UAE Media Fingers Qataris for Funding Al Qaeda
posted by Christopher W. Holton Al Arabiya is a major news organization out of the United Arab Emirates. It has also become a player in the isolation of Qatar engineered by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain. (Qatar deserves the isolation.) Al Arabiya has taken the unusual step of naming wealthy Qataris who it says […]
Fifteen years seems an incredible light sentence for a Jihadist who was involved with savage terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda, which is actively at war with the USA, and Al Shabaab, which has carried out numerous deadly, vicious attacks on civilian targets in east Africa. Nevertheless, the sentence was the maximum allowable under the […]
New Indictments in St. Louis on Terrorism Financing Charges
Ramo Pazara, a Muslim living in St. Louis, Missouri, traveled to Syria in 2013 to fight for the Islamic State jihadist organization. He was killed somewhere in the Middle East while waging Jihad. According to a recent indictment, Pazara received material support–including funding–from a half dozen other Muslims. The indictments allege that they knowingly provided funds […]
Gufran Ahmed Kauser Mohammed, 31, a naturalized U.S. citizen who once lived in California has been sentenced in Miami federal court to the maximum 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to providing thousands of dollars in support to U.S.-designated terrorist organizations. Fifteen years seems incredibly light for someone who funds Jihad. The US desperately needs […]
How Jihad is Funded
The BBC has produced a report on the various ways several major Jihadist terror groups–Islamic State, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab and the Taliban–are funded. The report is not in-depth but it does cover most of the wave tops . The problem lies in the complete lack of mention of zakat, which is the […]
US Treasury Sanctions Three Kuwaitis for Funding Al Nusrah Front, ISIS
The U.S. Treasury Department said this week that it has imposed sanctions on three financiers of terrorism. The three Kuwait-based financiers are suspected of funding Jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, underscoring the growing concern about Kuwaitis’ links to Al Qaeda and other Jihadist terror groups. The Treasury Department’s counterterrorism arm has grown increasingly vocal in recent months about Kuwaitis’ […]
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