Posted on 09/18/2006 11:35:20 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Bubba wrote a letter comending these guys in 1999. I'll see if I can find the text.
commending....
As war loomed in September 2002, Mr. al-Khafaji escorted Mr. Bonior on a high-profile trip to Baghdad, along with Washington Rep. Jim McDermott and California Rep. Mike Thompson. Mr. Bonior, whose office handled the arrangements, told me last month that Mr. al-Khafaji "was part of the trip and he obviously knew people, and he was connected quite well so we could get the meetings that we wanted." Mr. McDermott's spokesman likewise recalls that Mr. al-Khafaji played a central role, adding that a Michigan-based charity called Life for Relief and Development organized and paid everything. Mr. al-Khafaji told me that he'd been a financial supporter of that organization, too, though he said he couldn't remember how much--not even ballpark--he'd given over the years.
The trip proved something of a propaganda coup for Saddam, with Mr. McDermott suggesting in a televised interview from Baghdad that President Bush "would mislead the American people" while saying "I think you have to take the Iraqis at face value." Mr. al-Khafaji seems to have taken a particular shine to Mr. McDermott, resulting in another contribution--$5,000--to a legal defense fund that had been set up for the congressman in an unrelated case. "He's a friend and he gives me money," Mr. McDermott told Roll Call in February 2003.
Oh, boy...
Members of Congress Call For an End to Sanctions on Iraq
WASHINGTON - January 25 - News Advisory: The following was released today by Life for Relief and Development:
House Democratic Whip David Bonior (D-Mich.), Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Rep. Tom Campbell (R-Calif.) and other members of Congress will join with American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice and major Muslim and Arab American organizations to call for an end to the devastating embargo on Iraq....
Check out the laundry list of pols who signed that letter. Some of the names stand out. Hope they all rate a visit from the Feds.
Watch the usual whine from the CAIR Gang about this, but nothing about their cohorts' threats to the Holy Father.
Aide says McDermott wasn't aware of Saddam link [Baghdad Jim update]
How about a bacon bits necklace, earrings and bracelet combination?
There was a raid today in Columbia Missouri also. An Iraqi family that owns a local International Foods Market. I shop there often.
http://www.showmenews.com/2006/Sep/20060918News003.asp
Life for Relief and Development....Focus: Iraq, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Kosova.
That's interesting.
Life for Relief and Development (formerly International Relief Association) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1993.
I've also seen 1992 for the date. Again, interesting.
Life for Relief and Development is dedicated to alleviating human suffering around the world regardless of race, color or cultural background. This global organization strives to offer humanitarian, health, educational, social and economic services to victims of natural disasters, wars, hunger and more through a variety of programs. Since its inception, Life has offered services and assistance to hundreds of thousands. It also provides millions of dollars worth of much needed medicines and medical equipment annually to those in areas deprived of medical attention. Life is also involved in building, renovating and administering many schools and rehabilitation centers. Entry updated: Dec, 1999
I hope the Feds hit the motherlode.
In the U.S., the two biggest U.S.-based NGOs operating in the Islamic world are Islamic "charities" under investigation by several federal agencies for money-laundering to terrorists. One--Life for Relief and Development (LRD)--openly admitted on its tax forms to giving millions from 1995-1997 to Hamas' Jordanian operations. In 2004, at a Los Angeles fundraiser, a speaker more than hinted that money would go to train individuals for more operations "like Fallujah" (where U.S. contractors were burnt to a crisp). Its Iraq offices were raided by U.S. troops, perhaps because it was founded by men connected with Al-Qaeda.
LRD got its USAID status when "former" Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist and FBI award revokee Imad Hamad lobbied Senator Carl Levin (D-MI). LRD's General Counsel is the President and attorney for Hamad's Midwest Regional American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. All of these parties are openly pro-Hezbollah. LRD's spokesman, Mohammed Alomari, is the proud author of an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory book and articles decrying Jews in the Bush Administration.
Lifeusa partners
http://www.lifeusa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=wwa_Partners
I stopped buying from muzzies along time ago
A front for terrorism no doubt.
Shut all of the "Peaceful" Trogladytes DOWN!
If we do not, we will soon be defensively shooting them in our streets.
There are a lot of pols who need to be looked at. And I hope anyone who's dirty is sweating bullets.
Sounds good to me, however, isn't this story an 'urban legend'?
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