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| Al-Qaeda "charity" front collected $1.4m from UN |
| 2001-10-24 |
So where does Osama get his money? Well, how about the United Nations? The BBC reports that a bin Laden front group called Muwafaq--Arabic for "blessed relief"--was part of a consortium of "charities" that collected a cool $1.4 million from the Nobel Peace Prize-winning international organization in 1997. Muwafaq's founder, Yasin al-Qadi, is on a list of alleged terrorist supporters whose assets the U.S. Treasury blocked in the wake of Sept. 11. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |