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Home Front: WoT
Charities warned of terrorism links
2006-09-30
Risks facing charitable organizations not only include contributions being diverted to bankroll terror activities but also the use of charities' services to build grass-roots support for a terrorist organization, the Treasury Department said Friday. The Bush administration examines these possibilities when it considers whether or not a charity should be put on a US list that requires banks to freeze its assets and forbids Americans from doing business with it.

Charities should be on the lookout for such risks as well, the department suggested as it released updated best practices for charitable organizations to consider as they try to protect themselves from abuse from terrorist financiers. The best practices are voluntary. "The risk of terrorist abuse facing charitable organizations is ongoing and significant and cannot be measured from the important but relatively narrow perspective of terrorist diversion of charitable funds," the department said. "Rather, terrorist abuse also includes the exploitation of charitable services and activities to radicalize vulnerable populations and cultivate support for terrorist organizations and activities."

As cases in point, the department, citing media reports, mentioned the role of Hamas-associated charities in building popular support in the Palestinian territories for the Hamas terror organization, and Hizbullah's control of charitable distribution networks in southern Lebanon. The department also mentioned "exploitation" involving the Pakistani-based charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which is believed to be a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic militant group. The department did not elaborate. There have been media reports, however, that money raised for victims of last year's earthquake in South Asia was channeled through the charity to schemers of a foiled plot to blow up US-bound passenger planes.

The United States since the 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington has designated 43 charities worldwide and 29 people associated with them for providing support to terrorists, the department said.
Posted by:Fred

#6  All Islamic charities in America should have their assets frozen and be gone over with a fine tooth comb. There also must be an immediate crackdown on the halawa network. Legitimate donations need to be distributed under the direct oversight of answerable third-party organizations. Dontations turning up in terrorist hands should result in a six to twelve month moratorium on the receipt of further aid in that region.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-30 19:27  

#5  This graphic might be appropriate:
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2006-09-30 19:05  

#4  These "Charities for Children" are nothing more than a war funding facade for the Muzzie armies. Never been anything but. Stop them now, so that their transferral of funds becomes more dificult. And, for further progress, when is it going to be lawful to start massive mosk destruction ?
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-09-30 11:42  

#3  I am all for tossing the processes and prossessors out on their collective asses and get after it.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-09-30 02:23  

#2  Sigh. We wouldn't have to spend so much time and shoe leather checking out Islamic charities if we just threw all of the Muzzies out. Eventually, this is precisely what we'll do, too, though it will happen in fits and starts, a silly and painfully drawn out series of intermediate steps... Right up until we have lost enough people and treasure and face a threat to our survival so obvious that even a Kennedy on Ambien and Jack Daniels can see it to finally go medieval. Indeed, the time will come to muck out the stables - beginning with our own.

The primary drawback to being logical and all that is that we're addicted to process. The only accelerant is when we collectively accept tipping points.
Posted by: .com   2006-09-30 00:49  

#1  It's not like a charity from Pakistan funded A terrorist organization.



Posted by: Crescent Society   2006-09-30 00:29  

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