BUSTED! Major Investor in Ground Zero Mosque Contributed Money to Hamas…

BUSTED! Major Investor in Ground Zero Mosque Contributed Money to Hamas…

The co-signer on the Park51 building Hisham Elzanaty gave $6,000 to
the Holy Land Foundation in 1999 which existed solely to support Hamas.
And as IPT
pointed out to Fox NY, even back then it was well known the HLF was as
a Hamas front group. If this doesn’t put the nail in the GZM’s coffin
then nothing will…

(FOX-NY) – Fox
5 News reported Thursday that one of the financial backers of the
Islamic mosque and cultural center project in Lower Manhattan once
contributed to a terror group, although the investor says the contribution was made because he thought he was giving money to a harmless charity.

One of the key players in Sharif El-Gamal’s Mosque near Ground Zero
is Egyptian born businessman, Hisham Elzanaty. Fox 5 News has learned
exclusively and confirmed with Mr. Elzanaty’s attorney that Elzanaty
made a “significant investment” in the development of the mosque near
Ground Zero.

Fox 5 has also uncovered Elzanaty has teamed up with El-Gamal on at
least two real estate deals: the controversial mosque site and another
deal involving a commercial property in the Chelsea section of
Manhattan.

In the Chelsea deal, mortgage documents show Elzanaty played
a major role signing off as the guarantor on El-Gamal’s $39 million
mortgage.

When Fox 5 News reporter Charles Leaf tracked down Elzanaty outside
his Long Island home in Roslyn Heights last week Elzanaty avoided the
camera and did not answer a single question about his business dealings
with El-Gamal.

Fox 5 News has also learned that in 1999 Hisham Elzanaty sent money
to an organization that would later be deemed by the U.S. government to
be a terrorist group.

The organization was the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, also known as HLF. The now defunct group’s 1999 tax records show Elzanaty contributed more than $6,000 to HLF.

Two years later, in 2001, HLF was shut down by the federal
government and designated as a global terrorist. After a mistrial in
2007, in 2008 five HLF leaders were convicted of providing material
support to Hamas.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) is a non-profit
research group that focuses on radical Islamic terrorist groups. The
research group shared its information on HLF with Fox 5 News and IPT’s
Managing Director, Ray Locker tells us HLF, “masked what their true
purpose was, they funneled money to Hamas which used that money to
conduct terrorist operations. In many cases they gave that money to the
widows and children of so-called martyrs. ”

Federal investigators say HLF was set up as the largest
Muslim charity in the United States based in Richardson, Texas, but
from its inception the group existed to support Hamas.

Mr. Elzanaty’s attorney tells Fox 5 News exclusively his client believed he was making contributions to an orphanage.

But IPT’s Ray Locker claims even back then TV and newspapers were reporting suspicions of the group’s ties to terror. “If
you gave money (to HLF) in 1999 you probably had some inkling that HLF
was giving money to Hamas and therefore to terrorist operations,” Locker says.