ACLU Frees Suspected Terror Fundraiser

Posted on July 28, 2006

Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan was ordered released without bond from the Terminal Island federal detention facility, according to his attorney, Ranjana Natarajan of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.

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Hamdan, who founded a mosque in Anaheim, was arrested on immigration charges in July 2004 as federal authorities unsealed an indictment against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The government charged that the Texas-based charity funneled millions to the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

The following month, Hamdan was ordered deported on the immigration charges. His requests to be released on bond while he fights the charges had been denied until this week.

Hamdan, who was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank, was accused of having ties to terrorism but was never charged. Instead, he was convicted of overstaying a student visa he got 27 years ago.

The Holy Land Foundation’s president, chairman and director of endowments have been charged with terrorism-related crimes.

Here is some info on the “charity” according to Discover the Networks:

Established in 1989, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), was a non-profit, tax-exempt, charitable trust whose offices in Texas, New Jersey, California, and Illinois were shut down by the Bush administration on December 4, 2001. Calling itself America’s largest Islamic charity, this organization purported to be a source of help for needy Palestinian Muslims in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Authority. “Our mission,” stated its Website, “is to find and implement practical solutions for human suffering through humanitarian programs that impact the lives of the disadvantaged, disinherited, and displaced peoples suffering from man-made and natural disasters.” The Bush administration seized all HLF assets and records, however, on suspicion that it was a front group funding the terrorist organization Hamas.

According to Mein Blogo Vault’s research the government has been building a case against him for four and a half years. This is the typical dangerous and irresponsible kind of thing to expect from the ACLU. However, to be fair, the government should expect that this organization is going to challenge them on everything they do to fight terror, and if they had solid evidence on this guy they should have sped the process up and nailed him for good.

Regardless of the government however….Don’t you all feel safer now that the ACLU freed one of the key players in a terror fundraising campaign? I didn’t think so.

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