Jihad noted in wiretaps - Jurors hear conversations in charity fraud case {Boston}

Worcester MATelegram & Gazette ^ | December 11, 2007 | Lee Hammel

[3AngelaD]

BOSTON— The jury in the case of three officers of a defunct Muslim charity listened yesterday to wiretaps in U.S. District Court in which two of the defendants spoke to two men who subsequently were convicted with Jose Padilla on terrorism conspiracy charges. However, when jury members heard Emadeddin Z. Muntasser and Samir Al-Monla, successive presidents of Care International from 1993 through 1998, talk to Kifah Jayoussi and Adham Hassoun, they were not told that Mr. Jayoussi and Mr. Hassoun are awaiting sentencing in federal court in Miami after having been convicted with Mr. Padilla....

The jury has been told that Al-Kifah Refugee Center, from which the government alleges Care International sprang, has been tied in news reports to the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. But Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV has not allowed references to the 9-11 attacks on the United States or terrorism to be mentioned in the 18-day-old trial of the three, who are charged with defrauding the United States by not mentioning support for jihad and mujahedin and thereby preserving their tax-exempt status...

Mr. Jayoussi told Mr. Al-Monla that Mahmoud Abu Halima had been chairman of a defense committee for the man charged with murdering Jewish militant Rabbi Meir Kahane on Nov. 5, 1990, and who “joined the group of the skyscraper in N.Y.” — presumably meaning the World Trade Center bombing five years earlier....Al-Monla offered $1,000, but told Mr. Jayoussi “to send me a letter saying that this is a request to help a family or some poor people or something like that.”...Al-Monla cautioned Mr. Jayoussi not to mention any names in the request for money...

[3AngelaD]

God forbid the jury should be given any useful, pertinent information.

[2banana]

Care International

or CAIR?

[3AngelaD]

Care International is the defunct charity, although no doubt it had ties to CAIR.