civil Rights
Washington Post - Thursday, April 04, 2002, Mansoor Ijaz
After recent raids on Islamic charities from Texas to Northern Virginia and last month's Justice Department decision to widen the interrogation net for Arab males entering the United States from countries where al Qaeda is known to have a presence, many of America's Arabs and Muslims are debating the merits and limits of their civic duty.
FBI raids pro-Republicans
Guardian - Monday, March 25, 2002, Duncan Campbell
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.
U.S. Is Examining Whether Donations by 2 Wealthy Saudis Indirectly Aided Terrorism
New York Times - Monday, March 25, 2002, Judith Miller
WASHINGTON, March 24 — Federal investigators are examining whether terrorist operations by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda and other Islamic groups were indirectly financed by at least two wealthy, well-connected Saudis through a maze of foundations, companies and financial institutions.
Finances Prompted Raids on Muslims; U.S. Suspected Terrorism Ties to N.Va. for Years
Washington Post - Sunday, March 24, 2002, John Mintz and Tom Jackman
Federal agents who searched 16 homes and offices in Northern Virginia last week were focusing on a tightly interconnected, complicated and very private financial empire with worldwide ties that has drawn the suspicion of...
Federal Agents Raid 15 Sites Tied To Al-Arian's Think Tank
Tampa Tribune - Friday, March 22, 2002, Michael Fechter
John Loftus' lawsuit claims Sami Al-Arian's charities laundered money and violated consumer protection laws, funneling money to terrorists.
Funds Under Terror Probe Flowed From Offshore
Wall Street Journal - Friday, March 22, 2002, Glenn R. Simpson
WASHINGTON -- Large sums from two offshore financial havens flowed through the accounts of several U.S.-based companies and charities raided Wednesday by Treasury Department agents investigating terrorism financing, tax and corporate records show.
The Money Trail;Raids Seek Evidence of Money-Laundering
New York Times - Thursday, March 21, 2002, Judith Miller
WASHINGTON, March 20 — Federal law enforcement officials today raided 15 organizations and individuals in Northern Virginia and a chicken farm in Georgia, all of them, the authorities said, suspected by the Treasury Department of laundering money for Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
N.Va. Sites Raided in Probe of Terrorism;Federal Agencies Seek Information on Funds
Washington Post - Thursday, March 21, 2002, Tom Jackman
Federal agents yesterday raided 14 sites across Northern Virginia, many with links to the Middle East, seizing boxes of documents in an ongoing investigation of the funding of terrorist groups.
Saudi Arabia Link Among Suspect Islamic Charities
FoxNews - Wednesday, April 03, 2002, Carl Cameron
WASHINGTON — Islamic charities and similar groups in northern Virginia recently raided by federal officials all have something in common — Saudi Arabia. Investigators are looking into the Safa Trust, the Saar Group, the Wafa Humanitarian Organization, and 16 other Islamic charities with ties to the Saudi royal family.
Holy Land Foundation Allegedly Mixed Charity Money With Funds for Bombers
Wall Street Journal - Wednesday, February 27, 2002, Glenn R. Simpson
On Oct. 1, 1993, a small group of Middle Eastern men gathered at a Courtyard Marriott Hotel near the Philadelphia airport to discuss what they called "Samah."...Federal Bureau of Investigation agents electronically eavesdropped on the Philadelphia gathering and unraveled the subterfuge, according to a confidential Nov. 5, 2001, FBI report: Samah was the backward spelling of Hamas
Computer firm owner arrested
Dallas Morning News - Friday, February 08, 2002, Steve McGonigle
The owner of a Richardson computer company was arrested Thursday after a federal grand jury indicted him on felony charges of violating a government order suspending his export license.
My First Year as a Muslim, Ten Years Later;The Failure of Muslim-American Leadership
Reprinted with permission of the author - Tuesday, January 01, 2002, Jeremiah D. McAuliffe, Jr., Ph.D.
About ten years ago, a year after my conversion to Islam, I wrote an open letter to the Muslim community regarding my first year as a Muslim. It was not a positive letter-- addressing issues of sexism, gross expressions of hatred towards “the People of the Book”, and the general absence of responsibility and accountability in our community.
Keep an Eye on the American Muslim Council
Insight - Monday, December 17, 2001, John Berlau
Less than three weeks before President George W. Bush froze the U.S. assets of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) — a group suspected of being the largest American fund-raiser for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas — one of the most prominent Muslim advocacy groups was soliciting contributions on its behalf, Insight has learned.
Islam's flawed spokesmen;Some of the groups claiming to speak for American Muslims find it impossible to speak out against them
Salon.com - Wednesday, September 26, 2001, Jake Tapper
reporters are learning it's not easy to find leaders who can authentically speak for Muslim Americans, who represent a wide variety of ethnicities and languages, sects and political views ranging from completely secular to Islamic fundamentalist. CAIR and AMC in particular would not be chosen as representatives by many Muslims
Grover Norquist's Strange Alliance with Radical Islam;Fevered Pitch
The New Republic - Thursday, November 01, 2001, Franklin Foer
On the afternoon of September 26, George W. Bush gathered 15 prominent Muslim- and Arab-Americans at the White House. With cameras rolling, the president proclaimed that "the teachings of Islam are teachings of peace and good." It was a critically important moment, a statement to the world that America's Muslim leaders unambiguously reject the terror committed in Islam's name.
When charity goes awry;Islamic groups say they may lose control of money they send overseas
US News & World Report - Monday, October 29, 2001, Christopher H. Schmitt and Joshua Kurlantzick
To date, the U.S. Treasury Department has frozen the assets of 66 people and organizations believed linked to al Qaeda and the list is expected to grow. A number of them, such as the foreign charities Wafa Humanitarian Organization and the Al Rashid Trust, actually do relief work, but are also suspected here and abroad of funneling money to al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations.
Silence of the Imams;Muslim clerics must challenge extremist views
San Jose Mercury News - Saturday, October 20, 2001, Hasan Zillur Rahim
Imams -- could inform and challenge the extremist views. The trouble is that they ordinarily don't, according to PNS contributor Hasan Zillur Rahim. The author ponders what might have been if imams in the United States had condemned Osama bin Laden in 1998, after he declared that it was OK for Muslims to kill American civilians.
Strange Bedfellows;Grover Norquist and Abdurahman Alamoudi
Boston Phoenix - Thursday, October 04, 2001, Seth Gitell
During his presidential campaign and his first months in office, George W. Bush had no stronger supporter than Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform...But now, as Bush embarks on a war against terrorism, the president may find Norquist more of a liability than an asset.
Muslim Leaders Struggle With Mixed Messages
Washington Post - Tuesday, October 02, 2001, Hanna Rosin and John Mintz
On Sept. 20, FBI agents showed up at the house of Hamza Yusuf, a Muslim teacher and speaker in Northern California. They wanted to question him about a speech he had given two days before the Sept. 11 attacks, in which he said that the U.S. "stands condemned" and that "this country has a great, great tribulation coming to it." "He's not home," his wife said. "He's with the president."
Some Muslim Leaders Seen With Bush Expressed Support for Terrorist Groups
FoxNews - onday, October 01, 2001, AP
Since the terror attacks against the United States, President Bush has been flanked by Muslim leaders in an attempt to reach out to what many have perceived as moderate members of the Muslim community. According to a videotape obtained by Fox News' Rita Cosby, however...
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