Terrorist Link? [incl. Ingrid Mattson]

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Terrorist link?

A Muslim scholar chosen to speak at Obama’s inaugural prayer service is the leader of a group that federal prosecutors say has ties to terrorists. Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, is one of many religious leaders scheduled to speak at the service Wednesday. In 2007 and as recently as July, federal prosecutors in Dallas filed court documents linking the Islamic Society to Hamas, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization. Neither Mattson nor her organization have been charged. But prosecutors wrote in July that they had “a wide array of testimonial and documentary evidence expressly linking” the group to Hamas and other radical groups.

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