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Who Is White House Visitor Hisham Altalib?

2012-09-28

On Friday, March 30, 2012, Hisham Y. Altalib visited the White House. According to visitor logs, Altalib was received by Joshua DuBois, the director of President Obama's Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Four days later, White House officials welcomed a foreign delegation of the radical Sharia-enforcing Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt. The White House meeting with overseas Muslim Brotherhood leaders was reported in April by a few mainstream journalists and questioned loudly by conservative media. But the White House confab in March with U.S.-based Altalib -- which appears to be a prep session with the global Muslim Brotherhood's American advance team -- has received no attention until now. So, who is Hisham Yahya Altalib? What is his agenda? And why exactly did the Obama administration conduct domestic "faith-based" outreach in Virginia with this Muslim Brotherhood figure who just happens to be 1) tied to bloody jihad and 2) a major contributor to the left-wing Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the group of jihadi-sympathizing lawyers who helped spring suspected Benghazi terror plotter Abu Sufian bin Qumu from Gitmo? Altalib is an Iraqi-born Muslim identified by the FBI as a Muslim Brotherhood operative before he moved to America in the 1970s to earn an advanced electrical-engineering degree from Purdue University in Indiana. By his own account, Altalib "soon became active in Islamic work in North America, which continues to this day." He was the "first full-time director of the Leadership Training Department of the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada (MSA)" -- a longtime Muslim Brotherhood front group whose explicit goal is to "conquer" America through Islamic propagandizing. Altalib is also a founding member of the SAAR Foundation and the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). Last year, his online biography proudly notes, he was "awarded the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) Community Service Award." The Saudi-subsidized ISNA is regarded as the primary U.S. umbrella group for Muslim Brotherhood fronts and was named specifically by the global MB godfathers as a key player in their "Grand Jihad" strategy of infiltration from within. SAAR was founded in Herndon, Va., in 1983 as part of a radical Islamic charity front, called the SAFA Group, for Saudi financiers. The feds raided SAAR's offices in 2002 as part of Operation Green Quest. Investigators confiscated 500 boxes and seven trucks' worth of documents illuminating the network's terror ties to the Al Taqwa Bank (a Swiss-based Muslim bank suspected of funding the 9/11 plot) and the Muslim Brotherhood. Altalib worked for one of Al Taqwa Bank's main owners, Youssef Nada. Altalib's more prominent Muslim Brotherhood partner, Jamal Barzinji (one of the champions of the Ground Zero mosque), also worked for Nada. FBI and Customs officials believe SAAR/SAFA laundered money for a plethora of violent Muslim terrorist groups, from Hamas and Hezbollah to al-Qaida and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Along with several other leaders of the "Ikhwan" (brothers), Altalib and Barzinji established the International Institute of Islamic Thought in Herndon, Va., in 1985. Global Muslim Brotherhood thug Yusuf al-Qaradawi -- the fire-breathing, fatwa-issuing Jew-hater and violent-jihad proselytizer -- inspired IIIT's mission: the "Islamization of social sciences." According to Steven Merley of the Hudson Institute's Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World, IIIT has 14 affiliated offices across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, who put 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Omar Abdel Rahman behind bars, notes that IIIT was a demonstrated unindicted co-conspirator in the feds' Holy Land Foundation terror financing case. IIIT supported convicted terror aides Sami Al-Arian and Abdel Rahman Alamoudi. Altalib, Barzinji, and IIIT were also all listed in funding statements from the Center for Constitutional Rights as major donors giving in the $25,00-to-$49,000 range. CCR is the umbrella group that provides more than 500 pro bono lawyers to Gitmo detainees. They have regularly dismissed national-security concerns about Gitmo recidivism as "irresponsible ... scare stories." That's exactly what they did after one of CCR's clients, Libyan terror leader Abu Sufian bin Qumu, was sprung in 2007. Fast-forward five short years. Qumu is now the lead suspect in the 9/11/12 attack on our U.S. consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the murders of U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens, consular official Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs/private security contractors Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods. In the wake of this month's terrorist attacks on our Egyptian embassy, Libyan consulate, and Afghan air base, the jihad helpers at CCR are stone silent. This administration's idea of domestic "faith-based outreach" is tea with Muslim Brotherhood community organizers who have embedded themselves in American life for four decades with the express intent of "eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within." Meanwhile, our commander in chief is squawking to the world about YouTube videos. The Ikhwan are laughing their bloodstained robes off.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel blackballs 163 foreign NGOs for terrorism support

2011-01-12

The Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority has located 163 organizations contaminated with funds related to terrorism over the past three years, and issued specific orders prohibiting receiving money from them, Defense Ministry data shows. Preventing terrorism funds from infiltrating Israel is one of the authority's stated goals, no matter for what purpose the funds are being transferred. The organization's investigators are in contact with similar international organizations in the UN and the United States, and their list totals 352 organizations. Bans issued by the authority are signed by either the defense minister or the security cabinet. For instance, the authority banned Israeli organizations from receiving money from Interpal, a British charity which says its aim is to provide Palestinians with humanitarian aid and meet their basic needs. The organization has a turnover of 5 million pounds a year. After a number of investigations on suspicion of serving as a channel for funding for Hamas, Interpal was blacklisted in Israel and is no longer allowed to hold activities in the country or transfer funds to Israel, and activists belonging to the organization will be arrested if they arrive here. The Charity Commission for England and Wales found Israel provided no proof that Interpal was connected to terrorism, but ordered the charity to break contact with a number of other organizations. How contradictory. Other blacklisted groups include the Islamic National Bank, which has opened in Gaza; the Palestinian Relief Society in Switzerland; Pakistani humanitarian organization Wafa; Pakistani trust fund Rabbit, which is believed to be associated with Al-Qaida; the Afghan Support Committee; a British-based company set up by five Libyan businessmen and suspected of organizing terrorism in Libya; the Al Taqwa Bank, based in the Bahamas with branches in Europe and suspected connections to the Muslim Brotherhood; and Qatar Charity, which has signed a multimillion sponsorship deal with the Barcelona soccer club. The Turkish organization IHH was banned after the flotilla raid in May.

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Europe

Swiss man suspected by the US of financing al-Qaida dies

2008-05-27

A Swiss journalist suspected by the United States of al-Qaida links has died. Albert Huber was one of five members of a now-defunct Muslim firm who were listed by the United States in 2001 as people accused of helping fund terrorism. Huber's son said Monday that he died May 15 at the age of 80. He did not give a cause of death. The Swiss investigated Huber and the company he worked for, Al Taqwa Management Organization>Al Taqwa Management Organization, for 3 1/2 years, but dropped the case in 2005 because of a lack of evidence. Washington accused the company of aiding Osama bin Laden's terror network by sending money through Malta and Switzerland to bank branches in the Bahamas.

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Al-Qaeda bankroller Youssef Nada wants damages from Swiss government

2006-06-02

Attorneys for Muslim Brotherhood Banker Youssef Nada, founder and president of the Al Taqwa Bank, have announced their intention to file a new claim against the Swiss government, on Nada’s behalf, for economic losses, defamation and mental distress allegedly caused by the Swiss Government’s three year investigation of Nada’s alleged involvement in financing terrorism. The charges were dropped last May (2005) when the Swiss Prosecutor’s office concluded it had insufficient usable evidence to bring the matter to trial. At the time concerns were expressed over the lack of cooperation and information sharing between relevant intelligence and investigative agencies in the United States and Switzerland, and the difficulty the Swiss Prosecutor's office had in obtaining and turning intelligence into usable evidence. Nada, and Al Taqwa were designated by the UN Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee and by the US Treasury in November 2001 for providing financial support to Al Taqwa. Press reports have speculated that Nada is seeking up to 200 million Swiss Francs as damages, but his attorneys have suggested that these stories are "speculative" and that no claim amount has yet been established. Despite UN and US designation, Nada continues to direct a substantial worldwide business network and has reportedly re-established himself as liquidator of at least some of his holdings maintained through Shell companies in Liechtenstein.

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International-UN-NGOs

UN caves in to al-Qaeda backers

2006-01-23

A little noticed UN press release January 19th announced a decision by the Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee to remove Mohamed Mansour and his wife Zeinab Mansour-Fattouh from its consolidated list of designated al Qaeda members and associates. Mohamed and Zeinab Mansour had originally been designated by the US Treasury Department in November 2001, along with Youssef Nada and Ahmed Idris Nasreddin as key members of the al Taqwa banking network. Their UN designation followed shortly thereafter. According to the Treasury Department, “The al Taqwa group
 long acted as financial advisers to al Qaida, with offices in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy and the Caribbean
.{and} provide(d) investment advice and cash transfer mechanisms for al Qaida and other radical Islamic groups.” (Full US Treasury Designation Fact Sheet here) Mohamed and Zeinab were key shareholders and member’s of Al Taqwa’s board of directors, along with Youssef Nada, Ahmed Idris Nasreddin, Albert Friedrich Armand Huber, and Ali Ghaleb Himmat. There removal from UN designation now comes with no explanation from the UN or the US Treasury Department. There is no indication that the couple have yet been removed from the Treasury (OFAC) designated list. The effect of their removal from the UN list means that their assets can be unfrozen by any jurisdiction and apparently that has already been done in the United Kingdom, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, where they are believed to have held accounts. The other al Taqwa board directors, Nada, Nasreddin, Huber and Himmat remain on the UN Consolidated List. According to UN Guidelines the government of residence or citizenship and/or the government that originally requested the designation can apply to the UN Al Qaeda and Taliban Committee to have the designation removed. Committee consensus is required to grant removal. If consensus cannot be reached the matter may still be referred to the Security Council for resolution. Apparently, the United States concurred in lifting the UN designation on Mohamed and Zeinab Mansour. One must wonder whether and when they might take similar action to remove from the US OFAC list. While the al Taqwa banking network was shut down shortly after 9/11, the US and its international partners have been singularly unsuccessful in putting those who ran al Taqwa out of business (see my series of earlier blogs on this topic. Action was taken to freeze some bank accounts associated with Youssef Nada, Ahmed Nasreddin, and the other al Taqwa board members. But, many of their business assets remain unfrozen. Nada, Nasreddin and the other al Taqwa board members also escaped any criminal prosecution for their involvement in financing al Qaeda and related groups. In fact the Government of Switzerland’s Prosecutors office was ordered to re-imburse Youssef Nada for some of the expenses he entailed due to their criminal investigation against him. The failure to effectively sanction al Taqwa’s management can only send the wrong message when it comes to dissuading other terrorist financiers.

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Terror Networks

Al-Qaeda backer operates in plain sight

2005-07-01

In a rustic stadium in Nigeria, polo players gathered for an annual tournament known as the Nasco Cup. Local officials praised the event's sponsor. “We are so proud of the contributions of Nasco,” said the commissioner of information for Nigeria's plateau state. NBC News has learned that what really distinguishes Nasco is the man behind it, Ahmed Idris Nasreddin. Three years ago, the U.S. and U.N. officially branded him a terrorist financier. In fact, President Bush personally announced freezing the assets of Nasreddin's bank, Al Taqwa. “Al Taqwa is an association of offshore banks and financial management firms that have helped al-Qaida shift money around the world,” Bush said on Nov. 7, 2001. Richard Barrett, a U.N. official who monitors compliance with rules to stop funding for terrorists, says international sanctions against Nasreddin are supposed to be applied worldwide. “What’s supposed to happen to his assets,” Barrett told NBC News, “is that they should be frozen, that he should have no access to them, no benefit from them — wherever they are in the world.” Today, some of Nasreddin's accounts and companies are frozen — such as Nasco Nasreddin Holding in Turkey, Nasreddin Group International Holding Ltd. in Bahamas, Nascotex SA of Tangiers, Morocco and Nascoservice in Milan, Italy — but not Nasco in Nigeria, which makes everything from cornflakes to cookies. Not that Nasco Nigeria is hard to find. It's located on Ahmed Nasreddin Road, named after the alleged terrorist financier. And there are plenty of signs for Nasco cereal and beauty products. Police can even seek shelter in a booth donated by Nasco. NBC News showed what we found to the U.N.'s Richard Barrett. "I didn't know he had cornflakes," Barrett said with a laugh. Barrett says international sanctions sometimes aren't enforced because it's unclear who actually owns and benefits financially from a company. So NBC News followed the Nasco paper trail — and found it was indeed international. Buried in the corporate records department of Nigeria, in Abuja, are records for Nasco Investment & Property Company Ltd. The documents list Nasreddin's son as chairman. But they show two-thirds of the stock is owned by Amana Holdings, based thousands of miles from Africa, in the country of Panama, in Central America. Investigators have not yet designated Amana Holdings as a Nasreddin asset. In Panama, NBC News obtained the corporate records of Amana Holdings. “El presidente,” according to the records, is Ahmed Idris Nasreddin. We showed what we found to the U.N.’s Richard Barrett. Is that enough to shut down Nasreddin's assets? “Well, it may be a jolly good start,” says Barrett. “[It's] enough to suggest that there should be a real investigation of this.” Nasreddin denies ever financing terrorism, and one of his sons says his father no longer owns Nasco Nigeria. He says the shares are in the “custody” of another of Nasreddin’s sons. However, a Nigerian government spokesman tells NBC News that Nasreddin does indeed own Nasco. “He is well known,” said E.E. Imohe, a spokesman for the Nigerian Embassy in Washington. “He is actually the major shareholder in Nasco." Imohe also insisted the U.S. has never even raised any objections, or tried to get Nigeria to take action. “For such a request to be submitted to the Nigerian government,” said Imohe, “it would have to be transmitted though this embassy. The embassy has not received anything. Even if they had directly contacted the Nigerian government, the Nigerian government would have notified the embassy of what it has received and we have received nothing in that regard.” “This isn't a loophole, this is failure to implement the sanctions appropriately,” says Victor Comras, a former terror-finance expert at the State Department. “He's been involved in terrorist financing. Let's put him out of business.” The U.S. Treasury Department would not answer questions about Nasco in Nigeria, nor would it answer questions about whether the U.S. has tried to do anything to get the government of Nigeria to act. In a statement, the Treasury Department said, “There is a robust coalition of international partners working to choke off the flow of money to terrorists. ... 'Freezing' real property is a challenge for many countries given that countries often find it difficult to apply laws and procedures intended for liquid assets to real property.” A year and a half ago, however, the Treasury Department was more willing to discuss Nasreddin. Asked about the efforts against Nasreddin in an interview with NBC News back then, Juan Zarate, then a senior U.S. Treasury official, said: “I think the efforts have been fairly successful.” But back then, in 2003, NBC found another Nasreddin property operating openly — Hotel Nasco in Milan, Italy. Corporate records showed that the hotel, a four star property, belonged to Nasreddin and was operating openly. Officials say it has been difficult for Italy’s government to take action. Today, the Hotel Nasco is still open, and unsuspecting Americans who book a room in Milan may end up in a hotel owned by an alleged terrorist financier.

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Europe

Swiss suspend al-Qaeda probe

2005-06-02

Swiss prosecutors said Wednesday that they had suspended a three-and-a-half-year investigation into a Swiss-based Egyptian businessman, Youssef Nada, who was suspected of having financial ties with Al Qaeda. The Swiss Federal Criminal Court last month ordered the federal prosecutor's office to decide by the end of May to either press charges or suspend the procedure. "We haven't dropped the case; it has been suspended," said a spokesman for the Swiss federal prosecutor's office, Hansjuerg Mark Wiedmer. He added that the case could be reactivated at any time if new evidence emerged. The authorities did not provide details on why the investigation into Al Taqwa Management Organization, which was renamed Nada Management Organization, had been stopped. The United States accused the company of helping fund Osama bin Laden's terror network. The company has been under investigation since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. Company officials repeatedly denied having links to terrorism and accused the Swiss authorities of taking part in a U.S.-led anti-Muslim campaign. The company, which operated on Islamic principles, was based in the southern canton of Ticino until being liquidated in December 2001. Al Taqwa organization was founded in 1988 by Nada and his Syrian-born associate, Ali Himmat. The Swiss authorities blocked the accounts of the company and the personal accounts of board members, and Liechtenstein froze the accounts of an affiliate firm, the fiduciary company Asat Trust. But the prosecutor's office never filed charges or made arrests.

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International-UN-NGOs

Oil for terrorism?

2004-04-30

As evidence of scandal mounts in the U.N. Oil for Food program, there are growing questions as to whether Saddam Hussein may have directed program revenues to terrorist organizations. What is known thus far is that Saddam had a lengthy record of support for terrorism, and that there has been no accounting for billions of dollars in revenues raised during the program’s seven years of operation. In testimony Wednesday before the House International Relations Committee, Claudia Rosett, a journalist and scholar who has carefully studied the program, said that more investigation is needed into how Oil for Food revenues were spent. She is absolutely right. There is certainly ample reason to suspect that at least some of the money may have found its way to terrorist groups. Saddam’s financing of Palestinian suicide bombers is well-known, as is the fact that he harbored a rogue’s gallery of terrorists, including Abu Nidal and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an al Qaeda-linked terrorist believed to be involved in the insurgent campaign to destroy Iraq’s transition to democracy. Documents found in Saddam’s Oil Ministry in Baghdad show that Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization, a longtime ally of Saddam, was profiting from Oil for Food money — funds meant to alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi people under international sanctions. But, as Ms. Rosett indicated in her testimony, this may be just the tip of the iceberg. In June, the Forward, a national Jewish weekly, ran a story detailing the ties between an international banking network that has been linked by the Bush administration to al Qaeda and a Saudi oil firm linked with the deposed Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Among Saddam’s oil customers after 1997 was a Liechenstein-based company called Galp International Trading Establishment. Galp chose as its legal representative in Liechenstein a company called Asat Trust — designated by the United States and the United Nations itself as a financier of al Qaeda through its ties with Al Taqwa — a multinational web of financial entities controlled by members of the Muslim Brotherhood (a parent organization of the terrorist group Hamas). These and other aspects of the burgeoning Oil for Food scandal cry out for a serious investigation. But, unfortunately, the United Nations continues to stonewall. General Accounting Office investigators told the committee on Wednesday that U.N. officials had refused to release information from internal audits. What’s needed now is a campaign to mobilize pressure on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan — whose own performance is very much at issue here — to come clean and release the information. Unfortunately, the behavior of some committee Democrats, among them Reps. Tom Lantos, Howard Berman and Gary Ackerman, who suggested that hearings were part of a misguided effort to discredit the United Nations — may encourage the United Nations to continue its obduracy. That would be a disaster for Mr. Annan and the United Nations.

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Terror Networks

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Network

2003-10-05

Not much here that we don’t already know, but worth a posting. A pair of investigations in the United States and Spain is bringing new attention to the hidden role played by a secretive group called the Muslim Brotherhood in supporting radical terror networks. It first popped up in Egypt more than 75 years ago, dedicated to overthrowing that country’s government and replacing it with a strict Islamic state. Later, the group fell off the radar screens of Western intelligence agencies. But the Brotherhood has hardly disappeared. In fact, recent investigations and newly obtained court documents suggest that the Brotherhood is very much alive and active—and that its members have played important roles in the financing and support of terror groups that include both Al Qaeda and Hamas. They're the ideological and financial glue holding the whole mess together. They also seem to cross Sunni-Shiite lines... The Brotherhood “is the mother of all Islamic movements,” says Mamoun Fandy, a widely respected Arab scholar who recently gave lengthy testimony about the organization to the national commission investigating the September 11 terror attacks. But U.S. officials have little understanding of how the Brotherhood operates—and how widespread its influence is among radical Islamic groups, Fandy adds. “They [U.S. law enforcement agencies] just see a piece here and a piece there. They don’t have a clue.” "Mahmoud, speaking for Boskone..." Some of the most striking new evidence about the Brotherhood’s octopuslike connections have surfaced only in the past few days as part of the case against Solomon Biheiri, an Egyptian-born businessman who has been arrested by federal agents investigating a murky web of Islamic charities based in Herndon and Fall Church, Va., that are allegedly linked to terrorism and money laundering. Biheiri has been detained on immigration charges; no terrorism charges have been filed against him and his lawyer has denied any connection to terrorism. But to make their case that Biheiri should be detained pending trial, federal prosecutors last week portrayed Biheiri as the U.S. banker of the Muslim Brotherhood, linked him to a leading Muslim Brotherhood cleric in the Middle East and described apparent connections to Al Taqwa, a Swiss-based financial network whose assets have been frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department and which investigators believe functions as the central bank for the Muslim Brotherhood. Bingo. It's there. All you have to do is dig for it... At the same time, a Spanish investigation into Al Qaeda operations in that country has run up against a parallel, and possibly overlapping, network of Muslim Brotherhood members. One alleged player—a jailed Syrian-born Al-Jazeera correspondent named Taysir Alouni—is identified in a Spanish police report obtained by NEWSWEEK as “a person strongly connected to the Muslim Brotherhood,” and some of his associates are strongly suspected Brotherhood members, as well. (Alouni’s editor says he is innocent of all charges.) Binny used to say he was, too, when he was alive and well... According to Fandy and others, the Brotherhood is the precursor to Al Qaeda and many other now-active Islamic terror groups. Founded in the Egyptian coastal city of Ismaeliya in 1928, the group was committed to purging that country of all Western influences, including any traces of democracy or liberal values that would undermine the goal of a global Islamic theocracy. Evicted from Egypt by that country’s President, Abdul Gamal Nasser, Muslim Brotherhood members migrated to Saudi Arabia where, according to Fandy, they gained major influences in the country’s educational institutions and were responsible for radicalizing Saudi students. A prime example of the Brotherhood’s continued influence, says Fandy, can be seen through the activities of Sheik Yousef Al Qaradawi, a highly visible Egyptian cleric who, from his current base in Qatar, makes regular appearances on the talk of shows of Al-Jazeera. They're also spread throughout North Africa, and at least as far east as Pakistan — Hek's a member, and so's Qazi... But court documents in the Biheiri case paint a very different picture of Qaradawi. They identify him as a “high-ranking” member of the Muslim Brotherhood who has been banned by the State Department from entering the United States and who has issued fatwas (religious rulings) legitimizing the use of suicide bombings by Hamas and attacks on U.S. military forces in Iraq. “Those killed fighting the American forces are martyrs given their good intentions,” Qaradawi was quoted as telling a Middle East newspaper earlier this year about the war in Iraq, according to a court affidavit released last week by a U.S. Customs agent who described Biheiri’s connections with Qaradawi. In his affidavit, Kane said that Biheiri—who has been jailed on immigration charges—maintained a listing for Qaradawi in the contacts folder of his laptop. The affidavit also identified Qaradawi as one of the largest shareholders and a board member of Al Taqwa, the Swiss- and Bahamian-based financial network. With, no doubt, a hefty paycheck attached... Several Al Taqwa (Fear of God) principals, including the network’s founder, Youssef Nada, and one of its directors, a Swiss-born Muslim convert named Armand Huber, have been slapped with terrorist “designations” by both the United States and United Nations. Huber is a neo-Nazi who converted to Islam and has attempted to be a bridge between Nazis and Islamists. The Taqwa case indicates how the Brotherhood sometimes maintained contacts with Islamic regimes of all stripes. Several U.S. investigators told NEWSWEEK that in a raid on facilities used by Nada in Switzerland and Italy, they came up with a picture of Nada together with Saddam Hussein (Nada’s lawyers have acknowledged that their client was friendly with top Iraqis). Meanwhile, in an interview with NEWSWEEK, Huber acknowledged maintaining close contacts with both European neo-Nazi activists and with the government of Iran, whose late revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, was a Huber acquaintance.

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Terror Networks

New additions to terror list...

2002-11-10

The US State Department has added nine groups suspected of terrorist links to a visa blacklist which will keep their members or affiliates out of the country, sources reported. With these additions the total number of 'extremist oraganizations' rises to 45 groups, which includes businesses groups too. They have been put on US Terrorist Exclusion List, the department said in a statement issued on Friday. The new entities are: The Al Taqwa Trade, Property and Industry Company, Bank Al Taqwa, Nada Management Organization, Youssef M. Nada and Company Gesellschaft MBH, Ummah Tameer E-Nau (UTN), the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), the Ulster Defence Association, the Afghan Support Committee the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society. I think all of these have been on the UN list for awhile...

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Ashcroft Submits Nine Groups for Terror List

2002-07-23

Attorney General John D. Ashcroft asked the State Department yesterday to list nine foreign groups and companies as terrorist organizations. The listing would prohibit any noncitizen members from entering the United States. If you are a citizen, and you're a member, there are some people who'd like to talk to you... • Al Taqwa Trade, Property and Industry Co. Ltd., also known as Himmat Establishment. • Bank Al Taqwa Ltd. Two names, one purpose, one organization. The bank link points to a good article from Salon, of all places, on the bank's shareholders. The Trade, Property, etc., link gives office locations and individuals associated... • Nada Management Organization. • Youssef M. Nada & Co. Gesellschaft. Aliases of al-Taqwa • Ummah Tameer E-nau. The Pak nuclear scientists who were "advisors" to Bin Laden... • Loyalist Volunteer Force. • Ulster Defence Association/Ulster Freedom Fighters. Crazed killer Irishmen. • Afghan Support Committee Heh heh... • Revival of Islamic Heritage Society Busted same time as the Afghan Support Committee

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