HOT OFF THE SHOW! Funding Evil

My show today was a re-air of my interview with Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the New York–based American Center for Democracy and the Center for the Study of Corruption & the Rule of Law, and a member of the Committee on the Present Danger with James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, on her book, "Funding Evil - How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It". It was such an important interview and with Saddam Hussein's trial resuming this week, although re-scheduled a week, some folks, although I know not you, need to be reminded of the evil machine the terrorist network is. Remember, Saddam loved to reward the families of suicide bombers with thousands of dollars.

In one of Dr. Ehrenfeld's articles this year she reported on CARE International:

"Care International is the now defunct Muslim charity that was originally the Boston branch office of the al-Kifah Refugee Center in Brooklyn, New York, from which Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman funded and plotted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Care International was already publicly identified as supporting al-Qaeda back in 2002, yet it remained open, and several of its employees worked and/or were affiliated with Ptech. Ptech was raided by the FBI on December 6, 2002, following a tip from an employee who suspected that the company was connected to the 9/11 attacks. Indeed, on October 12, 2001, Yassin al-Kadi, Ptech’s top investor at that time, was listed by the US government as a specially designated global terrorist for his support of al-Qaeda.[4] Al-Kadi invested at least $18 million directly in Ptech, $5 million through the Isle of Man, and $9 million indirectly through BMI, a now-defunct New Jersey-based Islamic investment firm with connections to other members on Ptech’s management and investors.[5] Al-Kadi also transferred $2 million USD to Ptech from Switzerland between 1997 and 2000, according to Swiss investigators.

Richard Clarke in his testimony before the Senate on October 22, 2003, said: “Qadi was the head of Muwafaq, a Saudi relief organization that reportedly transferred at least $3 million, on behalf of Khalid bin Mahfouz, to Usama bin Laden and assisted al Qida [sic.] fighters in Bosnia.” Moreover, according to the Treasury Department letter to Switzerland’s Attorney General in November 2001, Muwafaq fronted for, and funded Makhtab al-Khidamat (MK), al-Qaeda, HAMAS, and the Abu-Sayyaf organization, to name just a few. Yet, Muwafaq was not designated as a terrorist organization."

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