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Defend America on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:35:26 PM
Obama's Islamic Envoy Quoted Defending Man Charged With Aiding Terrorists
FOXNews.com
President
Obama's new envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference, Rashad
Hussain, is at the center of a controversy over remarks attributed to
him defending a man who later pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid a
terrorist group
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs quoted Hussain in 2004
as calling Sami al-Arian the victim of "politically motivated
persecutions" after al-Arian, a university professor, was charged in
2003 with heading U.S. operations of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The United States has designated the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as a
foreign terrorist group as far back as 1997. At the time of al-Arian's
arrest, then Attorney General John Ashcroft called it "one of the most
violent terrorist organizations in the world."
Al-Arian pleaded guilty in 2006 to conspiracy to aid Palestinian
Islamic Jihad and was sentenced to more than four years in prison.
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