FBI agent: U.S. has evidence to indict CAIR for terror
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Posted on February 27, 2014 by creeping
The Justice Department has enough
incriminating evidence to file terrorism charges against the Council on
American-Islamic Relations and its founders but has chosen not to indict
the Washington-based group and its leaders at this time, a veteran FBI
agent reveals in a shocking new book.
“There is enough evidence to indict CAIR,
but the government chose not to do so at this time,” said former FBI
official John Guandolo, author of “Raising a Jihadi Generation:
Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood Movement in America.”
He suggests the government balked at throwing the book at CAIR for political reasons.
CAIR has cultivated a number of political
supporters, mainly among leading Democrats in Washington – including
senior White House officials. Secret Service entry logs show CAIR
officials have visited the White House several times during the Obama
administration.
Despite its designation as an unindicted
terrorist co-conspirator in 2007, the Muslim pressure group in recent
years has successfully lobbied for changes in federal policies dealing
with the war on terror. For example, CAIR took credit for helping
persuade Attorney General Eric Holder to prohibit religious profiling in
terror cases, a decision his department is expected to announce
formally soon. It also played a key role in the Pentagon’s recent
decision to change long-standing uniform rules to allow military
personnel to wear Islamic beards and head coverings.
Moreover, a controversial new rule issued
earlier this month by the departments of State and Homeland Security to
relax U.S. immigration for Palestinian and other foreign “refugees” who
have provided “limited” material support to terrorists also dovetails
with CAIR lobbying.
Under the Bush administration, the Justice
Department implicated CAIR in a criminal conspiracy to raise money for
Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group.
CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad, aka Omar
Yehya, was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007-2008 Holy Land
Foundation case. He and CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad remain under
FBI investigation, senior FBI officials have confirmed in letters to
Congress. Until their ties to Hamas are resolved, the FBI says it will
not formally recognize CAIR as a Muslim outreach partner or meet with
CAIR officials. The FBI has effectively banned CAIR pending the outcome
of the probe.
Starting in the fall of 2008, Guandolo said, “the FBI cut off all ties with CAIR because of their ties to Hamas.”
He explains that CAIR was created in 1994
by the U.S. branch of Hamas, known as the “Palestine Committee,” to
function as the “political arm” of the Palestinian terrorist group. A
year before founding the front group, Ahmad and Awad had attended a
secret meeting with “senior leaders of Hamas” at a Philadelphia hotel
that was bugged by the FBI. An internal FBI memo written by the former
head of the FBI’s counterterrorism division describes “all attendees” of
the meeting – including Ahmad and Awad – as “Hamas members,” Guandolo
points out.
“CAIR was the fourth organization created
by Hamas to recruit jihadis, raise money and gain media favor for Hamas
in America,” Guandolo said, adding that phone books, organizational
charts, secret manifestos written in Arabic and other documents the FBI
has seized indicate Awad and Ahmad were in leadership positions in the
U.S. Palestine Committee prior to the creation of CAIR.
“CAIR is Hamas,” Guandolo flatly states.
Since 9/11, several CAIR officials –
including senior officials working in the group’s national office
located within blocks of the U.S. Capitol – have been convicted or
deported on terrorism-related charges.
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