Posted on 02/25/2006 7:24:31 PM PST by Imnotalib
TOLEDO, Ohio - Documents seized by federal agents suggest that two of three Muslim men accused of plotting to kill American and allied soldiers may have ties to a Muslim charity suspected of funneling money to the militant organization Hamas. Federal agents seized an invoice from the charity, known as KindHearts, from a travel agency where defendant Mohammad Zaki Amawi worked. Agents also took a KindHearts binder from an address where defendant Marwan Othman El-Hindi lived. Lists of items seized were filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Toledo. The three suspects - El-Hindi, Amawi and Wassim I. Mazloum - were arrested last weekend. All have pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiring to kill Americans and conspiring to provide or conceal support to terrorists. They could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted of the most serious offenses. U.S. Attorney Greg White said the investigations of KindHearts and the alleged terror plot are separate. KindHearts has denied any terrorist connections and has said it is a humanitarian organization. But on Feb. 19, the Treasury Department ordered U.S. banks to freeze the assets of the Toledo-based charity. Cleveland lawyer Jihad Smaili, who is also a KindHearts board member, said Saturday that items seized by federal agents during the terror arrests do not prove any link with his organization. "There is no connection there," Smaili said. "Even if these men had KindHearts items in their possession, that does not mean that KindHearts supported them to do something illegal. That would be guilt by association." Mazloum, 24, is Lebanese and came to the United States in 2000. He is a legal, permanent resident of the U.S. El-Hindi, 43, is a U.S. citizen born in Jordan. Amawi, 26, is a citizen of both the U.S. and Jordan. Other items seized by federal agents during the arrests included bank and phone records, computers, cell phones, knives, travel records and battle dress uniforms. At another of El-Hindi's addresses, agents also confiscated a subpoena from a federal grand jury in Syracuse, N.Y., and faxes from federal prosecutors there. That is where a Muslim doctor was convicted last year of setting up an unlicensed charity and illegally sending money to Iraq. Dr. Rafil Dhafir was convicted in federal court on 59 felony charges and sentenced to 22 years in prison. Dhafir served on the board of a Chicago travel agency that El-Hindi managed for about a year. El-Hindi attended a community college near Syracuse when he moved to the United States from Jordan in 1984, according to his lawyer. "He didn't know about the fundraising activities or money going to Iraq," said attorney Stephen Hartman.
looks like the FBI didn't get the memo from the state department or the white house yet....
hamas is no longer a terrorist organization. :-(
That is a great picture, lol. Thanks.
You forgot the paragraphs.
So many "muslim charities" turn out to be terrorist financiers that they should always put it in quotes.
A "Muslim charity" is the finance organization for terrorists.
Here ya go boys, this might help.
we need you to take over one of the offices in DC...
you understand what is going on.
I thought financing terror was the purpose of Muslim charities. Of course, to be fair, they also finance things like Madrassas, Wahabbi prison chaplains, helping clerics to immigrate to the West, and paying off the relatives of dead suicide bombers.
Jihad-In-America bump
IF they are true moslems, they have conspired to kill anyone who is not a moslem, American or not.
Islamic charities are often just financing agencies for al Qaeda. Why anybody thinks the UAE maritime company waiting to operate in our eastern ports will be any less dangerous than these "charities" astounds me.
Oh come on now. This deal was approved by the Treasury Department, an organization sooo careful of risk they have shredded the constitution to keep American citizens from legally owning automatic firearms. If Treasury approves a deal or makes one of their infamous "rulings" (aka, legislation without representation), you just know it's in the country's best interest.
Yes, that needs a sarcasm tag, but I want to keep some of the big government "conservatives" here on FR guessing for a while.
No kidding.
:-)
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