Hamas' Continued Influence In The US

Patrick Poole has a post at Central Ohioans Against Terrorism about Hamas' continued influence in the US:

In Anisa Abd El Fattah's immediate circle of colleagues, she is about the only one that hasn't been designated a global terrorist by the US government, been tried and convicted on terrorism-related charges, or fled the country to avoid prosecution by the Feds. She headed an organization that one convicted terrorist leader described as "the political command for HAMAS in the United States", which was named by federal prosecutors this past May as unindicted co-conspirator in the current Holy Land Foundation terror finance trial; and she co-authored two books with the current spokesman for HAMAS, Ahmed Yousef, who fled the US in 2005 and immediately reappeared in Gaza in his new position within the HAMAS leadership.

So why is she speaking at a conference held in the Ohio State Capitol atrium later this month?

The event, sponsored by Interfaith Association of Central Ohio is part of an nterfaith conference entitled, “The Many Faces of Islam”, held in the atrium of the Statehouse on Sunday, October 28th. In an article for FrontPage Magazine, Hamas in the House, Poole goes into more detail about Fatah, noting that she worked

at the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), where Fattah served respectively as both president and director of public affairs...

UASR was founded in 1989 by Mousa abu Mazook, who currently serves as the Deputy Chief of the HAMAS political bureau in Damascus, Syria, and has been listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US government in 1995. According to a February 1993 New York Times article, convicted HAMAS terrorist operative and former UASR employee, Mohammed Salah, told federal authorities that UASR served as “the political command of HAMAS in the United States”. Another 2004 report by investigative journalist Scott Wheeler, “Alleged Terrorist Threat Operates in DC Suburb”, describes multiple ties between UASR and al-Qaeda.

While we're waiting for the results of the Holy Land Foundation trail, Hamas is not standing still--neither in Gaza nor in the US.

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