But Chuck Schumer gave me a hint anyway (scroll down).
There has been ample circumstantial evidence:
From the Associated Press:
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff sentenced Bassem Khafagi, formerly of Ann Arbor, to 10 months of time already served in prison. Khafagi, 41, pleaded guilty Sept. 9. Khafagi admitted during the September hearing that he passed bad checks at two banks for thousands of dollars in 2001, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Collins said in a statement.
Collins said Khafagi also "confessed ... he made false material statements" on his nonimmigrant visa application on Nov. 8, 2000, in Kuwait City, Kuwait. An immigration judge ordered Khafagi deported in August. He is expected to be deported soon to his native Egypt, where he is to join his wife and U.S.-born children, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Khafagi had been in custody since January, when he was arrested in a hotel near LaGuardia Airport in New York.
At the time of his arrest, he was community affairs director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group based in Washington.
The FBI said Khafagi is a founding member of the Ypsilanti-based Islamic Assembly of North America, a charity that purports to promote Islam. Officials said earlier this year that they were investigating the organization for possible links to terrorism.__________________________________________________________
The FBI says he is a founding member of the Islamic Assembly of North America — which officials are investigating for possible links to terrorism.
Federal investigators say the IANA has funneled money to activities supporting terrorism and has published material advocating suicide attacks on the United States. The IANA says it was formed to promote Islam.
Khafagi was one of four past or present students at Idaho and Washington State University who were arrested during an investigation of a suspected terrorist-related web in the Moscow, Idaho-Pullman, Wash., area.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001722671_webkhafagi10.htmlBut that's just the beginning . . .
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Not surprisingly, CAIR also backs those who finance terrorism. When President Bush closed the Holy Land Foundation in December for collecting money he said was "used to support the Hamas terror organization," CAIR decried his action as "unjust" and "disturbing."
CAIR even includes at least one person associated with terrorism in its own ranks. On Feb. 2, 1995, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White named Siraj Wahhaj as one of the "unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators" in the attempt to blow up New York City monuments. Yet CAIR deems him "one of the most respected Muslim leaders in America" and includes him on its advisory board.
For these and other reasons, the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism, Steven Pomerantz, concludes that "CAIR, its leaders and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups."
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http://www.danielpipes.org/article/394__________________________________________________________
"I bring to you salaams and greetings from the Mujahadeen at CAIR."
-Dr. Ghazi Khaksan, of the Council on American Islamic Relations, at the D.C. Rally, January 18, 2003.
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Federal prosecutors yesterday announced indictments against 11 members of what they called a "Virginia jihad network" who are charged with training to work with terrorists to fight for Muslim causes in foreign nations.
The 42-count indictment, returned by a grand jury Wednesday and unsealed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, charges that the men trained with and fought for Lashkar-i-Taiba, a group that is trying to drive India from Kashmir and has been named a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.
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One of those charged, Randall Todd Royer, arrested yesterday at his home in Falls Church, characterized the allegations as baseless during an interview Thursday. He dismissed the discovery of pistols and rifles inside the homes of some group members as insignificant. "Ooooh, gosh, they have weapons," said Royer, a former spokesman for such organizations as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A43265-2003Jun27¬Found=trueMore on the charming Mr. Royer and the specifics of the charges against him here:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8642Here is the website that this former CAIR spokesman runs:
http://www.atrueword.com/And more charges against Royer (and not for littering . . . conspiracy to levy war against the United States and conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda and the Taliban):
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/09/25/virginia.terror.suspects/___________________________________________________________
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Last Wednesday, The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security held the second in a series of hearings aimed at examining Saudi Arabia’s role in exporting Islamic extremism abroad. The hearing, titled “Two Years After 9/11: Connecting the Dots,” was focused on the prevalence of the radical Wahhabi Islamic sect among Muslim political groups in the U.S. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad and Chairman Omar Ahmed were invited to testify at the hearing, but both declined to attend. In their absence – and in front of their empty witness chair - the committee heard compelling evidence that Saudi Arabia financially and ideologically supports a network of American organizations that act as the defenders, financiers, and front groups of international terrorists. CAIR has been a major player in this network since its creation in 1994, with a particularly soft spot for the suicide-bombing death squads of Hamas.
Senators turned out in force to connect the dots between CAIR and the deviant Islamic extremism that led to the vicious attacks of 9/11. In his opening statement, Chairman Jon Kyl said, “a small group of organizations based in the U.S. with Saudi backing and support, is well advanced in its four- decade effort to control Islam in America -from mosques, universities and community centers to our prisons and even within our military. Moderate Muslims who love America and want to be part of our great country are being forced out of those institutions.”
Senator Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat who has been steadfast in his efforts to uncover the nexus of Hamas front groups in the U.S., was ruthless in his portrayal of CAIR as part of an international terror network. In his opening remarks, Senator Schumer stated that prominent members of CAIR—referring specifically to Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmed—have “intimate links with Hamas.” Later, he remarked that “we know (CAIR) has ties to terrorism.”
Even Senator Richard Durbin, who has made common cause with some of America’s Wahhabi-backed groups, came down hard on CAIR. In his final comments he conceded that CAIR is “unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect,” and requested that the committee seek the testimony of mainstream Muslim groups in its place in the future.
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more:
http://frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9981"we know (CAIR) has ties to terrorism." Chuck Schumer, D-NY said that on the record. Some may find that to be significant.
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