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Hillary's Terrorist Ties
Friday, April 18, 2008
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
In this week's debate, Hillary Clinton said all of her "baggage" has been
"rummaged through" for years. But important features of her close
relationship with known terrorist sympathizers and Hamas supporters are
still opaque to the public view.
Her relationship with terrorists began in the mid-1980s when she served on
the Board of the New World Foundation, which gave funds to the Palestine
Liberation Organization, at a time when the PLO was officially recognized by
the US government as a terrorist organization.
In 1996, the First Lady initiated an outreach program to bring Muslim
leaders to the White House. But, as terrorism expert Steve Emerson noted in
the Wall Street Journal: "Curiously, nearly all of the leaders with whom
Mrs. Clinton elected to meet came from Islamic fundamentalist organizations.
A review of the statements, publications, and conferences of the groups Mrs.
Clinton embraced shows unambiguously that they have long advocated or
justified violence. By meeting with these groups, the first lady lent them
legitimacy as 'mainstream' and 'moderate.'"
Among these radical groups was the American Muslim Council (AMA) and the
Council on American-Islamic Relations, both groups that support Hamas, who
attended a White House reception hosted by Hillary in February, 1996.
Emerson says that its leaders "have sanctioned terrorism, published
anti-Semitic statements, and repeatedly hosted conferences that were forums
for denunciations of Jews and exhortations to wage jihad."
The American Muslim Alliance was headed in the 90s by Abdulrahman Alamoudi
who met with Clinton and Gore in 1995. Emerson notes that "Mrs. Clinton
[allowed] the American Muslim Alliance to draw up the Muslim guest list for
the first lady's . White House reception."
Alamoudi, Emerson says was "the primary defender of Musa Abu Marzug, the
Hamas political bureau chief responsible for creating the group's death
squads." Marzug took "credit" when Hamas brigades sprayed machine gun fire
into a crowded Jerusalem mall. But less than three days after Marzug was
arrested by the FBI in July of 1995, Alamoudi said that Marzug "had never
been involved in terrorism" and called his arrest "an insult to the Muslim
community. Emerson reports that he "elicited contributions fro Marzug's
defense fund" and called him a "political prisoner."
Then, Hillary ran for Senate on her own and suddenly it was payback time. On
June 13, 2000, the American Muslim Alliance's Massachusetts Chapter held a
very successful fundraiser for her candidacy. Tahir Ali, the chairman of the
chapter, said "we must support all who have [Muslim] interests at heart."
Perhaps conscious of how controversial the contribution would be, Hillary or
someone on her staff, tried to pull a fast one, recording the donation on
federal filing forms as being from the "American Museum Alliance." But alert
observers weren't fooled and Senate candidate Clinton was forced to
acknowledge who the real donor was and, four months after getting the money,
she returned it.
But by then, a few weeks before the election, she had abjured the use of
soft money in her Senate campaign, so the donation was, in practical terms,
useless, since it was well over the limits for hard money contributions.
The Palestinian terrorists know that Hillary hears their point of
view.WorldNetDaily.com reported on October 7, 2007 that leading terrorists
have publicly called for her election. Aaron Klein, WorldNet Daily's
Jerusalem correspondent, wrote, in his wonderful book Schmoozing with
Terrorists, Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
terrorist group said "I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the
occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq."
Senakreh has high hopes for a Hillary presidency. He told Klein "I hope also
that she will maintain her husband's policies regarding Palestine and even
develop that policy.
Abu Hamed, leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades in Gaza, noting that "the Iraqi
resistance is succeeding," said that "Hillary and the Democrats call for
withdrawal." Then he added, helpfully, "her popularity shows that the
resistance is winning and that the occupation is losing. We just hope that
she will go until the end and change American policy." He explained that
"President Clinton wanted to give the Palestinians 98 percent of the West
Bank territories. I hope Hillary will move a step forward and give the
Palestinians all their rights."
Clearly Barack Obama should not have stayed in Rev Wright's church and his
campaign should not maintain a "friendly" relationship with William Ayers.
But what about Hillary's service on a board that gave money to a terrorist
organization? And her hosting of a terror supporting group in the White
House? And her acceptance of a $50,000 contribution from that group? And the
statements of terrorists that they are hoping for her to win.
These are far more serious connections than have been established for Obama
and either Wright or Ayers.
Hillary's Terrorist Ties
Friday, April 18, 2008
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
In this week's debate, Hillary Clinton said all of her "baggage" has been
"rummaged through" for years. But important features of her close
relationship with known terrorist sympathizers and Hamas supporters are
still opaque to the public view.
Her relationship with terrorists began in the mid-1980s when she served on
the Board of the New World Foundation, which gave funds to the Palestine
Liberation Organization, at a time when the PLO was officially recognized by
the US government as a terrorist organization.
In 1996, the First Lady initiated an outreach program to bring Muslim
leaders to the White House. But, as terrorism expert Steve Emerson noted in
the Wall Street Journal: "Curiously, nearly all of the leaders with whom
Mrs. Clinton elected to meet came from Islamic fundamentalist organizations.
A review of the statements, publications, and conferences of the groups Mrs.
Clinton embraced shows unambiguously that they have long advocated or
justified violence. By meeting with these groups, the first lady lent them
legitimacy as 'mainstream' and 'moderate.'"
Among these radical groups was the American Muslim Council (AMA) and the
Council on American-Islamic Relations, both groups that support Hamas, who
attended a White House reception hosted by Hillary in February, 1996.
Emerson says that its leaders "have sanctioned terrorism, published
anti-Semitic statements, and repeatedly hosted conferences that were forums
for denunciations of Jews and exhortations to wage jihad."
The American Muslim Alliance was headed in the 90s by Abdulrahman Alamoudi
who met with Clinton and Gore in 1995. Emerson notes that "Mrs. Clinton
[allowed] the American Muslim Alliance to draw up the Muslim guest list for
the first lady's . White House reception."
Alamoudi, Emerson says was "the primary defender of Musa Abu Marzug, the
Hamas political bureau chief responsible for creating the group's death
squads." Marzug took "credit" when Hamas brigades sprayed machine gun fire
into a crowded Jerusalem mall. But less than three days after Marzug was
arrested by the FBI in July of 1995, Alamoudi said that Marzug "had never
been involved in terrorism" and called his arrest "an insult to the Muslim
community. Emerson reports that he "elicited contributions fro Marzug's
defense fund" and called him a "political prisoner."
Then, Hillary ran for Senate on her own and suddenly it was payback time. On
June 13, 2000, the American Muslim Alliance's Massachusetts Chapter held a
very successful fundraiser for her candidacy. Tahir Ali, the chairman of the
chapter, said "we must support all who have [Muslim] interests at heart."
Perhaps conscious of how controversial the contribution would be, Hillary or
someone on her staff, tried to pull a fast one, recording the donation on
federal filing forms as being from the "American Museum Alliance." But alert
observers weren't fooled and Senate candidate Clinton was forced to
acknowledge who the real donor was and, four months after getting the money,
she returned it.
But by then, a few weeks before the election, she had abjured the use of
soft money in her Senate campaign, so the donation was, in practical terms,
useless, since it was well over the limits for hard money contributions.
The Palestinian terrorists know that Hillary hears their point of
view.WorldNetDaily.com reported on October 7, 2007 that leading terrorists
have publicly called for her election. Aaron Klein, WorldNet Daily's
Jerusalem correspondent, wrote, in his wonderful book Schmoozing with
Terrorists, Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
terrorist group said "I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the
occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq."
Senakreh has high hopes for a Hillary presidency. He told Klein "I hope also
that she will maintain her husband's policies regarding Palestine and even
develop that policy.
Abu Hamed, leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades in Gaza, noting that "the Iraqi
resistance is succeeding," said that "Hillary and the Democrats call for
withdrawal." Then he added, helpfully, "her popularity shows that the
resistance is winning and that the occupation is losing. We just hope that
she will go until the end and change American policy." He explained that
"President Clinton wanted to give the Palestinians 98 percent of the West
Bank territories. I hope Hillary will move a step forward and give the
Palestinians all their rights."
Clearly Barack Obama should not have stayed in Rev Wright's church and his
campaign should not maintain a "friendly" relationship with William Ayers.
But what about Hillary's service on a board that gave money to a terrorist
organization? And her hosting of a terror supporting group in the White
House? And her acceptance of a $50,000 contribution from that group? And the
statements of terrorists that they are hoping for her to win.
These are far more serious connections than have been established for Obama
and either Wright or Ayers.