Obama’s 10 biggest terror finance blunders
Promising to make it easier for Muslims to give zakat. Pres. Obama has tried to remove the so-called “chilling effect” that George W. Bush, the Patriot Act, the Treasury Department, and law...
View ArticleThe fat cats of terror
Overlooked this one! BusinessPundit.com ran an interesting piece last year entitled, “10 Richest Terrorists Ever.” Notable entries include Dawood Ibrahim in second place: “India’s most wanted man and...
View ArticleU.S. names multi-million dollar Taliban hawaladar
In RadicalIslam.org’s interview with Money Jihad, we discussed how poorly the U.S. has handled the scourge of hawala, the traditional Islamic method of transferring money. The Bush administration...
View ArticleMuslim “ghost charities” give $200m to Taliban
Arab states and the Gulf Cooperation Council are behind multi-million dollar zakat donations through Islamic shell charities to fund jihad in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to an Afghan analyst....
View ArticleAfghan mining deal could fund terror
Taliban may tax supply routes A business deal for copper mining rights at Aynak in Afghanistan by a Chinese consortium poses the risk of inadvertently funding local conflict and increasing the...
View ArticleTen biggest terror finance news stories of 2012
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....
View ArticleHow king of hawala funds Taliban’s terror
Haji Khairullah links heroin kingpins, jihadists, and hawala dealers in an “iron triangle” of terrorist financing according to U.S. and Afghan investigators quoted in a recent Reuters article....
View ArticleFlorida imam raised $50K to fund Taliban
Izhar Khan (left) and Hafiz Khan (right) Prosecutors have the bank records and wiretaps to prove it. Recorded statements of imam Hafiz Khan, the leading figure in the conspiracy to finance the...
View ArticleFunding of terrorist groups compared
In a paper describing misconceptions about terrorist financing, W. A. Tupman of the University of Exeter includes a helpful typology of a variety of terrorist groups and how they are generally funded....
View ArticlePakistani money funds terrorist bonuses
Improvised explosive attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan earn the jihadists between $100 to $1,000 apiece, money which originates from Pakistan’s ISI service and other sources,...
View ArticleTaliban doles out Rs 150 million in funding
Freelance journalist Syed Shoaib Hasan reports that the Muraqaba shura, a council of regional Taliban and Al Qaeda faction leaders, routinely distributes millions of rupees to affiliated terrorist...
View ArticleTerror financing imam claims to be potato chip investor
We’ve heard many far-fetched defenses in terrorist financing cases—mostly false claims of charity for the poor—but this one takes the cake. Or, more precisely, the potato chip. How will South Florida...
View ArticleHafiz Khan convicted for funding the Taliban
Two imams in the U.S. have been convicted of terrorist financing within the span of two weeks. First there was Imam Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud in San Diego who conspired with fellow Somali immigrants in...
View ArticleEx-banker: Taliban funded by sharia finance
Muhammad Aamir, a retired Pakistani banker, admits that, “It is true that Taliban militants receive financial support through the Islamic banking system, but there is no proof because these illegal...
View ArticleThe Taliban’s jihad tax
Traditional terror finance analysis has regarded “revolutionary taxation” imposed on businesses and capitalists as a tactic of urban guerrillas such as Basque separatists, and demands for protection...
View ArticleTerror budgets illustrated
The Taliban, Hezbollah, FARC, al-Shabaab, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Hamas are the best funded terrorist groups worldwide. Published estimates of their budgets vary by source. The dots in the graph below...
View ArticleBusinessmen receive demands for ‘money for jihad’ from Pakistani Taliban
Osama bin Laden once said, “Your duty is to support the Mujahideen with money and men. I have experienced Jihad myself and I know how costly it can be. The Zakat (tithe) of one affluent Muslim merchant...
View ArticleContract mismanagement still benefits Taliban
It is only partly an Army failure. It is, more centrally, a strategic and political failure. It’s a strategic failure of counter-insurgency doctrine that says we can peel away enough “moderate” Taliban...
View ArticleTerm of the week: Afghan Trade Transit
In their 2010 book, Cassara and Jorisch defined the Afghan Trade Transit (ATT) as: A regional agreement between landlocked Afghanistan and its neighbors that allows goods to be imported into the...
View ArticleTaliban nets 650 million rupees from ransoms
In the last 18 months, the Taliban has received at least Rs 650 million (over 6 million USD), in ransoms for kidnapping businessmen in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The International News...
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