Muslim Mafia (39 page)

ISNA checks deposited into the ISNA/NAIT account for the Holy Land Foundation, which were often made payable to “the Palestinian Mujahadeen,” the original name for the Hamas military wing;
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An expense voucher from NAIT made out for $10,000 in the name of Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook;
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A $10,000 check drawn on a NAIT account made payable to Abu Marzook;
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Another NAIT check for $10,000 made out to Abu Marzook’s wife, Nadia Elashi;
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FBI recordings revealing Hamas leaders discussed ISNA during their secret 1993 Philadelphia meeting to plot ways to launder payments through Brotherhood charities and nonprofit organizations;
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A NAIT check for $30,000 made out to a Hamas school in the Gaza Strip with the name of Shukri Abu Baker—the now-convicted U.S.-based leader of Hamas—written in the memo line;
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A Brotherhood phonebook listing Abu Baker and two Indianapolis phone numbers for him—including an ISNA fax number still in use today—indicating the Hamas leader had worked out of ISNA’s headquarters near Indianapolis;
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A three-page internal Brotherhood memo citing Abu Baker as the point man for “coordinating with ISNA in the accounting” of funds for the Palestinian “Intifada,” the bloody anti-Israel uprising led by Hamas.
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Jamal Badawi:
a founding father of the U.S. Brotherhood and a current ISNA board member who was listed among unindicted co-conspirators who raised money for the terrorist front Holy Land Foundation;
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Siraj Wahhaj:
an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who has urged Muslims to overturn the U.S. system of government and set up an Islamic dictatorship. He has served as an ISNA vice president and board member;

Abdurahman Alamoudi:
Former MSA president and ISNA regional representative for Washington now in prison for plotting terrorism and financing al-Qaida;

Sami al-Arian:
Confessed Palestinian terrorist who admits he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood during the time he helped found ISNA;

Bassam Osman:
Longtime NAIT director and landlord of al-Arian’s Islamic Academy of Florida, a
madrassa
accused of raising funds and providing other support for Palestinian terrorists;

Yusuf al-Qaradawi:
U.S.-designated supporter of terrorism barred from entering the country. He co-founded ISNA’s office in Boston and helped finance ISNA’s national headquarters;

Sayyid Syeed:
Former board member of Dar al-Hijrah, the 9/11 mosque, and longtime director of academic outreach at IIIT, the Brotherhood think tank under investigation for bankrolling terrorism. He has served as secretary general of ISNA, and is currently director of ISNA’s Office of Interfaith and Community Alliances in Washington;

Esam Omeish:
Dar al-Hijrah vice president who personally hired the 9/11
imam
, and who recently was exposed on video encouraging “the jihad way” and praising Palestinian terrorists as martyrs. He’s a former MSA president and ISNA board member; and

Jamal Barzinji:
Original trustee holding title to Dar al-Hijrah accused by federal authorities of being “closely associated” with Hamas and other terrorist groups, according to court records. He served as president of MSA, and was a key founder and board member of ISNA. As an MSA leader in the early 1970s, in fact, Barzinji hosted top leaders of the Egyptian Brotherhood, just released from sixteen years in prison, for two weeks of meetings in Indianapolis.
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