NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
NO FROM THE PUBLISHER Alamoudigate BY ALFRED S. REGNERY ASHINGTON HAS ALWAYS HAD MORE than its share of glad-handers insincerely advocating some position or another. (Some would...
...Alamoudi this month, he did not care much which party his friends came from, as long as they would listen...
...NO FROM THE PUBLISHER Alamoudigate BY ALFRED S. REGNERY ASHINGTON HAS ALWAYS HAD MORE than its share of glad-handers insincerely advocating some position or another...
...1 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2003/JANUARY 2004...
...As pointed out in our piece about Mr...
...Abdurahman Alamoudi, a 51year-old naturalized American citizen originally from Eritrea, is Washington's most recent ideological con man...
...He was often quoted, or defended, in the mainstream press, he gave at least $20,000 to a group founded by Republican political operative Grover Norquist, and FBI Director Mueller listened attentively when Alamoudi told of all the wonderful things moderate Muslims could do for us...
...The power structure and social utor to Mrs...
...And every once in a while, one of these rogues cap, tures the imagination of the power structure and the social set, and moves through both like a warm knife through butter...
...But stay away from large numbers of sequentially numbered $100 bills...
...All the conservatives in town of any consequence were there as she danced from room to room with Bob Dole on one arm and Newt Gingrich on the other, talk show hosts waiting in the wings to get her thoughts on tax cuts and the latest Clinton indiscretion...
...Now, she is as forgotten as Koreagate's Tongsun Park, the Korean lobbyist, rice dealer and Congress or candidate for a Senate seat, but intended instead for funding terrorists...
...It doesn't matter if you believe in your cause or not...
...He usually only lasts for a time until something blows up...
...He was everybody's favorite moderate Muslim until he was picked up at Dulles Airport in September, returning from Libya and Syria with $340,000 in sequentially numbered $100 bills in his suitcase—enough to make several soft-money contributions to his favorite member of Not surprisingly, his old friends in Washington aren't talking about him much...
...Spread lots of money around Washington, and you'll have more friends and more dinner party invitations than you ever thought possible...
...Many people in Washington don't believe in much anyway, particularly if there are fat checks involved...
...Now cooling his heels in the Alexandria, Virginia jail, he is awaiting trial on various federal charges, including laundering Libyan money, financing political operations in the United States with illegal foreign contributions, passport fraud and the funding of terrorist organizations and individuals throughout the Arab world and the U.S...
...Some would say the whole place is filled with such people, and in fact they might be right...
...She bought her way into the conservative movement, but sold out cheap when she discovered a better way to call attention to herself...
...The lesson...
...A frequent visitor to the Clinton White House and contrib influence peddler of the mid-1970s, who hosted the best Washington parties at his exclusive Georgetown Club, and was on everybody's social list before he became the subject of a congressional investigation and was arrested for bribing members of Congress...
...consuming house in Washington...
...Not surprisingly, his old friends in Washington aren't talking about him much...
...I remember well going to a fancy party several years ago at Arianna Huffington's large and energy set then move on to another fad or another fast talker, pretending they never knew the fellow who is suddenly an embarrassment...
...You can do the talk shows, and be quoted in the paper...
...Clinton's Senate campaign (she returned the money when people started asking rude questions) he also dropped in on George W. in Austin during the 2000 campaign...
Vol. 36 • December 2003 • No. 7
