The Money Jihad blog has posted an article titled “Ten biggest
terror finance news stories of 2012″, some of which was based on GMBDR
reporting. The
post begins:
1. Taliban funding remains intact despite international sanctions
Reports in 2012 revealed that the Taliban’s funding remains intact,
that none of the Taliban’s assets have been blocked by U.S. sanctions,
that the Taliban retains its taxing authority over Afghans, and that the
UN sanctions only 18 percent of the Taliban’s provincial shadow
governors in Afghanistan
2. Islamic charities remain top terror financiers
It’s questionable to even call this ‘news,’ but understanding the
role of Muslim charities in funding jihad, of which we saw multiple
examples throughout 2012, is the Rosetta stone to bankrupting terrorism.
Instances of Muslim charities behaving badly cropped up, and in some
cases have worsened, in both in the Middle East and in the West this
year.In the Islamic world, the Saudi charitable foundation IIRO, whose
branches in Indonesia and the Philippines were previously blacklisted by
the U.S. for funding terrorism, is opening seven new branch offices. In
Bangladesh, the chief of the terrorist organization Jamatul Mujahideen
Bangladesh (JMB) revealed that Muslim Aid, WAMY, the Muslim World
League, the Qatari Charitable Society, and the Revival of Islamic
Heritage Society, are among the primary donors to his jihad. In
Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba’s charitable front group used Ramadan this
year as an opportunity to raise funds in public for its terrorist
enterprises. We have also learned that Muslim Lebanese charities don’t
just fund Hezbollah, but Hamas too.
Read the rest here.
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