Bootleg cigarettes linked to terrorism
On September 30, 2013 · In Abu Sayyaf, Bootlegging, Hezbollah, Jemaah Islamiyah, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Malaysia, Terror Funding
Law enforcement and intelligence officials have long known that counterfeit and bootleg cigarettes have been used to fund terrorism. The excellent book “Lightning Out of Lebanon,” detailed just such a case in which a cigarette bootlegging ring in North Carolina and Michigan was churning out funds for Hezbollah. Evidently these activities are not limited to […]
Hezbollah wired funds to 2012 Bulgaria bombing suspects
On July 31, 2013 · In Bulgaria, Hezbollah, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism
Hezbollah’s armed wing wired almost $100,000 (75,000 euros) to two men wanted over a bomb attack that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, according to a newspaper report… http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/26/hezbollah-wired-money-to-bulgaria-bomb-suspects/
The Isle of Man, a popular offshore money haven, has amended its Terrorist Asset-Freezing Act in the wake of the European Union’s decision to sanction Hezbollah’s military wing. http://www.isleofman.com/News/details/57034/amendment-to-terrorist-asset-freezing-act-regarding-hizballah
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 […]
Note also the use of a prominent Islamic charity to funnel money to Hezbollah Jihadists… Interior Ministry presents report showing group uses mosques to raise funds for group’s activities in Lebanon. The head of Germany’s federal agency for domestic intelligence and the country’s Interior Ministry have recently presented a report showing Hezbollah’s use of German […]
Hezbollah Raises Money for Jihadist Terror in Europe
On June 18, 2013 · In Belgium, Europe, European Union, Hezbollah, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Lebanon, Terror Funding
Linked below is an excellent article that details how the European Union’s intransigence and refusal to declare Hezbollah a terrorist group has led to the Jihadist organization using Europe as a base for fundraising… Lebanese Shiite communities in Europe provide good recruiting pools for the Party of God and often donate money to Hezbollah-sponsored charities […]
Our only question is, why wasn’t everyone and anyone associated with Hezbollah blacklisted by the US Treasury long ago??? Retribution against Hezbollah for helping the Syrian government fight rebels intensified, as the United States blacklisted four fund-raising operatives and warned of further steps to choke the group’s financing. The action against the operatives, who the Treasury Department […]
Two Saudi princes on Tuesday sought to extricate themselves from a London legal battle with a Jordanian businessman who accuses them of laundering money for Hezbollah, the Shiite Islamic terrorist organization. Their lawyer called the accusation “fanciful”. Prince Mishal bin Abdulaziz al Saud, a brother of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, and his son Prince Abdulaziz […]
New York law enforcement authorities have arrested 15 Palestinian Muslims in a bootleg cigarette scheme that appears to have been primed to send money to Jihadist organizations overseas. This harkens back to the bootleg cigarette scheme taken down in North Carolina in 1998, which was the subject of the excellent book, “Lightning Out of Lebanon.” […]
Israeli Official: Hezbollah Heavily Funded From Europe
On February 20, 2013 · In Europe, European Union, Hezbollah, Islamic charities, Israel, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Terror Funding
Israel’s Civil Defense Minister, Avi Dichter, told the Jerusalem Post that Hezbollah receives major funding out of Europe, including through Islamic charities, and emphasized that it is necessary for the European Union to designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization to curtail that funding: A decision by the European Union to blacklist Hezbollah would interrupt the group’s […]
Hezbollah: The World’s Most Dangerous “Charity”
On February 11, 2013 · In Europe, European Union, Hezbollah, Islamic charities, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism
Here at SFW, we have devoted a great deal of time and effort to education on the nefarious aspects of many Islamic charities. Over and over again we have seen examples of Islamic charities supporting violent Jihad. Most American observers first became aware of this activity with the release of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission Report […]
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 […]
A Lebanese bank can face claims in New York of negligence and breach of duty in a lawsuit brought by U.S., Israeli and Canadian victims of Hezbollah rocket attacks and their families, the state’s highest court ruled. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-20/hezbollah-victims-may-bring-claims-in-n-y-court-rules.html
In a move that illustrates the incredible weakness of US counterterrorism efforts, the US Treasury, in what can only be described as a cynical gesture, has “triumphantly” announced sanctions against a Hezbollah jihadist terrorist who killed and tortured US GIs in Iraq. The US could have and should have remanded this monster into permanent custody, […]
For years, Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad have been raising funds through extortion and blackmail from Arab residents of the Latin countries and processing the funds through the tri-border area where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet as well as, in more recent years, the Islamic “Cultural” Center on Margarita Island, Venezuela. [Hugo Chavez] has formed […]
Hussein Fahs, who is considered Hezbollah’s CFO and head of the organization’s operational communications network, has reportedly fled Lebanon and defected to Israel…and he brought with him a considerable sum of money, along with documents and maps… It seems he may have been caught embezzling from the Jihadist terrorist group and decided that defecting to […]
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Hezbollah Leaders for Support for Syria
On September 17, 2012 · In Hezbollah, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Sanctions, Syria, Terror, terrorism, U.S. Policymakers
The Treasury Department announced on Thursday, September 13 additional sanctions against Hezbollah’s leadership in Lebanon for its support of the Syrian Assad regime. The obvious question here is: WHY ARE THERE ANY MORE SANCTIONS LEFT TO IMPOSE OF HEZBOLLAH’S LEADERS??? What has the US Treasury Department been doing for the past 30 years if there […]
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 […]
Recently we reported that Standard Chartered bank had been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for conducting transactions with Iran, the world’s foremost sponsor of Jihadist terrorism: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2012/08/13/standard-chartered-bank-helped-iran-hide-transactions-in-defiance-of-us-sanctions/ Standard Chartered’s Iranian affairs are doubly worrisome given the bank’s leadership role in promoting Shariah-Compliant Finance in the West. No patriotic American should have anything to do […]
US Treasury: Gambian supermarkets funded Hezbollah
On July 16, 2012 · In Gambia, Hezbollah, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Money Laundering, Terror Funding
The Kairaba Shopping Centre, a gleaming, glass-fronted two-story building in Gambia’s Serrekunda beach resort, is the biggest supermarket in mainland Africa’s smallest nation. Its clientele of wealthy locals, tourists and expat workers set it apart from the mom-and-pop stores and local markets where most ordinary Gambians shop. But the US Treasury Department sees something more […]
The excellent organization United Against Nuclear Iran issued a report just before the Independence Day holiday on the role of Lebanese banks in providing funding for Hezbollah… UANI Reveals Lebanese State-Sponsored Iran/Hizballah Money Laundering Scheme that Fraudulently Supports Lebanon’s Sovereign Debt Market, Calls for Bondholder Divestment UANI Investigation Uncovers Scheme to Artificially Support Lebanon’s Sovereign […]
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 […]
An Extremely Important Article on Shariah-Compliant Finance from Congressman Allen West
On June 22, 2012 · In Al Qaeda, Allen West, Creeping Shariah, Guidance Financial, Hamas, Hezbollah, HSBC, Investors Business Daily, Islamic charities, Islamic Finance, Islamic Law, Islamization, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Qaradawi, Shariah Boards, Shariah Courts, Shariah Finance, Shariah Law, stealth jihad, Terror Funding, U.S. Policymakers, UBS, UBS Bank, Usmani, Zakat
Investor’s Business Daily and Congressman Allen West have teamed up overnight to publish an extremely important op ed penned by Congressman West on the subject of Shariah-Compliant Finance. In his column, Congressman West points out virtually all of the major concerns surrounding Shariah-Compliant Finance and laments that it has received no critical scrutiny from US […]
Shariah Finance Watch editor briefs Congressional staffers on Shariah-Compliant Finance
On June 8, 2012 · In "Ethical Investment", AIG, Al Qaeda, Amana Funds, Center for Security Policy, Creeping Shariah, Da'Wah, Dow Jones, Dow Jones Islamic Market, Elena Kagan, Hamas, HARVARD, Hezbollah, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Holy Land Foundation, HSBC, Interest, Investors Business Daily, Iran, Islam, Islamic Banking, Islamic charities, Islamic Economics, Islamic Finance, Islamic Law, Islamization, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Malaysia, Money Laundering, murabaha, MURAHABA, Muslim Brotherhood, Obama, OIC, purification, Qaradawi, Qatar, Regulation, Saudi Arabia, Sharia Compliant, Shariah Banking, Shariah Finance, Shariah in Academia, Shariah insurance, Shariah Law, Shariah Mortgage, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Sudan, Takaful, Taliban, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism, The Banker, U.S. Policymakers, UAE, United Kingdom, USA, Usmani, Usury, VIDEOS, Wahhabism, Zakat
Recently we had the opportunity to brief staff members from 10 Congressional offices on the threat of Shariah Finance. The briefing was recorded and we have posted the full 1-hour briefing here for SFW viewers… Shariah Compliant Finance and Financial Jihad
A year ago SFW reported on a Toledo, Ohio couple who had conspired to send money to the Jihadist terrorist group Hezbollah: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2011/05/24/ohio-lebanese-american-couple-pleads-guilty-in-hezbollah-terror-funding-case/ This week the husband, Hor Akl, was sentenced to just over 6 years in prison for his role in the scheme. This sentence is so lenient as to be insulting to the […]
Judson Phillips over on Tea Party Nation has an important story up today. A U.S. court found Iran responsible for the 1983 Beirut Marine Barracks bombing that killed 241 Marines, soldiers and sailors. Iranian assets are frozen in the U.S. and the surviving families of those U.S. servicemen deserve to be compensated using those assets. […]
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 […]
From the good folks at The Investigative Project on Terrorism… Highly profitable forest deals have been granted by President Joseph Kabila’s government in Congo to a firm led by a Lebanese businessman who allegedly heads another enterprise targeted by the U.S. Treasury as a front for Hizballah. http://www.investigativeproject.org/3511/congo-awards-hizballah-financier-lucrative
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