Al-Haramain is just the tip of the iceberg. From AP, with thanks to Ali Dashti: NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Al-Qaida has siphoned millions of dollars from Islamic charities that help poor Muslims in Africa and Asia, and U.S. and Saudi government efforts to cut the flow have largely failed, Western diplomats and former charity workers […]
Federal Authorities Accuse Dallas Man of Terrorism in Unusual Case
Another terror/charity story, from Dallas’s CBS11, with thanks to Todd and Dick: All through his protracted fight to gain legal residency in America, 16-year Dallas resident Ayman Sabri Ismail has held to the story that his work for the Holy Land Foundation was as a lowly computer graphics technician who knew nothing about the charity’s […]
Treasury Designates Bosnian Charities Funneling Dollars to Al Qaida
There is no jihad in the Balkans, they say. Orthodox Serbs and others are trying to frame a purely ethnic conflict as a jihad, they say. From a Treasury Department press release, with thanks to the SITE Institute: In another step today to halt the flow of terrorist dollars that have tainted the charitable community, […]
Patriot Act chokes off the flow of terrorist finance
From Treasury Secretary John Snow in
Saudi national: Banker for terrorists or pillar of the community?
Sami Omar Al-Hussayen in court with his lawyer From AP (with thanks to Nicolei), an intriguing look at the Sami Omar Al-Hussayen case: “Even if the jury finds him not guilty,” said Rand Lewis of the Martin School of International Affairs at the University of Idaho, “the Feds are going to deport him. And so […]
Hungarian terror group received Saudi funding
Jihad in Hungary, courtesy of our friends and allies the Saudis. From AP, : The mosque run by a man detained by police on suspicion of planning to bomb a Jewish museum received money from an Islamic organization suspected of financing al-Qaida, a Muslim community leader said Wednesday. The Dar-Assalam mosque, run by Palestinian-born dentist […]
Financing jihad in Canada
More on Canada’s usefulness to terrorists, from The Globe and Mail (): Canada’s anti-money-laundering centre uncovered $35-million in suspected terrorist financing in the first nine months of the fiscal year, outstripping the tally for the entire previous year. The amount reflects the total detected by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre from April through […]
A welcome dose of common sense in the Al-Arian case
The “rumpled academic“ After an episode of curious bumbling in the Sami Al-Arian case, a judge has ruled that raising money for jihad terrorists is not constitutionally protected free speech. He also refused canny requests from the defense to stop using the word “terrorist.” From AP: A federal judge has rejected a former professor’s claims […]
U.S. freezes accounts of Saudi charity
This group had been spreading its message in American prisons, mosques, and Islamic schools. From the Washington Post, with thanks to EPG: The Treasury Department ordered banks yesterday to freeze the accounts of the Oregon and Missouri branches of a large Saudi charity that U.S. officials say has been used to finance the al Qaeda […]
AAH: Florida Islamic Center features material from terrorist charity
Jihad Watch has received this press release from Americans Against Hate: For Immediate Release: January 27, 2004 Contact: Joe Kaufman, joe@joe4rep.com BOCA ISLAMIC CENTER FEATURES MATERIAL TAKEN FROM TERRORIST CHARITY — AAH CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION (Coral Springs, FL) Americans Against Hate is urging law enforcement to investigate the Islamic Center of Boca Raton’s usage of […]