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Assistant U.S. Attorney Deirdre Eliot, who told a federal magistrate that Ahmadullah Niazi, brother-in-law of an alleged bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, is a terrorist-sympathizer, runs the risk of being guilty by association herself for supporting a right-wing group that has promoted anti-Islamic rhetoric on its Web sites.
In 2004, Eliot gave $2,000 in political contributions to the Lincoln Club of Orange County, a conservative organization with chapters throughout California. The Orange County chapter's newsletters are riddled with topics on "fundamentalist Islam" and "radical Islamists."
Brigitte Gabriel, an anti-Muslim advocate, who's been described by the New York Times Magazine as a "radical Islamophobe," was invited to speak at one of the group's events. On the group's Ventura County chapter Web site, articles and letters are posted by writers who claim that Islam is a danger to society's development and progress. Another article claims that Western Europe has but two options: "Submission, Islam, or death."