Indicted Former Rep. Siljander Played God’s James Bond(by Jeff Stein, CQ Politics, February 22, 2008)In the fall of 1983, according to former Michigan Rep. Mark D. Siljander, the FBI and CIA warned him that he had been marked for assassination by PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Of course, you’re thinking: How ironic.
Siljander, a Republican who served in the House for six years in the 1980s, was indicted last month as a terrorist supporter himself, charged with rinsing cash for a charity on the government’s list of organizations connected to Hamas or al Qaeda.
Twenty years ago, the outspoken anti-gay, anti-abortion fundamentalist Christian was denouncing the Koran as “the book of the devil” at a National Prayer Breakfast. But he fell into league with the devil himself, according to the government’s Jan. 17 indictment, charged with laundering money for the Islamic American Relief Agency.
Long before that, though, he had immersed himself in clandestine operations, according to an ill-timed and -titled memoir, “A Deadly Misunderstanding: A Congressman’s Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide,” scheduled for publication in June.
Throughout the book he portrays himself as God’s James Bond, carrying out secret missions in Libya, Sudan, Indonesia and other Islamic countries in a personal crusade to defuse religious misunderstandings.
"God's James Bond". How stupid is that? Especially when it is used to describe a common Republican criminal. And an "anti-gay, anti-abortion fundamentalist Christian" Republican criminal at that.
This is exactly the right guy to "defuse religious misunderstandings" in Muslim countries. Him and Karen "Sasquatch" Hughes. How pathetic.
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