by Steve Emerson and John Rossomando
IPT News
October 21, 2012
A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials.
Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic militant organizations.
The IPT made the discovery combing through millions of White House visitor log entries. IPT compared the visitors' names with lists of known radical Islamists. Among the visitors were officials representing groups which have:
- Been designated by the Department of Justice as unindicted co-conspirators in terrorist trials; Extolled Islamic terrorist groups including Hamas and Hizballah;
- Obstructed terrorist investigations by instructing their followers not to cooperate with law enforcement;
- Promoted the incendiary conspiratorial allegation that the United States is engaged in a "war against Islam"— a leading tool in recruiting Muslims to carry out acts of terror;
- Repeatedly claimed that many of the Islamic terrorists convicted since 9-11 were framed by the U.S government as part of an anti-Muslim profiling campaign.
Individuals from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) visited the White House at least 20 times starting in 2009. In 2008, CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist money laundering case in U.S. history – the trial of the Holy Land Foundation in which five HLF officials were convicted of funneling money to Hamas.
U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Solis later ruled that, "The Government has produced ample evidence to establish the association" of CAIR to Hamas, upholding their designations as unindicted co-conspirators. In 2008, the FBI formally ended all contact with CAIR because of its ties to Hamas.
In January 2004, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR's Los Angeles office, publicly defended Palestinian terror attacks in comments before Muslim students at the University of California – Los Angeles, saying that terrorists were exercising their "legitimate right" to defend themselves against Israeli occupation.
Ayloush, who was a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., casts the United States as controlled by Israeli interests. At a 2008 CAIR banquet in San Diego, he imagined "an America that respects and humanizes religion. It's an America that is free to act on its values and not on the interests of any foreign lobby." In 2004, he said that the war on terror had become a "war on Muslims." Ayloush attended at least two White House meetings.
The logs show Ayloush met with Paul Monteiro, associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement on July 8, 2011 and Amanda Brown, assistant to the White House director of political affairs Patrick Gaspard, on June 6, 2009.
According to reliable sources, Monteiro was White House liaison for secret contacts with CAIR, especially with Ayloush. IPT has learned that the White House logs curiously have omitted Ayloush's three meetings with two other senior White House officials.
Louay Safi, formerly executive director of the Islamic Society of North America, visited the White House twice – meeting in intimate settings with Paul Monteiro on June 29, 2011 and July 8, 2011.
Law enforcement first noticed Safi in 1995 when his voice was captured in an FBI wiretap of now-convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian. At the time of his conversation with Al-Arian, Safi served as executive director of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, an organization listed in law-enforcement and in internal Muslim Brotherhood documents as one of the movement's top front groups in North America.
Safi also wrote for the Middle East Affairs Journal, produced by the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR). That group was established by Hamas deputy political leader Mousa Abu Marzook and part of the Hamas-support network called the "Palestine Committee."
Safi has repeatedly expressed understanding for the underlying causes that provoke terrorism: "Terrorism cannot be fought by…ignoring its root causes. The first step…is to examine the conditions that give rise to the anger, frustration, and desperation that fuel all terrorist acts." He also called Palestinian terrorists "freedom" fighters.
Esam Omeish, former head of the Muslim Brotherhood-created Muslim American Society, visited the White House three times.
In 2000, Omeish personally hired the late terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to be the imam of Falls Church, VA, Dar al-Hijrah mosque. According to IPT analysis, more terrorists have been linked to Dar al-Hijrah since 9/11 than to any other mosque in America.
Omeish publicly mourned the Israeli airstrike that killed Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin at an April 10, 2004, MAS conference.
Listen to the archives and read the rest of this important investigation report here.
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Further proof that Obama has American blood on his hands and should be treated at the very least, as an enemy sympathizer. Better yet he should be indicted for Treason!
THE #1 REASON HE'S BLACK, 2.. CONGRESS LEFT THEIR BALLS IN THE BATHROOM, 3. OBAMA MUST HAVE SO MUCH DIRT ON CONGRESS THEY JUST LET HIM DO WHATEVER....I PRAY THAT TRUMP COMES OUT WITH SOME VERY GOOD DIRT (10/23/12....IF NOT ''WE THE PEOPLE'' HAVE TO STAND UP AND GET OUR COUNTRY BACK BEFORE WE LOSE IT........GOD BLESS ALL, GOD BLESS THE U.S.A., SEE I STILL CAN SAY GOD, SO CASN YOU.
You know that NO ONE in DC or the Supreme Courts will ever do squat to bring him up on charges. Hell they will do NOTHING about his NOT being a "Natural Born Citizen" and that is as plain as it can be. His Daddy was NOT a US citizen therefore Obummer is NOT qualified to be President yet they are doing NOTHING about it WOW!.
SO WHAT??? Are you under the impression the FROZEN WITH FEAR, BALLESS Americans are going to do anything about it?? No one is willing to fire the first shot, and these CRAZIES know it. America is done. She's allowed the slaughter of over 56 MILLION INNOCENT unborn lives within her own borders.......and nobody cares. It's over America, judgement has come to your doors and the SCUM OF THE EARTH is about to destroy us. Our Military, and Police Forces are TOTAL CHICKEN-SH--TS and will NOT stand up and fulfill their oaths to defend the U.S. CONSTITUTION against ALL enemies, Foreign and DOOOOMMMEEEESSSSTTTIIIICCC. They're all on the payroll of the "domestic enemies", our own government. It's okay. We lose in the short term, but in the end, all you SCUMBALL TRAITORS lose ETERNALLY!!
obummer is a terrorist.
Let's take a close look at Libya. The Benghazi consulate cover up was about weapons that were conveyed to the rebel fighters against Quaife.The ambassador was the broker of the deal and was in Libya to retrieve these weapons before they got in the wrong hands.
Truth is they were already in the wrong hands. The confidant in country has ties to Al Qaeda and was in the process of shipping the captured weapons through Turkey to Syria to the rebel fighters their. Mostly Al Qaeda fighters.
The ship was intercepted in a Turkish port and confirmed that weapons were on board. The truth will come out but it may be too late to indite Obama. The loss of Stevens was necessary so he could not testify.