Alleged Connection To The Taliban and Al-Qaeda
On January 16, 2008, Mark D. Siljander, former U.S. Representative from Michigan's 4th congressional district, was indicted for his role in helping the Islamic American Relief Agency raise more than $130,000 that was allegedly sent to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. On July 7, 2010, Siljander pled guilty to obstruction of justice and acting as an unregistered foreign agent, and Abdel Azim El-Siddig, formerly a part-time fundraiser for IARA, pled guilty to conspiring to hire Siljander to lobby for IARA's removal from the US Senate Finance Committee's list of organizations supporting terrorism. During sentencing, Judge Nanette Laughery concluded that IARA had no connection whatsoever with any terrorist organization or entity posing a threat to the United States by stating "This is not a case about somebody aiding a terrorist."
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