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efreedomnews         WAR ON TERRORISM - AN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE Muslim Money Machine Shut DownJonathan RhodesOctober 12, 2002       Arnaout & Osama(click to enlarge photos)  Enaam Arnaout, a Syrian born naturalized American Citizen and director of Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), an Illinois-based charity,  was indicted for conspiracy to fraudulently obtain charitable donations to provide financial assistance to organizations engaged in violence and terrorism. He was first arrested for perjury in May, 2002 when the assets of the BIF were frozen. He went to court to have the assets released. His written statement to the court states: "BIF has never provided aid...

CHICAGO, Oct. 9 — The leader of a Chicago-area Islamic charity was indicted on racketeering charges Wednesday, and the government accused him of fraudulently obtaining donations to support Osama bin Laden’s network and other terrorist groups. Attorney General John Ashcroft said that, if found guilty, Enaam Arnaout faces up to 90 years in prison with no possibility of parole.

<p>CHICAGO (AP) -- Federal prosecutors accused a Syrian-born American of once leading a Muslim charity that the Treasury Department calls a terrorist group, and said he tried to help Osama bin Laden get a nuclear weapon.</p> <p>The government said Mohamed Loay Bayazid was president of the suburban Chicago-based Benevolence International Foundation in 1994, about the same time he is accused of trying to get uranium for al-Qaida.</p>

On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda operatives slaughtered nearly 3,000 Americans in an operation that marked the second major attack by violent jihadists against the World Trade Center. There wasn’t much mystery about who had carried out these atrocities — unless you were Salam al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Marayati warned Americans not to conclude that the suicide hijacking attacks were the work of Muslim terrorists. “If we are going to look at suspects,” he told a Los Angeles radio station, “we should look at groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I...

Monday, 18, December, 2006 (28, Dhul Qa`dah, 1427)   Mail Article   |     Print Article   |     Comment on Article   US Court Throws Out Case Against Saleh KamelBarbara Ferguson, Arab News   Saleh Kamel   WASHINGTON, 18 December 2006 — A significant decision by a New York judge last Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Saleh Kamel and Albaraka Investment Bank.The accusations alleged they had been involved in support of the Al-Qaeda group suspected of backing the 9/11 terrorist attacks.Khaled Al-Nahdi, assistant to CEO of Dallah Albaraka Group, said in a statement on Friday that Judge Richard Conway Casey, of the Federal...

SAMI AL-ARIAN ADMITS CONSPIRACY IN PLEA AGREEMENT " There is no conspiracy to support terrorism ."  - Ahmed Bedier, spokesman for Tampa chapter of Council on American Islamic Relations From what I’ve been able to gather, there seems to be enough evidence to prove a web of conspiracy . Let’s have a look and see if that’s true! American Muslim Council (AMC)1. Former Spokesman: Faisal Gill.2. Founder: Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi.3. Former Director: Erik Vickers 1. Faisal Gill Former spokesman for the American Muslim Council (AMC) Former director of government affairs for the Islamic Free Market Institute (Islamic Institute) in Washington, D.C.,...

REPORT ON ILLEGAL FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES AND TERRORISM FINANCING ON THE TERRITORY OF THE FEDERATION OF BOSNIA I HERZEGOVINA PART I/I/ABIHBQ – 08/2003 by JEAN-CHARLES BRISARD, LEAD INVESTIGATOR, 911 LAWSUIT :

Today the US Treasury designated three entities as financiers of terrorism under Executive Order 13224 and will ask the United Nations to add these names to the list of those whose assets must be blocked by all member nations under UNSCR 1390. The financial accounts of the principal entity, Benevolence International Foundation, were blocked pending investigation in December 2001. The three closely linked but separately incorporated entities designated today are Benevolence International Foundation, Benevolence International Fund (Canada), Bosanska Idealna Futura (Bosnia), and their branch offices. “UN designation of these financiers of terror will cut off their access to the global...

<p>CHICAGO (AP) &#8212; A Muslim charity leader linked by prosecutors to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network was sentenced yesterday to more than 11 years in federal prison for defrauding donors.</p> <p>Enaam Arnaout, 41, a Syrian-born U.S. citizen who said he has met bin Laden but opposes terrorism, was calm as the sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Suzanne B. Conlon.</p>

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday sentenced the head of a U.S.-based Muslim charity to more than 11 years in prison for defrauding donors, though she dismissed prosecutors' allegations that he was a financier for al Qaeda. Syrian-born Enaam Arnaout, 41, had pleaded guilty on the eve of trial to defrauding donors out of as much as $400,000 that went to Muslim fighters in 1990s-era conflicts in Bosnia-Herzogovina and Chechnya (news - web sites), instead of widows and orphans as the charity had advertised. "The government failed to connect the dots ... that Mr. Arnaout supported terrorist activity,"...

<p>The Treasury Department said Monday that it would decline to provide the Senate with a list of Saudi individuals and organizations the federal government has investigated for possibly funding al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.</p> <p>The action was the second in two weeks to set the White House and Congress at odds over the Saudis and federal intelligence-gathering related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.</p>

CHICAGO (AP)--Prosecutors accused an Islamic charity leader of extensive ties with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, saying he ushered dozens of armed warriors into Bosnia to establish a base there. Enaam Arnaout ``allowed violent persons both inside and outside of the al-Qaida network to flow to areas of conflict and survive there under the cover of an American charity,'' prosecutors said in court papers made public Friday. Arnaout, 41, is scheduled to be sentenced Monday on racketeering charges. He admitted defrauding donors to Benevolence International Foundation by sending supplies to military-style units in Bosnia and Muslim rebels fighting Russians in...

<p>CHICAGO — Prosecutors accused an Islamic charity leader of extensive ties with Usama bin Laden's (search) terrorist network, saying he ushered dozens of armed warriors into Bosnia to establish a base there.</p> <p>Enaam Arnaout (search) "allowed violent persons both inside and outside of the Al Qaeda (search) network to flow to areas of conflict and survive there under the cover of an American charity," prosecutors said in court papers made public Friday.</p>

Canada bankrolled man's aid agency during that time U.S. authorities have tied a Canadian aid worker to the al-Qaeda terrorist network as far back as 1988, almost a decade before the Canadian government cut off funding to his Ottawa-based Muslim charity. Evidence unsealed by a U.S. judge in Chicago shows Ahmed Said Khadr had dealings with senior al-Qaeda leaders while being financed by the Canadian International Development Agency. Although CIDA stopped giving aid money to Mr. Khadr in 1997 after he was arrested for allegedly bombing an embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, the documents allege he was working with al-Qaeda long...

<p>Federal prosecutors claim that this undated photo shows Arnaout, left, sitting next to Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.</p> <p>CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- The director of an Islamic charity linked by federal prosecutors to Osama bin Laden pleaded guilty Monday to racketeering charges but did not admit any connection to the terrorist mastermind.</p>

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/11/02 - Tel Aviv, Wazzani, Kabul, Kandahar, Baghdad, al-Nassir BREAKING: Tel Aviv, Bus driver quenches impact of terror bombing, BREAKING: Diversion of the Wazzani, Kabul, Kandahar, Baghdad, al-Nassir, Arnaout, ========= Kabul ========= In Kabul, at the food lines, women receive 110 pounds of wheat, 20 pounds of dried peas, ten pounds of oil, and one packet of salt per family per month. In Kabul, near the food lines, women FREED BY THE USA attend a health class,. In Kabul, at the wedding. Two girls married their cousins in a joint ceremony as...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Federal officials on Wednesday announced the indictment of the head of a U.S. Muslim charity, charging he used donations to fund terrorism around the world. Syrian-born Enaam Arnaout, who has been in custody since last April, engaged in a "multinational criminal enterprise that for a decade used charitable contributions of innocent Americans -- Muslims, non-Muslims and corporations alike -- to support al Qaeda" as well as turmoil in Chechnya and "armed violence in Bosnia," the Justice Department said. The indictment, announced by Attorney General John Ashcroft at a Chicago news conference, largely repeated charges made against Arnaout...

Attorney denies Muslim charity's European director aided Osama bin Laden's terror network Mon May 6,10:20 PM ET By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer CHICAGO - (AP) <An attorney for a Muslim charity acknowledged that its head of European operations knew one of the men convicted in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. But the lawyer denied the official supported terrorism. Nabil Sayadi, head of Global Relief Foundation's operations in Europe, was one of several men Spanish authorities allege received money for Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al-Qaida organization. Spanish authorities said Sayadi had close...

Arrest just made...breaking

Washington (dpa) - The head of a Chicago-based Islamic charity accused of having links to alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was arrested Tuesday, media reports said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation charged that Enaam Arnaout, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Syria, and the Benevolence International Foundation have had links with bin Laden for more than a decade, the CNN television news network reported. Both were charged with perjury for denying in a lawsuit they filed against the U.S. government that they had supported terrorist groups in the past. The group launched the suit after federal agents raided the charity's...