I apppreciate your reply and the spirit in which it was made.
There were several articles from reputable news outlets posted on FR about the raids on the Holy Land Foundation and InfoCom in Dallas which revealed that the FBI knew about their fund raising activites and what they were for since 1993. I replied on most of these threads and obviously read the articles. I will try to find some examples and send them to you. Perhaps Uncle Bill or golitey or BlueDogDemo can help me find them for you.
In my investigations of the OKC bombing case I have found along with other investigators known to BlueDogDemo (he is in law enforcement and he has been critical of the FBI and posted on this on many threads for the past nine months and I know him) that the FBI has known about and failed to take action against many Hamas activites in the US and especially in OKC which has had a large well established cell in OKC since late 1980s which is well documented in Steve Emerson's documentary Jihad in America.
BlueDogDemo posted the original article on FR about the 9/6/01 raid (he flagged me and golitely that very day).
I realize that making broad statements as opinions in replies without writing an article or citing a list of references is not as persuasive as most would like. I do not always have the time to write articles and do not have the equipment or archives to do a job as well as Uncle Bill can do. But since replies are usually opinions I feel it is still okay to express my opinon without as much support as an article would require. Not everyone takes the time to read all the supporting info when it is included in replies.
But broad opinions can be presented on replies just like narrow limited opinions, and it is not always my intent to win over everyone. My intent often is to present what the opinon is for people to contemplate and research if they are interested.
I am not trying to be contentious in this reply to you. I am not trying to get you to agree with my statements and I am not even trying to get you to agree with how I have chosen to present my opinions. I am as a courtesy to you trying to explain my position and thinking for your information since I take your reply to me as sincere.
Here are some articles posted on FR (with links to paste)that I promised you about Hamas and the Holy Land Foundation. In these articles you will find reference to the fact that the FBI knew of the improper fundraising activities by Holy Land for Hamas since 1993. And in the first article, the phrase “ long overdue decision” (shown in capital letters by me) is made to characterize the GW Bush decision to move against Hamas illegal fund raising activities in the US implying that he or the FBI knew but delayed longer than should have been delayed.
Several months ago even Newt Gingrich complained that GW Bush had not initially put Hamas on the terrorist list of assets to freeze. After three months of delay GW finally did what Gingrich had complained Bush did not do but should have done. Clinton should also have done it sometime between 1993 and 2001. There is an article on the Gingrich letter of complaint to Bush that was posted on FR in September 2001.
Not So Holy After All
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/588102/posts
Source: www.weeklystandard.com
Published: 2/17/2001, Volume 007, Issue 14 Author: Stephen Schwartz
Posted on 12/11/01 5:21 AM Pacific by dtom
“LAST WEEK President Bush made a LONG - OVERDUE DECISION. He ordered the closing of the Holy Land Foundation, a front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, headquartered in Richardson, Texas, with branch offices in Paterson, N.J., Bridgeview, Ill., and San Diego. The Holy War Foundation would be more like it”
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FBI: Texas-based charity raised money for Hamas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/585164/posts?page=16#16
Source: AP/Jerusalem Post
Published: 12/06/01 Author: David Koenig
Posted on 12/6/01 12:49 PM Pacific by veronica
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Bush Advisor is Holy Land Foundation Lawyer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/585396/post
Source: The Weekly Standard
Published: 12/5/01 Author: Stephen F. Hayes
Posted on 12/6/01 8:12 PM Pacific by ratcat