French Politician: “Our friend Qatar is financing Mali’s Islamists”
For years Western intelligence has known that the Wahhabi-run nation of Qatar has been financing Jihad. The financing has come in the form of protection payments from the government itself to keep Jihadists from attacking the tiny monarchy and in the form of support payments (zakat and otherwise) from wealthy Qatari individuals. France has now […]
Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, who was arrested this week by the FBI for trying to detonate what he believed to be a car bomb at an Oakland, California Bank of America, is reportedly a Taliban sympathizer who chose Oakland as the site of his planned terrorist attack because he believed Oakland to be a “center of protest.” Llaneza, […]
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Demands $50 Million Ransom for Hostages’ Release
Money is the lifeblood of jihad and the jihadists raise money any number of ways…including ransoms. This past Friday, a tribal leader stated that Yemen’s Al-Qaeda affiliate, which is holding three kidnapped Europeans hostage, has demanded $50 million for the foreigners’ release. “The organization demanded the money from the military leader who has been situated […]
A former U.S. ambassador to Mali has alleged that France paid a $17 million ransom to free hostages seized from a French mining site – cash she said ultimately funded the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants its troops are now fighting. French officials, whose soldiers are pushing north into the territory where the missing captives are believed […]
Jihadist pleaded guilty to attempted bombing of New York Federal Reserve Bank
In a completely different form of financial jihad, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis pleaded guilty this week to attempting to detonate what he believed was a 1,000-pound bomb at the New York Federal Reserve Bank on Liberty Street in lower Manhattan’s financial district. The charge to which Nafis pleaded guilty, attempting to use a weapon of mass […]
Al Qaeda offers $160,000 in gold for murder of US ambassador to Yemen
It seems that it is “open season” on US ambassadors these days. Before the assassination of the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, last year, the last time a US ambassador had been killed was 32 years earlier when the US ambassador to Afghanistan was murdered. Now, Al Qaeda is targeting another US ambassdor: Gerald […]
Federal Reserve Bomb Plotter Inspired By Al Awlaki Sermons
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, the man being prosecuted for plotting to bomb the Federal Reserve Reserve Bank of New York, was inspired by the sermons of the late Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Anwar al Awlaki. Nafis was in possession of several recordings of al Awlaki’s Jihadist ramblings. SFW readers may recall […]
An interesting story from Government Security News on a new wrinkle on how Jihadists raise money: A phone hacking ring with ties to Al Qaeda-related groups in the Philippines and Somalia have targeted small businesses in New York, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of overseas long distance calls. The ring is exploiting gaps […]
Money Jihad blog’s short list of Shariah banks that fund terrorism
Money Jihad blog is one of the most invaluable web sites in existence for anyone who is concerned with how Jihadist terrorism is supported and funded. That is why we link to it so frequently here on SFW. Money Jihad’s latest work is a prime example of why we like the blog so much: they have […]
Al Gore Sells Out to Qatar: State-Owned Al Jazeera Buys Current TV
Al Gore has sold his failing Current TV television network. The buyer is none other than Al Jazeera, the infamous Islamist television network based out of Doha, Qatar (more on Qatar very shortly). Gore released an interesting statement along with the announcement of the sale: “Current Media was built based on a few key goals: […]
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 […]
World Bank Sends HAMAS $6.4 Million
In the wake of HAMAS’ sustained campaign of indiscriminate rocketing of Israeli targets, which prompted an Israeli response, the Jihadist terror group received a reward in the form of $6.4 million from the World Bank. $6.4 million may not seem like such a big deal, but when you consider the fact that the World Bank […]
Money is the life blood of Jihad. Without money, terrorists could not carry out their war against the innocents. Last year, Business Pundit blog published a list of their top 10 wealthiest terrorists. We don’t think the entire list was accurate but there were a few Jihadis listed who are worth mentioning here… The wealth […]
Lawsuit Against Arab Bank in Sniper Attack Dismissed
A lawsuit filed by a man injured by a terrorist sniper in Israel against Arab Bank for its role in funding HAMAS has unfortunately been dismissed. Money Jihad blog has an excellent synopsis of Arab Bank’s activities, which we can’t possibly improve upon: The judge’s ruling can be paraphrased as: Well, Arab Bank may have […]
Bangladesh, Banking and Terrorism Financing
“Some linkages between Islamic Banking and terrorist organizations have now been brought into the open, but the networks have not been dismantled.” Bangladesh has a long history of weakness on money laundering and the use of banks to funnel money to Jihadist terrorist organizations. The country is now on the verge of being blacklisted for […]
A New, Interesting Lawsuit: Americans in Israel Sue America for Funding HAMAS
The Times of Israel has an interesting article posted today about a lawsuit filed by Americans living in Israel who are suing the US government for funding HAMAS, a Jihadist terrorist organization. The lawsuit names the State Department and the White House for essentially looking the other way by not ensuring that US aid 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, […]
An investigation by Indian authorities into an August bomb attack in Pune, India has uncovered a significant Saudi connection to the deadly and infamous Jihadist terrorist organization, Lashkar e Taiba. That connection appears to center around a Saudi citizen named Fayyaz Kagzi: Asad travelled to middle-east, especially Saudi Arabia, several times to meet Kagzi and spent […]
The good folks at Money Jihad blog called our attention to this largely overlooked Jerusalem Post article in which it was revealed that one of the many anti-Israel groups masquerading as charities in the United Kingdom has let slip that it supports martyrdom operations. The name of the charity is Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association (CADFA). […]
A New York federal judge who found Iran, the Taliban and Al Qaeda culpable in the 2001 terrorist attacks has approved a $6 billion default judgment against them. The order signed Wednesday by Judge George Daniels is largely symbolic, but it provides some hope the relatives of Sept. 11 victims can someday recover damages. A […]
Saudi Sheikh Defends Charity Support for Jihadist Terror
There was already ample evidence that Saudi Arabia is not our ally in the war formerly known as the “war on terrorism.” Now we have even more evidence. A Saudi Sheikh named Saleh bin Abdulrahman Al-Hussein has written a report defending Saudi charities that fund terrorism. Lest you think that this guy is some obscure, nutty […]
Two Kentucky men who provided material support to Al Qaeda to be sentenced in December
The two Kentucky men who admitted to conspiring to send weapons, cash and explosives to al-Qaida will be sentenced together. 30-year-old Waad Ramadan Alwan was scheduled to be sentenced next month in federal court in Bowling Green. But now he’ll have to wait until December. Alwan’s co-defendant, 24-year-old Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, also pleaded guilty. The […]
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Hezbollah Leaders for Support for Syria
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 […]
In a blatant example of taqiyya (sacred deception permissible under Shariah law), Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the Islamic charity that bankrolls Lashkar-e-Taiba in general and the Mumbai terrorist attacks in particular, is attempting to disavow any connection to the terrorist organization. This ploy comes on the heels of the US Treasury Department dsignating 8 Lashkar-e-Taiba members as terrorists. […]
US Imposes Sanctions on Eight Lashkar e Taiba leaders
The US Treasury Department has designated eight leaders of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) as terrorists and placed sanctions on them, holding them accountable for the Mumbai attacks in 2008, and attacks on coalition and Afghan forces in Afghanistan. The designation bars US citizens from engaging in transactions with the designees and freezes the assets of the designees under […]
Saudi Gitmo Prisoner Charged With Multiple Terrorism Offenses
We know that it comes as a shock that (i) a Saudi national would be involved in terrorism and (ii) a Gitmo inmate would be involved in such activities (sarcasm intended), but that is just what is happening in the case of Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi…who has been charged with several terrorism-related offenses, including […]
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 […]
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 […]
A report in Pakistani media indicates that one of the Islamic world’s most notorious charities has been making appeals for zakat funds using Twitter. Jamaatud Dawa is considered the political arm of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Jihadist terrorist organization that carried out the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack. In fact, in 2008, after the Mumbai attack, the United […]
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