I'll bet this goes over big in the offices of Sandler, Reiff and Young.
From The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) (thanks to all who sent this in):
The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad, participated in a three-day summit of U.S.-based HAMAS members and supporters in 1993.Until now, he had been identified only as Nihad LNU (last name unknown) in FBI reports and analyses. The meeting occurred in a Philadelphia hotel in the wake of a White House ceremony formalizing the Oslo Accords, a peace deal with the potential to end the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
CAIR, which touts itself as America’s premier Muslim civil rights organization, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror support trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five of its officials. Omar Ahmad, who founded CAIR with Awad in 1994 and was previously identified as attending the Philadelphia meeting, also was named as an unindicted co-conspirator.
The FBI already had wiretap warrants on several people who wound up organizing the 1993 meeting and agents listened in on the meeting itself. They concluded the two-dozen men present were HAMAS members or supporters. Transcripts and FBI analyses released since then show the meeting sought a strategy to kill the peace accord, which threatened to marginalize the Islamist movement. The group also discussed ways to improve HAMAS fundraising in America.
According to FBI reports, the men tried to hide their true agenda, agreeing not to even say the word “HAMAS” - but to call it “SAMAH” its reverse - even in their private conversations. Most of the participants were identified through surveillance and an examination of the hotel registry. But until Thursday, the identity of one person at the meeting – Nihad LNU - remained a mystery.
Awad was asked about the meeting during a 2003 deposition for a civil lawsuit. He initially said he didn't think he had attended the Philadelphia meeting. When pushed he replied, "I don't remember." Nor did he remember whether he was invited.
Previously available evidence shows Awad was at the 1993 HAMAS meeting. He can be seen on videotape the following summer, acknowledging “I am in support of the HAMAS movement” during a seminar at Miami’s Barry University.
The idea for the meeting was discussed in a telephone call recorded by the FBI on Sept. 14, 1993. A day earlier, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shared an uneasy handshake on the White House lawn. That paved the way for the Palestinian Authority’s creation, and, it was hoped at the time, a path toward a more peaceful future.
On the telephone, three men discussed who should be invited to join them in a meeting to discuss what to do next. The call included Omar Ahmad (CAIR’s chairman emeritus), who at the time served at President of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), Shukri Abu Baker, President of the Holy Land Foundation and one of the defendants now on trial, and Abdelhaleem al-Ashqar, the Executive Director of a HAMAS-linked charity known as the Al Aqsa Educational Fund.
They discussed inviting people from the “Union,” a code reference to the IAP. They mentioned “Akram,” “Abdul Rahman” and “Nihad.” In 1993, Nihad Awad was the spokesman and public relations director for the IAP.
During that same telephone conversation, the men on the telephone call referred to Nihad's work in "media." Shukri Abu Bakr mentioned "a full article in Dallas Morning News...and every few lines: Mr. Nihad said this and that...." The Dallas Morning News did publish an article that day. It ran under the headline "Dallas' Mideast Observers Warn of Conflict Ahead." It extensively quoted "Nihad Awad, spokesman for the Dallas-based Islamic Association of Palestine."
A few weeks later, at the Philadelphia meeting itself, two men again referenced "Nihad" and an invitation he received to speak at a conference for the National Association of Arab Americans (NAAA) on October 30, 1993. The program from that NAAA Annual Convention, obtained by the IPT, lists the name of Nihad Awad, representing the Islamic Association for Palestine, as a speaker on a panel entitled "Israel-PLO Agreement: Analytical Perspectives." Nobody else named Nihad is listed in the program....
Oh MY!...Secret's out now! Gee, what a shock! LOL
Must've been reeling after that sham of a "peace accord" that turned out just that...even more so than 7 months before with the failed attempt to blow up the WTC by their brothers like mohammed salami baloney.
Now, was this BEFORE or AFTER the conversion of the ankle-biting hate-baiter douggie the druggie hoopty?
I wonder how they're going to spin this one, being as damaging to their propaganda pulpit as it is?
It should prove hilariously pathetic, as usual! LOL
A good example of CAIR Undercover. It will be good to see how they run like cockaroaches under light as more evidence is exposed. The relationship to terror funding must be further expanded to include mosques and schools and then an examination on what they're preaching and teaching in these foreign funded institutions.
Seeing as Hamas has now been identified by most Western Governments as a group that 'we can do business with' does this really do much damage to Cair?
http://portal.grandecom.net/news/read.php?id=15233674&ps=931&cat=&cps=0&lang=en
Padilla Lawyers: No Defense Witnesses
August 1, 2007
AP
CURT ANDERSON
MIAMI (AP) — Attorneys for Jose Padilla told the court they will not put on a defense case, meaning the jury could soon be deciding the fate of the former "enemy combatant" and two co-defendants charged with supporting al-Qaida and other Islamic extremists.
Oh boy! This just keeps getting better.
Has anyone sent this to the lawyer and firm that threatened YAF and defamed Spencer? Please FLOOD them with email coies!
Has anyone sent this to the lawyer and firm that threatened YAF and defamed Spencer? Please FLOOD them with email copies!
The night the lights went out in CAIRLAND.
CAIR today, gone tomorrow.
Good riddence to bad rubbage.
I dont CAIR, you dont CAIR, we dont CAIR together.
"I don't remember." Must be brain damage, because one does not forget that which is paramount. sandler, reiff, young, awad, cair, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I hope these people are exposed as the psychopaths they are.
I just finished reading and copying the HAMAS Charter, a paranoid document written in Islamspeak, in the arrogant moral tone of totalitarians -- blind, coldly fanatic, an inhuman rationalisation.
"It is the duty of the followers of
other religions to stop disputing
the sovereignty of Islam ..."
The document refers, among other things, to the spurious "Protocols of The Elders of Zion." What an example of projection -- it reads like it's "The Protocols of The Elders of Dar-al-Islam."
Right.
But was Hamas already listed as a terror organization in 1993?
If not, it is not enough to indict him.
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At least Nihad (lnu) has the name and address of a good law firm.
I am just SO shocked and appalled. Indeed.
Imagine anyone from CAIR associating with Hamas. Unthinkable, just unthinkable.
How does the phrase go?
Birds of a feather....
I thought my opinion of lawyers could get no lower. Then came Sandler.
CAIR Executive Director Placed at HAMAS Meeting
He should be deported from the U.S., and placed in the Gaza Strip for the rest of his days.
Just seconding John C.
I, too, have read the Hamas Charter (ain't the Internet, and English translation, a marvellous thing!). It is a surreal document: hatred and aggression toward Jews, and toward all non-Muslims, steams off every line like summer heat off bitumen.
You wrote: "The document refers, among other things, to the spurious 'Protocols of The Elders of Zion.' What an example of projection -- it reads like it's 'The Protocols of The Elders of Dar-al-Islam.'" Spot on, mate! I, too, the first time I read it, thought - hey, they're projecting.
This is very handy, in fact. When we read what they think their perceived enemy, the JOOOZ, are doing, we read, in fact, their OWN agenda, all laid out in black and white!
Every political leader and church leader in the Western world should be made to read it (send a copy to your congressman or woman, or your parliamentarian! suitably highlighted, so the mad quotes from the Protocols may be noted; worth highlighting, also, all the direct quotations from the Quran and the Hadith, and from mainstream Muslim theologians).
And they should be told: Hamas means every single word of it, just as Hitler meant every single word of Mein Kampf.
Israel cannot make a deal with these people; NOBODY can make a deal; because no deal with ANY Infidel will be honoured by Hamas, ever. The goal is world conquest - first Israel, to be plundered, murdered and enslaved; then, the world.
And anyone who is associated with Hamas - like this fellow Nihad Awad from CAIR - cannot be trusted.
Sorry: in the above, I should have written "the mad references to the 'Protocols'".