....Members of The Movement began to worry. They feared the United States and others were watching them. That month Al-Arian talked to the founder of The Movement about a list of 172 people listed as potential co-conspirators in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the indictment said.

Associates of The Movement were on the list.

So was Fawaz Damra. Many of those arrested in the bombing, including the blind cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, had ties to the Brooklyn mosque where Damra once was imam. The FBI questioned Damra. He was never charged.

....on May 18, 1998, Unindicted Co-Conspirator One talked with Al-Arian by phone. The indictment said he told Al-Arian to expect an additional "sum" and that a "letter" had already been sent. Al-Arian's only reply was that he did not call because he didn't want to talk over the phone.

....The following spring, on March 14, 2001, Unindicted Co-Conspirator One called one of Al-Arian's Tampa groups. He said he would be traveling to London - where Egyptian-born Bashir Musa Mohammed Nafi, the founder of The Movement, lives - and wanted the founder's telephone number, the indictment said.

After providing the phone number, one of Al-Arian's colleagues asked Unindicted Co-Conspirator One to arrange a fund-raiser to help Al-Arian's school. Unindicted Co-Conspirator One said he would try to make arrangements in May, the indictment said.

It's unclear whether that happened. But in April, money from hundreds of Cleveland Muslims was funneled from two fund-raisers to the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which the FBI said helped finance Hamas.

It would appear that Damra did not have a change of heart after his hateful speech of 1991; it would appear that he, AT MINIMUM, still sympathized with the murder of Israeli civilians, and possibly contributed financial support for The Movement and Hamas, as recently as 2001. This is not going away, cannot be explained away, and this poison sits at this very moment at the center of the Cleveland Islamic community.

It would appear that Cleveland's Islamic spiritual leader aided and abetted Palestinian terror. President Bush was right - not simplistic, not paranoid - when he said you are either with us or against us in the War on Terror, which includes Palestinian terrorist's ongoing campaign against Israeli civilians. Cleveland's, and America's, Islams must decide where they stand in the War - no more coy riding the fence - and declare their position unambiguously. This supporter of terror, of murder, Damra, is a disgrace - his insidious influence must end.