Posted on 02/21/2003 10:25:13 AM PST by joemurphy
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Sami Al-Arian is a University of South Florida professor and the author of this speech: "We assemble today to pay respects to the march of the martyrs and to the river of blood that gushes forth and does not extinguish, from butchery to butchery, and from martyrdom to martyrdom, from Jihad to Jihad."
But, according to the July 16 Newsweek, during a campaign speech in Tampa, last year, candidate Bush singled his son, Abdullah, out in the crowd, something done for specially selected, pre-screened individuals to which a candidate wants to draw attention. Calling Abdullah, "Big Dude" – one of his trademark nicknames reserved for close advisors and White House press, Bush and wife Laura posed for pictures with the Arian family, standing right next to Dr. Al-Arian.
The problem is, Dr. Al-Arian is the U.S. frontman for one of the largest terrorist-group coalitions in the world – Islamic Jihad – which was declared an international terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department and which openly promotes death to Americans. Hijackers on Flight 93, which crashed near Pittsburgh, wore red headbands, customary among Islamic Jihad warriors who take their instruction from Iran.
President of the Islamic Committee for Palestine, Al-Arian headed up the primary U.S. support group for Islamic Jihad, according to "Jihad in America," a 1994 PBS documentary on Arab Muslim terrorists in America, produced and reported by Steven Emerson – a courageous investigative journalist who has worked for the U.S. News & World Report and CNN. "Jihad in America" can be viewed online. (Dr. Al-Arian and his activities are detailed in the last quarter of the hour-long documentary.)
When "Jihad in America" was first set for broadcast in 1994, Arab- and Muslim-American leaders tried to censor PBS and prevent its broadcast. Instead of deploring Arab terrorist groups in the U.S., they demanded and were granted 1.5 hours of PBS airtime to justify these groups and people like Al-Arian. As a result of this documentary and other similar work, Emerson – a real-life Indiana Jones exposing U.S.-based Islamic terrorist groups – received constant death threats from Arab terrorist groups, which the Arab-American community (that today professes a love of America amidst the WTC bombing) refused to condemn.
FBI and INS affidavits accused Al-Arian of, "among other things, 'fraud and misuse of visas' and 'aiding and abetting or assisting certain aliens' involved in terrorism to enter the United States unlawfully." Islamic Jihad's newspaper, "Islam and Palestine," openly promotes jihad against the West, and has listed Al-Arian's ICP as one of its main offices, complete with ICP's Tampa address.
ICP conferences have featured Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, the ringleader of the first WTC bombing in 1993 and now in prison, and Sheik Abdul Aziz Odeh, the spiritual leader to Islamic Jihad and a named unindicted co-conspirator in the first WTC bombing. Odeh has also been a guest at Al-Arian's Masjid Al-Qassan Mosque in Tampa, named for a Palestinian terrorist. Al-Arian also heads World Islamic Studies Enterprise, which according to the Wall Street Journal, "brought terrorists into the U.S. and raised funds for Islamic Jihad." One of those terrorists was Al-Arian's good friend Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, for whom he arranged a visa, who also became a USF professor and director of WISE, and who is now the head of Islamic Jihad, based in Damascus Syria. Disguised as religious charities, ICP and WISE collaborated with and laundered money for parties involved in the 1993 WTC bombing, including Sheik Rahman. These facts were confirmed by Emerson in sworn congressional testimony on Feb. 24, 1998, and May 23, 2000.
From 1988-1992, Al-Arian organized a series of conferences featuring "a number of the world's top, terrorist leaders" and worked with "Hamas leaders in the U.S. and elsewhere, and helped oversee terrorist cells in the Middle East." |
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It was taken in 2000 before he was president.
Yes, Al-Arien was at the WH ONCE in June of 2001.
Let's not characterize it as something it is not. And remember whose FBI and DOJ nabbed the professor and 7 others yesterday---with President Bush's full support.
I just can't help but think that some campaign guy though "Hey! Here's an opportunity for some diversity PR!" And now, it comes back to bite 'em.
Those pictures don't look good, nor does the involvement of many GUCCI GULPHers -- Federal Triangle Lobbyists -- of whom Grover NotQuite is just one.
But we are happy that the ship of state has seen the rats in the hold and some proper account is being taken!
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