Mr. Gamal Abdel-Hafiz

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  In March, I documented the case of FBI Special Agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz: His superiors not only overlooked this immigrant's pattern of pro-Islamist behavior, they promoted him.

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  This one involved Gamal Abdel-Hafiz.Unlike Youssef, Abdel-Hafiz is a Muslim.
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  As an FBI agent, Gamal Abdel-Hafiz could have a key role helping America's premier anti-terrorist force protect the United States from harm.
  
  But evidence from high-profile terrorism cases suggests that Abdel-Hafiz, an immigrant Muslim, twice refused on principle to tape-record his coreligionists, harming the investigations.
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  Abdel-Hafiz refused.Why?
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  No, Abdel-Hafiz scornfully replied: "The FBI can't protect me.The FBI, I don't trust them."
  
  Pressed further, Abdel-Hafiz blurted out another reason, one recalled by several participants on the call:

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  Special agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, an immigrant Muslim from Egypt, twice refused on religious grounds to tape-record Muslim terrorist suspects, hindering investigations of a bin Laden family-financed bank in New Jersey, as well as Florida professor Sami al-Arian, who recently was convicted of terrorism despite Abdel-Hafiz's refusal to cooperate in the case.
  
  In an exclusive interview with Sperry, reported in "Infiltration," Abdel-Hafiz confided that he respected al-Arian.
  
  "These people think Sami al-Arian is an idiot," he said, referring to fellow agents investigating him."But Sami al-Arian is a very smart man."
  
  After 9/11, agents complained that Abdel-Hafiz was not helpful in running down al-Qaida leads in the FBI's office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he had been stationed.They said he wore Arab headgear and robes on work assignments there, and even made a pilgrimage to Mecca on bureau time.
  
  Agents who later visited the office after Abdel-Hafiz was reassigned noted that secret documents and files had been carelessly scattered across tables and even wedged behind cabinets.
  
  Despite the complaints and other red flags in his file, Abdel-Hafiz was kept on the job, and is still in the bureau after threatening to sue for Arab discrimination , a legal tactic that has protected other suspect Arab employees at the bureau.

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  Published on: 7/6/2004    Last Visited: 6/8/2007  

  · In February 2001, it promoted Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, a special agent who rejected a counterterror assignment on the grounds that "a Muslim does not record another Muslim."

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  Published on: 10/12/2008    Last Visited: 12/6/2007  

  -FBI agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, who refused to secretly tape-record alleged terror co-conspirator Sami al-Arian, as well as other fellow Muslims under investigation
  
  "We are recruiting Muslims as special agents.

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  · In February 2001, it promoted Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, a special agent who rejected a counterterror assignment on the grounds that "a Muslim does not record another Muslim."

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  Published on: 10/12/2008    Last Visited: 10/4/2008  

  Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, the only Muslim FBI agent in the years just prior to 9/11, becomes involved in FBI agent Robert Wright's Vulgar Betrayal investigation in early 1999.
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  BMI president Soliman Biheiri hears that Abdel-Hafiz had been told about this, and wants to meet with him to discuss it (apparently without realizing that Abdel-Hafiz is an undercover FBI agent).Wrights asks Abdel-Hafiz to wear a wire to the meeting, but Abdel-Hafiz refuses to do so.This leads to infighting within the FBI.On July 6, 1999, Abdel-Hafiz files a religious discrimination complaint, accusing Wright of making derogatory comments to fellow agents. [Frontline, 10/16/2003] On March 21, 2000, Wright makes a formal internal complaint about Abdel-Hafiz.On July 6, 1999, Abdel-Hafiz files a religious discrimination complaint, accusing Wright of making derogatory comments to fellow agents. [Frontline, 10/16/2003] On March 21, 2000, Wright makes a formal internal complaint about Abdel-Hafiz.
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  Wright and Carmody accuse Abdel-Hafiz of hindering investigations by openly refusing to record other Muslims.
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  In an affidavit, Wright claims that Abdel-Hafiz refused to wear the wire "based on religious reasons saying, ‘A Muslim doesn't record another Muslim.'" Abdel-Hafiz does not deny the quote, but claims it was taken out of context. [Wall Street Journal, 11/26/2002; ABC News, 12/19/2002; Frontline, 10/16/2003] Federal prosecutor Mark Flessner and other FBI agents back up the allegations against Abdel-Hafiz. [ABC News, 12/19/2002] Carmody will also claim that, in a different investigation, Abdel-Hafiz hindered an inquiry into the possible ties to Islamic militants of fired University of South Florida Professor Sami al-Arian by refusing to record a conversation with the professor in 1998. [Tampa Tribune, 3/4/2003] Complaints to superiors and headquarters about Abdel-Hafiz never get a response. [Fox News, 3/6/2003] "Far from being reprimanded, in February 2001 Abdel-Hafiz [is] promoted to one of the FBI's most important anti-terrorism posts, the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia, to handle i
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  In an affidavit, Wright claims that Abdel-Hafiz refused to wear the wire "based on religious reasons saying, ‘A Muslim doesn't record another Muslim.'" Abdel-Hafiz does not deny the quote, but claims it was taken out of context. [Wall Street Journal, 11/26/2002; ABC News, 12/19/2002; Frontline, 10/16/2003] Federal prosecutor Mark Flessner and other FBI agents back up the allegations against Abdel-Hafiz. [ABC News, 12/19/2002] Carmody will also claim that, in a different investigation, Abdel-Hafiz hindered an inquiry into the possible ties to Islamic militants of fired University of South Florida Professor Sami al-Arian by refusing to record a conversation with the professor in 1998. [Tampa Tribune, 3/4/2003] Complaints to superiors and headquarters about Abdel-Hafiz never get a response. [Fox News, 3/6/2003] "Far from being reprimanded, in February 2001 Abdel-Hafiz [is] promoted to one of the FBI's most important anti-terrorism posts, the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia, to handle i
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  [Federal News Service, 6/2/2003] Abdel-Hafiz will be suspended in February 2003 over charges that he faked a break-in of his own house in order to collect $25,000 in insurance benefits and then failed an FBI polygraph test when asked about it.

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  Published on: 9/17/2007    Last Visited: 10/20/2007  

  The statements allegedly made by Special Agents Wright and Vincent involve Muslim FBI Agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz and his reaction to a request to "wear a wire" while interviewing a Muslim terror suspect in a 1999 FBI investigation.
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  Abdel-Hafiz also challenged an article published by ABC on its Internet site identifying him as the Muslim FBI Agent mentioned in the broadcast.

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  Published on: 8/12/2008    Last Visited: 8/15/2008  

  FBI Special Agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz "showed a pattern of pro-Islamist behavior," according to author Paul Sperry, that may have helped acquit Sami Al- Arian of terrorism charges.

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  www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58798 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/20/2007    Last Visited: 11/22/2007  

  Special agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, an immigrant Muslim from Egypt, twice refused on religious grounds to tape-record Muslim terrorist suspects, hindering investigations of a bin Laden family-financed bank in New Jersey, as well as Florida professor Sami al-Arian, who recently was convicted of terrorism despite Abdel-Hafiz's refusal to cooperate in the case.
  
  In an exclusive interview with Sperry, reported in "Infiltration," Abdel-Hafiz confided that he respected al-Arian.
  
  "These people think Sami al-Arian is an idiot," he said, referring to fellow agents investigating him."But Sami al-Arian is a very smart man."
  
  After 9/11, agents complained that Abdel-Hafiz was not helpful in running down al-Qaida leads in the FBI's office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he had been stationed.They said he wore Arab headgear and robes on work assignments there, and even made a pilgrimage to Mecca on bureau time.
  
  Agents who later visited the office after Abdel-Hafiz was reassigned noted that secret documents and files had been carelessly scattered across tables and even wedged behind cabinets.
  
  Despite the complaints and other red flags in his file, Abdel-Hafiz was kept on the job, and is still in the bureau after threatening to sue for Arab discrimination - a legal tactic that has protected other suspect Arab employees at the bureau.

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