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Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network

"About [Al-Qaida's] operations in Europe, Evan F. Kohlmann has written an illuminating book... Kohlmann is at his best in exhaustively reporting the details of such terrorist episodes. He has compiled prodigious research about the perpetrators and their support networks. Moreover, he never loses sight of the strategy behind the individual attacks... [a] genuine historical analysis."
- Political Science Quarterly (PSQ)

"This book is a pathbreaking piece of research… Kohlmann addresses the issue in unprecedented detail, exploiting a wide variety of available sources to piece together a largely neglected segment of contemporary Bosnian history… [which] provide critical insights into terrorist preferences, motives, and interests… The book… is descriptive and empirically rich."
- Studies in Conflict and Terrorism

"Written by a genuine expert in the subject... this is a lucid and informed account of the involvement of the mujahedin in Bosnia, one that lays the myths to rest... This excellent book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the truth about an episode of the Bosnian war that is so frequently misrepresented by those with a political motive for doing so."
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Dr. Marko Hoare, History Faculty, University of Cambridge

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Globalterroralert.com Archive
(April 2004 - November 2007)

Terror Financing
7/30/04

U.S. Activist Pleads Guilty in Botched Libyan Assassination Scheme
Abdurahman Alamoudi, a U.S.-based Muslim activist who was once a welcome guest at the White House, has pled guilty to charges that he illegally accepted thousands of dollars in payments from Libyan intelligence and its aging leader Moammar Qaddafi. Alamoudi admitted that some of the funds delivered to him were intended to underwrite the costs of an abortive mid-2003 attempt to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah by Islamic militants.

7/30/04

Assassination Plot Conspirator Financed Al-Qaida Supporters in U.S.
Tax records show that in 1999, Abdurahman Alamoudi's group known as "the American Muslim Foundation (AMF)" gave a $2,000 donation to Northern Virginia resident Tarik Hamdi for unspecified purposes. Less than a year earlier, Hamdi had provided material support directly to Usama Bin Laden and Al-Qaida, and had served as a press intermediary for U.S. journalists interested in interviewing Bin Laden at a secret location inside Afghanistan.

9/10/04

Al-Haramain Foundation In U.S. Designated As Terror Front
The American office of the Saudi Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation has been named by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury Department as a terrorist front group with "direct links between the U.S. branch and Usama bin Laden." Previously, Al-Haramain's director in Saudi Arabia, Shaykh Aqeel al-Aqeel, was also designated by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as an Al-Qaida supporter and financial conduit.

- Click to view Treasury Statement
- Click to view IRS-CI Affidavit

10/28/04 Saudi Islamic Charity WAMY Funds Ansar al-Islam Supporters in Iraq
U.S. intelligence sources have indicated that Iraqi insurgent groups are being partly financed by large donations from Saudi-run Islamic charitable groups. An undated photo shows Ali Bapir, an Iraqi supporter of Ansar al-Islam detained by U.S. authorities, hosting an event in Iraq sponsored by the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
11/2/04

Missouri Charity Implicated in Funding International Terrorism
After years of investigation, U.S. government agencies have taken punitive action against the Columbia, Missouri-based Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA) for purported links to the Taliban, Al-Qaida, and Usama Bin Laden. An exclusive dossier shows that at least $250,000 IARA raised for "charity" in 1999 actually ended up in the coffers of an Al-Qaida front group that provided weapons and travel documents to the Millenium terror network.

1/20/05 Terrorist-Linked Charities Active in Central Iraq
Several purported foreign Islamic "charities" now active in insurgent-held areas of central Iraq have long histories of aiding armed Islamic extremist groups around the world, including Al-Qaida and other designated terrorists. In this exclusive profile, Globalterroralert.com reveals how two such suspect charities with past terrorist ties--the Egyptian Human Relief Agency (EHRA) and the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights, Liberties, and Humanitarian Relief (IHH)--are responsible for funneling over $1 million in supposed "humanitarian aid" to the Sunni Triangle in the last eighteen months alone.
2/15/05

More Contradictions from Missouri Terror Charity
Attorneys on behalf of the Columbia, Missouri-based Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA-USA) have released a new statement accusing the Associated Press of publishing a "misleading" report and insisting that IARA-USA is "separate and completely unrelated" to the Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA) in Khartoum, Sudan--named on Oct. 13, 2004 by the U.S. Treasury Department as a specially designated global terrorist entity. An exclusive Globalterroralert.com report is now available for download challenging the allegations of IARA-USA's lawyer Shereef Akeel and illustrating the documented connection between IARA in Missouri and Khartoum.

2/18/05

Oregon Terror Charity Indicted for Alleged Fraud
A federal grand jury in Eugene, Oregon has returned a three-count indictment against the local branch of the Saudi Arabian Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation and two of its officers on charges of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government. If convicted, the two men could face between eight to ten years in prison and the forfeiture of $130,000 in corporate assets held by the U.S. branch of Al-Haramain. On Sept. 9, 2004, the U.S. Treasury Department named the Oregon branch of Al-Haramain as a specially-designated Al-Qaida terrorist front group and ordered its assets frozen.

4/13/05 Banks as Targets of International Terrorism
A new audio excerpt is available for download from Globalterroralert.com of Shaykh Abdullah el-Faisal (an Islamic cleric and supporter of Usama Bin Laden convicted in the United Kingdom of inciting his followers to kill Jews) speaking on the subject of "Jihad: Aims and Objectives." During the audio clip (recorded shortly prior to 9/11), Faisal suggests that pious Muslims living in poverty in Western nations should "wage jihad"--including specifically targeting banks in Switzerland--in order to gain wealth and "booty."
 

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