A Democratic House Candidate’s Minor, Long-Ago Work for an al-Qaeda Front
You might be asking, what could be worse than a Senate candidate with a Nazi tattoo?
How about, a House candidate who did some work for al-Qaeda?
Adam Hamawy’s past relationship with terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman has loomed over his rapid rise in the race to succeed retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ). …But just one year before Hamawy took the witness stand to describe his travels with Abdel-Rahman, the now-Congressional candidate made a different journey with another party entangled in terrorist conspiracies: to Bosnia, with a group subsequently shut down for providing “logistical support” to Al-Qaida. In a 1996 interview with the Newark Star-Ledger, according to a copy Jewish Insider recovered through an archive of print publications, Hamawy described volunteering in Bosnia during the summer of 1994 with a Chicago-based nonprofit called the “Benevolence International Foundation.” “I worked in Sarajevo for 10 days and then the rest in Zenica, a large regional center in central........
