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 […]
Money Jihad Blog: Following the Francs
The excellent Money Jihad blog has a terrific analysis of the money flow to the Jihadists who carried out the horrific attacks in Paris last week…It is a must-read: https://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/follow-the-francs-the-kouachi-brothers-links/
After Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for planning the attack against Charlie Hebdo, former CIA deputy director Mike Morell told CBS Radio News yesterday that, “This is gonna put a lot of money in AQAP’s pockets. One of the ways you raise money in the terrorist world is to have a […]
French Jihadi: Financing Came from Anwar al Awlaki
One of the two brothers who killed 12 in a massacre at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week said he received financing from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Imam and leader Anwar al Awlaki in Yemen. Cherif Kouachi, who was killed along with his older brother by police on Friday after a siege at a printing […]
Congressman Andre Carson was recently slated to speak on a panel at a Muslim Brotherhood event in Chicago (WHERE ELSE???) that included a fundraiser for the Taliban. The event was the Muslim American Society/Islamic Circle of North America (MAS/ICNA) convention. Both MAS and ICNA were identified as Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism […]
Kenya Shuts Down 15 Islamic Charities and NGOs for Supporting Terrorism
Kenya has shut down 510 non-governmental organizations (NGO), including 15 for alleged fundraising for terrorism, as part of a security crackdown following repeated terrorist attacks in the east African nation. The Kenyan government’s non-governmental organization (NGO) coordination board indicated that it had “de-registered 510 organizations for non-compliance with the law”, with some using their charitable status as a […]
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