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| "Hundreds of millions" of dollars sent to extremists |
| 2001-10-05 |
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council, a non-profit religious organization, said during a 1999 State Department forum that hundreds of millions of dollars have been sent by nonprofit organizations in the United States to extremist parties in the Middle East, Afghanistan and the Caucasus. "They send it under humanitarian aid, but it doesn't go to humanitarian aid," he said. "They say that it is to help the people of this country or that country, and they show on television and on their fliers that they are delivering it to help homeless people or poor people. Yes, some of it will go to homeless people and poor people but the majority, 90 per cent of it, will go into the black markets in these countries and buying weapon arsenals." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |