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Saudi Officials Try To Shut Down Oregon Charity: Group Owns Property In Ashland
koin.com ^ | June 4, 2004 | koin.com

Posted on 06/04/2004 10:45:50 AM PDT by Destro

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1 posted on 06/04/2004 10:45:51 AM PDT by Destro
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To: *balkans
The organization's president is believed to be out of the country, possibly in Saudi Arabia or Bosnia.
2 posted on 06/04/2004 10:46:09 AM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: Grampa Dave

Looky here.


3 posted on 06/04/2004 10:48:00 AM PDT by B Knotts
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To: Destro

Imagine that! The Saudi Government is trying to shut it down, and NOT the Oregon Government.


4 posted on 06/04/2004 10:48:22 AM PDT by lormand (Save the Whales? Call a Democrat! Save the World? Call the Republicans)
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To: lormand
"The Saudi Government is trying to shut it down, and NOT the Oregon Government."

It's not surprising. After all, we are now a diverse nation.

5 posted on 06/04/2004 10:53:20 AM PDT by TheCrusader ("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" Pope Urban II)
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To: TheCrusader
"It's not surprising. After all, we are now a diverse nation."

Yes, and after all, women and children would be hardest hit if they close it down.

6 posted on 06/04/2004 11:00:19 AM PDT by lormand (Save the Whales? Call a Democrat! Save the World? Call the Republicans)
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To: B Knotts

Thanks for the ping.

Ashland = Home of Islamofascists, Kerrorists, watermelon jihadists, Hate America


7 posted on 06/04/2004 11:12:25 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( America in war for its survival can't have a 9/10 al Querry elected!)
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To: B Knotts; AuntB; FBD; blackie; SAMWolf; dixiechick2000; oceanperch; Salvation; justshe

Isn't just special!


8 posted on 06/04/2004 11:13:27 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( America in war for its survival can't have a 9/10 al Querry elected!)
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To: Destro
The FBI shut down the Ashland branch and seized evidence

Why didn't the FBI seize the property too?

9 posted on 06/04/2004 11:19:00 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Grampa Dave

bump^
Thanks for the ping to this, Dave!


10 posted on 06/04/2004 11:22:58 AM PDT by FBD (...Please press 2 for English...for Espanol, please stay on the line...)
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To: Grampa Dave

Oregon and terrorists ties. Who would have thunk it?


11 posted on 06/04/2004 12:12:55 PM PDT by SAMWolf (I intend to live for ever, or die in the attempt.)
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To: SAMWolf

From border to border, Ashland to Portland.

I5 = route of the Islamoterrorists!


12 posted on 06/04/2004 1:15:03 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( America in war for its survival can't have a 9/10 al Querry elected!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Whats the address over there? Is it off Briar road?


13 posted on 06/04/2004 1:19:25 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Liberalism is communism one drink at a time)
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To: samadams2000

I don't know. I haven't stopped in Ashland for over 10 years.


14 posted on 06/04/2004 1:22:31 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( America in war for its survival can't have a 9/10 al Querry elected!)
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To: Grampa Dave; donozark; rface

Here is a Missouri connection to the Oregon Charity -
Credit to Donozark for this link:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9838


15 posted on 06/04/2004 2:03:01 PM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: Grampa Dave

Ashland will probably hold another rally in support of the terrorists....after all their supporters said the men running this outfit were "men of peace".......


16 posted on 06/04/2004 2:50:47 PM PDT by AuntB ("I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Edison)
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To: Grampa Dave; Destro

From the arlicle linked on Frontpage mag.
" The president of this organization is a local Arab-American arborist named Pete Seda. The Quran Foundation is a nonprofit Islamic educational organization. Seda is affiliated with Al-Haramain. He operates an Al-Haramain affiliated program called Arabian Nights, which familiarizes people with Arab culture and the Islamic faith.

Apparently, Seda is considered a benefactor in Ashland. He bought a camel to show kids who attend his Arabian Nights program. A local Ashland, Oregon newspaper, the Daily Tidings, despite all the controversy involving Al-Haramain, described Al-Haramain simply has an Oregon nonprofit organization.
One wonders when the federal government and the Ashland newspapers will start investigating the allegations and the operations of Al-Haramain’s local office. "




""""" Arab-American arborist named Pete Seda.""""""

Okay.......arborist in Ashland is translated to eco freak. I could swear this is the guy I called a few years ago about doing some tree topping. He did all he could to convince me there was no good way to top a tree..sounded like he didn't want the business. This is all cover for terrorism, eco and Islamic, IMHO. I thought the Bosnia connection was more than interesting, Destro. I miss Oregon less every day.





17 posted on 06/04/2004 3:01:01 PM PDT by AuntB ("I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Edison)
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To: Ben Hecks; AuntB; B Knotts; SAMWolf; dixiechick2000; justshe; oceanperch; Salvation; FBD; ...

Ben thanks. The rest of you might appreciate this. "A local Ashland, Oregon newspaper, the Daily Tidings, despite all the controversy involving Al-Haramain, described Al-Haramain simply has an Oregon nonprofit organization."

Sounds like the worthless Fresno Bee writing the PC Bs about the Islamo Training Center near Clovis before we exposed it.

Terrorist Charity

By Michael Tremoglie
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 16, 2003

Why is the American office of a Saudi Arabian charitable foundation, linked to Al-Qaeda, still in operation? Ironically, the Saudi government, in May 2003, closed seven of this charity’s offices in other countries – at the request of the federal government. Yet, the US offices were not closed.

The Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation has an office in Ashland, Oregon. According to a lawsuit, the Ashland, Oregon office was linked to al Qaeda, and the Al-Haramain branch in Kenya that was banned following the 1998 Embassy Bombings.[1]

Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism (FUBT) made this allegation in their lawsuit filed on August 15, 2002, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. FUBT is a group representing some families of the 9/11 terrorist attack victims. According to the lawsuit FUBT “seeks to hold those responsible for a more …insidious form of terrorism… which attempts to hide behind the facade of legitimacy. These entities, cloaked in a thin veil of legitimacy, were and are the true enablers of terrorism. The financial resources and support network of these … charities, banks, and individual financiers …allowed the attacks of September 11, 2001 to occur. …Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network cannot plan, train and act on a massive scale without significant financial power, coordination and backing.” [2] Essentially FUBT is accessing the opportunity made available by President Bush, John Ashcroft and Congress and the Patriot Act to file civil actions against terrorists and impede their financial operations.

Al-Haramain’s activities have been known for some time now. In March 2002, Bosnian intelligence reported that Al-Haramain was related to terrorist operations-especially Al-Qaeda and Chechnyan rebels. A raid of the Sarajevo office of Al-Haramain revealed that $1.59 million was not unaccounted for by the group. Bosnian intelligence reported that: “We believe that the clear lack of any concrete humanitarian projects indicates that the existence of this organization was a fictitious cover for probable links with terrorism.” That same month President Bush included Al-Haramain in an executive order freezing the assets of organizations financing terrorism.

The FUBT lawsuit notes that after raids of Al-Haramain offices in Bosnia in June 2, 2002, the Commander of the NATO-led forces in Bosnia, Lieutenant General John Sylvester stated:

“We detected a pattern here . . . for terrorist cells and those who aid and harbor them to operate behind the shield of legitimate humanitarian . . . organizations…. They were preaching good, and sometimes doing good, while plotting evil."[3]

In September 2002, Indonesian Al-Qaeda informant Omar al-Faruq told the CIA that Al-Haramain was used to remit funds to him from bin Laden. Al-Haramain’s website used to have a direct link to qoqaz.net, which is a website that is part of the al Qaeda propaganda network. The website is owned by Azzam Publications, bin Laden’s propaganda vehicle, and operated from Houston Texas.

Al-Haramain is also involved with the Al Baraka banking empire, which was also named in the 9/11 lawsuit. AL-Baraka finances the activities of bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. In his Senate testimony in July 2003, terrorism expert Steve Emerson said that although initially Saudi Arabia denied allegations that Al-Haramain were involved in terrorist activities, in June (2003) they stated that al-Haramain was not acting according to its charter and announced that all foreign offices were to be closed. Emerson did remark that the Ashland office was still in operation.

Al-Haramain has another location in the United States. According to the 9/11 complaint, Al-Haramain owns a building in Springfield, Missouri that is home of the Islamic Center of Springfield, which is a mosque.

A call to the Ashland office revealed that there is no staff there. There was only an answering service. The address listed for the Ashland, Oregon Al-Haramain office, is 1257 Siskiykou Boulevard. This is a UPS mail office. The same address is used for the Quran Foundation. The president of this organization is a local Arab-American arborist named Pete Seda. The Quran Foundation is a nonprofit Islamic educational organization. Seda is affiliated with Al-Haramain. He operates an Al-Haramain affiliated program called Arabian Nights, which familiarizes people with Arab culture and the Islamic faith.

Apparently, Seda is considered a benefactor in Ashland. He bought a camel to show kids who attend his Arabian Nights program. A local Ashland, Oregon newspaper, the Daily Tidings, despite all the controversy involving Al-Haramain, described Al-Haramain simply has an Oregon nonprofit organization.

One wonders when the federal government and the Ashland newspapers will start investigating the allegations and the operations of Al-Haramain’s local office.


18 posted on 06/04/2004 5:48:20 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( America is in war for its survival can't have a 9/10 al Querry elected!)
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To: AuntB
Off topic but he's right- there is no 'good way' to top a tree. Sometime's it's neccessary to do it for a hard-headed customer, but it is never 'good for the tree' as it produces too many poorly angled branches and suckers which are prone to breakage, fungus and disease; their fullness also increases the wind resistance of the tree and so the liklihood of severe damage to the remaining limbs increases; topped trees's new growth lacks the natural limberness and aerodynamics properly pruned or unpruned well-formed trees; topping generates more litter from excessive leaf growth and aphid infestations, and the technique by nature makes the tree a maintainance problem requiring attention for as long as the tree lives- unlike a properly planted specimen.

Not to mention the technique produces a really fugly tree.

Instead of topping trees, the customer is better off having them chopped completely down and replaced with a species whose mature size and form will be more suited to the landscape.

Even a suspected terrorist can be right about some things...;o)

19 posted on 06/04/2004 6:20:32 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Destro

yowzie!

BTTT!


20 posted on 06/04/2004 8:59:49 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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