[4] Marzook also founded the Holy Land Foundation, which was the subject of one of the country's largest and most successful terrorist financing trials.
[5]: 72 Previously she served as the director of research at the Council for the National Interest (CNI), an organization that has multiple ties to individuals involved in Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
[2]: 400 In 1991 UASR was listed in a Muslim Brotherhood document as one of the Brotherhood's "organizations of our friends" that were among groups that could help teach Muslims that "their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands...so that...God's religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions".
At this time, government investigators began to point to shady actions that added to their suspicions that the group was involved in terrorist activities.
[1] Also in 2003, the Senate Finance Committee asked the Internal Revenue Service to provide its records on UASR and other Muslim groups as part of their investigation into non-governmental organizations and terrorist networks in the United States.
Nabil Sadoun was CAIR's former vice chairman who was deported in February 2010 after not disclosing his ties to UASR in his 1993 visa application.
He worked for UASR in the early 1990s, and around the same time in 1993 spent a month in Lebanon at a camp of Hamas activists that had been deported by Israel.