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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
…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 […]
Mo Farah, a British Olympic gold medalist, who resides in Portland, Oregon, has a charitable foundation that has been linked to a controversial Islamic cleric who has urged British Muslims to wage holy war. Farah, who was born in Somalia, set up the Mo Farah Foundation in 2011 to help people affected by drought in the Horn of […]
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 […]
Wikileaks: Popular Somali Money Transfer Mechanism Used to Fund Al Qaeda
According to Wikileaks documents, the popular Somali money transfer firm, Dahabshiil, has been used to provide money for jihad. The WikiLeaks release of the files of detainees of the US’s Guantanamo Bay detention facility suggested Dahabshiil was the money transfer method used by Muhammad Sulayman Barre to fund al-Qaeda’s November 2002 attacks in Mombasa, Kenya. Partially […]
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, […]
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 […]
“Ethical Investing” from Countries Overrun With Corruption?
Transparency.org has publishes a Corruption Perceptions Index that rates the level of corruption in the world’s nations. The most recent year for which there is data is 2011. The results are instructive for observers of Shariah Compliant Finance. Shariah-Compliant Finance is often touted by the financial jihadists as “ethical” investment. There are a variety of […]
Our only problem with this article is the fact that “legitimate” Islamic charities have customarily raised money for jihad, as required under Shariah. We can’t help but wonder whether the Brits have this right. Did these two twin brothers pose as Muslim Aid fundraisers, or could they have been actual Islamic charity fundraisers? Shabir and Shafiq […]
A terror plot targeting Kenyan tourist hotels with chemical explosives was financed by Samantha Lewthwaite, the British widow of 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay… http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/kenya/9258011/77-bomber-widow-Samantha-Lewthwaite-financed-Kenya-tourist-terror-plot.html
Terrorist funder gets incredibly light sentence from federal judge
Here is an example of an irresponsible federal judge if there ever was one. Abdi Mahdi Hussein attempted to help Mohamud Abdi Yusuf send $21,000 to the Jihadist terrorist group Al Shabaab. Now he says (of course) that he had no idea where the money was supposed to go, and besides it didn’t get there. U.S. […]
CRY US A RIVER!!! A Rochester woman convicted of raising money for the terrorist group al-Shabaab is asking a federal judge to let her out of jail while she awaits sentencing. An attorney for Amina Farah Ali said in a motion that it has been six months since the conviction and because of various delays, […]
Two Somali twin brothers have been arrested in Great Britain and charged with trying to raise money for their third brother to commit acts of terrorism in their homeland of Somalia. Note that one of the twins works for a “security” firm. The other is unemployed, no doubt living off the public dole, as so […]
In Somalia, Fears Over U.S. Wire Transfer Block
Over the past 18 months or so, SFW has covered the raising of funds by Al Shabaab terrorists in Somalia. These Al Qaeda-affiliated Jihadists have used several methods to raise money and they have been quite successful at it. They have used everything from extortion and intimidation to charity fronts collecting zakat. Some of this […]
UN Monitoring Group to Call for Sanctions Against Al Shabaab
The United Nations special envoy for Somalia says a Security Council-appointed monitoring group will recommend sanctions against the al-Qaida linked militant group al-Shabaab. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/UN-Monitoring-Group-to-Recommend-al-Shabab-Sanctions-133846953.html
Missouri man pleads guilty to attempting to finance Al Shabaab
On Friday, in St. Louis, Missouri, Mohamud Abdi Yusuf pled guilty to providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization based in Somalia. According to court documents, from February 2008 through at least July 2009, the 31-year old Yusuf, conspired with others to provide money to al Shabaab, which was designated by the U.S. State […]
Correcting The New Misinformation on Islamic Charities Funding Jihadist Terrorism
The Guardian in the UK has come out with an article (“Counterterrorism laws taking their toll on humanitarian action”) critical of US counterterrorism efforts that are designed to prevent the funneling of money to Jihadist terrorist groups, especially in Gaza and Somalia, two hotbeds of Jihadist terrorist activity. When ever we see misguided and ignorant […]
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