Alamoudi, Norquist's Islamic Institute patron, bankrolled terrorists

[Hoppin_Mad]

The story is starting to get legs. I hope it turns into a marathoner.

Another Bushie besides James Baker and the Carlyle Crew tied to terrorists.

I wonder how many more are mentioned in the " 28 pages" ?

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=today&headline_id=242

[GainesT1958]

1. SoTHAT'S what Grover REALLY wants us to spend our tax dollars on...

Instead of things like, oh, Medicare and Federal aid to schools...

Hmmm...no wonder Dub thinks he's such a great guy!:eyes:

B-)

[wakfs]

2. Boy...

...would I ever love to see Norquist do the perp walk.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

5. That's not the goal

Sure, we'll give him the perp walk, but first we need to make him squeal like a pig about his GOOD FRIEND, Karl Rove.

What with the utter failure of the Iraq quagmire, the Wilson/Plame treason, and now running Islamic terrorism from the West Wing, Rove has doubled his late night Twinkie and Dr. Pepper intake. He's sweating, and I sincerely hope that an ulcer is eating its way through his stomach lining even now.

[KoKo]

33. Kick for a later read!

:kick:

[DinahMoeHum]

3. I smell a blackmail job waiting to happen. . .

tee hee.

:evilgrin:

[UTUSN]

4. Kick n/t

[DisgustipatedinCA]

6. Notice where the link is from?

The Center for Security Policy.

Frank Gaffeney is doing a takedown on Norquist and Rove and, possibly, Junior Himself.

In other words, it sounds like the PNAC is starting to cut and run. I do believe Realpolitick is right.

This gets very, very ugly from here on out for the Bush admin.

[KoKo]

7. Center for Security Policy is a RW Group with many snipes at anti-Iraq

Invasion Protestors saying we are funded by "out of favor groups."

So, I wonder when they are making these ties.....pretty much saying they warned Bush not to get too close to Almoudi, after, of course, saying Clinton was already to close to Almoudi.

The whole thing does sound like infighting, but I can't accept that anyone is ready to take out Shrub/PNAC. I worry there's something not good in all this for us Dems...

This group is not going to go down easily with just Norquist flap, as sinister as that whole thing is.

But, "realpolitik's" points are too good not to just savor for now.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

9. What if it's just the opposite

Yes, Gaffeney is the head of the Center for Security Policy, and he's definitely a PNAC'er.

What if the PNAC is trying to do the takedown, sacrificing some of their own in the process? It fits right in with Realpolitik's brilliant analysis. Whichever way it is, it feels like a HUGE power struggle, and one that won't just slip to the back pages of the newspaper.

And yeah, I don't think any of it bodes well for Democrats. It almost sounds as if they're completely ignored in the process, and the New New World Order v 2.0 will be decided without any regard to Democrats.

Wake up, Democratic congresspeople! Do something!

More questions: who pointed Justice in the right direction? Was it career Justice people and their career friends at the FBI? Surely Ashcroft and Mueller had nothing to do with it.

Interesting times.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

8. This should be THE BIG ONE. We'll see.

This may be the biggest story of the year, if it gets the traction it deserves, so I'm bumping it up.

Summary of what is known so far:

-Karl Rove and Grover Norquist are dear friends. Rove attends Norquist's weekly policy meeting where they decide how to take over the world, a la Pinky and the Brain.

-Grover Norquist founded the Islamic Institute

-The Islamic Institute received seed money from Abdurahman Alamoudi.

-Abdurahman Alamoudi is a vocal supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah

-Alamoudi’s Palm Pilot included the names and numbers of six designated global terrorists

-Alamoudi recruited the tranlators at Gitmo who have been arrested for stealing secrets. Apparently CIA interrogation logs were stolen and given to the Saudis.

-Alamoudi met with Karl Rove in the White House in 2001.


Also of interest is that Frank Gaffeney of PNAC fame is apparently orchestrating a takedown of Grover Norquist. There's the catty correspondence, but I'm wondering if it was time to make Norquist and Rove and possibly even Bush into sacrificial lambs. Purely speculation on my part, but there's definitely something going on.

Let's add to this list. Let's build a timeline. Let's look at motive (e.g., why was Norquist so interested in starting an Islamic foundation in the first place? One could hypothesize that if LIHOP is true, the White House needs to have a way to get in touch with their Al Qaeda buddies).

By the way, I had all of this stuff properly sourced, but my pc rebooted itself before I could post. It all comes from The Washington Post, MSNBC, and the Snellius thread (thanks, Snellius!).

[FlemingsGhost]

10. Motive, Means, and Opportunity.

Investigate like it is a crime. Because treason is a crime.

(Excellent summary, of the details thus far. The timeline helps, too.)

[Resistance Is Futile]

18. Why PNAC

PNAC has stated its displeasure with Rumsfeld and the Chimp administration for bungling the colonization of Iraq. They are likely annoyed that the Iraq debacle has put the seven nations campaign has been put on hold for the near future.

Further, PNAC has a natural reason to dislike Rove as he blocked PNACoid efforts to have the armed forces march directly into Syria as part of the same offensive thrust that captured Iraq.

[KoKo]

39. William Krystol looks very annoyed lately! Did anyone see him on C-Span

on the New Yorker Symposium on the Media? With Eric Alterman, Frank Rich, LA Times Editorial Director and other notables?

[sistersofmercy]

11. The original holding charge was violation of US sanctions with Libya.

Not going to be diddley squat!

[FlemingsGhost]

13. That's a smokescreen.(n/t)

Dems

[DisgustipatedinCA]

12. Someone please answer this r.e. Grover Norquist

I'd really like to know:

Why did Norquist have an interest in starting The Islamic Institute?

I mean, we have a lilly-white right-winger, staunch ally of GWB. Why would he want to be the founder of this institute?

Please provide

a. the real, unfiltered answer that you'll never see on the news, and,

b. the cover answer. What will right-wing pundits say when they spin this?


Thanks.

[FlemingsGhost]

14. We need to know the six Palm pilot names.

Tall order.

[KoKo]

31. Yes, who were the names on the palm pilot........anyone we might know?

Just asking......

[Resistance Is Futile]

16. Reading the tea leaves

The GOP has been interested in securing the vote of the growing Islamic population for quite some time. Norquist's involvement was likely part of the ongoing attempt to secure the support of a demographic group that isn't shrinking. Chances are, the people on the GOP side of the fence were too busy drooling over getting new voters to look very closely at just what was going on behind the scenes in the Islamic leadership groups run by the GOP's good friends in the House of Saud.

[slaveplanet]

19. and this has

everything to do with The Republican Ethnic Outreach Organization(islamofascist chapter) and it's attempts to offset the liberal Jewish vote.

[KoKo]

32. But, Norquist is vermin and his ties to Gingrich (another rat) are so

close it becomes a "dealing with theives situation."

[NNN0LHI]

17. Why did Norquist have an interest in starting The Islamic Institute?

Don't know yet. But if you think about it the corrupt leaders of most Arab countries are very right wing just as ours are.

Don

[Grins]

37. Here's my shot at it...

Why did Norquist have an interest in starting The Islamic Institute?

1. They have money.
2. Norquist believes, and has presented them, as a group that shares republican so-called “traditional” and "family" values. (Imagine that. Republicans sharing values with Islamic extremists. Whoda thunk it?)

From Josh Marshall, 25 Oct: ”My sense has always been that Norquist got into the Islam business back in the late 1990s when it looked like a growth industry for the Republican coalition.

“He had a lot of ideas about Muslims being natural cultural conservatives and free marketeers, and so forth. This three-cheers for Muslim capitalism! conference in Doha is a prime example.

“His 'Islamic Institute' is run out the offices of his main operation, 'Americans for Tax Reform.' (I just checked the website and apparently it's now 'The Islamic Free Market Institute.' So, you know, Mohamed von Hayek.)

“In any case, after 9/11 came along he probably realized that he might have gotten tied up with at least a few questionable characters. But he was too proud to admit he'd been naive and then just dug himself deeper.

“That's always been my sense. But when people start getting arrested, maybe it's time to give the whole thing a closer look.”
<http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/index.html#articles>

I think that Josh is right and wrong. Norquist may have been spooked by 9/11, but "...Grover Norquist’s best friend is Karl Rove, the White House chief of staff, and apparently Norquist was able to fix things. He got extreme right wing Muslim people to be the gatekeepers in the White House. That’s why moderate Americans couldn’t speak out after 9/11. Moderate Muslims couldn’t get into the White House because Norquist’s friends were blocking their access."
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/984616.asp?cp1=1>

And don't overlook that ethnic voter thing either.
”To be sure, the bulk of Norquist’s work on behalf of American Muslims merely falls in line with the American tradition of targeting ethnic voters - a tradition that goes back to the days of urban machine politics and before. To that end, Norquist and Khaled Saffuri, the executive director of the Islamic Institute and former director of government relations at the American Muslim Council, brokered meetings between Muslim and Republican leaders during the 2000 presidential campaign”.
<http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/01848515.htm>

What will right-wing pundits say when they spin this?

I am probably wrong, but I think this smoking gun is so hot they won't touch it. This is treason at very high levels. It is far more than the Wilson leak – FAR MORE!!

This is the HOT site. <http://www.msnbc.com/news/984616.asp?cp1=1> Scroll down and read the part by John Loftus, and when you do, remember those Army Chaplains that were arrested in Guantanamo as spies. Read that, and maybe you can tell me if you think the RW pundits should be shaking in the boots.

[salin]

41. Well over a year ago

I read that he had pursued the Arab American community to try to convince leaders to convince their constituents that the conservative values of Islam matched those of the Republicans.

I think Norquist was trying to set up another sort of politicization of religion to pull automatic republican voters in the way Robertson had been able to do with the Christian Coalition.

Imo, it was about trying to create a 'super majority' (through various constituencies) for the GOP that would make the dominance in Washington impentrable. He is part of the freemarket neo-cons - who sees the value of manipulating the social conservatives to get them to convince their constituents that the two are one in the same.

Nothing, imo, has been more effective in recent years for the right than the ability to merge religion and politics at the most local level - getting preaching from the pulpit to match Jesus to the GOP to the point where voting for a democrat is likened to voting for Satan. I think Norquist was trying to do more of the same in the Muslim community.

[smallprint]

15. replay on now (loftus on al amoudi)

on MSNBC

this is pretty amazing... he is just going off...

olberman - "chills down my spine"

on edit: whoops, i posted this to the wrong thread! but at least it's the same topic... sorry.

[MrPrax]

20. same story posted at citizensoldier

Must be a counter intelligence move...
http://www.citizensoldier.org/norquist.html

Jeez whiz...I am shocked and horrifed that Grover might be a long running intelligence project...promoting tax shelters while decrying tax or serving up databases of true blue tax evaders to the proper authorities over the years...

Too cynical I figure

[JHB]

22. Citizen Soldier

As a side note, the site
http://www.citizensoldier.org/ (all one word)
is a conservative (so-called)Christian site run by one Paul J. Tetreault, Jr., Esq., and should never be confused with:
http://www.citizen-soldier.org/ (with a hyphen between the words)
a soldiers' rights group which fights against abuse of the rank & file by their superiors (from exposute to toxic substances, guinea-pig vaccinations, and unneccesary hazardous conditions to enlistment fraud, etc.) and is a founding partner of the BringThemHomeNow! Coalition.

[KoKo]

27. Well one of those two citizen/soldier sites needs to change their name

because that is too confusing for most people who hear it and then go and try to do a Google.

[dusty64]

21. Suprise! Not one word

about this in my local paper. Anyone see it in theirs, or hear anything anywhere?

[bleedingheart]

23. You mean "Drown Government in a Bathtub" Norquist?

[KoKo]

24. Kick......thought this would be big news this a.m. Nothing!

:kick:

[eleny]

25. If you give aid to terrorists - you're a terrorist!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

26. And a bump, because it's really important

There's another very worthy thread on this topic. Maybe we should cross-post and lock one of them, that's for others to decide. Either way, this is all pretty important stuff. Please give it a scan.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

28. Bump.....anyone else interested in this?

NBC and Lisa Meyers continue to work on this. I would expect to see more in the coming days.

Terrorism being planned from the West Wing

Yes, that's a little sensational, a little over-the-top for now, but it could be a screaming headline in your local paper one day soon.

So bump, bump, bump.

[Hoppin_Mad]

29. Here's a link to more - it's catching on >

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/01848515.htm

[KoKo]

30. Kick!

:kick:

[DisgustipatedinCA]

34. Alamoudi-Bush meeting in 2000

When idiot boy was still governor of Texas, he apparently hosted Alamoudi and others at the governor's mansion:

In 2000, then-candidate Bush was photographed at the governor's mansion in Austin, Texas, with Alamoudi, Saffuri, and American Muslim Alliance founder Agha Saeed.
Link: http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/11/Floridian/Friends_in_high_place.shtml

[DisgustipatedinCA]

35. Norquist, Sununu, Rohrabacher meet w/Taliban in 2001

I had run into this a good while back, shortly after 9/11/2001. I don't know if it means anything or not, but these guys went to Qatar to meet the Taliban's foreign minister.

Rohrabacher's expenses were paid by the Islamic Institute, Norquist's organization. Isn't Rohrabacher now handling Arnold's transition team?

Here's one link, but there are several similar links for anyone interested:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0209/S00033.htm

[UTUSN]

36. Kick, n/t

[The Magistrate]

38. There May Not Be A Whole Lot To Argue About Here

But it damned well ought to be read by everyone.

It may be a little painful for some to open the real possibility the arrest of Guantanamo personnel are apprehensions of real agents, but that such agents can be tied back directly to the most reactionary political operatives of the right ought to be some consolation for that.

"Treason doth never prosper, what's the Reason? Why, when it prosper, Sir, none dare call it Treason!"

[KoKo]

43. Yes, Magistrate. Good point. When I initially heard of the Chaplain

arrests at Gitmo, I thought it was Asscroft persecuting muslims. And, I'm so cynical about these "squatters in the WH" that I don't trust or believe anything they do.

But, if this ties them back to Norquists efforts to support terrorists groups then I will reconsider.

I just hope this goes somewhere. It's hard enough keeping it up on GD for people to read. If the Press doesn't push and Congress doesn't support going after that viper Norquist, then we are indeed doomed poltically and as a nation.

Thanks for your perspective!

[JackRiddler]

40. The McKinney angle

The really sickening thing is that when Alamoudi contributed to Cynthia McKinney's campaign, it was played up as "McKinney Ties to Terrorism"! Alamoudi's group supported Bush in 2000! And this attack on McKinney was after Bush had invited Alamoudi of all people to represent Muslims at the National Cathedral ceremony right after Sept. 11 (on Sept. 15, I believe, the one that ended with the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the launching of the Crusade).

Lots of detail at http://osamaskidneys.com/mckinney.html

[eleny]

42. Bill O'Reilly went after Al-Arian and helped get him suspended

He was crowing for weeks about it when Al-Arian got suspended. And when he was arrested, B.O. was genuinely squishy over it. He took major credit.

So I wonder how fast he'll go after Norquist? Or maybe he already has and I missed it - darn. Time to send Billy and email and ask.

Edited to add this url about O'R and Al-Arian http://news.tbo.com/news/MGAUO3OPFCD.html