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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (6503)	3/29/2007 6:40:26 PM
From: Jerome	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 20106

OK Brian,,,that Holy Land Foundation was Shut down in July 2004....(Brian's Reference) This article is dated March 9th 2007 (Jerome's Reference) Now the US Government...does not want any trial because they (US Government fabricated the evidence) None of this rubbish will stand up in Court Keep in mind that these Gov. announcements of charity shutdowns got a lot of press and almost no followup. Politically motivated??? Probably socialistworker.org How the FBI framed a Muslim charity By Nicole Colson \| March 9, 2007 \| Page 2 YET MORE evidence of the government’s persecution of Arabs and Muslims since September 11 has come to light. More than five years ago, the Bush administration shut down the Dallas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the largest Muslim charity in the U.S. The Feds labeled Holy Land a “specially designated global terrorist” and charged seven former foundation officials, including six U.S. citizens, with funneling money to overseas charities controlled by the Palestinian group Hamas, which the U.S. also has designated a terrorist organization. Much of the government’s case against Holy Land was based on FBI “summaries” of thousands of hours of classified wiretapped conversations--including one of a 1996 conversation involving charity officials. But in late February, lawyers for the foundation revealed that much of the government’s “official summary” of that conversation appears to have been fabricated. Of particular note, the government summary claimed that Holy Land officials repeatedly made anti-Semitic comments--but the 13-page verbatim transcript reveal no such remarks. For example, in the summary, the government quoted Holy Land’s former executive director Shukri Abu Baker telling two associates there was no need to worry about the foundation being unfairly targeted because U.S. courts were not under the control of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or “its sponsor, the government of the demons of Israel.” But these words appear nowhere in the recently declassified transcript. Abu Baker also supposedly railed against “the Jews of the world” and claimed that Jews have no allegiance to anything but “their pockets and to preserving the illegal Zionist state of Israel.” That isn’t in the transcript either. Attorneys for the charity have asked a U.S. district court judge to declassify thousands of hours of FBI wiretaps in order to let the real statements come to light. Currently, although the defense lawyers have government clearances that allow them to review the material, under the federal Classified Information Procedures Act, they are prohibited from sharing it with their clients--a situation that makes it impossible for those accused to defend themselves from the Bush administration’s charges. “[N]ot only are the summaries so inaccurate and misleading as to be useless,” defense lawyers said in a court filing, but the “author of the attached summary has cynically and maliciously attributed to the defendants racist invective and inculpatory remarks the defendants never uttered.” As the attorneys conclude, “It is appalling that such summaries even exist, much less that the government represented that this is all our clients need to know in order to defend themselves.” Home page \| Current storylist \| Featured articles \| Back to the top You can sign up to get an e-mail bulletin when the latest issue of SW has been posted, with links to special features on the site.

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (6503)	3/29/2007 6:59:53 PM
From: Jerome	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

This is from the International Herald Tribune iht.com Please note the conclusion>>>>But no accused charity or any senior officer has been convicted on a charge of terrorism and some charities still face no criminal charges.<<< sounds like a political job to me. Europe Americas Asia - Pacific Africa & Middle East Weather Publishing Partnerships 0 Remove all clippings Remove all read clippings Court faults EU decision to target Iran exile grou PARIS: Europe's second-highest court on Tuesday annulled a European Union decision that had frozen the funds of an Iranian exile group and called into question the group's label as a terrorist organization. The ruling by the European Court of First Instance was more than a financial victory for the group, the Mujahedeen Khalq, which has long argued that its terrorist label was unfair. "All restrictions resulting from the terror tag should be removed from the Iranian resistance immediately," the group's leader, Maryam Rajavi, said at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. She said that the ruling proved that her organization was a legitimate resistance movement rather than a terrorist group. The Mujahedeen Khalq was formed by leftist students in Iran in 1965 and quickly became one of the most active groups opposing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. But the Islamic government of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini turned against the group after the shah's overthrow in 1979. It moved its headquarters to France and then to Iraq in 1986, where it set up a well-financed military based under the protection of Saddam Hussein. The U.S. military disarmed the militia in May 2003 and has since kept its members confined to a camp north of Baghdad since then. Rajavi remained in Paris, in charge of the group's political activities as head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. She has been lobbying for the group to be taken seriously as a viable opposition movement to topple the Islamic theocracy in Iran. Today in Europe U.S. vote on Turkey casts shadow on relations A paparazzo's shenanigans leave Italy rapt New charges by Iran intensify crisis with BritainShe says the organization has been unfairly labeled a terrorist organization out of the West's misguided efforts to engage the Iranian government, and that the only real hope to effect change in Iran short of war is to support her organization and give it free rein. Those hopes are not without some foundation: The fact that the group's Iraqi military base is, in effect, under U.S. protection, suggests that Washington may yet envision a role for the group if relations with Iran deteriorate further. The European court ruled Tuesday that the EU had not provided adequate reasons or a fair hearing in deciding to freeze the organization's assets in 2002 and that the decision "must be annulled." The EU issued a statement in response to the ruling saying that the organization would remain on the terrorist list and that it would consider appealing to the higher European Court of Justice. Muslim charity sues in U.S. In a new challenge to Washington over its closing of several U.S. Muslim charities that it has accused of aiding terrorism, the largest such group has sued to dismiss many of the charges, The New York Times reported from San Francisco. Lawyers for Holy Land, in Richardson, Texas, filed the suit in Federal District Court in Dallas on Monday, two weeks after a federal judge in California called into question a crucial provision for designating supporters of terrorism. Since December 2001, the Treasury Department has designated Holy Land and five other Muslim charities as terrorist supporters, seizing millions of dollars in assets and halting their activities. 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