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Monday, February 10
6:00 - 7:30pm. MSC 228
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Also, become familiar with the process of renting
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Fifty-five camps from across Texas and the Nation will be recruiting
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the RPTS Majors Association, and the Texas A&M University Career Center
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Charity director going on
trial in terror funding case
By Mike Robinson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — Enaam
Arnaout says his charity raised
millions of dollars to help wid
ows, orphans and the poor in
Muslim lands ravaged by war
and famine.
Prosecutors say he duped
well-meaning U.S. Muslims
into giving to a charity that was
secretly used to support Osama
bin Laden’s al-Qaida network
and other violent groups.
Arnaout, a U.S. citizen who
was born in Syria, faces racket
eering and fraud charges in what
would be the first U.S. trial since
the Sept. 11 terror attacks of
anyone with alleged links to bin
Laden. Jury selection was
scheduled to begin Monday.
Arnaout, 40, is not accused
of having anything to do with
Sept. 11 or other specific acts of
terrorism. But prosecutors hope
to present evidence showing
contacts between Arnaout and
bin Laden’s network going back
to the late 1980s to bolster their
case that he supported al-Qaida,
as well as Chechen rebels fight
ing the Russian army and armed
violence in Bosnia.'
If convicted, Arnaout could
be sentenced to 90 years in
prison without parole.
Experts say the case could be
key in the legal war on bin
Laden’s al-Qaida network.
“This is very important
because one of the principal
ways al-Qaida raises money
around the world is through
charitable giving,” said William
Wechsler, a Clinton administra
tion authority on terrorism.
Arnaout, who has been in
custody since his arrest last
April, denies he ever raised
money for terrorists. He says
everything Benevolence
International Foundation did
from its storefront office in sub
urban Palos Hills was aimed at
providing humanitarian aid to
the needy in Muslim countries.
Defense attorney Joseph
Duffy has said Arnaout is the
victim of an overzealous hunt
for terrorists stemming from
passions let loose by the Sept.
11 attacks.
The defense concedes
a
This is very im
portant because one
of the principal ways
al-Qaida raises
money around the
world is through
charitable giving.
— William Wechsler,
Clinton administration
authority on terrorism
Arnaout may have known bin
Laden years ago in Afghanistan
but notes that, in those days, bin
Laden and the United States
both sided with Afghan freedom
fighters trying to expel the
Soviet army.
“The United States intends
to try Enaam Arnaout not for
acts he committed in violation
of U.S. laws but rather for asso
ciations he had over, a decade
ago,” defense attorneys said in
recently filed court papers.
U.S. District Judge Suzanne
Conlon has indicated she may
reject some prosecution docu
ments that “are about events
long ago and do not reflect
Arnaout’s conduct or any rela
tionship with his charity.”
She struck the prosecution
another blow last week, turning
down their request for sweeping
permission to offer hearsay
evidence.
Prosecutors sought an
exception to the general rule
banning hearsay in trials, citing
an exception for conspiracy
cases. But Conlon said they
had failed to show a conspiracy
existed.
Prosecutors allege that there
is ample evidence connecting
Arnaout to al-Qaida:
— A raid on the charity’s
Bosnia offices in March pro
duced minutes of the meeting
at which al-Qaida was founded
by bin Laden, as well as photos
that prosecutors say connect
Arnaout with the terrorist mas
termind.
— Mohamed Bayazid, who
according to prosecutors once
tried to get uranium so al-
Qaida could build an atom
bomb, was listed as president
of Benevolence in 1993.
— Bin Laden’s alleged
finance chief, Mamdouh Salim,
went to Bosnia in 1998 with
papers describing him as a
Benevolence director.
—- In the late 1980s,
Arnaout was close to bin Laden
in Afghanistan, even serving as
the terrorist leader’s chauffeur,
prosecutors allege.
The seven-count indictment
says Arnaout used his charity
to transfer money to al-Qaida
in the early 1990s, that
Benevolence paid for the lodg
ing during Salim’s Bosnia visit,
and that Benevolence produced
a fund-raising video for al-
Qaida in Bosnia.
Prosecutors also allege that
Benevolence sent an X-ray
machine, uniforms and steel-
reinforced anti-mine boots to
Chechen rebels fighting Sow/
troops in 1995. But defense
attorneys say those things add
up to humanitarian aid and not
fuel for terrorism.
Lawyers group considers rights of
enemy combatants, government spying
By Gina Holland
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE — If its members can settle their
differences, the nation’s largest lawyers’ group is
prepared to condemn part of the government’s
strategy in the fight against terrorism: its refusal to
grant legal rights to people arrested in the United
States and held as enemy combatants.
The American Bar Association, at its winter
meeting, also will consider this week whether to
press for more openness about government sur
veillance in the United States.
For months, the organization has worked on a
resolution critical of the Bush administration’s
policy for enemy combatants, and a vote is
planned. But last-minute dissension has arisen
among ABA members over when lawyers should
be provided to combatants held in the United
States to help them argue in court that their deten
tions are illegal.
The government will not release the names of
those held as combatants, and only a couple of
examples of detentions in America are known
widely. The most high profile is Jose Padilla,
accused of plotting to detonate a “dirty” bomb,
which would use a conventional explosive to
spread radioactive material.
Enemy combatants, a type of wartime prisoner,
are held without charge or trial and are not
allowed to see lawyers.
Miami lawyer Neal Sonnett said it is un-
American to deny legal rights to Americans or
anyone else in the country when they are appre
hended.
“The war against terrorism should not be
fought at the expense of the very rights we are
fighting to protect,” Sonnett said.
Supporting the government’s policy is David
Rivkin Jr., a lawyer from Washington, D.C., who
said the administration has foiled crimes with
information obtained from combatants. Giving
them lawyers would ruin interrogations and
threaten the public, Rivkin said.
Sonnett and Rivkin were debating the issue
late Sunday at an event jointly sponsored by the
ABA and the more conservative Federalist
Society.
The ABA’s policy-making board will decided
the Seattle conference whether to take a stand on
the treatment of combatants, including standards
for their detentions.
Critics of the proposal contend the ABA
should clarify that lawyers should be provided to
combatants, with restrictions applied so that
national security is not compromised.
Suzanne Spaulding of McLean, Va., a former
CIA lawyer who heads an ABA committee that
specializes in national security, said attorneys
should be guaranteed only to American citizen
prisoners.
The lawyers’ group also is weighing in on the
increased surveillance power Congress gave the
government after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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