More realpolitik genius from the U.S. government.
By Aaron Klein for WorldNetDaily.com (thanks to Amillenialist):
JERUSALEM – An audit has revealed the U.S. government authorized nearly $1 million in aid to a Hamas-controlled university senior terror leaders told WND is openly utilized by Hamas to recruit fighters, manufacture explosives and train on campus grounds for attacks.The audit concluded the American tax dollars were provided to Gaza's Islamic University between 2002 and 2006. It stated officials from both the U.S. Agency for International Development in Tel Aviv, which initiated the fund request, and the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, which conducted an investigation, found no "derogatory information" on the university.
Also in March 2007 State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told WND U.S. officials concluded after a review Islamic University does not supports terrorist activities.
But Israeli and Palestinian security officials and Palestinian terrorist leaders themselves scoffed at the State Department claims.
An Israeli security official took offense with McCormack's statement.
"It's the height of absurdity to hear Hamas' Islamic University is not involved in terrorism," the official said.
Islamic University was founded by Hamas spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by Israel in 2004. Hamas leader in Gaza Ismail Haniya sits on the college board, which was raided in January by Palestinian security forces who seized rocket-propelled grenades and rockets.
Abu Abdullah, considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas' so-called military wing, told WND Islamic University is regularly used by Hamas to support "resistance activities."
"It is no secret that we utilize all tools at our disposal, including our fighters at Islamic University in preparations to fight the Zionists," said Abu Abdullah of Hamas' Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Hamas' declared "resistance" department.
Muhammad Abdel-Al, spokesman of the Popular Resistance Committees, a Hamas-affiliated terror group, told WND Islamic University is "extremely important" for recruitment of militants. He said several members of his group study chemistry at the university to aid in the manufacture of explosives and suicide belts. The Committees is responsible for hundreds of rocket attacks from Gaza aimed at nearby Jewish cities.
According to Israeli and Palestinian intelligence officials Islamic University's main campus in Gaza City has been used by Hamas' so-called military wing to recruit terrorists and suicide bombers. The officials told WND chemistry labs were used to manufacture and improve explosives for Hamas-affiliated militias.
Reuven Erlich, director of the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center and Israel's Center for Special Studies, told WND his organization analyzed material captured in previous Israeli raids of Islamic University, which yielded mass quantities of weaponry and Hamas incitement material supporting terrorist attacks.
Officials from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party last February claimed they captured seven Iranian military trainers – including a general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards – inside Gaza City's Islamic University, which they said was being utilized as a Hamas military training ground.
The Fatah officials said they also found some 1,000 Qassam rockets, rocket-propelled grenades and equipment to manufacture the rockets inside the university. They previously suspected kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was being held for a time on the university grounds.[...]
USAID the past two years has reportedly provided $4 million to Arkan, a Palestinian program that funds law schools at several universities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including Al-Najah University. The Arkan program is entirely funded by USAID.
Israeli security officials say Al-Najah University is one of the most important recruitment grounds for West Bank terror organizations. The Israeli Defense Forces a number of times has raided the college and arrested terror suspects. At least 15 Palestinians who carried out suicide bombings the past six years attended the school.
Senior members of the Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror groups are openly enrolled at Al-Najah, WND has learned.
One senior leader of the Brigades, the declared military wing of Abbas' Fatah party, told WND many Brigades leaders study at the university, which he described as a "recruitment center for jihad."
The senior leader said he is studying sports education.
A leader of the Islamic Jihad terror organization said he is studying chemistry to enhance his terror group's bomb-making capabilities. He said others in the chemistry department manufacture explosives for Palestinian groups.
Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades has taken joint 2006 bombing in Tel Aviv last April that killed eight Israelis and American teenager Daniel Wultz.
According to the U.S. Foreign Operations Bill of 2006, it is illegal to fund universities which the Secretary of State "knows or has reason to believe advocates, plans, sponsors, engages in, or has engaged in, terrorist activity."
USAID has a history of funding anti-American Palestinian projects.
WND first reported a northern West Bank street funded by USAID was renamed for Saddam after his execution.
Zacharias Zubeidi, leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Yaabid, told WND the city changed the name on the U.S.-funded street to show "Saddam Hussein is still alive."
"We will honor his memory until the American and Zionist occupation is driven from our land," Zubeidi said.
WND reported USAID also reconstructed roads and municipalities in areas in the Gaza Strip controlled by Hamas.
In a WND interview, Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar thanked USAID for its efforts.
According to Palestinian Media Watch translations, after USAID funded road projects in the West Bank city of Jenin in 2004, a central street there was named after the first Iraqi suicide bomber, who killed four American soldiers in Fallujah. The mayor of Jenin reportedly participated in an anti-American dedication ceremony in which speakers blessed the "resistance of the residents of Fallujah"
Great! More money to coward assassins.
Heads should roll at USAID and at the State Department over this failure of leadership. But won't.
With the 2008 presidential election on the horizon, I make the following pledge . . .I will vote for any candidate that will promise to
END ALL forms of JIZYA (foreign aid) to ALL Muslim interests (foreign and domestic) IMMEDIATELY.
END ALL MUSLIM IMMIGRATION IMMEDIATELY
Apply RICO statutes to any and all domestic entitites (civil rights groups, charities, religious sects, universities etc.)that have intentionally or inadvertantly enabled sharia creep in the US. . .using all seized assets to cover the costs of the fight against every form of jihad.
Introduce a Constitutional Amendment which will reclassify Islam to exempt it from religious classification.
..stop all forms of payment to Muslim countries (foreign aid, charity, donations, grants, loans,...any reason) and Muslim entities....immediately, not one more dime.....not one more dime....quit supporting those who intend to kill you....
...would you pay a carjacker to club you in the head and take your car?..
...Would you pay a mugger to stab you in the heart and give him you watch, cellphone, jewlrey and wallet?.....
...Would you pay a home invader to enter your home shoot you in the head, rape your daughter and then give him your stero, tv. and other valuables...
...would you pay an illegal alien to shoot you in the head , and then allow him to assume your identity and take your job and give him all your 401k benes, your house, and everything you own..?
...would you pay the local gangbangers to kill all your neighbors, to take all their property, destroy their churches, erase their memories and their hertigages?...
...would you allow Muslims to allow their carvavan raiding Mohammad to become omnipotent in your childrens lives....just picture your children being forced to wear the BUrka, forced to Marry old nasty bearded men under the fear of death if they refuse...
...quit support Islam...not one more dime...and Ban Muslim Immigration..
"Introduce a Constitutional Amendment which will reclassify Islam to exempt it from religious classification." Posted by: justamomof4
No need to alter the US constitution for this, Muhammedism is filled with political ideology, just like the KKK, Black Panthers, Aryan Nation, or Nation of Islam. The same steps can be used to ostracize and minimize the Muhammedans as the "Freaks in Sheets". After all… they are the ones claiming it’s a race too.
Next:
I do not pay TAXES to support other peoples governments. END ALL FOREIGN AID NOW!! Let individuals decide to send their own money through LEGAL CHARITY AGENCIES on their own, not at the gunpoint of the scumbags in Washington D.C.
" An audit has revealed the U.S. government authorized nearly $1 million in aid to a Hamas-controlled university ..."
...you do know, that two years after Hurricane Katrina, there are still American families living in cramped cheap trailers awaiting help to rebuild their homes....whole neighborhoods are still without decent roads, without electricity or even the barest on essentials like running water for toilets....
......I am beginning to see where the government is placing its priorities...
Our tax dollars at work.
"According to Palestinian Media Watch translations, after USAID funded road projects in the West Bank city of Jenin in 2004, a central street there was named after the first Iraqi suicide bomber, who killed four American soldiers in Fallujah....."
...Leave it to the Muslims to honor death merchants.....it clearly demonstrates their sympathies....
...not one more dime to these buffoons.....Ban Muslim Immigration...
I think I'm turning into a manic depressive over this s#*t...
It's depressing to see American citizens having to send their jiziyah to people who wouldn't even tell them the time of day.
For crying out loud, why are the Saudis building mosques all over europe and the USa, and leaving the Palestines to die?
OH! I forgot. Palis are a political tool against Israel.
The U.S.will go any lengths to show that it is "even-handed."
Heads should roll at USAID and at the State Department over this failure of leadership. But won't.
Posted by: Karl at December 16, 2007 9:07 AM
With Bush in the white house and Condi at the State Dept, American taz dollars are marked for Jazia. Ooppsssss.. did I offend patriotic Republicans who "support" a sitting US president?
We might be in dire need of a revolution in the US because this kind of insanity is inexcusable. Our taxes keep going up while we give this scum money. I'm getting mighty tired of this.
Another reason to take a good look at the fair tax option!!!
Unbelievable. Outrageous.
The Islamic 'University' in Gaza was rotten with jihad plotters and preachers, LONG before 2004.
Read Geraldine Brooks, "Nine Parts of Desire", for an account of a visit paid to said 'university', and the kinds of people she met there, and the things that they said. Brooks' book was published in 1994.
I quote: "what Berkely was to the antiwar movement of the sixties, the Islamic University of Gaza is to the holy-war crowd of the nineties'.
Brooks notes that, as compared to what she calls a 'tolerant' atmosphere at the American University of Beirut, 'it is the Gaza campus that offers the more accurate vision of the future as Islamic groups gain increasin ginfluence.
'The campus of the Gaza university is split down the middle, with one section for men and one for women', and Brooks' interviewee, Majida Anan (an administrator): 'WHEN WE ACHIEVE OUR ISLAMIC STATE THERE WON'T BE ANY MIXING [of men and women on campus] AT ALL", and added, later "Islam says that men and women can mix if it is absolutely necessary. If there is no necessity then they mustn't do it."
And the Americans donated money to an institution run by people who thought and planned like THAT!!!!!
Robert... how come can post on the Dhimmi Watch pages, but not on the Jihad watch pages?
Robert... how come can post on the Dhimmi Watch pages, but not on the Jihad watch pages?