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| Terrorist fundraiser in Dallas Public Works Dept seemed to be a jolly fellow |
| 2004-12-27 |
| The Terrorist at City Hall by Todd Bensman Mufid Abdulqader was a popular civil engineer. But he sang in a band that called for the destruction of Israel, and the government believes he has secret ties to terrorists. Last summer, his two worlds collided. ...His fellow engineers also appreciated how Mufid could liven up a roomful of technocrats with backslapping, disarming goofiness. Thickening a bit at the age of 45, Mufid wore his graying black beard heavy on his cheeks, as is customary for many pious Middle Eastern men... Some colleagues noted a nasty temper that flared up from time to time, but who didn't get frustrated when dealing with contractors? Mufid loved the spotlight, relishing any excuse to speak in front of a crowd. A Palestinian who grew up in Kuwait and a proud father of three U.S.-born daughters, he never turned down an invitation to lecture high school students about the struggles he endured as an immigrant searching for a better life in America. Yet he remained proud of his background. Mufid and a couple of other Muslim engineers prayed five times a day, even if that meant breaking up a business meeting. He could often be spotted toting his prayer mat down the hall to an office conference room....What his co-workers didn't know was that Mufid led a secret life, one that seemed almost impossible to reconcile with the affable person they had all liked. But Mufid's two worlds collided on the morning of July 27, 2004, when he failed to show up for work. Instead, representatives of the Dallas FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force came to the office to explain why he had been thrown in jail. Mufid had been named with six other men in a 42-count indictment for helping to fund Hamas, a terrorist organization... Mufid's band often appeared at fundraisers for Hamas. In one song, he sang, "We won't fear a Jew. Oh, Hamas, respond to them with force. ... Death is right for the Jews. It is right!" But Mufid had yet another secret. His half brother is the notorious Khaled Mishaal, the current leader of Hamas... [he also failed to keep up his PE license and signed engineering plans illegally which is explained a little in the article] It's just a shock to everyone," says Henry Nguyen, Mufid's former supervisor. "It's hard to believe you work with someone a long time and there's a possibility that someone would be involved in that. [Actually its not hard to believe if you have even a rudimentary understand of the concepts of Jihad and Dhimmitude and Taqiyya] It makes you feel like you can never know anybody." |
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