Saudi donors most signifcant source of terrorism funding in Pakistan

[notsuperstitious]

Well atleast the funding from UAE will now stop, now that general pasha is top man in their intel agency?

Right?

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Funny and sad simultaneously,

Non state actors from Saudi Arabia funding terrorism in Pakistan and Syria

and non state actors from Pakistan funding, supporting and executing terrorism in Indian and Afghanistan

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

Excuse me! Why would Saudi Arabia fund terrorism in Pakistan? What will KSA gains by doing so? And against who? Why would Saudi Arabia wants to harm its only trusted ally in the world. Weak Pakistan doesn't fall under KSA interest at all.

Saudi Arabia-Pakistan enjoy fraternal, deep rooted and cordial relations.

This article written by only God knows who without any piece of solid evidence and documentation can only be considered as a trash talk in order to destroy the image of Saudi Arabia. Plus this not what both nations leadership have expressed whether in the past or recently so I'm not going to take this trash and leave what both pakistan and Saudi Arabia say about each other.

Its not saying saudi govt but saudi donors.These donors are religious fanatics and rich and they support these groups-i think thats what article is trying to say.
The most thing that surprised me is why leader of banned group LEJ can give interviews in his house in open.What happened to 'we will fight them to last drop of blood/disproportionate response' here?

 

[TalibanSwatter]

The fact that Saudi donors are at the forefront of funding TTP, and the murder of 40,000 civilians and 5000 soldiers is a wake up call for us.

Saudis cannot pretend to be our friends while being "close" to TTP sympathizers like Sami ul Haq, funding Salafi-inspired terrorists such TTP and LeJ bent on creating their own fiefdom. The establishment must send a clear message to Saudi to stop supporting TTP and its affiliates as well as its local stooges in the form of Sami ul Haq and JI.

Unless Saudi mends it ways, we will have no choice but to treat it as an enemy of the state.

Perhaps our military needs to communicate to Riyadh the 'unimaginably devastating consequences' of Saudi's inability to shut down the Saudi-based support fueling the murderous TTP busy killing our soldiers and civilians.

Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan is planning to enlist Saudi Arabia’s help in brokering a peace deal with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in its quest for peace in the long term.

When Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal meets Pakistani officials during his two-day visit beginning today (Monday), one of the key agenda items would be to explore the possibility of Riyadh’s role in the government’s peacemaking efforts, The Express Tribune has learnt.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government is struggling to revive the nascent peace efforts ever since the killing of TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone strike in November last year. His successor Mullah Fazlullah has so far refused to respond to the government’s peace overtures.

Sources familiar with the development disclosed that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was likely to request the Saudi foreign minister to use his country’s ‘good offices’ in persuading the TTP and its affiliates to come to the negotiating table.

The Saudi foreign minister will meet President Mamnoon Hussain, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz. Saud al Faisal is also expected to meet prominent religious leaders, including chief of his own faction of Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman as well as Maulana Samiul Haq, who is known as the father of the Afghan Taliban.

A senior foreign ministry official did not confirm religious leaders’ meeting with the Saudi foreign minister. However, sources told The Express Tribune that both these leaders were likely to meet the top Saudi diplomat at the sidelines of the reception being hosted by the prime minister. Their meeting is likely to focus on efforts to strike a peace deal with the TTP.

Both Rehman and Samiul Haq, who are considered close to the Saudi rulers, are intensifying efforts to bring the TTP to the negotiating table as most of the militants studied at their seminaries.

Another official pointed out that the government believes Saudi Arabia could use its ‘clout’ over some of the TTP affiliates for an agreement.

When contacted, a senior member of the federal cabinet insisted that the Saudis were careful in getting involved in the process considering the TTP’s links with al Qaeda.

However, a senior leader from a religious party said Riyadh could use its ‘financial leverage’ over the Taliban. “Money matters a lot for these groups (TTP) and the Saudis can buy anything,” said the leader, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

But a government official said it was unclear whether the Saudis would be willing to play a role as they have their own interests in the region.

Defense analyst Lt Gen (retd) Talat Masood is of the view that Riyadh could influence the TTP by squeezing their funding which comes from the Gulf countries, primarily Saudi Arabia.

“Secondly, they (the Saudis) can use their links directly or indirectly to persuade these groups for talks,” he told The Express Tribune.



Published in The Express Tribune, January 6th, 2014.

 

[pkuser2k12]

Its Pakistani goverments responsibility to stop this but our country keeps quite on all such issue no matter what country is involved

 

[TalibanSwatter]

Its Pakistani goverments responsibility to stop this but our country keeps quite on all such issue no matter what country is involved

Time for keeping quiet is long gone. The Saudis must dismantle the support network for TTP and if the civilian government is too timid to convey this message, our military will ensure the Saudis do the needful.

 

[TalibanSwatter]

France 24 News

Since the 2011 Arab revolts, a loose network of underground zealots has evolved into a potent and highly vocal force. Behind the remarkable rise of Salafism lies the world’s leading producer of oil – and extremist Islam: Saudi Arabia.
When protesters incensed by an anti-Muslim video scaled the walls of the US embassy in Cairo on September 11, tearing down the Stars and Stripes, a black flag could be seen floating above the battered compound. From Sanaa, in Yemen, to Libya’s Benghazi, the same black banner, emblem of the Salafists, soon became a ubiquitous sight as anti-US protests spread like wildfire across the Arab world. The 2011 Arab uprisings have served the Salafists well. With the old dictators gone, a once subterranean network of hardliners has sprung into prominence – funded by a wealthy Gulf patron locked in a post-Arab Spring rivalry with a fellow Gulf monarchy.

The ‘predecessors’

A puritanical branch of Islam, Salafism advocates a strict, literalist interpretation of the Koran and a return to the practices of the “Salaf” (the predecessors), as the Prophet Mohammed and his disciples are known. While Salafist groups can differ widely, from the peaceful, quietist kind to the more violent clusters, it is the latter who have attracted most attention in recent months.

In Libya and Mali, radical Salafists have been busy destroying ancient shrines built by more moderate groups, such as Sufi Muslims. Fellow extremists in Tunisia have tried to silence secular media and destroy “heretical” artwork. And the presence of Salafist fighting units in Syria has been largely documented. Less well known is who is paying for all this – and why.

‘Export-Wahhabism’

For regional experts, diplomats and intelligence services, the answer to the first question lies in the seemingly endless flow of petrodollars coming from oil-rich Saudi Arabia. “There is plenty of evidence pointing to the fact that Saudi money is financing the various Salafist groups,” said Samir Amghar, author of “Le salafisme d’aujourd’hui. Mouvements sectaires en Occident” (Contemporary Salafism: Sectarian movements in the West).

According to Antoine Basbous, who heads the Paris-based Observatory of Arab Countries, “the Salafism we hear about in Mali and North Africa is in fact the export version of Wahhabism,” a conservative branch of Sunni Islam actively promoted and practised by Saudi Arabia’s ruling family. Since the 1970s oil crises provided the ruling House of Saud with a seemingly endless supply of cash, “the Saudis have been financing [Wahhabism] around the world to the tune of several million euros,” Basbous told FRANCE 24.

Opaque channels

Not all of the cash comes from Saudi state coffers. “Traditionally, the money is handed out by members of the royal family, businessmen or religious leaders, and channelled via Muslim charities and humanitarian organizations,” said Karim Sader, a political analyst who specializes in the Gulf states, in an interview with FRANCE 24.

Until the Arab Spring revolts upended the region’s political landscape, these hidden channels enabled the Salafists’ Saudi patrons to circumvent the authoritarian regimes who were bent on crushing all Islamist groups. These were the same opaque channels that allegedly supplied arms to extremist groups, particularly in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to Western intelligence officials.

Free education

Other, slightly less shadowy recipients of Saudi petrodollars include the numerous religious institutions built around the Muslim world to preach Wahhabi Islam, as well as the growing list of Saudi satellite channels that provide a platform for radical Salafist preachers. A large share of the booty also goes to Arab students attending religious courses at the kingdom’s universities in Medina, Riyadh and the Mecca.

"Most of the students at Medina University are foreigners who benefit from generous scholarships handed out by Saudi patrons, as well as free accommodation and plane tickets," said Amghar. "Once they have graduated, the brightest are hired by the Saudi monarchy, while the rest return to their respective countries to preach Wahhabi Islam". According to Amghar, the members of France's nascent Salafist movement follow a similar path.

Direct funding

Exporting its own brand of Islam is not the only item on Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy agenda. “While they see themselves as the guardians of Islamic doctrine and have always generously financed Muslim missionaries, the Saudis’ priority is not to ‘salafise’ the Muslim world,” explained Amghar. “Their real aim is to consolidate their political and ideological influence by establishing a network of supporters capable of defending the kingdom’s strategic and economic interests.”

Since last year’s Arab revolutions, these supporters have benefited from more direct – and politically motivated – funding. “With the region’s former dictators out of the way, Salafist groups have evolved into well-established parties benefiting from more official Saudi aid,” said Sader, pointing to the spectacular rise of Egypt’s al-Nour party, which picked up a surprising 24% of the vote in January’s parliamentary polls.

“The Saudis were genuinely surprised by the Arab Spring revolts,” said Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, a political analyst who specialises in the Muslim world. “Riyadh’s response was to back certain Salafist groups (...) so that it may gain further clout in their respective countries,” Adraoui told FRANCE 24.

Gulf rivalries

The Saudi strategy is similar to that adopted by its arch Gulf rival Qatar - a smaller but equally oil-rich kingdom - in its dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood, the other great beneficiary of the Arab Spring. “When it comes to financing Islamist parties, there is intense competition between Qatar and Saudi Arabia,” said Sader. “While the smaller emirate pours its endless wealth on the more moderate and urbanised Muslim Brootherhood, members of the Saudi royal family tend to aim their petrodollars at the poorer, rural constituencies that form the backbone of the Salafist support.”

According to Amghar, Saudi Arabia, has another, more pragmatic reason to support the Salafists. “Having long turned a blind eye to the generous funding of all sorts of violent jihadist groups by members of the Saudi establishment, the royal family began exercising closer control in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,” he says. By restricting its financing to more controllable groups based outside its borders, such as the Salafists, “Saudi Arabia ensures it will not be threatened by home-grown jihadists on its soil”. As Amghar concludes, that might explain why there were no protesters, let alone any black flags, outside the US embassy in Riyadh this month.

 

[TalibanSwatter]

European Parliament identifies Wahabi and Salafi roots of global terrorism
Murtaza Haider

Updated 2013-07-22

It is not merely the faith or oil that flows out of Saudi Arabia. The oil-rich Arab state and its neighbours are busy financing Wahabi and Salafi militants across the globe.

A recent report by the European Parliament reveals how Wahabi and Salafi groups based out of the Middle East are involved in the “support and supply of arms to rebel salafist groups around the world.” The report, released in June 2013, was commissioned by European Parliament’s Directorate General for External Policies. The report warns about the Wahabi/Salafi organisations and claims that “no country in the Muslim world is safe from their operations … as they always aim to terrorise their opponents and arouse the admiration of their supporters.”

The nexus between Arab charities promoting Wahabi and Salafi traditions and the extremist Islamic movements has emerged as one of the major threats to people and governments across the globe. From Syria, Mali, Afghanistan and Pakistan to Indonesia in the East, a network of charities is funding militancy and mayhem to coerce Muslims of diverse traditions to conform to the Salafi and Wahabi traditions. The same networks have been equally destructive as they branch out of Muslim countries and attack targets in Europe and North America.

Despite the overt threats emerging from the oil-rich Arab states, governments across the globe continue to ignore the security imperative and instead are busy exploiting the oil-, and at time times, blood-soaked riches.

The European Parliament’s report though is a rare exception to the rule where in the past the western governments have let the oil executives influence their foreign offices. From the United States to Great Britain, western states have gone to great lengths to ignore the Arab charities financing the radical groups, some of whom have even targeted the West with deadly consequences.

 

[AUz]

Please Saudis, let us live in peace.

 

[TalibanSwatter]

NY Times

Sept. 23—The U.S. government has known for years that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest source of funds for global jihadist terrorism, including funding of the 9/11 attacks against the U.S., but has, to date, refused to take any effective action against it.

Something which has received far too little attention, is the 335-page report issued in July 2012 by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, exposing the role of HSBC (formerly, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) in money-laundering and global narcotics and terrorism financing. This included a 50-page chapter on HSBC's sordid ties to Al-Rajhi Bank, the largest private bank in Saudi Arabia, with $59 billion in assets, and over 500 branches. The bank was founded by the Al-Rajhi brothers, led by Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al-Rajhi, chairman of the board of the bank, and a pivotal al-Qaeda financier, according to a number of CIA and Treasury reports.

As is recounted in the Senate report, the 9/11 Commission Report and numerous other official government documents show that in March 2002, the FBI and Bosnian authorities raided the Bosnian offices of the Benevolence International Foundation, a Saudi charity known to conduit money to al-Qaeda. Investigators found a computer hard drive documenting al-Qaeda's funding apparatus, which was dubbed the "Golden Chain." Among the top 20 funders of al-Qaeda identified in one document on the hard drive, was Sulaiman Al-Rajhi.

The Senate report also noted that at the same time that the Bosnia raid occurred, in March 2002, the FBI was also raiding the Northern Virginia offices of the SAAR Foundation, a front for the Al-Rajhi group, linked both to the Muslim Brotherhood and other hard-core terrorist cells around the globe. "Operation Green Quest" targeted SAAR and the affiliated Safa Group of charitable and business fronts, all tied to the Saudi regime.

Additionally, in 2003, as cited in the Senate report, the CIA produced a classified report that was later leaked to the Wall Street Journal, titled "Al-Rajhi Bank: Conduit for Extreme Finance." According to the Lloyds lawsuit (see below), the CIA report stated:

"Islamic extremists have used Al-Rajhi Banking & Investment Corporation (ARABIC) since at least the mid-1990s as a conduit for terrorist transactions, probably because they find the bank's vast network and adherence to Islamic principles both convenient and ideologically sound. Senior al-Rajhi family members have long supported Islamic extremists and probably know that terrorists use their bank. Reporting indicates that senior al-Rajhi family members control the bank's most important decisions and that ARABIC's principal managers answer directly to Suleiman. The al-Rajhis know they are under scrutiny and have moved to conceal their activities from financial regulatory authorities."

Saudi Role Officially Recognized
Other evidence of official U.S. knowledge of Saudi terrorism financing, cited in the Senate report, includes:

• The 9/11 Commission found that the Al-Rajhi Bank was directly implicated in conduiting funds to the hijackers through the International Islamic Relief Organization, which maintained accounts at Al-Rajhi. It was through those accounts that funds were wired to Abdulaziz Al-Omari, one of the 9/11 hijackers, just four days before the attacks.
  
  
• The U.S. State Department and the Congressional Research Service reported in 2007 that Saudi Arabia continued to be a source of financing for al-Qaeda and other terrorist organization, including the statement by Stuart Levey quoted above.
  
  
• In April 2008, Levey testified that, although Saudi Arabia was taking strong action against terrorists inside its borders, it was not working as hard to prevent money from flowing to terrorists outside its borders. "Saudi Arabia today remains the location from which more money is going to terror groups and the Taliban—Sunni terror groups and the Taliban—than from any other place in the world."
  
  
• A 2009 GAO report prepared for Congress stated: "U.S. officials remain concerned about the ability of Saudi individuals and multilateral charitable organizations, as well as other individual visiting Saudi Arabia, to support terrorism and violent extremism outside of Saudi Arabia."

Not mentioned in the Senate report, because it only came to light later, through Wikileaks, was a Dec. 30, 2009 State Department cable which stated that "donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide." The cable also said that, despite some cooperation from the Saudi government, "more needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a criticial financial support base for al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, LeT [Lashkar e-Tayyiba], Laskhar e Jhangvi, and other terrorist groups, including Hamas, which probably raise millions of dollars annually from Saudi sources, often during Hajj and Ramadan."

Other Links
Other Saudi banks and financial groups have been linked to the same tightly knit apparatus, all operating under the protection of the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs. The other banks included Bank of Taqwa, which was identified by the U.S. Treasury Department as a Specially Designated Terrorist Entity. Treasury stated, in November 2001: "Al-Taqwa group has long acted as a financial advisor to al-Qaeda, with offices in Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Italy and the Caribbean." Akida Bank Private LTD, another Saudi bank tied to al-Qaeda money laundering, listed Sulaiman Al-Rajhi on its board of directors. The bank was run by Youssef Nada, a known financier of Saudi-backed terrorist cells.

The HSBC links to Al-Rajhi Bank dated back, according to the Senate report, to HSBC's takeover of Republic National Bank of New York, which was sold to HongShang by Edmond Safra. Under Safra, Republic National Bank was exposed for laundering the profits of a top Turkish heroin-smuggling ring operating out of the Shakarchi Trading Company in Switzerland. When HSBC took over Republic National Bank, the existing Al-Rajhi accounts were taken over by HSBC New York.

'All the keys are here...'
In testimony before the U.S. Senate on Oct. 22, 2003, Jean-Charles Brisard, a French terrorism expert who was the lead investigator for a civil lawsuit filed by the 9/11 families, summed up the track record of the Saudis this way:

"In June 2001, the late FBI Chief of Anti-Terrorism, John O'Neill, told me that 'All the answers, all the keys enabling us to dismantle Bin Laden's network are in Saudi Arabia.' Today, all of our leads and much of the evidence collected by the 9/11 families put Saudi Arabia on the central axis of terror and shows that this [Saudi] government was aware of the situation, was able to change the path of its organizations, whether banks, businesses or charities, but voluntarily failed to do so. Rather, the Saudi government repeatedly claimed since at least 1993 that the situation was under control, while facilitating the reach and involvement of the charities and the financial institutions of the kingdom, or inciting its citizens to support the terror fronts, when the highest ranking members of the royal family are pouring tens of millions of dollars each year to Islamic charities known for diverting money to Al-Qaida."

The Lloyds Suit
Meanwhile, shortly before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, another suit was filed which contained an extraordinary compilation of evidence, heavily drawn from government sources, of the direct Saudi responsibility for the 9/11 attacks and for the financing of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

Lloyds Syndicate 3500, a Lloyds of London insurance portfolio, filed its suit in the U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania in Johnstown, Pa., near the site where one of the four 9/11 hijacked commercial airliners crashed. Named as defendants were the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a number of Saudi government-run charities, and two Saudi banks; the suit demanded at least $215 million in compensation for insurance payments the syndicate had made to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The suit was premised on the argument that, while the costs of the 9/11 attack per se were limited, al-Qaeda had a $35-million-a-year budget that was largely covered by payments from the Saudi royal family and allied circles. The complaint provides extremely detailed allegations about the role of the Saudi regime in sponsoring, financing, and supporting al-Qaeda over the 13-year period from 1988 through the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The evidence compiled for the lawsuit was based almost exclusively on U.S. and Saudi government documents, including publicly available evidence provided by scores of Guantanamo Bay detainees, who were picked up as "enemy combatants," and who were affiliated with either al-Qaeda or the Saudi charities named in the suit.

"The success of al Qaeda's agenda, including the September 11th attacks themselves, has been made possible by the lavish sponsorship al Qaeda has received from its material sponsors and supporters over more than a decade leading up to September 11, 2001,"

the complaint stated, continuing:

"Although al Qaeda has in limited instances established its own charities to serve as channels of support for particular initiatives, al Qaeda's development into a sophisticated global terrorist network was fueled primarily by the massive support it received from purported charities acting as agents and alter-egos of the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, many of which worked with the al Qaeda leadership during the Afghan jihad. These governmental agents have served as the primary conduits for channeling financial, logistical, operational, and ideological support for al Qaeda's global jihad for more than twenty years. To this day, many of these arms of the Saudi government remain dedicated to promoting al Qaeda's goals and operational objectives."

Among the nominally private da'awas (charities) named in the suit were: the World Muslim League, the Saudi Red Crescent, and a variety of Saudi charities that funded the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Chechnya. All of these organizations were controlled by the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs, and by Saudi Arabia's Interior Minister, Prince Nayef, who is now second in line to the throne, and who chaired the government committee overseeing all of the named charities. As the Lloyds complaint put it, these organizations were "created by the government of the Kingdom to propagate a radical strain of Islam throughout the World, commonly referred to as Wahhabism."​

 

[TalibanSwatter]

WSJ

The Golden Chain

The "Golden Chain" or a list purported sponsors of al Qaeda that was seized in March of 2002 raid by Bosnian police authorities of the premises of the Benevolence International Foundation in Sarajevo. The list includes at least 20 top Saudi and Gulf State financial sponsors including bankers, businessmen, and former ministers. Part of the list included computer file titles "Tarekh Osama" or "Osama History", but the appellation "Golden Chain" itself is due to al Qaeda defector Jamal al-Fadl, who vouched for its authenticity; the FBI later also pronounced the document as genuine.

• Confirmation that the Bin Laden family has been a major contributor to Usama, despite its statements denying such support
• Involvement of bankers representing the three largest Saudi banks
• (National Commercial Bank, Riyad Bank, Al Rajhi Banking and Investment Corp)
• Involvement of former oil ministers Sheikh Yamani and Taher-Involvement of most of them in charity organizations as founders or board members

• AL QAIDA DONORS

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.

• CEO, al-Rajhi Bank
• Board member, International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO)
• Board member, Ibn Baz Foundation

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.
SULEIMAN AL-RASHIDAl-Rashid Trading & Contracting (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

ABDEL QADER BAKRI (ABDULKADER [AL] BAKRI)CEO, Bakri Group of CosCEO, Al Bakri International Power Co. Ltd (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

• CEO, Al-Bakri Shipping Group (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
• CEO, Alkhomasia Shipping and Maintenance Company Ltd (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
• CEO, Red Sea Marine Services (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
• CEO, Diners Club International (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
• Bakri Group formed in April 2002
• a JV with the Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC) to operate in Middle-East countries, including Yemen. MISC leased super tanker MT Limburg when it was attacked on October 6, 2002, coming from Ra's Tannura (Saudi Arabia).

BIN LADEN BROTHERS Saudi Binladin Group (SBG)

• Bakr Bin Laden

YOUSIF JAMEEL (YOUSSEF [YOUSEF] JAMEEL)

• CEO, Abdul Lateef Jameel Group (donated SR8 million to support Saudi Red Crescent Society's relief work in Kosovo in 1999)
• Former Board member, major shareholder, Global Natural Resources Inc. (Houston, Texas)

IBRAHIM AFANDI (IBRAHIM MUHAMMAD AFANDI)

• Board member, Ibn Baz Foundation (President: Prince Salman, VP: Abdulaziz bin Fahd
• Board member, IIROChairman, Al Afandi Establishment (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
• CEO Al Afandi Germany (Frankenberg)
• CEO, Sky Muzn Holding Co. BV (Netherlands)
• CEO, Saudi Industrial Services Company (Sisco) with partners Xenel Industries and Dallah Al Baraka
• Founder, Great Saudi Development & Investment Co. (GSDIC)
• Founder, Arabian Company for Development and Investment Limited (ACDIL)
• Chairman, National Committee of Saudi Contractors
• Partner, African Company (Sudan), with Al Rajhi Bank and Dallah Al Baraka
• Former General manager and shareholder of Al Amoudi Group
• Owner, Gang Ranch (Canada), second largest ranch in North America
• Owner, Skylight Corp, Georgia, USA
• Owner, BSA Investments (complaint from LTV Steel Company, Inc) US address: 6914 Los Verdes Dr Apt 6, Rch Palos Vrd, CA 90275

SALEH KAMEL (SALEH ABDULLAH KAMEL) Born in 1941, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

• CEO, Dallah Al Baraka (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) - 3rd largest Saudi company
• Chairman Arab Radio & Television (ART)
• Founding member and shareholder, Al Shamal Islamic Bank (Khartoum, Sudan
• Partner, Tamlik Company Ltd (with Mohamed Binladen Co., Saleh Bin Laden)
• Shareholder, Jordan Islamic Bank
• Vice Chairman Bank Al Jazira Founder, Iqraa International FoundationAL-RAJHI (SULEIMAN ABDULAZIZ AL RAJHI)
• Board member, IIROBoard member, Ibn Baz Foundation
• CEO, Al Rajhi Banking and Investment Company (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) - 9th largest Saudi company, 4th largest Saudi commercial bank

AL-JUMAIH (MOHAMMAD BIN ABDULLAH AL-JOMAIH)

• Board member IIRO
• Board member, Ibn Baz Foundation
• Member of the Committee for collection of donations for supporting the Intifada (Chairman Prince Salman
• Chairman First Islamic Investment Bank+300 companies
• Al Birr donor
• Bosnia donor

AL-SHARBATLY (ABDULRAHMAN HASSAN [ABBAS] SHARBATLY)

• Founder and board member, Riyad Bank (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) - 7th largest Saudi company and 2nd largest Saudi commercial bank (Abdulrahman A. Al-Amoudi, Senior Executive Vice President)
• Offices in Houston, Texas
• (Riyad Bank Houston Agency, 700 Louisiana, suite 4770, Houston, Texas 77002, US
• Board member, Beirut Ryad Bank SAL (with Prince Khaled bin Turki and Abdullah Taha Bakhsh)
• Board member, Saudi Arabian Refinery Company (Chairman Prince Khaled bin Turki, directors include Kaaki (bin Mahfouz) and Al Rajhi)
• Shareholder, Middle East Capital Group (shareholders include Abdullah Taha Bakhsh,

MOHAMED YOUSEF AL-NAGHIAl Naghi Brothers Co (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

BIN MAHFOUZ (KHALID BIN MAHFOUZ)

• Former COO, BCCI
• Former CEO, National Commercial Bank, 1st Saudi commercial bank
• Founder, Muwafaq Foundation
• Founder, International Development Foundation

ABDEL QADER FAQEEH (ADEL FAQIH)

• Board member, Ibn Baz Foundation
• Chairman, Bank Al Jazira
• Chairman, Savola Group (Sharbatly), merged with Azizia Panda (Walid bin Talal) - 13th largest Saudi company
• Chairman, Makkah Construction & Development Company

SALAH AL-DIN ABDEL JAWAD (SALAHUDDIN ABDULJAWAD)

• CEO, General Machinery Agencies (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
• Agent for General Motors, Wacker Corp, Mannesmann, Renault (RVI),
• Opel Board member,
• United Gulf Industries Corp, Manama, Bahrain (with Khalil Bin Laden)
• Partner, Savola Snack Food Co. Ltd (with Saleh Bin Mahfouz, Abdullah Taha Bakhsh, Prince Mishail Bin Abdullah Bin Turki, Abdulrahman Sharbatly)
• Founder of several scholarship funds (Berkeley, Oxford -including the Salahuddin Abduljawad Fellowship in Islamic Art History) through Barakat Trust (UK) and Barakat Foundation (USA) with Xenel Industries Ltd and Khalid Alireza

AHMAD TURKI YAMANI (AHMED ZAKI YAMANI)Born in 1930, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Son of former Saudi Chief Justice

• Former Saudi minister of petroleum and mineral resources
• Former director, ARAMCO
• Founder, Investcorp (Board members include Abdullah Taha Bakhsh)

ABDEL HADI TAHER (ABDUL HADI TAHER)

• CEO, Taher Group of Companies, 52nd largest Saudi company
• Owner, Marketing General Trading Corp (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
• Shareholder, Arab Company for Hotels & Contracting Ltd (with Ahmed Zaki Yamani
• Former Minister of State
• Former Governor of the Saudi state oil company Petromin, under responsibility of Ahmed Zaki Yamani
• Former director, Saudi European Bank (Paris), held 25% of the bank shares along with Ahmed Zaki Yamani

Ahmad Al Harbi (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 Miranshah guest house in Pakistan before joining Al-Qaida by "Abu Ahmed al Harbi").

AL ISSAEI (MOHAMMED AL-ISSAI)

• 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
• CEO, Al Issai Trade Company (Daimler-Chrysler representative)
• Deputy Chairman, Arab Cement Company (shareholders include Binladin Group, Bin Mahfouz, Al Rajhi -
• Chairman: Turki Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud)

HAMAD AL HUSAINI (HAMAD AL HUSSAINI)CEO, Akel Trading Company

• CEO, Akel Agricultural Investment Company LLCCEO, Al Hussaini and CompanyBoard member of Al Waqf Al Islami Foundation (Netherlands)
• Brother of Abdullah Osman Abdulrahman Al Hussaini,
• General Director of Al Waqf Al Islami Foundation,
• owner of Al Furqan Mosque in Netherlands (linked to MWL, Mounir El Motassadeq and Marwan El Shehhi
• Family member include Walid Al Hussaini, representative of Abdullah Al Turki (former minister of Islamic Affairs, Secretary General of MWL,
• Linked to Mohammad Zouaydi -Spanish procedure-)

AL KUWAITI

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]
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AL-QAIDA RECIPIENTS

Major recipients appear to be Usama Bin laden and Adel Abdul Jalil Batterjee. They receive donations from 13 donors.

USAMA (USAMA BIN LADEN)Receives donations from the most prominent in the list:

• Bin Laden Brothers, Al Rajhi, Sharbatly, Al Naghi, Bin Mahfouz, Adel Faqih, Al Kuwaiti

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

BATERJI (ADEL ABDUL JALIL BATTERJEE)

• Chairman Al Shamal Islamic Bank (Khartoum, Sudan)
• Founder, Al-Birr Society, Benevolence International Foundation
• Former Secretary General, World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY)
• Receives donations from Yousef Jameel, Ibrahim Afandi, Saleh Abdullah Kamel, Mohammad Bin Abdullah Al Jomaih, Ahmed Zaki Yamani and Mohammed Omar

ABU MAZIN Son of Mohammed Saleh Bahareth (brother of Usama Bin Laden father's wife and tutor of the Bin Laden family after patriarch Mohammad Bin Laden's death in 1968)

• CEO, Bahareth Organization (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
• Shareholder, Triple B Trading GmbH (Germany) - with Hassan Bahfzallah and Shahir A. I. Batterjee,
• Secretary: Abdul-Martin Tatari
• Receives donations from Hamad Al HussainiSALEM TAHER
• Receives donations from Ahmad Al Harbi and Mohammed Al Issai

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Its Pakistani goverments responsibility to stop this but our country keeps quite on all such issue no matter what country is involved

thats it dear

whats the point criticizing our friends and brothers and enemies etc when we cant stop their funding and support in our country?
it is the job of our banking sector and financial authorities to seize such funds and confiscate them. our law enforcement agencies must capture the terrorists and our legal system should punish the terrorists and our home office or interior ministry must expel such diplomats who go beyond their stated job.

Saudis are funding LeJ and TTP in addition to JUI and Jamat Islami but they are far more overt in Syria and I pray that before that day comes when they are openly hosting cannibals, rapists and butchers and justifying the fall of Pakistani state, our forces are able to cripple the back of LeJ and TTP. we cant stop Saudis unfortunately we got no say in the matter and they got their foot on over necks and what they are doing globally is like a religion for them, if they dont keep feeding these snakes and scorpions then these beasts will come back to the roost so its better that all the carnage and blood spilled from wahabi literature and oil money is well out side Suadi Arabia.

this issue bring us another point, are our security services and state institutions complicit in this wahabi funding of terror that has resulted in the death of over 50,000 people? I cant see them totally innocent.

the day all religious organisations are banned their assets seized and all religious and sectarian terrorists executed .. you will see that Saudis will stop funding a lost cause and look for other countries to continue their experiments.

Well atleast the funding from UAE will now stop, now that general pasha is top man in their intel agency?

Right?

the guy s hand in gloves with them. how would he get the job if he has an opposite view of their current policies.
it is people like him who went there as mercenaries to spill the blood of the Behrain "Arab spring" which was not of the liking of the west and their wahabi partners

 

[Khan_patriot]

And people say that Pakistan is a sponsor of terrorism, we barely maintain and equip our own military yet the world claims we are also training, equipping and directing terror organisations through out the world, I guess the petrodollar is more powerful than the truth. even us Pakistanis cant take a stand against ''the unquestionable Arabs'' for just questioning them we run the risk of infidelity....

 

[Informant]

thats is dear

whats the point criticizing our friends and brothers and enemies etc when we cant stop their funding and support in our country?
it is the job of our banking sector and financial authorities to seize such funds and confiscate them. our law enforcement agencies must capture the terrorists and our legal system should punish the terrorists and our home office or interior ministry must expel such diplomats who go beyond their stated job.

Saudis are funding LeJ and TTP in addition to JUI and Jamat Islami but they are far more overt in Syria and I pray that before that day comes when they are openly hosting cannibals, rapists and butchers and justifying the fall of Pakistani state, our forces are able to cripple the back of LeJ and TTP. we cant stop Saudis unfortunately we got no say in the matter and they got their foot on over necks and what they are doing globally is like a religion for them, if they dont keep feeding these snakes and scorpions then these beasts will come back to the roost so its better that all the carnage and blood spilled from wahabi literature and oil money is well out side Suadi Arabia.

this issue bring us another point, are our security services and state institutions complicit in this wahabi funding of terror that has resulted in the death of over 50,000 people? I cant see them totally innocent.

the day all religious organisations are banned their assets seized and all religious and sectarian terrorists executed .. you will see that Saudis will stop funding a lost cause and look for other countries to continue their experiments.


the guy s hand in gloves with them. how would he get the job if he has an opposite view of their current policies.
it is people like him who went there as mercenaries to spill the blood of the Behrain "Arab spring" which was not of the liking of the west and their wahabi partners

I thought you were better than this utter bs. Do you know general Pasha's time line of going to head UAE intel? What does it have to do with Bahrain? What nonsense is that? GCC security force (which consists of 80% KSA manpower) went in and quelled/slaughtered the revolution. Not us nor pasha. Bahraini revolution had solid grounds but it's their problems their headache. When this country relies extremely on Foreign exchange do you think we have the leeway to stop incoming funds? Plus with our finance backdoor policy it is only harder to distinguish incoming money. We arent nearly to India's level in banking policy. You really think all this money comes from legal sources? Hawala and hundi are two methods which still consist of 30% of foreign remittances.

Sure the KSA state doesnt support TTP and the likes but the Saudi citizens do just like ours support the extremists. It is easy to call wahabi this and that, but you need to look at it objectively. You sound exactly like my best friend who happens to be shia. Cut this wahabi crap, we are our own enemies. You doubt the military's intentions, the intelligence agency's intention. What is left? The corrupt bureaucracy.

In my field of work as a Data Analyst, Pakistanio se zada koi bikau qaum hi nahin. Shit we give Africans a run for their money when it comes to changing colours for money. Be it maulvi, be it pardha likha be it a fauji. Political class needs no mention as we all know what they are. And then we act like this is God's blessed nation? Lanat prdi hai Pakistan pe tabhi to yeh halat hai hamari. Iman se dil kharab hota hai. Im wasting my time here for what? My patriotism is wasted, why should i suffer when my familiy's luxuries in Dubai will make nooras blush.

Stop this yazidi rafidhi wahabi deobandi shia sunni tattuness.This only suits the arabs and iranians who are so into sects and tribes that its atrocious. Just look at the Syrian thread or the Arab and Iranian section, nothing but chest thumping over delusional "superiority". Fucking losers with complex issues. I know the normal Pakistani doesnt care about sects be Shia or sunni. Neither Christians or Ahmedis or Hindus. We are Pakistanis, nothing more nothing less.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

I thought you were better than this utter bs. Do you know general Pasha's time line of going to head UAE intel? .

babu wake up

our ex soldier and policemen are being used as mercenaries to quell local uprisings and protests. yes the Bahrain revolt ultimately crushed thanks to KSA army but our ex soldiers are doing the dirty work in many Arab countries.

providing you with video and news links wont help to change your view if you missed them before already.


but over all I agree with your post we are good for any amount of money and in a way you confirmed that. its no time to be PC by the way... look at the global terrorism attributed to Islam all these beheading, cannibalism and butchering.. its only one sect and its offshoots.. who consider every other Islamic sect as deviant and misguided and themselves as the puritans and perfect.

in case you missed ... our Noora league is begging Saudis to use their clout and leverage to get TTP to talk to state of Pakistan against the TTP because it funds them and can squeeze their funding too.