http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/moneytrail/ en-us Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:12:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411618/posts For the first time, three Al-Qaeda operatives have been arrested and charged with drug trafficking as a means of raising funds to support their terrorist activities. The international terror group has increasingly been turning to this form of activity, although its spread to Africa is a new twist in the pattern, according to evidence gathered by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The agency has long been concerned about the group’s ties to the heroin trade in Afghanistan – but according to DEA director Michele Leonhart, the current case reveals a “direct link” between the terror group and drug traffickers... Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411618/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:12:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395194/posts WASHINGTON, D.C. (Aug. 9, 2009) — In October 2007, the Missouri National Guard personnel, with agricultural and business development expertise, as well as other essential skills, formed the Afghanistan Agribusiness Development Team to develop agribusiness in Afghanistan. Agriculture accounts for 45 percent of Afghanistan’s gross domestic product and employs over 70 percent of the Afghan population. However, decades of war and neglect have devastated the country’s agricultural sector. As a result, one of the great needs in the country is to develop its agriculture potential, and I am so proud of the efforts of the Missouri National Guard, who assumed... Pulaski County Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395194/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:03:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385947/posts NEW YORK (AP) — In what could be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, federal prosecutors sought to take over four U.S. mosques, a New York City skyscraper and 100 acres in Prince William County owned by a Muslim organization suspected of being controlled by the Iranian government. Prosecutors on Thursday filed a civil complaint in federal court against the Alavi Foundation, seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets. the News and Messenger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385947/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:27:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361891/posts Al-Qaeda is in its worst financial state for many years while the Taliban's funding is flourishing, according to the US Treasury. Senior Treasury official David Cohen said al-Qaeda had made several appeals for funds already this year. The influence of the network - damaged by US efforts to choke funding - is waning, he said. The Taliban, meanwhile, are in better financial shape, bolstered by Afghanistan's booming trade in drugs. According to Mr Cohen, the al-Qaeda leadership has already warned that a lack of funds was hurting the group's recruitment and training efforts. "We assess that al-Qaeda is in its... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361891/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:10:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357275/posts GAO report: Saudis are top fianciers of Taliban WASHINGTON — The United States has determined that Saudi Arabia continues to be the leading source of funding to Al Qaida and is also the top financial backer of Taliban. ShareThis A report the Government Accountability Office said the Saudi government did not appear to be involved in the funding, but that Saudi funds to both Al Qaida and Taliban has helped finance the war against NATO in Afghanistan. GAO said Saudis were the chief source of funding to Taliban. The report said couriers were transporting cash from Saudi Arabia and other... WorldTribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357275/posts#comment Thu, 8 Oct 2009 03:07:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349716/posts Afghanistan’s Taliban-led insurgency is so heavily funded by foreign donations that U.S. and Afghan officials say it may be impossible to obstruct the group’s money supply, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The Obama administration said the group’s single largest source of funding comes from foreign donations -- not drugs like opium -- according to the newspaper. The CIA reportedly estimates that the Taliban received $106 billion in foreign money last year alone -- making it difficult for intelligence officials to track the terrorist group’s money flow. United Nations’ Taliban and Al Qaeda Monitoring Team Coordinator Richard Barrett, told the Washington... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349716/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:54:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278788/posts All Things Considered, June 24, 2009 · Documents obtained by The New York Times suggest members of the Saudi royal family may have provided financial support to extremists, including al-Qaida, in the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The documents are part of an ongoing legal effort by Sept. 11 families to hold Saudi Arabia and the royal family accountable for the attacks. New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau offers his insight. (Audio at NPR link, above) NPR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278788/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:04:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277875/posts Recently the ACLU released a report on Muslim charities, many of which were proven terrorist funding fronts. In the report the ACLU falsely creates victims where none exist and once again exaggerate their favorite target of vilification, the U.S. government. According to the ACLU the evil American empire are stomping on the rights of Muslims to donate money to charities acting as front groups funding terrorist activities. It suggests (contrary to a substantial body of evidence) – that the U.S. government was wrong to have acted against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, the... Stop the ACLU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277875/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:28:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277214/posts JERUSALEM – The Iranian government, distracted with the country's escalating protests, has failed to send regular payments to a Palestinian terrorist group, causing a major financial crisis for at least one jihadist organization, WND has learned. WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277214/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:00:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276005/posts Campaign Launched in Europe Raising Money for Iraq Resistance March 21, 2006 Post a Comment Font Size Print RSS E-mail Share this story with friends Buzz Up! Facebook Twitter StumbleUpon More Posters showing an American soldier with blood spurting out of his head are being used by Iraqi insurgents to raise money in Europe. The campaign is called "10 Euros for Resistance." That's about $12, and people in Italy and the Netherlands seem to be chipping in, according to Rep. Sue Kelly, R-N.Y. "Ten euros for resistance, and people who are giving the money don't care if it buys weapons.... ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276005/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:12:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271476/posts Yemeni authorities have arrested the financier of Al-Qaeda operations in the country and in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, an official said Sunday, as cited on the defence ministry news website. "The arrested man is named Hassan Hussein bin Alwan, a Saudi national, and he is the financier for attacks launched by Al-Qaeda organisation in Yemen and Saudi Arabia," the unnamed security official told September Net website. "He is considered one of the most dangerous members of Al-Qaeda," he added. AFP via Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271476/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:31:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247022/posts An appeals court yesterday upheld the legality of federal raids on a Herndon-based network of Muslim charities, businesses and think tanks, a case that caused a firestorm in the Muslim community. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said the March 2002 raids on homes and business in Herndon and elsewhere in Northern Virginia were "a harrowing experience" for the targets but did not violate their constitutional rights. The court said agents exercised "lawful force" in drawing their guns and handcuffing a family whose home was searched. Federal agents carted away hundreds of boxes of documents during the... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247022/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 16:57:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197801/posts Dr. Nagaratnam Ranjithan has spent decades building a thriving medical practice in Maryland as a kidney specialist. Federal authorities say he has also helped finance Asian death squads. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Treasury Department froze the assets of Ranjithan’s Tamil Foundation, alleging that the money he has raised for Sri Lanka has actually gone to help the Tamil Tigers, a group that the State Department says is a terrorist organization. The Tigers have been blamed for thousands of civilian deaths. Ranjithan says his group is suffering from guilt by association. “Even the federal government hasn’t accused me of directly... DC Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197801/posts#comment Tue, 3 Mar 2009 02:44:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2196285/posts The Obama DOJ's embrace of Bush's state secrets privilege in the Jeppesen (torture/rendition) case generated substantial outrage, and rightly so. But it's now safe to say that far worse is the Obama DOJ's conduct in the Al-Haramain case -- the only remaining case against the Government with any real chance of resulting in a judicial ruling on the legality of Bush's NSA warrantless eavesdropping program. Here's the first paragraph from the Wired report on Friday's appellate ruling, which refused the Obama DOJ's request to block a federal court from considering key evidence when deciding whether Bush broke the law in... Salon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2196285/posts#comment Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:20:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195984/posts WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The Obama administration has lost its argument that a potential threat to national security should stop a lawsuit challenging the government's warrantless wiretapping program. A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday rejected the Justice Department's request for an emergency stay in a case involving a defunct Islamic charity. Yet government lawyers signaled they would continue fighting to keep the information secret, setting up a new showdown between the courts and the White House over national security. The Obama administration, like the Bush administration before it, claimed national security would be compromised if a lawsuit brought... AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195984/posts#comment Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:06:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160185/posts The Bush administration's ringing victory in last year's Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial could provide a tailwind for President Barack Obama's efforts to carry on the war on terror. There's much in the Bush administration's counterterrorism toolbox that the new president wants to throw out – Guantánamo Bay, secret foreign prisons, torture and warrantless wiretapping. But one weapon now proven effective by the Holy Land trial is the use of intelligence on complicated terrorist networks to pursue criminal cases. Dallas News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160185/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:56:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158479/posts Holy Land Foundation case puts burden on Muslim charities07:53 PM CST on Saturday, January 3, 2009By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News jtrahan@dallasnews.com American Muslims are finding it more difficult to donate money to help Palestinian refugees and other Middle Eastern causes because of court decisions showing that some charities were using the money for terrorism. On Nov. 24, the formerly Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation and five of its organizers were found guilty in a Dallas federal court of sending millions of dollars to Palestinian charity committees controlled by banned group Hamas. A week later, the 7th U.S. Circuit... The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158479/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:40:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138596/posts A federal jury in Dallas on Monday dealt the Stealth Jihad initiative in the United States a crushing defeat: it found five former officials of an Islamic charity, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), guilty of funneling at least $12 million of the charity’s funds to the jihad terror group Hamas. The notorious “Muslim civil rights” group, the Council on American Islamic Relations, is involved as well, since Ghassan Elashi, a founding director of CAIR as well as founder of the group’s Texas chapter, was among those found guilty; Elashi and his co-defendants face prison sentences of up to twenty years... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138596/posts#comment Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:16:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137794/posts DALLAS – A jury convicted five former officials at the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) on all counts in the Hamas-support case after 8 days of deliberations. The men, Shukri Abu-Baker, Ghassan Elashi, Mohamed El-Mezain, Mufid Abdulqader and Abdelrahman Odeh, could face up to 20 years in prison for their convictions on conspiracy counts, including conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. The verdicts, read Monday afternoon, ended a two-year saga in what is considered the largest terror financing case since the 9/11 attacks. In the original trial last year, jurors acquitted El-Mezain on 31 of the... Investigative Project http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137794/posts#comment Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:38:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137666/posts A jury on Monday determined that the Holy Land Foundation and five men who worked with the Muslim charity were guilty of three dozen counts related to the illegal funneling of at least $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. The unanimous verdicts are a complete victory for the government, which streamlined its case and worked hard to carefully educate jurors on the complex, massive evidence presented in the trial. Guilty verdicts were read on 108 separate charges. The prosecution victory is also a major one for the lame duck administration of President George Bush, whose efforts at fighting... The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137666/posts#comment Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:17:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137643/posts A jury on Monday determined that the Holy Land Foundation and five men who worked with the Muslim charity were guilty of three dozen counts related to the illegal funneling of at least $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137643/posts#comment Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:41:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137615/posts Jurors have reached a verdict in the second trial of a Muslim charity accused of helping to finance terrorism in the nation's largest such case since the Sept. 11 attacks.The verdict was to be announced Monday afternoon, on the eighth day of deliberations in the retrial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. It was once the nation's largest Muslim charity.Holy Land is accused of giving more than $12 million to support the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which the U.S. designated as a terrorist organization in 1995.Jurors were to read a long list of verdicts on more than... Las Vegas Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137615/posts#comment Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:08:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130501/posts DALLAS – Jury deliberations begin Wednesday morning in the case of five men accused of routing millions of dollars to Hamas. Closing arguments in the terror-support trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and its former officers ended late Tuesday afternoon. After the second full day of hearing from attorneys, U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis suggested jurors select a foreperson and go home for the evening. The men are accused of routing millions of dollars to Hamas through a series of Palestinian charities prosecutors say were controlled by the terrorist group. But defense attorneys cast... IPT News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130501/posts#comment Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:46:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064415/posts LOS ANGELES (AFP) – A prominent Los Angeles-based Muslim activist has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to attempting to bribe a witness, prosecutors said Tuesday. Najee Ali, who heads the community group Project Islamic HOPE (Helping Oppressed People Everywhere), was sentenced on Monday after he admitted an attempt to interfere with a witness in a court case involving his daughter. A spokeswoman for Los Angeles County District Attorney said in normal circumstances Ali would have received a two-year sentence but saw his term doubled because he had a prior conviction for armed robbery in 1992. AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064415/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:28:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063942/posts Democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama’s appearance before a large evangelical congregation in Orange County over the weekend underscored an evident imperative of his campaign: Emphasize his Christian faith and put to rest insistent rumors that he secretly adheres to the Islamic creed of his father and youth. The effort to minimize any grounds for fearing Obama has an abiding, if covert, attachment to Islam has prompted him to risk offending Muslims in order to avoid off-message controversies and photo ops. It is, therefore, curious in the extreme that he is giving a prominent role at next week’s Democratic convention to... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063942/posts#comment Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:50:17 GMT