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The "Benevolence International Foundation" to which Timimi & upstate NY's "Help the Needy" charity is associated was based in the Chicago area:

Two Chicago-area charities - the Global Relief Foundation and the Benevolence International Foundation - received checks totaling $42,000 from Help the Needy [my note : see al Timimi's upstate NY oncologist friend]. Global Relief returned the favor, contributing $18,000 to Help the Needy. The Treasury Department subsequently seized the assets of both Chicago foundations, which were designated "global terrorist-support organizations" that finance Al Qaeda. The charities were outlawed last year [2002]. ----- Upstate charity tied to illegal Iraqi cash: Feds say N.Y. group laundered millions New York Daily News ^ | April 6, 2003 | DOUGLAS FEIDEN

As one traces [Beltway shooter] John Muhammad's life from his conversion to Islam in 1985, to his joining of the moderately militant Nation of Islam, to his deadly shooting spree in October 2002, his steady radicalization becomes readily apparent. Terrorist profiling dictates that his departure from the Nation of Islam in 1999 would have been followed by his affiliation with an organization more actively militant. It also suggests that initial news reports citing U.S. officials who said there was no evidence of any connection between Muhammad and identified terrorist organizations may have been premature.
Based upon Mr. Muhammad's statements sympathizing with the 9/11 hijackers, it appears significant to note that he acquired the 1990 Chevy Caprice that he would modify into his killing platform on the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Nor does it seem random chance that his spree started on Oct. 2, the anniversary of the conviction of World Trade Center bombing ringleader Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman in 1995. ------Special Report: Protect Home Base First : Examine Gunman's Possible Ties to AL FUQRA (Sniper Muhammad)
SFFT.org ^ DefenseWatch "The Voice of the Grunt" | October 30th, 2002 | Christian M. Weber