Jim Hoft
GatewayPundit
9/28/2010
Last Friday FBI agents raided the homes of far left activists in Chicago and Minneapolis who are linked to the FARC and Islamic radicals as part of a terrorism investigation.
The home of radical Hatem Abudayyeh in Chicago was raided in the terror sweep.
Hatem Abudayyeh protests against Israel in Chicago in January 2009. (Daylife)
The AP reported on the raid in Chicago.
FBI agents in Chicago took a laptop and documents from the home of a Palestinian-American anti-war activist in an attempt to silence his advocacy, an attorney said Sunday.
The FBI on Friday searched eight addresses in Minneapolis and Chicago, including the home of Hatem Abudayyeh, who is the executive director of the Arab American Action Network, attorney Jim Fennerty told The Associated Press.
“The government’s trying to quiet activists,” Fennerty said. “This case is really scary.”
More than half a dozen agents went to Abudayyeh’s home on Friday and took any documents containing the word “Palestine,” Fennerty said.
Abudayyeh, a U.S. citizen whose parent immigrated from Palestine, wasn’t home at the time of the raid because he was at a hospital with his mother who is battling liver cancer, Fennerty said.
Chicago activist Thomas Burke said he was served a grand jury subpoena that requested records of any payments to Abudayyeh or his group. “The warrants are seeking evidence in support of an ongoing Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation into activities concerning the material support of terrorism,” said Steve Warfield, spokesman for the FBI in Minneapolis, where six additional homes were searched Friday… Burke said he received a grand jury subpoena requesting records of payments to Abudayyeh’s organization as well as two groups among the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)…
…The Arab American Action Network was founded by former PLO operative and close Obama family friend Rashid Khalidi. Obama was a director of the Woods Fund from 1994 through 2001, when the board approved a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network.
In 2003 Barack Obama was an honored guest at a dinner sponsored by the AAAN for former PLO-operative Rashid Khalidi. During the dinner a video was taken that shows Barack Obama celebrating with members of this Palestinian group who are openly hostile towards Israel. Barack Obama even gave a toast to a Rashid Khalidi at this going away party. The LA Times will not release the video from this Jew-bashing dinner…
This entire article is at GatewayPundit.
From Britain Square Mile Wife notes:
Jawa:
At the center of the ring of “peace activists” is a guy by the name of Hatem Abudayyeh, a left wing activist and Executive Director of the Arab American Action Network. I’m getting tons of emails about this, but Jim Hoft has a good summary of the link between the “charity” run by Abudayyeh suspected of supporting terror, and President Obama:
The Arab American Action Network was founded by former PLO operative and close Obama family friend Rashid Khalidi. Obama was a director of the Woods Fund from 1994 through 2001, when the board approved a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network.
In 2003 Barack Obama was an honored guest at a dinner sponsored by the AAAN for former PLO-operative Rashid Khalidi.
Ah, so that’s what he meant by “community activist”!
Update: Klein: Terror probe targets group funded by Obama. President, Bill Ayers channeled money to ‘anti-Israel’ organization
Brenda J. Elliott
The Real Barack Obama
9/29/2010
Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, reports:
President Obama and Weatherman terrorist group founder Bill Ayers provided funds in the 1990s to an Arab group whose executive director had his home raided last week as part of a terror probe by the FBI.
“The [search] warrants are seeking evidence in support of an ongoing Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation into activities concerning the material support of terrorism,” Steve Warfield, spokesman for the FBI in Minneapolis, told reporters.
Warfield was referring to the FBI raiding seven homes this past Friday, including that of Hatem Abudayyeh, who is the executive director of the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN.
WND was the first to report that Obama worked as a paid director of the Woods Fund, a Chicago nonprofit, from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002. He served on the fund together with Ayers.
The fund, with Obama and Ayers on the board, provided a $40,000 grant to the AAAN in 2001. The Fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.
The co-founder of the AAAN, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, has been a close associate of Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has done work 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. The AAAN president is Khalidi’s wife, Mona.
The $40,000 grant from Obama’s Woods Fund to the AAAN constituted about a fifth of the Arab group’s reported grants for 2001, according to tax filings obtained by WND. The $35,000 Woods Fund grant in 2002 also constituted about one-fifth of AAAN’s reported grants for that year…
…Speaking in February 2008 in a joint interview with WND and the nationally syndicated John Batchelor Show, Khalidi was asked about his 2000 fundraiser for Obama.
“I was just doing my duties as a Chicago resident to help my local politician,” Khalidi stated.
Khalidi said he supports Obama for president “because he is the only candidate who has expressed sympathy for the Palestinian cause.”…
Read the entire article here.
Update 2: GatewayPundit: What Was FBI-Raided Radical Abudayyeh Doing at Obama White House & Why Was He Awarded $457,000 in Taxpayer Money?
