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The Muslim Brotherhood's Long-Standing War On The West (US Politicians)
Middle East Information Center via FamilySecurityMatters.org ^ | 2003-2007 | Adrian Morgan

Posted on 02/02/2011 10:18:40 PM PST by bronxville

US Politicians Duped By The Brotherhood

In the United States, one individual maintained a pretense of "moderation" which would later embarrass the left and the right. According to the testimony of Dr. Michael Waller to the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Abdurahman Alamoudi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. A man born in Eritrea in 1951, he arrived in the US in 1979 and became a naturalized US citizen on May 23, 1996. From 1985 onwards he became involved in many Muslim groups. In 1990 he founded the Washington DC-based American Muslim Council (AMC), which Waller states "has been described as a de facto front of the Muslim Brotherhood." The AMC was an affiliate of the American Muslim Foundation, which was also headed by Alamoudi. Despite this, in June 2002 the FBI called the AMC "the most mainstream Muslim group in the United States."

What is of concern is the manner in which Alamoudi persuaded US authorities under two administrations of his reliability. Around 1993, he was an adviser for the Pentagon on which Muslim chaplains should serve in the US military. He continued this role until 1998. From 1997 he acted for the State Department as a "goodwill ambassador" to Muslim countries. He was regularly at the Clinton White House and had advised Hillary Rodham Clinton on managing iftar dinners since 1996. Alamoudi had made donations to the Democrat party but was open to wooing the opposition.

In 1998, as Frank Gaffney recounted, Republican Grover Norquist formed the Islamic Institute, which aimed to recruit Muslim and Arab Americans to support the GOP. Alamoudi made contributions both to the Islamic Institute and later, in 2000 and 2001, he made payments to a lobbying firm connected with Norquist.

Alamoudi's Brotherhood connections were not touted openly, but in August 1997, he was publicly proclaiming on Fox TV that Hamas was a "freedom fighting organization". Hamas had started its first bombings of Israeli civilians in February 1996, a year earlier. On October 28, 2000, Alamoudi attended an anti-Israel protest at Lafayette Park outside the White House, where he was caught on video proclaiming "I have been labeled… as being a supporter of Hamas. Anybody supporters of Hamas here? Hear that, Bill Clinton. We are all supporters of Hamas. I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah. Anybody who supports Hezbollah here?"

Shortly after the White House outburst, Hillary Clinton returned a donation of $1,000 to her election war chest, which Alamoudi had presented on May 25 of that year. Alamoudi embarked upon at least 10 clandestine trips to Libya. On September 28, 2003, after returning from a multi-stage excursion he was arrested at Dulles International Airport. He was handed a 19-count indictment on October 23, on charges including money laundering and dealing with a prohibited nation.

Alamoudi had been stopped at Heathrow on August 16, 2003 before boarding a flight to Syria, and had $340,000 of Libyan money seized. On July 30, 2004, he pleaded guilty to three charges - violating conditions barring transport to, and commerce with, prohibited nations (Libya), failure to disclose to IRS his income, and lying to ICE federal investigators. On October 15, 2004, Alamoudi was given a jail sentence of 23 years. He had told officials that he provided Libyan money to London-based Saudi dissidents to finance a plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.

Politicians may have been fooled by Alamoudi, who headed sixteen US-based Islamist organizations, but despite what is known of the Muslim Brotherhood's support of terrorism and extremism, US politicians are now openly courting the Brotherhood. On April 5 this year in Egypt. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer met with Mohammed Saad el-Katani, the leader of the Brotherhood's 55 members within the Egyptian parliament. Hamdi Hassan, the Brotherhood's spokesman, said Hoyer met with el-Katani once at the parliament building and later at the home of the US ambassador to Egypt.

On May 27, a delegation by four members of the House of Congress again met with Mohammed Saad el-Katani in Egypt. The delegation was led by David Price, a Democrat who represents North Carolina....[...]

Great link about the Muslim Brotherhood - it consists of 4 parts.


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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

So which mob to root for? Mu Barak Mob or Barak Mob?


21 posted on 02/03/2011 2:00:13 AM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: bronxville

Look at the picture above - they’re all smiling around the signing like they’re actors in a movie. Carl Levin, directly behind Clinton, is the biggest ear-mark recipient of the whole government. Hillary was second when she was a senator. She gave millions to over 50 corporations and got kickbacks for her presidential run in return along with fund-raising dinners etc. One of her biggest recipients was to a builder for an extension onto his mall with a pool, railroad etc. in 2007. It’s still not built today despite tax exemptions from the city. It’s called Destiny something or other -in Syracuse. We’re bigtime suckers...


22 posted on 02/03/2011 2:02:35 AM PST by bronxville
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To: screaminsunshine; Sir Francis Dashwood

I think it will be a Totalitarian Marxist like Ahmadinejad/Chavez/Castro/Obama etc. The Muslim Brotherhood will be the ME community organizers and the young indoctrinated Islamists to stir the pot. The West will have the SEIU’s and ACORN’s idiots.

China is already organized. China Hands ensured it. The CIA/British Intelligence have been working with them for decades -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Hands

IMO, even the Cold War was a farce. Gorbachev left Russia and headed off to the UN with the Global Charter tucked under his arm.


23 posted on 02/03/2011 2:19:19 AM PST by bronxville
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To: bronxville

No doubt. I hope we can make it 2 more years and oust the vermin.


24 posted on 02/03/2011 2:23:56 AM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: screaminsunshine

If we can find him ineligible we could get him out sooner AND make everything he signed null and void. Impeachment means everything he signed is in cement with no opportunity to get rid of them. Unfortunately it’ll be two more very long years. His boss’ know and have accelerated their plans.


25 posted on 02/03/2011 3:11:59 AM PST by bronxville
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To: screaminsunshine

Egypt now fears Obama a ‘Manchurian President’

‘They are trying to understand why he is acting against U.S. interests’
Posted: February 02, 2011

Top members of the Egyptian government say they feel betrayed by President Obama, charging that he is acting against American interests.

“Mubarak’s regime feels Obama is pushing the advancement of the Muslim Brotherhood against U.S. interests,” said WND’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior reporter Aaron Klein. “They are genuinely trying to understand why Obama is seemingly championing the anti-regime protests.”

Klein said that a top Egyptian diplomat with whom he has developed a rapport over the last few years asked him earlier this week to explain Obama’s motivation to support the opposition to Mubarak.

“I told him none of this should be a surprise,” said Klein, “that the Obama administration has developed an extensive relationship over the last few years with allies of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Get the comprehensive probe that exposes Obama’s Marxist, anti-American past – and present, in “Manchurian Present.”

“That my investigating has proven that Obama has been closely associated throughout his political career with radical-left elements who have long petitioned for policies many believe are aimed at weakening the American enterprise both domestically and internationally.”

“The Egyptian diplomat seemed surprised,” said Klein. “I told him this material was thoroughly documented in my latest book.”

The diplomat requested 20 copies of Klein’s New York Times bestselling book investigating Obama, “The Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s ties to communists, socialists, and other anti-American extremists.”

The diplomat said he would deliver the book, which was co-authored by Brenda J. Elliott, to senior officials in Mubarak’s embattled government.

Obama in recent days urged Mubarak to give up power in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood forms the main opposition.

Mubarak has been a staunch U.S. ally and a recipient of billions of dollars in military aid. His regime has long been considered a stabilizing force in the Arab world.

The Obama administration’s support for the unrest is strikingly reminiscent of Jimmy Carter’s support of the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, which marked the birth of modern Islamist expansion.

Some Muslim clerics are already calling the riots in Egypt simply an extension of 1979’s Islamist conquests.

“Thirty-one years after the victory of the Islamic Republic, we are faced with the obvious fact that these movements are the aftershocks of the Islamic revolution,” said Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, as reported by Iran’s Radio Zamaneh. “The fate of those who challenge [our] religion is destruction.”

Speaking of media and government leaders, Khatami added, “They want to highlight the labor, liberal and democratic issues, but the most important issue, which is the religious streak of these protests, [is] being denied.”

The leader of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood, Hammam Saeed, warned that the unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast until Arabs succeed at toppling leaders allied with the United States.

“The Americans and Obama must be losing sleep over the popular revolt in Egypt,” Saeed said at a sympathy protest held outside the Egyptian Embassy in Amman. “Now, Obama must understand that the people have woken up and are ready to unseat the tyrant leaders who remained in power because of U.S. backing.”

And on the Internet, the Middle East Media Research Institute reports, prominent Salafi cleric Abu Mundhir Al-Shinqiti issued a fatwa on the website Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal Jihad encouraging the protests in Egypt, claiming Islamist jihadis are now on the verge of a historic moment, an “earthquake” he likened to the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City.

Obama pushes Egyptian ‘reform’

According to a senior Egyptian diplomat speaking to WND, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt, Frank Wisner, specifically told Mubarak on Tuesday the U.S. would not continue to support his rule and he must step down.

Hours later, Mubarak announced he would not seek another term in office.

The Obama administration dispatched Wisner to Egypt last weekend to report to the State Department and White House a general sense of the situation in the country.

WND broke the story yesterday that the Egyptian government has information Wisner secretly met earlier this week with a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Issam El-Erian.

The Muslim Brotherhood seeks to spread Islam around the world, in large part using nonviolent means. Hamas and al-Qaida are violent Brotherhood offshoots.

Muslim Brotherhood declares war on U.S.

Prominent U.S. commentators also have been claiming the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate organization and denying there is any Islamist plot to seize power.

Last Friday, President George W. Bush’s former press spokeswoman, Dana Perino, told Fox News, “Don’t be afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This has nothing to do with religion.”

Bruce Reidel, a former CIA analyst and adviser to President Obama, wrote a Daily Beast article in which he claimed, “The Egyptian Brotherhood renounced violence years ago. … Its relative moderation has made it the target of extreme vilification by more radical Islamists.”

Reidel’s assertion the Brotherhood renounced violence, however, is contradicted by its own statements in recent months, including a call to arms against the West.

In November, the Brotherhood’s new supreme guide, Muhammad Badi, delivered a sermon entitled “How Islam Confronts the Oppression and Tyranny.”

“Resistance is the only solution,” stated Badi. “The United States cannot impose an agreement upon the Palestinians, despite all the power at its disposal. [Today] it is withdrawing from Iraq, defeated and wounded, and is also on the verge of withdrawing from Afghanistan because it has been defeated by Islamist warriors.”

Badi went on to declare the U.S. is easy to defeat through violence, since it is “experiencing the beginning of its end and is heading toward its demise.”

Barry Rubin, director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center, noted Badi’s speech showed “the likelihood that more Brotherhood supporters in the West will turn to violence and fund-raising for terrorism.”

Frank Gaffney, president of the American Center for Security Policy, takes it a step further.

“In short, the Muslim Brotherhood – whether it is operating in Egypt, elsewhere in the world or here – is our enemy,” he wrote.

Obama quietly builds ties to Muslim Brotherhood

Klein reported for WND yesterday that Obama and top administration officials have troubling relationships with the Muslim Brotherhood and its worldwide allies.

Muslim Brotherhood members were reportedly invited to attend Obama’s 2009 address to the Muslim world from Cairo. Khaled Hamza, editor of the Muslim Brotherhood website, confirmed at the time that 10 members of the Brotherhood’s parliamentary bloc received official invitations to attend Obama’s historic speech.

Also in 2009, the Egyptian daily newspaper Almasry Alyoum ran a report claiming Obama had met with U.S. and European-based representatives of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood that year

According to the report, the Brotherhood members requested that news of the meeting not be publicized. They expressed to Obama their support for democracy and the war on terror.

The newspaper also reported Brotherhood members communicated to Obama their position that they would abide by all agreements Egypt has signed with foreign countries, implying that if they took power in Egypt they would continue that country’s peace treaty with Israel.

Besides contact with the Muslim Brotherhood itself, there have been reports the past two years of behind-the-scenes contact with Hamas, which was founded as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas maintains a close alliance with the Brotherhood; the Brotherhood’s new leader, Muhammad Badi, serves as a de facto lead spiritual guide for Hamas.

Top leaders of Hamas in Gaza claimed to WND several times they passed messages to Obama through dignitaries who visited the Gaza Strip, including Jimmy Carter and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., – both of whom have a close relationship with the White House.

Kerry, for example, reportedly accepted a letter for Obama from Hamas leaders in Gaza during a February 2009 visit to U.N. installations in the coastal territory.

U.N. relief agency chief in Gaza Karen Abu Zayd told the BBC the Hamas letter had been received by his agency and passed on to an unnamed American official.

In November, 2008, WND first quoted Hamas officials stating they would be sending a letter to Obama.

Immediately after that month’s elections, Ahmed Yousef , Hamas’ chief political adviser in Gaza, called Obama’s win a “historic victory” for the world and told WND that Hamas was sending a letter of congratulation to the president-elect.

Obama ties to Brotherhood’s U.S. allies

It is not just Obama’s reported contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood and the group’s allies in the Middle East that are of concern.

The Obama administration also has evidenced a working relationship with several U.S.-based Islamist organizations that are listed by the Brotherhood as “likeminded” organizations.

One such group is the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, a radical Muslim group that was an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to raise money for Hamas.

ISNA was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document – “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America” – as one of the Brotherhood’s likeminded “organizations of our friends” who shared the common goal of transforming countries into Muslim nations.

The White House relationship with ISNA began even before Obama took office. One week before the presidential inauguration, Sayyid Syeed, national director of the ISNA Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances, was part of a delegation that met with the directors of Obama’s transition team. The delegation discussed a request for an executive order ending “torture.”

ISNA President Ingrid Mattson represented American Muslims at Obama’s inauguration, where she offered a prayer during the televised event.

Mattson also has represented ISNA at Obama’s annual Ramadan dinners, including the last such event in which Obama announced support for the rights of Muslims to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks.

In June 2009, Obama’s top aide, Valerie Jarrett, invited Mattson to work on the White House Council on Women and Girls, which Jarrett leads.

That July, the Justice Department sponsored an information booth at an ISNA bazaar in Washington, D.C.

Also that month, Jarrett addressed ISNA’s 46th annual convention. According to the White House, Jarrett attended as part of Obama’s outreach to Muslims.

ISNA sponsored a February 2010 question-and-answer session in which Obama’s top adviser on counter-terrorism, John Brennan, came under fire for controversial remarks to Muslim law students.
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=258937#ixzz1CtR7dyhF


26 posted on 02/03/2011 3:15:23 AM PST by bronxville
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To: bronxville

Well it sure is a mess. Who can tell what will happen. The last week has erased any doubts I had that Obama is a Muslim Radical. I already knew he was a Communist.


27 posted on 02/03/2011 4:21:24 AM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: bronxville

Alamoudi....Alamoudi....There is a HUGE story about Alamoudi and Hillary but I can’t bring it to mind right now.


28 posted on 02/03/2011 4:50:16 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

More than what the article said, I should have added.


29 posted on 02/03/2011 4:51:26 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

If you think of it let me know. Thanks. A picture would be even better. A picture of her/Obama/Gramm/Price/Norquist with any of them would be great.


30 posted on 02/03/2011 3:41:04 PM PST by bronxville
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To: Ann Archy

And Bill Clinton or Hoyer with any of them. :)


31 posted on 02/03/2011 3:45:18 PM PST by bronxville
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To: bronxville

“Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al Zawahari: The text book example of a member of the Muslim Brotherhood turned terrorist One of the leading figures of Islamic Jihad, the Egyptian doctor Ayman al Zawahiri, is now considered the textbook example of a member of the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TURN TERRORIST.”

[2] “If you accept the whole of Islam in your life…a time will come when Communism will fear for its survival in Moscow, Capitalistic democracy will tremble for its safety in Washington and New York.”

Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al Zawahari BOOK:

“COME LET US CHANGE THIS WORLD,” p.83. Author: Sayyid Abul A’la Mawdudi. Founder of Jamaat-e-Islami (The Islamic Party), a political party in Pakistan.
http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/06/the-muslim-brotherhood-and-ft-hood-by-jamie-glazov/

Is that the CHANGE we’ve been waiting for...? Bill Clinton in the video above also talks about CHANGE and Obama ad nauseum.

I don’t think there’s an al Qaida - they’re all a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. The indoctrinated youth are controlled by the Imams and come when whistled like pavlovas’ dogs.


32 posted on 02/03/2011 4:21:21 PM PST by bronxville
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To: bronxville

Hoyer Meets Official From Egypt’s Banned Muslim Brotherhood

Saturday, April 07, 2007

CAIRO, Egypt — A top U.S. Democratic congressman met a leading member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, an OUTLAWED OPPOSITION GROUP, during a recent visit to the country, the Islamic fundamentalist group and U.S. officials said Saturday.

House Majority Leader STENY HOYER met with the Muslim Brotherhood’s parliament leader, Mohammed SAAD el-KATATNI, twice on Thursday — once at the parliament building and then at the home of the U.S. ambassador to Egypt, said Brotherhood spokesman HAMDI HASSAN.

U.S. Embassy spokesman JOHN BERRY would only confirm that Hoyer, who represents Maryland, met with el-Katatni at U.S. Ambassador Francis Ricciardone’s home at a reception with other politicians and parliament members.

Though OFFICIALLY BANNED since 1954, the Brotherhood is tolerated by the government and has become Egypt’s largest opposition group and President Hosni Mubarak’s most powerful rival.

Its members, who run as independents, make up the LARGEST OPPOSITION bloc in parliament, holding about one-fifth of its 454 seats.

Secretary of State Condoleezza RICE had REFUSED in the PAST to MEET with the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.

But BERRY said U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICY DOES NOT BAR MEETINGS with BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS of PARLIMENT and Hoyer’s talks with el-Katatni were NOT a CHANGE in U.S POLICY toward the group.

“It’s our diplomatic practice around the world to meet with parliamentarians, be they members of political parties or independents,” Berry said. “We haven’t changed our policy with regard to the Muslim Brotherhood as an organization.”

The STATE DEPARTMENT had no comment Saturday on Hoyer’s meetings with the group.

Berry stressed that HOYER met with el-Katatni in his capacity as an independent member of Egyptian parliament. He WOULD NOT SAY what the two discussed.

HASSAN said the two lawmakers discussed developments in the Middle East, the “BROTHERHOODs VISION” and OPPOSITION MOVEMENTS in Egypt. He said the two met privately at the ambassador’s home and with other members of Hoyer’s BIPARTISAN DELEGATION and Egyptian lawmakers at the parliament building.

HOYER’s meeting came just a day after Democratic speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi drew SHARP CRITICISM from the BUSH Administration for meeting with Syrian president BASHAR ASSAD in Damascus.

PELOSI and other Democrats argue the administration needs to ENGAGE Syria to resolve some of the most intractable problems in the Middle East, such as Iraq and the Israeli-Arab conflict. But the BUSH administration REJECTS that approach, accusing Syria of exacerbating the troubles in neighboring Iraq and Lebanon.

JON ALTERMAN, a Mideast specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said Bush administration officials may have AVOIDED meeting Muslim Brotherhood members because that could STRAIN RELATIONS with the SECULAR Egyptian government, one of the closest U.S. allies in the Middle East.

“The difficulty when it gets to Egypt is that the BROTHERHOOD is NOT a LEGAL GROUP WITHIN EGYPT and the U.S. government is wary of violating laws in countries in which it operates,” he told The Associated Press on Saturday.

“The larger constraint on our willingness to meet the Brotherhood is the Egyptian government’s unease with our government’s meeting with the Brotherhood.”

HOYER, who also met with Mubarak during his visit, left Egypt on Friday. A telephone message left with his spokeswoman Saturday was not immediately returned. Calls to el-Katatni also went unanswered Saturday.

The Muslim BROTHERHOOD’s parliament bloc WEB SITE said the meetings were not part of an effort to engage the United States.

“The Brotherhood not only has reservations on dialogue with the Americans but REJECTS the unfair American policy in the region,” the Web site said.

Washington has been pressing Mubarak for years to enact reforms as part of a Bush administration campaign to spread democracy in the Mideast. And RICE expressed concern in March that “all voices” were not being heard in deliberations over AMENDING the CONSTITUTION as part of those reforms.

“There’s been a growing sense in WASHINGTON over 20 years that ISLAMIC POLITICS ARE HERE TO STAY, and the U.S. interest in promoting democracy around the world means we should be engaging with a growing number of actors,” Alterman said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264805,00.html#ixzz1Cwdz4huG

April 12, 2007

Pelosi’s delegation to Syria—who said what to whom?

Did Rep. NANCY PELOSI drop the ball in the Middle East? Was she fouled? Was there a ball at all?

Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, earned White House vituperation — unusual for its intensity in even these partisan times — after delivering what she said was a PEACE MESSAGE last week from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud OLMERT TO Syrian President Bashar ASSAD.

“It was a nonstatement, nonsensical statement and didn’t make any sense at all that she would suggest that those talks could go forward as long as the Syrians conducted themselves as a prime state sponsor of terror,” Vice President DICK CHENEY told radio host Rush Limbaugh. “I think it is, in fact, bad behavior on her part. I wish she hadn’t done it.”

Some Pelosi statements on Assad prompted an almost immediate “clarification” from Olmert’s office.

“We were very pleased with the reassurances we received from the president that he was ready to resume the peace process,” Pelosi had said. “He was ready to engage in negotiations for peace with Israel.

Also, the “meeting with the president enabled us to communicate a message from Prime Minister Olmert that Israel was ready to engage in peace talks as well.”

But in his meeting with Pelosi, Olmert’s statement said, the prime minister “emphasized that although Israel is interested in peace with Syria, that country continues to be part of the axis of evil and a force that encourages terror in the entire Middle East. In order to conduct serious and genuine peace negotiations, Syria must cease its support of terror, cease its sponsoring of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations, refrain from providing weapons to Hezbollah and bringing about the destabilizing of Lebanon, cease its support of terror in Iraq, and relinquish the strategic ties it is building with the extremist regime in Iran.”

The clarification baffled the delegation, which included Rep. TOM LANTOS (San Mateo), the Jewish chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Rep. HENRY WAXMAN (D-Los Angeles), its Government Reform Committee chairman and also Jewish; Rep. NICK RAHALL (D-W.Va.), an Arab American who is chairman of the House Resources Committee; Rep. KEITH ELLISON (D-Minn.), a freshman who is the first Muslim American member of Congress; Rep. DAVID HOBSON (R-Ohio), a senior Republican; and Rep. LOUISE SLAUGHTER (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the House Rules Committee.

“The speaker conveyed precisely what the prime minister and the acting president asked,” Lantos said. That included the traditional Israeli caveat about Syrian backing for terrorism.

“It’s obvious the White House is desperate to find some phony criticism of the speaker’s trip, even though it was a bipartisan trip,” said Lantos, a Holocaust survivor who is considered the Democrat closest to the pro-Israel lobby. “I have nothing but contempt and disdain for the attempt to undermine this trip.”[...]

“Prime Minister OLMERT immediately made it clear that she was not authorized to make any such offer to Bashar Assad,” he said. “Fortunately, I think the various parties involved recognize she doesn’t speak for the United States in those circumstances, she doesn’t represent the administration. The president is the one who conducts foreign policy, not the speaker of the House.”

In fact, White House frustration might have to do with a foreign policy spinning out of its control.

After the White House berated Pelosi for even daring to visit Assad, it was REVEALED that congressional REPUBLICAN DELEGATIONS WERE IN DAMASCUS at about the same time, just as eager to relay the same message as the Pelosi team: Talking is better than not talking.

“Dialogue is not a sign of weakness,” Rep. JEW PITTS (R-Pa.) told his hometown newspaper, the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, after he returned home. “It’s a sign of strength.”
http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/pelosis_delegation_to_syria_who_said_what_to_whom_20070413/

Obama got major support from the ME during his campaign. Did he promise the Muslim Brotherhood a seat at the table? Did all the dialogue and his talks as president in the ME lead to the current unrest one might wonder.


33 posted on 02/04/2011 6:52:01 AM PST by bronxville
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To: bronxville
Hoyer in Cairo with the US outlawed Muslim Brotherhood April 7, 2007. And "Nancy Pelosi's Syria Visit Sparks Criticism For Bungled Shuttle Diplomacy" April 12, 2007 Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264334,00.html#ixzz1D0DrHXIa
34 posted on 02/04/2011 7:07:31 AM PST by bronxville
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To: bronxville

The CIA/MI6 have been colluding with the Muslim Brotherhood for a long time.

1954-1970:

CIA and the Muslim Brotherhood Ally to Oppose Egyptian President Nasser

In 1954, Egyptian President GAMAL ABDUL NASSER’S nationalist policies in Egypt come to be viewed as completely unacceptable by Britain and the US. MI6 and the CIA jointly hatch plans for his assassination. According to MILES COPELAND, a CIA operative based in Egypt, the opposition to Nasser is driven by the commercial community—the oil companies and the banks.

At the same time, the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’s RESENTMENT of NASSER’s SECULAR GOVERNMENT also comes to a head. In one incident, Islamist militants attack pro-Nasser students at Cairo University. Following an attempt on his own life by the Brotherhood, NASSER responds immediately by outlawing the group, which he DENOUNCES as a TOOL of BRITAIN.

The following years see a long and complex struggle pitting Nasser against the Muslim Brotherhood, the US, and Britain.

The CIA FUNNELS SUPPORT to the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD because of “the Brotherhood’s commendable capability to overthrow Nasser.”
[Baer, 2003, pp. 99; Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 101-108] The Islamist regime in Saudi Arabia becomes an ally of the United States in the conflict with Nasser. They offer financial backing and sanctuary to Muslim Brotherhood militants during Nasser’s crackdown. Nasser dies of natural causes in 1970.
[Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 90-91, 126-131, 150]


35 posted on 02/06/2011 11:45:41 AM PST by bronxville
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July 1954:

Israel Commits Bombing Attacks in Egypt, Tries to Blame Muslim Brotherhood

Bombs explode in British and American cultural centers and libraries, and in post offices in Alexandria and Cairo. The campaign ends when a BOMB explodes prematurely in the pocket of an ISRAEL AGENT who is about to plant it in a British-owned cinema.

The plan is to damage the relations between Egypt, US and Britain by placing the blame for the bombings on the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian Islamic militant group. An initial inquiry places blame on the Minister of Defense, PINHAS LAVON, but a subsequent inquiry authorized by Sharett finds that LAVON was set up using forged documents, and that the true author of the false-flag attack was none other than DAVID BEN GURION, the “father of the Israeli State.
(see March 2005)” [New York Times, 12/11/1954; New York Times, 3/30/1975; Hirst, 2003, pp. 290-296]

These events, which later become known as the LAVON AFFAIR, will be DOCUMENTED in the DIARIES of Israeli Prime Minister MOSHE SHARETT, who DIDN’T LEARN of the PLOT until AFTER it was completed. [Rokach, 1986]


36 posted on 02/06/2011 11:51:19 AM PST by bronxville
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October 1970-1981:

AFTER NASSER’S DEATH, Egyptian President SADAT Brings Back the Muslim Brotherhood and the CIA

After Egyptian President Gamal Abddul Nasser dies in October 1970, he is succeded as president of Egypt by his former Vice President, Anwar Sadat. SADAT is also a FORMER MEMBER of the Muslim Brotherhood, and he promptly REINSTATES the GROUP as a LEGAL ORGANIZATION and welcomes them back into Egypt.

SADAT also has a very CLOSE RELATIONSHIP with the head of SAUDI INTELLIGENCE, KAMAL ADHAM. Through Adham, Sadat also develops close working relationships not only with the Saudis, but with the CIA and HENRY KISSENGER.

Sadat uses the power of the religious right, and the Muslim Brothers in particular to contain the Nasserites and their resistance to the radical changes he introduces. DURING SADAT’S TENURE in the 1970’s Egypt becomes a HOTBED of ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM, and figures like SHEIKH OMAR ABDUL-RAHMAN and AYMAN al-ZAWAHIRI GAIN GREAT POWER in Egypt during this period.

Ironically SADAT himself is ASSASSINATED in 1981 by ISLAMIC JIHAD, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, in 1981, because of his accomodation with Israel.
[Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 147-162, 165]

There is no sovereignty with the Caliphate obsessive Muslim Brotherhood - same with the Plutocratic NWO monsters. Power and a Caliphate vs Power and Greed. It’s been tried before many times and we’ve seen the results.


37 posted on 02/06/2011 12:03:09 PM PST by bronxville
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1973-1982:

Israel and Jordan Support Muslim Brotherhood Terrorism Against Syria -

In 1973 HAFEZ ASSAD approves a new, SECULAR constitution for Syria, and declares that the country is a “DEMOCRATIC. POPULAR, SOCIALIST STATE,” CREATING a BACKLASH of VIOLENT ISLAMIST DEMONSTRATIONS.

Beginning in 1976, the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD carries out hundreds of attacks in Syria in an attempt to bring down the secular government. Israel and Jordan provide generous support for these operations, for example establishing training camps for the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon and Jordan near the Syrian border. In one incident in 1979, a gang of Brotherhood militants murders 83 military cadets by locking them inside a buliding and attacking it with automatic weapons and firebombs.

Newsweek reports in 1981 that “over the past five years the BROTHERHOOD has ASSASSINATED hundreds of ALAWITE MEMBERS of ASSAD’S ruling Baath Party along with their relatives, Assad’s personal doctor, and a number of Soviet advisers.”

In 1982, the SYRIAN ARMY BRUTALLY SUPPRESSES the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD and their supporters, MASSACRING THOUSANDS in the city of HAMA, a strong center of support for the Brotherhood.

This puts an end to the wave of violence. [Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 199-205]

One can see it takes tremendous brutality to suppress the Muslim Brotherhood. They have a huge advantage in this country, they’ve been accepted by the left which has enabled them to recruit, and even imbed in our government.


38 posted on 02/06/2011 12:13:29 PM PST by bronxville
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1976:

Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt Founded and Funds Political Growth of Islamist Movement -

Founded in 1976, FAISAL ISLAMIC BANK of EGYPT (FIBE) was part of the banking empire built by SAUDI PRINCE MOHAMMED al-FAISAL. Several of the FOUNDING MEMBERS are leading members of the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, INCLUDING the “BLIND SHEIKH,” Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman.

The growth of Islamic banking directly funds the political growth of the Islamist movement, and allows the Saudis to pressure poorer Islamic nations, like Egypt, to shift their policies to the right.

The Islamic banking boom is closely associated with the NEOLIBERAL FREE-TRADE PHILOSOPHY of the CHICAGO SCHOOL of ECONOMICS, and with the free-trade prescriptions of the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND, and with CONSERVATIVE THINK-TANKS like the VIRGINIA-based ISLAMIC FREE MARKET INSTITUTE.

FIBE is also closely associated with the infamous BANK of CREDIT and COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL (BCCI), which will found to be deeply implicated in the ILLEGAL ARMS and NARCOTICS TRADES, and with the FUNDING of TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS when it collapses in 1991.

Investigators will also find that BCCI held $589 million in “unrecorded deposits,” $245 million of which were placed with FIBE. [Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 164 - 175]


39 posted on 02/06/2011 12:21:58 PM PST by bronxville
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December 1982:

Muslim Brotherhood Project to Infiltrate and Defeat the West
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In November 2001, Swiss investigators will search the home of YOUSSEF NADA, the LEADER of Al TAQWA BANK, a SWISS BANK that had just been SHUT DOWN by the US and the UN for alleged ties to al-Qaeda, Hamas, and other radical militant groups (see November 7, 2001).

NADA and other Al Taqwa directors are prominent members of the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. Newsweek will say, “The Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928 as a religious and quasi-political counterweight to the corrupt and increasingly decadent royalist and colonial governments dominating the Islamic world, always has had TWO FACES:

one a peaceful public, proselytizing and social-welfare oriented wing; the other

a clandestine, paramilitary wing.…

Intelligence and law-enforcement officials say that while some branches and elements of the Brotherhood, such as the offshoots now operating in EGYPT and SYRIA, have PLEDGED to work for their GOAL of a WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC CALIPHATE using PEACEFUL MEANS and ELECTORAL POLITICS, the Brotherhood has also spun off many—if not most—of the more violent local and international groups devoted to the cause of Islamic holy war.” Such offshoots will include al-Qaeda and Hamas. [Newsweek, 12/24/2004]

Swiss investigators discover a 14-page document from December 1982 entitled “The Project.” NADA claims not to know who wrote the document or how he came to have it, and he says he disagrees with most of the contents. The document details a strategic plan whose ultimate goal is “the establishment of the reign of God over the entire world.”

The document begins, “This report presents a GLOBAL VISION of an INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY of ISLAMIC POLICY.” It recommends to “STUDY of the CENTERS of POWER LOCALLY and WORLDWIDE, and the POSSIBILITIES of PLACING THE UNDER THE INFLUENCE,” to CONTACT and SUPPORT NEW HOLY WAR MOVEMENTS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD,, to support holy war in PALESTINE, and “NURTURE the SENTIMENT of RANCOR with regard to the JEWS.”

Swiss investigators who analyze the document will later write that the strategy aims to achieve “a growing influence over the Muslim world. It is pointed out that the [Muslim Brotherhood] DOESN’T HAVE to ACT in the NAME of the BROTHERHOOD, but can INFILTRATE EXISTING ENTITIES. They can thus AVOID BEING LOCATED and NEUTRALIZED.”

The document also advocates creating a network of religious, educational, and charitable institutions in Europe and the US to increase influence there.
[Unknown, 12/1982; Le Temps (Geneva), 10/6/2005]

One can see the “infiltration” and influence, even as recent as 3 yrs ago, in our own government. A number of employees are Islamists as are a few of our representatives, for example, Ellison who accompanied Nancy Pelosi/Hoyt to the ME.


40 posted on 02/06/2011 12:39:41 PM PST by bronxville
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