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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (16778)	7/7/2002 1:52:55 PM
From: E	Respond to of 21057

It's difficult to comment on the article itself. He starts off by saying this is highly classified. Which raises some interesting points: How does he know it? How does he know it's correct? And what's he doing publishing it? I didn't see where the sender of that email said "this" was was "highly classified." He said "I am filing a lawsuit in Hillsborough County Court to expose the manner > in which Florida charities were used as a money laundry for > tax-deductible terrorism. The complaint cites specific testimony, > including highly classified information which has never been released > before." You ask, "How does he know it? How does he know it's correct? And what's he doing publishing it?", and I think we don't know that yet, though he does say why his clients came to him. He hasn't documented his case yet, he's only announced that there's going to be one; but if he does document it, that will be important and very interesting. The accuracy of the basic thesis presented in the press release isn't automatically out of the question, though. (Well, given the world.) (It's distressing, but I'd like to know whether it's true anyway.) > Simply put, the Saudi Government was laundering money through Florida > charities run by the University of South Florida - Tampa Professor Sami > Al Arian for the support of terrorist groups in the Middle East. Through > the Al Arian network and others, the Saudi Government secretly funded Al > Qaida, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. > > The Saudi purpose was twofold: the destruction of the State of Israel and > the prevention of the formation of an independent Palestinian State... >...To the Saudis, a democratic Palestinian nation would be a cancer in the > Arab world, a destabilizing example of freedom that would threaten Arab > dictators everywhere. As King Fahd said, "Next to the Jews, we hate the > Palestinians the most."... ... > My clients are betting that the American influence peddlers hired by the > Saudis will succeed once again in derailing a federal investigation. They > came to me for help in exposing the cover-up. That is why I am filing > this lawsuit. In the months to come, the American public may finally > begin to learn why the Saudi-Sami Al Arian terror networks went untouched > for so long. It wasn't an intelligence failure, it was a foreign policy > failure. The orders were not to embarrass the Saudi government...