Former officers of Islamic charity arrested on federal charges Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 66.94.237.59 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0 X-Yahoo-Post-IP: 81.208.74.182 From: "gwen831" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Yahoo-Profile: gwen831 Sender: osint@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list osint@yahoogroups.com; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list osint@yahoogroups.com List-Id: <osint.yahoogroups.com> Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 16:33:06 -0000 Subject: [osint] Reply-To: osint@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050513/APN/505130570&cachetime=3&template=dateline Former officers of Islamic charity arrested on federal charges By THEO EMERY Associated Press Writer May 13, 2005 Two former officers of a Boston-based Islamic charity have been arrested on federal charges of lying to authorities investigating the charity's alleged ties to terrorist organizations. Emadeddin Z. Muntasser, the former president of Care International, and Muhamed Mubayyid, the group's former treasurer, were arrested Thursday after they were indicted the previous day on charges of concealing information from federal agencies, conspiring to defraud the United States, and making false statements to the FBI. The charity is now defunct. The indictment was disclosed the same day Muntasser was scheduled to have a hearing in U.S. District Court in Boston on his application for U.S. citizenship. Muntasser's attorney, Jeremiah Friedman, declined to comment. U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel held off on ruling on Muntasser's bid for citizenship while the criminal charges are pending. Muntasser, reached at his home Thursday evening, declined to comment. Mubayyid has been detained, and a message left at a phone listing for his wife was not immediately returned. Muntasser, 40, of Braintree, the owner of the Logan Furniture chain and a Libyan national, was a founding president of the Boston-based charity, Care International. Mubayyid, 40, of Shrewsbury, Care's treasurer, has been employed by Ptech Inc., a Quincy software firm that was in the news two years ago after federal agent searched its offices as part of an investigation into funding of terrorist groups. No charges were ever brought against Ptech or its officers. Care International was the Boston branch of the Al-Kifah Refugee Center, based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Known by various spellings, the center was a recruitment office for Mektab al Khidmat, or MAK, which Osama bin Laden co-founded in the 1980s to recruit mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, according to the 9-11 Commission. The U.S. government has called MAK the "precursor organization to al-Qaida." Some people involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing were connected to the Brooklyn center. President Bush designated MAK/Al-Kifah a global terrorist organization soon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Care International says in its promotional materials that it was formed to help war orphans, widows and refugees in Muslim nations. The organization, which is not affiliated with the global relief group CARE International, raised $1.7 million in donations from 1993 to 2001. According to the indictment, Care was raising and spending money to support and promote mujahideen fighters and jihad, and published a pro-jihadist newsletter, al-Hussam, or The Sword. It didn't reveal those activities in its tax forms filed with the government, and didn't reveal its links to Al-Kifah. Muntasser also failed to tell the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in a 1999 interview about the group's support for jihad, and didn't mention that on a trip to Pakistan several years earlier, he also traveled to Afghanistan, according to the indictment. Muntasser has described his work with Care as humanitarian. He applied for U.S. citizenship in late 2002, but didn't disclose his association with Care and Al-Kifah, or his travel to Afghanistan, according to the indictment. Nor did he tell it to the FBI in 2003, when he was interviewed again, according to the indictment. When the government took no action on his citizenship application, Muntasser sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, claiming his application had been needlessly delayed. In response, prosecutors filed documents in court revealing that Muntasser was the subject of an FBI investigation. That investigation led to the indictment Wednesday, and the arrest of the two men. Several people acquainted with Muntasser through his charitable works had recently filed letters supporting his naturalization bid. One man, the Rev. Jean Wesner Jolimeau of Haiti, wrote that Muntasser, who had aided Haitian relief efforts, had a "benevolent character." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give underprivileged students the materials they need to learn. Bring education to life by funding a specific classroom project. http://us.click.yahoo.com/FHLuJD/_WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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