Canadian Charity under investigation:
The following article is excerpted from the National Post, a Canadian news source discussed in a previous post on the use of charities as cover for funding terror:
U.S. authorities tie terror suspect to Alberta charity
Claim by prosecutors: Canadian Islamic Association described as a cover
Stewart Bell
National Post Thursday, March 31, 2005 subscription req'd for URL access
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=b37e7591-3bd4-474e-b611-7dc65ae00a42
An Alberta businessman charged with fundraising and recruiting for terrorism around the world used a government-registered Canadian charity to conceal his activities, U.S. authorities allege.
Prosecutors claim in an indictment that in conversations secretly monitored by investigators, Kassem Daher described his Alberta-based charity, the Canadian Islamic Association, as a "cover."
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U.S. authorities have implicated the association in an alleged terrorist support network that, throughout the1990s, raised money to send recruits to fight with Muslim extremist factions.
The association is the latest Canadian charity tied to terrorism. Ahmed Khadr used Canadian humanitarian groups as fronts for his activities, which included financing al-Qaeda training camps.
The Babbar Khalsa, the Kamloops, B.C., organization tied by prosecutors to the Air-India bombing, was also a registered charity until 1996. A former director of the charity, Ajaib Singh Bagri, was found not guilty in the bombing on March 16.
Canada outlawed fundraising for terrorism in December, 2001, but federal investigators detected $70-million in suspected terrorist financing last year. So far no charges have been laid.
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The Canadian Security Intelligence Service believes he is involved in Islamic extremism and is linked to, among others, Mahmoud Jaballah, a member of the Egyptian Al Jihad caught in Toronto.
This week, U.S. authorities released an indictment that alleged Mr. Daher was part of a North American network that supported jihadist violence. Prosecutors allege he told his associates he was publishing a booklet titled, Terrorism Is a Duty and Force is an Obligation.
"As long as there is slaughtering, we're with them," he is alleged to have said in a 1995 conversation monitored by investigators. "If there's no slaughtering, there's none ... that's it, buzz off."
Cheques made out to the association and sent to Canada were part of a conspiracy to advance violent jihad and spread hardline Islamic law by supporting armed conflict, prosecutors allege. The cheques were labelled "for tourism," which authorities said was a code.
The other alleged members of the support group were Kifah Wael Jayyousi, a former Detroit school official, and Adham Amin Hassoun of Sunrise, Fla.
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© National Post 2005
U.S. authorities tie terror suspect to Alberta charity
Claim by prosecutors: Canadian Islamic Association described as a cover
Stewart Bell
National Post Thursday, March 31, 2005 subscription req'd for URL access
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=b37e7591-3bd4-474e-b611-7dc65ae00a42
An Alberta businessman charged with fundraising and recruiting for terrorism around the world used a government-registered Canadian charity to conceal his activities, U.S. authorities allege.
Prosecutors claim in an indictment that in conversations secretly monitored by investigators, Kassem Daher described his Alberta-based charity, the Canadian Islamic Association, as a "cover."
...
U.S. authorities have implicated the association in an alleged terrorist support network that, throughout the1990s, raised money to send recruits to fight with Muslim extremist factions.
The association is the latest Canadian charity tied to terrorism. Ahmed Khadr used Canadian humanitarian groups as fronts for his activities, which included financing al-Qaeda training camps.
The Babbar Khalsa, the Kamloops, B.C., organization tied by prosecutors to the Air-India bombing, was also a registered charity until 1996. A former director of the charity, Ajaib Singh Bagri, was found not guilty in the bombing on March 16.
Canada outlawed fundraising for terrorism in December, 2001, but federal investigators detected $70-million in suspected terrorist financing last year. So far no charges have been laid.
...
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service believes he is involved in Islamic extremism and is linked to, among others, Mahmoud Jaballah, a member of the Egyptian Al Jihad caught in Toronto.
This week, U.S. authorities released an indictment that alleged Mr. Daher was part of a North American network that supported jihadist violence. Prosecutors allege he told his associates he was publishing a booklet titled, Terrorism Is a Duty and Force is an Obligation.
"As long as there is slaughtering, we're with them," he is alleged to have said in a 1995 conversation monitored by investigators. "If there's no slaughtering, there's none ... that's it, buzz off."
Cheques made out to the association and sent to Canada were part of a conspiracy to advance violent jihad and spread hardline Islamic law by supporting armed conflict, prosecutors allege. The cheques were labelled "for tourism," which authorities said was a code.
The other alleged members of the support group were Kifah Wael Jayyousi, a former Detroit school official, and Adham Amin Hassoun of Sunrise, Fla.
...
© National Post 2005
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