With his pet camel

In tony, liberal Ashland, Oregon, a terrorist cell masquerading as a charity, subject of a court case. Via Michelle Malkin, ZombieTime:

Al-Haramain's funding of international terrorism

• CBS News reported in 2004 that the 1998 embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya (which killed 223 people and injured over 4,000) were financed with Al-Haramain funds; and that it was well-known to Western governments that funds donated to Al-Haramain sometimes found their way to Al Qaeda, and had been used to finance several terror plots.

• In January of 2004, the Washington Post also published an article describing declassified U.S. intelligence documents which showed that employees of Al-Haramain carried out the Tanzanian and Kenyan embassy bombings, that Al-Haramain funded Indonesian terrorists, and that terrorists associated with Al-Haramain plotted to assassinate Americans.

• According to the Australian newspaper The Age, Al-Haramain funded the Bali bombers in 2002 -- one of the most devastating post-9/11 terror attacks, in which 202 people were killed.

• The Albanian branch of Al-Haramain funded jihad and had a connection to Osama bin Laden himself.

Sanctions imposed on Al-Haramain

• The United Nations itself maintains a list of organizations that provide support for Al Qaeda, and the various international branches of Al-Haramain are featured prominently on the list. Al-Haramain is now banned globally by the U.N.

• On May 6, 2004, The U.S. Treasury Department desginated the Bosnian branch of Al-Haramain as a terrorist entity.

The Oregon branch of Al-Haramain

• On September 9, 2004, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it "had found direct links between the U.S. branch of Al Haramain, headquartered in Oregon, and al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden."

Read the entire post, but think about this. One of the suspects goes by the name Pete Seda, (not to be confused with Pete Seeger)CNN/AP, in a 2004 story:

Residents who knew Seda, who came to Ashland from Iran in the 1970s, said they found it impossible to believe he would be involved in anything sinister.

A regular fixture in town, Seda appeared in the Fourth of July Parade with his pet camel, taught schoolchildren about Islam and used the arborist business he built to relocate trees caught in the path of development, free of charge.

"I have seen Pete in public since the 1980s take courageous stands against violence, for the security of Israel and against Islamic extremism," said Rabbi David Zaslow, from his office at Havurah Synagogue.

Zaslow said Seda may be guilty of naivete, but nothing else.

"I'll bet the house on it," he said.