The “hawala” a method of financing terrorism moves 300 million Euros in Spain

April 4, 2014   The ‘ hawala ‘ is an opaque and easy way to send money to any corner of the world. A system that can move 100,000 USD per day and is based on the relationship of trust between the partners in the chain of money delivery. Confidentiality and opacity have made it…

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Seven-year sentence for Laurel man who tried to join up with al-Shabab terrorist group

January13, 2014   A 26-year-old Laurel man was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison after he admitted traveling to Africa to try to join the terrorist group al-Shabab and trashing his home computer so federal investigators could not track him, authorities said. Craig Baxam was arrested by Kenyan authorities in December 2011, and he soon told…

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Ex-Michigan congressman sentenced to more than a year in prison in terrorism financing case

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A former Michigan congressman and U.S. delegate to the United Nations has been sentenced to a year and one day in prison for lobbying for a Missouri-based Islamic charity that had been identified as a global terrorist organization. Mark Deli Siljander, 60, a Republican who served in Congress from 1981-1987, pleaded…

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Woman in Ottawa Funnels Funds to Britain in Alleged Terrorist Financing Scheme

In this Ottawa trial last week, it was revealed that former software designer Momin Khawaja used an Ottawa-area woman to funnel funds to colleagues in an alleged terrorist financing scheme. Zenab Armandpisheh testified she met Mr. Khawaja in the fall of 2002 in an Internet chat room when she was an 18-year-old college student, but…

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    U.S. Prosecution of Muslim Group Ends in Mistrial

    DALLAS, Oct. 22 – A federal judge declared a mistrial on Monday in what was widely seen as the government’s flagship terrorism-financing case after prosecutors failed to persuade a jury to convict five leaders of a Muslim charity on any charges, or even to reach a verdict on many of the 197 counts. The case,…

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