Republican Club of the Foothills will feature Elan Carr, a terrorism expert, on Wednesday, 3/11.

Elan Carr is a criminal gang prosecutor at the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office and an Iraq War veteran. He is also a JAG Corps officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. Graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986 earning his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and political science, with honors and in 1990 studied law at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, earning his J.D. in 1993.

Elan joined the United States Army a few months before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. When U.S. troops entered Iraq in 2003, Elan volunteered to deploy to the very place from where his family had fled as Jewish refugees. While in Iraq, he helped lead an anti-terrorism team of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in life-saving missions throughout Baghdad and much of the country. He prosecuted terrorists and insurgents who attacked American troops. which were conducted in an Iraqi court, marking the first time U.S. military officers litigated in an Arab court. He worked to institute the rule of law in Iraq by training Iraqi judges on constitutional and criminal law. Elan received international media attention for leading Hanukkah and other Jewish services in the former presidential palace of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. Due to his intimate knowledge and first-hand experience with Israel and the Middle East, Elan was invited by Israel’s Ministry of Justice to help create a public defender’s office in Israel – the first in the country’s history.

When: Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Doors open at 6:00 p.m. ~ Dinner & program begins at 6:45 p.m.

Where: La Canada Thursday Club

4440 Woodleigh Lane, La Canada

Cost: $20 / person for members; $25 / person non-members; Students $5

Dinner catered by: StoneFire Grill

RSVP: rcotf1@gmail.com

Jill Williams (818) 952-5508 or Mary Owen: (818) 249-5936

Make checks payable to Republican Club of the Foothills (RCF)

Mail checks to RCF, 2029 Verdugo Road, Box 275, Montrose, CA 91020

Phone: 818-248-4600

Website: http:/www.rcotf.info