FIRST ON FOX: A top Republican confirmed he will seek a “full investigation” of a likely Democratic colleague whose 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 â better known as the “Blind Sheikh” â who later died in a North Carolina federal prison.
Rep. Michael Lawler, R-N.Y., chairman of the House 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 Tuesday for a Central Jersey seat that has not elected a Republican this century â and now faces perennial candidate Prof. Gregg Mele in November.
Lawler told Fox News Digital that Hamawys resume is more than disqualifying for someone whose day job would give him access to the nations most sensitive 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 Hamawys “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. â an area just north of New York City with a sizable Orthodox Jewish population â and has been a steadfast defender of and the Jewish people against threats from Iran and Hezbollah.
Hamawy previously volunteered at a Gaza hospital amid the conflict.
Lawlers district recently hosted President Donald Trumps rally featuring New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart â and his visibility on counterterrorism and Israel issues was brought to the fore when Sen. s, R-Ky., son drunkenly confronted Lawler at a Washington bar and “accused” him of being Jewish during a diatribe about Israel.
Neighboring Congressman Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat from North Jersey, didnt directly call for a probe but told Jewish Insider that he has “serious questions and deep concerns” about Hamawys “associations with terrorist organization and leaders who have attacked America.”
Like Lawler, Gottheimer said Hamawy must answer for these connections to the people of the Garden State.
Abdel-Rahmans team called Hamawy as a witness, where he described traveling to Detroit for a conference at which the extremist cleric would appear.
Hamawy testified Abdel-Rahman regularly spoke of “jihad” and that at one point the Sheikh questioned Emad Salem â who later became a government informant â as to why Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had not yet been assassinated.
Hamawy has blamed Islamophobia for some of the invective directed his way â and pushed back on similar characterizations, including from primary challengers, Plainfield Mayor Adrian Mapp.
“Any Muslim is going to be called a terrorist at some point, and these tropes are outdated and worn,” he told the New Je
