Confidential reports by the CIA have found that a prominent Saudi banking family, Al Rajhi, is a major financier of jihadist activities in Kosovo.
July 26, 2007 – Confidential reports by the Central Intelligence Agency have found that a prominent Saudi banking family, Al Rajhi, is a major financier of jihadist activities in Kosovo and Bosnia and their bank, the Al Rajhi Bank, is the most favored bank by the world’s extremists to funnel money for violent Muslim activities across the globe.
“There is no reliable estimate of how much the Al Rajhis have given to promote Islam over the years,” assesses the Wall Street Journal after examining the secret CIA documents and concludes that the “overseas money went to aid embattled Muslims in Kosovo, Chechnya and the Palestinian territories and to finance Islamic instruction.”
The Journal says that in the aftermath of 9/11 the American officials agonized over what to do about the bank’s financing of terror.
The Al Rajhi name also came prominent in Bosnia after seizing the “golden chain” documents listing world’s major donors of such Jihad as in Bosnia and Kosovo. “The list was authenticated for the Federal Bureau of Investigation… by America’s top judicial witness against al Qaeda, a onetime al Qaeda business manager named Jamal Al Fadl, who is in the federal witness-protection program. He called the contributor list the ‘golden chain.’, says the Wall Street Journal adding that:
“A 2003 German police report said Sulaiman Al Rajhi and other family members had contributed more than $200,000 in 1993 to a charity that financed weapons for Islamic militants in Bosnia, in addition to providing humanitarian aid.”
A Jidda-based charity called the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), arranges for Muslim donors to send their money directly to the Al Rajhi Bank. The International Islamic Relief Organization has its branches in Kosovo.
The UN has labeled the IIRO branches and some of its officials as al Qaeda supporters.
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