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... and The Elgindy clan is associated with the Dems.

Now "Life for Relief and Development" is also known for one of its backers, a guy named al Khafaji whose name is one of two on the UN Oil for Food bribe list released some time ago that got the Oil for Food scandal boiling fast on ol' Kofi Annan:

* Life for Relief & Development aka LRD :

2002 fall : (BAGHDAD TRIO TRIP IS FUNDED BY A CHARITY, 'LIFE FOR RELIEF AD DEVELOPMENT,' WHICH IS ALSO KNOWN FOR LAUNDERING MONEY TO THE TERRORIST GROUP HAMAS) McDermott was one of three Congressmen who went on Saddam’s propaganda tour of Iraq in Fall 2002. The trip was funded by Life for Relief and Development (LRD), a “charity” which laundered money to terrorist group Hamas’ Jordanian operation. LRD is funded in part by Shakir Al-Khafaji, a man who did about $70 million in business with Saddam through his Falcon Trading Group company (based in South Africa). LRD’s Iraqi offices were raided by US troops last week, and the Detroit-area “charity” is suspected of funding uprisings, such as the one in Fallujah. Its officials bragged of doing so at a recent private US fundraiser.
Mr. Alkhafaji, one of two Americans named in Iraqi newspapers as a participant in Saddam’s “Oil for Food” scam, gave Congressman McDermott $5,000 in October 2002 for McDermott’s legal defense fund in a lawsuit against him…. http://www.bowlingfortruth.com/fahrenheit911/terrorists.htm 38 posted on 10/06/2004 8:10:12 PM PDT by lwd

Now who is al Khafaji?

Well, as we all know by now, he's the guy who bribed UNSCOM inspector Scott Ritter.

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KHALED ELGINDY WAS- OR MAYBE STILL IS- PRESIDENT OF THE WASHINGTON, DC CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE aka ADC-DC; THIS GROUP HELD A 'TEACH-IN' AS PART OF A CAMPAIGN BY THE 'INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER' (The IAC is another leftwing freak show.)

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"The trip was funded by Life for Relief and Development (LRD)"

Hmmmm..... Islamist terrorists sponsoring propaganda tours on behalf of Saddam's regime -- but we know that Saddam and Islamists hated each other and could never work together because that's a key talking point of the left....