In Dearborn, michigan, “Sicherheitsdienst Reichsfuhrer” Tom Ridge, Director of Homeland Security, and Paul O’Neill, secretary of the treasury, meet over dinner, at La Shish restaurant, with Imad Hamad, Ismael Ahmed, Ali Berry, and Osama Siblani.  Hamad has been identified by the Immigration and Naturalization Service as a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist.  Ahmed is Director of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, which has funded “driving” lessons for Al Qaida suicide bombers.  Berry is cousin of Nabih Berry, who was involved in the 1985 hijacking of Trans World Airlines flight 847 and the subsequent torture-murder of United States Navy Diver 2nd Class Robert Stethem.  And Siblani is publisher of the Arab-American News, a newspaper that editorializes in support of terrorism.  The purpose of the dinner is to negotiate the release of funds of organizations such Holy Land Foundation, which had been frozen by the department of state, for their terrorist affiliations.

       [restored 11/10/2023] Thanks to Dave Seely for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

8/27/2002                    1/10/2008

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