Posted on 05/30/2006 7:26:46 PM PDT by Qaz_W
Jerusalem, May 30. (PTI): A Pakistan-born British national, Iyaz Ali, was arrested by the Israel Security Agency (ISA) and the police earlier this month, for assisting Hamas in transferring funds and helping its various institutions, the Prime Minister's office said.
Ali, arrested on the 10th of this month, has admitted to being a member of the UK-based Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), which is suspected of supporting Hamas, it said in a statement.
He has confessed of working for IRWF's Gaza branch as a project director since December 2005 and his involvement in transferring funds and assistance to various Hamas institutions, including the Al Wafa and Al Tzalah associations, outlawed in Israel.
Ali had earlier worked in Jordan and cooperated with local Hamas operatives.
Incriminating files were found on his computer, including documents that attested to the organisation's ties with illegal Hamas funds abroad in the UK and Saudi Arabia, and in Nablus.
Photographs of swastikas superimposed on Israel Defence Forces (IDF) symbols, senior Nazi German officials, Osama Bin Laden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as well as of Hamas military activities were also found during investigations, the statement said.
Ali was released yesterday with restrictions on his movements and will be deported from Israel in the coming days with a bar on his return, the release said citing an agreement.
I wonder if he is friends with the guy who issued the death threat to lgf.
Who or what is "lgf" ?
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