Islamic cleric Afief Abdul Madjid has been sentenced to four years’ jail for funding a terrorist paramilitary training camp in Aceh, Indonesia. The jail sentence was half the eight-year sentence that the state prosecution had sought. The court found 63-year-old Afief guilty of giving 25 million rupiah ($2,500) to a man named Ubaid that went […]
A US State Department report blames the Jihadist terrorist organization HuJI (Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami) for producing counterfeit notes in Bangladesh where thousands of legal cases involving counterfeit currency have overwhelmed the court system… http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2015/06/23/haji-salim-wants-tribunal-to-fight-criminals-counterfeiting-bank-notes
Ramadan Reminders of Zakat
Ramadan starts on 17 June and, as usual, with the onset of Ramadan, the Islamic media is littered with reminders for Muslims of the importance of Zakat, the obligatory charity tax that is one of the 5 pillars of Islam. Zakat is also one of the most troubling aspects of Islam for non-Muslims and one […]
The Islamic State have been quietly selling off smaller antiquities from Iraq and Syria, earning millions of dollars in an increasingly organized pillaging of national treasures, according to officials and experts. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/islamic-state-isnt-just-destroying-ancient-artifacts–its-selling-them/2015/06/08/ca5ea964-08a2-11e5-951e-8e15090d64ae_story.html
In the last year, a once-obscure extremist group has overrun some of Iraq’s major cities, seized control of oil wells, industries and banks and emerged as the world’s richest and most feared terrorist force. Despite nine months and $2.44 billion in U.S. airstrikes against the fighters and their oil facilities and smuggling networks, the self-proclaimed […]
The Islamic State is apparently using online bookseller Amazon in the UK to sell propaganda magazines aimed at recruiting Western jihadists. Issues of Dabiq, an English-language e-zine, have been available to purchase on the website since May 24. The seller is listed as the Al Hayat Media Centre, the same name as the extremist group’s most […]
The Argentine news agency Infobae has issued a report that details Hezbollah’s extensive operations in Latin America. The report indicates that not only is Hezbollah active throughout the region, it also generates up to $100 million annually from criminal activity in Latin America–particularly drug trafficking and human trafficking. This is yet another indication of the […]
Meet Abu Hajjar, the most senior leader of the so-called Islamic State to talk on https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=12&v=_FpK-cOKP2k Meet Abu Hajjar, the most senior leader of the so-called Islamic State to talk on camera. According to Iraqi police, he was their head of finance in Iraq until his capture last year. He tells Peter Taylor they raise money […]
Al-Ansar Charity Association, a financial intermediary between Iran and the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, has announced through social media that it will distribute $2 million to the families of shahids (martyrs for Islam) who died while fighting Israel from 2000 to 2014. This money is over and above the $900,000 Al-Ansar promised in January to the […]
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. […]
Ancient Treasures Help Islamic State Finance Terrorism
from Voice of America: Heather Murdock April 21, 2015 4:43 AM CAIRO—Islamic State militants released two videos this past month, boasting about the bombing of priceless ancient artifacts in Iraq. The destruction of “cultural heritage” in the Middle East is an element of the war, funding extremism and fueling sectarian violence. Before modern day maps […]
For decades the US State Department and many foreign countries have labeled the Islamic Republic of Iran as the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism. That’s because Iran has bankrolled Hezbollah, HAMAS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Al Qaeda over the years. Despite this track record of savagery, the Obama administration seems hell-bent for leather […]
In what can only be described as a stunning development, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has joined the US Treasury Department in placing sanctions on an Islamic charity that has provided material support to the Jihadist terrorist organization, Lashkar e Taiba. Readers may recall that Lashkar e Taiba was responsible for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist […]
By Kyle Shideler Yesterday, April 13, The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an umbrella organization made up of multiple Muslim Brotherhood front organizations, were on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers, and their staff. Among the leadership of the USCMO is Mazen Moktar, a man identified in federal court as having established a website for the purpose […]
A museum can be worth as much as an oil field, provided there is someone willing to buy looted and smuggled art. The world of antiquities looting has crossed into the realm of terrorism—the ancient pot you buy on eBay, or at a prestigious auction house, might be funding jihadists. The union of art and […]
New Indictments in St. Louis on Terrorism Financing Charges
Ramo Pazara, a Muslim living in St. Louis, Missouri, traveled to Syria in 2013 to fight for the Islamic State jihadist organization. He was killed somewhere in the Middle East while waging Jihad. According to a recent indictment, Pazara received material support–including funding–from a half dozen other Muslims. The indictments allege that they knowingly provided funds […]
Last week, two women, including Noelle Velentzas, were indicted in a Jihad plot in New York City. What is particularly interesting to us is Velentzas’s apparent affiliation with ICNA Relief, an Islamic charity affiliated with the Islamic Circle of North America. Note in the video associated with this news article are her arrest: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04/03/2-women-accused-of-plotting-isis-inspired-terror-attack-held-without-bail/ […]
When Washington imposed sanctions in June 2012 on Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, he dismissed it as an empty gesture. Two years later, Shekau’s skepticism appears well founded: his Islamic militant group is now the biggest security threat to Africa’s top oil producer, is richer than ever, more violent and its abductions of women and […]
Every once in a while, the UN gets something right. It’s usually very late, but sometimes they actually do something right. Last September the US sanctioned the Hilal Ahmar Society Indonesia as a wing of Al Qaeda. Now, seven months later, the UN has followed suit. It’s standard practice for Jihadist organizations to have “humanitarian,” public […]
Only six out of more than 600 British jihadists have had their bank accounts frozen under special terror laws, according to an official report. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11472133/Jihadi-John-keeps-his-bank-account-after-Treasury-freezes-assets-of-only-a-handful-of-Islamic-terrorists.html
Money Jihad blog has an excellent summation with embedded links about a man named Abror Habibov, an Uzbek with an expired visa, who operates mall kiosks in Georgia, Virginia, Florida, and Pennsylvania…and pays for air travel for those wishing to join the Islamic State… https://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2015/03/16/brooklyn-man-funds-travel-for-isis/
From the Washington Free Beacon… The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from a former deputy prime minister of Lebanon known for defending Hezbollah… Issam Fares, a Lebanese billionaire, …has given between $1 and $5 million in donations to the Clintons’ foundation with donations coming as recently as last year… Fares was […]
First made infamous by Hezbollah’s fundraising activities in North Carolina and Michigan here in the US, bootleg cigarettes are now being used around the world to fund Jihad… The United Nations Security Council’s investigative body has found that millions of pounds in illicit tobacco revenues are reaching al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other terrorist organisations. http://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-news/2015/03/13/express-star-investigates-how-bootleg-cigarettes-help-fund-terrorism/ […]
Police raided two addresses as part of an investigation into elderly victims being conned into funding Jihadists’ trips to war-torn Syria. The arrests – made under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) – form part of an investigation into a “large-scale” fraud, in which unsuspecting vulnerable and elderly victims are cold-called at home by […]
“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 […]
Hezbollah’s Jihadist tentacles spread far and wide. The latest evidence comes from Nigeria, where Hezbollah is involved in extensive drug trafficking and money laundering activities to finance its terrorism… https://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/hezbollah-financier-in-nigeria-exposed/
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 […]
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