ravenseye, Elgindy posted here on Silicon Investor that he was made an "agent" of the Mother Teresa Humanitarian Organization. He, Elgindy, posted there were “two reasons” he was made an agent of MTHO, to “direct donations to MTHO”, and to “handle and disburse SI funds raised for refugees." So Tony disclosed himself that he, not "Tyson", was an agent of MTHO and that he was the agent of MTHO assigned to solicit donations from SI members that he would disburse to Albanian "refugees". One of those "refugees" was a high-level member of the KLA, Rexhep Hoti. Rexhep Hoti was senior advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Bajram Rexhepi. Rexhepi was accused of war crimes during the 1998-1999 conflict in the Balkans in which Rexhepi served as a KLA field surgeon for Mother Teresa.
"Passing the buck" to Tyson is an exercise in fultilty. As is dismissing Tony's "donation" to Mercy because, "the Clinton's" made donations to Mercy as well." Tony's brother Khaled co-founded the AMC with Abdurahman Alamoudi. Alamoudi had many meetings with both Clintons in the White House. The Washington Post described Alamoudi as "a pillar of the local Muslim community." Alamoudi, like Tony himself, conned a lot of people. Surely one who prides himself on busting con-men, like Truthseeker does, can understand how the Clintons, and others, including the Washington Post, were conned by Alamoudi. Not unlike the SI members who were conned by Tony to give donations to an al Qeada humanitarian front.
August 3, 2004 Tuesday
SECTION: FOREIGN; Pg. 9
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HEADLINE: Slick Islamist Heads to Jail
BYLINE: DANIEL PIPES
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In 2002, the spokesman for FBI director Robert Mueller memorably described the American Muslim Council as the "the most mainstream Muslim group in the United States." A year later, the Catholic bishops called the AMC "the premier, mainstream Muslim group in Washington."
Its founder and longtime chief, Abdurahman Alamoudi, was a Washington fixture. He had many meetings with both Clintons in the White House and once joined President Bush at a prayer service dedicated to victims of the 9/11 attacks. Alamoudi arranged a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner for congressional leaders. He six times lectured abroad for the State Department and founded an organization to provide Muslim chaplains for the Department of Defense. One of his former AMC employees, Faisal Gill, serves as policy director at the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence division.
In brief, as the Washington Post describes him, Alamoudi was "a pillar of the local Muslim community." But the one-time high-flyer last week signed a plea agreement with the American government admitting his multiple crimes in return for a reduced sentence. His confession makes for startling reading.
Alamoudi acknowledges having obtained money from the Libyan government and other foreign sources "unlawfully, knowingly, and willfully falsified, concealed and covered up by a trick, scheme and device." He transmitted these funds to America, "outside of the knowledge of the United States government and without attracting the attention of law enforcement and regulatory authorities."
In doing so, he engaged in illegal financial transactions and filed false tax returns. He lied about his overseas travels, his interest in a Swiss bank account, his affiliation with a Specially Designated Terrorist (the Hamas leader, Mousa Abu Marzook), and his membership in terrorist-related organizations.
Of particular note are admissions by Alamoudi that he:
* Was summoned by Libyan leader
Muammar Gadhafi to two meetings,
and as a result of these Alamoudi
helped organize the assassination of
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. The
plot was foiled.
* Transported money from Libya to
Saudi Arabia to America, where he
deposited it in the American Muslim
Foundation, one of his nonprofits.
* Omitted on his American citizenship
application his connections to many
radical organizations: the United Association for Studies and Research,
Marzook Legal Fund, Mercy International, American Task Force for
Bosnia, Fiqh Council of North America, Muslims for a Better America, Eritrean Liberation Front/People's Liberation Force, and Council for the National Interest Foundation.
Then there is the fact that Alamoudi's Palm Pilot, seized at the time of his arrest, contained contact information for seven men designated as global terrorists by American authorities. Also, law enforcement found an unsigned Arabiclanguage document in Alamoudi's office with ideas for Hamas to undertake "operations against the Israelis to delay the peace process." And Alamoudi has at least indirect links to Osama bin Laden through the Taibah International Aid Association, an American nonprofit where he served along with Abdullah A. bin Laden, Osama's nephew.
For his crimes, Alamoudi's punishment can include serving up to 23 years in prison, forfeiting $1 million received from the Libyans, paying six years' worth of back taxes plus penalties, and having his American citizenship revoked. Alamoudi could also be removed from the country and not allowed back in. (But the agreement defers a decision on Alamoudi's expulsion until after his prison term ends, suggesting that he is singing like a bird.)
Alamoudi is hardly the only high profile, seemingly nonviolent leader of an Islamist organization to associate with terrorists. At the Council on American-Islamic Relations, five staffers and board members have been accused or convicted of terrorism-related charges, and the same has happened with leaders of the Islamic Center of Greater Cleveland, Holy Land Foundation, Benevolence International Foundation, and the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom.
The Alamoudi story points to the urgent need that the FBI, White House, Congress, State Department, Pentagon, and Homeland Security - as well as other institutions, public and private, throughout the West - not continue guilelessly to assume that smooth talking Islamists are free of criminal, extremist, or terrorist ties. Or, as I put it in late 2001: "Individual Islamists may appear law-abiding and reasonable, but they are part of a totalitarian movement, and as such, all must be considered potential killers."
Militant Islam is the enemy; even its slickest adherents need to be viewed as such |
