The Terror Loop in Chicago

While watching the sad state of the election returns, I picked up on the next phase of this story in the Tribune:

A Chicago man accused of laundering money to finance terrorist operations by the Palestinian militant group Hamas gave Israeli police a detailed account of his shadowy life in the underground when arrested in 1993, according documents released Tuesday.

Muhammad Salah told how he was recruited into the Muslim Brotherhood by the leader of a Chicago-area mosque, sought out recruits for militant activity in Israel and engaged in secret transfers of large sums with a Mideastern money changer, according to the documents.

Earlier post here.

Salah, 52, is one of three men charged in a federal racketeering indictment with laundering money to finance murders, kidnappings and other crimes by Hamas as part of a 15-year conspiracy.

In 1978 he was initiated into the Muslim Brotherhood, an offshoot of Hamas, under the guidance of a leader of a Chicago area mosque. Just be thankful the Israelis arrested him in 1993 and took him out of the terror loop.