Just because federal prosecutors labelled CAIR an “entity” of the Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t mean one of its officials can’t work as a senior adviser at DHS, right?
Via Clarion Project:
Senior Department of Homeland Security advisor Mohamed Elibiary used to be an official of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism-financing trial in the country’s history.
Elibiary is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Counciland was promoted in September. He also served on the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Violent Extremism Working Group and the Faith-based Security and Communications Advisory Committee.
Elibiary is also a long-time Texas Republican Party official and was a delegate for Senator John McCain in 2008.
On November 16, the Investigative Project on Terrorism tweeted a copy of the 2003 form 990 for CAIR’s Dallas-Fort Worth chapter. It lists Elibiary as a board member.
That same year, the Austin American-Statesman reported that Elibiary “works on political activities for the council’s Dallas-Fort Worth chapter.”
In 2007, the U.S. government labeled CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation for financing Hamas. The Foundation was a key component of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network.
Federal prosecutors said that CAIR is also an “entity” of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, specifically its secret Palestine Committee that was established to support Hamas.
In 2007, federal prosecutors said in another court case, “From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists … the conspirators agreed to use deception to conceal from the American public their connections to terrorists.”
CAIR’s state chapter for Texas was founded by Ghassan Elashi, who was later convicted for illegal transactions to Syria and Libya and for financing Hamas.