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Berlin blocks appearance by convicted Palestinian terrorist

2019-03-17

[IsraelTimes] BDS event in German capital called off after authorities cancel visa for speaker Rasmea Odeh, who spent 10 years in jail for deadly Jerusalem supermarket bombing. Berlin has blocked an appearance by convicted Paleostinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh, who had been scheduled to speak at a conference on "Paleostinian Women Fighting for Liberation." Following protests, the city’s department for interior affairs announced late Friday afternoon that they had barred Odeh from speaking in the city and cancelled her visa, on the grounds that the political activities of a non-citizen can be limited or prohibited if these activities break German law or endanger the peace. The venue also has cancelled its rental for the event that was organized by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Odeh, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, was found guilty in 1970 of participating in the 1969 murder of two Jewish students, Leon Kanner and Eddie Joffe in an attack on a Jerusalem supermarket. The co-organizers of the Berlin event were the Samidoun network of activists, affiliated with the PFLP and Hirak ‐ the Paleostinian Youth Movement, also tied to the PFLP. The PFLP is designated by Israel, the US, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and others as a terrorist organization. Israel placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Odeh for life for her role in the bombing, but she was released in a prisoner exchange with the PFLP in 1980 and immigrated to the United States. She has said her confession to the bombing was the result of severe torture by Israeli security forces. Odeh obtained her US immigrant visa in 1994 and her citizenship in 2004. In both applications, she failed to disclose her arrest and convictions in the bombings. She pleaded guilty to falsifying her immigration applications and was deported to Jordan in September of last year. Odeh served as the longtime associate director at the Arab American Action Network in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... before her deportation. A planned protest against her appearance was to be held in Berlin despite the event’s cancellation, its organizer told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Odeh’s planned appearance had triggered a storm of protest among Jewish and politicians. The Central Council of Jews in Germany had issued a statement condemning the invitation to Odeh. Council president Josef Schuster told the Taz newspaper in Berlin that he was "appalled that a convicted Paleostinian terrorist who killed and injured Israelis is permitted to appear in Berlin."The public appearance of someone sentenced for murder, terrorism and immigration fraud "legitimizes anti-Semitism at a time when we should be condemning it," US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell said in an interview with Fox News. Also weighing in against Odeh’s appearance were Berlin’s mayor, Michael Muller, and Hellmut Königshaus, head of the German-Israel Society. U.S. Ambassador Causes Germany To Deport Pflp Terrorist From Country [Jpost] The German government canceled an event on Friday with a convicted Paleostinian terrorist who murdered two Israeli students, following a strongly worded statement from US Ambassador Richard Grenell that was prominently featured in the nation’s daily newspapers. Berlin’s department for interior announced in a statement on Friday that they barred Rasmea Odeh from speaking in the capital and revoked her visa. The German authorities said Odeh must immediately leave the Schengen Area that is comprised of 26 European nations. The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo reported on Thursday that Grenell “petitioned German leaders on behalf of the Trump administration to ban Odeh from entering the country.” Kredo noted: “Odeh was reportedly invited to speak in Berlin on Friday by the ‘pro-BDS group Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, which is a supporter of the alliance of BDS groups.’” Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East defended Odeh on its Facebook page against the alleged defamation campaign she experienced in Germany.

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Palestinian deported from US over 1970 blast lands in Jordan

2017-09-21

Finally, after decades, we've got rid of her. [Ynet] A 70-year-old Palestinian woman who was deported from the United States for concealing a decades-old bombing conviction has arrived in Jordan. Rasmea Odeh said Wednesday that she was "exhausted and angry." Enjoy life as an old, unconnected female in the Muslim Third World, my dear. Even the PFLP won't care anymore. In 1970, Odeh was convicted of two Jerusalem bombings, including one that killed two people. She says she confessed under torture. She was released in a 1979 prisoner swap between Israel and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Odeh didn't disclose her criminal record when applying for a US visa and later for US citizenship. Her 2014 conviction for lying on her application was vacated after an appeal, but she made a deal with the government when prosecutors said they would take her to a second trial. In Chicago, Odeh was associate director of the Arab American Action Network, which provides social services and education.

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Anti-Trump Women's Movement Teams Up With Islamist Terrorist

2017-02-27

[Clarion Project] The liberal left has teamed up with extremist and violent Islamists in its next salvo against newly-inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump. On March 8, International Women’s Day, a follow-up event to the January 21 Women’s March on Washington, will be staged. One of the co-authors of the "militant" manifesto behind the nationwide event is convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Yousef Odeh. Odeh was convicted in Israel in 1970 for being involved in two fatal bombings. Odeh spent 10 years in jail before she was released in a prisoner exchange in 1980. She moved to the U.S. by omitting her terror conviction on her immigration papers and served as the associate director of the Arab American Action Network in Chicago and later as an ObamaCare navigator. In 2014, she was convicted in the U.S. for concealing her past and thus illegally obtaining U.S. citizenship. After claiming she forgot about her conviction and imprisonment in Israel due to post traumatic stress disorder, she was awarded a new trial which is currently pending.

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Palestinian terrorist gets jail for lying on US immigration form

2015-03-13

[IsraelTimes] Rasmieh Odeh gets 18 months behind bars and will likely be deported for covering up role in deadly 1969 Jerusalem bombing A former Paleostinian terrorist living in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for failing to disclose her convictions for bombings in Israel when she applied to be a US citizen. Rasmieh Odeh appeared Thursday in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... 's federal court, backed by dozens of supporters. She will remain free while she appeals. Odeh will likely be deported to Jordan upon her release, the Chicago Sun Times reported. Judge Gershwin Drain said Odeh was a terrorist decades ago but has changed her ways. Nevertheless, he said, she lied. Odeh helps run Chicago's Arab American Action Network. In 2004, she answered "no" on her citizenship application when asked about past convictions. She says she believed the questions were about US crimes. Prosecutors requested a sentence of five to seven years for lying on the form, well above the federal sentencing guideline of 12 to 18 months. "A light sentence in this case would be a signal to anyone who has fought overseas for ISIS or a similar organization that there is not much risk in coming to the United States, hiding one's past and seeking citizenship," prosecutors Jonathan Tukel and Mark Jebson wrote. Odeh was convicted in Israel of two bombings in Jerusalem in 1969 and was sentenced to life in prison. One of the bombings killed Hebrew University students Edward Joffe and Leon Kanner at a grocery store. Odeh, 67, said Israeli authorities tortured her into confessing. Israel released Odeh in 1979 in a prisoner exchange with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s... , the group behind the bombings. Odeh entered the US in 1995 and applied for citizenship in Detroit in 2004. Odeh supporter Hatem Abudayyeh condemned the judge's rulings and the case as a whole. "Since both defense motions challenged how Drain conducted the trial, it came as no surprise," Hatem Abudayyeh of the Rasmea Defense Committee said in a statement after her conviction last month. "We know that the conviction was a travesty of justice, and that Judge Drain's rulings made it impossible for the jury to give Rasmieh a fair shake."

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Palestinian Woman Guilty Of Lying On Citizenship Papers

2014-11-11

[DetroitFreePress] A bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... jury on Monday found a Paleostinian immigrant guilty of not disclosing that she had been convicted in a 1969 Israel bombing when she was applying for U.S. citizenship. Rasmieh Odeh, 67, was accused by prosecutors of being a terrorist who killed Israelis in 1969 and then lied about it when trying to become a U.S. citizen. Odeh used to live in Michigan and is now in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... , where she works for the Arab American Action Network. She was not charged with any terrorism crime, but with immigration fraud. The jury reached their verdict Monday morning after just a couple of hours of deliberation. Saying she was a flight risk, Judge Gershwin Drain revoked her bond a and Odeh was detained, taken away in handcuffs. Her sentencing was set for March 10. Odeh could face up to 10 years in prison for her conviction, be stripped of her U.S. citizenship, and deported.

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Arab activist lied to get citizenship, jurors told

2014-11-06

[DetroitFreePress] A Chicago Arab activist deceived U.S. officials for years, getting citizenship in 2004 without disclosing that she had spent a decade in an Israeli prison for bombings that damaged the British consulate and killed two people at a supermarket, a prosecutor said at the start of the woman's trial Wednesday. Rasmieh Odeh answered "no" when asked if she had ever been charged, convicted or imprisoned, first when she applied to enter the U.S. from Jordan in 1995 and then in 2004 when she sought citizenship in Detroit. Odeh, associate director at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago, had many opportunities to come clean, especially in an interview during the citizenship process, but repeatedly lied, prosecutor Mark Jebson told jurors in federal court.

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US Citizen, Convicted Of Bombing In Israel, Will Be Deported From US

2014-05-19

[Ynet] A reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... activist might plead guilty in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... to failing to tell US immigration officials about her conviction in a deadly bombing in Israel in 1969, her attorney said Saturday. A court hearing is scheduled Wednesday for Rasmieh Yusef Odeh, associate director at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago. "We are engaging in serious negotiations, which could lead to a guilty plea," defense lawyer William Swor told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "If she enters a guilty plea, she will likely have to leave the country." The Times of Israel adds all sorts of interesting details: Odeh’s case has angered pro-Paleostinian activists in the US who accuse the government of trying to silence dissent on Israel. Her appearance at the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... federal courthouse last fall drew sidewalk protesters who traveled from Illinois to chant criticism of the US Department of Homeland Security. Odeh was convicted of an attack that killed two people at a Jerusalem market in 1969. An Israeli military court sentenced her to life in prison in 1970, but she was released 10 years later in a prisoner swap with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s... The indictment refers to her as Odeh, but she’s commonly known as Rasmea Yusef in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... . Hatem Abudayyeh, head of the Arab American Action Network, called her an “icon” in the community after her arrest last year. She’s been free on bail. If you think they didn't know exactly who she is, what she's done, and celebrate her for it, you haven't been paying attention. In 2013, Odeh received the Outstanding Community Leader award from the Chicago Cultural Alliance, a coalition of ethnic museums and cultural centers in the Chicago area.

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Site Offers $50k For Clip Of Obama Honoring Radical

2012-07-29

[Jerusalem Post] US Breitbart News offers reward for video of 2003 speech honoring controversial Paleostinian-American academic, Rashid Khalidi. Even dead he continues doing the vetting the mainstream media refuses to do. This is a great idea, and one we could extend to obtaining other information about Champ. Somewhere in the bowels of the Registrar's office at Columbia is a bored work-study student with access to certain records... The US Internet news portal, Breitbart News is offering a $50,000 reward to anyone who can provide the videotape of a 2003 dinner honoring a radical Paleostinian American academic attended by then Illinois state senator Barack Obama Why can't I just eat my waffle?... During the 2008 presidential campaign, The Los Angeles Times reported that Obama attended a farewell dinner for his longtime friend Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi reportedly served as the director of the PLO's WAFA news agency in Beirut during the 1970s. At that time, the PLO was one of the most active terrorist organizations in the world. The 2003 dinner was a tribute to Khalidi on the eve of his departure from the faculty of the University of Chicago. Khalidi left the university for Columbia University ...contributed $547,852 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns? And where do they get all that money they piss away buying politicians? in New York City where he was appointed to serve as the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and the director of Columbia's Middle East Institute. Obama has acknowledged a close, long-term friendship between his family and the Khalidi family. Khalidi and his wife Mona, who served as the editor of the PLO's English news service in Beirut from 1976-1982, hosted a fundraiser for Obama's failed Congressional campaign in 2000. According to the Times report, at the 2003 dinner, Khalidi told his Paleostinian American guests to support Obama's 2004 bid for the US Senate. According to the report Khalidi said, "You will not have a better senator under any circumstances." During Obama's tenure as a director on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, the charitable group donated $75,000 to Khalidi's Arab American Action Network. The Times article notes the virulently anti-Israel discussion that took place at the 2003 Khalidi dinner. Among other things, a Paleostinian read a poem accusing Israel's government of terrorism and sharply criticizing US support for Israel. The speaker reportedly threatened Israel saying that if Paleostinian interests are not secured, "then you [Israel] will never see a day of peace." Another speaker called Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria "Zionist settlers on the West Bank," and likened them to the late Osama bin Laden ... who is currently warming his feet by the fire with Hitler and Himmler... The report claimed that Obama struck "a different tone...and called for finding common ground," but provided no direct citations of his speech to that effect. The event was videotaped and the Times reported that it had a copy of the video. Due to the incendiary nature of the anti-Israel rhetoric expressed at the dinner and the longstanding friendship and mutual professional support between the Obamas and the Khalidis, the Times report generated widespread public interest, particularly among opponents of Obama's 2008 presidential run. The Times was asked repeatedly to release the videotape of the event. Despite the obvious public interest in the film, the newspaper repeatedly refused to honor those requests. Four years after its initial publication, interest in the dinner still runs strong. In light of the continued relevance of the story, Breitbart News has announced its decision to offer $50,000 to anyone who will provide the videotape of the dinner. The $50,000 reward is contingent on Breitbart News being able to obtain independent authentication of the video recording, as well as verification that the video recording contains Obama's complete remarks at the event. Explaining the initiative, Breitbart News editor in chief Joel Pollak told the Jerusalem Post, "The Khalidi tape may be crucial to understanding Barack Obama's policy of confrontation and isolation towards Israel. The Los Angeles Times refused to provide a full account of what was on the video, and other media failed to question that decision or to search for the facts themselves." "It is essential that the American people see the video for themselves -- not just to understand the past but to make an informed decision about the next four years. It is well past time that we vetted Barack Obama -- and the mainstream media."

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Hatem Abudayyeh visited White House

2010-10-02

Follow-up on what Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit has been discussing. An Arab-American activist who attended an outreach session at the White House complex in April had his Chicago home raided by the FBI last week and appears to be a focus of an unfolding federal terrorism-support investigation. Hatem Abudayyeh, who serves as executive director of the Arab-American Action Network, took part in a meeting for Arab-American leaders held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 22, according to appointment data posted on the White House website. "He attended a briefing held by the Office of Public Engagement on April 22, 2010, to update members of the Arab-American community on issues of their concern," White House spokesman Shin Inouye said. The guest list for the event was drafted by the Arab-American Institute. Inouye said President Barack Obama did not take part in the session, which appears to have involved more than 80 people. So Champ didn't just drop in? Last Friday, FBI agents executed a search warrant at Abudayyeh's Chicago home as part of a coordinated series of raids involving at least one other Chicago site, along with the homes of anti-war activists in Minnesota. A copy posted on the web of a grand jury subpoena served on one target of the raids in Minneapolis demands "all records of any payment provided directly or indirectly to Hatem Abudayyeh, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ("PFLP") or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ("FARC")." He keeps the best company ... A search warrant served on a Minneapolis anti-war activist, Michael Kelly, ordered agents to seize records relating to Kelly's travels to "Palestine, Colombia, and ... within the United States." It also mentions possible connections to Hezbollah. The warrant and subpoena suggest the probe, which is being run by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in Chicago, is focusing on illegal support for terrorist organizations, particularly by a Minnesota-based group called the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. PFLP, FARC and Hezbollah are designated as terrorist groups by the U.S. government. A spokesman for Fitzgerald's office declined to comment on the probe. Let's hope Fitz has better luck here than with prosecuting ex-governors ... Abudayyeh has not been charged with any crime, nor do the court documents made public by targets of the searches make any explicit allegation of ties between the Chicago activist and any of the groups. Oh lord, not more unindicted co-conspirators. The White House briefing Abudayyeh attended was organized by the Arab-American Institute in connection with its annual dinner and related events, AAI President James Zogby said Friday. "Each year we do a leadership summit of our institute leadership also of leadership from the Arab-American network. That is a network of Arab --American community and social service organizations and the group in Chicago is one of the network members and so they were invited," Zogby said. "We did, as part of the weekend, a White House briefing and Hatem was included as part of the network." Zogby said the national network Abudayyeh's group is part of works on domestic issues, such as immigration reform and civil liberties. "I know Hatem is active on those issues in Chicago. He's very much a part of immigration reform coalitions there. That that would have been the purpose of the network's inclusion in this meeting," Zogby said. Like how to get more Hezbies into the country ... A lawyer for Abudayyeh, Jim Fennerty, said he was not aware of his client's White House visit. Asked if the investigation into Abudayyeh was underway at the time of his White House visit in April, Finnerty said, "We only became aware of [the probe] when people got their houses raided and search warrants carried out.....I think the grand jury started sitting a year ago though." The lawyer said the investigation may extend back to protests held in connection with the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., in 2008. Funny how the spider web comes together -- Arab terrorist symps and nutty domestic terrorist symps. It's the fascist left and the islamofascists. Fennerty said he believed his client was being targeted because of his anti-war activism. On the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the attorney said Abudayyeh supports "a single, secular democratic state," not the two-state solution endorsed by the U.S. In a 2006 interview with Fight Back News, an outlet run by Minneapolis activist Kelly, Abudayyeh seemed to disagree rather strenuously with at least some of the U.S. government's use of the "terrorist" label. "The U.S. and Israel will continue to describe Hamas, Hezbollah and the other Palestinian and Lebanese resistance organizations as 'terrorists,' but the real terrorists are the governments and military forces of the U.S. and Israel," Abudayyeh said. "The vast majority of the world sees and understands this, and are in full support of Lebanese, Palestinian and worldwide resistance to Israel and the U.S.'s naked aggression, war, imperialism and occupation." Fennerty said he was surprised to hear Abudayyeh was invited to a White House event. "He runs like a social-welfare office that helps people get citizenship, apply for benefits, welfare if they're entitled to it," the lawyer said. Like Hezbies ... According to a bio on the AAAN website, Abudayyeh has been affiliated with the group since 1999 and took over as executive director in 2003. Abudayyeh's White House visit was noted Thursday by several conservative websites, including the Gateway Pundit blog at First Things magazine. Abudayyeh's group, AAAN, briefly drew attention during the presidential campaign following reports that a foundation on whose board Obama served donated $40,000 to the group for "community organizing" in 2001. Conservative critics said the group and Abudayyeh have promoted anti-Israeli views. AAAN officials said the organization is strictly focused on local community issues and doesn't get involved in international politics. In 2003, Obama spoke at an AAAN-sponsored farewell dinner for Rashid Khalidi, a professor who was decamping from the University of Chicago to Columbia. During the 2008 campaign, the Los Angeles Times obtained a video of the event and reported that Obama lavished praise on Khalidi, who once served as a spokesman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Other speakers at the event railed against Israeli policies. The MFM didn't run any further with it, either ... Late in the 2008 campaign, Republican nominee Sen. John McCain attacked the Times for failing to make the video public. The newspaper said it obtained the video on the condition that it not be released publicly. High-level contacts between politically active Arab-American leaders and White House officials have stirred controversy in the past after the activists became caught up in terrorism-related probes. In some cases, defense attorneys for those charged have sought to use their White House visits to undermine the prosecution's assertions that the individuals were dangerous.

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FBI raid six sites in Minneapolis, two in Chicago

2010-09-25

Highlights from various links: the FBI appears to be looking for connections between local anti-war activists and terrorist groups in Colombia and the Middle East. Homes searched include those of Mick Kelly, Jess Sundin, Meredith Aby, Anh Pham, Sarah Martin and Tracy Molm in Minneapolis, and two unknowns in Chicago. Terror groups of interest include FARC, PFLP, Hezbollah. Also of interest are any payments made to one Hatam Abudayyeh, executive director of the Chicago-based Arab American Action Network. Update: Homes searched in Chicago: of Stephanie Weiner and Joseph Iosbaker, and of Hatem Abudayyeh. Thomas Burke was subpeonaed to face a grand jury, as were the others, according to various reports. (CNN) -- Political and anti-war activists in the Midwest said they were the target Friday of searches the FBI called part of an investigation into the "material support of terrorism."Warrants led to the search of five residences and one office in Minneapolis, Minnesota, said FBI spokesman Steve Warfield, who said there were no arrests. Two other searches were conducted in Chicago, Illinois. Activist Tom Burke in Chicago said he and others in Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan were served subpoenas to testify before a grand jury. He also said computer hard drives were taken from locations in both cities, as well as a cell phone in Minneapolis. A coalition of groups represented on the Fight Back website released a statement condemning the raids as "harassment." "We see them as a way to impair our freedom of speech," said Burke, a member of the Colombia Action Network. "We've done nothing wrong." The coalition came together after a large anti-war protest at the Republication National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul in 2008, Burke said. Among the groups the activists are involved with are the Palestine Solidarity Group, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, and Students for a Democratic Society, which was active during the Vietnam War. One of the apartments searched in Minneapolis belongs to Mick Kelly, an anti-war and government protestor. Kelly said the search warrant indicated agents were looking for evidence of his travels to Latin America and Palestine. Jessica Sundin of the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee told CNN agents took a hard drive, paper files, photos, a cell phone and her passport during a search of her Minneapolis residence Friday. More from the local Chicago CBS affiliate here: The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports the targets in the Minnesota raids included Jess Sundin, an organizer of a mass march on the opening day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul two years ago. They also included Mick Kelly, who has announced plans for a march on the Democratic National Convention if Minneapolis is selected to host it in 2012. Warfield said he couldn't comment on whose homes were searched or give details on why because it's an ongoing investigation. "There's no imminent threat to the community," he said. An FBI SWAT team entered first "and looked for pointy things. And then they left and the FBI agents came in and looked through everything in the house," Sundin said. The agents took "computers, several boxes of papers, everything related to data like discs," she added. The Washington Examiner has more details from Ay Pee.

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Fight the Smears! 2: Electoral Boogaloo

2008-06-17

Jim Geraghty, National Review I have another tip for the Obama Anti-Smear Site. We found another person alleging that Obama has terrorist ties — Fred Hobbs, a Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee member, who said, "I'm not sure we know enough about him. He's got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be." It's not just that a Tennessee Democratic party official is making this horrific claim; the Huffington Post is repeating the claim in giant type on their web site. Best of luck in tracking down this nefarious malefactor and ensuring those statements are corrected. Now, for heaven's -er, I mean, Post-Obama-America's sake, the Tennessee Democrats ought to get their facts straight. Obama has no ties to terrorists... of the al-Qaeda variety. He merely has a long-term professional and fundraising relationship with a man who placed bombs in the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol Building, among other public places. And Obama doesn't have any connections to extremism or those who excuse terrorist violence... other than serving on the Woods Fund and giving $110,000 in grants to the Arab American Action Network, whose co-founder Rashid Khalidi has lamented the "media hysteria" about Palestinian suicide bombers. (He denies being a spokesman for Yassir Arafat's PLO in the past). Other than that, there's just not much there.

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Obama Worked with Terrorist, Expert Says

2008-02-26

Senator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens, according to Aaron Klein, Middle East correspondent for WND.com. The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group. In 2001, the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit that describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, for which Khalidi's wife, Mona, serves as president. The Fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002. Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website. According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2001. Obama served on the Wood's Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971. Ayers, who still serves on the Woods Fund board, contributed $200 to Obama's senatorial campaign fund and has served on panels with Obama at numerous public speaking engagements. Ayers admitted to involvement in the bombings of U.S. governmental buildings in the 1970s. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The AAAN in 2005 called a billboard opposing a North Carolina-New Mexico joint initiative to deny driver's licenses to illegal aliens a "bigoted attack on Arabs and Muslims." Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel line. The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, "The Subject of Palestine," that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948.

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