The Web

This is like untangling a spider-web, without breaking the strands, so I’ll do my best to keep it simple. In July, the U.S. State Department approved a license for the newly formed U.S.-based organization “The Syrian Support Group” to raise money for Syrian rebels — overriding President Obama’s administration sanctions and his Executive Order against such activity.

Near the end of May, the group sent a letter to the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) which issued the group a license on July 23rd, allowing them to “export, re-export, sell, or supply to the Free Syrian Army (‘FSA’) financial, communications, logistical, and other services otherwise prohibited by Executive Order 13582 in order to support the FSA.”

The FSA is affiliated with the Syrian National Council, whose political director, Louay Safi, used to be one of the top Islāmic advisers to the Pentagon and was only one of two officials authorized to certify Muslim chaplains for the U.S. military services. Safi’s relationship with the Pentagon ended in 2010 after it was discovered he was teaching Islāmic theology classes to troops headed for Afghanistan.

Then there’s the man who incorporated the Syrian Support Group in April 2012, and applied for the State Department OFAC license, Chicago-lawyer Mazen Asbahi. When running for president in 2008, Barack Obama appointed Asbahi to head Muslim outreach for his campaign.

After his appointment, it was learned Asbahi served as a board member of the Allied Assets Advisors Fund, a division of the North American Islāmic Trust (NAIT), which is yet another front for the Muslim Brotherhood. And as an aside, also on the board of Allied Assets Advisors was Jamal Said, a Chicago imam who raised $50,000 for Sami al-Arian, the head of Palestinian Islāmic Jihad in North America.

Both NAIT and Said are named unindicted co-conspiritors in the Holy Land Foundation trials of 2007 and 2008.

Finally, Asbahi and Safi were at the same White House meeting on June 29, 2011. Furthermore, Asbahi visited the White House again in April, jus’ days after the Syrian Support Group was incorporated.

And let us not forget that four Americans, including a U.S. Ambassador, two Navy SEALS and a civil service employee, were murdered in Benghazi because of this vast web.