US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has faced plenty of questions about where her allegiances lie, and the Somali native is busy endorsing a crop of new Democrats with similarly nebulous loyalties.
One glaring example is Adam Hamawy, a candidate for the US House in New Jersey.
The Daily Caller provided an account of one particularly controversial period in his past:
Hamawy said in a 1996 interview that he had passed out humanitarian supplies around Bosnia two years earlier for the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), the outlet reported, citing the archived story from the Newark Star-Ledger. The U.S. government and United Nations (UN) later identified the Illinois-based foundation as a clandestine funding source for Al-Qaida and 9/11 architect Osama bin Laden.
ADVERTISEMENT“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, reportedly 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 request for comment. He has received endorsements from high-profile Democrats such as Muslim and Somali-born Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Social media users were quick to share the resurfaced evidence:
@StateDept denaturalize him ASAP. No different than the post WWII Germans who lied their way in.
— Dr-Ann-Esq (@DRAnnEsq) May 28, 2026
How is this happening
— Steph (@paintedlady149) May 28, 2026
Just when you think they couldn't get worse than having a Nazi run they come up with a terrorist
— klmemphis (@klmemphis118753) May 28, 2026
Here’s what the New York Post added:
The 9/11 Commission Report later described the foundation’s operation in Bosnia as part of an “impressive array of offices [that] covertly provided financial and other support for terrorist activities” that Osama bin Laden leaned on in the 1990s.
Government agents uncovered weapons, letters from al-Qaeda leaders, a photo of bin Laden, documents about the terror group’s operations, and more during the raid on the Bosnian offices.
ADVERTISEMENTAuthorities alleged that the foundation was used by the terror group as a front “to establish a base for operations in Europe against al Qaeda’s true enemy, the United States.”
Jewish Insider first uncovered Hamawy’s past work with the foundation. Hamawy was never charged or faced any accusations of involvement with Islamic terrorism.
Here’s some additional commentary from Mark Levin:
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