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New Jersey Democratic House candidate Adam Hamawy worked for an Al-Qaida-linked nonprofit in the 1990s before international investigations led to its closing, Jewish Insider reported.<\/p>\n

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Hamawy said in a 1996 interview that he had passed out humanitarian supplies around Bosnia two years earlier for the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), the outlet reported, citing the archived story from the Newark Star-Ledger. The U.S. government and United Nations (UN) later identified the Illinois-based foundation as a clandestine funding source for Al-Qaida and 9\/11 architect Osama bin Laden. (RELATED: Pro-Mamdani PAC Took Donation From Islamist Cleric Who Vouched For Terror Plot Mastermind)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI worked in Sarajevo for 10 days and then the rest in Zenica, a large regional center in central Bosnia,\u201d Hamawy, who was born in Egypt, reportedly told the paper at the time. \u201cWe went out to hospitals around the area and in the mountains to check what supplies they needed and we tried to deliver them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamawy\u2019s campaign did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment. He has received endorsements from high-profile Democrats such as Muslim and Somali-born Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n

The Muslim candidate previously came under fire for his past association with convicted terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, for whom he worked as a translator and testified in his defense in his 1996 federal trial in New York, Jewish Insider and the Washington Free Beacon reported. Abdel-Rahman, nicknamed \u201cthe Blind Sheik,\u201d and co-defendants were convicted of roles in the deadly 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other terrorist plots.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe did speak about violent things that I think most people disagree with and most people condemn, including myself,\u201d Hamawy told The Philadelphia Inquirer about the Blind Sheik. \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t the only thing he spoke about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamawy\u2019s past ties to extremists run deeper than previously acknowledged, Jewish Insider\u2019s report found. A 2002 federal investigation of BIF found extensive communications between the foundation and Al-Qaida, financial transactions and records describing a plan to \u201cestablish a base for operations in Europe against al Qaeda\u2019s true enemy, the United States,\u201d \u00a0 .<\/p>\n

The Democrat dismissed his critics as bigoted in May 7 comments to InsiderNJ, touting his past work as a doctor for the U.S. in the Iraq War and a responder on 9\/11.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a Muslim, they\u2019re always going to find something to attack,\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p>\n

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