The Middle East Forum has discovered that the Obama administration approved a grant of $200,000 of taxpayer money to an al-Qaeda affiliate in Sudan — a decade after the U.S. Treasury designated it as a terrorist-financing organization. More stunningly, government officials specifically authorized the release of at least $115,000 of this grant even after learning that it was a designated terror organization.
The story began in October 2004, when the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the Khartoum-based Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), also known as the Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA), as a terror-financing organization. It did so because of ISRA’s links to Osama bin Laden and his organization Maktab al-Khidamat (MK), the precursor of al-Qaeda.
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The US meddles so that it funds all sides!
ReplyDeleteIn Syria the US wanted to openly back al Qaeda, then wanted to rebrand al Qaeda... Israel and the US certainly appeared to have intentionally aided al Qaeda/ISIS in Syria, but doing so openly is very different.
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The US meddles so that it funds all sides!
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