David Safavian has ties to terror organizations?? (ex-Bush official)

[converted_democrat]

This is on the front page of Raw Story
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19597 (direct link)
Link to Raw Story- http://www.rawstory.com/

Last Monday, David Hossein Safavian, a high-ranking White House official and pal of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist, was arrested in a federal corruption case involving lobbying bad boy Jack Abramoff. According to the FBI, Safavian repeatedly lied to federal investigators in order to cover up Abramoff’s shady dealings. He not only bent ethics rules to accompany Abramoff on a 2002 golf junket to Scotland; he also used his position as chief of staff at the General Services Administration to deliver GSA-managed land into the lobbyist’s hands.

But Safavian's not just tied to a dirty lobbyist. He's also tied to a convicted terrorist and a suspected terrorist supporter. Lobbying disclosure forms revealed last year that he has been in the employ of Abdurahman Alamoudi, an avowed supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah. Prosecutors have discovered evidence that he has links to al-Qaeda. At the time, Safavian waved aside any affiliation to Alamoudi. He insisted that he was really lobbying for a client named Jamal al Barzinji. That revelation did little to clear Safavian’s name: A federal affidavit identifies Barzinji as the ringleader of a group suspected of aiding terrorists.


What's worse, Safavian has demonstrated a pattern of concealing all these ties in order to gain access to sensitive positions in the government; and despite this pattern of dishonesty and despite serious security concerns, both the Senate and the agencies that have hired him have given him a pass.

edit- for link to original arrest story---
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Bush_Management_and_Budget_Procurement_chief_arre_0919.html

[htuttle]

1. HEZZBOLLAH! HEZZBOLLAH!!!

The Bush Administration is rife with foreign agents. China, Israel, Iran, you name it. Sort of a "United Nations" of spies, you might say...(though 'United Corporations' would be more accurate in this case).

[converted_democrat]

12. It's getting crazy.

I wonder why there are so many on the inside willing to sell us out? Money, power what?

[SmokingJacket]

2. Interestingly, that's from a very conservative website.

Hmmm. Don't know what to think about that.

This story is just incredible, though. I'm practically speechless.

[converted_democrat]

5. I thought the same, but Raw Story has it on the front page.....

I trust them. Man, if this is true...

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

13. Front Page also ran an article

detailing the links between Norquist's "Islamic Institute" & terrorist organizations. David Horowitz introduced it in rather dramatic terms:

The article you are about to read is the most disturbing that we at frontpagemag.com have ever published. As an Internet magazine, with a wide circulation, we have been in the forefront of the effort to expose the radical Fifth Column in this country, whose agendas are at odds with the nation’s security, and whose purposes are hostile to its own. In his first address to Congress after 9/11, the President noted that we are facing the same totalitarian enemies we faced in the preceding century. It is not surprising that their domestic supporters in the American Left should have continued their efforts to weaken this nation and tarnish its image. Just as there was a prominent internal Fifth Column during the Cold War, so there has been a prominent Fifth Column during the war on terror.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=11209&p=1

[converted_democrat]

14. Have you ever heard of Paul Sperry?

The guy that wrote piece that I put up? I've never heard about him before. I'm confused about the site in general, they seem to be a very right leaning site, but they sure seem to be making an effort to do alot of damage to people in this administration.


edit- for my awful spelling

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

16. He's an Islamo-phobic right-winger

& is of a breed - along with severael of the writers at Front Page & other high-profile neo-cons (Perle particularly) - who have a very large problem with America's alliance with Saudi Arabia & Pakistan. Unfortunately, their obsessive hatred of all this Islam makes them very poor commentators on Wahhabism, Saudi terrorist funding & Pakistan's ISI links to fundamentalist groups.

He's written two books -- the first an attack on Bush for letting his "oil buddies" dictate foreign policy (ie dropping sanctions on Pakistan & not instantly deposing the House of Saud) and the second an ultra paranoid rant (Steve Emerson times 100) about an Islamic plot to take over the USA & replace the constitution with the Koran.

[BurtWorm]

3. Note where it links to. Interesting.

Someone pointed out to me (chimpsrsmarter, actually :hi: ) that David Horowitz published an (allegedly) painful expose on Grover Norquist several years ago showing his ties to terrorist financiers from Saudi Arabia. It was actually by Frank Gaffney, a Reagan Defense Dept. lackey.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=11209&p=1


They're all fucking each other in every orifice.

[converted_democrat]

10. Good.....

If they are fucking each other, they have less time to focus on fucking our country!!

edit- for a typo

[AlCzervik]

4. another article on Frank Gaffney about Grover Norquist along the same

lines---Frank hates Grover, this article is from 2003.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=11209&p=1

[converted_democrat]

6. Thank you for the link, this is the first I have ever heard of this stuff.

I'm going to go read the article as soon as I finish typing this reply!! Thank you!

edit- for my awful grammar

[KoKo]

7. But, Gaffney is a "piece of work," on his own.

Thanks for the link...I remember that article but it's worth reading it again. Many of us at that time thought the whole thing would unravel...but it somehow went cold.

Safavian being tied to Hezzbolah seems odd since I think his name is of Armenian origin. :shrug:

[AlCzervik]

9. i can't stand Frank Gaffney, he is a neo con shill but it's

worth a read anyhow.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. Have you been watching Gaffney on CNN lately? He might almost

single handedly take the Shrub down. He has had nothing but disdain for * and is quite vocal about it.

[BR_Parkway]

8. Never, ever f@#k with the CIA. Too much info on all the right things

continues to get leaked out.

Either that or they want David more scared of not giving up the goods on the bigger players (hey, we're naming you an enemy combatant and sending you to Gitmo).

[converted_democrat]

11. I had not thought of that angle---

You think they are trying to label him a terrorist, so they can shut him up? That seems low even for the Bush administration, but I would not put anything past them at this point.