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Sunday, October 12, 2008

FBI Witness: CAIR is a front group for Hamas
Tue, Oct 07, 2008 Dallas Times


The FBI took a new slap at the Council on American-Islamic Relations today at the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial.

FBI Special Agent Lara Burns was going over more transcripts from the Philadelphia meeting -- the 1993 gathering of Holy Land officials and Hamas sympathizers that the government contends was meant to brainstorm ways to downplay the Foundation's extremist ties -- when talk turned to a passage from defendant Shukri Abu Baker.

He is quoted on the wiretap transcript talking about how it would be beneficial to have more traditional, secular American organizations to help spread the Islamist message.

He and others envisioned an "alternative" organization "which can benefit from a new atmosphere, one whose Islamic hue is not very conspicuous," he said according to the transcript.

Prosecutor Barry Jonas asked Burns whether any groups formed after the Philadelphia gathering fit this mold. "CAIR," she said.

CAIR is one of about 300 unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case, and testimony has shown that its founder, Omar Ahmad, and current executive director, Nihad Awad, both participated in the Philadelphia meeting...

(h/t solomonia.com)

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News from eyewitness in Akko.

Dear friends
I just came home from Akko municipality. I wanted to give something to the education department and there were around 10 screaming Arabic women outside- The Islamic movement expected the TV to come to this place and they want everyone to hear the Arabs.

When they saw me ,they start beating me and as I saw the TV camera I was passive and did not move. Then I told those women that we had better have coexistence in our city but this made the Arab lady more crazy and she and the other women said terrible things about the Jews.

The TV camera took shots of the scene and then the Arab woman pulled my hair, another one threw stone at me and screamed that she does not want coexistence, she wants to kill all the Jews. I looked at the camera and asked her to say it again to the TV.I do hope that the TV will show it around the world.

Efrat