Are you a political activist

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Are you a political activist

 

If you are not one yet perhaps it is time that you became one.

Your political activism can take many forms. It can involve you

in supporting or opposing candidates for office. You can run for

office yourself. You can join or oppose a political party.

You can demonstrate for or against candidates for office.

 

One member of Congress in the news lately is a pal of Senator Byrd

of West Virgina. He is Congress person Alan Mollohan of West

Virginia.

 

" Mollohan is a member of the powerful House Appropriations

Committee. It

determines the funding for thousands of government programs,

totaling roughly

one-third of the federal budget (most of the rest is mandatory

spending on

Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid).

 

Joining Senator Byrd at the Harrison-MarionRegional Airport runway

extension

ceremony(Photo courtesy Fairmont Times West Virginian)

The Appropriations Committee consists of 10 subcommittees. Mollohan

serves on

two of them.

He is " Ranking Minority Member " —the top Democrat—on the Subcommittee

on Science,

State, Justice, Commerce and Related Agencies. The subcommittee

funds the

departments of State, Justice and Commerce, as well as the National

Aeronautics

and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation

(NSF) and the

U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), among others.

Mollohan also is a member of the Subcommittee on Interior,

Environment and

Related Agencies.

In addition to his work on the Appropriations Committee, Mollohan

serves on the

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, commonly known as the

ethics

committee. He is the panel's ranking Democrat.

source: http://www.house.gov/mollohan/bio.htm

 

Excerpted from yet another rabidly anti-Israel piece by Shirl

McArthur:

" House Passes Resolution Criticizing Iran's Nuclear Program

As expected, the House passed H.Con.Res. 398, which was introduced

by HIRC Chairman Henry Hyde (R-IL) on March 25. It expresses " the

concern of Congress over Iran's development of the means to produce

nuclear weapons, " and was passed under " suspension of the rules " on

May 6 (see the previous issue of this magazine for a full

description of the resolution). Lantos demanded a roll call vote, no

doubt so that AIPAC could take names, and the final tally was 376

for the resolution, three against, 14 answering " present, " and 40

not voting. Those voting no were Reps. John Conyers (D-MI), Dennis

Kucinich (D-OH), and Ron Paul (R-TX). Those answering " present " were

Reps. Michael Capuano (D-MA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Maurice Hinchey (D-

NY), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Jim McDermott (D-WA), George Miller (D-CA),

Alan Mollohan (D-WV), Nick Rahall (D-WV), Jose Serrano (D-NY), Pete

Stark (D-CA), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Diane Watson (D-CA), and Lynn

Woolsey (D-CA). "

source: http://www.wrmea.com/archives/July_Aug_2004/0407024.html

Let's defeat every single one of the congress people listed as

voting no and those listed as answering " present " in the excerpt

from Shirl McArthur's rabidly anti-Israel piece above.

 

" Top Democrat on Ethics Panel Vows to Stay

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: April 8, 2006

Filed at 12:03 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The senior Democrat on the House ethics committee

said Friday

he won't step down from his post, contending there's no truth to

allegations by

a conservative group that he violated financial disclosure laws.

Rep. Alan Mollohan of West Virginia accused Republicans of

orchestrating the

complaint by the congressional watchdog group and then using it to

call for him

to leave the ethics committee.

The National Legal and Policy Center said Friday it filed a

complaint in

February with federal prosecutors, alleging that Mollohan

consistently

undervalued assets on congressional financial reports and also

omitted assets.

Mollohan denied any wrongdoing.

Channing Phillips, principal assistant U.S. attorney in Washington,

said Friday

that he could not confirm receipt of the complaint or comment on any

pending

criminal investigation.

The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee,

Rep. Tom

Reynolds, R-N.Y., said the allegations should lead Mollohan to

resign from the

ethics committee.

… Republicans have blamed Democrats for partisan battles that have

kept the

evenly divided ethics committee from opening any major

investigations since the

current Congress convened in January 2005.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said Democratic leader Nancy

Pelosi of

California must decide whether Mollohan should step down but

indicated she

should take that course. … " There's a precedent for it, " Hastert

said. " I was

wondering why (the ethics committee members) ere dragging their feet

on this

whole ethics thing. I don't know if that has anything to do with it

or not.

We'll see. "

Pelosi said she would not ask Mollohan to step down.

…

" No, I'm not going to resign because of this spurious attack. The

attack is

unethical on it's face, " Mollohan said. " I have not heard from any

prosecutor. "

Kenneth Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center,

said he has

been contacted by federal prosecutors about his complaint.

Boehm refused to release what he said was a 500-page complaint

because some of

the information it contains has not been thoroughly verified.

However, he said the center did verify that between 1996 and 2004

Mollohan

repeatedly failed to disclose real estate and financial assets and

loans. The

center has deeds and other records to prove its allegations, Boehm

said.

The center began investigating Mollohan's assets after his financial

disclosure

reports showed a significant jump in his net worth between 2000 and

2004, Boehm

said. The center had been looking at all the disclosure reports of

members of

the House Appropriations Committee.

Mollohan's 2000 report indicated he had assets worth between

$170,012 to

$562,000 and liabilities of $170,000 to $465,000. The disclosure

reports allow

congressmen to report their finances within broad ranges.

Mollohan's 2004 report showed he had assets of $6.3 million to $24.9

million and

assets of $3.66 million to $13.5 million.

" The question remains, so where did his greatly improved financial

holdings come

from? " Boehm said.

The Wall Street Journal, in Friday's editions, first reported on

Mollohan's

finances. "

source:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Mollohan-Ethics.html?

_r=1 & oref=slogin

April 8, 2006

" Congressman's Special Projects Bring Complaints

April 8, 2006

By JODI RUDOREN

As lawmakers have increasingly slipped pet projects into federal

spending bills

over the past decade, one lawmaker has used his powerful perch on

the House

Appropriations Committee to funnel $250 million into five nonprofit

organizations that he set up.

Those actions have prompted a complaint to federal prosecutors that

questions

whether any of that taxpayer money helped fuel a parallel growth in

his personal

fortune.

The most ambitious effort by the congressman, Alan B. Mollohan, is a

glistening

glass-and-steel structure with a swimming pool, sauna and spa rising

in a former

cow pasture in Fairmont, W.Va., thanks to $103 million of taxpayer

money he

garnered through special spending allocations known as earmarks.

The headquarters building is likely to sit largely empty upon

completion this

summer, because the Mollohan-created organization that it was built

for, the

Institute for Scientific Research, is in disarray, its chief

executive having

resigned under a cloud of criticism over his $500,000 annual

compensation, also

paid by earmarked federal money.

The five organizations have diverse missions but form a cozy, cross-

pollinated

network in the forlorn former coal capitals of north-central West

Virginia. Mr.

Mollohan has recruited many of their top employees and board

members, including

longtime friends or former aides, who in turn provide him with

steady campaign

contributions and positive publicity in their newsletters.

The conservative National Legal and Policy Center in Falls Church,

Va., filed a

500-page complaint with the United States attorney for the District

of Columbia

on Feb. 28 challenging the accuracy of Mr. Mollohan's financial

disclosure

forms. The forms show a sharp spike in assets and income from rental

properties

from 2000 to 2004.

Federal authorities said yesterday that they were reviewing the

complaint, which

was reported in The Wall Street Journal.

The case has led several Republican leaders to call for Mr.

Mollohan's removal

from the House ethics committee, where he is the senior Democrat.

In a statement yesterday, he said, " These groups were not created to

benefit me

in any way, and they never have. "

Mr. Mollohan noted that the National Legal and Policy Center had

attacked other

Democrats and their union supporters and that it began its inquiry

last May

after he had voted against Republican efforts to water down House

ethics rules.

" Obviously, I am in the crosshairs of the National Republican Party

and

like-minded entities, " said Mr. Mollohan, who faces a serious

electoral

challenge in November. Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to

headline a

fund-raiser on April 21 for the Republican whom the White House

recruited to run

against Mr. Mollohan.

" They are angry at me, and I fully expect that from now until

November they will

continue to make baseless charges against me, my record and my

family, " the

statement said. " I will vigorously defend my service and not be

intimidated by

their heavy-handed tactics. "

In previous interviews, Mr. Mollohan acknowledged that he had failed

to pay 2004

taxes on income from rental properties in Washington and North

Carolina,

resulting in a state lien of $8,948.28 being filed on Dec. 1. He

said the case

was resolved by final payments of all taxes, interest and penalties

by January.

" Obviously it's totally my fault, " he said. " I just neglected this,

and it was

paid late, and I regret that. "

In the last three years, Mr. Mollohan, a Democrat first elected in

1982 to a

seat long held by his father, has bought $2 million worth of

property on Bald

Head Island, N.C., with… a former employee who now runs one of the

organizations

and is on the boards of two others.

He was unapologetic about his earmarks, saying that local lawmakers

knew their

constituents' needs best, and that he was hardly alone in mainlining

money back

home. " The amount of money in the transportation bill spent in

Illinois in

earmarked projects is astronomical, " he said. " It puts $100 million

on the

I.S.R. building in real perspective. "

The earmarking occurred as an abundance of local projects was added

to spending

bills outside the normal budget review, from $32.9 billion in 2000

to $64

billion in 2006, the Congressional Research Service said. Although

it is

impossible to trace individual earmarks for certain, an analysis by

Citizens

Against Government Waste, a Washington watchdog, found $480 million

added in the

House or in conference committees, most likely by Mr. Mollohan, for

his district

since 1995. That sum helped West Virginia rank fourth on the

watchdog list —

$131.58 for each of the 1.8 million West Virginians this year.

Although Mr. Mollohan's mentor, Senator Robert C. Byrd, has long

blanketed the

state in bacon in the form of large public works projects and

federal complexes,

Mr. Mollohan has directed more than half his earmarks to his five

organizations

of his design.

Several people involved in the appropriations process said no other

lawmaker

employed that strategy to the same extent.

The first and largest is the West Virginia High Technology Consortium

Foundation, which is absorbing the troubled Institute for Scientific

Research.

Another, the Canaan Valley Institute, works on stream restoration

and wastewater

treatment. The Vandalia Heritage Foundation redevelops dilapidated

buildings,

and the MountainMade Foundation helps artisans market wares.

" He's basically judge, jury and executioner for all this money, "

said Keith

Ashdown, vice president of the Taxpayers for Common Sense in

Washington.

Of the empty building in Mr. Mollohan's hometown, Fairmont, Mr.

Ashdown added,

" This is sort of Mollohan's field of dreams, but in his case, he's

building it,

and it doesn't look like they're going to come. "

Kenneth F. Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center,

said the

bulk of his complaint to the federal prosecutors was made up of

public documents

that showed 260 instances of omitted or undervalued assets on the

financial

disclosure forms that Mr. Mollohan filed with the ethics committee

from 1996 to

2004.

Those forms show a jump in Mr. Mollohan's portfolio from less than

$500,000 in

assets generating less than $80,000 in income in 2000 to at least

$6.3 million

in assets earning $200,000 to $1.2 million in 2004, along with large

mortgage

debts.

…

The complaint also looks at whether Mr. Mollohan properly reported 27

condominiums in the Remington, near Foggy Bottom in Washington. He

and his wife

own the building with a cousin… whose business once received money

from a

federal contract in Mr. Mollohan's district.

" The $64,000 question that's all over this thing is during the

period of time

all these earmarks went to very closely associated nonprofits run by

people who

were very close to him, did any of the money go from Point A to

Point B? " Mr.

Boehm asked in an interview. " Did any of his newfound wealth result

from, in any

way, shape or form, individuals who had benefited from his official

actions? "

Lifeblood for a Weak Economy

About 75 miles southeast of Fairmont along windy roads in Thomas

(pop. 473) sits

the Buxton & Landstreet Building, whose lifeblood is Mr. Mollohan's

largess. The

Vandalia Heritage Foundation used $1.2 million in earmarks from the

Department

of Housing and Urban Development to help transform the yellow-brick

behemoth,

built in 1901 as the coal company store, from broken down to

bustling.

The first floor is a vibrant gallery where the MountainMade

Foundation, relying

on its own earmarks from the Small Business Administration to pay

Vandalia its

$5,166.67 in monthly rent, sells items like Mr. Byrd's thick

autobiography for

$35 and a maple desk for $5,250.

Upstairs, 41 people work on stream restoration and wastewater

treatment in the

Canaan Valley office, whose $5,100 rent to Vandalia is covered by

earmarks from

the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic

Atmospheric

Administration.

" What else are you going to do to reinvent this economy? " asked… Mr.

Mollohan's

former aide who runs Vandalia and is the co-owner of the North

Carolina beach

property with the congressman. " A lot of what we do would not get

done

otherwise. "

Created in 2000 to help artisans market their creations over the

Internet — Mr.

Mollohan favors the earthenware pottery — MountainMade also runs

glassblowing,

spinning and felt-making workshops in another downtown building that

Vandalia

renovated.

The Canaan Valley Institute, which grew out of an effort to create a

wildlife

refuge near property that Mr. Mollohan owns, is building a $33

million

headquarters with classrooms and laboratories on 3,208 acres that it

bought with

earmarks he secured.

Vandalia owns more than a score of properties throughout Mr.

Mollohan's district

like the Baltimore & Ohio station in Grafton that it is turning into

a museum

and office space and lots in Fairmont, where it plans to build

houses. Earmarks

from HUD bought the mothballed Waldo Hotel in Clarksburg ($230,000

in 2000) and

1,129 acres in Canaan Valley ($2.4 million in 2004).

Mr. Mollohan and the organizations' managers said their goal was to

wean from

earmarks and be self-sustaining. But Canaan Valley, the oldest,

continues to

rely on earmarks for 97 percent of its money. Last year,

MountainMade received

$1,085,308 from the S.B.A., nearly twice its $553,000 in sales.

MountainMade

also had a $124,000 state grant.

As for Vandalia, 92 percent of its $31.5 million in grants since

1999 arrived

through federal earmarks. Separately, the 2004 tax return for the

organization

shows that 96 percent of its $8.5 million revenue was from

government grants.

None of the three groups have dues-paying members, like many such

organizations,

or run regular fund-raisers. They worry about the crackdown on

earmarks. The

Vandalia pipeline has begun to dry up since Mr. Mollohan left the

subcommittee

that appropriates HUD money. The organizations said success in

finding other

sources had been sporadic.

The Quid Pro Quos

" The congressman gave us money " for this or that is how the groups'

leaders

frequently explain their programs. And they generally return the

favor at

fund-raisers.

A review of campaign finance records by The New York Times shows

that from 1997

through February 2006, top-paid employees, board members and

contractors of the

five organizations gave at least $397,122 to Mr. Mollohan's campaign

and

political action committees.

Thirty-eight individuals with leadership roles, including all five

chief

executives — all but one of whose 2004 salaries outpaced the $98,456

national

average among nonprofit leaders — contributed, often giving the

maximum allowed.

At the same time, workers at companies that do business with the

federally

financed groups were among Mr. Mollohan's leading contributors.

Employees of TMC

Technologies, which had a $50,000 contract with Vandalia in 2003,

have given

$63,450 since 1998. Workers at Electronic Warfare Associates and Man

Tech

International, military contractors that rent space from the

technology

consortium and whose chief executives are on the board of the

Institute for

Scientific Research, combined to give $86,750.

….

Asked whether contributions were required or expected, Kevin

Niewoehner, the

departed chief executive of the Institute for Scientific Research,

said: "

`Required' is such a strong term. The political environment and the

access that

goes along with it has a number of expectations that involves what is

appropriate and what isn't appropriate. " He added that the first

hint that he

was falling out of favor occurred in October, when a $250 check he

wrote to the

campaign was returned uncashed.

" I received invitations to those events on a regular basis, " he

said. " I was

invited to participate, and I participated. "

`Teaming to Win'

Mr. Mollohan scoffed at the suggestion that the overlap among the

groups that he

supports and his supporters meant anything more than a meeting of

the minds.

" I like to think I'm supported because I work hard, " he

said. " Because I bring a

collaborative, a `teaming to win,' if you will, approach to solving

the really

difficult challenges facing West Virginia. "

The team includes overlapping rosters among the five organizations.

In addition

to Ms. …multiple roles, Jack Carpenter, an old friend of the

congressman, is

vice president of the consortium and chairman of the MountainMade

board. The

board once included Mr. Mollohan's wife, Barbara.

Raymond A. Oliverio, executive vice president of the consortium, is

also

treasurer of the Robert H. Mollohan Foundation, named for the

congressman's late

father. Gina Fantasia, Vandalia's legal counsel, moved over last

year from the

Institute for Scientific Research. Her brother Nick, mayor of

Fairmont, is

chairman of the Vandalia Redevelopment Corporation, a heritage

foundation

sister.

" He effectively referred to it as a family, " said a person involved

in the

Mollohan network, likening the operation to keiretsu, the Japanese

concept of

intermeshed corporate boards.

Down the hill from the steel structure here is the more pedestrian

$14 million

Alan B. Mollohan Innovation Center, built with $3.5 million in

earmarks. It is

the home of the high-tech consortium, which began in 1990 as six

small companies

hoping to seed a new economic area. The center has 200 affiliates

throughout the

state. Earmarks are its engine, underwriting high-tech projects like

AmberView,

which seeks to create a national database of three-dimensional school

photographs to help find missing children.

The consortium has had better luck following earmarks with

competitive grants.

Its Information Research Corporation was spun off as a for-profit

subsidiary

after obtaining a $10 million Navy contract to build 2,500 BomBots,

robotlike

tractors that remotely deliver explosives .

" The congressman has enabled programs and entities to get started, "

said Tom

Witt, director of the West Virginia University Bureau of Business

and Economic

Research. " But at some point, they're going to have to make the

transition or

they'll die. "

The big test will be the $134 million Institute for Scientific

Research

building, three-quarters paid by NASA and HUD earmarks. The 57-

member staff is

barely large enough to fill a corner of the 600-plus capacity of the

building.

David Johnston and Aron Pilhofer contributed reporting for this

article.

source:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/washington/08earmarks.html?

pagewanted=print

 

" Alan Mollohan

AKA Alan Bowlby Mollohan

Born: 14-May-1943

Birthplace: Fairmont, WV

Gender: Male

Religion: Baptist

Ethnicity: White

Sexual orientation: Straight

Occupation: Politician

Nationality: United States

Executive summary: Congressman, West Virginia 1st

Father: Robert Homer Mollohan

Mother: Helen Holt Mollohan

High School: Greenbrier Military School, Lewisburg, WV (1962)

U.S. Congressman, West Virginia 1st

Official Website:

http://www.house.gov/mollohan/

source: http://www.nndb.com/people/062/000039942/

 

We view Mr. Mollohan as an enemy of Israel. We would like to see him

defeated at

the polls. Below was found at:

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2002-05/04/article16b.shtml

(CAIR's Draft Letter)

The Honorable (Name)

I am writing to thank you for not supporting HR392.

HR 392, as so many resolutions before it, is an extremely harmful and

counterproductive effort to exonerate Israel of any responsibility

for the

present conflict, and to scapegoat Palestinians for all the violence

in the

region. Not only does this resolution tell Israel that it can

disregard

international standards for the conduct of armed conflict, it tells

Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims around the world that the US will

support Israel

no matter what it does. HR 392 is yet another high profile example

of the

double standard the US employs in its foreign policy towards the

Middle East.

The source of this conflict is Israel's occupation of Palestinian

territories.

Palestinians are not besieging Israel. Palestinians are fighting to

live free

in an independent state.

Thank you again for taking this strong stand for justice and peace

in the Middle

East.

Sincerely,

(Your Name) "

The letter above thanks the enemies of Israel for voting against

Israel.

We hope that you will help to defeat every single one of those

listed on the

list of enemies of Israel below who were sent the letter above if

they ever run

for public office again in primary and general elections. The list

was found at:

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2002-05/04/article16a.shtml

SENATORS

NOES – 2

Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC)

Web Site: hollings.senate.gov

Phone: (202) 224-6121

Fax: (202) 224-4293

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV)

E-mail: senator_byrd

Phone: (202) 224-3954

Fax: (202) 228-0002

311 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510-4801

 

 

 

 

REPRESENTATIVES

NOES - 21

Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI 1st)

E-mail: neil.abercrombie

Phone: (202) 225-2726

Fax: (202) 225-4580

Rep. David Bonior (D-MI 10th)

E-mail: david.bonior

Phone: (202) 225-2106

Fax: (202) 226-1169

Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA 9th)

E-mail: ninthnet

Phone: (202) 225-3861

Fax: (202) 225-0442

Rep. Gary Condit (D-CA 18th)

Web Site: www.house.gov/gcondit

Phone: (202) 225-6131

Fax: (202) 225-0819

Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI 14th)

E-mail: john.conyers

Phone: (202) 225-5126

Fax: (202) 225-0072

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR 4th)

Web Site: www.house.gov/defazio

Phone: (202) 225-6416

Fax: (202) 225-0032

Rep. John Dingell (D-MI 16th)

Web Site: www.house.gov/dingell

Phone: (202) 225-4071

Fax: (202) 226-0371

Rep. Earl Hilliard (D-AL 7th)

Web Site: www.house.gov/hilliard

Phone: (202) 225-2665

Fax: (202) 226-0772

Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA 1st)

E-mail: jay.inslee

Phone: (202) 225-6311

Fax: (202) 226-1606

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL 2nd)

E-mail: jjackson

Phone: (202) 225-0773

Fax: (202) 225-0899

Rep. Jerry Kleczka (D-WI 4th)

Web Site: www.house.gov/kleczka

Phone: (202) 225-4572

Fax: (202) 225-8135

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA 9th)

E-mail: barbara.lee

Phone: (202) 225-2661

Fax: (202) 225-9817

Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA 4th)

E-mail: cymck

Phone: (202) 225-1605

Fax: (202) 226-0691

Rep. George Miller (D-CA 7th)

E-mail: george.miller

Phone: (202) 225-2095

Fax: (202) 225-5609

Rep. David Obey (D-WI 7th)

Web Site: www.house.gov/obey

Phone: (202) 225-3365

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX 14th)

E-mail: rep.paul

Phone: (202) 225-2831

Fax: (202) 226-4871

Rep. Thomas Petri (R-WI 6th)

Web Site: www.house.gov/petri

Phone: (202) 225-2476

Fax: (202) 225-2356

Rep. Nick Rahall II (D-WV 3rd)

E-mail: nrahall

Phone: (202) 225-3452

Fax: (202) 225-9061

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA 45th)

E-mail: dana

Phone: (202) 225-2415

Fax: (202) 225-0145

Rep. Nick Smith (R-MI 7th)

E-mail: rep.smith

Phone: (202) 225-6276

Fax: (202) 225-6281

Rep. Fortney Stark (D-CA 13th)

Web Site: www.house.gov/stark

Phone: (202) 225-5065

Fax: (202) 226-3805

PRESENT - 29

Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI 2nd)

E-mail: tammy.baldwin

Phone: (202) 225-2906

Fax: (202) 225-6942

Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA 7th)

E-mail: barr.ga

Phone: (202) 225-2931

Fax: (202) 225-2944

Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA 30th)

Web Site: www.house.gov/becerra

Phone: (202) 225-6235

Fax: (202) 225-2202

Rep. Sanford Bishop, Jr. (D-GA 2nd)

E-mail: bishop.email

Phone: (202) 225-3631

Fax: (202) 225-2203

Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-OH 13th)

E-mail: sherrod

Phone: (202) 225-3401

Fax: (202) 225-2266

Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA 8th)

Web Site: www.house.gov/capuano

Phone: (202) 225-5111

Fax: (202) 225-9322

Rep. Eva Clayton (D-NC 1st)

Web Site: www.house.gov/clayton

Washington Office:

Phone: (202) 225-3101

Fax: (202) 225-3354

Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA 17th)

Web Site: www.house.gov/farr

Washington Office:

Phone: (202) 225-2861

Fax: (202) 225-6791

Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN 8th)

E-mail: john.hostettler

Phone: (202) 225-4636

Fax: (202) 225-3284

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH 9th)

E-mail: rep.kaptur

Phone: (202) 225-4146

Fax: (202) 225-7711

Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI 15th)

E-mail: carolyn.cheeks.kilpatrick

Phone: (202) 225-2261

Fax: (202) 225-5730

Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI 3rd)

Web Site: www.house.gov/kind

Phone: (202) 225-5506

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Phone: (202) 225-5871

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Washington Office:

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Phone: (202) 225-4906

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Dana Rohrabacher's Troubling Friends

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

FrontPageMagazine.com | January 26, 2004

Top Jewish Republicans who have supported Congressman Dana

Rohrabacher (R-CA)

for decades said in interviews that they have " serious concerns "

with the

California Republican's ties to radical Muslim groups and their

foreign backers,

and his outspoken efforts to champion their cause in Congress.

 

" Before 9-11, Dana's views seemed idiosyncratic, " said Arnold

Steinberg, a

political consultant whose ties to Rohrabacher go back to Youth for

Goldwater in

1964. " We rationalized that he wasn't fully informed or had a blind

spot " to the

Islamists, who were contributing to his re-election campaigns,

hanging around

his office, and sponsoring trips by Rohrabacher and his staff to the

Arab Middle

East.

 

Rohrabacher seemingly paid back those contributors by an " even-

handed " approach

toward the Israeli-Arab conflict, a key demand of influential Muslim

backers.

" Even-handed " is a code-word used by radical Muslim groups, such as

the American

Muslim Council (AMC) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations

(CAIR), to

signify support for the Palestinian cause, including Hamas, and angry

condemnation of Israel as a terrorist state.

 

After 9-11, Rohrabacher's views and public actions took on a more

sinister

appearance, as radical Muslim groups began to count on him

increasingly as

support for their positions dwindled in Congress.

 

In a heated May 2, 2002 exchange with conservative talk show host

Alan Keyes,

for instance, Rohrabacher insisted that " [israeli Prime Minister

Ariel] Sharon

and [Palestinian Authority President Yasser] Arafat are cut out of

the same

cloth " and claimed that " there's been acts of terrorism committed

against the

Palestinian people as well, " statements that made Keyes audibly gasp.

 

When challenged, Rohrabacher claimed that targeting civilians " was

standard

operating procedure of the Israeli army for years of occupation, "

when in fact

the Israelis have consistently sought to spare civilians even at the

price of

the lives of their own soldiers, as was the case during the April

2002 battle of

Jenin. Challenged a second time by Keyes, who called his

comments " outrageously

objectionable, " Rohrabacher reiterated his belief that " both sides

have

committed terrorism. "

 

Rohrabacher was one of four Republicans and seventeen Democrats who

voted no to

a May 2, 2002 Congressional resolution (HR 392) that expressed

support for

Israel as it faced a wave of terrorist attacks that killed more than

600

civilians. The resolution, which radical American Muslim groups

lobbied against

unsuccessfully, also stated that " the United States and Israel are

now engaged

in a common struggle against terrorism. "

 

Voting with Rohrabacher against the resolution were Democrats such

as Cynthia

McKinney, Jesse Jackson, Jr. (Ill), Barbara Lee (CA), Peter Defazio

(Or), and

Michigan Representatives John Conyers, David Bonior, and John

Dingell, all of

whom have taken campaign cash from donors who have publicly

supported Hamas and

other terrorist organizations. " Dana has allied himself with the

anti-American

left-wing thugs that we always opposed, " said Steinberg.

 

Some of Rohbacher's Muslim donors are currently in federal prison

awaiting trial

on terrorism-related charges.

 

Steinberg is just one of a closely-knit group of Rohrbacher friends

and

supporters who have been trying over the past eighteen months to get

the

California libertarian to open himself up to other viewpoints. For

years, these

supporters - many of whom asked not to be cited by name for this

article - have

urged Rohrabacher to travel to Israel. When he complained that no

one would

sponsor the trip, they offered to pay his travel expenses, but again

he refused.

 

" He was a journalist for years, he was in the White House, he was a

member of

congress since 1988, " one donor said. " Somehow, he never went to

Israel, despite

trips all over the world, and especially to Arab countries. "

Rohrabacher finally

traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories as part of a

three-day

Congressional delegation in 2003.

 

" Dana has a very antagonist attitude toward Ariel Sharon, " says long-

time

supporter Howard Klein, a member of the influential Lincoln Club of

Orange

county Republicans. " But it goes much deeper than that. He doesn't

understand

the strategic or moral imperatives in the U.S. alliance with Israel

and the

forces that want to drive Israel to extinction. "

 

Rohrabacher refused to answer questions for this article, on the

grounds that

the publisher of Frontpagemag.com, David Horowitz, has

been " actively involved

in trying to recruit someone to run against him in the Republican

primary, " a

spokesman said. But an aid who accompanied him on the trip to Israel

insisted

that Rohrabacher " spoke the same language " to Israeli and

Palestinian leaders,

infuriating them both.

 

" In Ramallah, he told [Palestinian security chief] Mohammad Dahlan

that the

Palestinians had to give up the right of return, " the aid said,

referring to a

long-held PLO position that insists on including Palestinian

refugees from the

1948 war in a final settlement by allowing them to return to the

properties they

abandoned more than fifty years ago. " In Israel, he told the Foreign

Minister

that Israel would have to give up the settlements. "

 

Rohrabacher aids insisted that the American-Israeli Public Affairs

Committee

(AIPAC), which regularly sponsors congressional fact-finding

missions to Israel,

never offered to take Rohrabacher along.

 

But an official at AIPAC's legislative affairs department gave a

more nuanced

account. " We've offered repeatedly to take Rohrabacher to Israel,

but he always

had a scheduling conflict. " The one time Rohrabacher asked AIPAC to

sponsor him

was to make a trip during the Easter recess. " That happens to fall

during the

Jewish Passover, when nobody is around you can talk to, " the AIPAC

official

said. " We don't do Israel trips over Passover. "

 

" Dana thinks Israel is a rogue state, " another supporter

complained. " To our

regret, he is turning into the Paul Findley of our times and has

become a

mouthpiece for extremist views. " Former Illinois Congressman Findley

has been

lionized by radical Muslim groups for denouncing AIPAC lobbying

efforts in

Congress.

 

Shawn Steele, a recent chairman of the California Republican Party,

counts

himself as a long-time Rohrabacher supporter. " Dana is my best

friend, and I'm

deeply involved with his re-election campaign, but I have been

unhappy with some

of his utterances. "

 

While he was serving as state Republican Party chairman, Steele

proudly opened

the Party to local Muslims. Recently, however, he ran afoul of the

Council on

American Islamic Relations (CAIR) when he told a " support the

troops " rally

sponsored by the University of Southern California chapter of College

Republicans that the Muslim community " has a cancer growing within

it, which

hates Jews, hates freedom, and hates Western society. "

 

Following that speech, Steele says he was barraged with hate mail

from CAIR

supporters, and was ultimately sued by a top CAIR official in

California. The

official's suit was dismissed by Orange County Superior Court last

December.

 

Steele believes that Rohrabacher is " in the process of changing his

views, " and

has been " dismayed with the lack of support for the U.S. mission in

Iraq among

his Muslim friends. "

 

Foremost among those friends is Khaled Saffuri, a former government

affairs

director of the American Muslim Council who has coordinated

contributions to

Rohrabacher's re-election campaigns from Muslim donors, some of whom

today are

in federal prison on terrorism-related charges.

 

While at AMC, Saffuri worked under AMC Executive Director

Abdulrahman Alamoudi,

who was jailed last October on charges of illegally laundering money

from the

Libyan government. At a September 2000 rally in Lafayette Park in

front of the

White House, Alamoudi led followers in chanting their support for

Hamas and

Lebanon's Hezbollah, both of which are considered as international

terrorist

organizations by the U.S. government.

 

As AMC's chief Washington lobbyist from 1995-1998, Saffuri worked to

organize

AMC members and contributors into an effective political force.

Besides $10,400

in direct contributions he made to Rohrabacher's re-election

campaigns, he

helped raise another $24,000 for in direct contributions to

Rohrabacher's

campaign war chest from AMC members and sympathizers, according to

publicly-available Federal Election Commission records compiled for

this

article.

 

Born to Palestinian parents, Saffuri has made a career in

Washington, DC of

putting a moderate face onto radical Islamic causes while mixing

with a

Wahhabi-inspired network of donors who include Alamoudi and former

University of

South Florida teacher Sami Al-Arian, who was jailed on Feb. 20, 2003

for his

alleged involvement in the leadership of Palestinian Islamic Jihad,

an outlawed

terrorist group.

 

Even more disturbing are Saffuri's ties to Jamal Barzinji, the head

of a group

of Muslim charities that has been targeted by a joint U.S.

government task force

investigating terrorist-related fund-raising in the United States,

revealed here

for the first time.

 

The charities, which include the Safa Group, SAAR, and Barzinji's

Marjac group

of investment companies, are sometimes referred to by federal

prosecutors as

" 555 Grove street, " the address they shared in suburban Herndon,

Virginia.

 

Organizations tied to Safa Group that were raided by the Greenquest

task force

on March 20, 2002 include the International Islamic Relief

Organization (IIRO),

the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), and al-Haramain, all of

which have

been linked by prosecutors to al-Qaeda.

 

A lawyer representing the Safa Group, Nancy Luqué, insists that her

clients have

not been charged with any crime. But a previously-sealed affidavit

that lays out

the government's motives for the massive raid alleges that Barjinzi

and the Safa

Group companies were " suspected of providing material support to

terrorists,

money laundering, and tax evasion through the use of a variety of

for-profit

companies and ostensible charitable entities under their control,

most of which

are located at 555 Grove Street, Herndon, Virginia. "

 

Saffuri collected contributions from Barjinzi and thirteen other

individuals who

listed their occupation as officers or employees of Safa Group

companies for a

political action committee he established in April 1993, known as

National

Muslims for a Better America (NMBA).

 

For the five years of its official existence, which overlapped

Saffuri's stint

as Government Affairs director for the AMC, NMBA shared offices with

the AMC at

1212 New York Avenue, Suite 400. That was the same address listed by

Abdulrahman

Alamoudi in his contributions to NMBA.

 

Among the contributors to Saffuri's AMC-sponsored PAC:

 

Hisham Al-Talib, who lists his employer alternately as the SAAR

Foundation and

Marjac Investment Group, the private company controlled by Barzinji.

 

Muhammad Ashraf, " an officer and/or director of Safa Group

companies including

Sterling Investment Group, Sterling Charitable Gift Fund, and York

Foundation, "

according to the government's affidavit. Ashraf's residence at 12528

Rock Ridge

Road in Herndon was one of the locations searched during the March

2002 raid.

 

Mohammad Jaglit, a SAAR Foundation director consided by federal

investigators

as a key figure in the terror-support networks whose residence was

also raided.

The affidavit cites Jaglit as " an active supporter of [sami] Al-

Arian and

[Palestinian Islamic Jihad], both ideologically and financially, "

and notes that

letters accompanying checks he sent Al-Arian from the SAAR

Foundation instructed

Al-Arian " not to disclose the contribution publicly or to the media. "

 

Yaquib Mirza, a Pakistani national considered to be the financial

wizard of

the Safa/SAAR network.

 

Basheer Nafi, identified as the " US agent of [Palestinian Islamic

Jihad] in

the affidavit

 

Iqbal Unus, a director of Safa Group companies " including Child

Development

Foundation, " whose Herndon, Va residence was raided.

 

During the entire period the AMC's PAC operated, from 1993-1998,

Saffuri was

listed as its Treasurer. Altogether, he raised just over $28,000 for

the

AMC-sponsored PAC and distributed it to members of Congress including

Rohrabacher and Democrats Cynthia McKinney, David Bonior, John

Conyers, Bill

Richardson, James Traficant, Peter Defazio, and Nick Rahall.

 

Saffuri dissolved NMBA in May 1998. Since leaving the AMC, he has

severed public

ties with his former friends and colleagues, joining forces instead

with

conservative activist Grover Norquist, president of Americans for

Tax Reform.

 

Together with Norquist, he established the Islamic Institute in 1998

with seed

money provided in part by donors in Saudi Arabia and by the

Government of Qatar.

 

During the 2000 election campaign, Saffuri became the head of Muslim

Outreach

for the Bush-Cheney campaign, and orchestrated a meeting between

Governor George

W. Bush and Al-Arian during a campaign stopover in south Florida.

 

Since then, Saffuri and Norquist have helped set up meetings in the

Oval Office

with the president for AMC and CAIR leaders. White House officials

have

acknowledged that Alamoudi attended at least one of these sessions

with the

president.

 

Saffuri and Norquist have also set up meetings for leaders of

radical Muslim

groups with FBI Director Robert Mueller and with Attorney General

John Ashcroft,

to urge the Bush administration to abandon the USA Patriot Act.

Government

records disclosed in affidavits supporting the arrests of Al-Arian

and Alamoudi

show that the Justice Department has long sought to dismantle alleged

terrorist-support networks operating in the United States, but

lacked the legal

tools for successful prosecution until the USA Patriot Act became

law in 2002.

 

Rohrabacher voted for the USA Patriot Act in its original form in

2002, but also

voted for amendments putting restrictions of government

investigative powers

that passed Congress overwhelmingly last year.

 

Rohrabacher friends and colleagues believe that Norquist initially

introduced

Rohrabacher to Saffuri. They point to the Congressman's long-

standing ties to

Norquist, which go back at least as early as the mid-1980s, when

they worked

together to build support for anti-Communist insurgencies in

Afghanistan,

Angola, Cambodia and Nicaragua.

 

" Grover has led a lot of people astray in recent years, " one

Rohrabacher

colleague said. " Saffuri would always call Dana's office whenever he

was doing

an event, just as any lobbyist would do. He was well-schooled by

Grover on how

to be a politician's buddy. "

 

Rohrabacher friends and backers in California discounted the campaign

contributions from radical Muslim groups and their supporters

documented here -

$34,450 over a ten year period - as insignificant. " Dana can't be

bought, " one

long-time friend confided. " What you are seeing here is a

commonality of

interest, not someone who has been bought. Dana is a lazy fund-

raiser who has

gotten used to running in a safe district. "

 

But Frank Gaffney, whose 11,000 word expose of Norquist's ties to

radical

Islamic groups was published by frontpagemag.com in December,

believes the

apparently small amounts of money contributed by Saffuri and the

Safa Group

donors to Rohrabacher is misleading. " We tend to underestimate how

much

influence $2,000 can buy you. It means you are a maximum-level

donor, so you get

on the guy's radar screen. I worry that Dana's poor judgment has

given rise to

openings to people who shouldn't have access to members of

Congress, " Gaffney

said.

 

He was not the only source who warned of a " classic influence

operation. "

 

Key to understanding Rohrabacher's ties to radical Islamic groups

and the causes

they espouse are several trips Rohrabacher has made to Qatar, paid

for by the

Islamic Institute and the Government of Qatar, according to

Rohrabacher's

financial disclosure forms.

 

Coordinated in part with the Heritage Foundation, the conferences

ostensibly

focused on promoting free market economics in the Arab and Muslim

world.

 

During the April 2001 trip, however – just months before the 9-11

attacks -

Rohrabacher met privately with Taliban Foreign Minister Mullah Wakil

Ahmed

Muttawakil. Wakil on the fringes of the conference, which Norquist

and Saffuri

also attended.

 

Wakil reportedly asked Rohrabacher to lobby the Bush administration

for an

increase in foreign aid to Afghanistan, apparently in exchange for a

Taliban

pledge to allow U.S. oil company UNOCAL to build a pipeline to bring

oil from

land-locked Central Asia to Pakistan and India. The pipeline

project, as well as

political support for the Taliban, were earlier championed by the

Clinton

administration.

 

Secretary of State Madeline Albright met with top Taliban leaders

during a visit

to Pakistan in November 1997, and U.S. ambassador to the United

Nations Bill

Richardson went to Kabul in April 1998, just three months before Bin

Laden

operatives blew up U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing

more than 200

civilians.

 

According to an AFP account of the Rohrabacher-Taliban meeting,

Saffuri told an

Al Jazeera reporter that " The position of the Taliban was flexible

on most of

the issues and the Afghan delegation showed itself to be ready for

dialogue. "

 

The Taliban later announced in Kabul that it had rejected what it

considered

were unreasonable demands by the U.S. side. Rohrabacher's staff

would not answer

questions about the Taliban talks.

 

Norquist tried to downplay Rohrabacher's meeting with the Taliban

when asked

about it by liberal columnist Josh Michael. " " Dana ran into some guy

who was a

representative of the Afghan government, and since he [Rohrabacher]

had worked

in Afghanistan he sat down and talked to the guy. They literally

met in the

hallway. I just remembered Dana mentioning that he ran into these

guys ... and

he yelled at them about blowing up the Buddhist statues. "

 

Rohrabacher's Democratic opponent in 2002, Gerry Schipske, tried to

make a

political issue of the meeting by accusing Rohrabacher of

meeting " secretly "

with the Taliban in violation of the Logan act, which prohibits

private

individuals from conducting foreign policy in the name of the United

States.

 

But Rohrabacher never concealed the meeting, and indeed, told wire

service

reporters who were present in Doha at the time that he had discussed

a " peace

plan " with the Taliban.

 

Rohrabacher was quoted in the November/December 1996 issue of the

Washington

Report on Middle East Affairs, a pro-Muslim broadsheet, as calling

the Taliban

" devout traditionalists – not terrorists or revolutionaries. "

 

While Rohrabacher's judgment on the Taliban – which he has since

reversed –

coincided with the policies of the Clinton administration at the

time, it also

fit nicely with the views of the Qatari and Saudi governments, who

along with

Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates were the sole international

supporters of

the Taliban.

 

" Dana was more naïve and more loyal than he should have been " when

he agreed to

April 2001 meeting, a former colleague said. " He listened to Saffuri

and he

shouldn't have. Qatar is the influence-peddling center of the Middle

East, and

Dana fell right into the trap they set for him. "

 

Kenneth Timmerman is author of Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War

on America

and a senior writer for Insight Magazine.

 

Kenneth R. Timmerman is the author of Countdown to Crisis: the

Coming Nuclear

Showdown with Iran (Crown Forum, New York), and Executive Director

of the

Foundation for Democracy in Iran. "

 

" Congress Passes Resolution Expressing Solidarity with Israel The

House of Representatives and Senate passed a resolution today

expressing America's solidarity with Israel, reaffirming Israel's

right to self-defense, supporting additional defense assistance to

the

Jewish state and condemning Palestinian terror. House Majority Whip

Tom DeLay (R-TX) and the ranking member of the House International

Relations Committee Tom Lantos (D-CA) have introduced the resolution

in the House, while Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Gordon Smith

(R-OR) have introduced a similar resolution in the Senate

http://www.aipac.org/newthisweek.html The U.S. Congress must stand in

solidarity with Israel at a time when it is engaged in a battle for

its own survival. The Solidarity with Israel resolution (S. Res. 247)

introduced by Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Gordon Smith (R-OR), and

H. Res. 392, introduced by Reps. Tom DeLay (R-TX) and Tom Lantos

(D-CA) was passed on May 2 in both the Senate and the House. The

resolution expresses solidarity with Israel, reaffirms Israel's right

to self-defense, supports additional defense assistance for Israel

and

condemns Palestinian terror. Please thank you members of Congress for

voting for this resolution. http://www.aipac.org/Action1.cfm

May 3, 2002 CONGRESS House and Senate Support Israel in Strong

Resolutions

By ALISON MITCHELL WASHINGTON, May 2 - The House and Senate voted

overwhelmingly today in rapid succession to express strongly worded

support for Israel in its recent military operations, The two

Congressional

resolutions were non-binding, but they put the legislative branch of

government on record as backing the military actions of Prime

Minister

Ariel Sharon of Israel,*** The Senate voted 94 to 2 in favor of its

resolution, which also calls on the Palestinian Authority to act

against terrorism, as Mr. Bush has also done. The House voted 352 to

21 for a tougher-worded measure stating concern that the actions of

Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, " are not those of a viable

partner for peace. " Twenty-nine House members voted present*** In

emotional debate, House members and Senate members, from the left and

from the right, repeatedly branded Mr. Arafat a " terrorist " and a

" despot. " *** Senators Ernest F. Hollings, Democrat of South

Carolina,

and Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, were the only senators

who voted against the resolution. " On the eve of

the vote, the House majority leader, Dick Armey of Texas, (said) " I'm

content to have Israel grab the entire West Bank, he said in an

appearance on MSNBC's " Hardball with Chris Matthews. " (note we are

looking for the exact transcript, we think that Armey is being

paraphrased in the article being quoted, if anyone has the exact

transcript please post it, thanks, as the proper terminology would be

Judea and Samaria to describe the so-called " West Bank " we believe

that everything West of the Jordan River all the way to the

Mediterranean Sea belongs to Israel, good fences make good neighbors,

we believe the border should be the Jordan River with everything east

of it being Jordan and everything west of it being Israel, including

Judea and Samaria, and of course the Golan Heights and the Gaza

Strip.) " He added under questioning, " I happen to believe that the

Palestinians should leave. " (note, not part of article being quoted.

Dick Armey was right when he said that to Matthews, you should have

seen Matthews jaw drop! We recall Matthews as the character doing all

the talk show appearances he can to oppose the move to liberate Iraq

from the evil Saddam Hussein International Terrorist. We recall

Matthews as being pro-arafat and anti-Israel. but what can you

expect from NBC which is owned, after all by General

Electric, a company Nelson Rockefeller

admitted was one heavily invested in, to put it mildly, by

Rockefeller

interests in his Congressional confirmation hearings to be Gerald

Ford's Vice President. What can you expect from Microsoft- MSNBC

http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?subid=22 & site=645

which also hosts the rabidly anti-Israel Ashleigh Banfield

NBC is owned by General Electric, a firm with major Rockefeller

family

ties according to testimony given during the confirmation hearings

for then Vice Presidential nominee Nelson A. Rockefeller.

 

Wednesday, 20 June, 2001, 21:40 GMT 22:40 UK

US Senators lash out at EU A US Senator has said the US may

retaliate against the European Union (EU) if it fails to approve the

merger of General Electric and Honeywell International. In a letter

to European Commission (EC) vice president Loyola de Palacio,

Senator John Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia, said, " If

it appears that the European Commission is unfairly blocking mergers

between US companies principally to protect the position of European

competitors, then the subcommittee will need to re-examine the open

market the US has maintained for [aerospace] acquisitions. " In his

letter, Senator Rockefeller said the EC's review of the merger " will

raise serious concerns among Americans about whether this review has

been conducted with fairness and neutrality. "

 

Mr Rockefeller also wrote that US officials will " explore what might

be the most effective US response if the fairness and openness we

have historically extended to the European aerospace firms is not

being reciprocated. "

Source:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1399719.stm

 

Source for material quoted below:

Trading with the Enemy: The

Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949 Charles Higham Format: Hardcover,

277pp. ISBN: 0760700095 Publisher: Barnes and Noble Books

Pub. November 1995 " W.S.S. Rodgers " linked up with the

Rockefeller empire by going into Partnership with Harry D. Collier,

cheerful chairman of Standard Oil Of California and the former Jersey

Standard employee Jimmy Moffett. Rodgers formed Caltex, which jointly

bought up millions of dollars worth of oil from the arabian sea. The

banker was James S. Forrestal of the board of the Nazi General

Aniline and Film,who was about to become Under Secretary of the

Navy. Saudi

Arabia had intricate economic and political links with Hitler. On

June 8th,1939, Khalid Al0-Hud Al Qarqani, royal counselor of Ibn

Saud, was

received by Ribbentrop in Berlin. Ribbentrop expounded to Khalid his

general sympathy toward the arab world and pointed out that Germany

and the arabs were linked by a common foe in the shape of the Jews.

Khalid answered that Ibn Saud attached the greatest importance to

entering into Relations with Germany.Khalid…stressed that the King

hated the British, who Hemmed him in. By contrast, Khalid stated, Ibn

Saud was sympathetic toward Mussolini. The conversation ended with

salaams and Heil Hitlers. At 3:15 p.m. on June 17th,1939, Hitler

received Khalid Al-Hud at the Berghof. The reception was given

worldwide attention. As a result of it Emil Puhl and Walther Funk's

Reichsbank gave Ibn Saud a credit of one and a half million

Reichsmarks from Hitler's personal treasury for the purchase of 8,000

rifles, 8 million rounds of ammunition, light anti-aircraft guns,

armored cars, a special Merecedes for the king and The building for a

munitions factory. Soon after ard Emil Phul arranged a further loan

of 6 million marks that was paid in installments for the rest of the

war. " " On November 28th,1941...the Grand Mufti of Jeruslaem, among

the

bitterest enemies of the Jews, met with the Fuhrer in Berlin. The

Grand Mufti, with the authorization of the Arab world, expressed his

admiration of Hitler and named the same enemies: the English, the

Jews and the communists. He promised to guarantee assistance in war

by

acts of sabotage and revolution. He offered to raise the Arab Legion

from

all available Moslem men of military age "

 

Senator Rockefeller has become a harsh critic of the liberation of

Iraq.

He joins NBC assets Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, Phil

Donahue,and many

many other NBC assets, in that harsh criticism of the liberation of

Iraq.

 

Here is Rockefeller being quouted in

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030531/2003053114.html

 

" Sen. Rockefeller: no mass destruction weapons in Iraq

Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/31/2003 Senator Jay Rockefeller of West

Virginia, a member at the US intelligence committee doubted the

American allegation that there are mass destruction weapons in Iraq,

saying should these weapons exist, they would have been found.

 

Rockefeller added that if the US believed these weapons are hidden

and are difficult to find it, the thinking was that more time should

have been given to the UN inspectors before deciding to launch the

war against Iraq.

 

He said that the intelligence committee will press intelligence

officials for answers about the false allegations that were used

against Iraq. "

Source:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030531/2003053114.html

 

Whether it is Moran's home state of Virginia or neighboring West

Virginia

the " good old boys " from that part of the country seem not to have

faded away after all. When Democrats controlled the US Senate

Robert Byrd. a `former' Ku Klux Klansman, was an even bigger threat

than he is today. " AS ELECTED PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE UNITED

STATES SENATE, ROBERT

BYRD IS THIRD IN LINE TO SUCCEED THE PRESIDENT, FEW PEOPLE REALIZE

HOW

POWERFUL HE IS " read one of the many internet postings about Byrd.

Byrd's fellow West Virginia Senator is Jay Rockefeller, of the vast

Rockefeller family. Those 2 West Virginia Democrats are really good

examples of the need to make sure that Democrats do not regain

control of the US Senate. Nor would we want Byrd or Rockefeller to

become committee chairs, which they just well might if Democrats

regained control of the US Senate.

The name: " Mrs. Mohammad (Mona Byrd) Fatemi " may not be familiar to

many people. If you go to

http://byrd.senate.gov/biography/story/story.html

you will find that Mrs. Mohammad (Mona Byrd) Fatemi (of McLean,

Virginia), is a daughter of U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of

West Virginia

As it turns out Mohammad Fatemi " is a physicist at the Naval

Research Laboratory in Washington " .

Source:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?

res & #158;01E5D81E31F937A35756C0A961958260

Then of course there is one " Fariborz Fatemi Former staff member

Senate foreign relations committee McLean, Virginia, USA " source:

www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1028842,00.html

Here is a bit of what you will find If you look a bit at the rabidly

anti-Israel Congresswoman

" Rep. Marcy Kaptur

(OH-09)

2104 Rayburn HOB

Washington, D.C. 20515

T: 202-225-4146

F: 202-225-7711

Contact- Fariborz Fatemi "

Fariborz Fatemi was listed as the contact for her office.

Fariborz Fatemi, McLean, Virginia, USA, is also listed as a " Former

staff member of the U.S. Senate foreign relations committee.

Fatemi is also a donor to anti-Israel politicians, for example:

" FATEMI, FAIRBORZMC LEAN,VA 22101 (occupation) CONSULTANT

date of campaign contribution: 5/31/2002 amount of

campaign contribution:$1,000 recipient of campaign

contribution:Torricelli, Robert G

source: http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?

NumOfThou=0 & txtNameútemi & txtState=VA & txtZip= & txtEmploy= & txtCand= & tx

t2006=Y & txt2004=Y & txt2002=Y & Order=N

FATEMI, FARIBORZ SMCLEAN,VA 22209 (occupation)REP MARCY KAPTUR

date of campaigncontribution 12/19/1997 amount of campaign

contribution $250 recipient of campaigncontribution Pascrell,

William J Jr

source: http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?

NumOfThou=0 & txtNameútemi & txtState=VA & txtZip= & txtEmploy= & txtCand= & tx

t2000=Y & txt1998=Y & Order=N

FATEMI, FARIBORZ SMCLEAN,VA 22181 (occupation)US HOUSE date

of campaign contribution 10/7/1996 amount of campaign

contribution $250 recipient of campaign contributionPascrell,

William J Jr

source:

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?

NumOfThou=0 & txtNameútemi & txtState=VA & txtZip= & txtEmploy= & txtCand= & tx

t1994=Y & txt1996=Y & Order=N

 

" October 3, 2002 Robert C. Byrd was the

only Senator in the 100-member chamber to vote against opening debate

on the Iraq question. The Senate has opened debate on Joint

Resolution

46, a resolution authorizing the President to use whatever force he

deems necessary in Iraq or elsewhere. Byrd was first elected to the

Senate in 1958 and has now served for 44 years. " Of course Byrd has a

long record in such matters.

Ultra-right-wing extremst and notorious anti-Israel CNN Crossfire

co-host Robert Novak, interviewing Colin Powell, of all people,

quoted

his fellow anti-Israel lunatic Senator Robert Byrd:

" MR. NOVAK: Mr. Secretary, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the

president pro tem of the Senate, often speaks his mind. He did this

week, and we'll put it up on the screen. He said, " If we expect to

kill every terrorist in the world, that's going to keep us going

beyond doomsday. How long can we afford this? "

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2002/8624.htm

How long could the terrorists afford to continue to be wiped out by

the US government we wonder? Well I guess that question never

occurred

to Byrd or to the online Egyptian newspaper AL-AHRAM which used the

same quote from Byrd. Clearly Byrd hates the idea of wiping out arab

terrorists.

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/576/re74.htm

Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Al-Ahram Weekly

Online 7 - 13 March 2002 Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia: " If we

expect to kill every terrorist in the world, that's going to keep us

going beyond doomsday, " he said. " How long can we afford this? " The

thing is, though clearly Byrd, Novak, and Al Ahram aren't interested,

is that we cannot afford not to continue to go after terrorists like

arafat and bin Laden and their master Saddam Hussein. All of whom we

guess must be among Byrd's and Novak's biggest fans. THIS FROM AN

ANTI-ISRAEL SOURCE: " only Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) had a perfect

record of zero compliance with recommendations of the American Israel

Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Israel's principal Washington, DC

lobby. " Quite a turn of phrase there, in case it slipped by you, the

anti-Israel source quoted immediately above used the

word " compliance "

, a buzz-word among classical anti-Semites in their " vast Jewish

conspiracy " theories.

THIS FROM a very different sort of source entirely: " Friends, if ever

there was a definitive list of the anti-Israel members of Congress,

we

have it now. It's the 23 members-two in the Senate and 21 in the

House-who voted against yesterday's House and Senate resolutions of

support for Israel. If you are a U.S. citizen and contribute to

political campaigns in the U.S., you may want to contribute to the

opponents of the members below, regardless of party, so long as these

incumbents' opponents are pro-Israel. If you don't or can't

contribute

to campaigns, please feel free to forward this list to anyone who

might. No other issue and no U.S. political party allegiance is more

important in these times than the safety and security of Eretz

Yisrael. (the land of Israel) The New York Times, Friday, May 3, 2002

Following is a list of legislators who voted " No " on yesterday's

resolutions of support for Israel:

SENATORS VOTING " NO " (2)

Robert Byrd, Dem., W.Va. ,

Ernest Hollings, Dem.S.C.

HOUSE MEMBERS VOTING " NO " (21)

Neil Abercrombie, Dem., Hawaii,

David E. Bonior, Dem., Mich.,

Rick Boucher, Dem., Va.,

Gary A. Condit, Dem., Calif.,

John Conyers Jr.,Dem., Mich.,

Peter A. DeFazio, Dem., Ore.,

John D. Dingell, Dem., Mich.,

Earl F. Hilliard, Dem., Ala.,

Jay Inslee, Dem., Wash.,

Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Dem., Ill.

(Please note this is Jesse Jacksons son),

Gerald D.Kleczka, Dem., Wisc.,

Barbara Lee, Dem., Calif.,

Cynthia A. McKinney,Dem., Ga.,

George Miller, Dem., Calif.,

David R. Obey, Dem., Wisc.,

Ron Paul, Rep., Tex.,

Thomas E. Petri, Rep., Wisc.,

Nick J. Rahall II, Dem.,W.Va.,

Dana Rohrabacher, Rep., Calif.,

Nick Smith, Rep., Mich.,

Fortney Pete Stark, Dem., Calif.,

Here yet another internet posting tracks the terrorists' best friend

on

Capitol Hill, Robert Byrd: " Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002 Sen. Byrd Gripes

About War on Terror Senator Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., the famous former

Ku

Klux Klansman, complained today, " There's no end in sight in our

mission in Afghanistan. " The remarks " were among the harshest in

Congress yet about the anti-terrorism campaign, " the Associated Press

noted today. Long ago saddled with the nickname Senator Pork for his

notoriously wasteful squandering of taxpayer dollars, Byrd controls

spending legislation as chairman of the Senate Appropriations

Committee. Though he loves bringing boondoggle make-work projects

home

to West Virginia, he has begun expressing reluctance about footing

the bill for ending terrorism. " Byrd's obstructionism to fighting

terrorists like arafat and bin Laden and their master: Saddam

Hussein,

seems to have no bounds, " Thursday, October 10, 2002 By a 66-31 vote,

the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. Robert Byrd D-W.Va. - the

most outspoken Senate opponent of the war resolution - that would

have ended the authorization for him to use force against Iraq after

two years. " Fortunately a number of people on and off the net have

been keeping track of the terrorists' best friend on Capitol Hill, US

Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, for instance: " WHY AM I NOT

SURPRISED? Finally, Congress has somewhat meekly voiced its support

for Israel. The Senate version of the bill was symbolic and largely

omitted language from the House which placed blame on Arafat. Despite

the watering down in the Senate, two members voted against it: " The

two most senior Democrats, Sens. Robert Byrd of West Virginia and

Ernest " Fritz " Hollings of South Carolina, still opposed it, however

Byrd is a former Klansman. " http://opinionated.blogspot.com/

" This ex-Klansman wasn't just a passive member of the nation's most

notorious hate group. According to news accounts and biographical

information, Sen. Byrd was a " Kleagle " -an official recruiter who

signed up members for $10 a head. He said he joined because it

" offered excitement " and because the Klan was an " effective force " in

" promoting traditional American values. " Nothing like the thrill of

gathering `round a midnight bonfire, , tying nooses, and promoting

white supremacy with a bunch of your hooded friends. The ex-Klansman

allegedly ended his ties with the group in 1943. He may have stopped

paying dues, but he continued to pay homage to the KKK. (someone) in

West Virginia discovered a letter Sen. Byrd had written to the

Imperial Wizard of the KKK three years after he says he abandoned the

group. He wrote: " The Klan is needed today as never before and I am

anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia " and " in every state

in the Union. " The ex-Klansman later filibustered the landmark 1964

Civil Rights Act-for more than 14 hours. He also opposed the

nominations of the Supreme Court's two black justices, liberal

Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas. Meanwhile, author

Graham Smith recently discovered another letter Sen. Byrd wrote after

he quit the KKK, this time attacking desegregation of the armed

forces. The ex-Klansman vowed never to fight " with a Negro by my

side.

Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in

the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours

become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest

specimen from the wilds. "

http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2001/march/mm_byrd_kkk.htm

" One of the most influential Nazi spies in the U.S. was Dr. Walter

Becher, an anti-Communist " refugee leader " from the Hitler regime.

Becher joined the Nazi Party in December, 1931, and became an editor

of Die Zeit, a Nazi propaganda sheet in 1937. He was a Brown-Shirt

for

a spell and a member of the National Socialist Student Bund. He

editorialized for the purge of all Jews from state-owned radio in

Prague. During the war, Becher worked in the Goebbels Propaganda

Ministry and for the Wehrmacht as a war correspondent. Soon after the

war, he founded a newspaper in Germany that agitated for the

restoration of National Socialism. Becher had his advocates in

Washington, D.C. In 1957, Congressman Usher Burdick inserted one of

Dr. Becher's propaganda pieces in the Congressional Record, and in

August 1959, seven more appeared in the pages of the Record. When he

junketed to the States, conferences were arranged for him by the

State

Department. His geopolitical opinions were trumpeted by scores of

newspapers and the Mutual Broadcasting Network's 600 affiliates.

Dr. Becher's early contacts in Washington were McCarthy and William

Jenner in the Senate, and a handful of congressmen in the House. T.H.

Tetens in The New Germany and the Old Nazis, was awed by the Nazi's

camaraderie with Beltway politicians, and tracked his movements

through the District of Columbia: " During the early fifties, when he

first came to Washington, he began to build for himself a formidable

political machine. His scheme was very simple. If he could obtain the

support of leading politicians in the United States, his prestige and

stature would grow enormously at home.... With the help of the

McCarthy faction in the United States, he could establish a

nationwide

reputation as the foremost leader of the anti-Communist crusade. "

Among the senators who sent personal letters of support to Dr. Becher

in Munich in the 1950s:…Robert Byrd. " . Below excerpted from

Committee contributions - BYRD, ROBERT C

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" Senate Asks Clinton to Oppose

Palestinian Declaration

12 March, 1999

JERUSALEM (CNS) - The U.S. Senate

Thursday overwhelmingly approved a

resolution asking President Bill

Clinton to oppose a unilateral

declaration of an independent

Palestinian state.

" The president should unequivocally

assert United States' opposition

to the unilateral declaration of a

Palestinian

state ... and that a declared state

would not be recognized by the

United States, " the resolution said.

Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) was the

only dissenter in the 98-1 vote. "

" Senator Robert Byrd former Ku Klux Klan Grand Kleagle "

" When Congress recently passed a

resolution in support of Israel and our " common struggle against

terrorism, " the only two

dissenting votes in the Senate were Democrats - Senators Robert Byrd

of West Virginia and

Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. Later, Hollings, seemingly just to

remind us that he is just as

anti-Israel as Byrd has always been, "

" Senate Expressing Solidarity with Israel in its

Fight Against Terrorism

5/2/2002

On the Amendment 05/02/2002

Senate Roll Call No. 102

107th Congress, 2nd Session

By 94 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No. 102), Reid (for Lieberman) Amendment

No. 3389 (to Amendment No. 3387), to express solidarity with Israel

in

its fight against terrorism.

The two senators who voted against

solidarity with Israel:

Ernest Hollings (D-SC) and Robert Byrd (D-WV) "

" Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor

Arutz-7 News Brief: Friday, March 12, 1999

 

Arutz Sheva News Service

<http://www.a7.org>

Friday, Mar. 12, 1999 / Adar 25, 5759

SENATE AGAINST UNILATERAL ARAFAT DECLARATION The American Senate

voted

almost unanimously last night to oppose a unilateral declaration of

independence by Yasser Arafat and the PLO. " The president should

unequivocally assert United States opposition to the unilateral

declaration of a Palestinian state... and that a declared state would

not be recognized by the United States, " read the resolution. Only

one

Senator - Robert Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia - voted against,

while 98 voted in favor. " The following is excerpted from a

virulently anti-Israel website calling itself: " Washington Report on

Middle East Affairs " which ran a typically virulent anti-Israel

piece excerpted from below, which lauded Murtha and his anti-Israel

colleagues in Congress in December of 2000 c.e.

" House of Representatives Condemns and Threatens Palestinians

By Shirl McArthur

Of the several bills introduced in the House and the Senate by

Israel's sycophants threatening to cut off aid to a unilaterally

declared Palestinian state, one, introduced by Gilman, was passed by

the House on Sept. 26 by a roll-call vote of 385-27, with four

voting " present. " Like the resolution described above condemning the

Palestinians, this bill was only symbolic because it has not been

passed by the Senate. The 31 who either voted against the bill or

abstained were, voting no: Reps. Bonior, Julia Carson (D-IN), Clay,

Clayton, Conyers, Pat Danner (D-MO), Dingell, Hilliard, Jesse

Jackson Jr., Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), Lee, Jim McDermott (D-

WA), McKinney, George Miller (D-CA), Moran, John Murtha (D-PA),

David Obey (D-WI), Payne, Rahall, Martin Sabo (D-MN), Serrano,

Stark, Sununu, Jim Traficant (D-OH), Waters, and Watt. Abstaining

were Reps. Michael Capuano (D-MA), DeFazio, Kucinich, and Rivers. "

DECEMBER 2000

" Shirl McArthur, a retired foreign service officer, is a consultant

based in the Washington, DC area "

source: http://www.wrmea.com/archives/Dec_2000/0012017.html

Murtha has long been the darling of the hate Israel crowd. Here's

another

bit by Murtha on the old anti-Israel big lie about the USS Liberty,

a favorite big lie of the hate Israel gang the source of this APRIL

2000 item was http://www.washington-

report.org/archives/April_2000/0004072.html

" Representative Murtha's Reply To Mr. Ackerman

To Mr. Robert L. Ackerman, New Alexandria, PA, Nov. 24, 1999.

Your postcard is very much appreciated, and I thank you for your

comments and observations on the USS Liberty.

Mr. Ackerman, I well remember this incident, though I didn't realize

there had never been a full investigation. I'll check with the

Defense Department on what records and information they maintain,

and I'll also ask the Library of Congress to track down for me any

information they can find on investigations done independently.

If there's something beneficial to learn from a reinvestigation of

this event, Mr. Ackerman, I'm glad to pursue it in the interests of

U.S. security policy. The strength and security of U.S. defense

policy and personnel are always my top priorities, Mr. Ackerman, and

I'm glad to try and help reach this goal.

Thank you again very much for contacting me, and all best wishes.

Representative John P. Murtha, House of Representatives, Washington,

DC "

source: APRIL 2000 http://www.washington-

report.org/archives/April_2000/0004072.html

Now for an excerpt from a piece dated January February 1998 source:

http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0198/9801024.htm

from the same anti-Israel website praising Murtha among others for

voting against a bill which had sought to stop Iran from getting

missiles capable hitting Israel, and other targets of Iran, with

weapons of mass destruction. Murtha was actually able to overcome

his normal intense hostility to China, lots of Muirtha's top

contributors are either lobbyists for Taiwan, or arms manufacturers

who supply Taiwan with weapons, since in this instance China, (and

Russia), have been supplying arms to Iran, and since Israel is a

likely target of those weapons, Murtha and his pals in Congress were

happy to jump in on Iran's side against Israel.

Here's the excerpt:

" Congress Keeps Pressure on Iran

By Shirl McArthur

In early October, three separate anti-Iran resolutions that had been

languishing in committee since their introduction in early July were

resurrected. The first two, Senate Resolution 48 and House

Resolution 121, were identical and aimed at stopping alleged missile

technology exports from Russia to Iran. The resolutions urge Clinton

to " demand " that Russia take action to stop governmental and non-

governmental entities in Russia from providing missile technology

and technological advice to Iran, and, if Russia's response is

inadequate, to impose sanctions on the offending entities and

to " reassess cooperative activities with Russia. " Sen. Jesse Helms's

Foreign Relations Committee considered S.R. 48 on Oct. 8, referred

it to the full Senate on Nov. 4, and the Senate passed it by voice

vote on Nov. 7.

Meanwhile, in the House, Gilman's International Relations Committee

brought up H.R. 121 on Oct. 9, and issued several press releases

denouncing both Russia and Iran. At about that same time, Gilman

resurrected his earlier resolution, H.R. 188, denouncing China for

providing Iran with C-802 cruise missiles, calling this

a " destabilizing " violation of the Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation

Act of 1992, and urging the Clinton administration to impose

sanctions under the act. Suddenly, however, Gilman got the idea of

combining the two resolutions. The operative portions of H.R. 121

were folded into H.R. 188 on Nov. 6, and it was passed the same day

by roll-call vote, 414-8, with 11 not voting. The eight congressmen

who voted against H.R. 188 were Reps. Lee Hamilton (D-IN), Amo

Houghton (R-NY), E.B. Johnson (D-TX), John LaFalce (D-NY), Jim Moran

(D-VA), John Murtha (D-PA), David Skaggs (D-CO), and Sidney Yates (D-

IL). "

Here's another example of Murtha, Moran and their pals, hard at work

against Israel.

From the October 1996 item titled: " Special Report A Look at the

104th Congress by Shirl McArthur "

Here's the excerpt from the McArthur piece:

" In the interest of space the accompanying table lists only those

congressmen who, in our opinion, were on the side of justice and the

U.S. national interest by voting against moving the Embassy to

Jerusalem (A) or by supporting lifting the travel ban on Lebanon (B)

or by urging humanitarian aid for Lebanon. Only 8

representatives (4 from Michigan) and 2 senators show up in all

three columns. About the same number of representatives (9) but

several more senators (11) appear in two columns. " Murtha and Moran

are among those praised for their anti-Israel votes in the McArthur

piece at:

http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1096/9610035.htm

On other topics, Murtha said: China is " eating our lunch "

economically;

source: http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_417696.html

" Congressman's Son Held on Drug Charges (November 2, 1991)

The son of a powerful Congressman was arrested Thursday on charges

of possessing crack and selling the drug to an undercover police

officer, the authorities said today.

The suspect is John M. Murtha, 33-year-old son of Representative

John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who heads the House

Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.

The younger Mr. Murtha was arrested with eight other people in this

western Pennsylvania town, which is part of his father's district,

and is being held on $20,000 bond.

The drug sweep in which he was seized resulted from a six-month

investigation into crack dealing in the Greensburg area, said the

town's Police Chief, Ray Attenberger.

Mr. Murtha was convicted on burglary charges in 1978 and 1979 in the

Johnstown area. In a statement issued after his latest arrest, his

father said that " he's struggled with a lot of personal problems for

15 years " and that the Congressman and his wife, Joyce, " feel

terrible about it. "

source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?

res0CE2DB1F38F931A35752C1A967958260 & sec= & pagewanted=print

 

 

excerpted from: THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

DATE: Thursday, August 4, 1994

SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A4 EDITION: FINAL

SOURCE: By Frank Greve, Knight-Ridder News Service

 

 

…QUESTIONABLE GRANTS

John Murtha, who is not a rich man, gave his alma mater nearly $100

million last year.

His secret: The money was yours.

Murtha, an 11-term western Pennsylvania Democratic congressman,

quietly slipped his gifts into the huge defense appropriations bill

passed by the powerful House subcommittee he chairs.

" Academic pork " is the name of his game….

Sometimes it's hard to know just what America's political

philanthropists are up to. Leon Haley, top spokesman for the

University of Pittsburgh, Murtha's alma mater, says he knows " almost

nothing " about how the $99,600,000 in grants to the school included

in the 1994 appropriation are being spent.

 

" Nobody knew what the h—l to do with it, " recalls Lawrence Korb, a

former top Pentagon official whose advice was sought by a friend,

the university's president, when Murtha first offered the money.

Most of the money actually is going to Concurrent Technologies

Corp., a subsidiary of the University of Pittsburgh Trust. Both are

nonprofit corporations used to fund academic research by faculty

members and others.

 

According to a CTC brochure, its research is focused on

metalworking, manufacturing software and anti-pollution systems. CTC

is based in Johnstown, Pa., Murtha's hometown, 80 miles east of the

university's main campus.

 

Generous senior House and Senate Appropriations Committee members

like Murtha are behind the successes of the universities and states

that have won the most academic pork since 1980.

Pennsylvania is far out in front with an estimated $377,238,000,

....The congressional handouts - called earmarks - are specific

spending orders

by Congress's most powerful figures. They involve outlays not called

for in the

president's budget and generally made without debate on the merits

of the

spending.

 

Pennsylvania dominates the earmark game because Joseph McDade of

Scranton, another Pennsylvanian enthusiastic about academic pork, is

the ranking Republican on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee

that Murtha chairs. Together, they can steer just about anything

through the House. "

ACADEMIC PORK

Sources: Library of Congress, Chronicle of Higher Education

For copy of graphic, see microfilm

KEYWORDS: U.S. CONGRESS EDUCATION FUNDING

source: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-

Pilot/issues/1994/vp940804/08040543.htm

 

 

" University Times

VOLUME 27 NUMBER 5 OCTOBER 27, 1994

University of Pittsburgh

 

 

Connolly named chairperson-designate of Pitt trustees

J.W. Connolly, retired senior vice president of H.J. Heinz Co. and a

Pitt law

alumnus, was elected chairperson-designate of the Board of Trustees

at the

board's Oct. 21 meeting....

Connolly originally was elected to the Board of Trustees in May 1985

as one of

the board's first special trustees. After two terms as a special

trustee, he was

elected a term trustee in June 1991. He has served on several board

committees,

including the public affairs, audit, and budget

committees....Connolly currently

is a director of Presbyterian University Hospital and the University

of

Pittsburgh Medical Center System....* Concurrent Technologies Corp.

(CTC) of

Johnstown has severed its ties to the University of Pittsburgh

Trust,...

However, ... Pitt faculty and students, especially at the Johnstown

campus, will

continue to participate in CTC research.

....the boards of CTC and the University Trust agreed to the

separation mainly in

response to new federal government regulations that severely

restricted federal

funding to institutions such as CTC that are perceived to be

supervised or

operated by universities....

Pitt's reputation has suffered from the " erroneous perception that

the

University of Pittsburgh was directly receiving CTC's funding " from

the U.S.

Department of Defense.... " a widely circulated bulletin stated that

Pitt was the

big winner in the pork barrel competition this year, receiving $70

million in

so-called earmarked federal funding. The University does not need

this type of

publicity...

-- Bruce Steele

 

Source:http://www.pitt.edu/utimes/issues/27/102794/24.html

 

 

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(A fictional account of the day the world ends.)

If your research leads you to believe that Murtha, Moran, or others

may have

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" We have a situation where our military is in such bad shape, it

couldn't deploy to a second front, " Murtha said. " And the Iranians

know this. North Korea knows it. China knows it. We're depleting

our resources in Iraq. "

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10774136/from/RSS/

Murtha: Give Dean DNC chair

By Hans Nichols

January 5, 2005 Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) is actively lobbying

Democratic National Committee (DNC) delegates to select former

Vermont Gov. Howard Dean as their next chairman.

 

The endorsement...

signals a rehabilitation of Dean's image in the House and

greatly increases his prospects of leading the party, many

Democratic lawmakers and aides said.

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) is writing letters in support of Howard

Dean.

At Dean's request, Murtha wrote to Pennsylvania's seven delegates to

the DNC last week explaining why he is endorsing... " (DEAN) " Murtha

said he contacted Dean to tell him of his

support. " We're thrilled that Murtha has decided to endorse us....

Rep. Barney Frank is calling Massachusetts delegates on

behalf of his onetime House colleague, former Rep. Martin Frost (D-

Texas), who was defeated Nov. 2.In a late-breaking development,

former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk bowed out of the race yesterday evening

and endorsed former Frost.Frost also appears to have the respect of

many of his former colleagues in the House, if not the unvarnished

support. Many said that Frost's obvious command of politics on every

level and understanding of House Democrats' goals would serve him

will as DNC chairman.One Democratic lawmaker who admitted that he

and Frost had crossed swords in the past said that Frost " is just

too smart not to take seriously. " Another lawmaker added, " Tom DeLay

wants to chip away at the Jewish vote, both in terms of voting and

fundraising, and Martin Frost " (who happens to be Jewish) " is not

going to let that happen. " Meanwhile, many House lawmakers said they

thought that the

House minority leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was clearly

leaning in favor of former Rep. Tim Roemer (D-Ind.). While Pelosi

has shied away from an overt endorsement,lawmakers said that in

private conversations she is always pushing for Roemer. " She's always

asking, `Well, what do you think about Roemer?' " one lawmaker said.

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/010505/m

urtha.html

 

" [ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 8/3/02 ]

" Some McKinney donors probed for terror ties By BILL TORPY

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer Rep. Cynthia McKinney is

backed by many Islamic individuals and groups. Rep. Cynthia

McKinney's re-election campaign has accepted contributions from

several people who have come under federal investigation for

suspected

links to Middle Eastern terrorists or have voiced support for

extremist groups. The outspoken DeKalb County Democrat, a frequent

critic of U.S. Middle East policy, has long drawn Arab and Muslim

financial support. Most of McKinney's individual donors listed on

disclosure reports in 2001 and this year have Arabic names and live

out of state. According to a review of federal campaign disclosure

records, they include:

Abdurahman Alamoudi, leader of a Muslim organization, who during a

2000 rally outside the White House expressed support for the violent

Palestinian group Hamas and for Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite party

linked to bombings. The controversy surrounding his comments caused

Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and George W. Bush's

presidential campaign to return his contributions. A professor who

was

jailed in 1998 on contempt charges for refusing to answer a grand

jury's questions about alleged money-laundering links to Hamas. Five

businessmen whose homes or businesses were searched in March during

an

FBI raid investigating financial links to terrorism. Another was an

officer in one of the groups under investigation, according to

Federal

Election Commission reports. Bill Banks, manager of McKinney's

re-election campaign, said this week that the congresswoman was not

aware that any of her donors might support terrorist activities, or

have ties to organizations involved with terrorism. The McKinney

campaign reported most of those contributions as having come Sept.

11,

the date of the terror attacks in New York and Washington. FEC

spokeswoman Kelly Huff said the date listed on disclosure reports is

supposed to be, by law, the date the campaign received the money. But

FEC officials said it was up to the campaign to document the proper

date. Banks said the campaign accepted contributors' money believing

" in good faith that they are law-abiding citizens. If you did an

investigation of everyone who gave money, people would stop giving. "

McKinney is locked in what a poll released this week shows to be a

virtual dead heat against former DeKalb County State Court Judge

Denise Majette in the Aug. 20 Democratic primary. Majette declined to

comment Friday on McKinney's fund-raising. McKinney caused a tempest

earlier this year by suggesting President Bush knew the Sept. 11

attacks were coming but did nothing so his associates could make

money

in the ensuing war. And last October, she also caused controversy for

apologizing to a Saudi prince whose $10 million donation for terror

victims was rejected by New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The prince

had laid part of the blame for the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. policy.

The following week, McKinney collected $32,150 in a fund-raiser, her

best fund-raising day in 2001.

McKinney's support for Arab causes is well known. The Council on

American-Islamic Relations, an Islamic advocacy group whose director

was named on the Sept. 11 listing as giving McKinney $500, recently

asked members to support her. " She is our strategic choice. Pro-

Muslim

candidate. Supporter of Palestinian state for over seven years.

Against secret evidence. Against aid to Israel. "

Steven Emerson, who runs a private counterterrorist institute in

Washington, called McKinney's contributors " the A list of militant

Islamic front groups. " Two years ago, Emerson warned a Senate

committee about increasing terrorist activity in America, sometimes

in

the name of charity. Alamoudi, the president of the American Muslim

Foundation who expressed support for Hamas and Hezbollah, gave the

maximum allowable contribution of $2,000.

Clinton, then a Democratic Senate candidate in New York, returned the

$1,000 Alamoudi gave her after her opponent called the

donation " blood

money. " Her spokesman, explaining the decision to return the money,

said, " Hillary is a strong supporter of peace and security for

Israel. " Reps. James Moran (D-Va.) and David Bonior (D-Mich.),

Republican Senate candidate John Sununu of New Hampshire and the Bush

presidential campaign all have returned Alamoudi's contributions

since

last fall.

Alamoudi did not return phone calls seeking comment. Another donor,

Abdelhaleem Ashqar, now a Howard University professor, who gave $250,

was jailed for six months in 1998 after refusing to testify before a

federal grand jury investigating money laundering in the United

States

by Hamas. Ashqar told the grand jury that he would not testify

because

the information would be " used against my friends, family and

colleagues in the Palestinian liberation movement. " He was never

charged with a crime and did not return phone calls seeking comment.

Six of McKinney's donors were officers with companies and

organizations that are under investigation.

On March 20 and 21, Treasury agents served warrants on the Herndon

Va.-based Saar Foundation, Safa Trust, the International Institute of

Islamic Thought and 13 other locations. The groups are part of a

Saudi-based financial empire that U.S. investigators say has handled

$1.7 billion since the mid-1990s, allegedly sending some of it to

groups that authorities have linked to terrorists, The Washington

Post

reported. No charges have been filed in that investigation.

Listed as McKinney donors on Sept. 11 are M. Yaqub Mirza, Mohamed

Omeish and Ahmad Totonji.

Federal agents in March searched the offices of Mirza, who

contributed

$500. The former president of Saar, Mirza was the central figure in

the interlocking multinational corporations being investigated. He is

the president of Mar-Jac, which includes investment firms and a North

Georgia poultry plant, which also was searched in March. He did not

return phone calls seeking comment.

Omeish is president of Success Foundation, a refugee relief

organization whose office was searched in March. He is listed as

having given $500. Omeish said investigators returned computers taken

from his office. Totonji, founder of Saar and the IIIT, gave $1,000.

Federal agents carted away numerous computers from his offices in the

March raid. Two weeks later, on Sept. 26, Jamal Barzinji, Taha

Alalwani of Herndon, Va., and Hisham Al Talib of California all gave

$500 to McKinney's campaign, according to FEC records. Barzinji, a

business associate of Mirza's, is also president of Mar-Jac Poultry

in

Gainesville. Alalwani is a founder of the IIIT and Al Talib, was the

treasurer for Safa and the IIIT vice president. "

Father of Ousted McKinney Spells Defeat `J-E-W-S'

By ELI KINTISCH

FORWARD STAFF

ATLANTA — The father of Rep. Cynthia McKinney is blaming Jews for

her defeat in Georgia's Democratic primary, but observers said that

Tuesday's outcome had less to do with dueling donations from pro-

Israel and pro-Palestinian activists than with high Republican

turnout in the open primary and tepid support from black voters and

congressmen.

The pro-Palestinian McKinney, a five-term incumbent, was upset by

Denise Majette in a race featuring two black candidates. The race's

much touted fund-raising fight mirrored a June election in which

longtime Rep. Earl Hilliard, backed by Arab donors from across the

country, lost Alabama's Democratic primary to Artur Davis, an

opponent heavily financed by Jewish donors nationwide. Majette

received more than $1 million in donations from supporters — many

Jewish — while Arab Americans also increased their historically

strong support of McKinney. But in the end, McKinney's polarizing

personality seemed the difference, as whites, Jews and Republicans

voted in droves, while African-American turnout was relatively tepid.

" It looks like the Republicans wanted to beat me more than the

Democrats wanted to keep me, " McKinney said in a concession speech

around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday. Majette defeated McKinney 58% to 42%,

with all but one precinct accounted for.

But her father, civil-rights stalwart and DeKalb County community

leader Billy McKinney, pointed a finger at her pro-Israel critics.

When asked by a local television reporter what the election had

hinged on, he responded: " J-E-W-S. "

In a press release, Anti-Defamation League southeast director

Deborah Lauter condemned Billy McKinney's remark, calling

it " classic antisemitism. " He caused a similar stir in 1996 after

calling his daughter's opponent a " racist Jew, " a comment Cynthia

McKinney repudiated.

Considered the most outspoken liberal in Congress, McKinney had

trounced white, black and women candidates in five previous

elections by relying on massive support in south DeKalb County, a

predominantly black area. But in Majette, McKinney found her

strongest challenger yet, a Democrat with nearly 20 years under her

belt as a local judge. One of the first black women to graduate from

Yale, Majette will face a Republican challenger in the fall with a

distinct advantage since the district's registered voters are

overwhelmingly Democratic.

Majette, who expressed her support of Israel during the campaign

when asked about the Middle East, generally avoided foreign policy

issues on the campaign trail, instead highlighting her own

credentials and questioning McKinney's ability to help the

district. " The issue I think for a lot of people was the 10-year

record of my opponent, " Majette said. " The people in the district

are really focused on the schools, hospitals and jobs here in

DeKalb. "

The race saw Georgia's 4th District, comprised almost entirely of

DeKalb County, bitterly divided, as white Republicans rushed to the

polls to oust McKinney. Republican voters also played a major role

in ousting Georgia's other controversial long-time congressman, Bob

Barr, a conservative lawmaker who led the push to impeach former

president Bill Clinton. In a Republican primary in which

redistricting forced a face-off between two incumbents , Barr was

easily defeated by Rep. John Linder.

In the days leading up to Georgia's Democratic primary Nation of

Islam leader Louis Farrakhan repeatedly blamed the American Israel

Public Affairs Committee for McKinney's troubles, though it was

unclear whether the result would harm relations between blacks and

Jews, two of the Democratic Party's key constituencies.

Several observers said it was likely that the reverberation would be

slight due to lopsided nature of McKinney's defeat and the

relatively low level of support that she received from her black

colleagues in Congress.

According to the political newsletter Hotline, while 31 members of

the Congressional Black Caucus gave donations to help Hilliard in

June, only 16 members supported McKinney in her primary fight.

Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, whose district includes

Harlem, wasn't ruling out aftershocks, but he was confident that

blacks and Jews wouldn't turn on one another. " I think we should

continue to talk about the things we agree on, rather than the

disagreements, " Rangel said.

 

Despite relatively weak support from her congressional colleagues,

McKinney was joined on the campaign trail by several prominent black

leaders, including Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King III,

Al Sharpton and Walter Fauntroy, a legendary civil rights leader and

former head of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Among leaders of mainstream Jewish groups, McKinney was considered a

more controversial member of Congress than other black lawmakers on

the left. Along with her support of the Palestinian cause, McKinney

refused in 1994 to condemn a fiery speech by a Nation of Islam

spokesman, the late Khalid Muhammed. More recently, she also

infuriated otherwise indifferent Republicans in her district when

she suggested that President Bush might have known about September

11 before it happened, and possibly profited from it.

Last October, after New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani returned a $10

million gift to the city from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after

the prince criticized Israel in published comments, McKinney issued

a public letter supporting the prince, asking that he donate the

money to black charities.

In May, along with Hilliard, McKinney was one of 5 of the 36 voting

members of the Congressional Black Caucus to oppose a pro-Israel

resolution that put the bulk of the blame for the conflict on the

Palestinians. McKinney said the measure would " undermine America's

vital role as peacemaker " ...Democratic institutional support for

McKinney, who has been a solid member of the Democratic caucus in

the House, was weak. In the Hilliard race the Democratic

Congressional Campaign Committee took much heat for its financial

support of the five-term incumbent, with some asking why the

committee was using resources on a solidly Democratic district. In

this race, the committee, whose function is to help increase the

Democratic ranks in the House, stayed out.

The committee declined to comment on the McKinney race, but Rangel,

who donated $5,000 to her campaign, said: " Some Republicans and

Democrats support incumbents, and others don't. " Rangel is board

chair of the committee.

Democratic House Whip Nancy Pelosi of California also donated $5,000

to McKinney's effort.

National Jewish Democratic Committee executive director Ira Forman

declined to comment on Pelosi's funding. But a Jewish Republican

activist slammed Democratic support of McKinney.

" For the Democrats and the NJDC and other groups to remain silent is

an abdication of their responsibility, " the activist said. Pelosi's

office did not return a call for comment.

Several thousand of DeKalb County's Jews were transferred into

Democrat John Lewis's district in the 2000 redistricting after

complaining about McKinney to their state senator, but a few

thousand remained.... most Jewish residents and pro-Israel activists

rejected McKinney's rhetoric and condemned her recent backing from

Farrakhan. " I found Farrakhan's involvement as offensive as Michael

Lerner's, " Schneier said.

McKinney was the ninth incumbent to be ousted in a House primary

this year. Weeks before the election, some McKinney supporters urged

the legislator to wage a write-in campaign leading up to the

November general election. But McKinney campaign officials reached

at press time said they haven't considered it. "

http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.08.23/news2.html

" McKinney voted NO on Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China.

(May 2000)

McKinney voted NO MFN for China; (Nov 1999) "

http://www.issues2000.org/GA/Cynthia_McKinney.htm

We are sad to report that McKinney is back in Congress.

Her website is at:

http://www.house.gov/mckinney/

 

PM Sharon's Knesset Speech Against Anti-Semitism 26-Jan-2005

26/01/2005 17:13:04

 

For the second year, we mark the day commemorating the State of

Israel's

struggle against anti-Semitism. We chose to mark this day of struggle

against

anti-Semitism on the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau

death camp,

that horrible symbol of the Holocaust.

 

The allies knew of the annihilation of the Jews. They knew and did

nothing. On

April 19, 1943, the Bermuda Conference gathered, with the

participation of

representatives from Britain and the United States, in order to

discuss saving

the Jews of Europe. In fact, the participants did everything in their

power to

avoid dealing with the problem. All the suggestions for rescue

operations which

the Jewish organizations presented were rejected. They simply did not

want to

deal with it.

 

The Bermuda Conference was nothing more than a continuation of the

shocking

story of the " Ship of the Damned, " the Saint Louis, which set sail

from Germany

in 1939 with 1,000 Jews who had succeeded in escaping from the Third

Reich on

board. The passengers knocked on the doors of Cuba and ports in the

eastern

United States, but were refused sanctuary and were forced to return

to the

shores of Europe. Most of them were murdered in the death camps.

 

The leadership of the British Mandate displayed the same obtuseness

and

insensitivity by locking the gates to Israel to Jewish refugees who

sought a

haven in the Land of Israel. Thus were rejected the requests of the

769

passengers of the ship Struma who escaped from Europe -- and all but

one found

their deaths at sea.

 

Throughout the war, nothing was done to stop the annihilation. When,

in the

summer of 1944, the mass deportations in Hungary were carried out,

the allies

did not bomb the train tracks which led to Auschwitz from Hungary,

nor the

murder facilities in Birkenau, and this was despite the fact that

they had the

ability to do so. Allied planes attacked targets near Auschwitz, but

they

refused to bomb the camp itself, in which 10,000 Jews were murdered

daily. Thus

were 618,000 Jews annihilated in a number of weeks -- the Jews of

Hungary.

 

Mr. Speaker, the sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared

that Jews were

being murdered.

 

" Do not put your trust in men in power, " said the poet of the Psalms.

And

indeed, during the most terrible, critical hour, those in power and

the declared

friends did not lift a finger. This is the Jewish lesson of the

Holocaust and

this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us, the enchained people.

 

The State of Israel has learned this lesson, and since its

establishment it has

done its utmost to defend itself and its citizens, and provide a safe

haven for

any Jew, wherever he may be. We know that we can trust no one but

ourselves.

 

This phenomenon of Jews defending themselves and fighting back is

anathema to

the new anti-Semites. Legitimate steps of self-defense which Israel

takes in its

war against Palestinian terrorist -- actions which any sovereign

state is

obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens -- are

presented

by those who hate Israel as aggressive, " Nazi-like " steps.

 

Many of the manifestations of anti-Semitism in the past years are no

longer

aimed only at Jews as individuals. Rather, they are aimed at the

embodiment of

all Jews: the State of Israel, the Jewish state. As early as 1967,

in " A Letter

to an Anti-Zionist Friend, " Dr. Martin Luther King wrote that anti-

Zionism is no

less than disguised anti-Semitism.

 

I quote: " The times have made it unpopular, in the West, to proclaim

openly a

hatred of the Jews. This being the case, the anti-Semite must

constantly seek

new forms and forums for his poison. He does not hate the Jews, he is

just

" anti-Zionist " ! My friend, when people criticize Zionism, they mean

Jews -- make

no mistake about it. "

 

These days, the generation that was witness to the horrors is

disappearing, and

ignorance is increasing. Fewer people around the world have heard of

the

Holocaust or are aware of what happened in Auschwitz, and the

manifestations of

anti-Semitism are on the rise. Sixty years after the liberation of

Auschwitz,

the evil that gave rise to the horror still exists and still

threatens us.

 

Israel stands with governments, as well as Jewish and international

organizations around the world, that remember Auschwitz and are

determined to

fight this evil uncompromisingly and relentlessly.

 

We will continue to act tirelessly in order to ensure that the memory

of

Auschwitz and the lessons of the Holocaust will not be forgotten, so

that

Auschwitz will never again return.

 

Israel is a very small country, blessed with talented and courageous

people.

However, it must always be remembered that this is the only place in

the world

where we, the Jews, have the right and the capability to defend

ourselves, by

ourselves. And we will never relinquish this.

 

It is our historic responsibility. It is my personal historic

responsibility. "

APRIL

Is an interesting month, it begins on April 1st, commonly known as

APRIL FOOL'S DAY

and ends on April 30th, also known as Walpurgisnacht . It includes

Hitler's Birthday on April 20th and Martin Luther King's

Assassination

Day on April 4th. Had Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy NOT been

assassinated Eugene McCarthy, who was 7 points ahead of Nixon in the

polls, would have been nominated by the Democratic Party as its

Presidential candidate in 1968 and gone on to win the White House.

Gene would have ended the Vietnam War promptly in 1969. Gene McCarthy

was a good personal friend of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. He

was a friend of Israel. Gene would probably have been re-elected in

1972. There probably would NOT have been an arab surprise attack on

Israel on October 6th, 1973 with Gene McCarthy in the White House and

the US NOT tied down in Indochina. Nor would MILLIONS of Vietnamese,

Laotians and Cambodians have been killed as the war dragged on and on

under Nixon. Gene would have tilted towards India rather than

Pakistan

during his administration, so there would have been no Bangladesh

massacre of East Pakistani Bengalis by West Pakistani Punjabis, a

slaughter that some estimate took THREE MILLION LIVES! In our view

ARAFAT ordered the assassinations of BOTH BOBBY KENNEDY AND DR.

MARTIN

LUTHER KING. The cost to the African-American community of the death

of the most Gandhi like leader it ever had is incalculable in terms

of

wasted human lives. Dr. King was also a friend to the Jewish

community. Imagine a world in which there never had been a split

between the Jewish community and the African American community.

Instead of Jesse Jackson assuming the mantle of the slain Dr. King,

and going on to lead the charge against the Jewish community after

Jimmy Carter fired Andy Young for shaking hands with an arafat

observer at the UN, and going on to make his infamous " Hymietown "

remark, Martin Luther King would have led the African-American

community.

(JIMMY CARTER ALLEGEDLY GOT TEN MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE INFAMOUS

ARAB CIA DRUG BANK BCCI FOR THE CARTER LIBRARY, ANDY YOUNG ALLEGEDLY

GOT $100,000 FROM BCCI, JACKSON ALLEGEDLY GOT $5 MILLION DOLLARS FOR

HIS OPERATION PUSH FROM IRAQ AND ALLEGEDLY GOT ANOTHER $5 MILLION

DOLLARS FROM LIBYA). A united African-American and Jewish community

would NEVER have permitted the nomination of Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Nor

would the outgoing President McCarthy. Instead Martin Luther King

might well have been the Democratic nominee in 1976. After being

elected in 1976 Dr. King would have been re-elected in 1980. F.D.R.

died on

April 12th. Abraham Lincoln's Assassination occurred

on April 14, 1865.

Martin Luther King, Jr. at sunset on April 4th,1968 Martin

Luther King, Jr. was

fatally shot while standing on the

balcony of the Lorraine Motel in

Memphis, Tennessee.

There were riots and disturbances in

130 American cities. There were

twenty thousand arrests.

King's funeral on April 19 was an

international event. By now Martin

Luther King would

Have served two terms as President of

the United States and would be a

US Senator. Before He Was Murdered Doctor King had endorsed the

Presidential

Candidacy of Eugene McCarthy, Democrat of Minnesota for the 1968

Democratic Presidential Nomination. Senator McCarthy, (not to be

confused with Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin who was

Eugene McCarthy's opposite in more ways than one), campaigned on a

platform of opposition to the Vietnam War in 1968, a war that

McCarthy

called: Illegal, Immoral, and unconstitutional. When Dr. King

endorsed

Senator McCarthy's presidential candidacy He joined the noble causes

of Peace and Civil Rights together. Just as they should be joined.

Two

weeks Later Dr. King was murdered in Memphis. Had he lived he would

have gone on to campaign for McCarthy, who was 7 points ahead of

Nixon

in the polls. With Dr. King by his side McCarthy would have gone on

to

be nominated by the Democratic Party in 1968 and elected President in

November 1968. I have no doubt, as someone who worked in the McCarthy

campaign, that Dr. King would have been in President McCarthy's

Cabinet in 1969. Robert F. Kennedy would have ended his campaign and

joined with Gene McCarthy and Dr. King to end the war. Instead Dr.

King's murder caused disunity in the Democratic Party. Bobby Kennedy

sought the Democratic Presidential nomination, only to be murdered

himself on June 4th, 1968 2 months to the day after Dr. King was

murdered. June 4th,1968 was also the first anniversary of the Six-Day

War. As the US Senator from New York State, a state that McCarthy

would have carried handily in the June 1968 Democratic Primary Bobby

Kennedy would have to have obeyed the wishes of the people of his

state and dropped out of the Presidential race after that primary and

endorsed Gene McCarthy. But the primary came after Bobby Kennedy had

been killed. Beating a dead Bobby Kennedy was no victory. Not having

a

live Bobby Kennedy on hand to concede defeat and endorse Gene

McCarthy

meant that Hubert Humphrey, a supporter of the war in Vietnam, would

go on to become the Democratic Presidential nominee, only to lose to

Richard M. Nixon in November of 1968. Thus the war in Vietnam would

continue no matter who, Humphrey, or Nixon, won. With America tied

down in

Vietnam it had to have been thought in the

arab world that America would not be able to intervene to save Israel

when the inevitable arab attack on Israel came.RFK was killed on the

first anniversary of the Six Day War "

http://www.idf.il/english/history/sixday.stm the inevitable arab

attack came some years later with THE 1973 YOM KIPPUR WAR

http://www.adl.org/Israel/Record/yomkippur.html The same gang that

bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 murdered Anwar Sadat in 1981 on

the 8th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. That same gang killed the

Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament for Saddam Hussein when Egypt

broke

ranks with Iraq over the invasion of Kuwait.

" Who Shot Martin Luther King? The federal government, and Tennessee

authorities, aggressively pushed the lone-gunman theory-although this

explanation was rejected out of hand by millions of Americans. At

Ray's sentencing, as the state was telling the jury what the evidence

would have been at a trial, Ray interrupted the proceedings to say he

did not agree with the statement of Ramsey Clark, U.S. attorney

general, that there was no conspiracy. Three days later Ray tried to

withdraw his plea of guilty, even though that would subject him to a

possible death sentence. The court refused. From that day forward

there has been a tug-of-war between conspiracy believers and

lone-gunman advocates. In 1979 the House Select Committee on

Assassinations issued a report saying there probably was a

conspiracy. "

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/08.07.97/mlkj-9732.html

Martin Luther King on anti-Zionism From

M.L. King Jr., " Letter to an

Anti-Zionist Friend, " Saturday Review

XLVII (Aug. 1967), p. 76.

Reprinted in M.L. King Jr., " This I

Believe: Selections from the

Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "

" . . . You declare, my friend,

that you do not hate the Jews, you are

merely `anti-Zionist.' And I

say, let the truth ring forth from the

high mountain tops, let it echo

through the valleys of God's green

earth: When people criticize

Zionism, they mean Jews-this is God's

own truth. Anti-Semitism, the

hatred of the Jewish people, has been

and remains a blot on the soul

of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this:

anti-Zionist is inherently anti-Semitic, and ever will be so. Why is

this? You know that Zionism is nothing less than the dream and ideal

of the Jewish people returning to live in their own land. The Jewish

people, the Scriptures tell us, once enjoyed a flourishing

Commonwealth in the Holy Land. From this they were expelled by the

Roman tyrant, the same Romans who cruelly murdered Our Lord. Driven

from their homeland, their nation in ashes, forced to wander the

globe, the Jewish people time and again suffered the lash of

whichever

tyrant happened to rule over them. The Negro people, my friend, know

what it is to suffer the torment of tyranny under rulers not of our

choosing. Our brothers in Africa have begged, pleaded,

requested-DEMANDED-the recognition and realization of our inborn

right

to live in peace under our own sovereignty in our own country. How

easy it should be, for anyone who holds dear this inalienable right

of

all mankind, to understand and support the right of the Jewish People

to live in their ancient Land of Israel. All men of good will exult

in

the fulfillment of God's promise, that his People should return in

joy

to rebuild their plundered land. This is Zionism, nothing more,

nothing less. And what is anti-Zionist? It is the denial to the

Jewish

people of a fundamental right that we justly claim for the people of

Africa and freely accord all other nations of the Globe. It is

discrimination against Jews, my friend, because they are Jews. In

short, it is anti-Semitism. The anti-Semite rejoices at any

opportunity to vent his malice. The times have made it unpopular, in

the West, to proclaim openly a hatred of the Jews. This being the

case, the anti-Semite must constantly seek new forms and forums for

his poison. How he must revel in the new masquerade! He does not hate

the Jews, he is just `anti-Zionist'! My friend, I do not accuse you

of

deliberate anti-Semitism. I know you feel, as I do, a deep love of

truth and justice and a revulsion for racism, prejudice, and

discrimination. But I know you have been misled-as others have

been-into thinking you can be `anti-Zionist' and yet remain true to

these heartfelt principles that you and I share. Let my words echo in

the depths of your soul: When people criticize Zionism, they mean

Jews-make no mistake about it. " http://www.likud.nl/ref27.html

 

" Here's a rundown from Daniel Pipes, a former Reagan administration

Middle East aide who now runs the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia

and the wonderfully informative Web site DanielPipes.org:

Mr. Pipes says: " CAIR is a particularly worrisome organization

because

it has succeeded in portraying itself as a public affairs

organization

promoting `interest and understanding among the general public with

regards to Islam and Muslims in North America.' In fact, this

organization is radical to the core; it seeks nothing less than the

imposition of Islamist mores on the United States. "

Mr. Pipes notes that CAIR's record includes the following:

" Apologizing for such killers as Hamas (a group associated with the

murder of 7 Americans) and Usama bin Ladin (charged with the Tanzania

and Kenya embassy bombings a year ago). . . . Helping promote

terrorism: In the words of Steve Pomerantz, a former Chief of

Counterterrorism for the FBI, `CAIR, its leaders, and its activities,

effectively give aid to international terrorist groups.' . . .

Intimidation of patriotic Muslims who disagree with CAIR's chauvinist

agenda: In one case (Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani), the FBI is

looking into charges that he received death threats after renouncing

the chauvinists. . . Defense of even the most archaic and barbaric of

customs associated with Islam: When a prosecutor in Cleveland argued

that the bail of two young men being held for an `honor killing' of

their female cousin should be increased, CAIR replied by accusing him

of `ethnic and religious stereotyping' and called for a formal

investigation into the prosecutor's actions. "

In addition, as anti-terrorism expert Steven Emerson has noted in

Congressional testimony, CAIR co-sponsored a May 24, 1998, all-day

program in the Walt Whitman Auditorium of Brooklyn College in

Brooklyn, New York. As Mr. Emerson testified, " In Arabic, Wagdi

Ghuniem, a militant Islamic cleric from Egypt, mesmerized his

audience, with his relentless tirade against the Jews, reminding them

of the Jews' `infidelity,' `stealth' and `deceit.' Known for his

folksy deliveries and exhortations to commit violence against the

Jews, Ghuniem did not disappoint his crowd, several of whom had come

just to hear him. The conflict with the Jews, he said, was not over

land but one of religion. `The problem of Palestine is not a problem

of belief. suppose the Jews said " Palestine-you [Muslims] can take

it. " Would it then be ok? What would we tell them? No! The problem is

belief, it is not a problem of land.' "

Mr. Emerson continued: " Ghuniem then led his rapt audience, which

numbered as many as 500, in a special song, the audience responsively

repeating each refrain: `No to the Jews, Descendants of the Apes.' "

Says Mr. Pipes: " In short, CAIR represents not the great civilization

of Islam but a radical utopian movement originating in the Middle

East

that seeks to impose its ways on the United States. Americans should

consider themselves warned: a new danger exists in their midst. " So

much for CAIR. But, according to the CAIR Web site, CAIR wasn't the

only radical, terrorist-sympathizing American Muslim group that

President Bush met with yesterday, less than a week after the worst

terrorist attack in American history. In fact, according to the CAIR

web site, the meeting yesterday also included " representatives from

the American Muslim Alliance " and the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

The Muslim Public Affairs Council is a group founded and headed by

Salam Al-Marayati. He's the man whose views on terrorism were so

problematic that, after an outcry, Rep. Richard Gephardt withdrew his

support for Mr. Al-Marayiti as a nominee to a federal anti-terrorism

commission. According to an article in the August 22, 1998, Los

Angeles Times, the Muslim Public Affairs Council called America's

1998

missile strikes on Osama Bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan

" illegal " and " immoral. " Again, Daniel Pipes, in an article posted on

DanielPipes.org, is instructive. Mr. Pipes writes of Mr. Al-Marayati:

" Here are three elements of his radicalism: First, he wraps the

American flag around some of the least attractive features of Middle

Eastern life. In 1993, he memorably asserted that `When Patrick Henry

said, " Give me liberty or give me death, " that statement epitomized

jihad [islamic holy war].' In 1996, he made the silly and inaccurate

observation that `American freedom fighters hundreds of years ago

were

also regarded as terrorists by the British.' Mr. Al-Marayati's intent

here is obvious: to render jihad and terrorism acceptable to

Americans. "

Mr. Pipes continued: " Second, Mr. Al-Marayati apologizes for the most

ghastly Middle Eastern regimes and draws moral equivalencies between

them and America. In his view, Iraq is no better or worse than

America:

`Saddam Hussein's behavior in and around Iraq has been characterized

as reckless. The same can be said about U.S. policy as a result of

its

reactionary mode.' . . .Third, Mr. Al-Marayati turns a blind eye to

terrorism if it is of a fundamentalist Muslim persuasion (not a great

credential for someone hoping to serve on a counterterrorism

commission). Take the February 1996 incident when a Palestinian named

Muhammad Hamida shouted the fundamentalist war cry, Allahu Akbar

(Allah is Great), as he drove his car intentionally into a crowded

bus

stop in Jerusalem, killing one Israeli and injuring 23 others. Before

he could escape or hurt anyone else, Hamida was shot dead. Commenting

on the affair, Mr. Al-Marayati said not a word about Hamida's

murderous rampage but instead focused on Hamida's death, which he

called `a provocative act,' and demanded the extradition of his

executors to America `to be tried in a U.S. court' on terrorism

charges. "

Then there is the American Muslim Alliance, another group that CAIR

reports had a representative at the Bush event yesterday. That's the

group so extreme that even Hillary Rodham Clinton, no anti-Muslim

extremist, decided to return $50,000 it had raised for her senate

campaign. The American Muslim Alliance was also a sponsor of the " No

to the Jews, Descendants of the Apes " rally at Brooklyn College. And,

as Steven Emerson has reported on OpinionJournal.com, " AMA's head,

Agha Saeed, has openly sanctioned the use of `armed resistance'

against Israel and declared that the `Zionist occupiers of Palestine

can be beaten back.' At its 1997 annual convention, the AMA

distributed an article by S.A. Ahsani, head of the AMA's Texas

chapter, denying the existence of `Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek.'

At AMA national conferences in 1997, 1998 and 2000, numerous speakers

numerous speakers condemned the `Jewish and Zionist' lobbies and

their `control'

of the United States. "

SOURCE: SmarterTimes.com

September 18, 2001

 

http://www.smartertimes.com/archive/2001/09/010918.html