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Title: Riad Hamad Murdered In Austin, TX Because Of His Charity Work He Did For Palestinians
Source: Progressive Independent
URL Source: http://www.progressiveindependent.c ... topic&forum=104&topic_id=83835
Published: Apr 21, 2008
Author: various
Post Date: 2008-04-21 14:17:07 by Red Jones
Keywords: None
Views: 1317
Comments: 8

His name was Riad Hamad and he was my friend. A friend with courage and conviction who was not afraid to do the right thing.

He was found floating in a lake Thursday- suicided after being bound with duct tape in a manner that the complicit Austin Police Department ruled as "consistent with suicide".

(snip)

Witnesses at the scene Wednesday afternoon say the body, now identified as Riad Hamad, 55, an Austin Independent School District teacher, washed up at Festival Beach Park sometime before 2:00 p.m., when one young woman says she called 9-1-1. She told News Radio 590 KLBJ the man's body had been "wrapped with duct tape".

Austin Police Sergeant Joseph Chacon confirms the man was bound with duct tape.

"The bindings, although I cannot go into them extensively, it's possible that he could have done them to himself," Chacon says. "We have not ruled out that foul play might be involved. However, we have no indication right now that that is the case."

(snip)

http://www.590klbj.com/News/Story.aspx?ID=89215

Riad ran the Palestine Children's Welfare Fund (PCWF), a radical Gaza-based "charity" that helped children in Gaza and that we tried to help. Several of you sponsored children from his organization for the measly sum of $10/month that makes such a huge difference in their lives by paying for schoolbooks and medicine.

Those of you who did, I honor from the bottom of my heart. Riad was doing such good work that right wing Likud organizations slandered him by linking him and his charity to Islamic fundamentalist terror in newspaper and Internet articles. He had court cases against several of them including that slimey rat David Horowitz.

Shortly before Riad was suicided, his home had been raided by the feds and his computers were confiscated. It sent shockwaves through the pro-Palestinian community because it was one of the last organizations you could use to help people.

My friend is dead. Found floating in a lake, ductaped by "suidice". Other friends of mine are being persecuted too but they're not suicided yet.

In honor of Riad, I am going to be taking this site back to its root of antiwar activism, pro-Palestinian justice, and doing what we wrote on the homepage which is to yank the Democratic Party back to the Left. Those of you who have different ideas will need to find a new home now or stick to your other sites where you laugh at people who share our vision.

This site is for people who think we can make a difference politically, even if it's just a few baby steps because those babysteps have a tremendous effect on the lives of millions of our victims all over the world.

Riad, this one's for you.

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http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=83835&mesg_id=83869

and here are some pictures below - about how they harassed him

can you believe they put a notice like this in front of someone's house in our country?

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below is what FrontPage said about him

The Palestinian Children’s Welfare Fund (PCWF) is one of a multitude of Islamic children’s charities whose stated goal is “to improve the living standards of the children of Palestine.” One of the ways the PCWF has demonstrated this was to conduct a drawing contest in October of 2002, whereby children won money for drawing gruesome pictures depicting anti-Semitic and violent images.

The PCWF is headed by Riad Hamad. Hamad's resume includes being fired from Austin Community College for allegedly "making racist slurs and sexist jokes in the classroom." He doesn't agree, though; he says he was fired for "making statements against the U.S. government." Hamad is currently an instructor at a different school, in his words, "till I get fired again."

The FBI has on a number of occasions conducted surveillance on Riad Hamad. His neighbors have been interviewed, his co-workers have been questioned, and packages he has sent have been opened - with good reason, it would appear.

Riad Hamad spelled out his anti-Semitic agenda during a response to an online article. According to his version of history, "Britain allowed several hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to land in Palestine despite the opposition of the original inhabitants. In our opinion, they (sic) immigrants arrived illegally and will be deported to their nation of origin… sooner or later." He also helpfully cleared up one of the author's misconceptions: "You are assuming that most of us Arabs recognize the right of Israel to exist."

The Palestinian Children’s Welfare Fund works closely with the Holy Land Trust, a Christian nonprofit organization with offices in the U.S., Iraq and the Palestinian territories. Joseph Farrah, Editor of World Net Daily, has described the Holy Land Trust's activities: “The lies this group tells in the name of Christianity are big and bold. They include the standard lines about Jews robbing the homes of Arabs, stealing their land and brutalizing them in a repressive state of military occupation. These so-called Christians even rationalize terrorism.”

Last December, the co-founder of the PCWF, Bob Rossi, and Margaret Stephens (a.k.a. Margaret Phillips) found themselves held by Israeli authorities in the home of the Executive Director of the Holy Land Trust, Sami Awad, in Bethlehem. Of the event, Rossi states, “One evening, two of our Palestinian colleagues’ homes were seized by Israeli forces.”

That's peculiar, as Israel typically seizes (or destroys) the homes of people aiding and abetting terrorism.

Bob and Margaret publish Northwest Ethnic Voice, an Oregonian newsletter that endorsed an ANSWER protest against President George Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft.

The Northwest Ethnic Voice website links to ramallahonline.com, a radical site that features anti-Israel poems, petitions and favorable pictures of terrorists, including one of Osama bin Laden. There is also a link to the website of rapper The Iron Shiek, who believes that Israel’s control of the Palestinian territories is far worse than suicide bombings. He raps, “Ariel Sharon, a real cabron/I’d like to meet him in a dark alley and it’s on/He’d be the Penguin and I’d be Batman/My flurry of fists would sink that fat man.” The PCWF ordered 100 of his CDs for a recent fundraiser.

Fundraisers are important for the PCWF, because how else can they afford to give out an $8,000 scholarship, whereby they force the winner to “wear a Palestinian flag or a pin every day he/she attends classes in the United States”?

(snip)

The Palestinian Children’s Welfare Fund and the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund are two of the many Islamic charities in the United States alone, which claim to be non-political yet exploit national and international politics to the utmost. Why would they allow someone into their staff that obviously harbors affection for suicide bombers? And into whose hands goes is she delivering “welfare” and “relief”? Is it those children that are truly innocent, or is it those that make up Shadya Hantouli’s gallery?

(snip) http://frontpagemag. com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8394 (You'll have to remove the space. I don't want to link to those pigs

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here is the letter he wrote to George Bush in 2002

To: George Bush,

President of the United States of America

Washington, DC

I was very amused last week when I was trying to get into my car in the morning on my way to work, when my neighbor across the street came out and asked me if we could talk. Although I was in a hurry since I was late, I listened to him since he said that the topic was important. My neighbor told me that he was approached by the FBI and was asked many questions about me and was asked to put a camera in his house to watch me. The request was denied, as my neighbor, who happened to be a Libertarian, did not trust the motives of the FBI. Also, my neighbor told him that, "Riad is my friend and I would not spy on him." Apparently, the agent did not give up and told my neighbor that he would call on him again.

Although I knew and expected such activities by the FBI, I was surprised about their lack of professionalism and the absence of decency. I carry my Iraqi flags to every rally and I am always the loudest and the most obvious. Hundreds of people come and ask me about the flags as they do not know which countries the flags stand for, and I have to say, "These are the flags of the countries that your tax money is paying to occupy, kill and maim," since not many of them knew the colors of the flags of Palestine or Iraq. For the FBI to have to go and knock on my neighbor’s doors is very unprofessional and illegal. Besides, the FBI has been harassing members of the International Solidarity Movement and monitoring their phone calls, e-mails and movements around the nation. I assume this is an effort to harass them, intimidate them, and scare them from going around the United States to expose your lies, and that of your administration, about the real situation in occupied Palestine.

I have lived, went to college, and worked in the United States for over 30 years. I have no criminal record and not even a suspicion of committing a crime, such as your cocaine addiction, drunk driving, and going AWOL during your National Guard duty in Texas. Also, I have never sold shares of a bankrupt company to the pension fund of Bahrain National Oil Company like you did, which is nothing but fraud and insider trading.

I work with a group of individuals around the globe called the Palestine Children’s Welfare Fund in association with the Holy Land Trust out of Bethlehem, Palestine. We bring olive wood and embroidery from Palestine and raise money in the United States for the women and the children of the refugee camps. We are non-political and non-religious, and our donors and supporters are Muslims, Christians, Jews, and others who know better than to believe your message of hatred and aggression. Every penny we receive is accounted for and every penny we spend is accounted for on our Web site that I am sure that you have monitored and observed. Also, we sponsor only civilians who are either orphans or not affiliated with any political or religious groups and their only crime is that they are Palestinians.

As a patriotic citizen of this country, and to make sure that I give you a hand in combating "terrorism," I have posted a sign near in our neighborhood letting people know that we are under surveillance. And asking our neighbors and the passers by to inform the FBI of any suspicious activities and the sign and the pictures of the house with the sign is on the Web page link.

Over the past weekend, several of our neighbors came by and apologized for your stupidity and that of the FBI and other officials. One of them told me that, "I am ashamed to say that I am an American since George Bush became president." Others tried to apologize, and I had to remind that I am also ashamed of you and your actions and that of your administration. I have not been outside the United States since you became president, to avoid showing my passport and avoid associating with you and your administration. Besides helping you monitor me by posting the sign near our home, I will help you find some terrorists that I know and I believe that they are threat to the safety and the security of the United States. You do not have to look far to find them and apprehend them, and if you do not soon, WE THE PEOPLE will some day soon. These terrorists are now in Washington and you see them every time you have a cabinet meeting and I am afraid you are one of them.

George,

Get the hell out of my life and take your FBI thugs from our neighborhood because they are not wanted.

Riad Hamad Austin, Texas


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the poor man - he took seriously the idea that America is a free country. (4 images)

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#1. To: All (#0)

he wrote a defiant letter to president bush ridiculing the federal government's efforts to harass him. and he was helping Palestinian children to live providing them with basic necessities. and who knows what he said to the school-children he came in contact with in his job. He had it coming. The only question is who killed him? Was it Mossad or our own government?

Remember the doctor in New York state? He came to America from Palestine where he was from. Over 30 years he gave over 1 million dollars in charity to Palestinians. But he also gave a lot to Americans who were in need. and they brought charges against him for helping terrorists. They held him for 3-4 years before the trial was complete. In the end they couldn't prove that he helped terrorists, so they found him guilty on medicare fraud. He filled out a form applying for money in such a way that he credited a nurse's time in the slot where doctor's time is supposed to be, thus arranging for himself to be over-compensated. For this he got something like 20 years. and he is elderly.

Anyone that just gives charity to the palestinians is being targeted.

Revelation 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

Red Jones  posted on  2008-04-21   14:41:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Red Jones (#1)

How unbelievable is this?

Suicide by duct tape?

How much lower can we sink?

Lod  posted on  2008-04-21   14:53:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: lodwick (#2)

Reminds me of that old racist joke about how it would be just like a Black man to ry to swim with a hundred pounds of chain wrapped around and locked to his body.

It does sound like the murder came from an entity with more pull and power then the Austin Police. It sounds like they were directed to make this out to be a suicide, or else.


Obama for president 2008

Ferret Mike  posted on  2008-04-21   15:14:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Alex Jones has a guest friend of Raid's on right now! (#3)

christine  posted on  2008-04-21   15:39:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Ferret Mike (#3)

It sounds like they were directed to make this out to be a suicide, or else.

exactly. the police who did this are corrupt & just taking orders. they are people of no character!

In phoenix there was a case 5 years ago. an activist named Brian Quig was killed. The Phoenix police came to his apartment to warn him to cease investigations 2 weeks before his death. then when he died they said he was hit by a car. but his body was cremated before they called his family. Nobody examined the body but the Phoenix police prior to cremation. And his family lived here in Phoenix.

Revelation 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

Red Jones  posted on  2008-04-21   15:46:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: christine, Ferret Mike, Red Jones, all (#4)

It will be interesting to see if, and how, this affects our current race to be the new DA of Travis County - or what our corrupt medical examiner rules in this obvious homicide.

Lod  posted on  2008-04-21   15:51:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Red Jones (#0)

From another site:

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Police, Media Say FBI Target Found Dead In Lake, Bound & Gagged, Committed Suicide!

Tony Plohetski, Sue Banerjee Austin-American Statesman Friday, April 18, 2008

Comment: As Alex stated on the show today, maybe they'll just start hanging us by a noose from helicopters over sports stadiums and claim we killed ourselves.

Man found in Lady Bird Lake was teacher, FBI target Police said that victim, who taught at a Southwest Austin middle school, may have committed suicide.

Austin police said Thursday that they are leaning toward a ruling of suicide in the death of a middle school teacher and activist whose body was found Wednesday in Lady Bird Lake with his hands and legs bound and tape over his eyes.

Police identified Riad Hamad, 55, at a news conference Thursday and said the binding of his limbs and the placement of the tape was consistent with Hamad having done it himself.

(Article continues below)

Austin police homicide Sgt. Joe Chacon said family members told investigators that the Clint Small Jr. Middle School teacher had "several stressors" in his life and had talked about possibly killing himself. Police said that they think Hamad walked from his car to the lake, based on evidence they gathered at the scene.

"The car was found on the south shoreline with no signs of mysterious activity," Chacon said.

Police said that they found Hamad's car along Lady Bird Lake on Tuesday and searched but did not find him.

Joggers found Hamad's body about 2 p.m. Wednesday near Comal Street and Nash Hernandez Sr. Road. Investigators said they found no signs of trauma or a struggle.

Debbie Russell, president of the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter, sent an e-mail Thursday to dozens of activists throughout the city saying that Hamad's death had been ruled a homicide. Russell said in a later interview that she wrote that e-mail after she thought she had heard media reports that Hamad had been killed.

She said in the e-mail that Hamad had recently been under investigation by the FBI — federal officials confirmed the investigation — and described him as "NOT a terrorist but a peaceworker." Hamad was serving as an official for the Austin chapter of the Palestine Children's Welfare Fund.

FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said that Hamad had been a "person of interest" in a criminal investigation but that he could not elaborate.

Austin police said Hamad's family reported him missing Monday. Family members released a statement Thursday saying that he disappeared after going to pick up a prescription at a local pharmacy.

Hamad's body was taken to the Travis County medical examiner's office for an autopsy. The office did not respond to an open records request Thursday for information about the case and would not confirm that Hamad's body was there.

According to the family's statement, which was released through an attorney, Hamad was a University of Texas graduate and had taught in the Austin school district for a decade.

The family's statement described him as a "peace activist who worked tirelessly on behalf of those less fortunate than him and was loved and admired by many members of the local, as well as international community."

CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY http://www.statesman.com/news/co...ries/local/04/18/0418bo...

Click here to discuss this story in our forum http://prisonplanet.com/articles/april2008/180408 _b_suicide.htm --

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pretty disturbing story, to say the least.

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AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt  posted on  2008-04-22   22:50:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Red Jones (#0)

have you seen this.....

Condition of Riad Hamad’s Body Contrary to Suicide

Kurt Nimmo Infowars April 22, 2008

On the Alex Jones Show today, Dr. Ibrahim Dremali, Director of the Islamic Center of Greater Austin, described the condition of Riad Hamad Esolh’s body after he allegedly committed suicide by trussing himself in duct tape and throwing himself in the Colorado River in Austin, also known as Lady Bird Lake.

Islamic law requires the deceased be washed prior to burial and this was what Mr. Dremali did less than 24 hours after Mr. Hamad was pulled from the Colorado River and after an autopsy, although it appears Hamad’s family did not give permission for an autopsy. Normally, according to Dr. Dremali, the “police contact Islamic Center before they do anything” and they did not do this in the case of Mr. Hamad.

Dremali described to Alex Jones the condition of Hamad’s body. It appeared as if he had been “attacked by an animal in the jungle,” Dremali said. Hamad was cut from the shoulder to the stomach; his arms were cut and his face was bruised and the rear of his skull was bashed in. Dremali said Hamad’s brain was missing. Alex speculated Hamad’s brain was missing because he may have been shot in the head.

Dremali stressed that suicide is forbidden under Islamic law. Moreover, the claim Hamad committed suicide is specious because he had children and was in the process of obtaining a doctorate degree.

Dr. Dremali would not speculate if Riad Hamad was assassinated, although it is now obvious, considering the condition of the body, he did not commit suicide.

If indeed Riad Hamad was assassinated, this would dovetail with Israel’s declaration they will target assassinate “Palestinian extremists,” apparently including American school teachers who send textbooks to Palestinian school children, obviously a terrorist event. Israeli intelligence, according to United Press International, considers violating U.S. sovereignty and murdering U.S. citizens as “operational maneuverability.” ......

see comments.

www.infowars.com/?p=1651

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AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt  posted on  2008-05-18   16:47:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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