Posted on 11/12/2009 2:09:09 PM PST by VRWCTexan
Federal prosecutors are taking steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
suit seeks to revoke the Alavi Foundation and the Assa Corporation’s ownership of a 36-storey building at 650 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The original lawsuit filed in December only sought Assa Corp.’s building share.
Prosecutors said both companies were sending money to Bank Melli, owned by the Iranian government. The U.S. Treasury has designated the bank as a weapons proliferator and banned U.S. citizens from dealing with it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5AB5CH20091112
Ping.
This is going to make The Won very upset. I wonder if they waited until he left the continent. LOL.
suit seeks to revoke the Alavi Foundation and the Assa Corporation’s ownership of a 36-storey building at 650 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The original lawsuit filed in December only sought Assa Corp.’s building share.
Prosecutors said both companies were sending money to Bank Melli, owned by the Iranian government. The U.S. Treasury has designated the bank as a weapons proliferator and banned U.S. citizens from dealing with it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5AB5CH20091112
Seizure has an important role in protecting our nation.
“The mosques and the office tower will remain open while the forfeiture case works its way through court.”
bam won’t like this. It will get monkeywrenched by holder just like the black panther crap. Watch.
Good Start
What about their first amendment rights need to get holder in there protectinem.
ACORN will buy them for $1 each on a sweet deal from the fed.
Writing at Forbes.com, Rachel Ehrenfeld this week reported that this group, which supports Iranian causes, gave the Clinton foundation between $25,000 and $50,000 on Dec. 19, 2008 — the very day the Alavi Foundation’s president, Farshid Jahedi, was indicted on federal charges related to a probe of the foundation’s relationship with Iran’s Bank Melli. (The donation, according to Ehrenfeld’s report, also came two days after the U.S. Treasury Department designated Alavi’s partner, the New York-based ASSA Corp., as a terrorist entity.) Both the Alavi Foundation and Bank Melli, Ehrenfeld reported, have been “recognized as procurement fronts for Iran’s nuclear program,” with Bank Melli being designated in 2007 as a terrorist entity.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/rubber_stamp_for_hillary.html
They are saying this could take years. Why not shut them down while the case proceeds? This is slow, slow slow. Gives them time to get all their stuff cleaned up and moved into different locations through a new pipeline.
If they were serious about protecting us, they would shut them down now and put a hold on their assets prior to seizure. It doesn’t take them any time at all for the Feds to seize an American property...or bank.
Yeah, yeah...I won’t hold my breath.
See Post #11. They have friends in high places.
How long till we see Rage Boy rioting in Islamabad?
5..4..3..2..1..
well someone better apologize..........
They ought to seize the UN building, for almost exactly the same reasons.
“Seizure has an important role in protecting our nation.”
In cases of breaking weapons embargos, & these muzzie terrorists, I would agree. It’s often the only way of hitting the real offender where it hurts them.
The government has no business taking property from ordinary people 99% of the time though.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. - snip - “For two decades, the Alavi Foundation's affairs have been directed by various Iranian officials, including Iranian ambassadors to the United Nations, in violation of a series of American laws,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.
The skyscraper, known as the Piaget building, was erected in the 1970s under the shah of Iran, who was overthrown in 1979. The tenants include law and investment firms and other businesses. If federal prosecutors seize the skyscraper, the Alavi Foundation would have almost no way to continue supporting the Islamic centers, which house schools and mosques. That could leave a major void in Shiite communities, and hard feelings toward the FBI. Legal scholars who specialize in religious liberty issues said they know of only a few cases in U.S. history in which law enforcement authorities have seized a house of worship. Marc Stern, a religious-liberty expert with the American Jewish Congress, called such cases “extremely rare.” |
clinton runs obama. I don’t understand why people can’t see it. Honestly.
bam is clinton’s wet dream for total control over the US economy. And bam gets to play president.
That’s what I’m saying. There is no way this comes to fruition.
Let’s not jump to any conclusions here.
Probably not, since he wants to be best buds with the Nutjob.
But I am giving props to the LEOs if they really did time it to intentionally make it difficult for him to mess with them, at least for a few days.
Backlash!
Cool!
Is he off our soil?
LET’S PARTY!!!
Agreed. Just waiting for CAIR to start crying and the lawsuits flying!
LOL. I actually felt a sense of relief to have him out of the country although it’s completely irrational and he can mess things up mightily overseas.
Finally!
Gives them time to get all their stuff cleaned up and moved into different locations through a new pipeline.
I’m hoping as they try to get their stuff cleaned up,
that they follow exactly who,what and where they try
to hide everything!! Should be interesting...hope it’s
not botched up..
And when would this have come down without the Fort Hood incident?
Thank heaven they’re not closing those Mosques with Iranian ties. /s
Perhaps after some other wingnut cuts loose, they’ll come to the conclusion it can’t wait.
How many deaths does it take folks?
‘Bout Damn Time!!!!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
AFTER 9/11 EVERY FOREIGN MOSQUE IN AMERICA SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN AND ALL FOREIGH MUZZIES DEPORTED!
I won't be surprised if he apologizes for this.
Wahabbi Mosques which preach Jihad against the US next?
another header for that photo could be,”the fbi acted stupidly.”
The mosques should be torn down and replaced by rib joints.
My, my, my. The timing of this is SUCH a surprise.
Obama must have known of this for quite a while, I wonder how many of his muzzie friends he warned while he delayed doing this as long as he could?
OCTOBER 25, 2007 : (US DEPT OF THE TREASURY DESIGNATES THE BANK MELLI See IRAN, WMD PROLIFERATION, ASSA CORP, QODS FORCE {See HEZBOLLAH, THE TALIBAN, PFLP, PIJ, HAMAS}) Bank Melli was previously designated under E.O. 13382 on October 25, 2007. E.O. 13382 is aimed at freezing the assets of proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their supporters.
Bank Melli provides financial services, including opening letters of credit and maintaining accounts, for Iranian front companies and entities engaged in proliferation activities. Further, Bank Melli has facilitated the purchase of sensitive materials utilized by Iran’s nuclear and missile industries, and has handled transactions for other designated Iranian entities, including Bank Sepah, Defense Industries Organization, and the Shahid Hammat Industrial Group.
Bank Melli has been designated as a proliferator by the United States and the European Union for its role in Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1803 calls on all member states to exercise vigilance with regard to activities between financial institutions in their countries and all Iranian banks, particularly Bank Melli.
Further, Bank Melli provides banking services to Iran’s military vanguard, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Qods Force, which is a branch of the IRGC that has been designated under Executive Order 13224 for providing support to terrorist groups, including the Taliban, Hizballah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command. -————Treasury Designates Bank Melli Front Company in New York City
TREAS.GOV - THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ^ | December 17, 2008 | TREAS.GOV PRESS RELEASE HP-1330
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1330.htm ; Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 3:18:09 AM by Cindy
I can’t wait to hear CAIR explain this one.
Ok....
I support this...
then Give all the money to the Familys of American Soldiers
and Jews killed By Islamo Facists
I bet that Obama will stop the raids.
Another wonderful jihadist hate factory that should be shutdown immediatly is the "Islamic Saudi Academy" funded by the U.S. Saudi embassy and located in Alexandria, Virginia.
Highlights of this wonderful facility include:
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the ISA's 1999 valedictoria, indicted on terrorism charges that he joined Al-Qaeda and had plotted to assassinate President George W. Bush.
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom urged the US State Department to shut down ISA on the grounds is teaches religious intolerance thats a danger to the USA and the school refused to provide its teaching materials for review.
Later analysis of textbooks at ISA found they teach students that it is okay for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, and also teach that, "The Jews conspired against Islam and its people."
Mohammed Osman Idris and Mohammed el-Yacoubi, former students of ISA, were denied entry to Israel in Dec 2001, under suspicion of planning to carry out a suicide martyr attack. Idris was later charged with lying to a federal grand jury investigating terrrorism.
bam won’t like this. It will get monkeywrenched by holder just like the black panther crap. Watch.
+++++++++++++++++++
Oh...we’re watching...
Here’s some further info:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/1109/US_seizing_mosques_office_tower_over_Iran_ties.html
A couple excerpts:
[While the action to seize a half-billion dollars in assets of the Alavi Foundation is dramatic, suspicions that the organization is controlled by Tehran date back for more than a decade. A 1995 article by Iran researcher Ken Timmerman cited an FBI report from a year earlier which concluded that the foundation was “entirely controlled by the government of Iran.”]
[The complaint also says a current foundation board member named Ali Ebrahimi kept a series of supsicious notes pertaining to the foundation. Elbrahimi’s notes, seized from his home and office in May, are somewhat cryptic but include the phrases: “conspiracy,” “it is illegal,” “mafia,” and “I cannot sleep at night.”]
...or lock the door.
Not long.
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