-Caveat Lector- Yahoo! News AP Headlines Wednesday February 17 4:36 AM ET Report: Cleric Linked to Bin Laden DALLAS (AP) - FBI and court documents show that the head of a suburban Dallas mosque has a decade-long history of contacts with front organizations for Osama bin Laden's international terrorist network, The Dallas Morning News reported today. Moataz Al-Hallak, imam of the Islamic Society of Arlington mosque, was named on telephone and mailing lists for a bin Laden group supporting Afghan guerrillas in 1990, the newspaper said. His name surfaced again last August in the files of another Arlington man, Wadih el Hage, who was directing a bin Laden charity in Kenya. El Hage, who has acknowledged being bin Laden's personal secretary but denies any role in terrorism, is jailed in New York on charges of conspiring with bin Laden to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa on Aug. 7. Twelve Americans were among the 224 people killed in the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Thousands of others were wounded. Al-Hallak has not been charged with any crime and told The New York Times last week that he has no connection to violence. The FBI declined comment to the Morning News, and Pat Fitzgerald, the federal prosecutor leading the bin Laden investigation in New York, did not return telephone calls. During el Hage's bail hearing last week, Fitzgerald described Al-Hallak as a ``contact between members of the bin Laden organization.'' ``This is a case about murder and conspiracy to murder, not about religion,'' Fitzgerald said at the hearing. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
