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A subsequent Bosnian raid on another group, a local branch of Saudi-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, uncovered tapes calling for attacks on peacekeepers in Bosnia. Another raid, this time on the Sarajevo office of the Saudi High Commission for Relief, netted anti-Semitic and anti-American materials, as well as photos of U.S. military installations.8 Other Al Qaeda fronts, such as Vazir (Al-Haramain's successor organization) and the Global Relief Fund were also shut down. In 2004, the Bosnian government disrupted the operations of al-Furqan (a.k.a. Sirat Istikamet), al-Haramain and al-Masjed al-Aqsa Charity Foundation, and Taibah International, all Al Qaeda-linked organizations. Experts note that when some Al Qaeda front organizations are closed down, others often spring up to replace them.
SAUDI CHARITIES' DIRTY HANDS
By STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
August 15, 2006
http://www.islamicpluralism.org/articles/2006a/saudicharities.htm
NEARLY five years after 9/11, Saudi Arabia's government-run charities still finance terror.
On Aug. 3, the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control added two new entities to its roster of Global Terrorist Designations - the branches of the main Saudi government charity, the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), in Indonesia and the Philippines. These groups, directed on the ground by Saudis, are now on the same Treasury list as organizations like Hezbollah, Hamas and al Qaeda itself.
The IIRO, as a Saudi state institution, draws money from obligatory Muslim charity, or zakat, donated by ordinary Saudi believers. It sets up camps in theaters of war, where Muslim refugees are indoctrinated in the ultra-extremist Wahabi interpretation of Islam. The IIRO also builds new mosques around the world, run as Saudi enclaves, with Saudi clerics, Saudi-style preaching - and full programs for recruitment of extremists.
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