Obama Administration Admits to Inviting FBI Terror Suspect to White House
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, October 1, 2010, 5:31 PM
Last Friday FBI agents raided the homes of far left activists in Chicago and Minneapolis who are linked to the Marxist FARC terrorists and Islamic radicals as part of a terrorism investigation.
The home of radical Hatem Abudayyeh in Chicago was raided in the terror sweep.
Radical Hatem Abudayyeh protested against Israel in Chicago in January 2009. (Daylife)
Hatem Abudayyeh is the executive director of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN). Hatem Abudayyeh has been with the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) since 1999, and was appointed Executive Director in 2003. The Arab American Action Network was founded by former PLO operative and close Obama family friend Rashid Khalidi. Obama was a director of the Woods Fund from 1994 through 2001, when the board approved a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network.
In 2003 Barack Obama was an honored guest at a dinner sponsored by the AAAN for former PLO-operative Rashid Khalidi. During the dinner a video was taken that shows Barack Obama celebrating with members of this Palestinian group who are openly hostile towards Israel. Barack Obama even gave a toast to a Rashid Khalidi at this going away party. The LA Times will not release the video from this Jew-bashing dinner.
Not only was Hatem Abudayyeh’s radical organization given $40,000 by Barack Obama and the Woods Fund but his organization also collected nearly half a million in taxpayer money.
Today the Obama Administration admitted that Abudayyeh was invited to the White House in April for a press briefing to Arab-American leaders.
Josh Gerstein at the Politico reported:
An Arab-American activist who attended an outreach session at the White House complex in April had his Chicago home raided by the FBI last week and appears to be a focus of an unfolding federal terrorism-support investigation.
Hatem Abudayyeh, who serves as executive director of the Arab-American Action Network, took part in a meeting for Arab-American leaders held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 22, according to appointment data posted on the White House website.
“He attended a briefing held by the Office of Public Engagement on April 22, 2010, to update members of the Arab-American community on issues of their concern,” White House spokesman Shin Inouye said.
The guest list for the event was drafted by the Arab-American Institute. Inouye said President Barack Obama did not take part in the session, which appears to have involved more than 80 people…
…The warrant and subpoena suggest the probe, which is being run by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in Chicago, is focusing on illegal support for terrorist organizations, particularly by a Minnesota-based group called the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. PFLP, FARC and Hezbollah are designated as terrorist groups by the U.S. government. A spokesman for Fitzgerald’s office declined to comment on the probe.
Abudayyeh has not been charged with any crime, nor do the court documents made public by targets of the searches make any explicit allegation of ties between the Chicago activist and any of the groups.
The White House briefing Abudayyeh attended was organized by the Arab-American Institute in connection with its annual dinner and related events, AAI President James Zogby said Friday.
“Each year we do a leadership summit of our institute leadership also of leadership from the Arab-American network. That is a network of Arab –American community and social service organizations and the group in Chicago is one of the network members and so they were invited,” Zogby said. “We did, as part of the weekend, a White House briefing and Hatem was included as part of the network.”
Zogby said the national network Abudayyeh’s group is part of works on domestic issues, such as immigration reform and civil liberties. “I know Hatem is active on those issues in Chicago. He’s very much a part of immigration reform coalitions there. That that would have been the purpose of the network’s inclusion in this meeting,” Zogby said…
A lawyer for Abudayyeh, Jim Fennerty, said he was not aware of his client’s White House visit. Asked if the investigation into Abudayyeh was underway at the time of his White House visit in April, Finnerty said, “We only became aware of [the probe] when people got their houses raided and search warrants carried out…..I think the grand jury started sitting a year ago though.” The lawyer said the investigation may extend back to protests held in connection with the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., in 2008.
Fennerty said he believed his client was being targeted because of his anti-war activism. On the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the attorney said Abudayyeh supports “a single, secular democratic state,” not the two-state solution endorsed by the U.S.
In a 2006 interview with Fight Back News, an outlet run by Minneapolis activist Kelly, Abudayyeh seemed to disagree rather strenuously with at least some of the U.S. government’s use of the “terrorist” label.
“The U.S. and Israel will continue to describe Hamas, Hezbollah and the other Palestinian and Lebanese resistance organizations as ‘terrorists,’ but the real terrorists are the governments and military forces of the U.S. and Israel,” Abudayyeh said. “The vast majority of the world sees and understands this, and are in full support of Lebanese, Palestinian and worldwide resistance to Israel and the U.S.’s naked aggression, war, imperialism and occupation.”
Fennerty said he was surprised to hear Abudayyeh was invited to a White House event. “He runs like a social-welfare office that helps people get citizenship, apply for benefits, welfare if they’re entitled to it,” the lawyer said.
According to a bio on the AAAN website, Abudayyeh has been affiliated with the group since 1999 and took over as executive director in 2003.
Abudayyeh’s White House visit was noted Thursday by several conservative websites, including the Gateway Pundit blog at First Things magazine.
Abudayyeh’s group, AAAN, briefly drew attention during the presidential campaign following reports that a foundation on whose board Obama served donated $40,000 to the group for “community organizing” in 2001. Conservative critics said the group and Abudayyeh have promoted anti-Israeli views. AAAN officials said the organization is strictly focused on local community issues and doesn’t get involved in international politics.
In 2003, Obama spoke at an AAAN-sponsored farewell dinner for Rashid Khalidi, a professor who was decamping from the University of Chicago to Columbia. During the 2008 campaign, the Los Angeles Times obtained a video of the event and reported that Obama lavished praise on Khalidi, who once served as a spokesman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Other speakers at the event railed against Israeli policies.
Late in the 2008 campaign, Republican nominee Sen. John McCain attacked the Times for failing to make the video public. The newspaper said it obtained the video on the condition that it not be released publicly.
Previously:
FBI Raids Home of RNC Leftist Activist As Part of Terrorism Investigation
FBI Terror Suspect Aarded $457,000 in US Aid and a Trip to White House
What Was FBI-Raided Radical Abudayyeh Doing at Obama White House & Why Was He Awarded $457,000 in Taxpayer Money?
ADVERTISEMENT
-
Featured Story:
Busted!… Obama Headlined a DEMOCRAT SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA Event in 1996 **FLIER**
Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 91 Comments
CLN commented:
Guess this also damages Bernie’s cred?
And the “jewish” media will bury this story.
jainphx commented:
Hey the bad thing is that Bin laden turned the invite down.
Granny commented:
“The guest list for the event was drafted by the Arab-American Institute. Inouye said President Barack Obama did not take part in the session, which appears to have involved more than 80 people…”
As a Medal of Honor recipient and the family of a second Medal of Honor recipient in DC for his funeral last week learned, NOBODY gets into the White House without Secret Service clearance. Unless the President of the United States overrides the Secret Service.
Googy commented:
janet napolitano is a terrorist apoligist.
Republicans according to Obama, via promulgation by janet napolitano on her watchdog list is right-wing extreamism == teat party members, old ladies wanting healthcare, boys who help the cripple cross the intersections on major roads, and Church charity organizations.
What is perfered by Obama and janet napolitano == mexican drug cartels, shoe bombers, gansta rappers turned hyjackers, coca leaf growers, heroin distributers, Democratic Party, money launderers for the Leftwing extreamists, and thug-patrols of unions.
That is what I believe and have seen with my own eyes about this evil regime.
Scott commented:
I look forward to the FBI raiding the WH…As Obama said, “judge me by the people I surround myself with.”
Bill Fabrizio commented:
Abudayyeh was merely part of a focus group the dems put together at the WH to determine whether changing the party name to “Jihadist Party” would be offensive to the marxist base.
squeaky commented:
i wonder who’s sneaking in the back door. sometime just before or after the election someone said that obama had a circle of advisors who would never pass security to get though the front door. i didn’t know how true it was but you have to admit he’s up to his dumbo
ears in nefarious connections. i always thought the plan was once he had a lock on everything he would toss the crew that gave him cover and bring in his real advisors.
[Armenian genocide of 1915 precursor of Holocaust]
http://newsok.com/armenian-genocide-of-1915-precursor-of-holocaust/article/3500005
Annaleesea commented:
And we’re surprised by this why? I think we are a generation who is actually blessed to see the Marxist/Socialists (aka old hippies) make their best last chance to make it work. And we pushed them back. In the history books we prevail. Its excellent….
billy sol commented:
Does it really surprise anyone that this guy was at the WH? Obama is DANGEROUS!!!!
Granny commented:
billy solNo Gravatar
October 1st, 2010 | 7:00 pm | #10
Does it really surprise anyone that this guy was at the WH? Obama is DANGEROUS!!!!
Billy, I strongly suspect that if we went over the White House visitor log with a fine-toothed comb the nits that would come to light would be downright flabbergasting. This guy is the mere tip of the iceberg.
bg commented:
++
OT (terrorism related)..
Michigan AG won’t prosecute agents in Luqman Abdullah case
Shocking Tour for Terror Imam
==
bg commented:
++
re: bg #12
National Security Hawks Call for Brennan’s Resignation
[An independent group of national security professionals deeply critical
of the Obama administration is calling on National Security Adviser John Brennan to resign for what the group says is a coordinated effort to prevent "identifying, understanding and countering" threats posed by Islamic law, known as shariah.]
he’ll just be replaced by another one
of Obama et als useful fools.. *sigh*
==
mmm commented:
This is not and never was rocket science -so much about O and his questionable affiliations was known way before the election !!! How many red flags do we need and what will it take to protect America from the continual assaults of this administration ??
mmm commented:
Brennan is an Obama facilitator. Yes, he is bad news.
bg commented:
++
Granny @ 7:07 pm #11
re: [This guy is the mere tip of the iceberg.]
and this tip of the iceberg has grown to the size of small mountain right in front of our noses, in plain sight, eyes wide shut, and shows no sign of GW melting it any time soon, gah!!
Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets
From Influence to Insurrection
i’ve said this before & i’ll say it again, Obama acts with impunity which leads me to believe we’ve been sold for 30 pieces of sliver to a Golden Calf.. unless something drastic happens (ie: CONGRESS WAKES THE HELL UP TO THE OBAMA PELOSI REID CABAL) we won’t have a prayer of honest choice come the 2012 ACORN/ Project Vote/ etc.. Selection..
==
turfmann commented:
Pffft…
If Barry Soetoro were not President of the United States, he would be denied access to the White House based upon his background and acquaintances, indeed, he would not pass an FBI background check.
Ruminate about that for a little bit.
Rosemary Woodhouse commented:
Sadly, bg- you tell the truth. We ALL have been wondering- where is the CIA (uh, headed by Leon Panetta, a Clinton crony…next..) the FBI? Where is the military? Zorro obviously has been groomed for this job- he literally came from nowhere. And TPTB intuited well that his sperm donor’s DNA would provide a bleeding heart’s abundance of teflon coating in that any resistance would be met with cries of: RACISM!
Scott commented:
Time for the CIA and FBI to defend this nation from the enemy within…Obama’s fingerprints are all over support for these terrorists enablers…
gus commented:
Meanwhile back at the SAFE SCHOOL CZARS office…….a FISTING lecture is taking place.
The filth is so deep it’s amazing.
JohnT1 commented:
Surprised? Welcome to America, the western hemisphere’s newest banana republic. Who is going to do anything about this corrupt anti- American regime? Nobody…so why do you keep printing these stories day after day? Accept it America…the republic is dead.
bg commented:
++
no more aiding & abetting other countries paths to freedom from
oppression to economic self sustenance, “it is our turn to sacrifice
for the greater good”, Love, Barry..
==
attack commented:
let’s see if i understand,
a congressional medal of honor winner’s grandson wasn’t allowed into the white house because he was wearing a t-shirt. but a guy who plays snugglebunnies with terrorists is fine.
aprilnovember811 commented:
These are the puppet masters of Obama. These people, and the Weather Underground.
My God, why did everyone who could have stopped this man from getting in the White House sit silent. He’s a foreign born, terrorist. He’s just not using guns or bombs, yet.
Agent 99 commented:
RE: bg @ # 13
It is this link
[shariah] embed..Second paragraph http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/barack-obama-linked-to-chicago-sharia-finance-fugitives-wanted-by-fbi/
Pics for proof ((gotta see))Then link to “Chicago News Bench Website” within the article.
As for me….I have a screen capture of the Sunrise Equities Office ceremony with BHO ‘bowing’ even then…
Rock commented:
Scott @#6 The one truth Obama ever spoke and most ignore it. That sound bite is the most damning evidence against him yet few embrace it’s power. My contention has always been that no Democrat could deny Obama was a Socialist unless they where calling him a liar.
Redwine commented:
Scott (19) “Time for the CIA and FBI to defend this nation from the enemy within…Obama’s fingerprints are all over support for these terrorists enablers…”
Many units of both the CIA and the FBI have been deeply infiltrated by Islamists.
Rose commented:
Yet another in a long long long list of unbelievable “innocent coincidences”, no doubt!
Just ask Bill Ayers and Feisal Abdul Rauf, et al!
LimoLibsStink commented:
0bama:
I am with the terrorists and I think Americans can withstand another terrorists attack while I hide in my bunker… Huh? Please adjust the teleprompter. Thanks.
Let me start again.
Yes, I invited Hatem Abudayyeh to the White House for a friendly discussion on campaign donations and paying me tribute. I see nothing wrong with it. Just ask Bill Ayers and he will agree.
Look, one hand greases the pole while the other hand sticks it up the Tax Payer’s rear-end. That is the way thing work in DC – Barney Frank will agree.
My limousine is running and I have some money to collect from the Arab American Institute. Campaigns are not cheap. I cannot answer any more questions. Good day.
listingstarboard commented:
The Obamas have ties with the Farrakans too. The LATimes is a willing accomplice.
mark commented:
Obama thought long and hard about denying Hatem Abudayyeh’s visit to the WH, but could not figure out how to explain Abudayyeh’s name on the guest lists. The blame Bush approach, while it seems to work for most everything else, seemed a little out of place for this little “distraction.”
Stuart commented:
Oh don’t get so bent out of shape. Hatem Abudayyeh is just part of the Democratic base.
Just like Louis Farakhan, and Bill Ayres. Good Democrats all.
Yael commented:
We’re in luck. It just so happens that PBS did a docu-story about Abudayyeh and his wife, Naima, as part of their “New Americans” series. It’s called “Palestinian Bride.”
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/newamericans/palestinian_intro.html
In Episode 1, we meet the in-laws:
“…. Naima’s oldest brother died in prison during the Intifada. He was 20 years old. Naima’s other brother Jihad was a leader in the youth movement and was arrested at the age of 13. He spent three years in prison. ‘Prison is like a flower that everyone in Palestine has to smell,’ says Jihad.”