Sheikh Abdullah Azzam giving a speech in the US in February 1988. [Source: CNN] Sheikh Abdullah Azzam giving a speech in the US in February 1988. [Source: CNN]1989 and After:
CIA Supposedly Supports Muslim Charity Tied to Bin Laden
The 1999 book “Dollars for Terror” will allege that in 1989, Mercy International, a “subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood, was able to establish its HEADQUARTERS in the United States, in the state of MICHIGAN, with the assistance of the CIA.
The CIA Agency provided significant logistical and financial support to this ‘humanitarian’ organization, enabling it to act clandestinely in the various BALKAN conflicts as well as within the Muslim communities of several RUSSIAN REPUBLICS.” [Labeviere, 1999, pp. 364]
Mercy International will later be tied to al-Qaeda in a number of ways. For instance, in the mid-1990s its PAKISTAN branch will be headed by ZAHID SHAIKH MOHAMMED, BROTHER of 9/11 MASTERMIND KHALID SHAIKH MOHAMMED.
(see 1988-Spring 1995). [Los Angeles Times, 9/1/2002]
Its KENYA BRANCH will be tied to the 1998 US EMBASSY BOMBING there. Its PHILIPPINE BRANCH is tied to MOHAMMED JAMAL KHALIFA, BIN LADEN’S BROTHER-IN-LAW. [Burr and Collins, 2006, pp. 128, 188-189]
Branches of this charity in different countries have SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT NAMES such as MERCY INTERNATIONAL-USA and MERCY INTERNATIONAL RELIEF AGENCY, and it has been CLAIMED that the US BRANCH HAS NO CONNECTION with the TERRORISM-RELATED BRANCHES. HOWEVER, a 2003 article will draw links between the US branch and other branches. [National Review, 9/4/2003]
Head-quarters in Michigan. CIA support. The Islamic - Egypt, Saudi etc., banking is “closely associated with the neoliberal free-trade philosophy of the CHICAGO SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, and with the free-trade prescriptions of the IMC - International Monetary Fund”. They had branches in KENYA. One can’t help but wonder if this was the reason Obama arrived in Chicago - an area where he had NO connections.