00:00So there's another interesting allegation surrounding the Democratic candidate for
00:04Senate from Michigan, Abdul El Sayed.
00:06This one involving a charity that his father, Mohammed El Sayed, has served on the board
00:11of for several years.
00:13Mohammed El Sayed has been a board member of Life for Relief and Development since 2020,
00:18at least.
00:19Life for Relief and Development has a long history of drawing from Muslim donors.
00:22And in 2004, at the height of the US invasion of Iraq, soldiers found boxes of evidence
00:28and reams of documents suggesting that the charity, which was supposed to help the needy
00:33and the disadvantaged, had actually been funneling donors' money via the nation of Jordan to
00:38the regime of the since-deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
00:42That evidence kicked off a long-running criminal and civil case against the group that only
00:47concluded in 2014 when Life for Relief and Development paid a settlement of around $780,000.
00:54Federal investigators also found ties between Life for Relief and Development and the Islamic
00:58African Relief Agency, another charity suspected of funneling support for bad actors in the
01:05Middle East, specifically Hamas, and a charity for which Abdul El Sayed's mother happened to
01:11be employed for a short time.
01:13Now this is just the latest example of El Sayed or members of his family being accused of being
01:18linked to unscrupulous actors with ties to the Middle East, ties to Islamic extremists, and
01:24ties to out and out terror groups.
