AOC-backed Dem connected to Twin Towers bombing terrorist faces congressional pressure after primary win
FIRST ON FOX: A top Republican confirmed he will seek a "full investigation" of a likely Democratic colleague whose ties to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind roiled the...
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FIRST ON FOX : A top Republican confirmed he will seek a "full investigation" of a likely Democratic colleague whose ties to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind roiled the 2026 midterm landscape after New Jersey's Tuesday primaries. Dr. Adam Hisham Hamawy is a veteran combat plastic surgeon who operates his own practice near Princeton but has been heavily criticized for his ties to and service as a defense witness for terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman — better known as the "Blind Sheikh" — who later died in a North Carolina federal prison. Rep. Michael Lawler, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Middle East Subcommittee, expressed his concerns about Hamawy serving in Congress and later confirmed to Fox News Digital that he will indeed seek a probe of the controversial progressive. Hamawy won a 12-way Democratic primary Tuesday for a Central Jersey seat that has not elected a Republican this century — and now faces perennial candidate Prof. Gregg Mele in November. LONE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FINDS HIS EDGE AS A DOZEN DEMOCRATS CLASH IN RACE TO REPLACE MIKIE SHERRILL Lawler told Fox News Digital that Hamawy’s resume is more than disqualifying for someone whose day job would give him access to the nation’s most sensitive national security information. "Adam Hamawy was a defense witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Blind Sheikh behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and a year earlier volunteered in Bosnia with an organization the U.S. Treasury designated a financier of terrorism and the 9/11 Commission tied to Osama bin Laden's network," Lawler said. "He has never answered for any of it." Lawler questioned Hamawy’s "fit[ness] to serve" in Congress and to be privy to the same information he is on the Foreign Affairs panel. "If he's elected in November, I'll push for a full investigation because the American people deserve the truth." Lawler notably represents Rockland County, N.Y. — an area just north of New York City with a sizable Orthodox Jewish popu…