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Bloomberg appointee scrubbed CAIR from resume
Mohammedi dumped from airport-profiling panel with Chertoff
November 19, 2010
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Omar Mohammedi
A senior Council on American-Islamic Relations official appointed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg bleached his CAIR experience from his resume, but his controversial past led to his dismissal as a panelist in next week's New York debate on airport profiling broadcast by Bloomberg Television, WND has learned.
Omar T. Mohammedi, a commissioner with the New York City Commission on Human Rights was dumped from the debate featuring former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff after panelists raised concerns about his work for CAIR, which the federal government has named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror-financing case in U.S. history.
Mohammedi omitted his CAIR background from his biographical sketch posted on the human-rights commission website. He served as president and general counsel of CAIR's New York chapter.
Mohammedi also served as the lead attorney in a discrimination lawsuit CAIR financed against US Airways on behalf of the so-called Flying Imams. CAIR's national office in Washington put Mohammedi in touch with the imams. Internal memos show Mohammedi participated in conference calls regarding the case with CAIR's national director, Nihad Awad.
"Should CAIR issue a statement on behalf of the imams? Mohammedi recommends against the imams issuing a statement as it could be used against them in court," CAIR executives recorded in the minutes of their Nov. 30, 2006, conference call with Mohammedi.
In a memo to CAIR executives, Mohammedi proposed launching a campaign to "discredit people" critical of the imams, such as Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. "We should discuss the possibility of having a major campaign against Peter King," he wrote.
Mohammedi's close involvement with CAIR, which the FBI says is "a front group for Hamas," is missing from his human-rights commission bio, which states that he is "an attorney who specializes in employment discrimination and corporate and real estate transactions."
The FBI has severed ties with CAIR until it can demonstrate it is not a terror front.
Mohammedi, along with the mayor and others
"Until we can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and Hamas, the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner," advised assistant FBI Director Richard Powers in a 2009 letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Debra Burlingame, sister of the pilot killed in the hijacked 9/11 flight that hit the Pentagon, says it's possible that Bloomberg was not aware of Mohammedi's background when he named him to the commission.
"That happens, unfortunately, as local governments cast about for someone to partner with in the Muslim community," she said. "CAIR and other similar groups have capitalized on the government's desire to engage."
Messages left with the commission were not returned. When Mohammedi's appointment was announced, the commission announced: "Mayor Bloomberg's recent appointments to the City Commission on Human Rights represent the most diverse, highly qualified group of professionals in the agency's history."
Mohammedi was scheduled to appear with Burlingame in a televised debate on airport profiling sponsored by the Rosenkranz Foundation in New York. But she protested Mohammedi's inclusion on the panel with her and Chertoff. And the foundation, unaware of his CAIR past, recently replaced him.
"I don't know about Michael, but I have a problem with Mohammedi," she complained to the debate organizers. "He was the president of CAIR-New York. CAIR, as you many know, was identified in the 2007-2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, the biggest terrorist support case in the history of the Justice Department ... CAIR was identified as a Hamas front group."
She also noted that the 1997 White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, convened by President Clinton and presided over by Vice President Al Gore in the wake of the TWA Flight 800 explosion, appointed CAIR executive director Awad as an adviser on passenger screening.
"The panel's recommendations essentially rendered any effective passenger screening impossible, and paved the way for 9-11," Burlingame said. Subsequent federal court evidence revealed that Awad attended a meeting with Hamas leaders in a Philadelphia hotel in 1993.
Mohammedi was the lead attorney who argued the discrimination case against US Airways, the FBI and airport police on behalf of the six imams who claimed their rights were violated when they were kicked off a US Airways flight as a potential security threat. Passengers and crew said the imams behaved suspiciously, and the pilot called police to escort them off the plane. A Clinton-appointed federal judge forced a settlement in the case that allegedly favored the imams.
"It was clear that the entire incident was staged in order to bring the suit," Burlingame said, "and CAIR was involved from minute one."
Burlingame also noted another controversial incident involving Mohammedi that was first reported in the book, "Muslim Mafia." In 2006, as CAIR's in-house lawyer, Mohammedi fired off a memo to top CAIR executives proposing the organization file a lawsuit against the U.S. and Israel "for conspiring to commit murder, kidnapping, property damage and acts of terrorism."
The alleged crime? Israel's counteroffensive against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, who in 2006 launched unprovoked and relentless rocket attacks against Israel.
"Defendants would include the United States and certain officials in the Bush administration and Israel and certain officials in its administration," wrote Mohammedi in an August 2006 memo to Awad and then-CAIR Chairman Parvez Ahmed. And the plaintiffs, he suggested, would include Muslims harmed by Israel's military counterstrikes against Hezbollah positions, ostensibly including the terrorists themselves.
Mohammedi, who could not be reached for comment, proposed filing the claim under the same federal racketeering and corruption statute, known as RICO, that the FBI and U.S. attorneys have considered using to prosecute CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups.
CAIR has refused to condemn Hezbollah or Hamas, by name, as terrorist groups.
"In light of all this," Burlingame wrote the debate organizers, "I do not wish to share the stage with someone who is making a career of engaging in activities aimed at supporting terrorists, propagandizing for them and against American interests."
Mohammedi's "lawsuit on behalf of the imams was a direct attempt to weaken our aviation security system," she continued. "The irony of having a terrorist-supporting propagandist engaged in a debate on aviation security is more than I am prepared to endure."
The debate, sans Mohammedi, is scheduled for Monday in New York. |
