Alamoudi Charges
Charles Johnson
Tue Nov 4, 2003 at 12:55 pm PST • Views: 151
New details about the charges against Abdurahman Alamoudi, the founder of the American Muslim Council who was caught trying to smuggle $340,000 in cash from Libya’s Jihad Fund: U.S. links money laundering, terrorists.
Federal authorities said money was forwarded to terrorist groups from offices in Alexandria that housed a number of companies and foundations in which Mr. al-Amoudi is listed as an officer, founder, director or board member. They include the American Muslim Foundation, Success Foundation, Humanitarian Relief Association and the Happy Hearts Trust.
Some of the cash, authorities said, went directly to Humanitarian Appeal International, which has close ties to Hamas, and the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which U.S. intelligence officials said is Hamas’ North American fund-raiser.
At least $160,000 went to an organization implicated in al Qaeda’s December 1999 plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport.
Authorities said Mr. al-Amoudi also served as vice president of the Taibah International Aid Association, a nonprofit organization based in Falls Church that lists as a founding officer Abdullah A. bin Laden, whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have identified as a nephew of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.
ICE Agent Brent Gentrup, in an affidavit filed in the al-Amoudi case, said documents seized in a March 2002 raid on the American Muslim Foundation and Success Foundation offices in Alexandria included an agreement, written in Arabic, naming Taibah International as an agent for the Success Foundation “in executing its external projects.”
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