US judge rules there's “ample evidence” to justify labeling CAIR an unindicted Hamas terrorist co-conspirator

U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis has ruled that there is "ample evidence" CAIR engaged in "a conspiracy to support Hamas" and has refused a request to 'strike its name from documents listing it as an unindicted co-conspirator' in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding case.

The ruling was made in July 2009 but only unsealed on Friday.

CAIR was first named as an unindicted co-conspirator in 2007 and in 2008 the Holy Land Foundation and its leaders were convicted of leading a scheme to funnel more that $12 million, disguised as charity, to Hamas suicide bombers and their families.

Evidence against CIAR includes documents showing that it and it's founding chairman Omar Ahmad operated as key members of the U.S. wing of Hamas called ''Palestine Committee,'' and FBI wiretaps and testimony showing the presence of Ahmad and it's acting executive director, Nihad Awad, at a Philadelphia hotel room meeting during the last decade with Hamas leaders.

At that meeting, which was organized and led by Ahmad, they decided to deceptively substitute 'Hamas' with 'Samah' – a backward spelling of 'Hamas,' laid out plans to use Palestine committee to channel funds for Hamas, and to found CAIR as a front group for the media.

Despite these facts, media outlets, including Fox News, which is financed by the same Saudi prince funding CAIR, continue to invite CAIR, self-described as a “civil-rights advocacy organization,” for comments.


Source: World Net Daily


Comment: Yet another dubious 'rights' organization. 


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NYC 'Human right' commissioner Omar T. Mohammedi did not reveal his CAIR past - he once proposed “discredit” the critics campaign

 World Net Daily reports that Omar T. Mohammedi, a New York City Human Rights Commissioner and former president and general counsel of CAIR-New York, “scrubbed” or “bleached” or “omitted his CAIR background from his biographical sketch posted on the human-rights commission website.”

 According to the FBI, CAIR or Council on American-Islamic Relations is "a front group for Hamas" and was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007-2008 Holy Land Foundation trial – the largest terror-financing case in U.S. history.

 During the so-called Flying imams case, which some claim was staged to bring a lawsuit, Mohammedi proposed launching a campaign to "discredit people" critical of the imams who were removed from a US Airways plane after staff and crew said they were behaving suspiciously.

 He also proposed charging the US and Israel with “conspiring to commit murder, kidnapping, property damage and acts of terrorism" for the 2006 Israeli counteroffensive that was launched after unprovoked rocket attacks by Hezbollah terrorists.

 He was to participate in a New York debate on airport profiling but has now been removed due to his past.

 Below is the full description of him, without mentioning CAIR, on the NYC web site

Omar T. Mohammedi is an attorney who specializes in employment discrimination and corporate and real estate transactions. Previously, he worked as an attorney with the National Muslim Merchants Association, and the law firms of Anderson, Kill, & Olick and Sherman & Sterling. He serves as President of the 9/11 Coalition for Constitutional & Human Rights and President of the New York Area Muslim Bar Association. He received an LL.M. from Fordham University School of Law and from Cambridge & Warwick University School of Law in England.


Source: World Net Daily


[Commentary: Would have been interesting to know what kind of 'anti-terror' advice Mohammedi might have offered, given that he once proposed charging those fighting terror with the crime of terrorism. There's a danger that he might confuse those fighting terrorism with the terrorists.

 This case sounds similar to that of another 'human rights' activist Amir Makhoul, the Arab-Israeli who has pleaded guilty to spying for enemy of Israel [not named but obviously Hezbollah] and was also accused of helping recruit terrorists.]


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Arab-Israeli human rights activist, Amir Makhoul, pleads guilty to spying for enemy of Israel

 A leading² Arab-Israeli human rights activist,⁵ Amir Makhoul, 52, who has said attacks on Israeli civilians are not war crimes,³ has admitted and pleaded guilty to "contact with a foreign agent"⁵ and "conspiring to assist an enemy during a time of war",⁵ as part of a plea bargain. The prosecution in return has dropped the charge of “assisting”^2,5 an enemy during war, which could have resulted in a life sentence if found guilty.² Charges specifically linking his activities to Hezbollah has also been dropped.³ Makhoul now faces only up to 10 years in prison. The State Prosecutor's Office said the guilty plea puts an end to unfounded allegations that the charges were politically motivated and that wrongful means were used to acquired the confession.⁶

  The charges against Hakhoul includes meeting Hezbollah agents during his travels,⁶ including to Denmark,⁵ and passing information to them on at least 10 occasions,⁶ [including] “street address, directions, and security arrangements for several strategic locations, including Shin Bet offices, Mossad offices, the Nachshonim military base, the Rafael weapons systems factory, and the home of Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin.”³ During the 2006 war with Hezbollah, he is alleged to have passed on the location of rocket strikes in Israel³ [probably] so Hezbollah could calculate the accuracy of it's attacks,⁴ and where he believed captured Lebanese fighters were held.¹ He allegedly also tried to pass on a video of a failed terror attack against a Haifa mall.⁶

Makhoul was a former director of Ittijah, the Union of Arab Community-Based Associations and had also been chairman of High Arab Monitoring Committee's panel on defending Arab citizens' freedoms.⁶ [He most likely used the knowledge gained from serving in these posts to aid terror,] as he is also accused of giving Hezbollah a list of Arab-Israelis potentially willing to be recruited.³ One of his alleged terror contact was Hussan Jaja, a fellow community activist in Jordan, to whom he is said to have sent information using sophisticated encryption programmes² or a coded email program.¹ Another political activist, Omar Sayid, who was arrest along with Makhoul, had also had been charged with spying² but has been released after pleading guilty to a lesser charge.⁵ MK Azmi Bishara also faced charges of spying but has fled the country and there have been other less well known cases of Arab-Israelis betraying to the terrorists.³

Sources: 1. AP, 2. BBC, 3. Israel National News, 4. Reuters, 5. VOA, 6. Ynetnews