Former Congressman Indicted

OK, this is the last update. Latest unhinged news.Thanks Gateway Pundit. UPDATE to UPDATE: All kinds of excitement tonight. What next--put a nuke under your burka? UPDATE: Al Qaida has found the perfect weapon--Islamic women suicide bombers. One more today. Quite the fashion statement.

Well, innocent until proven guilty, but I hope the Feds nail this guy. Incredible! AP:

A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan.

The former Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice for allegedly lying about lobbying senators on behalf of an Islamic charity that authorities said was secretly sending funds to terrorists.

A 42-count indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo., accuses the Islamic American Relief Agency of paying Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying—money that turned out to be stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

I suppose the Democrats don't think we should have been allowed to monitor this network. (Oh, well, if it's a Republican that's OK)

UPDATE: In a related story, the son of a Moroccan diplomat posted to London has been arrested for running a cyber-terror operation:

Videos he posted included messages from Osama bin Laden and images of the kidnapping and murder of hostages in Iraq such as American Nick Berg.

His capture led to the arrest of several Islamic terrorists around the world, including 17 men in Canada and two in the US.

UPDATE: Speaking of Canada, this gem. LGF: "Muslim Who Filed Human Rights Complaint is Charged with Discriminating Against Women". And closer to home:

University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape has been in the forefront of those arguing that suicide terrorism is neither an act of desperation nor a result of Islamist ideology, but a carefully measured means to achieve a political end. It’s an argument that’s been used by many multiculturalists (and by Islamists themselves) as a way to absolve Islam itself of any responsibility for this barbaric practice. But in an interesting piece for Middle East Quarterly, Jonathan Fine says Pape cooked the data for his study: Contrasting Secular and Religious Terrorism.