Authors: Paul Sperry
10
Ibid.
11
Government Exhibit 003-0078, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 5. Also: additional declassified Brotherhood documents identify current MAS leaders as Brotherhood members. Finally, the Justice Department in December 2007 concluded in a U.S. court briefing: “MAS was founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.”
12
Habib also was asked about CAIR in the Egyptian media last year. INTERVIEWER: “The Council for [sic] American-Islamic Relations: Many say that they are your front. Do they really represent you?” HABIB: “Ehh, this is a sensitive subject, and it’s kind of problematic, especially after 9/11.” INTERVIEWER: “For them to say that there is a relationship between you two?” HABIB: “Yes. You can say that.”
13
Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Sam Roe and Laurie Cohen, “A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America: Muslims divided on Brotherhood.”
14
http://www.masnet.org/tarbiyya.asp.
15
Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Sam Roe and Laurie Cohen, “A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America: Muslims divided on Brotherhood.”
16
“IPT Footage Takes Down Omeish,” Investigative Project on Terrorism, 27 September 2007.
17
Sperry,
Infiltration
, 115.
18
Ibid.
19
Caryle Murphy, “Facing New Realities as Islamic Americans,”
Washington Post
, 12 September 2004, A01.
20
Ibid.
21
“MAS’ Esam Omeish Seeks Virginia Office,”
IPT News
, 1 May 2009.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE PLAN
1
Transcript of lecture by Imam Zaid Shakir, “Jihad or Terrorism?”
2
Ibid.
3
Also, Sookhdeo,
Faith, Power and Territory
, 75. And author (Sperry) interview in person with Maj. Stephen Coughlin, 12 February 2009.
4
Transcript of lecture by Imam Zaid Shakir, “Jihad or Terrorism?”
5
Ibid.
6
Ibid.
7
Government Exhibit 003-0085, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 31.
8
Dar El-Eiman President Fawaz Mushtaha is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror case. Investigators found videotapes, cell phones, maps, and other evidence burned or buried in the backyard of his Falls Church, Virginia, home. His travel agency’s Washington-area office is located in the same building as the radical Dar Al-Arqam mosque run by convicted terrorist Ali al-Timimi.
9
Frank Gaffney, “Shariah is Anti-Constitutional and Seditious,” prepared remarks,
The Harbor League
, Baltimore, Md., 7 October 2008.
10
Ibid.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE GODFATHER
1
Sperry,
Infiltration
, xi. Though Ahmad now insists he was misquoted, he has not denied the substance of the statement, which has caused him untold grief. Meanwhile, the reporter, Lisa Gardiner, stands by the accuracy of her 1998 story. The newspaper that published the story, “The San Ramon Valley Herald” (and sister publication “The Argus” of Fremont, Calif., where the article also ran) has not retracted any of it. Ironically, Ahmad several years earlier issued a prophetic warning to fellow Brothers at their secret 1993 meeting to support Hamas: “It is possible you could be destroyed by the media without the law touching you. They could hold things against you and destroy you on the media front before you’re destroyed by the government and the law.” He was referring to the media supposedly trumping up charges against his fellow Muslim Brother, the blind Sheik Omar Abdul-Rahman. “There are no, what you call, crimes against him, you see?” Ahmad contended in the FBI recordings. U.S. courts reached a different conclusion, sending the Brotherhood cleric to prison for life for conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks.
2
Government Exhibit, Elbarasse Search-4, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 5. (In Brotherhood documents, Elkadi is also known as “Al-Qadi.”) Also, Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Sam Roe and Laurie Cohen, “A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America: Muslims divided on Brotherhood.”
3
Ibid, “A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America: Muslims divided on Brotherhood.”
4
Ibid. Ahmed Elkadi’s wife, Iman A. Elkadi, is a therapist, who heads a clinic in Falls Church, Virginia, for “survivors of torture” called the Center for Multicultural Human Services.
5
FEC records, 1996-2003. Elkadi and his wife, Iman, gave a total of $2,000 to LaRouche (D).
6
The AMC largely disappeared following the 2004 conviction of Alamoudi on terror charges. Many of the political functions of the AMC are now being performed by MAS and the Muslim Public Affairs Council, or MPAC.
7
Author (Sperry) interview in person, Washington, 15 April 2005. Also, a July 14, 2005, Treasury Department press release stated: “According to information available to the U.S. government, the September 2003 arrest of Alamoudi was a severe blow to al-Qaida, as Alamoudi had a close relationship with al-Qaida and had raised money for al-Qaida in the United States.” Full details of Alamoudi’s case remain classified.
8
Ibid, Author (Sperry) interview in person, Washington, 15 April 2005.
9
Author (Sperry) interview in person, NCTC officials, Fairfax County, Virginia, 17 June 2005. Also, Glenn R. Simpson, “U.S.-Tracked Account Held By Saudi,” Wall Street Journal, 6 October 2004, B3.
10
Paul Sperry, “Congressional Paul Revere Warns Nation About Islamofascist Threat,”
Investor’s Business Daily
, 19 November 2007.
11
“CAIR Executive Staff Meeting,” task report, 3 January 2007. CAIR official Corey Saylor “to call Saiful Islam, Hisham Islam.”
12
United States v. Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi, criminal complaint filed in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 30 September 2003, 11.
13
Government Exhibit, Elbarasse-Search-10, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., chart (“Committee Chairman/Palestinian Action Aspects”). “List of Unindicted Co-conspirators,” 6. Government Exhibit, Ashqar Wiretap-1, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 2, 6 (recorded 13 September 1993). Also, Government Exhibit, 016-0047, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 11. Also, Author (Sperry) interview by phone, 22 March 2009. The Muslim Brotherhood has not been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., and it is not a crime to belong to it. Although Ahmad remains under FBI counterterrorism investigation, he has not been charged with a crime as this book was going to press.
14
Sperry,
Infiltration
, xi.
15
“CAIR’s War on Truth,”
IPT News
, 13 March 2009.
16
Robert Spencer, prepared remarks, Young America’s Foundation, annual student conference, Washington DC, 4 August 2007.
17
Transcript of Hooper interview with The Keith Larson Show, WBT-1110 AM Radio, Charlotte, N.C., 3 October 2006. Larson called Hooper’s answer “cagey.”
18
“Guilty verdicts in terror case deal blow to CAIR,”
WorldNetDaily
, 25 November 2008.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: INFILTRATION
1
Affidavit in Support of Application for Search Warrant, 30, 31.
2
Author (Sperry) interview by email with FBI official, 6 April 2005, and in person, 15 April 2005.
3
Affidavit in Support of Application for Search Warrant, 30, 31. Federal authorities in a separate court filing described the al-Arian document, entitled the “Charter of the Center of Studies,” as setting forth a detailed description of the structure and operation of “a hostile intelligence organization in the United States.” They said it included: “the organizational structure, duties, responsibilities, espionage methods and targets, counterintelligence and precautionary measures, methods of reporting, and a cipher system to make the hostile intelligence organization appear to be affiliated with a university.”
4
Ibid, 33.
5
John Mintz and Douglas Farah, “In Search of Friends Among the Foes: U.S. Hopes to Work with Diverse Group,”
Washington Post
, 11 September 2004, A01.
6
Guitta, “The Cartoon Jihad: The Muslim Brotherhood’s project for dominating the West.”
7
Author (Sperry) interview by phone, 22 March 2009.
8
“North American Islamic Trust,” FBI memo marked “SECRET,” 1986, 43. Recently declassified in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Washington-based Investigative Project on Terrorism, 1986, 43. Neither Barzinji nor the other Brotherhood members cited in the FBI memo have been charged with a crime. It currently is not a crime to belong to the Muslim Brotherhood in America. Another more recent federal document, an affidavit for a search warrant of Barzinji’s home that was unsealed in 2003, connects Barzinji to Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists. Barzinji’s lawyer Nancy Luque has denied any linkage between her client and terrorists or the Muslim Brotherhood. Also representing Safa group interests, she told the Washington Post her clients “love this country,” and “are absolutely not involved in any way in supporting terrorism,” adding that the government’s investigation of them is “a smearing.” However, Barzinji admitted to the Post that he was a member of the Ikhwan, or Brotherhood, and hosted Brotherhood bigshots from Egypt. Also, he is listed in secret U.S. Brotherhood documents as a leader of the group in America.
9
Attachment A, List of Unindicted Co-Conspirators, U.S. vs. Holy Land Foundation, 2007; “An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group In North America,” 22 May 1991, 18; Government Exhibit 004-0001, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et. al.,; Attachment C, Safa Group Businesses and Corporations, Affidavit in The Matter of Searches Involving 555 Grove Street, Herndon, Virginia, and Related Locations, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, unredacted, October 2003; Link-analysis chart, Abdurahman Alamoudi investigation, JTTF-Washington, 2003; Steven Merley, “The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States,” Hudson Institute, April 2009; Guest charges summaries, Courtyard Marriott, Philadelphia, 3 October 1993; Dale L. Watson, Assistant Director, FBI Counterterrorism Division, “Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development/International Economic Emergency Powers Act,” Action Memorandum (To: R. Richard Newcomb, Director, Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control), 5 November 2001.
CHAPTER NINETEEN: NUCLEUS: ISNA
1
Author (Sperry) interview by email, 10 April 2009.
2
Margaret Moore Post, Our Town Yesterday: Plainfield, Indiana: A Pictorial History (Plainfield, IN: Allan Rivers Starken Printing Company, 1986), 102. Also, “Islamic Trust to Build Mosque,”
Indianapolis Star,
May 5, 1977.
3
Ibid.
4
Ibid.