10 women who’ve funded jihad
The wife of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Umaymah Hasan Ahmed Muhammed Hasan, once declared that Muslim women “should fulfill whatever they [the mujahideen] ask of us, may it be through monetary...
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During Operation Protective Edge, Israel Defense Forces seized kalashnikovs, electroshock weapons, uzis, and RPG’s among other goodies smuggled through tunnels by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad…...
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Counter-terror attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner says that a jury trial will begin in January for the Sokolow v. Palestinian Liberation Organization. The case is notable in that it takes on the...
View ArticleTaliban arms dealer released from Guantanamo
Mohammed Zahir Taliban weapons trafficker and drug smuggler Mohammed Zahir has been released from his Guantanamo jail cell back to freedom in Afghanistan by the Obama administration. Described by the...
View Article$1 million in Afghan smuggling a day
A hundred million Pakistani rupees (roughly 1 million USD) worth of merchandise is smuggled out of Afghanistan through the Afghan Trade Transit (ATT) corridor with Pakistan every day according to...
View ArticleOutfoxing jihadi financiers: news reading tips
American banks have begun breaking off their old love affair with Arab banks… more>> A Democrat congressman recently planned to speak at an event with a Taliban fundraiser… more>> Too...
View ArticleTerror financier deported
This individual supported Qoqaz.net, a flagship jihadi website of the early 2000s (see here and here). He also supported Azzam Publications, a website which instructed readers how to send money to the...
View Article10 biggest terror finance news stories of 2015
Funding of Paris attacks The November 2015 attackers paid for $32,000 worth of pre-attack operations including hotel lodging and car rentals through anonymous prepaid cards purchased in Belgium....
View Article5 terror finance predictions for 2016
TrendMicro says “2016 will be the year of online extortion.” Rather than simply holding data for ransom, hackers will threaten to divulge personal information about users if a ransom isn’t paid....
View ArticleTaliban sends tax bills to big telecom
The Taliban has demanded that four telecommunications companies operating in Afghanistan pay them a 10 percent. This news from Agence France Presse suggests the Taliban is expanding the scope of their...
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