A new, shocking film provides the first direct evidence linking ivory trafficking to terrorism. Warlords of Ivory shows the results of a year-long investigation by National Geographic reporter Bryan Christy. It documents atrocities committed against people and wildlife, on an almost unimaginable scale, by an ivory trafficking network coordinated by two of Africa’s most notorious war […]
Fifteen years seems an incredible light sentence for a Jihadist who was involved with savage terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda, which is actively at war with the USA, and Al Shabaab, which has carried out numerous deadly, vicious attacks on civilian targets in east Africa. Nevertheless, the sentence was the maximum allowable under the […]
Officials of the Somali government have accused local merchants of supporting Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab militants. Elbuur district commissioner, Noor Hassan Guutaale says that Al Shabaab militants had been given funds by local merchants in the town. Elbuur, a former Al Shabaab stronghold which was captured by Somalia army, along with African Union peacekeeping forces after battling insurgents. […]
The Kenyan government recently announced that 30 of 86 Al Shabaab financiers and/or supporters whose bank accounts were frozen by the Kenyan government are sugar smuggler barons. According to the government, the smuggling of sugar from Somalia into Kenya finances terrorism: “Most of the smuggled sugar enters the country from areas controlled by al Shabaab in Somalia. […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Al Shabaab seizes livestock from Somalis under system of zakat
The Jihadist terrorist group Al Shabaab says it collected $9 million worth of livestock as annual alms from Somali residents during 2014. In a video released online last week, the Jihadist group said it collected 6,500 camels, 100,000 goats and 2,500 cattle as annual alms to distribute to people who are suffering from drought in southern and […]
Gufran Ahmed Kauser Mohammed, 31, a naturalized U.S. citizen who once lived in California has been sentenced in Miami federal court to the maximum 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to providing thousands of dollars in support to U.S.-designated terrorist organizations. Fifteen years seems incredibly light for someone who funds Jihad. The US desperately needs […]
How Jihad is Funded
The BBC has produced a report on the various ways several major Jihadist terror groups–Islamic State, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab and the Taliban–are funded. The report is not in-depth but it does cover most of the wave tops . The problem lies in the complete lack of mention of zakat, which is the […]
A report released this week demonstrates how Qatar plays a double game with the West – funding terrorist groups throughout the region while acting like an ally and responsible player on the world stage.The report, “Qatar and Terror Finance: Negligence,” is the first in a three-part series by The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and […]
Tightened security off Somalia’s coast aims to bankrupt al-Shabaab http://sabahionline.com/en_GB/articles/hoa/articles/features/2014/11/07/feature-01
Somali refugees and emigrants around the world continue to be found to be associated with the Jihadist terror group Al Shabaab, including the funding of the organizations operations. The latest instance comes out of Finland, but there have been multiple such cases here in the US as well… The first ever terrorism trial in Finland […]
A new United Nations report has concluded that wealthy financiers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Kuwait are using the illicit charcoal trade in Somalia to fund the Jihadist terror group Al Shabaab. Key financiers of Islamist militants in Somalia are operating with impunity in Gulf states, undermining efforts to end an insurgency in the Horn […]
Keep in mind when reading this that about a month ago, the US eased restrictions on wire transfers to Somalia… The first ever investigation into suspected terrorist offences in Finland has spawned criminal charges, with the Office of the Prosecutor General announcing on Wednesday that it has brought charges of financing terrorism against four people. […]
Exhibit “A” why streamlining money transfers to Somalia is an extraordinarily bad idea… A 30-year-old woman who lives in The Netherlands faces extradition to the US on charges of helping finance the Al Shabaab Jihadist terror group. The woman, who was born in Somalia, has Dutch citizenship. Two other women from Kenya and Somalia were also […]
Thanks to the nefarious efforts of Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota, and a gullible US Congress, it’s just about to get easier to wire money to the home of Al Shabaab–Somalia. The Feds and banks had tightened this activity because of several cases of Somali refugees and immigrants raising money for the Jihadist terrorist group […]
A famous member of the Somalia parliament who was engaged in the political struggle to prevent Somalia from becoming an Islamic state was assassinated this week. The Jihadist terror group Al Shabaab took responsibility for her killing. It is very much worth noting that Miss Saado Ali Warsame believed that she had been targeted by a […]
…hawala dealers, also called hawaladars, need bank accounts to operate — and most American banks are reluctant to work with them, fearing the money could wind up in the wrong hands. And it has: In 2011, two Somali-American women from Rochester, Minn., were convicted of funneling money to the terrorist group al-Shabab. A bill from Democratic Rep. Keith […]
The U.S. government is stepping up its crackdown on the illegal trafficking of wild animal products across the nation’s borders, saying some may be linked to terrorists. “Poaching in Africa is funding terrorist groups,” U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said last week. Terrorists are believed to be using profits from items such as rhinoceros horns […]
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 […]
Peter Bergen is one of the most overrated men in the Western Hemisphere. He has basically parlayed a creepy interview of Osama Bin Laden in a tent somewhere in the late 1990s into supposed expertise on terrorism. The reality is that Bergen isn’t really much of an expert and there is some evidence that Bergen […]
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that ivory poaching in Africa funds terrorism in one of the world’s tumultuous regions and could push the elephant species to extinction. “There is growing evidence that the terrorist groups stalking Africa, including Al-Shabaab with its horrific attack on the mall in Nairobi, fund their terrorist activities to […]
CAIR Shills for Al Shabaab Terror Financiers
The Council on American Islamic Relations, which was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing prosecution in US history, is now rushing to the defense of two women convicted on material support for terrorism charges. SFW has previously covered this case, in which two Minnesota women, Amina Farah Ali and Hawo Mohamed Hassan, […]
Regular readers of SFW may recall this case of the Imam of a mosque in Florida, who was accused of sending $50,000 to the Taliban. We have posted on the case a couple of times since it opened almost 2 years ago: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2011/05/16/two-florida-imams-four-other-american-muslims-arrested-for-financing-the-taliban/ https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2013/01/12/florida-prosecutors-submit-wiretaps-bank-records-in-terrorism-trial-of-imams/ We finally are approaching closure in this case, with the conviction […]
We almost have closure on a story we’ve been following for some time, the federal trial in San Diego of four Somalis who were working to provide funding and other forms of support to the Jihadist terrorist organization Al Shabaab back in their home country of Somalia. Significantly, one of the defendants found guilty is […]
The San Diego trial of four Somali immigrants charged with raising money and providing help to the terrorist group al-Shabaab largely boils down to who jurors believe is on the other end of numerous phone calls the government secretly taped five years ago. The three-week trial before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller wrapped up Tuesday […]
The San Diego trial of four Somali men charged with sending money and support to the terrorist group al-Shabaab is scheduled to begin in federal court this month. A federal grand jury indicted the men in 2010 on charges of conspiracy, providing material support to terrorists, providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and […]
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 […]
Al Shabaab collecting zakat in Somalia
The Al Qaeda-affiliated Jihadist organization Al Shabaab is reported to be collecting zakat from the citizenry of Somalia to help finance its terror campaign. News reports claim that Al Shabaab is “extorting” this money on the pretense that it is for the “needy” and then are turning around and using it for military activities, but […]
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