{"id":1441,"date":"2026-06-07T17:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:08:21","slug":"jeffries-evades-talk-about-n-j-democratic-candidates-link-to-1993-wtc-bombing-mastermind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries evades talk about N.J. 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He\u2019s going to have to speak for himself and address these allegations,\u201d Mr. Jeffries said. \u201cAnd I certainly haven\u2019t read the transcript that you just presented to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jeffries lauded Mr. Hamawy last Tuesday on X: \u201cCongratulations to Mr. @HamawyForNJ on a hard-fought victory tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to the growing House Democratic Doctors\u2019 Caucus! Together there is much work to do to lower the high cost of living and fix our broken healthcare system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hamawy, a plastic surgeon practicing near Princeton, initially met Abdel-Rahman at a New Jersey middle school forum in 1991 and started accompanying him to events thereafter, ultimately testifying as a character witness at his 1995 seditious conspiracy trial.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=1437\">At least 12 people shot at an Ohio street festival and suspects remain at large, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under cross-examination by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Mr. Hamawy acknowledged that Abdel-Rahman \u201calways talked about\u201d jihad.<\/p>\n<p>Their relationship deepened over time \u2014 all the way to a road trip to Detroit, where Mr. Hamawy served as the sheikh\u2019s translator at a press conference in which Abdel-Rahman denied any role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Mr. Hamawy was also untruthful on the stand. When defense attorney Lynne Stewart asked him to describe a 1991 Detroit conference headlined by Abdel-Rahman, Mr. Hamawy called it an economics event \u2014 but the recovered conference transcript shows it was a gathering of jihadist leaders at which Abdel-Rahman\u2019s listed topic was \u201cThe Best Way of Supporting Jihad\u201d and his opening sentence declared jihad \u201cthe pinnacle of Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have also reported that Mr. Hamawy subsequently worked with the Benevolence International Foundation, an organization later shut down after it was discovered to be an al Qaeda front, The Newark Star Ledger reported.<\/p>\n<div>\n<section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mr. Hamawy\u2019s campaign has said the scrutiny against him is just \u201cguilt-by-association\u201d and his detractors are shaming him unfairly. They pointed to his over 20 years of military service as a lieutenant colonel, including a combat tour during which he saved the life of Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Illinois Democrat, and hundreds of other American troops in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=1435\">Trump expresses support to funding Anti-Weaponization Fund but not committed to reviving it<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday declined to condemn New Jersey Democratic congressional nominee Adam Hamawy, despite being shown trial transcripts showing Mr. Hamawy testified as a defense witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the &#8220;Blind Sheikh&#8221; who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jeffries evades talk about N.J. 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