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CAIR Tries To Hide Its Involvement In The "Embracing Hope" (For A 'US Of Allah') Hate Fest After Designation As Foreign Terrorist Organization
January 20, 2026
Coral Springs To Host Pro-Hamas Confab 2026
Support For Terror Continues To Plague The Upcoming Florida Muslim Conference
January 21, 2026 by Joe Kaufman 1 Comment
For the third consecutive year, the Florida Muslim Conference is facing serious scrutiny. Organized by the South Florida Muslim Federation (SFMF), the event has repeatedly drawn attention for featuring speakers and content linked to terrorist glorification and Islamic extremism. And once again, it is being hosted at the city-run Coral Springs Center for the Arts.
This year's theme, Embracing Hope, relies on familiar rhetoric. Yet beneath the conference's upbeat branding, concerns persist regarding the promotion of Hamas, jihadist affiliations, and the denouncement of America and the West.
2024: When the Hamas Mask Slipped
The 2024 Florida Muslim Conference, titled Lighting the Path, was scheduled for January 2024 at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel & Convention Center. It was marketed as a family-friendly Muslim community event. What it actually represented revealed a far different reality – a threat to both local and national security.
Investigations revealed that advertised speakers had publicly glorified Hamas in the immediate aftermath of the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, which left over 1,200 murdered and 251 kidnapped. Those findings were presented by this author directly to hotel management in a comprehensive evidentiary briefing. Faced with overwhelming documentation and legitimate security concerns, the Marriott canceled the event.
SFMF, joined by its allies and affiliates – including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – responded not with introspection, but with lawfare. A federal lawsuit was filed against the hotel, this author, and others. In 2025, the case was dismissed.
2025: Terror Goes Mainstream – At a City-Run Facility
Rather than correcting course and emboldened by the lawsuit, which had not yet been ruled upon, SFMF doubled down.
The 2025 Florida Muslim Conference was held at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts, a government-run facility overseen by city officials acting as directors under the corporation, Coral Springs Museum of Art. Reporting by this author revealed that the conference's highly promoted grand bazaar sold merchandise bearing the image of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas mastermind behind October 7. Under Sinwar's face, one could read the words "The Martyr Leader" in Arabic.
That same promotional material also shows a keynote speaker posing with an attendee holding a shirt depicting armed militants from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), another U.S.-designated terrorist organization. Notably, the company that produced the shirt, Pali Heat, is listed as a vendor at this year's conference and publicly thanked SFMF for hosting them at last year's event. On Pali Heat's website, the shirt is marketed as the "Intifada Edition" and is sold for $35.
The symbolism was also evident in the speaker lineup, which included groups and individuals with long histories of extremist rhetoric, including a figure previously identified by federal prosecutors as being connected to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Siraj Wahhaj. One high-ranking public official, who had initially agreed to participate in the conference, withdrew after being confronted with the facts.
The SFMF-CAIR Axis
At the center of these controversies is SFMF itself – a coalition representing many of South Florida's most radical Islamic institutions. One of its most prominent affiliates is CAIR, whose South Florida representative, Wilfredo Amr Ruiz, has played an active role in SFMF governance and participated in leadership decisions at SFMF's most recent General Body Meeting.
This has major significance, as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has publicly designated CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. Historically, CAIR has had ideological, financial, and operational overlaps with Hamas-linked networks.
2026: Different Extremists, Same Ideology
Despite two years of negative publicity, SFMF plans to hold the 2026 conference – again at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts – from January 30-31. The lineup reads like a greatest-hits compilation of radical Islam.
Sinister Event Sponsors
The sponsors of the Florida Muslim Conference contain several outfits that have significant ties to terrorism. One (a "Platinum" sponsor) is Islamic Relief, a group that has been banned by a number of countries and has been labeled a Hamas front by Israel. Another (a "Gold" sponsor) is Baitulmaal, whose CEO Mazen Mokhtar is the former admin for the now-defunct al-Qaeda recruitment/financing site qoqaz.net and has said that "the operations of Hamas are heroic" and referred to suicide bombings as "an effective method of attacking the enemy."
A Public Venue Hosting Terror
The Coral Springs Center for the Arts is not a private hall. It is a taxpayer-funded facility overseen by elected officials. Hosting such an event as the Florida Muslim Conference – given its documented terrorist associations – reflects directly on a city whose Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Commissioners seem to be practicing complicity by silence.
Keep in mind, this event's organizers have already presided over a canceled conference, a dismissed lawsuit, and a public event that promoted terrorist imagery. Moreover, they have close affiliations with a Florida designated terrorist organization, CAIR.
At some point, the question becomes unavoidable: How many times does a pattern of support for terror need to be repeated before it is acknowledged as a dangerous pattern and is completely shut down by those who are tasked with protecting the city and its residents?
Take Action
Feel free to contact the Coral Springs Mayor, Commissioners, and Arts Center officials to express your thoughts regarding this issue. Please be respectful in any and all comments.
Mayor Scott Brook: 954-344-5911, [email protected]
Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen: [email protected]
Commissioner Shawn Cerra: [email protected]
Commissioner Joshua Simmons: [email protected]
Commissioner Joseph McHugh: [email protected]
Arts Center General Manager Meera Hammad: [email protected]
Arts Center Special Events Administrator Devin Iovelli: [email protected]
Arts Center Facilities Coordinator Rudy Hilaire: [email protected]
Arts Center Communications Director Randy Koral: [email protected]
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/coral-springs-to-host-pro-hamas-confab-2026/
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MIM: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis posted his announcement of the issuance of an Executive Order designation The Council On American Islamic Relations (CAIR) a Foreign Terrorist Organization. (FTO)
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations. Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support.
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PDF Of 4 Page Executive Order By Florida Governor DeSantis Designating CAIR As A Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO):
https://www.flgov.com/eog/sites/default/files/executive-orders/2025/EO%2025-244.pdf
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MIM: Offical Text of Executive Order By Florida Governor Ron DeSantis designating the Council On American Islamic Relations As A Terrorist Organization.
STATE OF FLORIDA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
(Protecting Floridians from Radical Islamic Terrorist Organizations)
WHEREAS, pursuant to section 874. 03(7), Florida Statutes, a terrorist organization is any
organized group engaged in or organized for the purpose of engaging in activity involving a violent act
or an act dangerous to human life and is intended to intimidate, injure, or coerce a civilian population;
influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or affect the conduct of government
through destruction of property, assassination, murder, kidnapping, or aircraft piracy; and
WHEREAS, the Society of Muslim Brothers (Muslim Brotherhood) was founded in Egypt in
1928 and has developed into a transnational network with a long history of engaging in or supporting
violence, including political assassinations and terror attacks on civilians, for the purpose of
establishing a world-wide Islamic caliphate and imposing its Islamist system of belief across the globe,
including in the United States; and
WHEREAS, the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamist ideology is irreconcilable with foundational
American principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness reflected in the Declaration of
Independence and the United States Constitution, especially including the right to religious freedom
and the equal protection of the laws; and
WHEREAS, on November 24, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14362 to initiate
"a process, by which certain chapters or other subdivisions of the Muslim Brotherhood shall be
considered for designation as Foreign Terrorist Organizations"; and
WHEREAS, the Muslim Brotherhood supports a network of chapters and affiliated political
entities and front organizations that engage in terrorism or funnel money. to finance terrorist activities;
and
WHEREAS, members of the Muslim Brotherhood created Hamas in 1987, the primary goal of
which is the destruction of the State of Israel and the eradication of Jews in then- historic homeland of
Judea and Samaria; and
WHEREAS, the United States Government designated Hamas as a foreign terrorist
organization on October 8, 1997; and
WHEREAS, on October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered over 1,200 men, women,and children in
Israel, including 46 Americans, and took 254 hostages, including 12 Americans; and
WHEREAS, in the aftermath of the October 7 attack, Muslim Brotherhood chapters in the
Middle East Joined attacks against Israel with, or otherwise provided material support to, Hamas,
Hezbollah, and other Palestinian groups; and
WHEREAS, organizations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas have had active
fund raising . arms in the United States, which have raised funds to support Hamas's terrorist attacks in
the Middle East; and:
WHEREAS, the Palestine Committee, an organization affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood
and created to support Hamas inthe United States, expressly sought to "increase the financial and moral
support for Hamas" and oversaw front organizations designed to raise money for Hamas; and
WHEREAS, the Palestine Committee founded the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR) in the United States in 1994; and
WHEREAS, CAIR was founded by persons connected to the Muslim BrotherhoQd and was
created, in the words of persons affiliated with CAIR, as "an official U. S. cover representing the Islamic
community" to conceal ties to Islamic extremist groups; and
WHEREAS, CAIR was designated as an unindicted co-conspirator by the United States
Government in the largest terrorism-financing case in American history, and the court found "ample
evidence to establish the association" ofCAIR with terrorist organizations,
see United States v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief &Development., o. 3:04-cv-240, 2009 WL 10680203, at *7 (N. D. Tex. July 1, 2009);
and
WHEREAS, individuals associated with CAIR have been convicted of providing, and
conspiring to provide, material support to designated terrorist organizations; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to section 943. 0311, Florida Statutes, the executive director, of the
Florida Department of Law Enforcement serves as the Chief of Domestic Security and is responsible
for coordinating ongoing assessments of the State's vulnerability to terrorism and its ability to detect
and prevent acts of terrorism within or affecting Florida; and
WHEREAS, section 321. 05, Florida Statutes, directs the Florida Highway Patrol to conserve
the peace and enforce the laws of the State; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Article IV, Section 4 of the Florida Constitution and section 943. 0313,
Florida Statutes, the Domestic Security Oversight Council is responsible for reviewing the State's
domestic security posture and making recommendations to the Governor and Legislature concerning
the State's domestic security, including with respect to threats from terrorism.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RON DESANTIS, as Governor of Florida, pursuant to my solemn
constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed and to preserve the public peace, do
hereby promulgate the following Executive Order, to take immediate effect:
Section 1. the Muslim Brotherhood and any chapter or subdivision thereof; the Council on
American-Islamic Relations; and any other organization designated by the United States Government
as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U. S. C,
§ 1189) are hereby designated as. terrorist organizations for the purpose of this Executive Order.
Section 2. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Highway Patrol are
directed to undertake: all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities in Florida by the terrorist
organizations designated in Section 1. Unless prohibited by federal or state law, all other Executivearid Cabinet Agencies shall further undertake all lawful action to prevent any terrorist organizationdesignated in Section 1, or any person known to have provided material support or resources to such organization as defined in s.ection 775. 3 3(1 )(c), Florida Statutes, from receiving any contract,employment, funds, or other benefit or privilege from such Executive or Cabinet Agency or any entity regulated by such Executive or Cabinet Agency or from any County or Municipality of the State.
Section 3. The Domestic Security Oversight Council shall conduct a comprehensive review of
existing statute^ authorities, regulations, and policies for addressing threats from the terrorist
organizations designated in Section 1 and submit recommendations for any additional action needed to
the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by January
6, 2026.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand and have caused the Great Seal of'the State of
Florida to be affixed, at Tallahassee, this 8th day of
December, 2025.
RON DESANTIS, GOVERNOR
ATTEST:
SECRETARY OF STATE
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CAIR = Hamas -1993 Founding Meeting In Philly Wiretapped CAIR Exec Dir. Nihad Awad 'Say SAMAH Not HAMAS'
CAIR Fuhrer::NIhad Awad Declared On Video "I Am In Support Of The HAMAS Movement" At Miami's Barry U In Miami In 1995
A briefing for federal and state officials and policymakers.
December 23, 2025 by Joe Kaufman 2 Comments
In 2025, Texas and Florida took the notable step of naming the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations under state authority. Governors Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis issued executive orders banning these groups from such things as access to state contracts, benefits, and property, citing alleged links between CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas – a group designated by the U.S. government as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
CAIR has strongly denied any ties to Hamas or terrorism, calling these designations unconstitutional and defamatory and has filed federal lawsuitschallenging them. Upon investigation, however, CAIR's denials cannot refute the facts.
This article explores the historical and documented allegations that federal and state officials and national security policy makers should use when assessing CAIR and its state chapters' relationships to Hamas.
Dot #1: The Muslim Brotherhood and the "Palestine Committee" Network
The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist movement founded in Egypt in 1928. It established branches and affiliated networks globally, including in the United States, each given the title "Palestine Committee."The committees were aligned with Hamas – itself a Gaza offshoot of the Brotherhood – and their purpose was to support Palestinian resistance narratives and causes.
In an FBI memorandum obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), the Palestine Committee was described as the Brotherhood's "largest and most powerful nationalistic committee" during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with components directly reporting to international Brotherhood leadership.
Dot #2: The U.S. Palestine Committee and Mousa Abu Marzook
At the center of these connections is Mousa Abu Marzook (Marzouk), a senior leader from Hamas and first Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau. In 1989, while Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin was languishing in an Israeli prison, Marzook, who at the time was located in the United States, effectively assumed leadership of the group.
Marzook lived in the U.S. from 1982 until his deportation to Jordan in 1997. Today, Marzook, much like his fellow Hamas associate Khaled Mashal, is a billionaire residing in Qatar.
Marzook headed the U.S. Palestine Committee from its inception and played a key role in establishing its affiliated organizations. These included the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), and later the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Dot #3: IAP, Philadelphia, and the Founding of CAIR
IAP functioned as a propaganda arm for Hamas, publishing Hamas-related materials, including the Hamas charter calling for Israel's destruction. Both Marzook and Mashal were involved in IAP's mission and activities.
IAP's senior leadership consisted of figures who later became the founders of CAIR in 1994. They were Nihad Awad, Omar Ahmad, and Rafeeq Jaber. Awad, who championed the October 7 massacre in Israel, began his tenure with CAIR as its national Executive Director and continues to hold the position.
In 1993, a meeting in Philadelphia brought together leaders from IAP, the Occupied Land Fund (later the Holy Land Foundation), and UASR. According to trial exhibits and reporting, participants discussed strategies to undermine the Oslo Accords, expand fundraising for Hamas, and organize politically within the U.S. Muslim community. This meeting is frequently cited in analyses of CAIR's Hamas-related origins and challenges CAIR's portrayal of itself as a conventional civil rights organization.
Dot #4: Holy Land Foundation, Seed Funding, and Organizational Links
HLF was established in 1988 under the name Occupied Land Fund. Initially, it shared the mailing address of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), another U.S.-based Muslim Brotherhood-related entity. HLF later would become the largest Muslim charity in the U.S., before its closure in 2001.
U.S. authorities designated HLF a Specially Designated Terrorist entity after determining it had raised money and routed funds to Hamas-affiliated institutions. In 2008, HLF executives were convicted in the largest terrorism-financing prosecution in U.S. history, involving more than $12 million directed to Hamas causes.
CAIR received early seed funding from HLF, and CAIR's Texas chapter was co-founded by one of the main defendants in the federal HLF trial, Ghassan Elashi.
Dot #5: CAIR and the Holy Land Foundation Prosecution
In United States v. Holy Land Foundation, federal prosecutors named CAIR an "unindicted co-conspirator." While CAIR was neither charged nor convicted, the designation reflected prosecutors' assessment that CAIR was part of the broader conspiracy to support Hamas.
In addition to the other links CAIR had with HLF, following the September 11 attacks, CAIR publicly solicited donations for HLF via the homepage of its official website. CAIR insidiously masked the donations as ones going to a "NY/DC Emergency Relief Fund."
Dot #6: "We are Hamas"
In July 2014, CAIR's Florida chapter co-sponsored a pro-Hamas rally in Downtown Miami, where rally goers repeatedly shouted, "We are Hamas" and "Let's go Hamas." After the rally, the event organizer, Sofian Zakkout, wrote in Arabic, "Thank God, every day, we conquer the American Jews like our conquests over the Jews of Israel!"
The following month, then-CAIR-Florida Executive Director Hassan Shibly tweeted, "God as my witness, Israel & its supporters are enemies of God and humanity…" In November 2019, Shibly posted on his social media a "demand" for the convicted HLF defendants to be released, praising them as "leaders and pillars of their communities."
Today, CAIR-Florida is a member of the South Florida Muslim Federation (SFMF), an umbrella group for many of South Florida's radical Muslim institutions and an organizer of annual pro-Hamas conferences.
Conclusion
The proof that CAIR is tied to Hamas operatives and ideology rests on a sequence of documented organizational associations:
Taken together, these documented associations present a deeply troubling pattern that warrants heightened scrutiny by federal, state and local officials charged with safeguarding public funds, public safety, and the integrity of civic institutions. While CAIR portrays itself as a conventional civil rights organization, the historical record reflects persistent ideological, financial, and operational overlaps with Hamas-linked networks that cannot be responsibly ignored.
Accordingly, national and state authorities should undertake a complete review of CAIR's tax-exempt status, donor base, and eligibility for public grants. Where the facts and applicable law support such action, governments must be prepared to suspend funding, freeze assets, criminally prosecute leadership, and shutter CAIR's doors to ensure that taxpayer resources and public institutions are not exploited by organizations connected – directly or indirectly – to foreign terrorist movements.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
https://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/8179
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MIM: CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad attended a 3 day summit in Philadelphia in 1993 to plan the establishment of CAIR as the American branch of Hamas aka 'The Islamic Resistance Movement'.
Excerpt:
"According to FBI reports, the men tried to hide their true agenda, agreeing not to even say the word "HAMAS" - but to call it "SAMAH" its reverse - even in their private conversations. Most of the participants were identified through surveillance and an examination of the hotel registry. But until Thursday, the identity of one person at the meeting – Nihad LNU - remained a mystery.
Awad was asked about the meeting during a 2003 deposition for a civil lawsuit. He initially said he didn't think he had attended the Philadelphia meeting. When pushed he replied, "I don't remember." Nor did he remember whether he was invited.
Previously available evidence shows Awad was at the 1993 HAMAS meeting. He can be seen on videotape the following summer, acknowledging "I am in support of the HAMAS movement" during a seminar at Miami's Barry University."
https://www.frontpagemag.com/connecting-the-dots-from-hamas-to-cair/
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CAIR Executive Director Placed at HAMAS Meeting
by IPT
Counterterrorism Blog
August 2, 2007
Excerpts:
"The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad, participated in a three-day summit of U.S.-based HAMAS members and supporters in 1993.
Until now, he had been identified only as Nihad LNU (last name unknown) in FBI reports and analyses. The meeting occurred in a Philadelphia hotel in the wake of a White House ceremony formalizing the Oslo Accords, a peace deal with the potential to end the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
CAIR, which touts itself as America's premier Muslim civil rights organization, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror support trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five of its officials. Omar Ahmad, who founded CAIR with Awad in 1994 and was previously identified as attending the Philadelphia meeting, also was named as an unindicted co-conspirator.
The FBI already had wiretap warrants on several people who wound up organizing the 1993 meeting and agents listened in on the meeting itself. They concluded the two-dozen men present were HAMAS members or supporters. Transcripts and FBI analyses released since then show the meeting sought a strategy to kill the peace accord, which threatened to marginalize the Islamist movement. The group also discussed ways to improve HAMAS fundraising in America.
According to FBI reports, the men tried to hide their true agenda, agreeing not to even say the word "HAMAS" - but to call it "SAMAH" its reverse - even in their private conversations. Most of the participants were identified through surveillance and an examination of the hotel registry. But until Thursday, the identity of one person at the meeting – Nihad LNU - remained a mystery.
Awad was asked about the meeting during a 2003 deposition for a civil lawsuit. He initially said he didn't think he had attended the Philadelphia meeting. When pushed he replied, "I don't remember." Nor did he remember whether he was invited.
Previously available evidence shows Awad was at the 1993 HAMAS meeting. He can be seen on videotape the following summer, acknowledging "I am in support of the HAMAS movement" during a seminar at Miami's Barry University.
The idea for the meeting was discussed in a telephone call recorded by the FBI on Sept. 14, 1993. A day earlier, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shared an uneasy handshake on the White House lawn. That paved the way for the Palestinian Authority's creation, and, it was hoped at the time, a path toward a more peaceful future.
On the telephone, three men discussed who should be invited to join them in a meeting to discuss what to do next. The call included Omar Ahmad (CAIR's chairman emeritus), who at the time served at President of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), Shukri Abu Baker, President of the Holy Land Foundation and one of the defendants now on trial, and Abdelhaleem al-Ashqar, the Executive Director of a HAMAS-linked charity known as the Al Aqsa Educational Fund.
They discussed inviting people from the "Union," a code reference to the IAP. They mentioned "Akram," "Abdul Rahman" and "Nihad." In 1993, Nihad Awad was the spokesman and public relations director for the IAP.
During that same telephone conversation, the men on the telephone call referred to Nihad's work in "media." Shukri Abu Bakr mentioned "a full article in Dallas Morning News...and every few lines: Mr. Nihad said this and that...." The Dallas Morning News did publish an article that day. It ran under the headline "Dallas' Mideast Observers Warn of Conflict Ahead." It extensively quoted "Nihad Awad, spokesman for the Dallas-based Islamic Association of Palestine."
A few weeks later, at the Philadelphia meeting itself, two men again referenced "Nihad" and an invitation he received to speak at a conference for the National Association of Arab Americans (NAAA) on October 30, 1993. The program from that NAAA Annual Convention, obtained by the IPT, lists the name of Nihad Awad, representing the Islamic Association for Palestine, as a speaker on a panel entitled "Israel-PLO Agreement: Analytical Perspectives." Nobody else named Nihad is listed in the program.
An exhibit found in the home of Abdelhaleem Al-Ashqar detailed sessions which were to take place at the Philadelphia meeting. Under the politics and media session,"Nihad" was scheduled to give a presentation. FBI Special Agent Lara Burns testified on Thursday that the "Nihad" listed was Nihad Awad.
Transcripts released in U.S. v. Marzook et. al. confirmed that "Nihad LNU" spoke at the Philadelphia meeting. He mentioned the NAAA invitation and said that the IAP had received additional attention following an appearance on CNN.
A search of CNN transcripts shows that a representative of the IAP did appear on CNN's Crossfire, September 10, 1993. That representative was Nihad Awad.
Finally, "Nihad" speaks in the first person confirming his intent to attend and speak at the NAAA convention. He is asked if "this paper contains what you are going to say." "Nihad" replied "I will speak about the media aspect...."
CAIR officials, including Awad, have refused to condemn HAMAS by name after it engages in a bombing attack. Awad once called it "the game of the pro-Israel lobby."
The Holy Land Foundation trial resumes Monday where more details about the Philadelphia meeting are expected to come out."
https://www.investigativeproject.org/282/cair-executive-director-placed-at-hamas-meeting
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