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Lawler targets Dem linked to Twin Towers bombing terrorist
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Hamawy Wins, and the Questions Start Winning TooDr. Adam Hisham… |
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Hamawy Wins, and the Questions Start Winning TooDr. Adam Hisham Hamawy, a combat plastic surgeon with a practice near Princeton, won a crowded 12-way Democratic primary for a Central Jersey House seat that has not elected a Republican this century. That is the kind of local detail that usually gets a few lawn signs and some cheerful mailers. Instead, Hamawy’s victory reopened a debate over his past ties to Omar Abdel-Rahman, the extremist known as the Blind Sheikh, who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case. Rep. Michael Lawler, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Middle East Subcommittee, said the matter goes beyond campaign chatter and into national security territory. In Washington, that usually means the filing cabinet starts sweating.Lawler Says the Record Demands a Full InvestigationLawler told Fox News Digital that Hamawy’s background would be troubling for any member of Congress, especially one who could be briefed on sensitive information. He pointed to Hamawy’s role as a defense witness for Abdel-Rahman and to a separate trip to Bosnia in 1992, when Hamawy volunteered with an organization later designated by the U.S. Treasury as a terrorism financier and linked by the 9/11 Commission to Osama bin Laden’s…
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