New Jersey Democratic House candidate Adam Hamawy worked for an Al-Qaida-linked nonprofit in the 1990s before international investigations led to its closing, Jewish Insider reported.
Hamawy said in a 1996 interview that he had passed out humanitarian supplies around Bosnia two years earlier for the Benevolence International Foundation, the outlet reported, citing the archived story from the Newark Star-Ledger.
The U.S. government and United Nations later identified the Illinois-based foundation as a clandestine funding source for Al-Qaida and 9/11 architect Osama bin Laden.
“I worked in Sarajevo for 10 days and then the rest in Zenica, a large regional center in central Bosnia,” Hamawy, who was born in Egypt, told the paper at the time. “We went out to hospitals around the area and in the mountains to check what supplies they needed and we tried to deliver them.”
Hamawy’s campaign did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s
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