A Moroccan Jihadist who plotted to turn a radio-controlled model airplane into a drone-like flying bomb and crash it into a school and a Connecticut federal building was arrested Monday by the FBI. El Mehdi Semlali Fahti told an undercover agent in five recorded conversations that he studied the bomb attack operation for months, and had […]
An Ontario Superior Court of Justice awarded $7-million worth of Iranian state assets in Canada to victims of terrorism. Money that Iran had stashed in Canadian bank accounts, as well as two properties in Toronto and Ottawa, will soon be liquidated for distribution. Sheriffs have been ordered to sell Iran’s properties, empty its bank accounts and […]
North Carolina Jihadis Planned to Use Charity as Cover
Two North Carolina men were arrested on terrorism charges this week with plans to travel to Yemen and Syria to join the Jihad. Of particular interest is the cover story they concocted in case they were caught. It’s hard to believe that these two thought this cover story up on their own… The pair planned […]
HAMAS under a budget crunch
Maybe if they devoted fewer resources to rockets and suicide vests their fiscal situation would be better? Of course, that would also be impossible, since the HAMAS charter mandates the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state ruled by Shariah law. Note from the article linked below that much of HAMAS’ money woes stem from […]
CAIR offered Sheriff $15,000 to Shut Down Terror Training
Despite pressure tactics, threats and even a $15,000 cash bribe from the Council on American-Islamic Relations to shut down a recent counter-terrorism training program for Virginia law enforcement, the training took place as scheduled, albeit with extra security. Washington-based CAIR, an Islamic lobbying group shunned by the FBI due to its ties to terrorist groups, […]
Re-insurers doing business in Kenya have increased premium rates for terrorism by between 10 and 40 per cent. The rise is primarily due to the Westgate Mall attack. http://allafrica.com/stories/201402260714.html
The Islamization of Turkey has been accompanied by that nation’s increasing closeness to groups and individuals associated with Jihadist terrorism. That trend has been reported in a variety of media: http://terrortrendsbulletin.com/2013/12/31/turkeys-erdogan-tied-to-designated-saudi-terrorist/ The extent of those ties to Jihad–and specifically the financing of Jihadist terrorism–has now been detailed in an excellent report published by the Foundation […]
Federal prosecutors want a man convicted in a failed 2001 shoe bomb plot to bring down an airliner to testify at the sentencing of two British citizens who pleaded guilty in Connecticut to supporting terrorists through websites. Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan pleaded guilty in December to terrorism charges. Ahmad admitted he sought recruits, cash […]
Money Jihad Blog: Saudi-American financed jihad in Somalia and Syria
Another important post from the Money Jihad blog…this time uncovering a story we all missed from back in August… Gufran Ahmed Kauser Mohammed, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, has been arrested and extradited to Florida where he awaits trial along with a Kenyan for supporting terrorism. Mohammed wired money to the […]
Priorities: Obama’s Treasury considers “90 percent of the employees in its Office of Terrorist Financing and Intelligence (TFI)” non-essential.
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 […]
An accountant who confessed to supporting Al Qaeda with money and supplies has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, a sentence we consider ridiculously light for such a crime. Sabirhan Hasanoff, 37, who holds dual citizenship in the US and Australia, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court, where he pleaded guilty last year to […]
Trying to Make Jihad Pay: Convicted Al Qaeda Terrorist Suing US Bureau of Prisons
Wesam El-Hanafi, who has already pleaded guilty to material support for terrorism charges and is awaiting sentencing, is suing the US Bureau of Prisons, claiming that mistreatment in the UAE gave him deep-vein thrombosis. Before joining the jihad, El-Hanafi worked at Lehman Brothers as a information technology engineer and had a wife and three children. […]
Nigerian Indicted in Brooklyn Court on Material Support for Terrorism
A Nigerian national, Lawal Babafemi, was arraigned last week in a U.S. Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York on charges of providing material support to al Qaeda and criminal use of firearms. Mr. Babafemi, 33, also known as “Ayatollah Mustapha”, was arraigned on a four-count charge of indictment including conspiracy, providing material support to al […]
Since 9/11, the US Treasury, FBI and Department of Homeland Security have gone to great lengths to implement financial measures, systems and reporting requirements designed to detect, track and, ultimately, prevent financial support for terrorism. Unfortunately, according to at least one analysis, despite all of the red tape added to the US financial and banking […]
The US Treasury has sanctioned a top Al Qaeda official and a madrassa in Peshawar, Pakistan for serving as a terrorist training center supporting Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan based terrorist group behind the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack. Targeting Jamia Taleem-Ul-Quran-Wal-Hadith Madrassa, also known as the Ganj madrassa, the Treasury department said the Peshawar based religious school […]
Hezbollah wired funds to 2012 Bulgaria bombing suspects
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 Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is the largest Muslim organization in North America. It has key connections with members of the Obama administration and is frequently cited by the media as representative of the Muslim community. Many people recall that ISNA was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial–the […]
An Islamic jihadist website, Islamic Socialist NetWork (ISN), based out of the U.K. was discovered on Tuesday where Muslims in the U.K., Australia, and Canada posted cash bounties on some operators of counter-jihad bloggers and Facebook users for speaking out critically about Islam. http://www.examiner.com/article/radical-muslims-post-bounty-on-bloggers-facebook-users
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 […]
An Australian man who was taken hostage by the Jihadist terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf was released when his family paid a $94,000 ransom to the group. Reportedly, the original ransom demand was for $2 million. Ransoms are a popular means by which Jihadists raise money around the world. http://www.mindanaoexaminer.com/news.php?news_id=20130616023823
Canada Paid $1.1 Million Ransom to Al Qaeda
An Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group was paid $1.1-million for the release of two captured Canadian diplomats four years ago. It is not known who paid the ransom or how it was paid. The Canadian government has said it does not pay ransoms, but has never stated clearly that no other country paid for the diplomats’ release […]
An Uzbekistan national pleaded not guilty and said little during his first court appearance Friday on U.S. charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack there. Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested Thursday. Prosecutors have said little about the details of […]
Lawfare to Attack Terrorism Financiers
Many SFW readers are very aware that the Jihadists effectively use “lawfare” to suppress free speech in the West and to try to prevent any scrutiny of Islamic doctrine. Some of that lawfare has been directed against those who point out those who finance Jihad. The most notable example was the libel tourism lawsuit against […]
In the wake of last week’s horrific Jihadist terrorist attack in Boston, we have seen very little discussion as to the possible financial aspects of the Tsarnaev brothers’ Jihad. By all accounts, the Tsarnaevs were far from destitute. Yet there is no indication anywhere that they had jobs. They evidently had credit cards, so their transactions can […]
PORTLAND, OR—Reaz Qadir Khan, 48, a naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Portland, has been arrested on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists for the assistance he allegedly provided to an individual who participated in a May 27, 2009 suicide bomb attack at the headquarters of Pakistan’s intelligence service in Lahore, Pakistan, that […]
The Latest Fallout from Europe’s Ransom Payments to Al Qaeda
Readers may recall the post we published on 10 February regarding the millions of dollars reportedly paid to Al Qaeda by European nations in the form of ransoms to win the release of hostages: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2013/02/10/former-us-diplomat-europeans-canada-paid-89-million-ransom-to-al-qaeda/ Now we have the latest tragic example of the fallout from those misguided policies. Al Qaeda has released a video […]
Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the first bombing of the World Trade Center by Jihadists terrorists. Though that attack was not successful in its objective of bringing the towers down, it killed 6 innocent civilians and wounded 1,000 more. As we have often said on SFW, money is the fuel for Jihad. Terrorism […]
New York Times: How Europe Bankrolls Terror
As SFW reported a week ago, European governments have been bankrolling Al Qaeda and its affiliates by paying ransoms when their citizens have been taken hostage: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2013/02/10/former-us-diplomat-europeans-canada-paid-89-million-ransom-to-al-qaeda/ The New York Times provides a few new details…and the numbers involved appear to be growing…we reported $89 million a week ago and the Times is now reporting […]
US Treasury Department Imposes Sanctions on Al Qaeda Leader in North Africa
In what can best be described as a symbolic gesture, the US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Yahya Abu Hammam, who is a leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: The Treasury described the Algeria-born Abu Hammam as the AQIM leader for the Sahel, a vast and arid region of North Africa, and said […]
Hezbollah: The World’s Most Dangerous “Charity”
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 […]
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