Obama put a member of an Al-Qaeda affiliate organization on the National Security Council

The Muslim Students Association has had several leaders arrested for being members of al-Qaeda and its affiliates. A few examples from Patrick Poole: [1]

* a top official of the al-Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab, previously identified in recruitment videos as “Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki,” was in fact 25-year-old American-born Omar Hammami of Daphne, Alabama. Hammami had served as president of the MSA chapter at the University of South Alabama in 2001 and 2002.

* Ali Asad Chandia, who was convicted in June 2006 on terror charges as part of the Northern Virginia jihad network, had previously served as president of the Montgomery College (MD) MSA in 1998 and 1999. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for convictions on three separate counts of conspiracy and material support to the Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group.

* Abdurahman Alamoudi, who served as MSA national president in 1982 and 1983, is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for his extensive international terrorist activities. Once the most prominent Muslim political activist in the country, and counselor to U.S. presidents and cabinet officials, the U.S. government now claims that he was one of al-Qaeda’s top fundraisers.

* Former University of Arizona MSA president Wael Hamza Julaidan, who attended the university in the mid-1980s, has the distinction of being one of al-Qaeda’s co-founders and its logistics chief.

* Al-Qaeda’s chief procurement agent in the U.S. during the 1990s, Ziyad Khaleel, was also the president of the Columbia College (MO) MSA.


Mehdi Alhassani was Special Assistant to the Office of the Chief of Staff of the National Security Council.[2] Alhassani had been president of the George Washington University chapter of the Muslim Students Association from 2005-2006.[3] This chapter's leaders in earlier years had included future Al-Qaeda leader Anwar Awlaki and Mohamed Omeish of the International Islamic Relief Organization which has funded Al-Qaeda.[4]

Alhassani was a member of the Truman National Security Project and its Center for National Policy,[5] and he was also Chief of Staff to the COO of Palantir Technologies.[6] I don't know what he did there, but Peter Thiel is one of Trump's few big-name supporters in California.


[1] https://pjmedia.com/blog/the-muslim-student-associations-terror-problem/
[2] http://shoebat.com/2015/02/07/obama-administration-officials-muslim-linked-muslim-brotherhood-fail-make-list-20-officials-benghazi-committee-chairman-wants-interview/
[3] http://shoebat.com/2014/05/03/distribution-list-smoking-gun-benghazi-email-included-muslim-brotherhood-agent/
[4] https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/muslim-students-association-george-washington-university-gwmsa/
[5] http://trumanproject.org/home/team-view/mehdi-alhassani/
[6] https://www.arabamerica.com/10-inspiring-arab-american-leaders-watch-2017/