“Financial Crime and Material Support Schemes Linked to al-Qa’ida and Affiliated Movements (AQAM) in the United States: 1990 to June 2014,” found 98 material support schemes and 52 financial schemes linked to AQAM in that time period. The report, authored by Brandon A. Sullivan, Joshua D. Freilich and Steven M. Chermak, defines financial schemes as illicit financial operations involving […]
Three Men, One Woman Arrested in Sweden for Funding Islamic State
Swedish police have detained four suspects on suspicion of having used six companies to fund the Islamic State in Syria. Police sources told the Dagens Nyheter daily that a “large raid” took place in Stockholm as part of a probe into money laundering and undeclared work. Swedish authorities estimate that up to 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.19 million, […]
Money Jihad blog has an informative video posted that points out that hawala is just a method by which money flows to Jihad. It is not the source of funding for Jihad. Until those who fund Jihad are made to pay a stern price in the form of military retaliation or imprisonment, we cannot defeat the […]
The chief executive of the Global Aid Trust, an Islamic charity in the United Kingdom, has stepped down and an investigation launched after the organization was accused of supporting extremism. The Trust, which claims to raise money to educate the underprivileged and alleviate poverty around the world, was launched in 2004 and has an annual income of […]
The United States Attorney’s Office announced Friday that Reaz Qadir Khan, 51, entered a guilty plea to being an accessory after the fact for the help he gave to people connected to a 2009 suicide bombing in Pakistan. According to prosecutors, Khan admitted helping suicide bomber Ali Jaleel receive about $2,450 inside Pakistan before he […]
With the total shutdown of cash transfers from U.S. banks — which had been moving about $200 million per year to Somalia from emigres like Sheikh — the humanitarian impetus to help the country survive and rebuild has been trumped by the more urgent need to prevent the illegal funding of crime and terror. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/us-banks-cut-off-cash-transfers-to-somalia-amid-terrorism-concerns/2015/02/13/f95c696c-b155-11e4-854b-a38d13486ba1_story.html
“Unless Arab countries adopt a comprehensive strategy to confront the Brotherhood, the group will continue to pose a high risk,” former leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad group Sheikh Nabeel Naeem told Asharq Al-Awsat. The former jihadist who previously operated in Afghanistan said Arab governments should crackdown on any Brotherhood-related investments in order to cut off […]
Somalis still pushing for easing of bankwire restrictions
Somalis living in the Twin Cities are begging Minnesota’s elected officials to help find a way to safely wire money back to families living in the Horn of Africa after a California bank abruptly ceased wiring cash to the troubled country over the weekend. The decision by Merchants Bank to stop that part of its […]
Sami Al Arian was deported after a 12-year battle to remain in the United States. Al Arian, a former professor at the University of South Florida, was arrested in 2003 on charges of funding the Iranian-sponsored Islamic Jihad… http://www.worldtribune.com/2015/02/09/jihad-leader-former-university-south-florida-professor-resettles-turkey/
Fact Check on Saudi Funding of Al Qaeda and 9/11 Attacks
The 9/11 Commission, Aug. 21, 2004: Fund-raisers and facilitators throughout Saudi Arabia and the Gulf raised money for al-Qaeda from witting and unwitting donors and diverted funds from Islamic charities and mosques. The commission staff found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or as individual senior officials knowingly support or supported al-Qaeda; […]
A Bangladeshi newspaper has reported that an official in Pakistan’s embassy in Bangladesh was involved in funding Jihadist organizations. The language is kind of rough, so we aren’t posting an excerpt, but here is a link… http://daily-sun.com/print/front-page/2015/02/02/485635
Lashkar e Taiba Charity Wing Still Active
Lashkar e Taiba is one of the most vicious and deadly Jihadist groups in the world, having carried out the horrific Mumbai attack in 2008. They have long been supported by, and worked through, their charity wing, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which the Pakistani government has left completely untouched. Nothing better illustrates the problems associated with Islamic charities. Even […]
Islamic State Opens Market in Mosul to Sell Items Stolen from Christians
It’s been over 7 months since the Islamic State captured the Iraqi city of Mosul and they’re still holding it. During that time, Christians in the city have been slaughtered, persecuted and victimized in many ways. Now, the Islamic State is capitalizing on its victims by selling their belongings at market… ISIS has opened a […]
Six Bosnian natives who immigrated to the U.S. sent money and military equipment to support Al Qaeda in Iraq and the Islamic State terror group, the Justice Department reported Friday night. The suspects sent multiple payments using PayPal, as well as U.S. military uniforms, combat boots, tactical clothing and gear, military surplus goods, firearms accessories, rifle […]
The Obama administration is considering whether to declassify still-secret sections of a congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks which examined Saudi Arabian support for Islamist militants, the White House said on Thursday. Interest in the 28-page section of the report was raised after an imprisoned former al Qaeda operative, Zacarias Moussaoui, said in […]
Islamic State selling children into sex slavery
Just when you think the savage barbarians of the Islamic State have reached the pinnacle of inhuman behavior, they raise the bar even higher. According to a UN report, among other dreadful practices involving children, the Islamic State is selling children into sex slavery to raise money… ISIS militants are selling abducted Iraqi children at […]
Pakistani Islamic State Leader: Funding Comes from Inside the USA
There is no way to verify this claim, but it would certainly not be unprecedented for funding for Jihadist terrorist organizations to be coming from members of the Islamic community in the USA… The Islamic State commander in Pakistan allegedly confessed to having received funds routed through the United States to operate the jihadist organization […]
FBI: Former Venezuelan Ambassador to Lebanon Was Hezbollah Fundraiser
The connection between Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship and the Shariah-ruled Islamic Republic of Iran has been well-documented over the years. And that relationship naturally extends to Iran’s proxy: the Jihadist terrorist group Hezbollah. But up to now the level of cooperation between Venezuela and Hezbollah was largely unknown. No any more. A new report has emerged […]
Is the Islamic State Funded by Ransoms?
With the recent abortive demand by Islamic State Jihadists for $200 million in return for releasing two Japanese hostages, some observers have speculated that the funding for the organization may be drying up. But as the article below from The Telegraph maintains, that is unlikely. It’s much more likely that the Islamic State never expected […]
IBD: New Saudi King Named In September 11th Lawsuits
King Salman has a history of funding al-Qaida, and his son has been accused of knowing in advance about the 9/11 attacks. The 79-year-old Salman once ran a Saudi charity tied to al-Qaida and has been named a defendant in two lawsuits accusing the Saudi royal family of helping the 9/11 terrorists, one of which […]
Islamic State Paying Guides to Abduct Reporters
Some local “guides” who offer to act as mediators, helping foreign journalists gather information in areas controlled by the Islamic State, actually help the militant group abduct them. http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/local-guides-endanger-journalists-as-islamic-state-pays-to-abduct-reporters-1.325779
New Saudi King Salman Funded Jihad
Saudi Arabia’s newly crowned King Salman has a history of helping to fund Jihadist terrorist organizations and has maintained ties with Jew-hating Muslim clerics known for advocating violence. In 2001, an international raid of the Saudi High Commission for Aid to Bosnia, which Salman founded in 1993, unearthed evidence of terrorist plots against America, according to separate exposés written […]
The Jihadists who killed 17 people in three days last week in Paris purchased their Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers in Brussels for less than 5,000 euros. They got their weapons from an arms dealer in Brussels, a known figure in Brussels’ underworld who turned himself in to police on Tuesday. According to the local press, the man sold […]
Weapons worth 27,000 euros have been discovered on the Kuashi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly, who committed terror attacks in France. The Kuashi brothers, who attacked on the office of the magazine Charlie Hebdo, had weapons and ammunition worth 15,000 euros on them. They were armed with 10 Molotov cocktails, 3 cartridge clips, 1 police siren, […]
AQAP gave one of the Charlie Hebdo shooters $20,000 for terrorist operations three years ago… http://abcnews.go.com/International/al-qaeda-laid-plan-charlie-hebdo-massacre-video/story?id=28213640
Boko Haram Trafficking Drugs in India to Raise Money for Jihad
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 […]
Report: Qatar, Turkey Fund Muslim Brotherhood in Libya, Sudan
Oilprice.com has an interesting report that indicates that, despite a public relations campaign meant to convince the world that they have ended their support for Jihad, Qatar continues to fund the Muslim Brotherhood–and does so in cooperation with NATO member Turkey… Qatar, in fact, has reinforced its strategic position of support for the Muslim Brotherhood […]
Methods for Financing Jihad
The Al-farouq web site which is directly affiliated with the Al-Qaeda terror network published a web book entitled “The 39 Principles of Jihad”. The book was written by Mohammad Bin Ahmad Al-Salem and is claimed to have been written in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2003. Several of the 39 principles listed by Al-Salem directly relate to finance Jihad and providing financial […]
Long-time readers of SFW know that one of the principle concerns of Shariah Finance and of terrorism financing in general is the role of Islamic charities, many of which have been found to fund Jihad. As we’ve covered fairly extensively over the years, Islamic law mandates or permits (depending on which school of Islamic jurisprudence […]
A leading UK Muslim charity that was given a £250,000 taxpayer-funded contract to run a major faith project has been stripped of state funding. Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, decided to take action against the Muslim Charities Forum after the newspaper The Telegraph uncovered links to a group alleged to fund Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood […]
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