BREAKING: Ilhan
Omar Acted As Foreign Agent To Qatar and Iran, According to Court Testimony
By David Rufful
November 26, 2019
The end may soon be near for Rep. Ilham Omar.
The U.S. Rep of Minnesota’s 5th congressional district,
which includes all of Minneapolis and some of its suburbs, was elected to the
along the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party line in 2019.
Omar is the first Somali-American, the first naturalized
citizen from Africa, and the first non-white woman elected from Minnesota, and
one of the first two Muslim women (along with Rashida Tlaib of Michigan) to
serve in Congress.
Omar has been a frequent critic of Israel and has been
accused of making a number
of anti-Semitic comments.
More recently, a Florida court has heard testimony that
Ilhan Omar was recruited by a foreign government, received funding from a
foreign government, and passed sensitive information through intermediates to
Iran, according to a report
from The Jerusalem Post.
The claims came during testimony by Kuwati-born Canadian
businessman Alan Bender, who was giving evidence in the trial of Sheikh Khalid
bin Hamad al-Thani. The Qatari emir’s brother stands accused of ordering his
American bodyguard to murder two people, and of holding an American citizen
hostage. His deposition, obtained by Al Arabiya English, was authenticated by
the attorney for the plaintiffs, according to the publication.
Speaking from Toronto by video link, Bender told the
Florida District Court that he met with Qatar’s Secretary to the Emir for
Security Affairs Mohammad bin Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Masnad and two other senior
Qatari officials.
According to his sworn deposition, the three officials
told him: “If it wasn’t for our cash, Ilhan Omar would be just another black
Somali refugee in America collecting welfare and serving tables on weekends.”
“[Qatar] recruited Ilhan Omar from even way before she
thought about becoming a government official… They groomed her and arranged the
foundation, the grounds, for her to get into politics way before she even
showed interest. They convinced her.” Bender added.
Bender says that during a 2017 meeting with Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Omar swore allegiance to him. At the time she
was a junior state representative in Minnesota.
Bender testified that Omar passed information to Qatar
which was subsequently handed along to Iran, and was actively involved in
recruiting other American politicians to likewise work for Qatar. He said that
Qatar officials told him, “The best thing money can buy are American officials
because they are the cheapest of the cheapest costing officials in the world.”
In a statement, a spokesperson for Congresswoman Omar
told The Jerusalem Post: “Since the day she was elected, Saudi Arabian trolls
and mouthpieces have targeted Rep. Omar with misinformation and conspiracy
theories…
“The latest outlandishly absurd story from a Saudi-funded
media outlet is of course false and only the latest in that trend…
“The only people Rep. Omar represents in Washington are
the people of Minnesota’s 5th District. She will continue to speak out against
human rights violations around the world—whether it is war crimes in Yemen or the
caging of children at our border—regardless of who commits them.”
The situation is quickly becoming worse for Omar. She has
been found guilty by the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board to have broken
campaign finance rules.
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