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Chicago Man Convicted in Israel of Aiding Hamas Removed From U.S. Terrorist Watch-List

Nov. 9, 2012 9:35am Tiffany Gabbay

Muhammad Salah is shown with supporters leaving the Everett McKinley Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Tuesday, January 9, 2007. (Chicago Tribune Photo by Terrence Antonio James.)

In a move that will draw ire among those who fear the ever-growing perils of the America’s preoccupation with Islamic-sensitivity, the administration made a bold step Wednesday — the day after President Obama won his re-election bid – of removing a convicted Hamas operative (and Chicago resident) from its designated terrorist list.

59-year old Muhammad Salah, who spent nearly five years in an Israeli prison for funding the terrorist outfit, was taken off the list by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. The terrorist designation prohibited Salah from obtaining employment or allegedly to make simple purchases without seeking permission from proper authorities. JTA explains the details:

Two months ago, backed by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the American Friends Service Committee, he filed a lawsuit for his removal.

“A strong message was sent, and that is all Americans are entitled to their due process and essential rights,” the Anti-Discrimination Committee said in a statement.

The organizations had challenged the designation in part because it forbade them from assisting Salah — a ban they said violated their First Amendment protections.

Stranger still, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is actually a national Quaker organization.

“One of our principle tenets is we work in partnership with the most vulnerable,” Michael McConnell, Midwest regional director for AFSC told the Chicago Tribune. “Not being able to work in some kind of partnership or in connection with Muhammad Salah is against our core principles, which are based on Quaker principles of equality. The American Friends Service Committee believes everyone is of God, and because of that there is that divine spark that we can connect with in any person.”

In 1993 Salah was convicted in Israel for funding Hamas after Israeli authorities found $95,000 in his eastern Jerusalem hotel room. He returned to the U.S. 1997.

In 2007, Salah was acquitted of U.S. charges that he funded Hamas, but was ultimately convicted of lying under oath in the civil case brought by the family of David Boim, an American teenager murdered by the militant group.

With a second-Obama term now solidified, many conservatives fear a lenient approach to dealing with convicted terrorists and Islamists operating in the U.S. will intensify.

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mzee26
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 12:56pm
@Christian_33

Then go troll other sites….comedy central seems to be your type’s source of news so skip on back there.

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MidWestWingedOne
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 12:30pm
So we are still strip searching grannies and groping youth but we let an actual terrorist move unimpeded….

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- roagie1
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 5:25pm
  Get prepared ,, or be enslaved
  
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EqualJustice
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 12:29pm
Just lookin’ out for more of his PEEP. This is going to be a FUN year. Wonder when we start abiding by Sharia law, forced into our courts by CAIR?

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Christian_33
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 12:07pm
Idiots. All of you. Learn to read beyond what this stupid website deems is ‘journalism’ on this case.
Charges were dropped by a jury after the US Government spent a great deal of money trying to convict.

Read about the case, the law and the government’s role. You blame everything on Obama. Things he has nothing to do with. Cry babies all of you. I’m not one of his supporters. So nip that in the bud.

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- ThoreauHD
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 1:33pm
  You do realize that there are NO COURTS FOR TERRORISTS. We hold them indefinitely. Or have you missed the last decade. This is Obama’s fault.
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 1:47pm
  It always amazes me when people comment on a website/forum that they disagree with and then calls everyone else ‘idiots’ ,’morons’,etc..etc..
  
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- Christian_33
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 3:03pm
  no court for terrorists? what are you even talking about? obviously you haven’t read the whole story. what a surprise!
  
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- roagie1
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 5:26pm
  your an idiot ,, you will be a slave ,, to bad I won’t be there to see it ,, you fool
  
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- roagie1
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 5:29pm
  someone will put one, right between christian 33′s runnin lights an he’ll never see it comin
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:34am
I never said this before, but it is obvious that this is not MY President. Just because he got (somehow, and we don’t know how) a few more .1% than the other guy, it does not mean I become an automatic obamabot. I have thousands of reasons why I will not support anything about this small, petty.. deceptive, angry hateful thing that called ‘vengeance’ the foundation of American an self-Government. He is AN ALINSKY RADICAL. Not any President.

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- red_white_blue2
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 12:46pm
  I agree. I have always stood in support after an administration is elected to be a true American. In this case, I as being a true American by saying he is not my president! As far as I’m concerned I now don’t have one, and God only knows if I will have one again if this Satin Hitler never leaves.
  I am fearful that someone crazy may try to resolve this in a way that is illegal and immoral.
  
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sparkyrules
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:11am
‘the administration’.
I’m hating those two words more and more.

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- CatB
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 12:01pm
  I prefer .. “regime” seems more fitting.
  
  Remember BENGHAZI
  
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- RedDawn2012
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 5:34am
  “Reich” is the word you’re looking for.
  
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BlackCrow
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:10am
I have plenty of bacon fat saved to lube bullets.

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1stzookid
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:36am
If you can imagine the worst about this subject, that is what Obama will do.

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mikem1969
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:33am
So someone who is obviously a terrorist because the associate with and aid a terrorist group like hamas gets removed from the U.S. terrorist watch list. This administration is so far beyond corrupt it is scary. They all need to be tried for treason and executed once found guilty.

Our longtime friend Israel is now in dire trouble because this administration with throw Israel under the bus as soon as they can. Pray for Israel and pray for the US. God is the only one that can help.

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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:51am
  I wonder if he was removed from the list so he can go help “Occupy Sandy?”
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:24am
  I’m thinking the same way as time go’s on,Mike1969.
  
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- SacredHonor1776
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:54am
  ” They all need to be tried for treason and executed once found guilty.”
  
  Who is going to do it, short of a coup?! They control the system….
  
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- roagie1
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 5:36pm
  they don’t have time or the resources to fallow all these terrorist from all over the world ,, they need all the personnel here in the US to watch us Veteran Terrorist ,, we are the big danger not people that help Islam’s extremist , or Islamist extremist , ,,, they seem to be the new friends of this gaggle.
  
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fb274
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:21am
Did he bundle “big bucks” for obama like Rezko?

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- Chromo200
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:36am
  There is a lot of Arab Money in this election ..
  
  http://www.worldtribune.com/2012/11/06/report-top-democrats-engaging-and-accommodating-groups-tied-to-hamas-muslim-brotherhood/
  
  Get ready to live partly under Sharia Law. If you deal with muslims it will have to be under Sharia Law every one else it will be up for grabs what the judge thinks is which law to use .. Constitution or Sharia.
  
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- johnpaulkuchtajr
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:42am
  Hey FB274,
  
  Salah didn’t have to “bundle” any bucks.
  
  I’d imagine that Salah just rang-up Mohamed Magid, president of ISNA, chief Saudi cash conduit, and said something along the lines of “Move eight figures to Obama’s account in Dubai, will you please?”
  
  “Well that account is chock full, I’ll move it to Bahrain. Done.”
  
  My friend, the end is near.
  
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Fitzzz
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:12am
When does the Blind Sheik use his get out of jail free card ????

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geomann
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:10am
There is a Cabinet position waiting for him…

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Babysmooth44
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:09am
The person or persons in this government who released this terrorist should be held liable for his actions. Who in the government determines that this guy making purchasing is more important than the American people’s safety?

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:04am
Obama can make him the “Hamas Czar.”

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feddup
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:03am
Now that Obama has “more flexibility”, all Islamists and Islamist sympathizers/fund raisers will now be referred to as holy warriors or freedom fighter…take your pick. The only terrorists now are Tea Party members.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:14am
  As far as the administration has been concerned only tea party, Christians, conservatives, those who are pro life and pro second amendment, limited government or who simply love freedom and America are to be declared potential domestic terrorists.
  
  I have to wonder now how much longer we will have until speaking out against anything Obama, the democratic party, the leftist MSM, or their radical allies say or do becomes a capital offense and you are jailed for life or executed.
  
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- feddup
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:33am
  apparently you can go to jail now for making videos critical of Muhammed.
  
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objectivetruth
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:57am
The Treasury has different rules for placement and removal than the courts do.There was a reason they kept him as a blocked person many years after his acquital.There are a whole host of reasons that I won’t speculate on.

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Zipit
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:50am
Records show that he received a substantial green energy loan from Joe Biden, and was listed as a bundler for the Obama campaign!

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ResistSocialism
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:50am
Christie has a job for this fine gentleman.

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momrules
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:48am
” With a second Obama term now solidified, many conservatives fear a lenient approach to dealing with convicted terrorists and Islamist operating in the U.S. will intensify.”

Ya think?

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Tri-ox
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:48am
obama continues to stand with his muslim brethren.

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steve61lindsey
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:46am
Obama akbar!

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:53am
  STEVE, That is one of the most sensible comments that I have seen here today. And, there have been some other really good ones. BTW, I plan to steal that phrase.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:58am
  STEVE, Just emailed that one to son’s phone. He’ll have fun with it today.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:20am
  I’m sure Obama would agree with that statement.
  
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- Aldo
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:45am
  Obama FUBAR
  
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AJAYW
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:45am
poor guy

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:43am
Everyone that voted for Obama did not want WAR. It’s coming here. Stupid is, is what stupid does!

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- objectivetruth
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:59am
  Hum I guess that makes me a warmonger.I voted for Romney.Praise God and pass the ammunition please.
  
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HKS
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:42am
Really, another Benghazi in the making?

“Remember Benghazi”

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Gary_K
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:42am
Just another one of bathhouse barry’s buddies.

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