Chic gal pal? Mild mannered
politician’s wife? Harmless clotheshorse? Saudi plant? Innocent aide? Handler?
6/13/16, Breitbart
Huma
Abedin is Vice Chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. But Huma
is more, much more than that. She is the person closest to the most powerful
woman in American politics and perhaps the next President. Huma has been
described variously as Hillary’s “body woman,” a sort of glorified go-to
personal maid, gentle confidant, and by others as an Islamic spy. She may be
all of these things, because as we shall see, Huma Abedin has an interesting
and complex career history.
Abedin
was deeply involved with the
establishment of Hillary’s private email server, which was used for all of her
work as Secretary of State. Now, since we know Hillary had hundreds of
classified or top-secret documents on her vulnerable server (despite her early
lies saying she did not), any faith in Huma’s judgment — at the very least —
has been demolished. You will soon ask yourself, “how did this woman get a
security clearance?”
She was
born Huma Mahmood Abedin in 1976 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her father, Syed
Zainul Abedin, was Indian and born in New Delhi. In the early 1970s, he was
affiliated with the Muslim Students Association at Western Michigan University.
The Muslim Students Association or MSA was started in 1963 by Saudi Arabia’s
biggest charity, the Muslim World League, a group formed and
funded by the Kingdom
to spread Islam throughout the world.
Her
mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, was born in Pakistan. Saleha received her Ph.D.
in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977.
Two years
after Huma was born, the family moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and with the
patronage of Abdullah Omar Naseef of the Muslim World League, founded the
Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs with offices in Saudi Arabia and London,
England. In the 1980’s Syed Abedin was a counselor of the Muslim World League.
After his death in 1993, his wife Saleha took over and serves as director of
the IMMA (Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs) and as the editor of that
organization’s academic magazine, the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. More
recently she still edits the Journal and is also a part of the administration
of Dar Al-Hekma Women’s College.
Naseef’s
connections to the entire Abedin family are significant — and, for reasons
you’ll see in a moment, very troubling. As Vanity Fair wrote, during “his early
years as the patron of the Abedins’ journal, Nasseef was the secretary-general
of the Muslim World League” and gives more shocking details about the Abedins:
It turns
out the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs is an Abedin family business. Huma
was an assistant editor there between 1996 and 2008. Her brother, Hassan, 45,
is a book-review editor at the Journal and was a fellow at the Oxford Center
for Islamic Studies, where Nasseef is chairman of the board of trustees. Huma’s
sister, Heba, 26, is an assistant editor at the Journal.
That’s
what all the fuss is about. Since 1962, the Muslim World League has been funded by the Saudi government to the tune of more
than $1.3 billion.
Naseef,
the Muslim World League, and the government of Pakistan created the Rabita
Trust in 1988. Naseef was a sponsor and
financial supporter
of Syed Abedin’s IMMA.
Just a
month after the 9/11 jihadist attack left thousands dead and brought down the
World Trade Center, President George W. Bush’s Executive Order designated the Rabita
Trust as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity and the Treasury
Department froze its assets on October 12, 2001.
Naseef founded the Rabita Trust and remains
involved with it to this day. A Treasury Department
press release
issued when Rabita Trust’s assets were frozen indicated that Rabita Trust is
headed by Wa’el Hamza Jalaidan, one of the founders
of al-Qaida
with bin Laden. He was the logistics chief of bin Laden’s
organization and fought on bin Laden’s side in Afghanistan. Jalaidan himself
was branded a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity by the United States
Treasury Department, and his assets have been frozen, as well.
But the
connections between the Abedin’s Saudi benefactor, the Muslim World League, and
al-Qaeda don’t end there.
In 1984,
foreign mujahidin fighters were streaming in from all over the world to an
office in Peshawar, Pakistan known as Maktab al-Khidamat or MAK.
MAK had
been created by two
Muslims
to recruit and raise money: a radical cleric named Abdullah Azzam and Azzam’s
protege, the infamous leader behind 9/11, the Saudi Arabian named Osama bin
Laden. Before and after his creation of MAK, Azzam subsisted on money provided by
the Muslim World League:
Azzam,
now determined to move to Pakistan, obtained a teaching position at the newly
established International Islamic University of Islamabad, whose foreign
faculty were paid directly by the Muslim World League. Thus, from his arrival in
Pakistan in December 1981 until his permanent move to Peshawar in 1986, the
leader of the Arab Afghans subsisted on a Muslim World League salary.
Donations to MAK came from a number of
“Islamic charities” such as the Saudi Red Crescent, as well as some Saudi
Arabian princes and mosques.
The
office that bin Laden and the other MAK founders were based out of 1984 in
Peshawar was the office of the Muslim World League and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Muslim World League was also a principal funder of MAK, bringing in Saudi
funds that would eventually go to jihad against the West.
The head
of the Muslim World League when their offices in Pakistan were used by Bin
Laden, Zawahiri and Azzam in 1984 was none other than the Abedin’s benefactor,
Abdullah Omar Naseef.
Naseef’s
Rabita Trust, a subsidiary of the Muslim World League, is also connected to a U.S.-based group,
called the SAAR Network, through two officers — Dr. Abdullah Omar Naseef and
Abdullah al-Obaid. The SAAR Network was the focus of a March 2002 raid led by
United States authorities for the network’s alleged ties to al Qaeda.
This
brings us back to Huma Abedin. She lived in Saudi Arabia until she was 17,
while her family worked closely with Naseef. Back in the U.S., she studied at
George Washington University. Two years later she, along with Monica Lewinsky,
became interns at the White House under Bill and Hillary Clinton. Monica served
as Bill’s intern – until their sexual relationship got out of hand and onto her
blue dress – and Huma served as Hillary’s intern. In 1998, as the Lewinsky sex
scandal was raging, she along with other staff girls formed a sort of
shield
around the humiliated First Lady.
While she
worked at the White House, Abedin was an editor at the family
business—the
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.
When
Clinton ran for the Senate in 2000, Huma moved up the ladder to become
her aide and personal adviser.
When the
towers fell in 2001, Hillary Clinton was the Senator from New York. When the
assets of the Rabita Trust were frozen and the group declared a terror funder,
there was no point where Sen. Clinton’s assistant Huma Abedin stepped forward
to shed light on her family’s benefactor Abdullah Omar Naseef, the Muslim World
League, or the Rabita Trust.
Sen.
Clinton and Huma Abedin betrayed every New Yorker and every America with their
silence.
Also
worth noting: from April 2005 to March 2006, Huma was paid a total of
$27,999.92, yet on September 18, 2006, she bought an apartment in Washington
D.C. costing $649,000.
The
question here is, on an annual salary of no more than $28,000, where did the
money come from? We’ve caught of the greatest spies due to their spending well
beyond their salaries.
At the
least, what to make of someone who has lived for 17 years in Saudi Arabia, with
parents who have close, long-standing ties with people connected to terrorist
organizations, and then comes to the U.S. and within two years gets a job as
the First Lady’s assistant?
By 2008, she was Hillary’s
traveling chief of staff and was always at Hillary’s side. In 2009, she was
appointed Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. At this
time, Huma had her name
removed
from the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs masthead.
In 2010,
Huma married Congressman Anthony Weiner. In 2011, her husband was caught
sexting — sending pictures of his erection to several women. He resigned from
Congress that same year.
Huma’s
luck seemed to know no
end
when Hillary Clinton personally signed off on a controversial deal in 2012 that
allowed Huma to simultaneously work for the State Department and a private New
York firm with deep ties to the Clinton family foundation. Mrs. Clinton
personally signed a title change form that approved of the transition from
being her Deputy Chief of Staff, to an SGE (special government employee), the
equivalent of a contractor with special privileges. This allowed Huma to work
for both the State department and for the Teneo Group. Some of you might
remember the Teneo Group as a top consulting firm run by Bill Clinton
gatekeeper Doug Band. Bill Clinton was also on the payroll of Teneo. From June
2012 to February 2013, she held four jobs. She was Hillary’s State Department
aide, a consultant at Teneo Group, she worked and was paid a salary at the
Clinton Foundation, and she worked as Hillary’s private personal assistant.
Huma was triple-dipping.
There
were several issues being investigated both internally by the State Department
and Sen. Charles Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee for conflicts of
interest and embezzlement. She filed inaccurate time sheets overpaying herself
$10,000. Mr. Grassley has also questioned whether the deal with Abedin really
met the requirements for a special government employee status. One of those
requirements is that someone’s work as a contractor be different enough from
the original job to warrant giving the person contractor status. Documents
acquired by the Washington Times show that she told State officials that she
planned to do the same kind of work as an SGE that she did as Deputy Chief of
Staff.
She
became part of Hillary’s transition team in 2013, helping her to return to
private life. She continued her work at the Clinton Foundation and set up her
own consulting firm, Zain Endeavors LLC.
On
October 16, 2015, Abedin testified in a
closed session
before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, in a session that was expected
to focus on the 2012 Benghazi attack during which Ambassador J. Christopher
Stevens and three other Americans were killed. She said, “I came here today to
be as helpful as I could be to the committee. I wanted to honor the service of
those lost and injured in the Benghazi attacks,” adding she was “honored” to
work for Clinton at State and “proud” of her service there.
Representative
Lynn Westmoreland, a Republican panel member, said Abedin frequently answered
questions with responses of “‘I don’t remember’ and ‘I don’t recollect.'”
There is
no doubt that she and Hillary have an extremely close relationship. She has
been loyal and faithful to Hillary for twenty years. “I have one daughter. But
if I had a second daughter, it would be Huma.” So spoke Hillary in 2010. She
even visited with Huma’s mother Saleha in Saudi Arabia in 2011, telling her
that Huma’s position was “very important and sensitive.” Saleha is
reportedly an outspoken
advocate
for genital mutilation for girls in the Islamic world.
So how has
the media dealt with Huma Abedin? In short, they haven’t. The family’s critics
have been attacked and labeled as conspiracy theorists.
One
exception to this was the February 2016 issue of Vanity Fair. Author William D
Cohen’s story, titled “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her
Next Big Problem?” tackled some of the issues I have gone over in this
piece. It was well written, informative, and controversial. The backlash was
immediate.
Media
Matters for America, Hillary Clinton’s private propaganda machine, went into
overdrive, putting out a response to Cohen’s article that attacked his
credibility and just about every fact he had raised in his piece. According to Lee Stranahan writing in Breitbart, the Media Matters
article was filled with false information and smears to protect the Clinton
campaign.
This
isn’t some minor aide. Huma Abedin has been at Clinton’s side for decades, and
it’s time America got some answers.
Listen to
Roger Stone discuss Abedin and Clinton on Breitbart News Daily, airing weekdays
from 6 AM to 9 AM EST on SiriusXM Patriot 125:
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