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231 “the agreement still needed”: Ibid.
232 “repeatedly pushed some of”: Tom Hamburger and Josh Meyer, “Eric Holder Pushed for Controversial Clemency,” Los Angeles Times, January 9, 2009, www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-holder9-2009jan09,0,6643509.story.
233 “angry lawmakers demanded”: Ibid.
234 “instructed his staff”: Ibid.
235 “I remember this”: Ibid.
236 “strong opposition to”: Ibid.
237 “Overall, the two groups”: Ibid.
238 “These terrorists took away”: Joseph F. Connor, “Hearing Statement of Joseph F. Connor,” United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, January 16, 2009, http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=3629&wit_id=7569.
239 Why did Holder ignore…for the pardon?”: Ibid.
240 “as something President Bush”: Andrew McCarthy, “Lawyer’s Lawyer, Radical’s Radical,” National Review, March 9, 2009, www.judicialnetwork.com/cgi-data/in_the_news/files/227.shtml.
241 “extreme and implausible”: Ibid.
242 “in fact, the practice was”: Ibid.
243 “it had arrested”: Ahmd Al-Haj, “Official: Yemen Releases 170 al-Qaida Suspects,” Yahoo News.com, February 8, 2009, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_yemen_al_qaida_suspects.
244 “after signing pledges”: Ibid.
245 “local tribal leaders”: Ibid.
246 “increase [Bush’s] reluctance”: Ibid.
7. THE UNITED STATES SENDS AID TO HAMAS…YES, HAMAS!
247 The U.S. contribution makes up: Joel Mowbray, “Lawmakers Worry Whether U.S. Can Keep Gaza Aid Away from the Hamas,” FoxNews.com, March 2, 2009, www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/02/lawmakers-worry-gaza-aid-away-hamas/.
248 “UNRWA openly collaborates”: Caroline Glick, “Column One: Entrapping Netanyahu,” Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2009, www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJP Article%2FShowFull&cid=1235410729960.
249 “I am sure that”: “UNRWA’s Hamas Employees,” HonestReporting.com, www.aish.com/jewishissues/mediaobjectivity/UNRWAs_Hamas_Employees.asp.
250 May 2004…rockets at Israel: Ibid.
251 According to Congressman: “Teaching Rocket Science,” New York Post, May 6, 2008, www.nypost.com/seven/05062008/postopinion/editorials/teaching_rocket_science_109621.html.
252 “discovered there small-arms”: Arlene Kushner, “UN Dollars for Terror,” FrontPageMag.com, August 18, 2004, www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=F80544EB-508B-42F8-9AE4-4C06C508B2A2.
253 “So pervasive is this”: Ibid.
254 The European Union contributes: Ibid.
255 “thirty confirmed fatalities”: Herb Keinon and Tovah Lazaroff, “UNRWA Offers Political Cover to Hamas,” Jerusalem Post, February 25, 2009, www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235410706632&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull.
256 “UN issued a revised report”: Ibid.
257 “One of [the banks]”: Claudia Rosett, “Can We Give to Gaza Without Giving to Hamas?” Forbes, March 5, 2009, www.forbes.com/2009/03/04/gaza-hamas-clinton-opinions-columnists_claudia_rosett.html.
258 “that may be indicative”: Ibid.
259 In 2006, Under-Secretary: Ibid.
260 “we have worked”: Ibid.
261 “a considerable portion”: Jonathan D. Halevi, “Aid to Palestinian Authority Used for Terrorists,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 4, 2009, http://jcpa.org.il/Templates/show page.asp?FID=575&DBID=1&LNGID=2&TMID=99&IID=22002.
262 “This aid serves as”: Ibid.
263 “it is directly”: Asaf Romirowsky, “How UNRWA Supports Hamas,” inFocus, 2007, www.jewishpolicycenter.org/article/53.
264 The UNRWA employs: Ibid.
265 “UNRWA workers are permitted”: Ibid.
266 “Instead of a condemnation”: Ibid.
267 Said Sayyam…military structure of Hamas: Ibid.
268 “there have also been widespread reports”: Ibid.
269 “allowed terrorist groups”: Mark Silverberg, “Gaza’s Quandary,” www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2310/pub_detail.asp.
270 “destroyed during bomb-making”: Romirowsky, “How UNRWA Supports Hamas.”
271 “UNRWA’s job is to”: Asaf Romirowsky, Barry Rubin, and Jonathan Spyer, “UNRWA: Refuge of Rejectionism,” GLORIACenter.org, May 8, 2008, www.gloriacenter.org/index.asp?pname=submenus/articles/2008/rubin/5_8.asp.