posted by Christopher W. Holton Reports say Taliban’s incomes have increased this year against the previous years. A report by the BBC shows that Taliban annually earns more than $1.5 billion from drug dealing, illegal mining, collecting electricity bills and financial support from a number of countries. The report said that this year Taliban’s financial […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton The Jerusalem Post published a report yesterday detailing how Jihadist organizations finance their operations through a variety of smuggling and criminal enterprises. Jihadist groups are said to be able to raise $300 million from such activities in Pakistan and Afghanistan in particular. Worse yet, the US consumer is indirectly funding […]
Two Beirut residents have been arrested on U.S. charges that they took part in an alleged scheme to help Hezbollah launder drug money, and to funnel thousands of weapons and military parts to criminal groups in Lebanon and Iran. Iman Kobeissi, 50, was arraigned in Brooklyn on Friday and held without bail, following her arrest […]
Jihad has permeated the entirety of America. Overnight police in the small city of Laurel, Mississippi arrested 4 Yemeni men in an operation that uncovered the trafficking of the powerful drug khat and authorities inferred that there was a terror funding component to the trafficking operation. More details from Terror Trends Bulletin: http://terrortrendsbulletin.com/2015/10/11/another-sign-of-possible-jihadi-activity-in-mississippi/
The Argentine news agency Infobae has issued a report that details Hezbollah’s extensive operations in Latin America. The report indicates that not only is Hezbollah active throughout the region, it also generates up to $100 million annually from criminal activity in Latin America–particularly drug trafficking and human trafficking. This is yet another indication of the […]
The funding of terrorism has taken a hit thanks to the efforts of Australian Navy personnel who completed a five-month rotation with Combined Task Force 150 in Bahrain on 6 April. Working under Canadian command, seven Navy personnel were involved with tasking Allied naval vessels to intercept drugs flowing from the Makran coast to places […]
Hezbollah’s Jihadist tentacles spread far and wide. The latest evidence comes from Nigeria, where Hezbollah is involved in extensive drug trafficking and money laundering activities to finance its terrorism… https://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/hezbollah-financier-in-nigeria-exposed/
1/16/2015 Action Targets Long-Time Members of D Company and a Paper Mill Controlled by One of the Designated Individuals WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced the designation of two Indian nationals and one entity in Pakistan as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) due […]
Boko Haram Trafficking Drugs in India to Raise Money for Jihad
On January 15, 2015 · In Boko Haram, Drug trafficking, India, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Nigeria, Terror Funding
Boko Haram is the latest dreaded outfit to slither into India. Riding on the back of the Nigerian drug syndicate, Dawood Ibrahim’s proximity with Al-Qaeda and his tentacles in India, the Nigerian outfit which recently triggered worldwide panic by abducting 276 schoolgirls, has penetrated the African drug-cartel operating in India, top Intelligence sources told The […]
Opium Trade Flourishes in Afghanistan; Taliban Benefit
On October 30, 2014 · In Afghanistan, Drug trafficking, Hawala, Money Laundering, Taliban, Terror Funding
Despite previous efforts by the US to reduce Afghan dependence on the opium trade, opium production and exports are soaring once again in Afghanistan. This is bad news in and of itself, but the worst aspect is that it enriches Taliban Jihadis… “The Taliban’s involvement with the narcotics trade has increased steadily over time,” Colin […]
Just as the Taliban fund their operations through sales of opium and heroin and Hezbollah is involved in drug trafficking in Latin America, a new report from Spain’s intelligence service has identified drug trafficking as a key financing source. European cells of Islamic State and other jihadist groups are using their ties to the illicit […]
Opium Continues to Fund Taliban Jihad
On October 22, 2014 · In Afghanistan, Drug trafficking, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Taliban, Terror Funding
Despite a US-led multi-billion dollar, multi-year counter-opium campaign in Afghanistan, the opium trade made a dramatic comeback in 2013 and is once again funding Taliban jihadi operations, setting the stage for a Taliban comeback as the US reduces its military presence. “…several areas once declared poppy-free by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime […]
Taliban Heroin Seized in Georgia
On July 25, 2014 · In Afghanistan, Drug trafficking, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Taliban, Terror Funding
Georgian Interior Minister Alexander Chikaidze said a record amount of drugs, 2.7 tonnes of liquid heroin, was seized by law enforcement officials two weeks ago en route to Europe. The heroin belonged to the Taliban. “The market value of the cargo is some $400 million” the minister said. This is one indicator of drugs being sold […]
Al Qaeda In Islamic Maghreb Incorporated
On December 17, 2013 · In Africa, Al Qaeda, Drug trafficking, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Ransoms, Terror Funding
Forbes has just published an article about the successful funding mechanisms used by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which include kidnapping for ransom and money laundering alliances with drug traffickers. As we have detailed from time to time on SFW, western nations, particular European nations and Canada, have been in the habit of paying […]
Islamic Heroin Smuggling Gang Jailed in the UK
On October 8, 2013 · In Britain, Drug trafficking, Money Laundering, Pakistan, Terror Funding, United Kingdom
It has become common knowledge that Jihad is partially funded by the illegal drug trade. Hezbollah has been known to be active in drug smuggling in the Middle East and Europe and the Taliban probably lead the world in the opium and heroin trade. Over the weekend in the UK, a major heroin smuggling ring […]
Priorities: Obama’s Treasury considers “90 percent of the employees in its Office of Terrorist Financing and Intelligence (TFI)” non-essential.
On October 3, 2013 · In Drug trafficking, Iran, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Money Laundering, Obama, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism, U.S. Policymakers
H/T to the brilliant David Reaboi, a colleague at the Center for Security Policy, who uncovered this fact in the midst of all the smoke surrounding the government shutdown. To anyone who is paying close attention, the ongoing government “shutdown,” is less about fiscal issues and more about priorities. Some operations and personnel are considered […]
World banks must vet their customers for terrorism links as part of a global crackdown on money laundering and criminal finance. Terrorist screening “should be carried out irrespective of the risk profile attributed to the customer,” the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said in proposals published today. Lenders should immediately freeze any assets from clients […]
A Lebanese bank that laundered money from drugs and other operations for clients tied to Hezbollah terrorists agreed to pay US authorities $102 million to settle the charges. Beirut-based Lebanese Canadian Bank was targeted in February 2011 for moving hundreds of millions of dollars for criminal groups and traffickers operating in Latin America, West Africa […]
The drug trade is widely used to fund Jihad. This is especially true of Hezbollah, as this case illustrates, but the drug trade also provides extensive financing for the Taliban in Afghanistan. An Iranian man faces a sentence of life in prison after he was convicted in federal court in New York of conspiring to […]
Report: Hezbollah funding Jihadist terrorism with bogus medicine
On September 10, 2012 · In Drug trafficking, Hezbollah, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Terror Funding
The Jihadists are constantly looking for new sources of funding to wage their war against kafirs. And they are actually quite resourceful and creative in their quest. Money is the lifeblood of terrorism. We know that one method that has been used to fund jihad is through zakat payments to Islamic “charities.” Now, Hezbollah has […]
U.S. officials said last week that they seized $150 million connected to a scheme in which entities linked to Hezbollah allegedly used the U.S. financial system to launder money through West Africa and back to the group’s base of Lebanon. The seizure stems from a civil lawsuit filed last year by federal prosecutors in Manhattan […]
West Point Report: Haqqani network supported by “rich donors”
On August 28, 2012 · In Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Drug trafficking, Emirates, Haqqani network, Islamic charities, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Kuwait, Money Laundering, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sharia Compliant, Shariah Finance, Taqiyya, Terror Funding, Zakat
By way of CNN, we have still more evidence of financial support for violent jihad by wealthy Muslims in the Persian Gulf region. The Haqqani network is one of the most virulent Jihadist groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan and has been battling US troops for several years. It is closely allied with both Al Qaeda and […]
As U.S. senators digest a sharply critical committee report confirming massive international money laundering by global banking giant HSBC, the Internal Revenue Service is acknowledging receipt of a whistleblower claim from a former employee of the bank who presented 1,000 pages of evidence to WND six months ago, after local and federal authorities ignored him. A series […]
Note that the authorities reveal that charities and non-profit organizations are commonly used to fund terrorism, as we have covered extensively here on Shariah Finance Watch Recently, the National Police’s Densus 88 counterterrorism unit arrested five suspects in the case of the Surakarta church bombing. Among them was an Information Technology (IT) expert, Rizki Gunawan, […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated four individuals and three entities involved in laundering the proceeds of narcotics trafficking for drug kingpin Ayman Joumaa. Treasury also designated a Colombia-based individual under its terrorism authority, Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, for directing Hezbollah’s fundraising activities in the Americas. This individual was previously designated under […]
Seven people have been arrested in Britain on suspicion of funding overseas terrorism with money linked to smuggling of the stimulant khat. The arrests were part of an international probe into alleged terror fundraising and money-laundering. In a statement, Scotland Yard said the arrests were part of an investigation into a network suspected of illegally […]
The Taliban and Al Qaeda are said to have turned to smuggling cigarettes and cigars to raise money according to a recent report the the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC). The report blamed higher taxes for making a market in bootleg tobacco products. This activity should certainly come as no surprise. Hezbollah has been involved […]
This comes as no surprise. Al Qaeda and Hezbollah have been involved in the global drug trade for quite some time. This media report contains details of their activities in West Africa and their cooperation with South American drug cartels… http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/04/02/West-Africa-fears-of-drug-terrorism-links/UPI-48031333383482/
The Yassine family of Austin, Texas is apparently quite the enterprising group. Led by Hussein “Mike” Yassine, the Yassines were quite diversified. They own 8 bars. According to law enforcement authorities they are also a one-family crime wave. They are involved in murder, money laundering, drug dealing–and they have a brother back in Lebanon who […]
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has published a good report on the Jihadist terrorist group Hezbollah’s (spelled in the report as “Hizballah”) criminal activities, their money laundering and finance activities in particular, which will no doubt be of interest to SFW readers. Here are some excerpts and a link to the full report: […]
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