Islamic Jihad claims Netanya suicide bombing The radical Palestinian group Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the Israeli coastal resort of Netanya, in a statement received by AFP in Jenin.
Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, named the bomber as 20-year-old Rami Ghanen, a first-year student from the Al-Quds university in Tulkarem, a Palestinian town on the border between the West Bank and Israel and just 15 kilometres from Netanya.
He was from the village of Deir al-Ghusun, just north-east of Tulkarem, which like almost the whole of the West Bank has been under constant Israeli reoccupation since a spate of suicide bombings in June last year.
Ghanen killed only himself when he detonated his explosive device outside a cafe in Netanya, but injured 26 other people, six of them seriously.
cair and the Islamic Jihad connection
On the other hand, Muslim and Arab groups and their spokesmen-Khaled Saffuri of Islamic Institute, Jason Erb of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and Hussein Ibish of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) — have been screaming out against the new rules.
In other words, forget their post 9/11 phony, ephemeral promises to help President Bush rout out terrorism. On the contrary, they attempt to protect those who enable and plan terrorism, not stop them.
That's why they want don't want the FBI entering the mosques.
All of these groups openly support Sheik Rahman's buddy, Dr. Sami Al-Arian, the Islamic Jihad Chief of Military Operations, who doubles as the tax-funded, vacationing University of South Florida professor of computer science. Al-Arian raised money to fund his terrorist operations in mainstream mosques all over America, videotapes show, with the willing participation of the mosques' imams (religious leaders) and congregants. In one video, Fawwaz Abu Damra, Imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, is shown introducing Al-Arian as head of "the active arm of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, and we like to call it the Islamic Committee for Palestine here for security reasons." Abu Damra implored mosque congregants, "Donate to the Islamic Jihad! . . . If you write a check, write it for the Islamic Committee for Palestine."
This is why some of the folks at CAIR, ADC, Islamic Institute, and America's other radical Muslims don't want the FBI in their mosques. And why we should be happy they now are. Americans who do not support terrorism should take note — and not allow themselves to be used as accessories.
— Debbie Schlussel is an attorney, columnist, and commentator.
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AMC and Islamic Jihad connection.....
FBI Director To Speak Before Controversial Muslim Group
Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com
Monday, June 24, 2002
WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller's plan this week to speak before a Muslim group has raised eyebrows in Washington among critics of Bush administration policies to cozy up to Muslim-American groups, some with suspected ties to terrorist organizations.
Since Sept. 11, President Bush has wisely steered the country away from engaging in a religious war, making a clear distinction between mainstream Islam and radical Islam that seeks to harm the U.S.
But some Washington national security experts are raising a red flag about FBI Director Mueller's planned luncheon speech to the American Muslim Council (AMC) at its annual conference, set for Friday, June 28 in the Washington area.
Frank Gaffney, President of the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and a former official in the Reagan administration, argues that it is inappropriate for Mueller to speak before the AMC, a group he says has either condoned or turned a blind eye to radical Islamic terrorism.
Gaffney has an extensive file on AMC, which has been reviewed by NewsMax.com.
Much of the information is publicly available, and Gaffney is baffled why the FBI hasn't raised its concerns.
Mueller’s spokesman, however, has declared the AMC is "the most mainstream Muslim group in America."
But Gaffney points out that, far from being "mainstream,” AMC has a thick file indicating the opposite.
Among concerns, he cites:
The AMC has a long and consistent history of supporting a full range of terror groups in the U.S. Curiously, many of them have little to do with Islam or Middle East issues. AMC is an "active member" of the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom, many of whose members "have bombed America,” according to CSP.
These include the Puerto Rican FALN and Macheteros, Black Liberation Movement, Weather Underground, and MOVE’s Mumia.
AMC representatives repeatedly refuse to denounce specific terrorists or terrorist groups. CSP says the Muslim Council is "always dodging into generalities about terror, and then entering into political diatribes explaining why the terror or terrorist in question allegedly is justified or engaged in [a] ‘freedom struggle.’"
According to Fox News Channel’s "Brit Hume Special Report" for June 19, AMC Executive Director Eric Vickers has repeatedly refused to denounce Humas, Hizbollah, Egyptian and Palestinian Jihad, and other groups historically supported by AMC, including even al-Qaeda.
AMC’s own website on September 26 (shortly after the terrorist attacks) linked to a document called "Know Your rights" that advises "Don’t Talk to the FBI." AMC fervently opposed both Clinton and Bush anti-terror initiatives both before and following 9-11. These positions were outlined by the AMC Report for October, 1995 and AMConline for June 14, 2002.
The AMC, according to CSP, "has hosted terror groups from all over the world, virtually each and every year of its 12-year life. AMC is directly associated with many groups, charities and individuals that have been raided, closed, or subject to asset impoundment, arrest or deportation in connection with international terrorism, both before and after the attacks of 9/11."
Much of CSP's extensive file deals with AMC’s longtime Board Member and former Executive Director Abdurahman Almoudi (still housed in AMC’s offices and running the related American Muslim Foundation.)
Here are some specifics on the Almoudi and AMC’s history of apologizing for terrorism:
AMC disagrees with the State Department’s official designation of Hamas and Hizbollah as terrorist groups. Almoudi, according to an AP story of January 9, once exhorted a rally outside the White House, "We are ALL supporters of Hamas. Allahu Akhbar! I am also a supporter of Hizbollah." This statement caused George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton to return $1000 contributions from Almoudi.
The Holy Land Foundation (HLF) is one of the primary U.S.-based charities supporting terrorists overseas. President Bush, in fact, ordered it closed after 9-11 for collecting money "used to support the Hamas terror organization." (White House press released Dec. 4, 2001).
AMC did not approve of the president’s action in defending the U.S. against terror. In a statement released the same day, this "most mainstream" group called Bush’s act as "particularly disturbing…unjust and counterproductive.” AMC had bestowed an award on the Holy Land Foundation for its "strong global vision." This, according to a tape recording of an AMC conference of May 9, 2000.
AMConline.org reported that AMC has hosted Layth Shubayalat, a terrorist implicated in an Islamic plot to overthrow Jordan’s King Hussein.
Almoudi, according to Seif Ashmawy, author of "The Voice of Peace," has defended Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, the convicted mastermind for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
In January 2001,Almoudi participated in what the State Department described as a terrorist conference with a destructive agenda. It included leaders of Hamas, Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Osama bin Laden’s organization. According to a website report of the Beirut conference, those gathered there issued a communiqué calling for a boycott of America products.
AMC, as described in its own press release dated June 1, 2001, has provided defense of and press conferences for, the Sudanese National Islamic Front, a State Department-designated terrorist group.
Appearing on the Alan Keyes TV show, AMC’s current Executive Director, Eric Efran Vickers, as recently as June 18, 2002 did not, when given the opportunity, denounce terror groups the AMC had previously supported.
Vickers was also an incorporator and board member of the Islamic African Relief Agency. Two of that group’s grants were revoked by the U.S. Agency for International Development at the request of the State Department. The reason? Its ties with terrorist-sponsoring Sudan.
The AMC has aggressively attacked Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a leading moderate in the Muslim community. He had spoken out against militant Islamic fundamentalism and the network of front groups operating and raising funds in the U.S.
The AMC has not been shy about criticizing U.S. policies.
Anti-American statements made by AMC leaders or speakers include "Let us damn America” (reported by the New York Post 11/3/2000) and "We’re gonna burn America down”(reported by CBS News).
The former president of the executive Board of its Board of Directors is Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly known as H. Rap Brown, the violent sixties radical), now serving a life sentence without parole for murdering a policeman.
Gaffney is not opposed to Bush administration policies to reach out to American-Muslim groups.
As Gaffney puts it: "Certainly American-Muslim groups without this extremely broad and deep history of troubling connections can be found and fostered.”
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