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Jewish World Review
Oct. 14, 2003
/ 18 Tishrei, 5764
Preaching terror
By
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com |
When Senator Jon Kyl opens a hearing of his Senate Judiciary
Subcommittee on Terrorism this morning, the subject will be
the penetration of the U.S. military's chaplain corps and American
prison systems by radical Muslims (also known as Islamists).
Unfortunately, a man as responsible as anybody for the recruitment,
training and certification of Muslim military chaplains — Abdurahman
Alamoudi — will not be there. He is currently in jail, awaiting
prosecution on charges of illegal ties to terrorist-sponsoring Libya.
Alamoudi's indictment late last month came amidst a flurry of
arrests of servicepersonnel connected to the detention center for
Taliban and al Qaeda operatives in Guantanamo, Cuba. Prominent among
these was one of Alamoudi's chaplain selectees, U.S. Army Captain James
Yee, who is being held in a military brig on suspicion of espionage and
other crimes.
These incidents put into sharp relief an issue with which
Senator Kyl and other legislators (notably, Senators Charles Schumer,
Arlen Specter, Susan Collins, Richard Shelby and Diane Feinstein) have
become increasingly concerned in recent months: Have Islamists — many
of whom are backed by Saudi Arabia — successfully established beachheads
in such places as the Pentagon's chaplain corps and America's prisons,
mosques and colleges with a view to dominating moderate Muslims and
creating a potential terrorist "Fifth Column" within the United States?
It is regrettable that Alamoudi is unavailable to be
cross-examined today by Senator Kyl and his colleagues since few people
are more familiar than Alamoudi with the reasons for these concerns. He
has, after all, been among the most industrious and best-connected of a
small number of Muslim activists in this country who have championed
Islamist organizations — including some officially designated as
terrorist operations — and their causes.
According to an Islamic web site, islamonline, he was also the
first endorsing agent for Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military. Even
today, an organization Alamoudi founded, the American Muslim Armed
Forces and Veterans Affairs Council, is one of only three approved by
the Pentagon to certify Islamic chaplains like Captain Yee. The other
two, the Islamic Society of North America and its Graduate School of
Islamic Social Sciences, share a similar outlook and Saudi ties.
Alamoudi was at one time "Regional Representative" for ISNA's
Washington, D.C. chapter.
If Abdurahman Alamoudi were willing to cooperate and reveal all
he knows, his testimony could shed invaluable light on the ways in which
countries like Saudi Arabia and Libya have provided vast sums and
direction to purportedly "mainstream" Muslim organizations in the United
States for ominous purposes. For example, while Alamoudi's indictment
focuses on his alleged prohibited travel to and expenditures in Libya,
its most illuminating part may be the section detailing his admissions
about activities in which he has evidently been engaged for years.
The indictment recounts that Alamoudi was detained in Britain in
August 2003 when he was discovered to be leaving that country for Syria
with $340,000 in sequentially numbered $100 bills. He told British
authorities that he had been given the money by "someone with a Libyan
accent." He also declared that "he is the president of the American
Muslim Foundation and that financing the organization's work is a
constant struggle. He further stated that, in order to alleviate the
problem, he approached the Libyan Ambassador to the United Nations in
1997."
Alamoudi acknowledged having made without Washington's official
permission "at least" ten trips to Libya — a crime under U.S. law — and
that "he finally negotiated funding for his organization through the
[World] Islamic Call Society." As the indictment goes on to point out,
the World Islamic Call Society is a well-known and long-standing
Libyan-controlled funding vehicle for terrorism.
Alamoudi reportedly told officers of the U.K.'s Special Branch
that he "intended to deposit the [$340,000] in banks located in Saudi
Arabia, from where he would feed it back in smaller amounts into
accounts in the United States." During his first interview on August
16th, "he was adamant that this was the only such transaction in which
he had been involved." The next day, however, Alamoudi "conceded that
he has been involved in other, similar cash transactions involving
amounts in the range of $10,000 to $20,000."
In other words, an individual responsible for certifying Muslim
chaplains for the U.S. military, one of whom is now under arrest on
suspicion of aiding America's Islamist foes, has acknowledged taking
hundreds of thousands of dollars from a state-sponsor of terror and
laundering it through accounts in Saudi Arabia for the purpose of
supporting an Islamic organization he runs in the United States. The
question occurs: Since Alamoudi is now or has been associated with over
a dozen such organizations in this country, has he (or others with whom
he has closely worked) used a similar modus operandi covertly to provide
funding for purposes inimical to American national security?
To be sure, Abdurahman Alamoudi insists he is innocent of the
charges now pending against him, which he claims to be "part of a
politically motivated prosecution." And, despite myriad public
statements he has made in support of officially designated terrorist
organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah, his lawyer, Kamal Nawash, says:
[Al]Amoudi has no links whatsoever to violence or terrorism."
The problem for Alamoudi and his associates is that the
available facts — including some he has provided himself — seem strongly
to suggest otherwise. If so, his prosecution may prove exceedingly
embarrassing, or worse, to those who enabled Alamoudi and his ilk to
certify U.S. chaplains and to misrepresent themselves as "mainstream"
Muslims who are "with us" in the war on terror.
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JWR contributor Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. acted as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Policy during the Reagan Administration, following four years of service as the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy. He was a professional
staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee under the chairmanship of the late Senator
John Tower, and a national security legislative aide to the late Senator Henry M. Jackson. He
currently heads the Center for Security Policy.
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© 2003, Frank J. Gaffney, Jr
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