C Street House Backers Deny Taking Money From Terrorists

Roll Call:

The faith-based organization behind the National Prayer Breakfast is vigorously denying new allegations from an Ohio clergy group that foreign trips and other activities with Members of Congress may have been funded with money from a terrorist organization.

The allegation grows out of a guilty plea lodged in July by former Rep. Mark Siljander (R-Mich.), who was charged with concealing that he had been hired by the Sudan-based Islamic American Relief Agency to convince the Senate Finance Committee to remove the group from a list of organizations suspected of funding terrorist activities.

The indictment and guilty plea explain that the IARA wrote two $25,000 checks to cover Siljander's costs but that in order to cloak the payments, the checks were made out to the International Foundation, which cashed the checks and then paid the money to Siljander.

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Comments

[somsoc]

10:36 PM on 10/13/2010

The C street g00ns and religi0us ze@lots have been and continue to be the greatest promoters of xtian terr0rism in the world, equally matching Al Queada but in a much more clandestine and seditious manner.

[edgarcaycedoc]

10:01 PM on 10/13/2010

Wow. The Christian Fundamentaliban leaders taking money from ter--ror--ists Who'd a "thunk" it?? It is about money, and money alone. Faith has nothing to do with these C streeters. Nor has clean money!!!

[Ishmael1]

09:17 PM on 10/13/2010

Perhaps the "C" Street gang should think about forming an Interfaith Alliance For Religious Extremism. We could dedicate it to Cardinal Torquemada and include the Wahabbists, the Mormons, Gush Emunim and Shas from Israel, throw in some Hindu Nationalists, Shinto Japanese militarist groups like the Loyal Order of the Rising Sun and cover the ENTIRE Rainbow of Exclusivist Religious intolerance.

[Zanubiyah]

08:40 PM on 10/13/2010

Too bad he doesnt have an 'Arab sounding name".

[somsoc]

10:37 PM on 10/13/2010

I think that the xtian names are far more frightening if you look at history.