Posted on 04/19/2002 2:11:14 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier
U.S. Customs Was Looking For Evidence of Terror Funding
Feds Searched Offices Of Seven McKinney Donors
By David Freddoso
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D.-Ga.) took $5,500 in campaign contributions in 2001 from seven donors whose organizations’ offices were recently searched by federal agents as part of an effort to collect information about terrorist groups.
Among these donors was Abdurahman Alamoudi, an avowed supporter of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Alamoudi gave McKinney $2,000 on Sept. 11, 2001, according to a Federal Election Commission (FEC) report. Another three of the seven donors’ contributions were also received on that date.
Each of the seven McKinney contributors is associated with at least one of six organizations whose offices were searched in late March by the Customs Service. These organizations include the Success Foundation, the Safa Trust, Mar Jac Investments, the International Institute of Islamic Thought, the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, and the York Foundation.
Four of the seven contributors—Yaqub Mirza, Jamal Barzinji, Taha Al-Alwani, and Ahmad Totonji—are mentioned by name in a search warrant issued to the Customs Service by a federal court, a copy of which was obtained by Human Events. The warrant, signed by Federal Magistrate Theresa Buchanan, authorized Customs to seize financial records from 21 groups in search of evidence of "material support to foreign terrorist organizations, conspiracy to defraud the United States by impeding the functions of the Internal Revenue Service, and conspiracy to engage in international transfers of money to promote offenses against foreign nations involving murder or destruction of property by means of explosives."
None of the McKinney contributors has been charged with any crime, a Customs spokesman said.
Two of the contributors—Mirza and Barzinji—did not return calls from Human Events, although Mirza denied any wrongdoing in an interview with the Washington Post. Totonji hung up during a telephone interview when asked about his contribution to McKinney. Alamoudi—who was also in the news last week over his earlier contributions to McKinney and Rep. James Moran (D.-Va.)—could not be reached by telephone.
Won’t Discuss Donations McKinney’s campaign reported taking 24 donations worth $13,850 on Sept. 11, 2001—her second-biggest fundraising day of the year, according to FEC records. McKinney spokeswoman Dana Mott refused to speak to Human Events about the context of these donations. "I just can’t discuss that," she said. She referred all inquiries on the matter to McKinney’s campaign headquarters in Georgia. No one answered the phone at the campaign headquarters last week, and messages left on its answering machine by Human Events went unanswered. An FEC spokesman said that campaigns are supposed to report donations on the date they receive them, which may not be the same date the gifts are made. One of McKinney’s September 11 contributors—Sabah Jabri, a retiree from San Diego—told Human Events that he sent his $250 contribution after receiving a fundraising letter from McKinney "some time during the summer." Mott also said she could not discuss whether McKinney would return Alamoudi’s donation. Other politicians—such as President Bush, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) and Rep. John Sununu (R.-N.H.)—all returned contributions from Alamoudi after he declared his support for the terrorist group Hamas to a cheering crowd at an October 2000 demonstration in front of the White House. "Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of Hamas," he said during a rally shortly after the beginning of the Palestinian Intifada. Later in the demonstration, he cited press reports labeling him as a supporter of Hamas, and said, "I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah." Other press reports have recently noted Alamoudi’s earlier contributions to McKinney, including $1,000 during the 2000 election cycle. Human Events’ analysis of McKinney’s contributions also found that, unlike previous election cycles, when she got 20% to 40% of her campaign cash from outside Georgia, McKinney received more than 90% of her itemized individual contributions from outside her state in 2001. During the period Sept. 11- Dec. 31, 2001, all but one of her 108 itemized contributions came from individuals from out-of-state. Of those 108 contributions, 100 came from Americans with clearly identifiable Arabic first names. McKinney supports the Palestinians in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and opposes racial profiling. McKinney created a controversy when she suggested on a Berkeley, Calif., radio station on March 25 that President Bush may have withheld prior knowledge of the September 11 terrorist attacks so that his friends could profit from the war that was sure to follow.
I've noticed in Baltimore over the past five years a growing population of black muslims.
As a hostage in the Congressional district of Sheila Jackson-Lee.... Let me just say "NO - It isn't INTERESTING... it's just downright disgusting!!"
I dunno, I live near her district and I don't know anyone that admits to voting for her. I suspect that the answer lies in her playing the race card quite aggressively; she is one of the lead supporters for billions of dollars in reparations for slavery, and her main constituents are...well...likely recipients of those reparations.
Many Black Muslims have "adopted" an Islamic Name in their hatred of America. Just look at the NBA re Islamic Names.
When she is convicted of treason she will take several bullets to the chest.
It is tragic when people must leave this planet so that innocent life can be protected from the savagery these barbarians visit upon them.
But not as tragic as the barbarism which must be eliminated, and which this moron facilitates.
Tragic, yes. Necessary, oh, yes. Bring the charges Ashcroft.
To me any aid or abetting that is done for a group of terrorists whose buddies mass murdered 3,000 of our citizens on 9/11/2001 is classified as an act of treason.
Having said that, she is so terminally stupid, they probably wasted their money with the exception of one area. She and the other black socialists in congress are the most adamant against profiling the Middle Easterner Men as potential terrorists. That anti profiling stance has protected a lot of terrorists as they roam around our country.
Also, she and her other black racist cohorts would go ballistic if the FBI really started to investigate the Jihad in America re the al Fuqra connections to the Black Muslims in America.
That's true. I didn't consider that.
Thats just the cash she reported for her campaign. My gut instinct tells me, they bought her votes with a swiss or offshore account for far more than 13k, IMHO.
Good point. And also a good example of why the black "leaders" desperately
want to keep their constituency "cross-eyed and painless," (uneducated and dependent.)
The racial profiling issue was probably a key element of funding by terrorist groups to black racist congressits like McKinney.
Exactly. And remember back in Sept/Oct that the polls consistently showed that 90%
of black Americans favored profiling.
And they aren't named Smith or Jones either.
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