Debbie Schlussel: Show Raid OUTRAGE: FBI, DoJ Allow Al-Mabarat Hezbollah Charity to Remain Open for Biz; Thanks, Abu Porno
Well, now, maybe you can understand my skepticism of yesterday's show raids of Dearbornistan-based Hezbollah charities, Goodwill Charitable Organization (GCO) and Al-Mabarat Charitable Organization-USA, Inc. As I noted yesterday, the FBI raided and shut down only the piddling charity, GCO, which sent just over $160,000 to terrorists. The government froze only that group's minimal assets.
BUT . . . when it came to the bigger cheeses, like Al-Mabarat Charitable Organization--which openly touts its leader as Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah (Hezbollah's spiritual leader) and should have been shuttered by the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice, no dice. The FBI raided the charity, but neither it nor the Justice Department shut it down nor froze its assets. The Dearbornistan charity, which never made any secret about sending its million dollars per year to Hezbollah, remains open for business.
Ditto for LIFE for Relief and Development, which sends multi-millions to HAMAS and apparently Al-Qaeda, every single year. It was raided almost a year ago, with nothing happening to it.
Ditto for La Shish, the Dearbornistan-based Mid-East restaurant chain owned and run from Lebanon by fugitive indictee and Hezbollah financier Talal Chahine. To this day, Chahine collects money from and conducts the business of the restaurant, even though a federal indictment alleged he used the restaurant to give $20 million, tax-free, to Hezbollah.
Why are these charities and businesses allowed to remain open for business? Why haven't their assets been frozen and/or seized? Why?
Well, I'll tell you why. These raids are for show. Little comes of them. Even when individuals have been indicted, like Chahine, they've been given ample warning by U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy III a/k/a "Abu Porno," and allowed BY HIM to flee the country (as in Chahine's case, as well as the case of the Hammoud family of Hezbollah money-launderers). The raids, the indictments, everything that goes with them are all meant for PR hype and TV cameras. But there is nothing behind them.
The bottom line is that Murphy is openly in bed with extremists in the Muslim community and has THE WORST record among all U.S. Attorneys in the country for prosecuting Islamic terrorists, and that's in the heart of Islamic America. Syracuse University found that Murphy has the lowest rate of pursuing terrorist cases referred to him by the FBI, and he has the lowest rate of successful prosecutions (convictions) of the cases he pursues. Add that to the charities and fugitives he respectively allows to remain open for business and flee the country, and you have a U.S. Attorney who is actively helping terrorist groups flourish in our country.
Yet another sign of "Desperate But Not Serious" in the War on Terror.
Mr. Murphy, Shut Al-Mabarat DOWN!
Posted by Debbie on July 25, 2007 10:46 AM to Debbie Schlussel