Former congressman, Missouri charity director sentenced in terrorism case

[FreakinDJ]

McClatchy Newspapers Mark Morris

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A long-running terrorist financing investigation centered in Columbia, Mo., ended Wednesday when a federal judge ordered two men, including a former U.S. congressman, to prison.

She sentenced three other defendants to probation for their work with a Missouri charity that purportedly had ties to Islamic extremists. Those ties had subjected the charity to intense scrutiny for 13 years.

All five men either were employees or associates of the Columbia-based Islamic American Relief Agency. The charity closed its doors in October 2004 after the U.S. Treasury Department declared it to be one piece of a global network that supported Osama bin Laden and other terrorists.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/01/11/135624/former-congressman-missouri-charity.html#storylink=cpy

Wasn't Grover Norquest a Lobyest for an Islamic Organisation in 1999

[Ian David]

1. Mark Deli Siljander was a REPUBLICAN.

Mark Deli Siljander (born June 11, 1951) is a former Republican U.S. Representative and deputy United Nations ambassador from the state of Michigan. He was convicted of obstruction of justice and acting as an unregistered foreign agent related to his work for an Islamic charity with ties to international terrorism. Siljander pleaded guilty to the charges in Federal court on July 7, 2010.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_D._Siljander

[RC]

2. It would seem so

Grover Norquist and the Iran Lobby

"This report is about the ways that Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) supported CNAPI activities, through support for a second organization, the American Conservative Defense Alliance (ACDA), a founder and leader of the CNAPI campaign. The policies for which CNAPI lobbied became the do-nothing Iranian policies of the Obama campaign in 2008 and of the Obama administration to the present day: no support for the Iranian Green movement and Iranian democracy activists, few or no economic sanctions, and no military option. And advocacy for unconditional negotiations, as Obama had advocated during the 2008 campaign.

The report first describes all the connections among Norquist's ATR, and the lobbying groups ACDA and CNAPI -- and then why those connections created dangerous consequences for national security.

Connections

More than just a founding member, ACDA actually hosted the November 2007 formation meeting of about 30 largely left-wing and Islamist organizations (including the Council on American Islamic Relations - CAIR) to form CNAPI, as reported on June 10 2008 in the New York Sun and the Global Muslim Brotherhood Report.

And where did they host it? According to the Sun, "at the headquarters of Americans for Tax Reform in Washington.""

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/grover_norquist_and_the_iran_lobby.html