http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/marzook/ en-us Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:19:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169159/posts Now that Hillary Clinton has been confirmed as Secretary of State, the Obama administration will announce Thursday two high-profile appointments -- former senate majority leader George Mitchell (D-Me.) as Middle East envoy and former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke as envoy for Afghanistan, Pakistan "and related matters," sources close to the administration said. Mitchell will be charged with rebuilding the Middle East peace process in the wake of the three weeks of violence between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Holbrooke will take on the difficult job of soothing relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, whose border is a haven for... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169159/posts#comment Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:19:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138596/posts A federal jury in Dallas on Monday dealt the Stealth Jihad initiative in the United States a crushing defeat: it found five former officials of an Islamic charity, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), guilty of funneling at least $12 million of the charity’s funds to the jihad terror group Hamas. The notorious “Muslim civil rights” group, the Council on American Islamic Relations, is involved as well, since Ghassan Elashi, a founding director of CAIR as well as founder of the group’s Texas chapter, was among those found guilty; Elashi and his co-defendants face prison sentences of up to twenty years... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138596/posts#comment Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:16:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137794/posts DALLAS – A jury convicted five former officials at the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) on all counts in the Hamas-support case after 8 days of deliberations. The men, Shukri Abu-Baker, Ghassan Elashi, Mohamed El-Mezain, Mufid Abdulqader and Abdelrahman Odeh, could face up to 20 years in prison for their convictions on conspiracy counts, including conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. The verdicts, read Monday afternoon, ended a two-year saga in what is considered the largest terror financing case since the 9/11 attacks. In the original trial last year, jurors acquitted El-Mezain on 31 of the... Investigative Project http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137794/posts#comment Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:38:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990809/posts CAIR Exposed: Part 1 As IAP Offshoot, CAIR Followed Pro-Hamas Agenda From the Start by Steven Emerson IPT News March 24, 2008FEATURE STORY   From the Hamas ties of its founders in 1994 to its solicitous stance toward accused terrorists today, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has demonstrated that its actual mission is far removed from the civil rights advocacy it claims to pursue. Still standing as perhaps the clearest evidence of CAIR's insidious role, two key leaders of the group attended a 1993 meeting in Philadelphia called by Hamas members and supporters to devise a strategy for torpedoing... Investigative Project on Terrorism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990809/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:22:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017706/posts Sen. Barack Obama has harshly criticized Sen. John McCain for making an issue of an endorsement by Hamas, but the Democratic candidate said in a new interview he understands why the terrorist group supports his presidential bid. "It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush,'" Obama told... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017706/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2008 17:56:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994141/posts It's bad enough that Barack Obama's church took sick joy in 9/11 for "racist white America" supporting "Zionists." Now we learn that it also is a mouthpiece for anti-Israeli terrorists. Last July, Trinity United Church of Christ reprinted a Hamas manifesto written by a terrorist fugitive wanted by the FBI. It was published across two pages of the "Pastor's Page" section of the church bulletin. Rev. Jeremiah Wright's name is copyrighted at the bottom of the pages. For those who don't know, Wright is the anti-American, anti-Israeli bigot that Obama has consorted with for the past two decades. In his... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994141/posts#comment Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:11:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1990351/posts The entire country is now aware of the hate-filled ravings of Barack Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright. Obama’s membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ is entirely consistent with the Black identity politics, if not Black nationalist politics, that he describes in Dreams From My Father. The United Church of Christ is meanwhile, as shown by the Anti-Defamation League associated with the Sabeel Ecuminical Liberation Theology Center. Not only does Sabeel question Israel’s right to exist, it is on record as referring to the establishment of Israel as the “nakba” or “catastrophe.” If this is not bad... IsraPundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1990351/posts#comment Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:20:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886979/posts DALLAS Prosecutors have produced scores of documents, audio and video tapes, and intercepted phone calls in their attempt to prove that a Muslim charity based in a suburban Dallas office park was actually a fund-raising arm of Middle Eastern terrorists.Much of the evidence has surfaced before in books, newspaper articles and previous trials. But those who track terror-financing say the document haul from the trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development has also produced new information.They say the documents shed light on a web of related organizations of militant Palestinian supporters in the United States, some of... CBS Dallas Fort Worth http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886979/posts#comment Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:20:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719477/posts Holy Land/CAIR Founder Sentenced This Dallas Morning News article doesn’t mention it, but in addition to his ties to the Holy Land Foundation, Ghassan Elashi was also the founder of the Texas chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations: Holy Land group’s co-founder sentenced. (Hat tip: LC LaWedgie.) Ghassan Elashi, co-founder and former chairman of the now-defunct Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation, was sentenced Thursday to six years and eight months in prison on charges that he did business with a terrorist and violated export laws with his brothers and their company InfoCom Corp. Mr. Elashi was allowed by U.S.... Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719477/posts#comment Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:35:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739324/posts Testimony in the trial of Chicago resident Muhammad Salah and Abdelhaleem al-Ashqar of Northern Virginia, continued yesterday. FBI Agents gave testimony focusing on items found in Ashqar's home during a search of his Oxford Mississippi residence on December 26, 1993, in addition to wiretaps of his phone and fax lines. Special Agent Bradley Benabidez testified that the FBI acquired over 2400 hours of audio during the year that they maintained a wiretap. Benabidez further described the December 1993 search of Ashqar’s home where a team of agents from the FBI photographed over 1600 documents. A few of those documents which... Counterterrorism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739324/posts#comment Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:11:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/966988/posts Islamic charities based in Northern Virginia and sponsored by the government of Saudi Arabia invested millions of dollars in a company suspected of funding al Qaeda and the Islamic Resistance Movement, the government alleged for the first time yesterday. An affidavit made public in federal court in Virginia contends that the Muslim charities gave $3.7 million to BMI Inc., a private Islamic investment company in New Jersey that may have passed the money to terrorist groups. The money was part of a $10 million endowment from unnamed donors in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, according to the affidavit filed by David Kane... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/966988/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2003 03:09:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377642/posts Al Qaeda High - Alleged Bush Assassin a Graduate of Local Saudi Madrassa Stella Jatras, who normally follows the Balkans for us, reports on efforts to establish yet another Saudi Madrassa outside Washington, D.C. Nestled snuggly in the Northern hills of Virginia, lies the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA), better known as Al-Qaeda High. ISA's most notable graduate - so far - is Ahmed Omar Abu Ali. Ali was arrested recently for plotting to assassinate President Bush. Ali was born in Houston and later moved to Falls Church, Va., where he was valedictorian of his class at ISA. After graduation, a... CitizenSoldier http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377642/posts#comment Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:57:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/843974/posts Aid push made for 5 tied to Hamas Backers seek to raise $500,000 for Muslim brothers' legal team 02/15/2003 By STEVE McGONIGLE / The Dallas Morning News Supporters of five brothers accused of doing business with Middle Eastern terrorists are asking the Dallas-area Muslim community to help raise $500,000 to pay for a team of prominent attorneys hired to defend the men. The Muslim Legal Fund of America, a nonprofit group established by friends of Richardson businessman Ghassan Elashi and his brothers, is having a fund-raiser Saturday at the Dallas Central Mosque. A leaflet distributed by the fund described... The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/843974/posts#comment Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:13:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1384854/posts CAIR leader convicted on terror charges - Founding board member of Texas chapter funded Hamas By Art Moore A founder of the Texas chapter of a highly influential U.S. Islamic lobby group was found guilty of supporting terrorism. Ghassan Elashi, along with two brothers, was convicted in Dallas yesterday of channeling funds to a high-ranking official of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook. Elashi was a board member of the Texas chapter of the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American Islamic Relations -- the third CAIR figure to be convicted on federal terrorism charges since 9-11. CAIR is a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1384854/posts#comment Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:04:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198320/posts A man described as a high-ranking operative of the Palestinian militant group Hamas was arrested last week as he videotaped the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Virginia, and he then was held as a material witness in an unrelated case, authorities said. Ismael Selim Elbarasse of Annandale, Virginia, long suspected by authorities of having financial ties to the Palestinian extremist group, was taken into custody Friday, the U.S. attorney's office in Maryland said Monday. He was held as a material witness in a Chicago terrorism case. Elbarasse made an initial appearance in Baltimore's federal courthouse Monday before U.S. District Magistrate... Ha'aretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198320/posts#comment Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:47:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348603/posts Virginia man charged in alleged plot to assassinate Bush By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Writer ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A former high school valedictorian in Virginia was charged Tuesday with conspiring to assassinate President Bush and conspiracy to support the al-Qaida terrorist network. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23, a U.S. citizen, made an initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court. He claimed that he was tortured while detained in Saudi Arabia since June of 2003 and offered through his lawyer to show the judge his scars. The indictment said that in 2002 and 2003 Abu Ali and an unidentified coconspirator... AP/ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348603/posts#comment Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:38:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/698847/posts Senate Candidate Kirk has Links to Terrorism By MARC LEVIN An Austin Review investigation has revealed that U.S. Senate candidate Ron Kirk is employing an anti-Israel activist who has defended terrorist groups and is friends with American Taliban John Walker Lindh. The Review has also learned that Kirk has received numerous campaign donations from individuals linked with terrorism and anti-Semitism, one of whom also violated U.S. export laws by shipping sensitive technology to Libya and Syria. Kirk's recently filed campaign report shows payments to a Steven L. Hyland, Jr. of: $1133.22 for "payroll expense" and three separate payments totaling $638.30... The Austin Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/698847/posts#comment Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:42:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/734671/posts CYNTHIA McKINNEYPOSITION: Democrat Congresswoman from GeorgiaDONOR: Abdurahman Alamoudi AMMOUNT: $2000 on September 11, 2001 DETAILS: Alamoudi, President of the American Muslim Foundation, is a well known radical mohammedan activist known for publicly praising terrorist organizations. He worked closely as an informal advisor and affiliate of several Clinton administration officials (source). At an October 2000 rally in Washington, D.C. Alamoudi spoke to a radical islamic crowd announcing ""I have been labeled by the media in New York as being a supporter of Hamas. Any supporters of Hamas here? (cheers) Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of Hamas ... I... FEC reports at opensecrets.com, various news reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/734671/posts#comment Sat, 17 Aug 2002 05:51:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203433/posts BALTIMORE - A man described as a high-ranking Hamas operative was freed Monday on a $1 million bond, but must appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago probing the Palestinian militant group's financing. Ismael Selim Elbarasse was released during a closed-door detention hearing in federal court in Baltimore, said Vickie LeDuc, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office. His attorney said he was traveling to his home in Annandale, Va. Elbarasse had been arrested after officers pulled him over Aug. 20 just west of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge after spotting his wife filming the structure with a video camera.... Miami Herald/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203433/posts#comment Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:15:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199918/posts Though his attorneys claim he's harmless, Virginia resident Ismail Selim Elbarasse, now in federal custody, for years has been tied to stateside financing of Middle East terrorist organization Hamas. The Annandale, Va., resident was taken into custody Friday after two off-duty Baltimore County police officers saw him videotaping the Chesapeake Bay Bridge from a sport utility vehicle, said Marcia Murphy, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Baltimore. Elbarasse was not charged with a crime but was detained on a material witness warrant issued by the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago. Officials there want him to testify before a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199918/posts#comment Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:11:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198672/posts senior Hamas member, Ismael Selim Elbarasse of Annandale, Virginia, was arrested in the US on Friday as he videotaped the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, US officials said. The man has long been suspected by authorities of having financial ties to the Hamas, the US attorney's office in Maryland said. On Friday two police officers on the Bay Bridge spotted Elbarasse, who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent, in a sport utility vehicle videotaping the bridge, authorities said. Once Police apprehended the suspect, they discovered that Elbarasse was on an FBI terrorist watch list. He was also wanted... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198672/posts#comment Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:19:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198145/posts ...The Iraqi interim government of Ayad Allawi, given sovereignty by the U.S. in June, has been establishing itself as a reliable U.S. ally. U.S. forces and Iraqi troops and police have finally cornered Muqtada al Sadr, the wild-eyed ayatollah who wants to turn Iraq into another Iran. [F]fighters appeared to be melting away ...in a sacred Shiite shrine in Najaf, although the battle continues.... ...a wave of arrests of terrorism suspects in the U.S., Britain and Pakistan.... Ashcroft announced the indictments of three men alleged to have been aiding Hamas.... [I]t is impossible to assess with any accuracy the extent... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198145/posts#comment Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:04:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196534/posts DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug. 21 (AP) - A senior official of a Palestinian militant group who is accused of conspiring to finance terror attacks against Israel denied the accusations on Friday and said they were driven by election-year politics in the United States. The official, Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, deputy chief of the political bureau of the militant group Hamas, is in Syria and was indicted in the United States along with two other men. "This is election campaigning," he said, speaking by telephone from Damascus, where he has been living for several years. He said that he had "nothing to... NY Times / AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196534/posts#comment Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:33:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195810/posts The US authorities have arrested two alleged members of Palestinian militant group Hamas on racketeering and terrorism charges. Officials said Muhammed Hamid Khalil Salah and Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar were arrested on Thursday in Chicago and in northern Virginia. A warrant was also issued for an alleged senior Hamas leader in Syria. The US attorney general said the trio "allegedly ran a US-based terrorist and financing cell" associated with Hamas. They "were indicted for their roles in a 15-year racketing conspiracy in the US and abroad", said US Attorney General John Ashcroft, quoted by the Associated Press. "The cell allegedly... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195810/posts#comment Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:30:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195603/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two suspected members of Hamas have been arrested in the United States and charged with supporting a foreign terrorist organization, money laundering and racketeering, US Attorney General John Ashcroft announced. The authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect facing the same charges, identified as the deputy chief of the political bureau of Hamas, Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, who currently resides in Syria. Ashcroft said the trio allegedly ran a US-based terrorist recruiting and financing cell linked with Hamas, a Palestinian militant group which has publicly admitted to many killings, primarily of Israelis but also... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195603/posts#comment Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:59:26 GMT