by Lionel Bascom — November 14th, 2007 — 1 comment
A court battle has begun in Boston between a prosecutor and an Islamic charity linked to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center over the group’s alleged pro-jihad activities.
Three former leaders of Care International went on trial this week in Boston on charges related to hiding their activities behind claims that they were a charity formed to help war orphans, widows and refugees in Muslim nations.
Jury selection in the federal trial began today. The leaders, Emadeddin Muntasser, Samir Al-Monla and Muhammed Mubayyid, are on trial for allegedly hiding pro-jihad activities from the Naturalization Service, the Internal Revenue Service and the FBI. The indictments against them charge them with making false statements, tax code violations and conspiracy to defraud the United States. At the root of these charges are prosecution claims that the group distributed a newsletter promoting jihad and supporting Muslim militants involved in armed attacks in various locations around the world.
“There is no charge that Care International or any of the defendants provided material support to terrorism, or had any connection with Al Qaeda, bin Laden, terrorism, or any terrorist attack or plot,” defense lawyers wrote in court papers.The group, which was not affiliated with the well-known global relief group CARE International, is now defunct. Prosecutors have acknowledged that Care did some legitimate charity work.
8:07 PM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Related Stories, Freedom Tower News, Politics
It doesn’t matter how little charity work this fraudulent company claims to have done, the fact is that it supported terrorist activity around the world, and did this under the guise of an established charitable organization. That’s a down right deceitful crime against humanity in my book. Hopefully, the truth eventually will surface, but “during times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”(George Orwell).
Jeanne · November 14th, 2007 at 11:07 pm