Posted on 02/01/2011 3:46:44 PM PST by tobyhill
Grassy Knoll?
In reference to the Muslim Brotherhood not being on US State Department’s Terrorist Organizations LIst (FTO)
Backgrounder: The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development Connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas
Posted: May 28, 2009
Documents and evidence released during the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial showed that the charity was part of an apparatus set up in the U.S. to support efforts by the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
HLF was part of the Palestine Committee, an organizational structure that operated in the U.S. in support of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian offshoot, Hamas. The Palestine Committee included the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR) and the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), both Hamas-linked anti-Semitic propaganda organizations.
The UASR, a Virginia based think tank, was founded by Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzuq. In 2006 UASR’s director, Ahmed Yousef, became personal adviser to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and a Hamas spokesman in Gaza. The IAP, described by the U.S. government as part of “Hamas’ propaganda apparatus,” distributed official Hamas communiqués and the Hamas Charter.
HLF operated as a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity organization. It was founded in 1987 in Los Angeles, California, as the Occupied Land Fund (OLF) by its President and CEO, Shukri Abu-Baker. In 1991, it changed its name to HLF, and it moved to Richardson, Texas in 1993.
Below are some examples of how HLF supported Hamas:
In 1997, Israel banned the Jerusalem-based HLF as a Hamas front group. That year, Israel raided the group’s headquarters and seized documents that allegedly linked the Jerusalem office with the HLF in the U.S. Israel security also arrested the Jerusalem HLF’s director, Mohamed Anati, for purportedly distributing monthly stipends to families of Hamas suicide bombers.
During the HLF trial, the government exhibited a document from 1994 that was signed by Abu-Baker and Anati recognizing HLF Jerusalem as the “sole agency in the West Bank and Jerusalem” of the Richardson-based charity.
In October 1993, several representatives of HLF and IAP attended a meeting in meeting in Philadelphia of the Palestine Committee, which was set up by the Muslim Brotherhood to support Hamas, according to evidence presented during the trial. Those present discussed supporting Hamas in the United States through fundraising and political activity, and countering the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords.
A March 1993 HLF Ramadan appeal pledge card declared, “Yes. I can and want to help needy families of Palestinian martyrs, prisoners and deportees.”
An October 1992 IAP memo, which was submitted as evidence in the HLF trial, described the history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s involvement in Palestinian politics. It mentioned the founding of IAP and HLF (OLF in the document), as well as the launching of Hamas. It also listed resolutions reached by the Muslim Brotherhood movement, including “supporting the continuation of the intifada,” and “the completion of formation of Palestine committees… publicizing and focusing on the savagery of the Jews in Palestine.”
According to the document, IAP and HLF were part of “a Palestine Committee” formed in consultation between U.S.-based activists and the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood, and were part of a structure that functioned to support Hamas, the movement’s “tool and striking wing.”
According to IRS records, more than 10% of HLF funds in 1992 came from Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzuq.
A 1992 letter from the Islamic Relief Committee, one of the Palestinian entities that received money from HLF, was found at the home of Ismail Elbarrase, an unindicted co-conspirator in the case. That letter praised the killing of Jews and asked for support, including weapons, for the mujahideen. The letter, one of the documents presented by the prosecution during the trial, stated:
“You do not know how happy people become when they watch those Mujahideen and how proud they feel when they parade in their uniforms and weapons and the extent of their honor when they carry out their Jihadist operations against the Jews and their tentacles…. Jihad in Palestine is different from any Jihad; the meaning of killing a Jew for the liberation of Palestine cannot be compared to any Jihad on earth…provide us with what helps us of funds and weapons. Weapons, weapons, our brothers.”
A document dated May 1992 that was authored by Mohamed Akram (Adlouni), which was presented as evidence during the HLF trial, detailed the efforts and goals of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S., which the document described as a “Civilization-Jihadist Process.” The document, titled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America,” listed OLF, IAP and UASR, along with national Muslim organizations such as the Islamic Society of North America and Islamic Circle of North America, under “a list of our organizations and organizations of our friends.” Akram served on the UASR board of directors.
A March 1991 IAP fundraising letter urged supporters to send funds to the OLF to support the Intifada.
In November 1990, IAP and OLF organized a fund-raising dinner at Culver City, California, under the name “Intifada.” The Arabic flyer advertising event included a drawing of a wall covered with graffiti and signed “Hamas.” One of the writings said: “The Jihad is the way and there are no alternatives to it.” The invitation noted that the event was being held “for the start of the fourth year of the Intifada and in commemoration of the launching of Hamas.”
In 1989, at an IAP and OLF-sponsored event, a masked man reportedly took the stage to praise Hamas, describing the “oceans of blood” it would bring on the Israelis. He also thanked the two organizations, singling them for being early allies of Hamas. Other speakers praised Hamas, and a Hamas banner draped the table from which they spoke, according to a newspaper report.
An OLF 1988 fundraising letter stated, “Is it not out of honesty and sincerity that we all be brothers to the martyr’s widow? Should we not stand by her and compensate her children for what they lost by their father’s martyrdom?” The letter also informed supporters that “Muhammad Siyyam…who visited North America [has] supported the (OLF).” Siyyam is a Hamas leader. The letter said that the OLF is sponsored by IAP
From: http://www.adl.org/main_Terrorism/backgrounder_holyland.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_2
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Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
November 24, 2010
Current List of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (AAMS)
Al-Shabaab
Ansar al-Islam (AAI)
Asbat al-Ansar
Aum Shinrikyo (AUM)
Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army (CPP/NPA)
Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group)
HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
Hizballah (Party of God)
Islamic Jihad Union (IJU)
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed)
Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI)
Kahane Chai (Kach)
Kata’ib Hizballah (KH)
Kongra-Gel (KGK, formerly Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK, KADEK)
Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous)
Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ)
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM)
Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
National Liberation Army (ELN)
Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI)
al-Qa’ida (AQ)
al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (formerly GSPC)
Real IRA (RIRA)
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N)
Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
Revolutionary Struggle (RS)
Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)
Harakat-ul Jihad Islami (HUJI)
Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
Jundallah
From: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm
***Holy Land Foundation is not on the US list here but is on the European Terrorist Organizations List (2009)
at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:023:0037:0042:EN:PDF
Also here’s another interesting piece of info I found in my research.
ATTAC REPORT: Intelligence Briefing The LAX Attack 7/04/02 Part 2 “Attack of the Red Sphinx”
(If Hesham Mohamed Hadayet had conducted the 2002 attack at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on his own initiative, President Bush would have had little reason to deny the shooting was terrorism. But like all terrorists, Hadayet must have been sent by some organization with state sponsorship — one so sensitive that the Bush Administration moved aggressively to protect it.)
Since the 1980s, Egypt’s Marxist regime has tried to disguise its ongoing role in international terrorism by forming terror groups labeled as “Islamic” rather than being openly Communist, and by publicly distancing itself from them. Most of the new groups orbit around the older Muslim Brotherhood, a Communist-affiliated movement that participated in the Communist-led Free Officers movement that brought the Marxists to power in 1952. Though officially illegal, the Muslim Brotherhood and its allied terrorist groups are allowed to participate in all parts of the government, their members being top political officials and military officers in the Soviet-controlled regime. All those “illegal” groups are controlled by the GDSSI, whose agents fill their ranks, and they are allowed openly to dominate university campuses, where they recruit hundreds of thousands of activists and future terrorists.2 In the Egyptian police state, none of those groups could receive military training, weapons, or the ability to travel abroad to conduct terrorist strikes without GDSSI coordination. Yet by occasionally pretending to “crack down” a bit on the terrorists, the Cairo regime maintains an image of innocence.
Egypt receives a big payoff for such deception. Israel treats the Marxist regime as if it were an ally, and the United States provides Cairo with about $2 billion in foreign aid annually, including a steady flow of advanced military technology and participation in joint military exercises. Meanwhile, dictator Hosni Mubarak, himself a Soviet agent trained directly in the Soviet Union, continues to foment terrorism through the GDSSI and its web of nominally “independent” groups.3
Much evidence points to Hadayet, the LAX suicide attacker, having been an agent of Egyptian intelligence. His family was well connected in the upper levels of the Marxist regime, with “several senior officers in the armed forces.”4 His father previously served as a general in the Egyptian army, having fought in the 1967 and 1973 wars against Israel; that alone would suggest Hadayet’s father may have been Soviet-trained and -recruited. One of Hadayet’s uncles was even more intimate with the regime, having been a member of the Communist-front Society of Free Officers that brought the Communists to power, and later working as the Cairo regime’s Minister of Scientific Research.5
Hadayet himself was able to earn a degree from a university in Cairo, a privilege normally reserved for the children of the Communist elite. Shortly after he started his career at an Egyptian bank, he was promoted with lightning speed past his colleagues to become chief of the securities and credit division at an exceptionally young age.6 His well-to-do position in Egyptian society raised one of the most puzzling questions faced by investigators: Why did he move to the U.S. in the first place, thereby having to start from scratch as a taxicab driver? The picture made no sense — unless Hadayet was one of many “sleeper” agents sent by the GDSSI to prepare for future operations.
From the time Hadayet arrived in the U.S. in 1992, one of his close associates was fellow Egyptian immigrant Medhat Mahmoud, previously an Egypt Air security official — a position normally held by intelligence agents — who, like Hadayet, inexplicably moved to America to start over as a produce wholesaler.7 After Hadayet’s suicidal July fourth attack at LAX, Mahmoud did his best to throw law enforcement off the track, to the point of fabricating a story about Hadayet’s work history and insisting Hadayet was no terrorist.8 In all likelihood, Mahmoud is another GDSSI “sleeper” agent awaiting future orders.
Even though Hadayet’s wife and children had been expected to be home to celebrate his birthday, he sent them back to Egypt one week before his suicide attack, thus guaranteeing the FBI would have only limited access to them in the wake of his death.9 That gave Egyptian intelligence full control of the most critical sources of information. Two days after Hadayet’s LAX assault, the Cairo regime acted surprised by all the attention, protesting that the investigation was blowing things out of proportion.10 Meanwhile, Egyptian police blocked access by the news media to Hadayet’s family and conducted its own interviews; immediately afterward, the GDSSI denied even having a file on Hadayet, and insisted that Hadayet was motivated only by a financial dispute with Israel’s El Al airline over late payments.11 But when El Al investigated, it found no record of any dealings with Hadayet,12 and Egyptian authorities themselves had admitted the existence of files on Hadayet back in 1993.13 The GDSSI had made up the entire story.
Hadayet’s family also denied Hadayet had ever belonged to a terrorist or radical group of any kind.14 But as mentioned in part 1, Hadayet had in the early 1990s confessed his membership in the Gama’a al-Islamiyya; other sources connected him to the leadership of Islamic Jihad in Egypt. Both groups form part of the larger GDSSI-controlled Muslim Brotherhood network that serves as cover for Egyptian-sponsored terrorism.
Thus in late June of 2002, Hadayet presumably received the order for his suicide attack from the GDSSI, at which point he made his preparations and erased any evidence pointing back to his spymasters. Then, on July fourth, he put on his suit with calm discipline, loaded two semiautomatic handguns, filled his pockets with additional ammunition, took a 6-inch knife, and drove to the LAX international terminal for the last time — focused on nothing but his final mission.
If Americans were to realize Egypt conducted a terror attack on American soil — and might do so again — President Bush could find himself battling enormous political resistance to the billions of dollars he sends each year to both Egypt and the PLO. As at least some observers would agree, that explains the Bush Administration’s insistence on labeling the attack an “isolated incident” and on promptly closing the investigation.
References
1. “Egypt,” Country Study & Guide, http://reference.allrefer.com, Dec. 1990.
2. Ibid.; Winestock, G., “For Egypt’s terrorists, fertile ground lay in widespread poverty,” Wall Street Journal, Jan. 18, 2002, pp. A1, A4; “Abdel-Halim Moussa, 73; Egyptian official reached out to rebels,” Obituaries, Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2003, p. B10; AP, “Mamoun el-Hodeiby, 83; led Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood,” Obituaries, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 10, 2004, p. B13.
3. “Egypt,” Country Study & Guide, Op cit.
4. “Financial problems with El Al could be LA shooter’s motive: family,” IslamOnline, www.islamonline.net, July 6, 2002.
5. Ibid.; McDonnell, P., Connell, R., & Mohan, G., “LAX gunman angled for visa,” Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2002, pp. B1, B11.
6. Dixon, R., Leonard, J., & Connell, R., “Those who knew LAX killer say personal agenda died with him,” Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2002, pp. A1, A26.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Gross, T., “LAX attack: the view from Israel,” National Review Online, July 10, 2002; Blankstein, A. & Leovy, J., “FBI looks for motive in LAX attack,” Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2002, pp. A1, A16; Dixon, R., Leonard, J., & Connell, R., Op cit.
10. “LAX gunman may have met with Bin Laden deputy,” Ha’aretz, www.haaretzdaily.com, July 7, 2002.
11. Blankstein, A. & Leovy, J., Op cit.; “Financial problems with El Al could be LA shooter’s motive: family,” IslamOnline, Op cit.
12. McDonnell, P., Connell, R., & Mohan, G., Op cit.
13. Krikorian, G. & McDonnell, P.J., “Ashcroft orders review of asylum cases,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 26, 2002, p. A22.
14. Blankstein, A. & Leovy, J., Op cit.; “Financial problems with El Al could be LA shooter’s motive: family,” IslamOnline, Op cit.
From: http://www.attacreport.com/ar_reports/intel_lax070402_06_0709.htm
Obama said that his administration would be open to talking with anyone. No mock surprise and outrage from me. It’s exactly what he said he would do.
O really needs to stay out of Middle East business. He’s not just offering suggestions, he’s conspiring with an enemy. Sure wish some judge would deal with THAT.
“It’s almost like Obumma wants it that way.”
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It’s almost like water is wet.
It’s almost like the Sun rises in the East.
It’s almost like bears...never mind.
Too late to KEEP it that way. Maybe by some miracle it can be restored but the land of the free no longer exists. Wishing and hoping and refusing to face facts won’t make it still be the land of the free.
It only took them a week but what did they accomplish? If the mullahs take over they have only made a bad situation worse. When we make a change we need to do a lot better than Egypt is likely to do.
I call them blithering idiots.
I realy believe that many Obots are good people who lack critical thinking skills and can be played as fools. Bob
No one should be remotely surprised to hear that the aboministration currently occupying the formerly-White-now-dingy-gray House "has had no contact with the Muslim Brotherhood." Of course it hasn't. Why bother, when it has constant contact with Ayers, contact with Dohrn, contact with Code Pink...
The only grass in Cairo is marijuana.There may be a few knolls, I have never been there and never will be.
I do have a personal friend , a retired naval Captain who was on the review stand as a US Embassey military Attache representative, when Nassar was assassinated. His military colleague sitting next to him took a rifle round through both buttocks, as they both hit the deck.
He says this whole thing is an Obama set up.I believe him.
I realy believe that many Obots are good people who lack critical thinking skills and can be played as fools. Bob>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
History shows that such good people as “Obots” are,actually elected the Nazis to power in the 1930s, millions later died, some in the worst genocide mankind has ever seen, all for the Arryan Utopian dream. DO you think Obama’s Utopia, or his methods will be much different? Take a look at Obama’s work in Kenya in 2006/2007. Then you will know exactly what is about to happen in Cairo, as it did in Nairobi. The rest of Egypt will look on in horror as .3% of its population,250,000 out of some 80 million, is slaughtered, or alternatively commits slaughter.The need for totatlitarian Islamofascist control will become evident to all who are in terror in Egypt.Obama will be victorious as a fascist.
I am reminded of Il Duces exploits into Ethiopia prior to WWII. Obama simply is using a different style. Akinder gentler form of genocide which the MSM refuses to report,as was the case in Nairobi in November of 2007?
The coming slaughter events in Egypt are the wages of fascism, and ignorance is no excuse.Obots either change or they deserve the utmost ridicule, and vile detestation.Without that we will not stop them.
A pox on all Obots, the Obama movemnet, their Czars and running dogs.We stop them at the polls or with impeachment, or with guns. Take your pick.The more we tolerate them , the more likely it will be the gun.History shows the truth of that.
“...lying by omission and by misdirection comes as naturally as breathing to these vermin....
Why bother, when it has constant contact with Ayers, contact with Dohrn, contact with Code Pink...”
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Exactly...and their other trick: Listen to what I say; don’t watch what I do.
“This past weekend, the London Telegraph reported the U.S. embassy in Cairo in 2008 helped a young dissident attend a U.S.-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police.
The Telegraph would not identify the dissident, but said he was involved in helping to stir the current protests. The report claimed the dissident told the U.S. embassy in Cairo that an alliance of opposition groups had a plan to topple Mubarak’sgovernment.”
I found a meeting that took place in NY in 2008, in the name of Muslim Relations, integrating MB, and the Ground Zero Imam was part of the panel as well.
Here’s the report from the meeting and a list of attendees:
“The White House has announced that one of two Muslim members appointed to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is Dalia Mogahed, a protege of John Esposito, perhaps the best known academic supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and with strong ties to Saudi Arabia.”
Keep reading for more, it’s pretty good..
(They’ve been working their way in, it’s incredible)
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2987/pub_detail.asp
IT'S SO ARAFAT, ISN'T IT?
What makes you say that? Give me examples WHY NOT.
“History shows that such good people as “Obots” are,actually elected the Nazis to power in the 1930s”
My epiphany on this point came during the mesmerizing, mass-hypnotizing, luciferian deception known as the Obama Presidential Campaign.
I kept repeating to myself and anyone else who would listen: I SEE now how it happened in Germany. Even those diametrically opposed to Obama didn’t get it. My “epiphany” still shocks me to this day.
Excellent post.
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