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Muslim House Democrat IT staffers owed $100,000 to Hizballah-linked fugitive

Feb 23, 2017 12:04 pm By Robert Spencer

These are the Muslim IT staffers who compromised the computers of the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committee. Who screened these men? Did anyone? Or were they hired because House Democrats wanted to show that they weren’t “Islamophobic”?

“House Dem IT Staffers Owed Money To Hezbollah-Connected Fugitive,” by Luke Rosiak, Daily Caller, February 21, 2017:

Congressional aides suspected of criminally misusing their access to House computer systems owed $100,000 to an Iraqi politician who is wanted by U.S. authorities and has been linked to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Middle Eastern terrorist outfit.

Imran Awan and four of his relatives were employed as information technology (IT) aides by dozens of House Democrats, including members of the intelligence, foreign affairs and homeland security committees. The aides’ administrator-level IT access was terminated earlier this month amid a criminal probe by U.S. Capitol Police of a suspected security breach, including an off-site server housing congressional data.

The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has reported that while working for Congress, the Pakistani brothers controlled a limited liability corporation called Cars International A (CIA), a car dealership with odd finances, which took–and was unable to repay–a $100,000 loan from Dr. Ali Al-Attar.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, wrote that Attar “was observed in Beirut, Lebanon conversing with a Hezbollah official” in 2012–shortly after the loan was made. Attar has also been accused of helping provoke the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq as a leader of Iraqi dissidents opposed to Saddam Hussein.

After moving to the U.S., Attar made his money practicing medicine in Maryland and Virginia and defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and insurance companies by billing for non-existent medical procedures. The FBI raided his offices in 2009 and the Department of Health and Human Services sued his business partner in 2011.

Attar was indicted in March 2012 on separate tax fraud charges after the IRS and FBI found he used multiple bank accounts to hide income. He fled back to Iraq to avoid prison.

“He’s a fugitive. I am not aware of any extradition treaty with Iraq,” Marcia Murphy, spokesman for federal prosecutors in Maryland, told TheDCNF Tuesday. “If or when he returns to the U.S., the prosecution will continue.”

Brothers Imran, Abid and Jamal Awan, as well as their wives Natalia Sova and Hina Alvi, were all on the congressional payroll.

Not long before the indictment, Pakistani-born Virginia resident Nasir Khattak, who co-owned CIA with Abid, still had access to some bank accounts holding Attar’s assets.

Khattak was a realtor, and with Attar’s permission, “acquired the money through adjustments to the accounts that he controlled as the realtor for al-Attar,” court documents say.

Abid managed CIA’s daily operations, even though he was also employed full time running computers for representatives that have included Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Yvette Clark of New York. But the car dealership was hemorrhaging money. Customers were often shown cars borrowed from a dealership next door.

“It was very bad record-keeping in Cars International … it is close to impossible to make any sense out of all the transactions that happened,” Khattak said in court documents.

CIA’s finances interwove with the House’s. A car-dealing associate who was owed money by the brothers, Rao Abbas, was placed on the congressional payroll.

Khattak said CIA was a “family business” and by 2010 Imran was its primary manager instead of Abid.

Abid Awan filed for personal bankruptcy in 2012 because the dealership was in his name, listing $1 million in liabilities. Bankruptcies are a major security red flag in background checks for employees in sensitive positions.

The loan from Attar was never repaid, leading to a lawsuit over the dealership’s future. Attar claimed the loan default meant the dealership became his, but refused to testify in person, giving power of attorney to someone else to give evidence on his behalf.

Khattek said in court documents that was because “Ali Al-Attar was out of the country as he was involved in politics and the formation of the Iraqi government.” Though he was fugitive, that was also true.

Giraldi, the former CIA officer, wrote in the American Conservative in 2013 that Attar advised President George W. Bush’s key Iraq policy advisors that U.S. forces would be “greeted as liberators.”

“In late 2002 and early 2003, [then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz regularly met secretly with a group of Iraqi expatriates, consisting mostly of Shias but also including several Sunnis, who resided in the Washington area,” Giraldi wrote. “The Iraqis were headed by one Dr. Ali A. al-Attar.”

Attar’s prediction was wrong, and his qualifications for making it — supposedly based on what the D.C.-area Iraqis were hearing from relatives — were questionable because, although Attar was born in Iraq, his parents were Iranian.

But the U.S.-backed regime change served Attar well, as in 2003, he told The New York Times that “he was one of four people chosen by General Garner to re-establish the Iraq Ministry of Health, and that he expected to be called Baghdad next week.”

That stay in Iraq apparently did not last long, as in 2009, his medical license was suspended by Maryland for separate instances of billing patients and insurance companies for unneeded services.

In November 2010, the Maryland State Board of Physicians brought still more charges of “unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine and failure to cooperate in a lawful investigation.”

Attar’s attorney said the board was a “Trojan horse” for the FBI. The board said Attar’s “failure to cooperate with the board investigation was deliberate, longstanding and defiant,” and in March 2012 revoked his license.

The Awan brothers worked for members including Andre Carson of Indiana, one of two Muslims in Congress and a member of the ultra-sensitive intelligence committee.

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  1. Bill says

    Feb 23, 2017 at 12:43 pm

    They were hired to assist Congressional Democrats in the commission of their treasonous acts against the Constitution and the United States of America.

  2. Angemon says

    Feb 23, 2017 at 1:42 pm

    Giraldi, the former CIA officer, wrote in the American Conservative in 2013 that Attar advised President George W. Bush’s key Iraq policy advisors that U.S. forces would be “greeted as liberators.”

    A muslim lying to infidels? Inconceivable!!!

    • Custos Custodum says

      Feb 24, 2017 at 2:28 am

      Time to start calling it Shiagate.

      You read it here first.

      All this suggests that W. was inveigled into the Iraq war by Iranian blandishments. One war, thousands of dead and wounded, and trillions of dollars later, Iraq has disappeared as a military power, and become a de facto colony of Iran.

      Anyone familiar with the long-standing Persian hatred of Arabs and the regime’s hatred of the U.S. will appreciate how sweet this must seem to the Iranian leadership.

  3. Angus says

    Feb 23, 2017 at 3:58 pm

    I wonder how long it will take to root out all the muslim brotherhood members and supporters left over from the Obama years?

    For the sake of the US I hope not long…

  4. JMB says

    Feb 23, 2017 at 4:42 pm

    What is going on here, I thought it was Russian hackers who were causing all the problems?

  5. ElderlyZionist says

    Feb 23, 2017 at 8:10 pm

    Is it possible this was a planned infiltration of the US federal government by Muslim Brotherhood operatives? Indeed, let’s find out who approved hiring this bunch. Something smells very rotten here.

  6. somehistory says

    Feb 23, 2017 at 8:47 pm

    It reads like some fictional, political thriller, but the corruption runs deep when those in political power bring moslims into the power circle. Quite disgusting when one thinks about the power these people have over the rest of the country, making laws and writing regulations and snooping into private affairs. And then looking down their lofty noses when questioned about their activities.

  7. Arthur says

    Feb 23, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    Luke Rosiak doesn’t seem able to read between the lines very well here.

    A brief re-write of the article to bring out the story between the lines:

    Spies, Imran, Abid and Jamal Awan were recruited by Iranian operative Dr. Ali Al-Attar over a multi-year period, using a car dealership as a front for trafficking funds to the spies in return for classified information. At least one payment of $100,000, could be documented. Dr. Al-Attar was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency as an agitator within Saddam’s Iraq before the Iraq war and was rewarded by entry to the USA where he was allowed to fraudulently practice medicine at the risk of the general US population. The Central Intelligence Agency was aware of his work for the Iranian government in connection with the Hizbollah terrorist organization. Posing as a physician, Al-Attar’s extensive fraud could not be concealed from Maryland authorities, leading to his Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored flight to Iraq where the Central Intelligence Agency afforded him a key cabinet position, but Dr. Al-Attar soon lost this as well. Iranian intelligence chief Nasir Khattak of Pakistan replaced Al-Attar in managing the Awan cell. The Awan brothers continued to gather top secret intelligence from the House Select Committee on Intelligence by targeting clueless Democratic party members of the committee (Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Yvette Clark of New York) and at least one co-conspirator (Andrew Carson, D-Indiana). It is uncertain whether any information shared with the House Select Committee on Intelligence failed to reach Iran, but Iranian capture of American Sailors in 2016 was at least one consequence of the leaks from Democrat party House members’ computers. The brothers flaunted the boldness of their operation by naming the front company Cars International A, which they sarcastically abbreviated ‘CIA.’ The Awan spy family continues to reside within the USA and has filed bankruptcy, but no charges have been brought against the cell for espionage due to the efforts of Iranian agents operating within the Central Intelligence Agency. For a period of time, the Iranian spies were being paid salaries directly by the House of Representatives.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Feb 24, 2017 at 2:34 am

      Yes, that makes a lot more sense.

      Many questions remain, including about the identity of the trio. Are they actually brothers? Are they ethnic Arabs or ethnic Persians? Where did each of them grow up?

      One must assume that Valerie Jarrett would have established SEVERAL “stay behind” organizations within the U.S. government to provide information, logistic support and access to government funding while the Shia network is out of government.

  8. frederick King says

    Feb 24, 2017 at 3:27 am

    Can everyone now imagine what Hillary would have done ?

    • ElderlyZionist says

      Feb 24, 2017 at 7:14 am

      The thing is, Hillary’s eminence grise Houma Abedin is presumed to be a Muslim Brotherhood agent, massive bribe money has flowed to Hillary from Saudi and the Emirates, and the Obama administration’s foreign policy strongly favored Salafi Muslim Brotherhood rebels in the Arab Spring and the subsequent Arab civil wars, which we fomented and abetted. Eight years of being Saudi ghulams (white slave soldiers), right up until Obama’s last minute big surrender to the Iranians.

      How can we be losing this war to both the Saudis and the Iranians *when they’re at war with each other*? What on earth has been going on in Washington?

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