International Islamic Relief Organization
The International Islamic Relief Organization , or International Islamic Relief Organization of Saudi Arabia , IIRO and IIROSA ( Arabic هيئة الإغاثة الإسلامية العالمية, DMG Haiʾat al-iġāṯa al-Islāmiyya al-ʿālamiyya ), is a charity organization based in Saudi Arabia . It is the aid organization of the Islamic World League .
The United Nations , the USA , the Philippines , Indonesia and Croatia suspect the IIRO of engaging in more politics than humanitarian aid and even supporting Islamic terrorism .
history
The IIRO was founded on January 29, 1979 by a royal Saudi decree.
Farid Yasin al-Qurashi was the founding father and director of the IIRO until 1993.
The IIRO is a member of the Islamic World League .
Links to Terrorism
Mohammad Jamal Khalifa is the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden and has been director of the IIRO in Manila since 1991 . In 1994 he was expelled from the country by the Philippine authorities on suspicion of establishing financial links between al-Qaeda , the Abu Sajaf group and the Islamic Liberation Front of the Moros .
During the Bosnian War and the Kosovo War , the IIRO was involved in the financing of the Muslim fighters.
The French foreign intelligence service recorded a payment of 4.5 million dollars to Osama bin Laden . According to the Réseau Voltaire association , he is also the spiritual leader of the IIRO.
The American branch of the IIRO was closed in 2002 on suspicion of funding Al-Qaeda.
On September 22, 2005, victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks filed indictments against the IIRO in a US federal court.
Since August 3, 2006, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks against the United States has designated the IIRO as a radical Islamic financial organization.
A resolution of the United Nations Security Council from 2006 describes the branches of the IIRO in the Philippines and Indonesia as support organizations of al-Qaeda .
Several former employees are suspected of being linked to terrorist activities:
- The activities of the IIRO in Peshawar were directed by Talaat Fouad Abdul Qasim , a member of al-Jamāʿa al-islāmiyya , who was sentenced to death in absentia in his home country, was captured by the USA in Croatia in September 1995 and in Cairo in 1998 was executed.
- Sayed Abu Nasir from Bangladesh , who worked for the IIRO until 1992, was arrested in India in January 1999 . He was about to carry out attacks on 3 American consulates.
- Mahmoud Jaballah , an Egyptian , was arrested in Canada in 2001 .
- The Saudi Fayez Banihammad was on board United Airlines Flight 175 .
- The Algerian Mustafa Ahmed Hamlily was arrested on May 25, 2002 by the Pakistani police.
Names
Other translations are Organization internationale islamique de secours, International Islamic Relief Agency, International Islamic Relief Organization, International Relief Organization, Islamic Relief Organization, Islamic World Relief, International Islamic Aid Organization, Islamic Salvation Committee, The Human Relief Committee of the Muslim World League, World Islamic Relief Organization .
The IIRO should not be confused with the aid organization Islamic Relief Worldwide .
Web link
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- Abdel-Rahman Ghandour, Jihad humanitaire: Enquête sur les ONG islamiques , Paris, Flammarion, 2002.
- US District Court Rules Saudi Charity to Remain in 9-11 Terrorist Law , September 22, 2005.
- Comité du Conseil de sécurité mis en place conformément à la résolution 1267 concernant Al-Qaida, les Taliban et les individus et entités associés
- Ajout du bureau indonésien à la liste de la résolution 1267
- ↑ INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC RELIEF ORGANIZATION (IIRO) PROFILES OF NGOS WITH EXTREMIST TIES IN BOSNIA, CIA Report 1996
- ↑ Disappearing Act: Rendition by the Numbers ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Peter Bergen, Katherine Tiedemann The New America Foundation ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. March 3, 2008
- ↑ Unraveling a conspiracy Ritu Sarin, Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Friday, January 22, 1999
- ^ Met top al-Qaeda figure just for tea, Egyptian says , Globe and Mail , May 26, 2006
- ^ Carol Rosenberg, "First Algerians repatriated from Gitmo". The Miami Herald , July 3, 2008
