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Arrest of Terror Suspect Points to Other Threats Wes Vernon, NewsMax.comSee previous part of series, Left-Wing Groups Silent on Schools' Muslim Indoctrination WASHINGTON – The arrest of Abdurahman Alamoudi on charges related to terrorism (which he vehemently denies) has led analysts to a Pandora’s box involving the shadowy world of terrorism and links to power centers in mainstream America, with some influence in high places. As reported by NewsMax.com, Alamoudi participated in drawing up ACLU's guidelines of dealing with religion in government schools. His involvement was confirmed to NewsMax by ACLU itself through its Washington offices. But there is much more. For starters, Alamoudi helped develop the Islamic chaplains program for the U.S. armed forces. He moved easily through power centers of the Clinton and Bush administrations, though the Bush White House has in more recent times taken better precaution to distance itself from those who, as Center for Security Policy CEO Frank Gaffney has said, would dominate moderate Muslims and create “a potential terrorist ‘Fifth Column’ within the United States,” a concern he expressed to NewsMax.com. Congress is taking notice of the extensive radical Islamist influence, not to be confused with the overwhelming majority of those of the Muslim faith. The Senate Finance Committee recently asked the IRS to turn over confidential tax and financial records, including donor lists, in a probe of allegations of ties of tax-exempt “charities” to terrorist organizations. Furthermore, Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., has made it clear he would work to prevent President Bush’s “guest worker” plan from granting citizenship to anyone who illegally entered this country. No doubt Kyl's caution stems in part from what he has learned in testimony at hearings his Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism has held in recent months. Gaffney told NewsMax it was regrettable that Alamoudi, now in jail and held without bail as a flight risk, was not available for Kyl’s hearings last fall. He charges his arrest was “politically motivated,” but Gaffney, a former high official in the Reagan Pentagon, says much could have been learned “if Alamoudi had testified under oath before the Senate probers."
“Islamists,” who are “a sub-set of the Muslim faith,” are believed to have “established beachheads in such places as the Pentagon’s chaplain corps and America’s prisons, mosques and colleges,” Gaffney said. Some of Alamoudi’s background information has even seeped into parts of the mainstream media, which has been mostly silent on his backgrouond. A report by NBC last fall identified the indicted Alamoudi as “the founder of the Islamic chaplain program,” and cited court documents claiming he had provided “financial support to Hamas” and “financial support to al Qaeda.” As reported earlier in this series, NewsMax.com identified Alamoudi’s activities more than two years ago when he “flamed out" (Gaffney’s description) at a rally in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House and openly declared support for Hamas and Hezbollah. AMC has been listed as an affiliate of National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom, a leftist “anti-American front,” Gaffney said. He referred to a post-9/11 “screed,” wherein NCPPF urged readers not to cooperate with the FBI. A powerful figure at NCPPF is Kit Gage, who in August 2002 was executive vice president of National Lawyers Guild, according to NLG itself in response to a telephoned inquiry from NewsMax. At that time, Annenberg Professor J. Michael Waller pointed out to us that NLG “was founded in 1936 under Stalin as the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party as its main instrument of espionage," so described in a congressional Report of Sept. 21, 1950. Three experts in the terrorist threat — Gaffney, Waller and former “red-diaper baby” turned conservative David Horowitz - have made the point that some present-day terrorist groups were originally organized by the old Soviet Union during the Cold War. The fact that Alamoudi participated in ACLU’s guidelines on religion in government schools and in the military chaplain program causes considerable pause. Gaffney despairs that few in either major party in this country are willing to discuss the problem at any length for fear of being labeled as “bigots,” no matter how much care is taken to stress that this is by no means an indictment of most Muslims.
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