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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2004/01/000718print.html "US wants major Islamic charity group to be branded terrorist"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Several Islamic charities in the U.S. have already been closed for terrorist links. Charities collect obligatory zakat donations from Muslims, which are then distributed to radical groups -- apparently unbeknownst to many of the donors. Now the Saudis, anxious to improve their anti-terror credentials, have joined the U.S. to go after another. This from the Hindustan Times, with thanks to Jean-Luc.
The United States and Saudi Arabia have jointly appealed the United Nations to declare a major charity group, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation's branches in Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania and Indonesia as terrorist organisations.
US Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, top State Deprtment officials including Counterterrorism Coordinator Cofer Black, and Adel Jubeir, Chief Foreign Policy Adviser to Crown Prince Abdullah held a joint press conference yesterday at the US Treasury to make the appeal to UN.
US Officials said these four countries have resisted action, though it has been tarred as terrorist in both in the US and Saudi Arabia for some time, "in part out of fear of appearing to do the bidding of the United States."'
"We are working closely with our Saudi friends. I have personally seen great improvement in the cooperation," Black said.
Al-Haramain figured prominently in the indictment earlier this month of Sami Omar Hussayen, a University of Idaho doctoral student in computer science, on charges of conspiracy to promote material support to terrorists. It raises millions of dollars for its charities every year. The charge is that though it has genuine charities, Al-Haaramain also funds terrorism."
Posted on 01/25/2004 4:28:12 PM PST by Cindy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1081854/posts "Saudi America"
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 2/20/04 | Joel Mowbray
Posted on 02/20/2004 2:03:17 AM PST by kattracks
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Still at large, though, is Saudi national Abdullah Aljughaiman, who was a lecturer at UI and received his religious training King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Investigators have been unable even to speak with him, however, because he is most likely in Saudi Arabia, where he’s off-limits to U.S. authorities.
At the center of the probe is Sami Omar al-Hussayen, a graduate student and computer whiz at UI who was also seen as a leader in the local Muslim community. The Saudi national, who goes to trial this spring, is charged with visa fraud, making false statements, and providing material support of terrorism.
The terrorism charge does not seem to have adversely affected al-Hussayen’s popularity in the local Muslim community. Several Muslims in the Pullman-Moscow area contacted by phone spoke favorably of the alleged abettor of terrorism. One who had attended the preliminary hearings opined, “The evidence against him doesn’t seem that strong.”
In addition to allegedly designing web sites for two radical sheikhs with direct contact with Osama bin Laden, al-Hussayen is charged with handling financial and administrative functions for supposed charities that allegedly supported terrorism.
The most chilling part of the indictment, though, is a section describing an e-mail list managed and edited solely by al-Hussayen, in which an appeal was made for information from Muslims in the U.S. armed forces that would help in a terrorist attack on American military personnel:"
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