that's right...NewsMax is reporting exactly that:
Some of the massive U.S. aid package earmarked for Indonesian tsunami victims is going to a radical Muslim group with direct ties to al Qaida, including at least one terrorist leader who is accused of helping the 9/11 hijackers.
Laskar Mujahidin has reportedly dispatched 200 of its members to the hard-hit provincial capital of Banda Aceh, where they were seen Thursday unloading truckloads of aid at the military airport there.
But according to terrorism experts in the region, Laskar Mujahidin has links to terror groups outside Indonesia, including al Qaida, the Associated Press reported Friday.
The group was once headed by Abu Bakar Bashir, an Islamic cleric now on trial as an alleged leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, the AP said. Some Jemaah Islamiyah members are believed to have helped the kamikaze hijackers who killed 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11.
Laskar Mujahidin also accepted aid offered by an emissary of Osama bin Laden, according terrorism expert Sidney Jones.
At a camp set up by the group, a sign was spotted Thursday that read, "Islamic Law Enforcement."
The group's terror ties have raised concern among other aid groups working to help tsunami victims, whose members are now afraid of being seen with Americans.
"Our teams are told that they should not fly in American army helicopters, since we're concerned that they could be a particular target," said Michel Brugiere, director of the French medical group Doctors of the World.
That last comment is very telling to me...and I remind you...don't think for a moment that any of the assistance the Americans are sending to tsunami victims will change any Islamic fundalist heart...
it won't happen...
now after reading this, I am worried about possible attacks on the very people that have gone there to help...
DR
