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Posted by Al Gordon on 11:37:24 2004/12/02
In Reply to: Press Release: New Report Links UNRWA to Hamas Terrorism posted by Al Gordon
On Wed., Nov. 25, one Yaakov Lappin (whom I have not yet located), who has just completed a postgraduate degree at the London School of Economics in Middle Eastern Studies, wrote a piece in The Jerusalem Post, which was entitled, "UNRWA's shady donors." In this piece he alleges that:
"Since the outbreak of the Intifada in 2000, UNRWA has received $510,000 from the Islamic American Relief Agency, a charity created by the Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA). In October 2004, the US Treasury found that IARA had transferred millions of dollars to terrorist networks run by Osama Bin Laden, and has since frozen IARA's assets..."
"Weighing in with a donation of $5,076,000, the Islamic Development Bank is a significant contributor. This bank created and manages the Al Aqsa Fund, found to be a terrorist financial channel linking wealthy Gulf-based terror financiers to Hamas.
"The US Treasury has added the Al Aqsa Fund to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entities, and the fund has been banned in the United Kingdom and Germany.
"Could it be possible that following the closure of the Al Aqsa Fund, the Islamic Development Bank has found UNRWA a safer route to reach Hamas with financial aid?
"UNRWA's public records of financial sponsors also list a $1,640,000 contribution by a donor registered as the "Saudi Committee." This contributor's full name is the Saudi Arabia Committee for Support of the Intifadat AlQuds, and it has been linked with the funding of a number of Hamas suicide bomb attackes against Israeli civilians.
"UNRWA also received $3,538,276 from the Syrian Arab Popular Committee, also known as the Popular Committee for Supporting the Intifada.
"This organization, created by the Syrian Ba'athist government, calls for the continuance of Palestinian attacks against Israel. Committee president Ahmed Abdel Karim has regularly organized rallies in which Syria and Lebanon activists have called for Israel's destruction.
"As the US and the EU lead a campaign to shut down the flow of money to terrorist networks, UNRWA, a vast UN body, seems to have defied the system of tight controls set up to prevent the establishment of a channel linking finances with terrorists -- and no one appears to have noticed..."
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