Posted on 10/03/2004 6:06:03 PM PDT by JustPiper
Oil-for-Food Used for Money Laundering?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,141903,00.html
TRISTATE
N.J. investigates company over alleged terror ties
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MDYmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY2MzI2NTQmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXky
American Charity Sues to Have its Humanitarian Assets Unblocked
HUNTINGTON WOODS, Mich., Dec. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American non-profit humanitarian relief organization, Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA-USA) has filed suit against Departments of Treasury and Justice, in the District of Columbia, to have its assets designated for humanitarian aid, unblocked. The U.S.-based charity, which has been unfairly targeted and forced to shut down on the eve of its busiest month of the year, wants its humanitarian aid sent to the most needy in Asia and Africa.
Based in Columbia, Mo., for the past twenty years, the charity maintains it has been unfairly targeted solely based on religious grounds, the aim of which was to scare American Muslims from donating to the charity to fulfil their religious obligation (zakat, which is like Christian tithing) to the poor.
Source: U.S. Newswire
Treasury froze assets 'to aid Saudi Arabia'
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/6776c116-593e-11d9-89a5-00000e2511c8.html
we are on a new investigation and in regards to this I have been pinged to some amazing work from an old Freeper pal-Backhoe
Backhoe's posts and links are absolutely a must:
Jemaah Islamiah- Islamic Community, or Islamic Threat?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/878095/posts
The Great Wave- Sumatra Quake and tsunami of 2004
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308759/posts
Backhoe:
Trained in Counterterrorism/Executive Protection by
SIONICS, Marietta, GA.
Many Hawks Special Operations Center, Pittsview, ALA.
Backhoe posts:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?id=33524
Searches:
FR-ACEH:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=aceh&q=quick&m=any&o=score&SX=41d716f2a51917827266709697c2089751c78473
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Banda+Aceh+and+terrorism&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&fr=FP-tab-web-t
This litigation seeks money damages from the named defendants who allegedly participated, conspired, sponsored, aided, abetted and otherwise provided material support to the terrorists who conducted the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Multiple cases were filed in various courts asserting related claims. On December 9, 2003, the Federal Court Judicial Panel for Multi District Litigation issued an Order transferring and consolidating all such cases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and assigning them to Judge Richard C. Casey. The consolidated terror case is known as In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, 03 MDL 1570(RCC).
http://www.september11terrorlitigation.com/
I will link to this- you have some good stuff here.
Thanks for the ping. Will try and catch up in a bit (ha-ha). Have to go deal with more snow right now.
MMA's top leadership meets today
ISLAMABAD, Jan 1, 2005: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) will hold a convention of its supreme council here on Sunday. It will be the first such meeting after Gen Pervez Musharraf formally announced to simultaneously retain offices of the president and chief of army staff.
The council, sources said, would chalk out its strategy in accordance with the latest situation. The council, they said, would also discuss the modalities of a joint struggle with the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD and other smaller parties.
The alliance, sources said, planned to mobilize the public by organizing what it termed a 'caravan' for the final round of the movement against the government.-PPI
http://www.dawn.com/2005/01/02/top2.htm
More info on Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) aka "Jihad elements":
Muttahida gives govt. three months to rein in terrorists
http://www.mqm.org/English-News/Jun-2004/news040621
The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (the coalition of Islamic parties) performed strongly in the provincial elections; it now governs in the North West Frontier Province, and governs in alliance with the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam), or PML (Q), in Baluchistan
http://www.economist.com/countries/Pakistan/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=3443237
"ISLAMABAD, March 31: Interior Minister Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat on Wednesday accused Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal of patronizing the terrorists holed up in Wana."
http://www.karachipage.com/news/Apr_04/040104.html
thanks and have you seen this today?
Aid begins to reach Aceh
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/story/0,15671,1382255,00.html?gusrc=rss
Missed that- thanks.
Just noticed this thread bookmark!
Hi Jocko! Glad you did!
UPDATE on Jason:
FBI Probes Mysterious Death
Ron Kampeas
Special to the Jewish Times
DECEMBER 31, 2004
Washington
Grablowsky said she understood from Emerson that FBI agents were asking questions in Washington as well. FBI investigations into single homicides are very rare, a former agent said.
http://www.jewishtimes.com/News/4417.stm
IRAQ: Chronology 2004
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/01e7edb76f712602fd4a522d3b94c5ac.htm
Charity charged with terror link sues feds
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050104-041716-5519r.htm
Court Records Tell of Sheik's Promise to Spread Around Financing for Terrorists
http://www.middleeast.org/forum/fb-public/1/4045.shtml
This should be a conference to watch:
Saudi Arabia's Terror Conference: Part I
By Steven Stalinsky
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 6, 2005
Since 9/11, the Saudi royal family has spent millions of dollars to improve its image worldwide. This includes a recent ad campaign in The New Republic, which are “Sponsored by the People of Saudi Arabia – Allies Against Terrorism.” Another full-page ad appeared in USA Today, stating, “For far too long, rumors have been accepted as truth…The 9/11 Commission Report finally reveal[ed] the facts.” However, despite the Saudi PR efforts, which claim that the report completely vindicates Saudi Arabia, it in fact states that Saudi Arabia is "a problematic ally in combating Islamic extremism" and that "significant problems remained" regarding its role in the war against terror.
Another attempt by the Saudis to improve their image is the convening of an international conference against terrorism to be held in Riyadh on February 5-8. According to Saudi government sources, 43 countries, and several leading NGOs will attend. Prince Turki Ibn Muhammad Bin Saud Al-Kabir, an assistant undersecretary at the Foreign Ministry said, “We have invited all countries that have suffered from terrorism…and all have agreed to take part.”
The conference was initially announced at the UN General Assembly in September by Saudi Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Mizar Midani. When asked why Israel was not invited, he accused the Jewish state of “being responsible for extremism in the region.”
Meanwhile, the Iranian Republic News Agency reported that Iranian President Muhammad Khatami will be attending. Prince Al-Kabir, who is the chairman of the conference, told the Saudi Gazette on November 3 that a large contingent from the U.S. will also attend.
Whereas the conference’s stated goal is to “eradicate the roots and causes of terrorism,” the Saudi royal family’s government has in fact done very little to pursue this – outside of the Kingdom. The Saudi war on terror has exclusively focused on fighting only the wing of al-Qaeda within Saudi Arabia. As Saudi writers, TV commentators, professors, clerics, and members of the royal family often explain, Jihad is acceptable as long as it is not within or against the Kingdom.
Writing in the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh on April 26, 2004, Abdul Waheed Al-Humaid referred to the attacks of that week in the Saudi capitol Riyadh as unjustifiable terrorism. He explained, however, “if there are people who want to wage Jihad and fight the enemy, there are more than a thousand [legitimate] ways to do so.”
Saudi Sheikh Abdallah Al-Muslih, Chairman of the Commission on Scientific Signs in the Koran, Sunna of the Muslim World League, and former Dean of Islamic Law in the Saudi city of Abha appeared on Iqra TV on May 20th, stating that jihad - inside the Kingdom - is not allowed. He also addressed the current debate amongst leading Saudi clerics about suicide bombings against U.S. troops. He cited teachings from Islamic history giving precedents to such actions that as long as soldiers from Dar Al-Harb (countries outside Muslim rule) are targeted, “there is nothing wrong with suicide attacks if they cause great damage to the enemy.” Al-Muslih ended by emphasizing, “[When] we speak of [attacks] in Muslim countries, such as Saudi Arabia…this is forbidden…This is the land of the Muslims. We must never do this in a Muslim country.”
Saudi support of jihad outside the Kingdom and against U.S. troops was recently the subject of a fatwa by 26 leading Saudi religious scholars from the most prominent universities in the Kingdom. According to the fatwa, released in November, killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq is allowed. The fatwa, which came one month before the suicide attack by a Saudi bomber on an American mess hall in Mosul that killed 14 U.S. soldiers, stated: “Fighting the occupiers is a religious duty…It is a jihad to push back the assailants…Resistance is a legitimate right."
The Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C., tried to distance itself from the fatwa. However, according to Saudi law, the government is the only body that can lawfully issue such a fatwa. The unauthorized religious authorities who sanctioned the killing of U.S. troops have yet to be punished.
A Saudi prince, Amr Al-Faisal, responded to the fatwa in Arab News on December 6 by explaining that the 26 scholars don’t represent official Saudi policy, but that they do represent “a significant opinion in the Muslim world on the proper manner for dealing with foreign occupiers in Iraq.” Prince Amr added, “U.S. forces in Iraq are not a group of friendly boy scouts out to help elderly Iraqi ladies cross Baghdad streets."
In the coming weeks, this column will expose Saudi Arabia’s continual embrace of jihad, as well as its support of a culture of hatred against the West, Christians, and of course Jews.
Unless the Saudi terror conference addresses these issues, the upcoming columns will explain why the U.S. should not take part in the Saudi Arabia's February conference on terrorism.
Steven Stalinsky is Executive Director of The Middle East Media Research Institute
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16549
The Mosul Massacre, Courtesy of the Saudis
By Stephen Schwartz
NYPost.com | January 6, 2005
On Dec. 21, a terrorist blew himself up in the U.S. military mess hall in Mosul, in northern Iraq. Twenty-two people were killed, including U.S. soldiers and contractors.
And now comes big news: The perpetrator was the oldest son of a diplomat from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, our alleged ally in the War on Terror.
On Monday, the Saudi-owned daily Asharq Al-Awsat identified the butcher responsible: 20-year old Ahmad Sayyid Ahmad al-Ghamdi, a Saudi medical student.
The bomber acted as a member of Ansar al-Sunnah (Volunteers of Sunni Islam), one of the most violent terror groups in Iraq, and an al Qaeda ally.
The name "al-Ghamdi" should ring bells; the family is large, and three of its members were involved in the 9/11 assault.
The Saudi daily, and Western media, identified the Mosul bomber, and even said they had spoken with his father. But no one has mentioned who the father is: Sayyid al-Ghamdi, former head of the Saudi diplomatic mission in Sudan, a country ruled by an Islamist regime that once played host to Osama bin Laden himself.
The diplomat has been named by the Saudi Institute, a Washington-based human-rights monitoring group with unimpeachable sources inside the kingdom. (The information office of the Royal Saudi Embassy in Washington did not respond to a call yesterday for comment.)
The bomber's father told journalists his son had stayed in Sudan after the diplomat returned to Riyadh. But the son then cleaned out his personal bank account and told his father he was headed for Iraq to kill Americans.
Arab-language media, including Saudi newspapers and Web sites, have disclosed that Saudi subjects make up the overwhelming majority of the "foreign fighters" involved in suicide terrorism in Iraq, from Fallujah to Baghdad, and from Mosul to Basra.
But Ali al-Ahmed of the Saudi Institute, and other Saudi dissidents, complain that U.S. authorities have failed to compel the Saudis to shut off the flow of jihadists northward.
Instead, 26 prominent Saudi clerics, most of them paid by the regime, signed a fatwa on Nov. 5 calling for continued jihad against the United States and the new military and police structures in Iraq.
None of the signatories — all of them adherents of Wahhabism, the official Islamic sect in Saudi Arabia — has been questioned or suspended from religious duties since the fatwa was issued.
In addition, the terrorist responsible for a Christmas Eve fuel-truck bombing in the Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad, which killed nine people, has been identified as a Saudi subject, 23-year-old Ahmad Abdallah Abd al-Rahman al-Shayea, of Riyadh.
And so the deception continues.
The bottom line remains the same as it was on Sept. 11: President Bush has to call the Saudis to account for their financing of the Wahhabis and their terrorism.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16547
Hearing in Al-Arian terrorism case postponed
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-bk-postponed010705,1,2345723.story?coll=orl-home-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true
Bankrupting Terror
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16552
A Must Read:
Will dumping loads of cash on Muslims rehabilitate our image? Why are being coerced into thinking it will, or that we should even feel a need to try? Shouldn’t Muslims be rehabilitating their tarnished image? Are we saying the hate and fanaticism of the Muslim street is justified? Were we wrong then to pursue the policies that generated this enmity? If we think cash payments will mitigate Muslim malevolence then we haven’t learned anything since 9/11. Why hasn’t it worked before? We send more aid to Egypt each year than we’ve pledged so far with the tsunami, yet is there a country that hates us more?
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_6312.shtml
The Myths of Al Qaeda
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2005%20Opinion%20Editorials/January/4%20o/The%20Myths%20of%20Al%20Qaeda%20By%20Jim%20Kirwan.htm
JUDGE OKS FEDS' SHEIK TERROR CASE
A judge resuscitated the feds' terror-financing case against a Yemeni sheik yesterday by giving prosecutors the green light to proceed to trial without testimony from a troubled FBI informant who torched himself outside the White House.
Jurors will be able to hear incriminating tapes of Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan Al-Moayad allegedly discussing his support of terrorists — although the informant who orchestrated the sting will not likely appear for the feds.
Brooklyn federal Judge Sterling Johnson also barred defense lawyers from delving into the informant's checkered past.
In November, he set himself on fire, angry that the feds had paid him only $100,000.
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/37684.htm
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