rickjump1 0 #1 January 16, 2008 By LARA JAKES JORDAN WASHINGTON (AP) - A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan. The former Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice for allegedly lying about lobbying senators on behalf of an Islamic charity that authorities said was secretly sending funds to terrorists. A 42-count indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo., accuses the Islamic American Relief Agency of paying Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying - money that turned out to be stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Siljander, who served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, was appointed by President Reagan to serve as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations for one year in 1987. He could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday. The charges are part of a long-running case against the charity, which was formerly based in Columbia, Mo., and was designated by the Treasury Department in 2004 as a suspected fundraiser for terrorists. In the indictment, the government alleges that IARA employed a man who had served as a fundraising aide to Osama bin Laden. The indictment charges IARA with sending approximately $130,000 to help Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whom the United States has designated as a global terrorist. The money, sent to bank accounts in Peshawar, Pakistan in 2003 and 2004, was masked as donations to an orphanage located in buildings that Hekmatyar owned.Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 23 #2 January 16, 2008 QuoteBy LARA JAKES JORDAN WASHINGTON (AP) - A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan. The former Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice for allegedly lying about lobbying senators on behalf of an Islamic charity that authorities said was secretly sending funds to terrorists. A 42-count indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo., accuses the Islamic American Relief Agency of paying Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying - money that turned out to be stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Siljander, who served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, was appointed by President Reagan to serve as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations for one year in 1987. He could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday. The charges are part of a long-running case against the charity, which was formerly based in Columbia, Mo., and was designated by the Treasury Department in 2004 as a suspected fundraiser for terrorists. In the indictment, the government alleges that IARA employed a man who had served as a fundraising aide to Osama bin Laden. The indictment charges IARA with sending approximately $130,000 to help Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whom the United States has designated as a global terrorist. The money, sent to bank accounts in Peshawar, Pakistan in 2003 and 2004, was masked as donations to an orphanage located in buildings that Hekmatyar owned. Seeing how the UN is probably the most corupt organization in the world, it is not too hard to fathom many getting pulled into its mess."America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydyvr 0 #3 January 16, 2008 Being a Republican, at least he wasn't caught buggering little kids! . . =(_8^(1) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lefty 0 #4 January 16, 2008 QuoteBeing a Republican, at least he wasn't caught buggering little kids! Yeah, I'd say this is a step up.Provoking a reaction isn't the same thing as saying something meaningful. -Calvin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #5 January 16, 2008 Quote Being a Republican, at least he wasn't caught buggering little kids! Very true - that's the Dem's territory, anyway. Gotta love how they get that party mention into the first few sentences, though. Any bets on how deep the affiliation would have been buried if he'd been a Dem?Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #6 January 16, 2008 DUDE.. more fantasy land from you.. here you have the only thing like this you can find a Dem did..24 years ago.. Your rePUBICan Party took it and perfected it all within the last 7 years...yet you trot out this one case perennially.. so I guess you are part of the problem. You guys keep electing the same moralistic CRAP to congress and then try to blame the other party.....Nice Job Mike Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydyvr 0 #7 January 16, 2008 Quote Very true - that's the Dem's territory, anyway. Seems like plenty of sexual debauchery across both sides of the aisle these days . . . Quote Gotta love how they get that party mention into the first few sentences, though. Any bets on how deep the affiliation would have been buried if he'd been a Dem? No bets here, considering it's from AP. . . =(_8^(1) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #8 January 16, 2008 Quoteyet you trot out this one case perennially.. so I guess you are part of the problem. Ah, and there's the prime apologist for the Dems, now.... as shown above. Oh, I forgot - Illegal isn't illegal if it's a DEM doing it, is it? Especially since "times were different back then".Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #9 January 16, 2008 Quote Quote Very true - that's the Dem's territory, anyway. Seems like plenty of sexual debauchery across both sides of the aisle these days . . . Yup... true. Too bad the treatment isn't the same on both sides. Quote Quote Gotta love how they get that party mention into the first few sentences, though. Any bets on how deep the affiliation would have been buried if he'd been a Dem? No bets here, considering it's from AP. There was a report on that... maybe from Stanford? I'll have to see if I can find it...Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rickjump1 0 #10 January 16, 2008 Quote Quote Very true - that's the Dem's territory, anyway. Seems like plenty of sexual debauchery across both sides of the aisle these days . . . Quote Gotta love how they get that party mention into the first few sentences, though. Any bets on how deep the affiliation would have been buried if he'd been a Dem? No bets here, considering it's from AP. I got this off Wikipedia: [edit] Private career "Siljander is president of Global Strategies, Inc., a consulting firm in Washington, D.C.,[1] operates an import-export firm,[1] and works as a radio commentator.[1] He has written a book, A Deadly Misunderstanding: A Congressman's Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide, scheduled for release in June 2008".............. . This guy didn't fu*ck anybody in particular, he just fu*ked his country.Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
