Did Norquist's close ties to terrorists lead to 9/11 LIHOP?

[FormerRepublican]

I was doing some research on ties between Rove, Abramoff and Norquist and found some interesting info on Norquist that might explain the Bush Administration total failure to act against the 9/11 terrorists in the lead up to the attack.

According to many articles I read on the internet, Norquist was responsible for delivering many Republican coalitions for the Bush Campaign 2000, including Muslims.

Here's an article that talks about Norquist's links to terrorists and laundering of foreign funds to influence American politics (how MANY illegal money laundries do the Republicans have, anyway? It seems endless.):

"A central organizer of jihadist political activism in the United States has been arrested on charges relating to his alleged funding of Washington influence operations with cash laundered from the Libyan government through Saudi Arabia.

Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi was arrested September 28 for "terrorism" related charges, according to Al Jazeera. Alamoudi founded and inspired several prominent Muslim pressure groups and their spinoffs, including the American Muslim Council (AMC) and its sister American Muslim Foundation. When Alamoudi's aide Khaled Saffuri spun out of the AMC to run the Islamic Institute, Alamoudi provided seed money to help the group, then chaired by GOP activist Grover Norquist, to get started.

Federal agents filed an affidavit alleging that Alamoudi laundered Libyan cash through Saudi Arabian banks to fund his political and propaganda activities in Washington. Alamoudi publicly has supported the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups.

Al Jazeera is reporting, "Alamoudi worked with the US State Department under the Clinton administration in the 1990s as a goodwill ambassador to Muslim countries and was often in touch with the White House.""

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10086

Rove was also involved in this - which makes sense, since Rove and Norquist are such good and long standing friends. It seems that whenever we find illegal money laundering into the Republican Party, we find links back to Rove and his pals. Coincidence? I don't think so!

Here's more:

"OLBERMANN: Good evening. He met with George W. Bush before Mr. Bush became president. He appears, smiling, in a photo op with the former president, Mr. Clinton. So, how is it that a man who has traveled in the highest of American political circles is also now suspected of secretly funding al-Qaeda and Hamas? And tonight, the dots are being connected and he appears to be tied also to the nephew of Osama bin Laden. Our fifth story on the COUNTDOWN: An indictment handed down against the man our military once turned to for Muslim chaplains. For the latest details on the case of Abdurahman Alamoudi, here’s NBC’s Lisa Myers."

and

"But, who was it that fixed the cases? How could these guys operate for more than a decade immune from prosecution? And, the answer is coming out in a very strange place. What Alamoudi and al-Arian have in common is a guy named Grover Norquist. He’s the super lobbyist. Newt Gingrich’s guy, the one the NRA calls on, head of American taxpayers. He is the guy that was hired by Alamoudi to head up the Islamic institute and he’s the registered agent for Alamoudi, personally, and for the Islamic Institute.
Grover Norquist’s best friend is Karl Rove, the White House chief of staff, and apparently Norquist was able to fix things. He got extreme right wing Muslim people to be the gatekeepers in the White House. That’s why moderate Americans couldn’t speak out after 9/11. Moderate Muslims couldn’t get into the White House because Norquist’s friends were blocking their access."

http://www.msnbc.com/news/984616.asp?cp1=1

I just love Olberman! There's some interesting data in his piece that could support both LIHOP and MIHOP. Rove, the good pal of Norquist, involved in LIHOP or MIHOP? And Norquist actively lobbying for a man involved with terrorists and tied to Bin Laden's nephew? How many times does the Bush Administration have to be tied to the bin Ladens before the American people smell a rat? The way these guys operate make me shudder.

Read the in-depth story:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=11209

And Norquist has placed terrorist associated people in the Department of Homeland Security:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/06/22/gill/index_np.html

[PhilipShore]

1. al-Qa'ida and the Republican neocons have simiilar personality types..

though I have no training in psychology or politics, I do have a BA in Asian studies, and I have a theory that the Republican neocons and al-Qa'ida were responsible for 9/11.

I have traveled to most of Asia and around the world as well, and the only time I ever experienced anti-American hate was from not Muslims, or Arabs, or Asians but rather from the British.

Most of the--hate-- toward Americans seen on the media are staged hate rallies, created by the CIA. The CIA created, supported, and funded the Taliban and al-Qa'ida, to the tune of around a billion dollars, when Bin Laden did not get his allowance, from Uncle Sam, to support his religion of hate and war toward the liberals around the world, he hit New York knowing that Bush and the neocons would not do anything about it-- because, he knows that the neocons hate liberals, as well.

Bin laden, and this new form of terrorism in the 21st century-- is a product of the West not the East.