It’s not just Obama’s foreign policy blunders. Perhaps Mali is reaping a little of what the Clinton era sowed in Africa as well :
DECEMBER 1999 : (USAID TERMINATES IARA PROJECT AGREEMENTS IN MALI-— see IARA, COLUMBIA MO CELL, SILJANDER, MALI, IRAQ, TERROR CHARITIES) IARA, Hamed and Bagegni had previously entered into a series of agreements with USAID for relief projects in Mali, Africa. When USAID terminated those agreements in December 1999, the amount of money involved totaled approximately $2 million. IARA had allegedly failed to fully fund the matching contributions required to receive USAID funds. After the termination of these agreements, the indictment alleges, IARA, Hamed and Bagegni, without authorization, retained approximately $84,922 of USAID money and failed to return the funds to USAID as called for by the agreements.
———Islamic Charity Charged with Terrorist Financing; Former U.S. Congressman Indicted for Money Laundering, January 16, 2008 http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/January/08_nsd_029.html
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The above link also includes a Republican congresscritter and his involvement with IARA.
2003 + 2004 : (IARA AIDS GULBUDDIN HEKMATYAR) IARA and [Mubarak] Hamed [of Columbia MO] knowingly and willfully engaged in financial transactions for the benefit of Hekmatyar’s organization by sending approximately $130,000 in 2003 and 2004 in numerous transactions to Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) bank accounts in Peshawar, Pakistan, purportedly for an orphanage housed in buildings owned and controlled by Hekmatyar.———Islamic Charity Charged with Terrorist Financing; Former U.S. Congressman Indicted for Money Laundering, January 16, 2008 http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/January/08_nsd_029.html
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