Golden Chain: List of Early Al Quaida financiers!

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Adel Batterjee
Adel Batterjee is a wealthy Saudi businessman who is also the founder of both BIF and its predecessor, Lajnatt Al-Birr Al-Islamiah. He appears to be mentioned as a recipient three times.[2] The US declared him as a terrorist financier in 2004.


"The Bin Laden Brothers"
Their first names are not mentioned. They give money to Osama bin Laden. UPI will later point out that "the discovery of this document in Sarajevo calls into question whether al-Qaeda has received support from one of Osama’s scores of wealthy brothers.



Suleiman al-Rasheed

1. Al-Rasheed Trading & Contracting (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

Ibrahim Muhammad Afandi:

1. Notable affiliations include:
2. Board member, Ibn Baz Foundation (President: Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, VP: Abdulaziz bin Fahd)
3. Board member, International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO)
4. Chairman, Al Afandi Establishment (Jeddah)
5. CEO Al Afandi Germany (Frankenberg)
6. CEO, Sky Muzn Holding Co. BV (Netherlands)
7. CEO, Saudi Industrial Services Company (Sisco) with partners Xenel Industries and Dallah Al-Baraka
8. Founder, Great Saudi Development & Investment Co. (GSDIC)
9. Founder, Arabian Company for Development and Investment Limited (ACDIL)
10. Chairman, National Committee of Saudi Contractors Partner, African Company (Sudan), with Al Rajhi Bank and Dallah Al-Baraka
11. Former General Manager and shareholder of al-Amoudi Group
12. Owner, Gang Ranch (Canada), second largest ranch in North America
13. Owner, Skylight Corp, Georgia, USA
14. Owner, BSA Investments (complaint from LTV Steel Company, Inc)
15. US address: 6914 Los Verdes Dr Apt 6, Rch Palos Vrd, CA 90275

Saleh Abdullah Kamel

1. Born in 1941, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saleh Abdullah Kamel is CEO of Jeddah-based Dallah Al-Baraka, the 3rd largest commercial entity in Saudi Arabia. Other notable affiliations include:
2. Chairman Arab Radio & Television (ART)
3. Founding member and shareholder, Al Shamal Islamic Bank (Khartoum, Sudan)
4. Partner, Tamlik Company Ltd (with Mohamed Binladen Co., Saleh Bin Laden)
5. Shareholder, Jordan Islamic Bank
6. Vice Chairman Bank Al Jazeera
7. Founder, Iqraa International Foundation

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

2. Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi is one of Saudi Arabia's leading commercial figures and philanthropists, overseeing a financial empire of some $28b in assets.
3. CEO, al-Rajhi Bank
4. Board member, International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO)
5. Board member, Ibn Baz Foundation
6. al Rajhi also created the SAAR Foundation, which was shuttered in the wake of a March, 2002 raid by customs officials under the auspices of Operation Green Quest.
8. Abdel Rahman Hassan Sharbatly
9. Abdel Rahman Hassan Sharbatly was the founder of Riyadh Bank, the 2nd largest Saudi commercial bank. Other affiliations include:
10. Board member, Beirut Ryad Bank SAL (with Prince Khaled bin Turki and Abdullah Taha Bakhsh)
11. Board member, Saudi Arabian Refinery Company (Chairman Prince Khaled bin Turki, directors include Kaaki (bin Mahfouz) and Al Rajhi)
12. Shareholder, Middle East Capital Group (shareholders include Abdullah Taha Bakhsh, Sami Baarma - National Commercial Bank)
13. CEO, Saudi Arabian Marketing Agencies and Company Ltd (Shareholder: Mohammad Bin Laden)
14. Ferrari, Maserati, Porsche, Audi and Volkswagen dealer
15. Shareholder, Egyptian Gulf Bank
16. Shareholder, Golden Pyramids Plaza Co
17. Shareholder, Savola Snack Food Co. Ltd (with Saleh bin Mahfouz and Abdullah Taha Bakhsh)

Khaled bin Mahfouz
Khaled bin Mahfouz was, before his death in 2009, one of the leading figures in Saudi banking circles.

1. Former COO, BCCI
2. Former CEO, National Commercial Bank
3. Founder, Muwafaq Foundation
4. Founder, International Development Foundation
5. Bin Mahfouz has written on his website that he has "never knowingly made any donation to Al Qaeda or to any organization or person acting on Al Qaeda's behalf or to any other terrorist organisation."[3] He engaged in extensive litigation against individuals associating him with terrorism (see Khalid bin Mahfouz).

Abdel Qader Faqeeh
(Adel Faqih, etc.). Affiliations include:

1. Board member, Ibn Baz Foundation
2. Chairman, Bank al Jazeera
3. Chairman, Savola Group (with Sharbatly), merged with Azizia Panda (owned by Al-Waleed bin Talal) - 13th largest Saudi company
4. Chairman, Makkah Construction & Development Company

Ahmad Turki Yamani
(Ahmed Zaki Yamani, etc.). Born 1930, Mecca, son of former Saudi Chief Justice. Affiliations:

1. Former Saudi minister of petroleum and mineral resources
2. Former director, ARAMCO
3. Founder, Investcorp (Board members include Abdullah Taha Bakhsh, Dr. Abdulhady Taher)
4. Abdel Hadi Taher
5. CEO, Taher Group of Companies, 52nd largest Saudi company
6. Owner, Marketing General Trading Corp (Jeddah)
7. Shareholder, Arab Company for Hotels & Contracting Ltd (with Ahmed Zaki Yamani)
8. Former Minister of State Former Governor of the Saudi state oil company Petromin (recently acquired by Gulf Oil), under responsibility of Ahmed Zaki Yamani
9. Former director, Saudi European Bank (Paris), held 25% of the bank shares along with Ahmed Zaki Yamani

al Kuwait
al Kuwait, or al Kuwaiti, Sheikh Abu Ahmed, a Pakistani man born in Kuwait. Abu Ahmed is the "courier" whose discovery led to the finding of the location of Osama bin Laden.[4] He is also reportedly a part-owner of the compound in which Osama was living at the time of his death.[5]

Ahmad al Harbi
CEO, Ahmad Al Harbi Group
L'Investigateur notes, "L'Houssaine Kherchtou testified on February 21, 2001, during the trial of suspected al-Qaida militants in connection with the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on 7 August 1998, that he was welcomed at Miram Shah guest house in Pakistan before joining Al-Qaida by 'Abu Ahmed al Harbi'."

Mohammed al-Issai
(al-Issaie, etc.). Affiliations:

1. Board member, Saudi Research & Marketing Company (with Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi, Saleh Abdullah Kamel, Abdullah Bin Khalid Bin Mahfouz, Dallah Albaraka Group) - 20th largest Saudi company
2. CEO, Al Issai Trade Company (Daimler-Chrysler representative)
3. Deputy Chairman, Arab Cement Company (shareholders include Saudi Binladin Group, Bin Mahfouz, Al Rajhi - Chairman: Turki Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud)

Recipients
Major recipients include:

Osama bin Laden (deceased)
Received donations from the most prominent in the list: Bin Laden Brothers, Al Rajhi, Sharbatly, Bin Mahfouz, Adel Faqih, Al Kuwait

Wa'el Hamza Julaidan

Wa'el Hamza Julaidan was one of the four founders of al Qaeda in August, 1988.
Previously (1984) established "the Service Office" or Maktab al-Khidamat in Afghanistan, along with bin Laden and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam.

Former Secretary General of the Muslim World League and Rabita Trust in Pakistan, designated by the United States Treasury as SGDT. The Trust has received donations from Suleiman Al Rashid, Abdul Tahi Taher

Adel Baterjee

By varying accounts Baterjee is also listed as a recipient.

Abu Mazin
(Mazin M. etc.). Affiliations:
Son of Mohammed Saleh (brother of Osama Bin Laden father's wife and tutor of the Bin Laden family after patriarch Mohammad Bin Laden's death in 1968)
Shareholder, Triple B Trading GmbH (Germany) - with Hassan Bahfzallah and Shahir A. I. Batterjee
Secretary: Abdul-Martin Tatari
Receives donations from Hamad Al Hussaini

Sale Taher

Receives donations from Ahmad Al Harbi and Mohammed Al Issai and Osama Bin laden