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What boggles the mind is not necessarily that Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, accused of funding terrorism, "gave $15,250 to the NRCC since 2002," or that he was made The National Republican Congressional Committee's "businessman of the year" in both 2003 and 2004 (part of a scam whereby you only get your "award" should you "donate" xxx dollars to the Republican's reelection committee).

No, what boggles me is that given a chance to comment, the NRCC wouldn't tell ABC's Justin Rood that were Alishtari to be convicted, the money would go to some good cause -- victims of terrorism or hungry children. Anything but no comment.

The NRCC: "won't say what it plans to do with thousands of dollars in campaign donations it received from an accused terror financier."

Here's the fun part. When ABC called the phone number of GlobalProtector, one of Alishtari's companies, they found it "connects to a recorded message offering the caller to 'spark up your days and nights' by calling a 1-800 phone chat line."

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