The NBA and Islamic terrorism

An NBA star funded a mosque that helped Islamic terrorist groups:

A mosque established and funded by basketball star Hakeem Olajuwon gave more than $80,000 to charities the government later determined to be fronts for the terror groups al-Qaida and Hamas, according to financial records obtained by the Associated Press.

Olajuwon told AP he had not known of any links to terrorism when the donations were made, before the government's crackdown on the groups, and would not have given the money if he had known.

''There is no way you can go back in time,'' Olajuwon said in a phone interview from Jordan, where he is studying Arabic.