FrontPageMagazine.com
December 5, 2008
The Saudis' New Man in Congress
By Paul Sperry
When the Saudi Embassy earlier this year asked officials to renew the lease of a radical school it runs in Alexandria, Va., local residents strenuously objected. They argued the school teaches hatred toward Jews and Christians, and has become a breeding ground for terrorists.
Gerry Connolly, at the time the Democrat chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, gave a full-throated defense of the Islamic Saudi Academy, even smearing protesters as anti-Islamic "bigots."
All the while, Connolly was running for U.S. Congress and according to the latest FEC records, accepting thousands of dollars in donations from Saudi bagmen -- including some whose homes and offices were raided after 9/11 on suspicion of terror financing (and whose donations to other Democrats have been quietly returned in shame). |
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Family Security Matters
December 18, 2008
Sob Stories for Terrorists
Steve Emerson
When someone admits to committing a crime, the emotional angst is shared by loved ones of the victim and accused alike. Drunk drivers have families, too, after all. So do bank robbers. But you won't see many newspaper stories devoted to their torment.
It is entirely different when it comes to those accused of terror-related crimes. |
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Washington Post
December 17, 2008
Muslim Cleric's Lawyers Challenge Surveillance Program, Conviction
By Jerry Markon, Washington Post Staff Writer
Attorneys for a prominent Muslim spiritual leader convicted on terrorism charges said yesterday that they have evidence that he was wiretapped under the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program, and they have asked a judge to declare the program illegal.
The filing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria is the latest development in a nearly three-year battle over whether Ali al-Timimi was a subject of the now-defunct National Security Agency anti-terrorist operation.
Timimi, of Fairfax County, was convicted in 2005 of inciting his Northern Virginia followers to train for jihad against the United States and was sentenced to life in prison. |
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The Weekly Standard
December 16, 2008
Lashkar-e-Taiba in America
A convicted terror recruiter plays victim of the NSA.
by Stephen Schwartz
The coincidence can best be described as macabre: The terrorist assault on Mumbai occurred just as a House Select Intelligence Oversight Panel, headed by Democratic Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey, initiated an inquiry into the conviction of a radical Muslim hatemonger, Ali Al-Timimi, for recruiting to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) or Army of the Righteous, the group considered responsible for the latest atrocities in India. Purportedly, Al-Timimi, when he was tried, may have been a "victim" of anti-terror measures introduced by the Bush administration.
The review of the Al-Timimi case would be the Holt panel's first formal action against the Bush administration's record in this field. The panel was established last year by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But let us take our own look at the movements, incidents, and characters involved. Congressional and media attitudes toward Islamist extremism are in fact more deserving of criticism here than are Bush policies. |
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