http://www.nefafoundation.org/The NEFA Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt, charitable organization created after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The Foundation strives to help prevent future tragedies in the U.S. and abroad by exposing those responsible for planning, funding, and executing terrorist activities, with a particular emphasis on Islamic militant organizations.16-May-12en-ushttp://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3357http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D335716-Apr-12 Affidavit of FBI Special Agent Andrew Nambu Added 11 13 08 Sudbury Massachusetts resident Tarek Mehanna has been indicted for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Daniel Maldonado Maldonado quot traveled from Houston TX to Africa in November 2005 and then on to Somalia in December 2006 t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3727http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D372716-Apr-12 DOJ Detention Motion Added 9 16 11 In a court filing DOJ wrote ldquo The government hereby moves for a permanent order of detention with respect to defendant Agron Hasbajrami On September 8 2011 a grand jury in the Eastern District of New York returned an indictment charging Hasbajrami wit...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3750http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D375016-Apr-12 DOJ Press Release on Guilty Plea Added 12 06 11 Virginia resident Jubair Ahmad pled guilty to providing material support to Lashkar e Taiba LeT He faces a maximum of 15 years in prison when he is sentenced on April 13 2012 Statement of Facts Added 12 06 11 Sentencing Memo DoJ ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3575http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D357509-Apr-12 Complaint Added 12 09 10 21 year old U S citizen Antonio Martinez a k a Muhammad Hussain was charged in Baltimore federal court in connection with a plot to attack an Armed Forces recruiting station in Catonsville Maryland According to federal authorities quot on September 29 2010 Marti...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2816http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D281609-Apr-12 Director of National Intelligence Biography Added 2 11 08 This one page document provides a concise summary of KSM s terrorist career ranging from his involvement in the Bojinka plot his involvement with Al Qaida s Media Committee his role in planning 9 11 and his efforts to strike the U S ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3256http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D325609-Apr-12 Complaint Added 3 7 08 Federal prosecutors in New York announced the unsealing of charges against Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout and his associate Andrew Smulian quot for conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia the FARC ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3785http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D378509-Apr-12In an April 5 2012 statement the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban counseled the United States to terminate its ldquo aimless war rdquo in Afghanistan ldquo before losing your military economic and political reputation in the international community rdquo Citing a recent CBS New Y...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3783http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D378303-Apr-12On March 27 2012 the spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement that detailed several ldquo successful operations rdquo against United States forces which were carried out in response to ldquo the pre planned atrocity in Kandahar hellip where America ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3784http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D378403-Apr-12On March 29 2012 the spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement denying the claim from the ldquo notorious intelligence agency of the stooge Kabul regime hellip that it had captured several Mujahideen rdquo in Laghman province The spokesman Zabihullah Muj...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3379http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D337903-Apr-12 Indictment Added 10 28 09 Federal prosecutors in New York indicted Patrick Nayyar and Conrad Stanisclaus Mulholland with attempting to provide material support to Hezbollah Nayyar was also charged with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition According to the indictment ldquo During a ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3731http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D373103-Apr-12 DOJ Press Release on Arrest Added 10 18 11 In July 2011 Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai a U S citizen and resident of Fairfax Va and Zaheer Ahmad a U S citizen and resident of Pakistan were charged quot with participating in a long term conspiracy to act as agents of the Pakistani government in t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3782http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D378222-Mar-12On March 20 2012 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a press statement containing a detailed analysis of battlefield statistics from February to support its claim that the Taliban has made unprecedented ldquo achievements of the Jihad on both the military and political front...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3779http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D377916-Mar-12On March 15 2012 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban announced that it ldquo has decided to suspend all talks with Americans taking place in Qatar rdquo According to the statement the Taliban based their decision on the Americans rsquo ldquo alternating and ever changing positio...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3780http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D378016-Mar-12On March 14 2012 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a press release commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 popular uprising in Herat in which according to the statement the Soviets martyred 25 000 Muslims ldquo in cold blood rdquo The statement likened the ldquo natu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3781http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D378116-Mar-12 Complaint Added 03 16 12 Bakhtiyor Jumaev of Philadelphia Pennsylvania was arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic Jihad Union IJU According to DOJ quot The FBI has been conducting an investigation into the activities of Jumaev and his associate J...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3423http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D342314-Mar-12 Complaint Added 12 19 09 Harouna Tour eacute Oumar Issa and Idriss Abdelrahman were charged in New York federal court with agreeing to transport cocaine through West and North Africa with the intent to support three terrorist organizations Al Qaida Al Qaida in the Islamic Magreb quot AQIM...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3778http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D377814-Mar-12On March 13 2012 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a follow up statement to its initial press release regarding the alleged murder of more than a dozen Afghan civilians by a U S soldier on March 11 2012 In the statement the Taliban rejected the official U S characterizat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3776http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D377613-Mar-12On March 12 2012 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a press statement alleging that ldquo the American invaders backed by their puppets the Afghan National Army rdquo killed more than fifty civilians ldquo at point blank range rdquo in Kandahar province during a ldquo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3777http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D377713-Mar-12On March 12 2012 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement commenting on the recent report that an American soldier murdered more than a dozen Afghan civilians in Kandahar province In their statement the Taliban indicated that the ldquo blood soaked and inhuman crime r...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3471http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D347108-Mar-12 Summary of the Reengagement of Detainees Formerly Held at Guantanamo Bay Cuba Added 03 08 12 The DNI has released unclassified quot intelligence relating to recidivism of detainees currently or formerly held at the Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay Cuba by the Department of Defense a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3775http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D377508-Mar-12 Treasury Designation Added 03 08 12 The U S Department of the Treasury designated Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force IRGC QF General Gholamreza Baghbani as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act Kingpin Act Ac...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3264http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D326429-Feb-12 Affidavit of FBI Special Agent Mary Brandt Kinder Added 7 22 10 Jihadist blogger Zachary Adam Chesser a k a Abu Talhah Al Amrikee who allegedly made online threats against the creators of South Park was accused in Virginia federal court of providing material support to Al Shabaab As DOJ ex...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3774http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D377428-Feb-12On February 9 2012 Al Qaida s quot As Sahab Media quot released a landmark video featuring Dr Ayman Zawahiri and Mukhtar Abu Zubayr the leader of Shabaab al Mujahideen in Somalia During the video Abu Zubayr offered Zawahiri an official quot bayat quot or an oath of allegiance Abu Zubayr ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3771http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D377122-Feb-12 Indictment Added 02 22 12 Complaint Added 02 22 12 Plea Agreement Added 02 22 12 Ulugbek Kodirov pled guilty to providing material support to terrorist activity one count of threatening to kill the president and one count of possession of a firearm by an illegal alien nbsp Accor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3772http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D377222-Feb-12 Complaint Added 02 22 12 Amine El Khalifi was arrested for allegedly attempting to detonate a bomb in a suicide attack on the U S Capitol Building as part of what he intended to be a terrorist operation According to DOJ quot The arrest of El Khalifi was the culmination of an undercover opera...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3773http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D377322-Feb-12On February 19 2012 the spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban Zabihullah Mujahid issued a statement denying recent ldquo propaganda rdquo that ldquo a number of Mujahideen from Logar province rdquo have defected to the Karzai government The Taliban spokesman claim...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3770http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D377017-Feb-12On February 16 2012 Zaibullah Mujahid the spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban publicly rejected recent ldquo propaganda rdquo suggesting the Taliban entered ldquo secret talks rdquo with the US and the ldquo stooge rdquo Karzai government In his statement he at...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3681http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D368117-Feb-12 Affidavit of FBI Special Agent Paula Menges Added 5 25 11 Following the conviction of Zachary Chesser the Department of Justice has charged Jesse Curtis Morton aka Younus Abdullah Mohammad with communicating threats in connection with threats to producers of South Park Morton formed quot Re...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3214http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D321417-Feb-12 Complaint Added 12 29 09 23 year old Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was charged with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines aircraft on its final approach to Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Christmas Day A preliminary FBI analysis found that the device contained PETN a high ex...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3331http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D333117-Feb-12 Complaint Added 3 29 10 Raja Lahrasib Khan a Chicago taxi driver and native of Pakistan who became a naturalized U S citizen in 1988 was arrested for allegedly attempting to provide funds overseas to Al Qaida Khan claims to have known Ilyas Kashmiri leader in Kashmir of Harakat ul Jihad I I...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3767http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D376709-Feb-12On February 5 2012 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement rejecting the legitimacy of a recent United Nations in Afghanistan UNAMA report that blamed the Taliban for seventy percent of Afghan civilian deaths in 2011 The statement alleges that the report ldquo is mo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3768http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D376809-Feb-12On February 4 2012 the spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a press release categorically denying news reports that Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar sent a letter to President Obama last year signaling interest in negotiations The Taliban spokesman claimed tha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3769http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D376909-Feb-12On February 3 2012 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban denied reports that it had ldquo reached the negotiation stage with the opposition America and her allies rdquo in Saudi Arabia The statement announced that the Taliban ldquo must first complete the confidence building measu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3701http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D370130-Jan-12 FBI Affidavit Added 6 24 11 Yonathan Melaku 22 of Alexandria Va was charged with destruction of property and firearm violations involving five separate shootings at military installations in Northern Virginia between October and November 2010 According to DOJ quot Melaku is accused of en...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3764http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D376430-Jan-12 Complaint Added 01 24 12 DOJ announced that quot Jamshid Muhtorov aka Abumumin Turkistony aka Abu Mumin 35 of Aurora Colorado was arrested at Chicago rsquo s O rsquo Hare Airport by members of the FBI rsquo s Denver and Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Forces on a charge of providing and at...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3765http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D376530-Jan-12 Complaint Sherifi Added 01 30 12 Shkumbin Sherifi brother of convicted terror plotter Hysen Sherifi and Nevine Aly Elshiekh a school teacher were arrested for their role in plotting with Hysen Sherifi to murder witnesses who testified against him at his recent trial Complaint Elsh...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D3762http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D376223-Jan-12The NEFA Foundation has just released a background report on Marcus Robertson aka quot Abu Taubah quot a Florida based imam and convicted felon who was arrested in August 2011 on illegal gun charges to which he pled guilty on January 5 2012 Sentencing is scheduled for March 26th After Rob...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3761http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D376123-Jan-12On January 15 2012 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a communication titled ldquo Formal Proclamation of Islamic Emirate rsquo s Victory rdquo asserting that it had ldquo showed hellip openly to the world that it is a well organized political power besides being a militar...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3763http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D376323-Jan-12On January 19 2012 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement alleging that British soldiers ldquo compelled two ten year old Afghan children rdquo to participate in videotaped sexual activities with International Security Assistance Forces The statement ldquo veheme...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3268http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D326816-Jan-12 Complaint Added 2 27 08 In June 2007 four individuals Russel Defreitas a former JFK exployee Abdul Kadir Kareem Ibrahim and Abdel Nur were charged in a complaint with conspiring quot to destroy buildings fuel tanks and fuel pipelines at JFK airport with explosives quot Accor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3310http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D331012-Jan-12 Indictment Added 12 20 07 In March 2007 a Missouri grand jury indicted the quot Islamic American Relief Agency IARA along with five officers employees and associates for illegally transferring funds to Iraq in violation of federal sanctions They are also charged with stealing government ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3760http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D376012-Jan-12On January 10 2012 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement denying a report by Al Jazeera ldquo in which it claimed that 3 officials of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan have been released from Guantanamo in exchange for the American prisoner Bergdahl who is held by Islam...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3759http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D375911-Jan-12 Complaint Added 01 11 12 Craig Benedict Baxam was charged with attempting to provide material support to al Shabaab and was arrested upon his return to Maryland after traveling to Africa According to DOJ quot Baxam joined the U S Army in 2007 and completed eight months of advanced training f...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3758http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D375810-Jan-12 Complaint Added 01 10 12 Sami Osmakac a naturalized U S citizen who was born in the former Yugoslavia Kosovo has been charged in connection with an alleged plot to attack locations in Tampa with a vehicle bomb assault rifle and other explosives According to DOJ quot The arrest of Osmaka...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3757http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D375709-Jan-12On January 3 2012 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement announcing that they had ldquo reached an initial agreement with Qatar and other related sides rdquo to establish an office there Additionally the ldquo Islamic Emirate has hellip asked for the release of it...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3753http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D375304-Jan-12On December 17 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement regarding ldquo the expansion of local militias by the invaders rdquo According to the communique ldquo The Russians created these hired militias yesterday under the name of tribal contingents and the defe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3755http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D375504-Jan-12On December 22 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement ldquo regarding the supposed surrender of 50 mujahideen rdquo According to the communication ldquo On Tuesday the 20th of December 2011 the media once again reported the re integration of 50 Taliban fight...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1909http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D190904-Jan-12In December 2008 after a twelve week trial a jury convicted the five men of plotting to kill members of the U S military but acquitted them of attempting to murder members of the U S military Following the convictions Assistant Attorney General Patrick Rowan commented quot Today s verdicts ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3754http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D375404-Jan-12 Complaint Added 01 04 12 Oytun Ayse Mihalik a Turkish citizen living in Orange County California was indicted quot on federal charges of providing material support to terrorists for allegedly sending money to Pakistan to help fund attacks against American military personnel According to the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3411http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D341104-Jan-12 Indictment On May 7 2007 federal agents made a series of arrests following a lengthy investigation that uncovered a plot to murder members of the U S military In indictments filed in June 2007 prosecutors charged Serdar Tatar of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Mohamad Shnewer of Cherry Hill New ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3682http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D368221-Dec-11 Complaint Added 6 01 11 Indictment Added 6 01 11 DOJ announced that quot Waad Ramadan Alwan 30 and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi 23 both former residents of Iraq who currently reside in Bowling Green were charged in a 23 count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Bowling Green o...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3596http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D359621-Dec-11 Complaint Added 1 20 11 Faruq Khalil Muhammad lsquo Isa was arrested in Canada pursuant to a U S provisional arrest warrant based on a complaint in the United States charging him with conspiring to kill Americans abroad According to DOJ quot The defendant is charged in connection with his ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3752http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D375221-Dec-11On December 11 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement regarding the recent ldquo inexplicable bombings that took place in Kabul and Mazar e Sharif in which tens of our defenseless countrymen were soaked in their blood and their families left in utter grief rdq...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3751http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D375113-Dec-11On December 6 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban published a translation of an article ldquo Thirty Six Hours Under a Hail of Bombs rdquo which was translated from the Taliban rsquo s Al Somood magazine Issue 65 October November 2011 According to the article ldquo An ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3479http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D347913-Dec-11 quot Boko Haram Emerging Threat to the U S Homeland quot November 2011 nbsp U S Rep Patrick Meehan R PA and Rep Jackie Speier D CA Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence released a bipartisan repor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3702http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D370213-Dec-11 Complaint Added 6 27 11 Abu Khalid Abdul Latif aka Joseph Anthony Davis 33 of Seattle and Walli Mujahidh aka Frederick Domingue Jr 32 of Los Angeles were charged with planning an attack on the Military Entrance Processing Station MEPS in Seattle They quot took possession of machine...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3749http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D374906-Dec-11On November 24 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a translation of an interview with the ldquo General Mujahideen Official in Nuristan rdquo Sheikh Dost Muhammad In the interview Muhammad stated ldquo My message to the Muslims and the Mujahideen is that our Jihad...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3747http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D374725-Nov-11 Indictment Henareh Wehbe Aksu Added 11 25 11 In July 2011 DOJ quot announced the unsealing of two indictments resulting from two DEA narco terrorism undercover operations first an indictment against SIAVOSH HENAREH BACHAR WEHBE and CETIN AKSU for conspiring to provide various forms of su...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3748http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D374825-Nov-11 Complaint Added 11 25 11 The Manhattan DA s office has charged NY resident Jose Pimentel in a plot to attack police stations postal targets and U S military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan He was allegedly inspired by Anwar al Awlaki read quot Inspire quot magazine for bombm...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3744http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D374416-Nov-11 Indictment Added 11 16 11 Abdeladim El Kebir also known as ldquo Abi al Barra rdquo was indicted in New York federal court for conspiring to provide material support to Al Qaida German law enforcement arrested El Kebir on April 29 2011 and he is in custody in Germany According to open so...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3258http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D325816-Nov-11 Indictment Added 6 04 10 Barry Walter Bujol Jr was indicted in Texas and charged with attempting to provide material support to Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula and aggravated identity theft According to DOJ quot the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force began investigating Bujol in 2008 and dete...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3746http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D374616-Nov-11On November 14 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a statement ldquo regarding the upcoming subjugated Jirga rdquo The communication asserted that ldquo those people who approve permanent American bases under the banner of the upcoming so called Loya Jirga will be c...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3743http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D374310-Nov-11 DOJ Press Release on Indictment Added 11 09 11 DOJ announced that quot On Oct 25 2011 prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging five individuals and four of their companies for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud the United States that allegedly caused 6 000 radio frequency modules to b...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3742http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D374208-Nov-11On November 4 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued Mullah Omar rsquo s Eid al Adha message In his message he focused on the need to ldquo ward off future civilian casualties by vigorously implementing hellip stipulations rdquo to include ldquo If civilian casualties ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3738http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D373802-Nov-11On October 26 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid issued a statement regarding the martyrdom of ldquo one of our defenseless prisoners hellip in the notorious Bagram prison under extreme torture rdquo The communication added ldquo Serious life th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3739http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D373902-Nov-11On October 25 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban claimed that quot an Afghan born American quot who had been quot living in Texas quot and recently arrived in Kandahar quot as an American agent quot had been executed quot on spying charges after a judicial hearing quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3740http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D374002-Nov-11On October 21 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a ldquo survey of the jihadi situation in Logar Province rdquo According to the communication ldquo In the beginning the Jihadi activities were few and secret but in the past two years similar to the trends obser...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3741http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D374102-Nov-11On October 31 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement titled ldquo The Recent American Casualties in Kabul and the Upcoming Bogus Jirga rdquo The communication stated ldquo Everyone understands that this spectacle of Loya Jirga and the agreements signed there...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3737http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D373725-Oct-11On October 19 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement congratulating Hamas following the Gilad Schalit prisoner exchange ldquo This exchange hellip is in reality the triumph of the will of the Muslim Palestinian nation and can be considered as one of the heavies...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3733http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D373325-Oct-11 Complaint Added 10 20 11 DOJ announced that quot Manssor Arbabsiar a 56 year old naturalized U S citizen holding both Iranian and U S passports and Gholam Shakuri an Iran based member of Iran rsquo s Qods Force which is a special operations unit of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3302http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D330225-Oct-11 Indictment Added 8 11 10 Federal prosecutors charged Amina Farah Ali and Hawo Mohamed Hassan both naturalized U S citizens from Somalia and residents of Rochester Minn with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to al Shabaab from Sept 17 2008 through July 19 2010 According ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3340http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D334025-Oct-11 Indictment Added 3 10 10 Colleen R LaRose a k a quot Jihad Jane quot was indicted in Pennsylvania and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists conspiracy to kill in a foreign country making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft A...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D3735http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D373520-Oct-11This latest release in the NEFA Foundation rsquo s ldquo Target America rdquo series examines the Spring 2011 plot to attack a military entrance processing center in Seattle Washington by two U S born coverts to Islam Abu Khalid Abdul Latif aka Joseph Anthony Davis and Walli Mujahidh aka Fr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3736http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D373620-Oct-11On October 5 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released an interview with Maulavi Ahmed Mustafa bin Ghulam Hadrat deputy jihadist official for Kapsia province located north of Kabul which was included in the Taliban rsquo s Al Somood magazine Hadrat ldquo was born in Alasa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3734http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D373420-Oct-11On October 8 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement marking the 10th anniversary of the U S invasion of Afghanistan The statement commended the Afghan people for showing ldquo zeal for their obligatory jihad against the invaders rdquo The statement further no...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3732http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D373218-Oct-11 Indictment Added 10 18 11 DOJ announced that Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid a resident of Leesburg Va quot has been charged for his alleged role in a conspiracy to collect video and audio recordings and other information about individuals in the United States and Syria who were protesting the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3728http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D372811-Oct-11 Indictment added 10 11 11 Rezwan Ferdaus a U S citizen and Northeastern University graduate with a degree in physics was arrested and charged quot in connection with his plot to damage or destroy the Pentagon and U S Capitol using large remote controlled aircraft filled with C 4 plastic e...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3729http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D372911-Oct-11 Complaint Added 10 11 11 nbsp According to a court filing Reed Stanley Berry ndash arrested after attempting to drive his car into an FBI agent conducting surveillance on him ndash was ldquo using the Internet both to contact and provide affirmative support to one or more foreign terrori...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3730http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D373011-Oct-11 Complaint Added 10 11 11 According to a court filing Reed Stanley Berry ndash arrested after attempting to drive his car into an FBI agent conducting surveillance on him ndash was ldquo using the Internet both to contact and provide affirmative support to one or more foreign terrorist org...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3436http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D343601-Sep-11 Indictment Added 9 16 10 Mohammad Younis a Long Island resident was indicted in New York federal court for quot operating an unlicensed money transfer business between the United States and Pakistan One of the money transfers allegedly facilitated the May 1 2010 attempted car bombing in Ne...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3726http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D372601-Sep-11On August 4 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a new communiqu eacute threatening mobile phone companies over their alleged participation in quot intelligence activities quot The Taliban ordered ldquo All mobile phone companies hellip to stop their usual activities a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3497http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D349701-Sep-11 quot Country Reports on Terrorism 2010 quot August 2011 In its annual report on terrorism the State Department noted quot Al Qa rsquo ida AQ remained the preeminent terrorist threat to the United States in 2010 Though the AQ core in Pakistan has become weaker it retained the capab...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3724http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D372430-Aug-11On August 18 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a statement titled ldquo Message of Felicitation Regarding the 92nd Anniversary of the Independence of Afghanistan from British Aggression rdquo In the communiqu eacute the Taliban submitted ldquo felicitations to...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3723http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D372330-Aug-11On August 15 2011 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released a message from Dr Ayman al Zawahiri titled quot And Be Neither Weakened Nor Saddened rdquo In the message Al Zawahiri highlighted the purported successes of the jihadist movement in recent years ldquo My Muslim brothers and be...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3721http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D372130-Aug-11 FBI Affidavit Added 8 08 11 21 year old Naser Jason Abdo an absent without leave AWOL soldier from Fort Campbell Kentucky was charged in Texas federal court with possession of an unregistered destructive device in connection with a bomb plot targeting soldiers from Fort Hood According to D...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3594http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D359410-Aug-11 Complaint Added 1 18 11 Emerson Begolly was arrested and charged with assault on 2 FBI agents following a January 4 2011 incident at a Burger King restaurant in Clarion County PA According to court documents quot two FBI special agents approached a vehicle in which the Defendant was a passe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3722http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D372209-Aug-11On August 6 2011 the Taliban claimed credit for shooting down a U S Chinook helicopter in Wardak killing 38 including 30 Americans According to a Taliban spokesman the Chinook was hit by an RPG at approximately 11pm local time scattering debris across the valley below ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3506http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D350608-Aug-11 quot Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States quot August 2011 In its newly released document titled quot Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States quot the White House noted that the quot The best defenses against v...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3468http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D346808-Aug-11 quot Transportation Security Administration TSA Vetting of Airmen Certificates and General Aviation Airport Access and Security Procedures quot July 2011 In a report by DHS Office of Inspector General titled quot Transportation Security Administration TSA Vetting of Airmen Certificat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3725http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D372501-Aug-11 Indictment Added 9 01 11 Mohammad Shibin quot allegedly identified by conspirators as the person in Somalia responsible for negotiating the ransom of four U S citizens held hostage on the high seas quot was indicted by a federal grand jury after he was apprehended in Somalia and transferre...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3720http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D372028-Jul-11On June 30 2011 Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid released a statement regarding the release of French journalists Herv eacute Ghesqui egrave re and St eacute phane Taponier along with their interpreter Reza Din eighteen months after they were kidnapped in northeast Afghanistan The statemen...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D3719http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D371928-Jul-11On July 8 2011 al Andalus Media the media wing of Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM released an interview with Shaykh Abu Obaida Yousuf al Annabi member of the Shura Council and head of the Organization s trustees In the interview al Annabi eulogized Osama bin Laden and endorsed Ayman al...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3718http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D371827-Jul-11On June 27 2011 Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP released the second installment of its series quot And Martyrs to be Taken from Amongst You quot which provides biographies of martyred AQAP operatives This installment profiles Jamil al Anbari who recently escaped from the political ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D3717http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D371726-Jul-11On July 3 2011 al Andalus Media the media wing of Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM released a report on an operation conducted on June 24 2011 quot in the region of Wagadou in northwest Mali quot The report stated quot t he commander Kahlid al Shanqiti may Allah protect him ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D3716http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D371625-Jul-11Attacks and plots perpetrated by lone wolf shooters and small cells are on the rise as more radicalized individuals are responding to al Qaida rsquo s call for ldquo individual jihad rdquo The trend towards lone wolf and small cell attacks presents a daunting challenge to law enforcement as such...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3363http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D336319-Jul-11 Indictment Added 11 23 09 Federal prosecutors in Minnesota charged Omer Abdi Mohamed with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists in connection with the travel of numerous men from Minneapolis to Somalia to wage jihad with Al Shabaab See the cases of Abdifatah Yusuf Isse and Salah...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3714http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D371418-Jul-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban in which he responded to recent remarks by General David Petraeus ldquo The outgoing American commander of the Allied invading forces in Afghanistan General David Petreaus sic ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3713http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D371314-Jul-11The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has issued a statement following the killing of Hamid Karzai rsquo s half brother Ahmad Wali Karzai According to the Taliban Karzai ldquo was killed when his body guard Sardar Muhammad the son of Mawlawi Sultan Muhammad and the resident of Zakir...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3711http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D371112-Jul-11The NEFA Foundation has released screenshots from a recent Nida ul Jihad Media Center video depicting bombing attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3712http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D371212-Jul-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated an article from the Taliban rsquo s official magazine Al Samood titled ldquo The Jihad Conditions in Ghazni Province rdquo According to the article ldquo Ghazni province is considered one of the provinces where the Jihad affairs move strongly f...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3710http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D371011-Jul-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated an interview from the Taliban rsquo s official magazine Al Samood with Shaykh Dost Muhammed General Official of the Mujahideen in Nuristan Province In the interview he stated ldquo my message to the Muslims and Mujahideen is that our Jihad is on...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3709http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D370911-Jul-11On June 22 2011 Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula rsquo s AQAP al Malahem Media released the 6th issue of its magazine series quot Peninsula Martyrs quot featuring the biography of former Guantanamo detainee Fahd al Jutaili a k Abu Yaqin al Qassimi a k a Abu Shaddad The biography was au...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3324http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D332411-Jul-11 Indictment Added 9 28 09 Betim Kaziu a U S citizen and resident of Brooklyn was indicted for conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists DOJ alleged that quot in early January 2009 Kaziu devised a plan to travel abroad for the p...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3433http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D343311-Jul-11 Complaint Added 5 20 09 Following a lengthy investigation facilitated by a cooperating witness CW who infiltrated the conspiracy the NY JTTF arrested James Cromitie David Williams Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen quot on charges arising from a plot to detonate explosives near a synagog...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3708http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D370807-Jul-11 Indictment Added 7 07 11 Federal prosecutors in Detroit unsealed an indictment against Faouzi Ayoub one of the FBI s most wanted accusing him of attempting to travel to Israel with a fake passport in Israel he planned to launch a bomb attack on behalf of Hezbollah The indictment was origina...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3707http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D370706-Jul-11 Indictment Added 7 06 11 Federal prosecutors in New York indicted Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame on charges of providing material support to al Shabaab and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as well as conspiring to teach and demonstrate the making of explosives possessing firearms and explosives in ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3706http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D370601-Jul-11In claiming responsibility for the attack on the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan asserted that there were ldquo Three main objectives of the operation 1 To foil and disrupt the important conference between the US officials other foreign military advisors and the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D3704http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D370428-Jun-11On June 19 2011 Shabaab al Mujahideen spokesman Sheikh Ali Dheere a k a Ali Muhammad Raghe issued a statement in support of Dr Ayman al Zawahiri as Usama Bin Laden rsquo s successor ldquo Ayman al Zawahiri is the suitable person to replace Bin Laden on account of his skills and experience ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3705http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D370528-Jun-11On June 23 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban issued a statement ldquo regarding Obama rsquo s announcement of the withdrawal of a limited number of US troops from Afghanistan rdquo The Taliban ldquo considers this announcement which currently withdraws 10000 soldiers this y...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3703http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D370327-Jun-11 DOJ Press Release on Complaint Added 6 27 11 Arid Uka a k a ldquo Abu Reyyan rdquo was charged in New York federal court with murdering and attempting to murder United States Air Force ldquo USAF rdquo personnel in Frankfurt Germany on March 2 2011 According to the Complaint quot O...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3226http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D322627-Jun-11 Affidavit of FBI Special Agent Jonathan Jones Added 6 04 10 Toledo Ohio residents Hor I Akl and his spouse Amera A Akl both of whom are dual citizens of the United States and Lebanon were arrested on charges that they conspired to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D3700http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D370021-Jun-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained a series of reports from Shabaab al Mujahideen in Somalia claiming credit for a series of operations For example ldquo The Explosives Brigade in Banader Islamic Province on Sunday June 12 2011 targeted an apostate checkpoint near X Control crossroads hellip sou...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3675http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D367520-Jun-11 Complaint Added 5 16 11 The Manhattan District Attorney s Office filed charges against Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh in connection with a terror plot targeting New York synagogues quot According to the criminal complaint filed by the District Attorney FERHANI and MAMDOUH systematically e...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3699http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D369920-Jun-11 State Department Designation Added 6 20 11 The U S State Department quot designated al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP operative Othman al Ghamdi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224 Othman al Ghamdi is a member of AQAP rsquo s leadership Al Ghamdi ha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3698http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D369816-Jun-11On June 16 2011 Al Qaida s General Command released a statement announcing ldquo the undertaking of responsibility of Amir of the group by Shaykh Dr Abu Muhammad Ayman al Zawahiri rdquo The communication also stated ldquo We support and back the revolution of our Muslim oppressed and suppre...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3697http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D369714-Jun-11 Indictment Added 6 14 11 Westerville Ohio resident Ahmed Hussein Mahamud was indicted in Minnesota federal court for allegedly conspiring to provide material support to Shabaab al Mujahideen a designated foreign terrorist organization based in Somalia quot The indictment alleges that from a ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D3696http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D369614-Jun-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu eacute from the Pakistani Taliban TTP titled quot The Martyrdom of Sheikh Usama and a War of Interests quot According to the communiqu eacute ldquo The ideology which Usama bin Laden preached and the inspiration he gave to fight the global i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D3694http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D369413-Jun-11Shabaab al Mujahideen in Somalia has issued a quot press release quot concerning a coordinated May 30 suicide attack on a Ugandan base in Mogadishu According to Shabaab quot operations such as these remain a true testament to the weakness of the Ugandan army undermining the capacity of the Uga...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3695http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D369513-Jun-11In a statement Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid rejected ldquo Claims and rumors hellip by the Kabul stooge regime rsquo s intelligence directorate other officials and some media outlets that the esteemed Amir ul Mumineen was Martyred in Pakistan We stron...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D3692http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D369213-Jun-11The NEFA Foundation rsquo s third report on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood examines the developments within as well as the thinking of the Muslim Brotherhood leadership during the past ten years Part I of this series concentrates on the timeframe between December 2002 and January 2004 which beg...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3693http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D369313-Jun-11On June 3 2011 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released its anticipated new video production titled quot Thou Are Held Responsible Only for Yourself quot In the second part of the video As Sahab dedicated a lengthy segment to the field of ldquo electronic jihad rdquo According to As Sa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3690http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D369009-Jun-11On June 8 2011 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released a new recorded message from Dr Ayman al Zawahiri mourning the death of Usama Bin Laden Zawahiri stated ldquo He left as martyr to his Lord the man who defeated America alive and is horrifying her while dead to the point that they a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3691http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D369109-Jun-11On June 3 2011 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released its anticipated new video production titled quot Thou Are Held Responsible Only for Yourself quot As Sahab indicated its hope for this video to quot overcome the hearts of Muslims and incite them to support mujahideen and go for jiha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3687http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D368708-Jun-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqu eacute from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban claiming responsibility for an attack on an Italian military base in Herat Afghanistan Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi claimed that ldquo the firefight and tactical blasts on...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D3688http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D368808-Jun-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from Shabaab al Mujahideen in which Shabaab claimed credit after ldquo members of the special forces clashed with the guards of the Crusader military barracks that operate for the Ugandan forces hellip rdquo The communiqu eacute added that ldquo The ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D3689http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D368908-Jun-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from Shabaab al Mujahideen in which Shabaab claimed credit for ldquo attacks from three different sides on Kolbio village near the Kenyan border rdquo According to the communiqu eacute the ldquo apostates left behind in the battlefield 9 corpses and...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3685http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D368507-Jun-11 Indictment Added 6 07 11 Abdullah Omar Fidse and his wife Deka Abdalla Sheikh allegedly lied to FBI agents and an immigration court which led to charges of conspiracy to make false statements to the Executive Branch in a terrorism investigation Fidse allegedly lied about making quot support...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3686http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D368607-Jun-11 Complaint Added 6 07 11 On May 8 2011 Rageh Ahmed Mohammed Al Murisi repeatedly attempted to breach the cockpit door of American Airlines Flight 1561 from Chicago to San Francisco while shouting quot Allahu Akbar quot He was tackled and subdued before he could do so and arrested upon land...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3684http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D368404-Jun-11NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Associated Press article titled quot FBI trying to confirm ID of Somalia suicide bomber quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3683http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D368301-Jun-11On May 21 2011 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released the 6th audiorecorded episode of Dr Ayman al Zawahiri s quot Message to the Egyptian People quot In the message Zawahiri said ldquo I wish for our Muslim Ummah in Libya to be very careful concerning the NATO plot against Libya ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3680http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D368025-May-11 Indictment Added 5 25 11 In May 2011 Joseph Jeffrey Brice was indicted and charged with manufacturing an unregistered firearm in connection with his manufacture of an explosive device Affidavit Added 5 25 11 According to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court in Washington state Josep...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3679http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D367923-May-11On May 18 2011 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released the final audio message of the quot martyr quot Usama Bin Laden addressed quot to the Muslim Ummah quot In the recording Bin Laden attempted to endorse and encourage ongoing revolutions in Tunisia Egypt Libya and beyond According...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3677http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D367719-May-11Al Qaida s official online logistics agency the quot Fajr Media Center quot has issued a statement regarding the death of Usama Bin Laden The communiqu eacute stated ldquo We advise every Muslim to seize the opportunity hellip do not waste it and do not consult anyone in killing the America...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D3676http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D367619-May-11On October 27 2010 Farooque Ahmed a 34 year old naturalized U S citizen originally from Pakistan was arrested after a six month FBI controlled operation for attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization The FBI became aware of Ahmed after receiving a tip in January 2010 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3678http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D367819-May-11Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP Yemen has issued an official communiqu eacute mourning the quot martyrdom quot of Usama Bin Laden AQAP stated ldquo May the Americans know that the ember of Jihad is hotter and greater than it was before during the life of the Shaykh rdquo AQAP cont...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3674http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D367416-May-11 Indictment Added 5 16 11 The Department of Justice announced the indictment of six individuals located in South Florida and Pakistan on charges of providing financing and other material support to the Pakistani Taliban According to DOJ quot the defendants assisted by others in the United St...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3281http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D328116-May-11 Complaint Added 9 28 09 Michael Finton a k a ldquo Talib Islam quot was charged in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at the federal building in Springfield Ill According to the DOJ quot In his alleged efforts to carry out the plot Finton ultimately dealt with undercover...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D3670http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D367013-May-11The death of Usama bin Laden has resulted in the need for significant adjustments by al Qa ida none more important than the selection of its new Emir In this paper NEFA Foundation Director of Analysis and Research Ron Sandee examines how the founding fathers of al Qa rsquo ida have exhaustively d...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3673http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D367312-May-11NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ron Sandee was quoted in an article on Usama bin Laden s family in Iran by Hans Kuitert and Bart Olmer titled quot Iraanse druk op Al Qaeda quot in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3672http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D367211-May-11NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ron Sandee was quoted in an article on al Qa ida s leadership changes by Hans Kuitert and Bart Olmer titled quot Hoog overleg quot top Al Qaeda in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3671http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D367110-May-11NEFA Senior Investigator and NBC terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann was quoted on MSNBC com in an article titled quot Pakistan may let US question bin Laden s wives quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D3663http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D366309-May-11In this second paper in a series on the Muslim Brotherhood the NEFA Foundation examines the central leadership of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood an organization that is in many ways in better stead than it has been in the past sixty years Said Ramadan a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and so...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3667http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D366708-May-11NEFA Senior Investigator and NBC terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann joins MSNBC to discuss why a number of citizens in Pakistan fear America following the killing of Osama bin Laden ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3666http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D366607-May-11NEFA Senior Investigator and NBC terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann on the terror network s message of revenge to the United States ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3661http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D366107-May-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained the Taliban s Shura Leadership s official statement concerning the death of Usama bin Laden The statement claims quot if the occupying Americans and their allies think that the ranks of the mujahideen and their fighting spirits in Afghanistan and other place of...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3665http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D366506-May-11NEFA Senior Investigator and NBC terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann discusses why Al Qaida is hoping their message announcing bin Laden s death is their attempt at turning the narrative to their favor ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3659http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D365906-May-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated al Qaida s first official statement concerning the death of its Leader The statement claims that quot Sheikh Usama didn t build an organization to die with it and go away with it quot Further it calls on quot our Muslim people in Pakistan over wh...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3664http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D366405-May-11NEFA Senior Investigator and NBC terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann discusses what the computers hard drives and documents might contain and how the US can use them to the country s benefit ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3656http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D365605-May-11On April 28 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a statement on ldquo the 19th anniversary of the victory of the mujahideen in Afghanistan rdquo According to the communication ldquo Almost 1 5 million Afghans hellip sacrificed their lives to reach this great day of r...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3657http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D365705-May-11On April 30 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a statement following the Kandahar jailbreak asserting that it had ldquo clear proofs that the security and intelligence department officials of the Puppet Administration detain miserable residents of the city and students...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3658http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D365805-May-11On April 26 2011 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a statement on the jailbreak in which 541 inmates escape from Kandahar City jail The statement noted that ldquo It is worth mentioning to say that the enemy had greatly focused on the security of the jail following two su...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3655http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D365504-May-11The New York Times cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann as well as a NEFA translation in an article titled quot Bin Laden on New York in His Own Words quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D3653http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D365304-May-11The death of Usama bin Laden will have major and immediate consequences for core al Qa ida In this short paper NEFA examines a range of potential consequences as well as the retaliatory measures that could be taken in response to this week rsquo s events In the coming months factions within AQ ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3475http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D347503-May-11 quot Update on Firearm and Explosives Background Checks Involving Terrorist Watch List Records quot April 2011 nbsp According to newly released GAO data quot in 2010 individuals on the terror watch list were cleared 247 times to purchase guns in the United States quot This data supple...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3668http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D366803-May-11NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ron Sandee was interviewed in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf lsquo al Qaeda zint op wraak rsquo on the death of Bin Laden ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3615http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D361502-May-11 Indictment Added 2 22 11 Federal prosecutors in New York charged seven defendants Maroun Saad Walid Nasr Francis Sourou Ahissou Corneille Ato Martin Raouf Bouraima Alwar Pouryan and Oded Orbach ndash quot for conspiring to provide various forms of support to DEA confidential sources ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3271http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D327102-May-11 Indictment Added 3 10 10 A Texas grand jury indicted 24 year old Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane a citizen of Somalia on two counts of making false statements to federal authorities concerning his association with al Barakat and Al Ittihad Al Islami AIAI According to DOJ Dhakane also quot allegedl...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D3652http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D365228-Apr-11On April 20 2011 Shabaab al Mujahideen declared responsibility for an quot extensive attack on one of the camps of the apostate gangs on the Kenyan borders quot near the Kenyan city of Eil Wak The attack according to the statement resulted in the death of more than 40 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D3650http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D365027-Apr-11On April 17 2011 al Andalus Media the media wing of Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM released a statement titled quot Battle of the Martyr Kamal Abu Haffs quot in which AQIM claimed responsibility for an attack on Algerian Army military barracks near the al Azazga tribal region An arm...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3392http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D339227-Apr-11 DOJ Press Release on Arrests Added 10 28 09 Federal prosecutors in Chicago charged David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana ldquo for their alleged roles in conspiracies to provide material support and or to commit terrorist acts against overseas targets including facilities and employe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D3651http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D365127-Apr-11Khalid Ali Aldawsari a twenty year old college student from Saudi Arabia was arrested by the FBI on February 23 2011 in Lubbock TX after he had acquired lab equipment the main trigger the initiating system and two of the three chemical ingredients required to make the explosive Trinitrophen...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3649http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D364925-Apr-11The NEFA Foundation has released screenshots from a recent As Sahab Media Foundation video titled quot A Weapon of Prayer quot featuring Al Qaida and Taliban military operations in the area of Wardak Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3474http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D347422-Apr-11 quot New AQAP Magazine Encourages Western Readers to Conduct Attacks in the West quot July 2010 In an Unclassified For Official Use Only Joint Note that has become public DHS I amp A and FBI assessed Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula s English language quot Inspire quot magazine ldquo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3648http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D364821-Apr-11On April 14 2011 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released a new message from Dr Ayman al Zawahiri titled quot Message of Hope and Glad Tidings to Our People in Egypt Episode 5 quot Zawahiri divided his message into several sections ldquo The first on the events in the steadfast and mu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3647http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D364718-Apr-11On April 4 2011 Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula rsquo s AQAP al Malahem Media released the fifth issue of its magazine quot Peninsula Martyrs quot which profiles dead AQAP members This issue highlighted the life of Jamil al Anbari aka Abu Saber al Abyani the leader of Al Qaida in Abyan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D3646http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D364612-Apr-11On April 9 2011 former Alabama resident and notorious American jihadi militant in Somalia Omar Hammami a k a quot Abu Mansour al Amriki quot released a new jihadi song on the Internet titled quot Send Me a Cruise rdquo In the song Hammammi sang ldquo You can rsquo t find someone more ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D3645http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D364512-Apr-11Recently a great deal has been said and written on the subject of the Muslim Brotherhood MB and its officials commentators and experts alike place many different labels on the organization including those by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Leslie Gelb former president of t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3533http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D353312-Apr-11 Indictment Added 10 29 10 nbsp Farooque Ahmed of Ashburn Va was charged in a Virginia federal court for attempting to assist others whom he believed to be members of Al Qaida in planning multiple bombings at Metrorail stations in the Washington D C area According to DOJ quot On April ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3644http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D364405-Apr-11Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP Yemen has released the fifth issue of its English language quot Inspire quot Magazine In an interview with AQAP commander Abu Hurairah al Sana rsquo ani al Sana rsquo ani was asked ldquo why the government of al Saud is a legitimate target for the muja...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3642http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D364204-Apr-11Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP Yemen has released the fifth issue of its English language quot Inspire quot Magazine In an article titled ldquo The Tsunami of Change rdquo Shaykh Anwar al Awlaki wrote ldquo Peter Bergen believes that al Qaeda is viewing the events with glee and d...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3643http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D364304-Apr-11Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP Yemen has released the fifth issue of its English language quot Inspire quot Magazine In an article titled ldquo The Egyptian rdquo Samir Khan wrote ldquo The revolution you have experienced in Tahrir Square Alexandria and other places was not an e...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3460http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D346003-Apr-11 CIA Red Cell Memorandum quot What If Foreigners See the United States as an ldquo Exporter of Terrorism rdquo August 2010 A SECRET CIA Red Cell memorandum titled quot What If Foreigners See the United States as an ldquo Exporter of Terrorism rdquo has become public after it...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3641http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D364131-Mar-11 RCMP Press Release on Arrest Added 3 31 11 The RCMP arrested Mohamed Hassan Hersi at Toronto Pearson International Airport as he quot was about to board a plane bound for Cairo Egypt transiting through London England to then go to Somalia quot In Somalia he was planning quot to join Al S...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D3640http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D364031-Mar-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained an interview with Sheikh Mujahid Muhammad al Zawahiri the younger brother of Al Qaida s Dr Ayman al Zawahiri who was released from an Egyptian prison in Egypt earlier this month and subsequently rearrested In the interview he commented ldquo what we are living...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D3638http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D363824-Mar-11On December 8 2010 a 21 year old recent convert to Islam Antonio Martinez a k a Muhammad Hussain attempted to remotely detonate an SUV that he believed to be full of explosives outside a military recruiting center in Catonsville MD in an operation that was controlled by the FBI Baltimore fie...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3627http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D362723-Mar-11 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Guilty Plea Added 3 08 11 Rajib Karim was convicted in the U K of quot supplying an international terrorist with information about airlines which could be used to plot a terrorist attack quot Karim who worked in British Airways IT department in ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3420http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D342023-Mar-11 Complaint Added 11 24 09 Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia indicted Dani Nemr Tarraf charging him with conspiring to acquire anti aircraft missiles FIM 92 Stingers and conspiring to possess machine guns approximately 10 000 Colt M4 Carbines Tarraf was interested in exporting the material...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3637http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D363723-Mar-11On March 20 2011 the Afghan Taliban released a statement condemning the U S and French attacks on Libyan governmental targets asserting that ldquo according to the emerging reports from the oppressed regions throughout this aggression many hellip civilians were killed and also caused huge loss...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3439http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D343917-Mar-11 Complaint Najibullah Zazi Added 9 20 09 In September 2009 FBI agents in Colorado arrested Najibullah Zazi 24 a resident of Aurora Colo and legal permanent resident from Afghanistan and charged him with knowingly and willfully making false statements to the FBI in a matter involving inter...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D3636http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D363616-Mar-11On March 12 2011 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released a new message from senior Al Qaida leader Abu Yahya al Liby quot to our people in Libya quot In the message al Liby said ldquo These uprisings showed that the infidel governments of the West only know their interests and the inte...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D3635http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D363516-Mar-11The NEFA Foundation has released a PowerPoint featuring screenshots of video of an operation by Pakistani Taliban TTP forces in Dar Adam Khel ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3622http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D362215-Mar-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban ldquo regarding the martyrdom of innocent Afghan civilians as a result of merciless American bombardment in Ghazi Abad District Kunar Province rdquo The statement noted ldquo We strongly condemn t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3632http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D363214-Mar-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained an interview with the Administrator of the Taliban rsquo s website In the interview Abdul Sattar Maiwandi explained ldquo Wars today cannot be won without media Media is directed to the heart rather than the body The weapon is directed to the body If the hea...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3633http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D363314-Mar-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained an interview with Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid ldquo regarding Afghanistan rsquo s current political and military situation rdquo He stated that the ldquo Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan does not give any importance to...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3493http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D349314-Mar-11 quot A Ticking Time Bomb Counterterrorism Lessons from the U S Government s Failure to Prevent the Fort Hood Attack A Special Report by Joseph I Lieberman Chairman and Susan M Collins Ranking Member U S Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs quot February ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3634http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D363414-Mar-11 Indictment Added 3 14 11 Federal prosecutors in Maryland indicted Nadeem Akhtar on charges related to a scheme to illegally export items that are used directly or indirectly in activities related to nuclear reactors and the processing and production of nuclear related materials According to DOJ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2826http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D282614-Mar-11 Director of National Intelligence Biography Added 6 23 09 According to the Director of National Intelligence quot Zayan al lsquo Abidin Ahu Zubaydah was a leading extremist facilitator who operated in the Afghanistan Pakistan region from the mid 1990s Bin Ladin recruited him to be one of al...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3246http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D324609-Mar-11 Sealed Information Added 11 18 10 According to this filing in New York federal court Babar quot attempted to and did make and receive a contribution of funds goods and services to and for the benefit of al Qaeda by providing military gear to others who transported the gear to al Qaeda as...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3629http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D362909-Mar-11NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an NBC News article on the release of Al Qaida supporter Mohammed Junaid Babar ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3232http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D323208-Mar-11 Complaint Added 6 08 10 U S citizens Mohamed Mahmood Alessa 20 of North Bergen New Jersey and Carlos Eduardo Almonte 24 of Elmwood Park New Jersey were arrested at JFK International Airport where they intended to take separate flights to Egypt on their way to Somalia to join designated ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3628http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D362808-Mar-11 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Sentencing Added 3 08 11 23 year old Mohammed Gul was sentenced to 5 years in prison in England for creating extremist videos and uploading them onto the Internet According to the Met Police quot Between March 2008 and February 2009 Gul uploaded ex...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3624http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D362407-Mar-11On March 3 2011 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released a new message from Dr Ayman al Zawahiri titled ldquo Message of Hope and Glad Tidings to Our People in Egypt Episode 4 rdquo In the message al Zawahiri urged the Tunisian people to ldquo continue rdquo their ldquo Jihad and res...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3625http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D362507-Mar-11 Complaint Added 3 07 11 Indictment Added 3 07 11 Brahim Lajqi an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo was indicted in Maryland on visa fraud ICE Press Release on Sentencing Added 3 07 11 A federal judge in Maryland sentenced Brahim Lajqi an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo residing in Silv...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2729http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D272907-Mar-11 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Press Release on Charges In June 2006 Canadian authorities arrested seventeen individuals on terrorism related charges Transcript of Royal Canadian Mounted Police News Conference Elaborating on the charges against the Canadian cell Royal Canadian Mounted Police ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3623http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D362303-Mar-11On February 27 2011 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released a new message from Dr Ayman al Zawahiri titled ldquo Message of Hope and Glad Tidings to Our People in Egypt Episode 3 rdquo In the message al Zawahiri stated ldquo My free honorable and dignified brothers what is taking p...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3621http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D362101-Mar-11On February 24 2011 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released a new message from Dr Ayman al Zawahiri titled ldquo Message of Hope and Glad Tidings to Our People in Egypt Episode 2 rdquo In the message al Zawahiri stated ldquo There are some operations that are being attributed to the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3306http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D330601-Mar-11 Indictment Added 11 27 09 Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia indicted four individuals charging them with conspiring to provide material support to Hezbollah quot According to the indictment Hassan Hodroj and Dib Hani Harb attempted to provide material support to Hizballah in the form of ap...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3620http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D362028-Feb-11 DOJ Press Release on Arrest Added 2 28 11 DOJ announced that quot Khalid Ali M Aldawsari 20 a citizen of Saudi Arabia and resident of Lubbock Texas was arrested by FBI agents in Texas on a federal charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in connection with his alleged purch...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3405http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D340524-Feb-11 Indictment In November 2007 prosecutors in New York indicted Tarik Ibn Osman Shah and Rafiq Sabir for conspiring to provide material support to Al Qaida Mahmud Faruq Brent was charged with providing material support to Lashkar e Taiba DOJ Press Release on Guilty Plea Shah In April 2007 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3619http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D361924-Feb-11 Charge Sheet Added 2 24 11 Stipulation of Fact Added 2 24 11 Noor Uthman Muhammed who was captured in Pakistan in 2002 with Abu Zubaydah pled guilty in Guantanamo Bay to providing material support for terrorism According to DOD he quot received weapons and other training at the Khal...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D3618http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D361824-Feb-11In a lengthy brief for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals responding to the Holy Land Foundation s requests to overturn the convictions the Department of Justice noted that quot the government rsquo s evidence established overwhelmingly that the mission and purpose of HLF was to raise funds for Ham...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3616http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D361622-Feb-11 U S Treasury Department Press Release Added 2 22 11 The U S Treasury Department quot announced the identification of The Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL together with its subsidiaries LCB as a financial institution of primary money laundering concern under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act Sec...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3617http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D361722-Feb-11On February 18 2011 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released a new message from Dr Ayman al Zawahiri offering quot glad tidings for our people in Egypt quot nbsp In the statement al Zawahiri asserted that quot Egypt s present state is one of deviation from Islam including corruption ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D3614http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D361417-Feb-11On February 11 2011 quot The Mujahideen Lions in Palestine quot an Al Qaida affiliate that claimed responsibility for the recent fires in Israel released a statement offering its quot congratulations on the fall of Mubarak quot The communication to the Egyptians added quot Do not rest or ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D3610http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D361014-Feb-11On February 7 2011 kavkazcenter com the primary information hub for the Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus released a video featuring Abu Usman a k a Dokku Umarov Emir of the Caucasus Emirate in which Abu Usman claimed responsibility for the January 24th bombing at Moscow s Domodedovo airport ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D3609http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D360914-Feb-11The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan IMU has published a German language message from Mounir Chouka a German national fighting with insurgents on the Afghan Pakistani border who goes by the pseudonym Abu Adam al Almani The message revealed that German Al Qaida member Bekkay Harrach died during ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3613http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D361314-Feb-11On February 13 2011 most wanted Yemeni American cleric Shaykh Anwar al Awlaki issued a new audio recording in order to deliver quot a message to the media rdquo Once again Awlaki s latest audio was released independently of the official Malahem media wing of Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3612http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D361214-Feb-11 Indictment Added 2 14 11 DOJ announced that quot Milad Jafari 36 a citizen and resident of Iran has been indicted for illegally exporting and attempting to export specialized metals from the United States through companies in Turkey to several entities in Iran including some entities that h...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3611http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D361114-Feb-11 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 2 14 11 The U S Treasury Department designated Khalil Al Rahman Haqqani and Said Jan Abd Al Salam two Afghan individuals as Specially Designated Global Terrorists SDGTs under Executive Order E O 13224 A...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D3608http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D360811-Feb-11On February 3 2011 Shabaab al Mujahideen released an official communiqu eacute claiming responsibility for executing a quot spy quot whom Shabaab alleged had been assisting the CIA since 2004 The execution of the quot spy quot took place publically and was recorded and broadcast on the Shab...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3607http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D360711-Feb-11NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an MSNBC article exploring why quot Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri have been notably silent quot quot two weeks into the Egyptian revolution quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3257http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D325710-Feb-11 Indictment Added 7 28 09 A North Carolina jury indicted seven North Carolina residents six of whom were U S citizens and charged them with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists as well as conspiracy to murder kidnap maim and injure persons abroad The indictment alleges that...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3215http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D321509-Feb-11 Indictment Added 12 20 07 Superseding Indictment Added 12 20 07 According to the superseding indictment quot Between in or around September 2002 and on or about June 9 2003 defendant ABU ALI discussed with Coconspirator 2 and Coconspirator 4 plans to assassinate President of the Uni...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3604http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D360409-Feb-11NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article on homegrown terrorism ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D3606http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D360609-Feb-11On January 26 2011 Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM released a second statement directed towards the Tunisian people in which AQIM congratulated the Tunisian people for overthrowing Bin Ali and encouraged Tunisians to be ready to take down the entire system asserting that quot the tyrant ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3605http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D360508-Feb-11NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an NPR article titled quot Agencies Aim To Counter Threat Of Online Extremism quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3602http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D360231-Jan-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban responding to a recent report ldquo claiming that the esteemed Amir ul Momineen Mullah Omar Mujahid had a heart attack and was treated in a hospital in Karachi rdquo The Taliban ldquo categoricall...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D3603http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D360331-Jan-11The NEFA Foundation is providing screenshots from a December 2010 Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan IMU German language propaganda video titled ldquo Glad Tidings from Pakistan rdquo The video features mujahideen combat footage from the tribal regions near the Afghan Pakistani border to includ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3428http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D342831-Jan-11 Complaint Added 9 13 10 Federal prosecutors in Florida charged Abdalaziz Aziz Hamayel and Yanny Aguila Urbay with one count of conspiracy to possess stolen firearms to include M 16s AK 47s and silencers which they planned to send to the West Bank Court documents allege that quot beginning ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2805http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D280527-Jan-11 Director of National Intelligence Biography Added 3 31 08 The Director of National Intelligence reports that Ghailani was an quot al Qa ida document forger and travel facilitator quot who quot rose in stature after 11 September 2001 to become one of al Qa ida s top forgers Although Ghailani...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3600http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D360025-Jan-11On January 22 2011 the As Sahab Media Foundation released a message from Usama Bin Laden to the French people in which he declared ldquo the release of your prisoners from the hands of our brothers is dependent upon the exit of your soldiers from our homelands rdquo He alleged ldquo your pr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3599http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D359925-Jan-11Writing in the fourth edition of ldquo Inspire rdquo the English language magazine released by Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP Yemeni American cleric Shaykh Anwar al Awlaki penned an article titled ldquo The Ruling on Dispossessing the Disbelievers Wealth in Dar al Harb rdquo In th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3598http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D359824-Jan-11 State Department Designation Added 1 24 11 The U S State Department designated Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan TTP leader Qari Hussain under E O 13224 According to State quot Qari Hussain is one of TTP rsquo s top lieutenants and also serves as the trainer and organizer of the group s suicide b...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D3597http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D359724-Jan-11This latest release in the NEFA Foundation rsquo s ldquo Target America rdquo series covers Faisal Shahzad rsquo s May 1 2010 attempt to set off a car bomb in New York City rsquo s Times Square Shahzad a naturalized U S citizen originally from Pakistan lived a seemingly unremarkable life in ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3595http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D359519-Jan-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban reacting to a recent United Nations report on civilian casualties According to the statement ldquo The United Nations Organization has claimed in its recent report that the graph of civilian casualti...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3593http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D359318-Jan-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi ldquo regarding the rumors of rdquo a ldquo ceasefire in Helmand rdquo According to Ahmadi ldquo The rumors are being disseminated by Gulab Mangal mdash Helmand province governor who has been nominated by t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D3592http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D359214-Jan-11On December 24 2010 the Shabaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia announced a merger with its former rival Hizb ul Islam led by Shaykh Hassan Dahir Awey ldquo hellip A fter constant meetings and doctrinal debates between the leadership of al Shabaab al Mujahideen Movement and Hizb ul Islam t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3591http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D359113-Jan-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban on the ldquo 31st anniversary of the Red Army invasion of Afghanistan rdquo ldquo Three decades ago on this day 700 soldiers of the Red Army dressed in the uniform of the Afghan Army killed Hafiz...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3590http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D359012-Jan-11The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban reacting to Senator Lindsay Graham rsquo s assertions that the U S ldquo should maintain permanent military bases in Afghanistan rdquo According to the Taliban ldquo His remarks definitely lifts th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3589http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D358903-Jan-11The Weekly Standard cited NEFA s quot translations of 34 messages and interviews delivered by top al Qaeda leaders operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan quot and noted that NEFA quot does a remarkable job collecting and translating al Qaeda rsquo s statements and interviews quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2725http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D272528-Dec-10 Joint AFP Victoria Police Transcript Added 8 04 09 As Victoria Police Chief Simon Overland explained quot Victoria Police the Australian Federal Police and the Australian law enforcement agencies have worked for seven months on this investigation and the planned act was allegedly to involve ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3216http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D321628-Dec-10 Indictment In March 2007 Abu Jihaad was indicted on terrorism and espionage charges Abu Jihaad who served aboard the U S S Benfold and held a SECRET clearance allegedly emailed Babar Ahmad classified information on the movements of a U S Navy battle group tasked with targeting Al Qaida a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3403http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D340327-Dec-10 Indictment Pirouz Sedaghady a k a Pete Seda and his co defendant Soliman Al Buthe were indicted in Oregon in September 2005 on multiple charges including conspiring to defraud the U S Both served as officials with the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation AHIF a Saudi based charity that operate...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3585http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D358527-Dec-10 Indictment Added 12 27 10 Hossein Lahiji 47 of McAllen Texas Najmeh Vahid 35 of San Antonio Texas and Ahmad Iranshahi 53 of Tehran Iran were charged in Oregon federal court in a two count indictment alleging conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit money laundering Acco...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3586http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D358627-Dec-10 DOJ Press Release on Extradition Added 9 08 09 DOJ announced that Madhatta Haipe a citizen of the Philippines was extradited from the Philippines to stand trial in the District of Columbia As DOJ noted ldquo The indictment alleges that hellip Haipe also known as Commander Haipe led a grou...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3584http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D358423-Dec-10Reuters and Yahoo quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in articles on the Christmas terror threat ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3566http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D356621-Dec-10 Complaint Added 11 29 10 Mohamed Osman Mohamud a naturalized U S citizen from Somalia and resident of Corvallis Ore was arrested on plotting to detonate a vehicle bomb at an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland Oregon The device was inert and had been provided by the FBI as...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3546http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D354621-Dec-10 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Conviction Added 11 08 10 Roshonara Choudhry was convicted in November 2010 for stabbing British MP Stephen Timms on May 14 2010 quot as his punishment for voting in favour of the Iraq war quot Choudhry who did quot not recognise the jurisdictio...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3582http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D358220-Dec-10On December 14 2010 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahamadi responded to the death of Richard Holbrooke President Obama s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan He argued that ldquo The protracted Afghan war and the descending trajectory of the American...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3583http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D358320-Dec-10On December 17 2010 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a statement responding to President Barack Obama rsquo s Afghanistan strategy review In the communication the Taliban stated ldquo The Islamic Emirate believes peace and stability will not return to Afghanistan unle...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3581http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D358116-Dec-10 Affidavit of FBI Special Agent Joseph Lesinski Added 12 16 10 Virginia resident Awais Younis aka Sundullah quot Sunny quot Ghilzai and Mohkhanmed Khan was charged in Virgina federal court for using Facebook to threaten to bomb the DC Metro During a November 2010 Facebook chat Younis a G...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3350http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D335016-Dec-10 Indictment Added 1 26 10 Syrian native Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka was arrested attempting to enter the United States from Canada via the Ambassador Bridge and charged with attempted naturalization fraud false statements and perjury In 1997 and 1998 Masfaka worked as the Detroit area represe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3580http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D358015-Dec-10The New York Times and Reuters quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in articles on the Stockholm suicide bombing ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D3579http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D357914-Dec-10Shortly before bombs exploded in Stockholm on Saturday December 11th a Swedish news agency received a threatening audio message sent from a mobile phone The message blamed the bomber s actions on Lars Vilks the Swedish artist who made a satirical drawing of Muhammad rsquo s head on the body of ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D3577http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D357713-Dec-10The individual responsible for the December 11 2010 suicide bombing in Sweden Taimour Abdaly a k a Taimour Abdel Wahab maintained a profile on a Muslim Internet marriage website According to his profile he was born in Baghdad moved to Sweden and then the U K and was seeking a second wife ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3578http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D357813-Dec-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Reuters article and a Daily Telegraph report on the suicide bombing in Sweden ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3574http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D357409-Dec-10NEFA Senior Analyst Madeleine Gruen authored an article titled quot YouTube s Terror Videos quot in the New York Post ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3576http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D357609-Dec-10 State Department Press Release on Designation Added 12 09 10 The U S State Department designated Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP operative Fahd al Quso as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist According to State quot Prior to the formation of AQAP al Quso was associated with al Q...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3572http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D357207-Dec-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi in which he asserted that ldquo the American invaders have used banned weapons like thermo baric and bunker buster bombs against defenseless civilian Afghans in various parts of the country in the past f...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3571http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D357106-Dec-10 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 12 06 10 The U S Department of the Treasury designated two of Pakistan s most wanted terrorists Lashkar e Jhangvi LJ senior leader Amanullah Afridi and LJ chief operational commander Mati ur Rehman According...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3570http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D357006-Dec-10 Indictment Added 12 06 10 Anaheim California resident Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud was indicted in San Diego federal court for conspiring to provide material support to Shabaab al Mujahideen conspiring to kill in a foreign country and conspiring to launder monetary instruments According to cou...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3569http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D356901-Dec-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban regarding the NATO meeting in Lisbon where ldquo participants hellip passed hellip decisions about Afghanistan rdquo According to the statement ldquo The real solution of the Afghan issue lies in...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3568http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D356830-Nov-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained Mullah Omar rsquo s Eid ul Odha message in which he addresses ldquo rumors of peace talks by the Americans rdquo He commented ldquo The Islamic Emirate still holds its previous stand regarding the current issue of the country Islamic Emirate believes that the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3555http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D355530-Nov-10 Indictment Added 11 17 10 San Diego resident Nima Ali Yusuf has been charged with conspiracy to provide material support to Shabaab al Mujahideen and making false statements to a government agency in a matter involving international terrorism Yusuf was arrested on Nov 12 2010 FBI Pres...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D3567http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D356730-Nov-10 Complaint Added 11 30 10 Relatives of Gavriel Noah Holtzberg a rabbi and his pregnant wife Rivka who were killed by LeT operatives at the Chabad Lubavitch center during the November 2008 Mumbai attack have filed suit in New York federal court against LeT and Pakistan s intelligence agency ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D3560http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D356029-Nov-10The NEFA Foundation has released an update of its quot Target America rdquo report on the 2006 07 plot to attack jet fuel tanks and the adjoining fuel pipeline at New York s John F Kennedy International Airport JFK The attack was conceived by Guyanese American Russell Defreitas a former car...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3565http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D356529-Nov-10On November 20 2010 Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP released the third issue of its official English language magazine quot Inspire quot edited by former North Carolina resident Samir Khan The magazine included an article titled ldquo The Objectives of Operation Hemorrhage rdquo e...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3564http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D356427-Nov-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s report on the Ansar al Mujahideen web forum in the February edition of West Point s Counter Terrorism Sentinel was cited in a Telegraph article about terror linked arrests in Belgium the Netherlands and Germany ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3562http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D356226-Nov-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a New York Daily News article on Jamaican Imam Abdullah el Faisal rsquo s purported desire ldquo to be the next terror big rdquo ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3563http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D356326-Nov-10U S News amp World Report interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article on Yemeni American cleric Anwar al Awlaki ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3559http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D355926-Nov-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained an open letter to the American Congress authored by Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi In the letter Ahmadi counseled ldquo the fear that Afghanistan may turn out to be a threat to the world peace must be put out of your minds as it is a mere baseles...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3561http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D356126-Nov-10 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 11 26 10 The U S Department of the Treasury designated three senior members and financiers of Lashkar e Tayyiba LET as Specially Designated Global Terrorists SDGTs Hafiz Abdur Rauf a member of LET s seni...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3557http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D355722-Nov-10 West Midlands Police Press Release on Arrest Added 11 22 10 U K resident Bilal Zaheer Ahmad was charged with soliciting murder and offenses under the Terrorism Act in connection with a RevolutionMuslim com posting quot that featured a list of British MPs it claimed had voted for the Iraq war q...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3556http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D355622-Nov-10 Complaint Added 11 22 10 Arrested in connection with the Times Square bomb plot Aftab Ali has been charged in Massachusetts federal court with immigration document fraud and making false statements Ali allegedly provided Shahzad with 4 999 in February 2010 as part of a hawala transaction Fur...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D3558http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D355822-Nov-10In September 2010 Pirouz Sedaghaty the former leader of the U S branch of the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation was convicted in Oregon federal court of two felonies related to the organization rsquo s efforts to send nearly 150 000 to support mujahideen in Chechnya Federal prosecutors in Oregon ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3554http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D355416-Nov-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained an interview with Haji Ahmad Saeed Head of Operations in Kandahar City According to the Taliban official ldquo The government in Kandahar is barely capable of defending itself We can see that the Kandahar government has no staff or functioning bureaucracy Its ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3552http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D355215-Nov-10Fox News cited quot the respected NEFA Foundation quot in an article on the reported promotion of Saif Al Adel to quot one of Al Qaeda s top operational position s quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3553http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D355312-Nov-10Fox News cited NEFA rsquo s translation of AQAP rsquo s claim of responsibility for the failed mail bomb plot targeting U S cargo planes ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3551http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D355110-Nov-10 Indictment Added 11 10 10 nbsp St Louis resident Mohamud Abdi Yusuf was indicted in Missouri federal court on four charges of providing material support to Shabaab al Mujahideen Minneapolis resident Abdi Mahdi Hussein was also indicted on a charge of conspiracy to structure financial transact...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3548http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D354809-Nov-10 Treasury Department Press Release Added 11 09 10 The U S Treasury Department quot targeted the financial and support networks of Pakistan based terrorist organizations Lashkar e Tayyiba LET and Jaish e Mohammed JEM Treasury took action against Azam Cheema who helped train operatives for ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3549http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D354909-Nov-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained an audiotape message from Usama Bin Laden addressed quot to the French people quot In the tape he explained quot The subject of my speech is the reasons behind the threat to your security and the capture of your children And I say what happened with the captu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3550http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D355009-Nov-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained an interview with Maulavi Abdul Kabir a member of the Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Taliban and the Coordinating Chief of the Eastern Provinces Asked ldquo about the establishment of the peace council its importance and the effectiven...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3544http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D354408-Nov-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban ldquo regarding the latest organized enemy propaganda rdquo According to the statement ldquo The NATO forces in Afghanistan in collaboration with their Afghan puppets and western media outlets unde...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D3545http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D354508-Nov-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a joint statement issued by the ldquo military wings of the Palestinian resistance factions rdquo According the statement ldquo Hundreds of political detainees and resistance members from all resistance factions are still in the PA jails Yesterday Sheikh Kha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3543http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D354308-Nov-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new audiotape of Al Qaida deputy commander Ayman al Zawahiri appealing for quot revenge quot on behalf of the jailed Dr Aafia Siddiqui In the tape Al Zawahiri sent the following message to America on Aafia quot be arrogant as you wish the Is...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3547http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D354708-Nov-10 Secretary of State Designation Added 11 08 10 On November 3 2010 the U S Secretary of State designated quot Jundallah a violent extremist organization that operates primarily in the province of Sistan va Balochistan of Iran as a Foreign Terrorist Organization FTO quot According to the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3542http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D354206-Nov-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained an official communique released by Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claiming responsibility for the thwarted bomb plot targeting UPS and FedEx cargo jets The communique also claimed responsibility for the Sept 3 crash of a UPS cargo plane in Dubai The statement...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D3539http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D353903-Nov-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement in which Hamas said the ldquo Director of the New York Representative Office of the UN rsquo s Relief Works Agency UNRWA should be dismissed over scoffi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3540http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D354003-Nov-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban titled ldquo US War In Afghanistan Unjustifiable Unwinnable and Intolerable rdquo The Taliban asserted that ldquo The US invasion of Afghanistan extending over a period of more than 10 years has...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3541http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D354103-Nov-10 Indictment Added 11 03 10 San Diego residents Basaaly Saeed Moalin Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud aka Mohamed Khadar and Issa Doreh were charged in California federal court with conspiracy to provide material support to Shabaab al Mujahideen According to the indictment quot Moalin Mohamud and D...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2813http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D281302-Nov-10 DOD Press Release on Sentencing Added 11 02 10 Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr was sentenced to 40 years in confinement after admitted quot to throwing a grenade that killed Army Sgt 1st Class Christopher Speer after a firefight between Khadr and his associates and coalition forces Khadr admit...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D3538http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D353801-Nov-10 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 11 01 10 The U S Department of the Treasury named Saleh Mohammad Kakar and Haji Agha Jan Alizai two Afghan narcotics traffickers operating in Helmand and Kandahar Provinces as Specially Designated Global Terro...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3534http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D353429-Oct-10 Complaint Added 10 29 10 nbsp Abdel Hameed Shehadeh a U S citizen and resident of Hawaii was charged in New York federal court with making false statements in a matter involving international terrorism As DOJ explained quot in early 2008 Shehadeh at the time a resident of Staten Island ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3532http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D353227-Oct-10On October 22 2010 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation released a new video recorded message from American Al Qaida spokesman Adam Yehiye Gadahn titled quot The Arabs And Muslims Between the Conferences of Desertion and the Individual Duty of Jihad quot In the video Gadahn argued that ldqu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3529http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D352927-Oct-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained an interview with Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP ldquo Vice Emir rdquo Said Al Shihri a k a Shaykh Abu Sufyan from AQAP rsquo s ldquo Inspire rdquo magazine During the interview Al Shihri urged Muslims in the West to ldquo strive to follow the co...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3528http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D352826-Oct-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained an article authored by Yemeni American cleric Anwar al Awlaki published in Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula rsquo s ldquo Inspire rdquo magazine titled ldquo The New Mardin Declaration An Attempt at Justifying the New World Order rdquo As al Awlaki explained...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3434http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D343426-Oct-10 Superseding Indictment In November 2006 federal prosecutors in Houston Texas announced the indictments of Kobe Diallo Williams a U S citizen and Adnan Babar Mirza a Pakistani national who overstayed his student visa for quot conspiring to train with firearms with a goal to fight with the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3530http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D353026-Oct-10 Complaint Added 10 26 10 nbsp Queens resident Syed Omair Ali was charged for making false statements to federal investigator for alleging that ldquo several individuals were planning to commit a terrorist attack in the United States quot One of the men according to Ali had quot ties wit...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2661http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D266125-Oct-10 Compaint Added 8 04 10 In a lawsuit filed in D C federal court the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights CCR sued Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner quot challenging the government rsquo s claim that it had the power to target and kill U S citizens suspected of terrorist crime away ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3244http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D324425-Oct-10 Warrant for Arrest Added 12 11 09 In June 2002 a warrant was issued in federal court in Colorado for the arrest of Al Qaida linked cleric Anwar al Awlaki for making a false statement on a passport application The warrant was subsequently rescinded David Gaouette the Assistant U S Attorney w...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D3527http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D352725-Oct-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained an article authored by former New York and North Carolina resident Samir Khan in Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula rsquo s ldquo Inspire rdquo magazine titled ldquo I Am Proud to be a Traitor To America rdquo Khan noted ldquo I knew that while in America I...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1921http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D192125-Oct-10The document names an array of individuals including those who raised money on behalf of HLF belonged to the U S Muslim Brotherhood s Palestinian Committee or were part of the quot global Hamas financing mechanism quot In June 2008 the North American Islamic Trust NAIT and the Islamic Soci...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2117http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D211725-Oct-10The document names an array of individuals including those who raised money on behalf of HLF belonged to the U S Muslim Brotherhood s Palestinian Committee or were part of the quot global Hamas financing mechanism quot In October 2010 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the co c...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3526http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D352625-Oct-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban ldquo regarding the Security Council rsquo s decision to extend rdquo ldquo the unjustified foreign invasion in the country rdquo The statement noted that ldquo In our view the UNSC on the basi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3418http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D341820-Oct-10 Complaint Added 9 27 09 In September 2009 Hosam Maher Husein Smadi a 19 year old Jordanian citizen who was in the U S illegally was arrested and charged after he placed an inert inactive car bomb near Fountain Place a 60 story glass office tower in downtown Dallas According to DOJ ldquo ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3213http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D321318-Oct-10 Complaint Added 10 30 09 Federal prosecutors in Detroit charged Luqman Abdullah and 10 others quot with conspiracy to commit several federal crimes including theft from interstate shipments mail fraud to obtain the proceeds of arson illegal possession and sale of firearms and tampering with...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3522http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D352218-Oct-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban interview with Laghman Province s Jihadi Military Commander Maulawi Najeebullah Haqqani According to the Taliban Haqqani was with the Islamic Emirate from its humble beginnings where he participated in the victoriou...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3523http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D352314-Oct-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban on the Ninth Anniversary of American Invasion of Afghanistan The statement noted that Every day tens of foreign invaders lose their lives Throughout the past nine years neither they have been a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3492http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D349213-Oct-10 ldquo Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan rdquo October 2010 The Senate Armed Services Committee released a report titled ldquo Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan rdquo According to the Commi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3217http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D321713-Oct-10 Indictment Added 4 19 08 In September 2006 a grand jury in Fresno California indicted Amen Ahmed Ali of Bakersfield Mohamed Al Rahimi of Bakersfield and Ibrahim A Omer of Fort Worth quot on charges relating to the acquisition and transmission of secret defense information and the export of...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3406http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D340611-Oct-10 DOJ Press Release on Arrest Added 5 04 10 Attorney General Eric Holder announced that quot Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and detectives of the New York City Police Department arrested Faisal Shahzad for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1 201...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3380http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D338008-Oct-10 Indictment Added 2 21 09 In February 2009 federal prosecutors in California indicted Tustin resident Ahmadullah Sais Niazi for lying on his naturalization and passport documentation about his ties to Al Qaida Hezb e Islami Gulbuddin and or the Taliban Niazi s sister is married to Dr Amin al...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3519http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D351908-Oct-10 quot Audit of NRC rsquo s Oversight of the Access Authorization Program for Nuclear Power Plants quot October 2010 As the Nuclear Regulatory Commission s Office of the Inspector General explained quot Sharif Mobley was arrested and charged in Yemen as a suspected member of al Qaeda in Ma...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3518http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D351808-Oct-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained an interview with the Taliban rsquo s military commander for Kandahar province In the interview Mullah Muhammad Isa Akhond claimed that ldquo the enemy hellip has not gained any significant ground against Mujahideen in Zhiri Dand and Maiwand districts so far in...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3517http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D351707-Oct-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban reacting ldquo to the remarks of General Petraeus rdquo who ldquo claimed that some high ranking officials of Taliban Islamic Emirate have contacted the Karzai Administration The Islamic Emirat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3473http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D347307-Oct-10 quot Testimony of FBI Director Robert Mueller Before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee quot September 2010 Testifying before the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee during a hearing titled quot Nine Years after 9 11 Confronting the Terrorist Th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3353http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D335307-Oct-10 Complaint Added 8 06 10 Federal agents in Chicago arrested Chicago resident and U S citizen Shaker Masri who they allege quot was planning to travel to Somalia quot quot where he hoped to join the specially designated terrorist group al Shabaab and commit a suicide attack targeting infidel...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D3516http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D351607-Oct-10The NEFA Foundation has released its fourth report in a series on extremist ideologues with influence in the West This report profiles Zakir Naik a Muslim orator from Mumbai India who has millions of fans around the world including many in the U S who he reaches through live lectures and throu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3463http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D346306-Oct-10 quot American Jihadist Terrorism Combating a Complex Threat quot September 2010 In a report titled quot American Jihadist Terrorism Combating a Complex Threat quot the Congressional Research Service quot describes homegrown violent jihadists and the plots and attacks that have occurr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3486http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D348606-Oct-10 quot Testimony of NCTC Director Michael Leiter Before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee quot September 2010 Testifying before the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee during a hearing titled quot Nine Years after 9 11 Confronting the Terrorist...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3501http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D350106-Oct-10 quot Audit of USAID West Bank and Gaza s Assistance to Al Quds University the Islamic University in Gaza and American Near East Refugee Aid quot December 2007 The audit concluded that quot USAID West Bank and Gaza did not always follow applicable Federal laws regulations or USAID polic...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3514http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D351406-Oct-10The NEFA Foundation is releasing screenshots from an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban video recording featuring recent suicide bombers in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3515http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D351506-Oct-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban reacting to the American request for deployment of Bangladeshi troops The Taliban commented We do not expect that Bangladesh which is predominantly Muslim country will be prepared to participate...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3415http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D341528-Sep-10 Complaint Added 8 5 08 Aafia Siddiqui a Pakistani who studied at MIT and Brandeis was allegedly arrested on July 17 2008 by the Afghanistan National Police outside the Ghazni governor s compound When she was searched quot they found numerous documents describing the creation of explosives...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3509http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D350927-Sep-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban concerning the American led elections that took place According to the communication The people of Afghanistan did not participate in these elections and by doing so proved to the invaders and the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3510http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D351026-Sep-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was cited in a Herald Scotland article on nbsp Anwar al Awlaqi titled quot How the Internet Cultivated the New Bin Laden quot nbsp ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3451http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D345123-Sep-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban regarding the anniversary of the 9 11 event in which the Taliban lamented that Americans are bent on continuing the occupation of Afghanistan under the same hackneyed pretext by further prolonging a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D3454http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D345422-Sep-10The NEFA Foundation is releasing screenshots from an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan IMU video of a nighttime assault on a Pakistani army base in the northwest border region of Pakistan The video includes footage of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D3453http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D345321-Sep-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement in which Hamas mourned Iyad Shelbaieh Who was martyred on Friday 17 9 2010 after the Zionist occupation forces assassinated him in cold blood when the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3450http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D345020-Sep-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban titled Message of Felicitation of the Esteemed Amir ul Momineen on the Eve of Eid ul Fitr Addressing the American Rulers and the Misinformed American People Mullah Omar asserted After nine ye...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3511http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D351120-Sep-10NEFA nbsp reports and documents from the NEFA site are cited repeatedly in the Congressional Research Service report quot American Jihadist Terrorism Combating a Complex Threat quot nbsp ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D3446http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D344616-Sep-10On September 15 2010 Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation published a statement by Dr Ayman al Zawahiri titled A Victorious Ummah A Broken Crusade Nine Years After the Start of the Crusader Campaign In the message Zawahiri asserted that Change in Egypt and other Islamic lands won t be ach...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3449http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D344913-Sep-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban titled A Request to the Muslim Ummah Pray for the Victory of Mujahideen and the Defeat of Invaders In the communication the Taliban stated Today our Muslim Ummah is facing a lot of hardships by...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3448http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D344807-Sep-10Al Qaida s As Sahab Media has released a video clip of an 82mm rocket attack on a military base in Afghanistan s eastern Kunar province The NEFA Foundation is providing select screenshots from the video The As Sahab Media Foundation is the official propaganda arm of Al Qaida and is the exclusive s...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D3447http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D344703-Sep-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban in which the Taliban challenged claims by General Petraeus in his interviews with the mainstream media outlets that the invading forces have made considerable progress in the central and southern part...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D3452http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D345203-Sep-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement in which Hamas claimed responsibility for the killing of four Israelis in Kiryat Arba The statement noted that these operations are part of the repelling...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1882http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D188231-Aug-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a statement regarding the recent civilian casualties report by UNAMA in which the Taliban asserts that it appears crystal clear that the report is based on political expedience exaggeration and propaganda instead of surfacing the facts...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1883http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D188331-Aug-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban in which Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi responded to comments by The commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan David Petraeus who said that the momentum of the Taliban has been reversed in the s...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D3444http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D344431-Aug-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann nbsp testified nbsp as an expert witness on behalf of the Department of Justice in the trial of Al Haramain Islamic Foundation official Pirouz Sedaghaty a k a Pete Seda ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1880http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D188023-Aug-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a statement titled Allies No Longer Willing to Cover Up Inevitable Defeat in which the Taliban argued that As things stand there is a growing tendency among the mainstream media to unveil the facts and figures of the war and what is...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1873http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D187319-Aug-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a statement titled Response of the Spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan about Civilian Casualties Survey Responding to a UN report blaming the Mujahideen for most of the civilian casualties the Taliban announced that it ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1875http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D187519-Aug-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a statement addressing whether the public execution of a woman was Real or Rhetorical Propaganda According to the Taliban mainstream media outlets have nothing to do with propagating the ground realities in Afghanistan What they re...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1879http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D187917-Aug-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was nbsp quoted in National Defense Magazine in an article titled quot Social Scientists and Mathematicians Join the Hunt for Terrorists quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1881http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D188116-Aug-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a statement regarding the US setup of the new Local Militia which is intended to assist the Afghan National Police in rural areas According to the communiqu The attempt by the US invaders to set up Local Militia is an indirect pl...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1870http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D187016-Aug-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement in which Hamas announced that an Israeli assault on the Deir al Balah camp in the Central Area of Gaza strip at dawn on Monday 02 08 2010 was an attemp...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1871http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D187116-Aug-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a posting from the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement in which Hamas senior official Khaled Mishaal described the Ramallah authority s negotiations with the Israeli occupation authority IOA as worthless The comm...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1869http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D186913-Aug-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement in which Hamas announced that ldquo The Palestinian PM President in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh named his newborn grandson in Gaza City after the Turkish Prime M...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1878http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D187813-Aug-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a communiqu titled Gen Petraeus New War Strategy Mass Murder in which the Taliban stated the only accomplishment Gen Petraeus has made so far is civilian casualties mass murder which has to be considered his new war strategy and ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1867http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D186712-Aug-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a communiqu praising the Dutch withdrawal from Afghanistan and urging other NATO countries to follow With the US bankrupting itself in the war and bringing its empire to the verge of collapse the Dutch troops withdrawal is undoubtedly ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1842http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D184210-Aug-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a communiqu responding to a Time magazine cover story featuring a picture of Aisha an 18 year old who had her nose and ears cut off on orders from the Taliban because she fled abusive in laws According to the Taliban This picture publi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1866http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D186610-Aug-10 The Uyghur led Turkestan Islamic Party TIP a Central Asian jihadist movement allied with the Taliban and based along the Afghan Pakistani border has released a new video of a TIP run madrassa for children The video includes footage of both young boys and girls receiving instruction and i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D1808http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D180809-Aug-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communication released by Kavkaz Center the official mouthpiece of the Chechen insurgents in which details of the raid on the Baksan hydropower plant in the Kabardino Balkaria Republic were released at least 6 Caucasian Mujahideen in masks and camouflage cloths...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1841http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D184106-Aug-10Al Qaida s As Sahab Media has released a new video clip of a mortar attack on a military base in Afghanistan s eastern Kunar province The NEFA Foundation is providing select screenshots from the video The As Sahab Media Foundation is the official propaganda arm of Al Qaida and is the exclusive sou...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1840http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D184004-Aug-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban released a communiqu concerning the Kabul Conference in which the Taliban asked How can a five hour long conference in Kabul come up with a succinct and rational solution to the financial economic administrative and security problems which have...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D1807http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D180703-Aug-10According to a statement obtained by the NEFA Foundation Caucasus Emirates leader Doku Umarov announced that in case of his death commanders of the Mujahideen and governors of provinces of the Caucasus Emirate should pledge bayat oath to Emir Aslambek and obey him as long as long as Emir Aslamb...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1839http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D183902-Aug-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a communiqu following the dismissal of General Stanley McChrystal in which Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmedi asserted that the Al Fath Operation resulted in the sacking of most powerful American general This operation will continue...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1789http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D178927-Jul-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained an As Sahab video titled Jihad in Pakistan Reasons and Motives featuring Dr Ahmad Farooq the head of Al Qaida in Pakistan s media wing In the video Farooq stated anyone who understands the Jihad in Afghanistan against America should logically understand th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1838http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D183826-Jul-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a statement announcing the capture of a U S soldier and noting that the captive was taken to a safe place the search may be in vain A photo of the soldier s identification was included in the Taliban release Taliban spokesman Zabiull...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1804http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D180426-Jul-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a statement announcing the capture of a U S soldier and noting that the captive was taken to a safe place the search may be in vain A photo of the soldier s identification was included in the Taliban release Taliban spokesman Zabiull...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D1708http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D170826-Jul-10The NEFA Foundation has released the 26th report in the Target America series a PowerPoint presentation on a cluster of men originally from the Boston area and their associates Members of this cluster sought to join Al Qaida forces overseas to kill Americans and also contemplated an attack in a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1799http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D179920-Jul-10NEFA Director of Research and Analysis Ron Sandee was nbsp interviewed live by John Scott on Fox News regarding Al Qaeda s online magazine Inspire and its suspected American editor nbsp nbsp See interview nbsp here nbsp ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1791http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D179120-Jul-10 Inspire the English language magazine released by Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP includes an article titled Umar al Faruq al Nigri a k a Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab In Response to the American Aggression on Yemen According to the article Abdulmutallab managed to penetrate all de...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1796http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D179619-Jul-10 Inspire the English language magazine released by Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP published an interview with Nasir al Wahishi aka Shaykh Abu Basir the head of Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula Asked What does Al Qaida want from the West for it to stop targeting it Abu Basir res...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1801http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D180119-Jul-10NEFA Director of Strategic Operations nbsp David Draper nbsp was nbsp quoted on FoxNews com nbsp regarding the suspected editor in chief of nbsp Al Qaeda slick new online magazine Inspire ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1770http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D177015-Jul-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqu from Shabaab al Mujahideen claiming responsibility for the dual bombings in Kampala Uganda that killed over 70 According to the communiqu With the atrocities perpetrated by Uganda against the Muslim Somali population escalating her forces serving ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1795http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D179515-Jul-10Writing in Inspire the English language magazine released by Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP Yemeni American cleric Shaykh Anwar al Awlaki penned an article titled May Our Souls be Sacrificed for You In the article Awlaki wrote A cartoonist out of Seattle Washington named Molly...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1837http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D183713-Jul-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a communiqu titled The US Has to Get Out of Afghanistan Why Not Today The communication warned that the invading United States of America will suffer the most catastrophic military setback in its history Further The surprise at...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1800http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D180012-Jul-10NEFA Director of Research and Analysis Ron Sandee was nbsp interviewed on KFI nbsp Radio Los Angeles regarding nbsp Somalia s Al Qaeda linked Al Shabab nbsp attack on Word Cup soccer fans watching the tournament s finale in Uganda s capital Kampala nbsp Related article nbsp here nbsp Scroll to ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1798http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D179811-Jul-10NEFA was cited by Fox News nbsp following the release of Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula s 67 page English language magazine Inspire ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1797http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D179730-Jun-10NEFA was cited in a nbsp Fox News nbsp article on the impending release of Inspire Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula s English language magazine ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1767http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D176728-Jun-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement highlighting recent Taliban operations in Pakistan including those that involved clashes shooting operations and explosive devices For example according to the communication A clash occurred between your Taliban brothers and the apostate poli...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1836http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D183624-Jun-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained the third part of an article titled Jalaluddin Haqqani a Legend in the History of the Afghanistan Jihad from Al Somood a monthly Islamic magazine published by the Taliban s media center The first two installments of this Al Somood series can be viewed here and...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1695http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D169524-Jun-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained the third part of an article titled ldquo Jalaluddin Haqqani a Legend in the History of the Afghanistan Jihad rdquo from Al Somood a monthly Islamic magazine published by the Taliban rsquo s media center The first two installments of this Al Somood series can ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1794http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D179423-Jun-10The NEFA Foundation has published an original copy of a letter written by Ronald Rose attorney for the Kansas based Charitable Society for Social Welfare CSSW an Islamic charitable group which featured Yemeni American cleric Anwar al Awlaki on its board of directors Despite recent statements...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1835http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D183521-Jun-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a Q A session with Sirajuddin Haqqani by members of the Ansar al Mujahideen Arabic forum According to the U S State Department Sirajuddin Haqqani a senior leader of the Haqqani terrorist network founded by his father Jalaladin Haqqani maintains ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1759http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D175921-Jun-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a new video recording of most wanted American Al Qaida spokesman Adam Yehiye Gadahn titled Legitimate Demands Part 2 Barack s Dilemma During the video produced by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation Gadahn addressed President Obama I know th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1856http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D185616-Jun-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement titled Thomas Jews Do Not Belong in Israel Responding to White House correspondent Helen Thomas comments that Jews in Israel should go home to ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1834http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D183411-Jun-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a communiqu regarding the Gaza aid flotilla In the statement the Taliban called on Muslim rulers and people of the world to come forward in support and defense of the Muslim people of Palestine and follow Turkey s footsteps and fulfil...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1697http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D169710-Jun-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s 2006 paper on IHH was cited in The Washington nbsp Post ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1833http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D183308-Jun-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a communiqu regarding reports about talks between representatives of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the Kabul surrogate Administration Labeling the reports baseless rumor the statement noted that the Islamic Emirate of Afg...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1832http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D183207-Jun-10Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation has released new video of a mujahideen ambush on crusader forces in Afghanistan s Kunar province The NEFA Foundation is providing screenshots from the video ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1855http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D185507-Jun-10The NEFA Foundation is releasing images of a photo of representatives of the Turkish Islamic charity Insani Yardim Vakfi IHH speaking at an IHH sponsored event celebrating the martyrdom of senior Hamas leader Mohammad Said Seyam U S State Department spokesman P J Crowley previously told repor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1698http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D169806-Jun-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s 2006 paper on IHH was cited in a nbsp request from Senator Charles Schumer nbsp that the State Department quot conduct a thorough and exhaustive investigation of IHH logistical financial and political support for terrorist groups quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1831http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D183103-Jun-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a communiqu from spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid responding to reports of the murder of 12 students in Ghazni province According to Zabiullah Mujahid no one has been killed in Ghazni on a charge of being a student of a school It is...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1752http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D175228-May-10NEFA Director of Research and Analysis Ron Sandee s report titled Connecting the Dots Operation Gibraltar A Foiled Al Qaida Plot Against NATO Ships nbsp was referenced in the Spanish online publication europasur es nbsp and NEFA s analysis of the World Cup terror threat nbsp was covered in the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1749http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D174927-May-10NEFA Director of Research and Analysis Ron Sandee was quoted by the German weekly news magazine Stern in an article titled Terror Expert Al Qaeda Threatened the World Cup ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1750http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D175027-May-10NEFA Director of Research and Analysis Ron Sandee was quoted by the nbsp Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera in an article titled Experts The World Cup in South Africa is an attraction for the terrorists plans ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1751http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D175127-May-10NEFA Director of Research and Analysis Ron Sandee was interviewed live on Dutch Radio 1 NOS nbsp and quoted in Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1748http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D174826-May-10NEFA nbsp was nbsp referenced by Danish Newspaper Berlingske in an article titled nbsp Think Tank Warns of World Cup Terror Threat ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1830http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D183025-May-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a communiqu regarding the 31st anniversary of the communist coup d tat in Afghanistan which the Taliban considers to be the beginning of the ongoing tragedies of the three decade According to the statement The Americans like the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D1707http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D170725-May-10The NEFA Foundation has released its 25th report in the Target America series a PowerPoint presentation on the attempted terrorist attack on Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009 The attempt was perpetrated by 23 year old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab a Nigerian raised in a well to do family ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1829http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D182924-May-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and released a composite of screenshots from an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Taliban video depicting a Taliban attack and conquest of a U S base in eastern Nurestan province in Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1854http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D185419-May-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement titled Our Messages to the USA Clarify Our Positions According to the statement Osama Hamdan Hamas representative in Lebanon asserted that the Ame...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1828http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D182818-May-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a communiqu warning of the commencement of a spring operation by the name of Al Faath victory to be launched against Americans NATO members and their surrogates on May 10th The statement noted that the Al Faath operations will tar...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1778http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D177814-May-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of an audio taped message originally released March 17th from Yemeni American cleric Shaykh Anwar al Awlaki titled A Call to Jihad In the communication al Awlaki asked So if America failed to defeat the Mujahideen when it gave its President unl...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1769http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D176913-May-10The Alqimmah online jihad forum has released a new rap song performed by Alabama native Omar Hammami a k a Abu Mansoor the American on the battlefield in Somalia The song is titled First Stop Addis and is accompanied by a Shabaab al Mujahideen video montage The NEFA Foundation is providing t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1827http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D182711-May-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and released a composite of screenshots from As Sahab Media Foundation videos of rocket attacks near the central Afghan city of Ghazni The videos show mujahideen fighters during a launch sequence without the aid of a launcher Sandbags are filled and used to provide...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1766http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D176611-May-10The NEFA Foundation has released numerous Special Reports as well as original interviews with the leadership of the Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan TTP identified as the sponsor of the failed car bomb plot targeting Times Square Those reports include Hakimullah Mehsud s Autobiographical Handwritten N...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1826http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D182607-May-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and released screenshots from an As Sahab Media Foundation video of two separate rocket attacks on enemy bases in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost The videos show Mujahideen fighters carrying a launcher and rockets to high ground overlooking the intended ta...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1758http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D175806-May-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communication from Sheikh Abu Yahya al Liby entitled Quraidhah and America A Breeding Ground for Treachery and a Fountain of Evil Al Liby argues that America deserves to be fought and invaded in their own lands solely due to the crimes they have committed and...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1747http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D174705-May-10NEFA Director of Research and Analysis Ron Sandee was interviewed live on nbsp Dutch Radio 1 nbsp regarding the Times Square bomb plot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1746http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D174604-May-10NEFA Director of Research and Analysis Ron Sandee s report titled Connecting the Dots Operation Gibraltar A Foiled Al Qaida Plot Against NATO Ships nbsp was quoted in The Gibraltar Chronicle in an article titled nbsp Al Qaida Team Came to GIB Twice ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1765http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D176504-May-10 Abdul Gaffar al Almani better known as Eric Breininger a German convert to Islam from Neuenkirchen in Saarland traveled to Pakistan in 2007 and joined the Islamic Jihad Union IJU According to a newly released statement Breininger and Selahaddin al Turki the leader of the IJU s Elif Media ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1825http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D182503-May-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained the second part of an article titled Jalaluddin Haqqani a Legend in the History of the Afghanistan Jihad Demolishing the Myth of the Red Army in Paktia from Al Somood a monthly Islamic magazine published by the Taliban s media center ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1704http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D170401-May-10The NEFA Foundation has released a PowerPoint report that examines the 2007 London and 2010 New York car bomb plots At 1 24am on June 29 2007 British born doctor Bilal Abdulla parked a green Mercedes outside London s Tiger Tiger nightclub which was packed with over 500 hundred revelers on a Frid...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1824http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D182429-Apr-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained an article titled Jalaluddin Haqqani a Legend in the History of the Afghanistan Jihad Part 1 from Al Somood a monthly Islamic magazine published by the Taliban s media center As the leader of the Haqqani network along with his son Sirajuddin Jalaluddin Ha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1863http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D186328-Apr-10Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM has announced the release of Spanish hostage Alicia G mez who was released according to the AQIM after consenting to convert to Islam The NEFA Foundation has obtained and released a photo of G mez alongside her Barcelona Accio Solidaria colleagues Albert Vi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1853http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D185327-Apr-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a document released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement in which the group vows to foil the Israeli deportation decision against Palestinians living in the West Bank as they did before in Marj Al Zohoor in 1...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1823http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D182323-Apr-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and released screenshots from an As Sahab Media Foundation video of a suicide truck bomb attack on an enemy base in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1764http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D176416-Apr-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a statement from the Turkestan Islamic Party TIP in which TIP affirmed that the armed jihad is the method of the Turkestan Islamic Party to solve the affairs of Turkestan and all the mujahideen inside Turkestan and outside belong to us And any ot...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1763http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D176315-Apr-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a statement from the Turkestan Islamic Party TIP in which TIP alleged that Recently a private website was launched in the name of the Turkestan Islamic Party on the internet www tipislam net and we inform you that it has no connection or relatio...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1793http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D179313-Apr-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained the first issue of the Martyrs of the Arabian Peninsula released by Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQP which records the life and death of Abu Jandal al Qasami a k a Ibrahim Saleh Mujahid al Khalifa After arriving in Yemen he learned much about weapons a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1862http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D186206-Apr-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communiqu from Al Qaida s network in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM in which AQIM claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a military outpost in Niger which killed and wounded no less than 25 soldiers according to the preliminary report Accord...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1703http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D170302-Apr-10The NEFA Foundation has released a report titled Operation Gibraltar A Foiled Al Qaida Plot Against NATO Ships the second installment in NEFA s Connecting the Dots series After 9 11 one of Al Qaida s first significant conspiracies was to plan an attack on American and British naval ships ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1702http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D170201-Apr-10In a new series of short reports titled Connecting the Dots NEFA analysts touch on a wide range of subjects concerning various aspects of terrorism When vital information is treated as historical it can lose its impact relating to current events Reflection and re evaluating documents articles...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1852http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D185201-Apr-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a document released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement in conjunction with the sixth anniversary of the death of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin Originally released on March 22 2004 in response to the death...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1851http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D185131-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a document released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement mourning the sixth anniversary of the death of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin The document details Yassin s life from his childhood to his death in 200...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1850http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D185029-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement addressing the March 26th operation in which two Israeli soldiers were killed According to the communiqu which includes an interview with one of the Ham...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1745http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D174528-Mar-10NEFA Director of Research and Analysis Ron Sandee was quoted in Danish Newspaper Berlingske article titled nbsp Denmark Equals Money and Prestige in Terror Circles ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1822http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D182226-Mar-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban have released a communiqu condemning the irresponsible remarks of Kei Eide former UN Envoy to Afghanistan who told media that he had held secret meeting with some high ranking members of the Islamic Emirate in order to proceed with the peace p...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1777http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D177722-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a new communication from Yemeni American cleric Shaykh Anwar al Awlaki titled Western Jihad is Here to Stay In the message al Awlaki stated The Jihad movement has not only survived but is expanding Isn t it ironic that the two capitals of the w...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1821http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D182119-Mar-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban have released a communiqu on media activities in Afghanistan In the statement the Taliban accuses the Karzai government referred to as the Puppet Administration of impinging upon freedom of the press in Afghanistan Specifically the Taliban as...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1744http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D174419-Mar-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s Counterterrorism Blog post Jihobbyists No More nbsp was cited in a Christian Science Monitor article nbsp on Jihad Jane Colleen LaRose ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1849http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D184915-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a December 2009 statement released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement celebrating Hamas 22 year struggle against Israel According to the statement in twenty two years the Brigades have lost 1780 martyrs T...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1820http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D182011-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated excerpts of an audio recording produced by the German Mujahideen Taliban titled The Forgotten Obligation In this recording the group calls for donations and makes it clear to Muslims that joining the Jihad is mandatory The German Mujahideen Talib...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1743http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D174311-Mar-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted by USA Today com on the Colleen LaRose Jihad Jane case ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1742http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D174210-Mar-10Special Report on Shabaab al Mujahideen nbsp by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann nbsp was cited as a valuable resource by CBC nbsp following Canada s designation of the group as a terrorist entity ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1848http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D184809-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of an interview of Hamas leader Dr Khalil Al Hayya conducted by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Hamas movement The interview focuses on relations with the Egyptian and Iranian governments the plans of the Hamas government ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1757http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D175709-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a new video recording of most wanted American Al Qaida spokesman Adam Yehiye Gadahn titled A Call to Arms During the video produced by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation Gadahn praises the masterfully planned and executed martyrdom operation ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1846http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D184608-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement mourning the death of Hamas military leader Mahmoud al Mabhouh who was assassinated on Jan 20th in a luxury Dubai hotel room According to the statement ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1847http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D184708-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement quoting Hamas leader Khalid Mash al in which he vows revenge for the death of Hamas military leader Mahmoud al Mabhouh who was assassinated on Jan 20th ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1845http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D184505-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a biography released by the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement of Hamas military leader Mahmoud al Mabhouh who was assassinated on Jan 20th in a luxury Dubai hotel room According to the statement al Mabhouh joined H...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1819http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D181903-Mar-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban have released an interview with spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousuf Ahmadi Assessing the operations in Marjah Ahmadi said The Mujahideen s resistance against the enemy attacks in Marjah Nad Ali district has been continuing as per the plan Accordin...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1818http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D181802-Mar-10The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban have released a communiqu on the U S military campaign in Marjah According to the Taliban despite the preparations boasts and propaganda stunts the enemy have not been able to make any headway against a small group of Mujahideen who are not mor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1861http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D186102-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated an Italian language statement released by Al Qaida s network in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM in which Italian hostage Sergio Cicala appeals to the Italian Government the President of the Republic and Berlusconi s Cabinet According to Cicala who w...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1816http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D181601-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has released still images from a video recording from Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation depicting a suicide bombing attack on a U S Leadership Base in Afghanistan The tape s narrator claims that Turkish operative Muaath al Turki attacked the old Khost airport that the U S...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1817http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D181701-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a video interview released by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation with Abu Dujanah al Khorasani a k a Jordanian doctor Humam al Balawi who carried out the deadly suicide bomb attack in late December on the CIA base at Camp Chapman in the sou...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1701http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D170101-Mar-10The NEFA Foundation has released the third in a series of backgrounders on extremist ideologues that take a close look at the personalities doctrine scope of influence and methods of communication of some of the most influential purveyors of radical Islamist ideology to English speaking audiences...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1741http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D174128-Feb-10NEFA Director of Research and Analysis Ron Sandee s report Core Al Qaida in 2008 Review was cited in a Congressional Research Service report on Al Qaida affiliates ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1792http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D179226-Feb-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new audio recording of Saeed al Shehri a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who has assumed a key leadership role in Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula titled Repelling the Crusader Aggression In the message al Shehri congratulates the heroic muja...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1790http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D179024-Feb-10An article in the March 2008 edition of the official magazine of Al Qaida s network in Yemen AQIY titled The Fragility of the Administration and the Loss of Control asked what is the reason for these crises that pass over the country and how did they cause the situation to reach this deteri...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1756http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D175622-Feb-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new audiotape message from Usama Bin Laden produced by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation and titled The Way to Save the Earth During his speech Bin Laden noted The effects of global warming have spread to all continents of the world Drought desertificat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1786http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D178618-Feb-10An article in the March 2008 edition of the official magazine of Al Qaida s network in Yemen AQIY argues that it is a Muslim religious duty to work towards the overthrow of Yemen s sitting president Ali Abdullah Saleh According to the article Ali Abdullah Saleh is an infidel for he opened esp...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1785http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D178517-Feb-10An article in the March 2008 edition of the official magazine of Al Qaida s network in Yemen AQIY asserts that it is a religious duty to end all treaties and agreements with non Muslims drive non Muslims from the Arabian Peninsula and overthrow the current governments of Yemen and Saudi Arabia ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1860http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D186016-Feb-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communiqu from Al Qaida s network in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM in which AQIM issues further demands regarding the Italian and French hostages it is holding According to AQIM regarding the French hostage the mujahideen have decided for specific...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D1706http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D170616-Feb-10The NEFA Foundation has released the 24th report in the Target America series a PowerPoint examining the November 5 2009 massacre at Fort Hood and the background of the perpetrator U S Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood s Soldier s Readiness Processing Center where ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1784http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D178411-Feb-10An article in the April edition of Sada al Malahim the official magazine of Al Qaida s network in Yemen AQIY sought to exhort the people of Yemen to join Al Qaida s jihad against the Saudi and Yemenite governments as well as western involvement in the Arabian Peninsula Specifically the articl...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1815http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D181510-Feb-10The German Taliban Mujahideen a group of German nationals fighting alongside Al Qaida on the Afghan Pakistani border have published a new statement from their top commander Abu Ishaq al Muhajir condemning proposed European bans on the Muslim burqa Abu Ishaq demanded This shows yet again the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1783http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D178309-Feb-10An article in the April edition of Sada al Malahim the official magazine of Al Qaida s network in Yemen AQIY asserted that the government of Yemen has lost control over the country and that the continuation of the war against Al Qaeda means the collapse of the regime According to the articl...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1740http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D174008-Feb-10The Wall Street Journal cited NEFA s translation of Anwar al Awlaki s Al Jazeera interview ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1776http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D177607-Feb-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new interview by the Al Jazeera satellite network with Yemeni American cleric Sheikh Anwar al Awlaki Describing his contacts with Northwest Airlines bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab al Awlaki said The mujahid brother Omar al Farooq may Allah rele...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1859http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D185905-Feb-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqu from Al Qaida s network in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM titled The Annihilation of the Muslims in Nigeria A New Episode in the Continuous Crusade War in which AQIM emir Abu Musab Abdul Wadud told the Nigerian people We are ready to train your childre...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1755http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D175501-Feb-10On January 24th an audiotaped message from Usama Bin Laden titled From Usama to Obama was aired on Al Jazeera In the message Bin Laden praised the mujahid hero Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab for his attempt to bomb Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day He also stated America will not dream ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1739http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D173929-Jan-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted by the Associated Press on Usama Bin Laden s latest audiotape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1813http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D181328-Jan-10The Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has released a new communiqu regarding the upcoming London conference on Afghanistan According to the statement The war mongering rulers under the leadership of Obama and Brown want to deceive the people of the world by h...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1814http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D181428-Jan-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a newly released German language statement from the German Taliban Mujahideen a group of German speaking fighters operating in the Afghanistan Pakistan arena In this statement they call for resistance in support of Al Qaida fighters in Yemen Becau...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1738http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D173827-Jan-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in the timeline section accompanying an extensive New York Times article on American Shabaab leader Omar Hammami ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1762http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D176226-Jan-10A new German language propaganda video titled The Next Generation of Mujahideen Part 2 released by the Islamic Jihad Union IJU shows makeshift IJU terror training camps for small children along with footage of goods and materiel donated by supporters around the world over the past few months...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1737http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D173725-Jan-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a New York Daily News article on the diminished jihadist use of GITMO as a recruiting tool ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1736http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D173624-Jan-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted by the Associated Press on Usama bin Laden s audiotaped message in which he praised the Christmas bomber as a heroic warrior ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1735http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D173522-Jan-10The Wall Street Journal cited NEFA s translation of a February 2009 message from Dr Ayman al Zawahiri ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1858http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D185819-Jan-10Al Qaida s network in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM announced that it was giving France and Mali a period of 20 days that begins with the publishing date of this statement to respond to our legitimate demand and at the end of the period both governments will be fully responsible for the life of the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1734http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D173411-Jan-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Der Spiegel article on Anwar al Awlaki ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1733http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D173308-Jan-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an NBC News article on the impact of the failed Christmas bomb plot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1754http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D175408-Jan-10The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqu issued by Mustafa Abu al Yazid identified by the As Sahab Media Wing as the overall head of al Qaida Organization in Afghanistan titled Infiltrating the American Fortresses In claiming responsibility for the December 30th suicide bombing attack b...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1732http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D173207-Jan-10Wired s Danger Room blog cited NEFA s posting of the 310 online posts made by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to the Islamic Forum on Gawaher com ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1731http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D173106-Jan-10The Weekly Standard lauded NEFA as quot indispensable quot and cited NEFA s translation of an AQAP video titled quot From Here We Will Begin and in Al Aqsa We Shall Meet quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1775http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D177506-Jan-10In December 2008 Al Qaida linked cleric Anwar al Awlaki who has been in the spotlight recently due to his contacts with Fort Hood shooter Maj Nidal Hasan and alleged connections to the Christmas bomb plotter posted a statement on his blog titled The Lies of the Telegraph In the post Awlaki ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1774http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D177405-Jan-10The NEFA Foundation is releasing images of the PETN underwear bomb that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate aboard a Northwest flight on Christmas Day ABC News was the first to release images of the device which Abdulmutallab was given in Yemen Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has is...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1729http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D172904-Jan-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed on MSNBC about the five Americans detained in Pakistan who were attempting to fight U S troops in Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1730http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D173004-Jan-10NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an NBC News article and cited on Wired s quot Danger Room quot blog about Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al Balawi who killed 7 CIA employees in Afghanistan and his activity on jihadist websites ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1700http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D170001-Jan-10On March 23 2003 Army Sgt Hasan Akbar killed two fellow military officers and wounded 14 others in an attack at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait that bore many similarities to the November 5 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood by Major Nidal Malik Hasan Both Akbar and Hasan were born and raised in the U...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1728http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D172831-Dec-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann and NEFA Director of Strategic Operations David Draper were quoted in a Pittsburgh Tribune Review article on Al Qaida in Yemen ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1727http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D172730-Dec-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Associated Press article on Anwar al Awlaki s possible connection to the Christmas bomb plot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1726http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D172629-Dec-09The Chicago Tribune nbsp and CNSNews com nbsp cited NEFA s translation of the AQIY claim nbsp of responsibility for the Christmas bomb plot Additionally Wired s Danger Room blog cited content provided by Kohlmann identified as the NEFA Foundation s indefatigable jihadism researcher Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1725http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D172528-Dec-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann authored a Foreign Policy article titled No Madam Secretary The System Is Not Working ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1780http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D178028-Dec-09On October 29 2009 Al Qaida s network in Yemen AQIY released the 11th edition of their official magazine Sada al Malahim which included an article written by the top commander of AQIY Abu Basir al Wahishi titled War is a Trick In the article al Wahishi advised would be Al Qaida members on...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1781http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D178128-Dec-09Al Qaida s network in Yemen has issued an official response to the airstrike earlier this week on a suspected Al Qaida gathering in the region of Shabwah that reportedly killed up to 30 people including a number of senior Al Qaida operatives The group threatened that it would not allow the slaugh...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1782http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D178228-Dec-09Al Qaida s network in Yemen otherwise known as Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has issued an official communique claiming responsibility for the failed terrorist bomb plot targeting a Delta Northwest airliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day The communique included origina...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1724http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D172427-Dec-09The Associated Press cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article about the attempt to blow up a US bound transatlantic flight and the possible connections to Al Qaida in Yemen ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1723http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D172326-Dec-09The Washington Post NBC News and The Daily Beast cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in articles about the attempt to blow up a US bound transatlantic flight and the possible connections to Al Qaida in Yemen ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1773http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D177324-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new interview by the Al Jazeera satellite network with Yemeni American cleric Shaykh Anwar al Awlaki regarding his alleged role in radicalizing Maj Malik Nidal Hasan who is awaiting charges of carrying out last month s massacre at Ft Hood Texas ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1721http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D172123-Dec-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Time Magazine article titled Should the U S Destroy Jihadist Websites ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1722http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D172223-Dec-09NEFA s translation of an Al Jazeera interview with Anwar al Awlaki in which he revealed that Fort Hood shooter Maj Nidal Hasan asked whether killing American soldiers and officers is lawful or not was cited by NBC News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1720http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D172021-Dec-09NEFA s translation of an August 2009 Dr Ayman al Zawahiri tape was cited in a Weekly Standard article on Guantanamo ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1768http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D176819-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqu from Shabaab al Mujahideen regarding the UN Anti Mine Agency in Somalia According to the statement As of 17 12 2009 the UN organization known as Mine Action has been shut down The Office for Supervising the Affairs of Foreign Agencies has taken th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1857http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D185718-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqu from Al Qaida s network in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM claiming responsibility for taking a French businessman and three Spanish aid workers hostage According to the statement With the grace of Allah two groups of heroic mujahideen were able to kidnap...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1779http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D177918-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained the martyrdom wills of Yousef Al Shehri and Raed Al Harbi produced by Al Qaida s network in the Arabian Peninsula Yemen following their deaths in an October shootout in Saudi Arabia as they prepared to launch a terrorist attack Both men were on the 85 most wante...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1719http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D171917-Dec-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an NBC News article on a new statement released by Dr Ayman al Zawahiri s wife ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1753http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D175317-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new audio recording produced by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation of Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri titled The Idol of National Unity In the statement al Zawahiri said Obama s commands that uncovered for the Muslims in Palestine and ever...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D1705http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D170517-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has released the 23rd report in the Target America series a PowerPoint presentation examining the September 23rd 2009 attempt by Michael C Finton a k a Talib Islam to trigger a bomb packed in a van that he had parked outside of the Paul Findley Federal Building in Sprin...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1718http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D171816-Dec-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was cited as a noted al Qaida specialist in the Congressional testimony of Jarrett Brachman ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1717http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D171715-Dec-09In a New York Times opinion piece Thomas Friedman quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in a section about the five Americans detained in Pakistan who were attempting to fight U S troops in Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1716http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D171613-Dec-09The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article about the five Americans detained in Pakistan who were attempting to fight U S troops in Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1812http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D181213-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has released the transcript of a jihadi magazine interview with former Taliban Deputy Justice Minister Jalaluddin Shinwari once considered one of the moderate Taliban leaders who would cooperate with the Karzai administration Shinwari said we welcome Sheikh Usama bin Laden an...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1772http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D177213-Dec-09In 2002 Al Qaida s main online mouthpiece Al Neda published a statement obtained by the NEFA Foundation suggesting that Al Qaida was succeeding in its principle longterm strategy of dragging the U S into quagmire military conflicts in the Muslim world According to the statement it is known ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1714http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D171412-Dec-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a UPI article on terrorism recruitment via the Internet ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1715http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D171512-Dec-09Fox News utilized a photo of Adam Gadahn provided by NEFA in an article on Gadahn s latest video message ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1713http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D171311-Dec-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Rachel Maddow show to discuss the five Americans detained in Pakistan who were attempting to fight U S troops in Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1843http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D184311-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communiqu from the Al Qaida linked Tawhid wal Jihad Movement in the Palestinian territories claiming credit for a rocket attack near the Abu Safia military fortification The group announced after on going tracking and precise tracing Mujahidin o...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1844http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D184411-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communiqu from the Al Qaida linked Tawhid wal Jihad Movement in the Palestinian territories claiming credit for an attack on a combat engineering unit South of Kissufim According to the statement your united brothers in the Group of the Followers...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1811http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D181109-Dec-09The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban have released a new communiqu titled Obama Following in Bush s Steps According to the statement the Afghans did not expect Obama a Nobel peace prize winner to flare up the war in the country despite his warmongering approach Obama did not a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1711http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D171109-Dec-09The New York Post cited NEFA in an article on former GITMO detainee Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish who has emerged as a leading ideologue and theologian for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1712http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D171209-Dec-09The Wall Street Journal quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article on Chicago Lashkar e Taiba operative David Coleman Headley ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1710http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D171008-Dec-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article on the charges filed against Chicago resident David Coleman Headley ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1810http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D181007-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has released still images from a video recording recently published by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban depicting the conquest of a coalition military outpost in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan Following their apparent victory several high ranking Tal...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1709http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D170904-Dec-09Wired com cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann and NEFA in an article on a Taliban propaganda video depicting the Taliban using an elliptical machine at an abandoned coalition military base ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1809http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D180903-Dec-09The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban have released a new communiqu responding to President Obama s remarks titled Regarding Obama s New Strategy The statement noted The American President Obama has announced his strategy after months of dithering The essence of the strategy show...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D1761http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D176103-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqu from the Chechen mujahideen claiming credit for the November 27th train bombing that killed over 30 in Russia According to the statement We declare that this operation was prepared and carried out within the planned early this year and successfully ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1760http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D176003-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated the thirty eighth edition of Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI Distinguished Martyrs series featuring the official biography of Abu Usama al Tunisi formerly of the Aeisha Brigade According to the communiqu he was from amongst the first ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1607http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D160701-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained an English language statement regarding the Ft Hood massacre that was posted on the Ansar al Mujahideen online jihad forum The statement noted We issue this statement in support of the actions of brother Nidal Malik Hassan as a congratulations for his brave and ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1549http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D154901-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communiqu from the Al Qaida linked Tawhid wal Jihad Movement in the Palestinian territories in which the group explains its origins According to the statement The Muslim Nation will have no glory and find no way to achieve stability except by a ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1550http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D155001-Dec-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communiqu from the Al Qaida linked Tawhid wal Jihad Movement in the Palestinian territories claiming credit for a rocket attack on the Sufa military post in Israel According to the statement at exactly five o clock in the evening and thanks to th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1548http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D154829-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has released photographs of rockets prepared by the Al Qaida linked Palestinian Tawhid wal Jihad Movement The logo visible in the background of several of the images was borrowed by Tawhid wal Jihad from Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D1518http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D151828-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqu issued by Muwahiidun ar Rusi claiming responsibility for the bombing of the largest subterranean natural gas storage facility in the world in Stavropol Russia The communiqu was posted by Kavkaz Center the official mouthpiece of the Chechen insurg...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1495http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D149528-Nov-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Agence France Presse article on the lone wolf terrorist threat ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1589http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D158927-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqu from Shabaab al Mujahideen threatening the World Food Program According to the statement the bringing of immense quantities of free food rations and specifically during the harvest season has been devastating to the agriculture industry in Somalia a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1517http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D151727-Nov-09The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban have released a new communiqu from their shadowy leader Amir al Mumineen Mullah Mohammed Omar to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al Adha In the message Omar rejected negotiations saying our mujahid people will not accept the negotiations that o...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1498http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D149827-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from Abu Hamza al Muhajir leader of Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI titled A Letter to the Knights of Baghdad In his statement al Muhajir argued that the big martyrdom deeds that are bold and unique are an absolute necessity in brea...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1547http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D154724-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqu from the Palestian Al Qaida linked Tawhid wal Jihad Group which lays out the organization s dogma The statement noted that any group of people who have assembled on the basis of principles other than Islam is a defiant and disbeli...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1577http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D157723-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mullah Azzam Tariq denying Taliban involvement in the recent Peshawar bombings Tariq said I want to clarify for the Islamic Nation in general and the Pakistani people in specific that the explosions that occurred amon...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1493http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D149323-Nov-09The Weekly Standard cited NEFA s backgrounder on Anwar al Awlaki and labeled NEFA a respected counterterrorism think tank in an article on Nidal Hasan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1494http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D149423-Nov-09The Daily Telegraph quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article on Nidal Hasan and Anwar al Awlaki ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1496http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D149620-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a video message from Shaykh Mustafa Abu al Yazid a k a Shaykh Saeed titled Blackwater and the Peshawar Bombings Addressing the recent violence in Pakistan Al Yazid stated We totally reject these bombings which occur in Muslim marketplaces ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1492http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D149219-Nov-09The Associated Press quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article titled 200 Web Sites Spread Al Qaida s Message in English ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1576http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D157619-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of an interview produced by the As Sahab Media Foundation with Dr Ahmad Farooq Senior Media Official Al Qaida in Pakistan During the interview Dr Farooq was asked how Pakistani individuals had become a part of Al Qaida which is commonly known...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1488http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D148818-Nov-09The Washington Post cited NEFA in an article on Nidal Hasan and Anwar al Awlaki ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1489http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D148918-Nov-09The New York Times quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article on Nidal Hasan and Anwar al Awlaki ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1490http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D149018-Nov-09Peter Bergen cited documents on the NEFA site including the Target America report on the Fort Dix plot in his testimony before the House Subcommittee on Intelligence Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1491http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D149118-Nov-09NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco testified during the Spanish trial of eleven individuals who were allegedly plotting suicide attacks on the Barcelona metro on orders from the Pakistani Taliban ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1606http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D160617-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a statement by Saudi cleric Salman Al Awdah condemning the Fort Hood shooting Al Awdah who Usama bin Laden described as his ideal personality in a March 1997 interview asserted that this action taken out by Nidal Hasan was irrational and is empty...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1485http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D148516-Nov-09A Washington Times article noted the extensive information that was available on the NEFA website on Anwar al Awlaki prior to the Fort Hood shooting ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1486http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D148616-Nov-09A Washington Post report cited NEFA in an article on Anwar al Awlaki ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1487http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D148716-Nov-09Wired s Danger Room blog quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann regarding his discovery of a posting by Salman al Awdah Usama bin Laden s spiritual mentor condemning the Fort Hood attack ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1515http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D151516-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communication from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban titled Why is the UN So Disturbed at the Murder of the Western Nationals In the communiqu issued after the Taliban killed six foreign United Nations staff in Kabul the Taliban harshly critici...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1516http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D151616-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communication from Mullah Brader Akhund Deputy Emir of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban titled Obama s New Strategy Akhund stated Obama wants to get a by law passed that would allow giving money and other financial aids to some members of Tali...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1482http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D148213-Nov-09The Dallas Morning News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about a report that Nidal Hasan wired money to Pakistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1483http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D148313-Nov-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann published an article in Foreign Policy titled nbsp A Web of Lone Wolves Fort Hood shows us that Internet jihad is not a myth ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1484http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D148413-Nov-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Associated Press article about the arrest of an individual in the Netherlands who was allegedly involved in the al Shabaab recruitment network in Minnesota ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1479http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D147912-Nov-09The Los Angeles Times interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about Anwar al Awlaki and cited NEFA s posting of al Awlaki s Fighting Against Government Armies in the Muslim World ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1480http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D148012-Nov-09ABC News featured exclusive NEFA video that shows a July 2008 Taliban attack that killed 9 U S soldiers at an Afghan post ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1481http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D148112-Nov-09Reuters quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the Fort Hood shooting probe ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1477http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D147711-Nov-09The Washington Post quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the FBI s response to Nidal Hasan s contacts with Anwar al Awlaki ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1478http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D147811-Nov-09The New York Daily News cited NEFA s report on Anwar al Awlaki and Time Magazine selected a quote by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the FBI s failure to more aggressively investigate Nidal Hasan as one of the quotes of the day ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1605http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D160511-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of an English language online blog post from just this past summer by Shaykh Anwar al Awlaki the Yemeni cleric suspected of influencing Ft Hood shooter Maj Malik Hasan titled Fighting Against Government Armies in the Muslim World In his message da...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1476http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D147610-Nov-09The Voice of America and The Christian Science Monitor quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in articles examining Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan s ties to Anwar al Awlaki ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1514http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D151410-Nov-09The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban has issued a new official communique in response to the massacre at Ft Hood Texas that killed 13 people In a statement titled The Attack In Texas Is A Proof On The Disagreement Among American Soldiers Over The War the Taliban celebrated the fi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1513http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D151309-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated videotaped statements by Waliur Rehman Emir of Mehsud Taliban in South Waziristan Agency and Hakimullah Mehsud Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan TTP leader The statements appear to be aimed at legitimizing Rehman as the new leader of the South Waziristan...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D1526http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D152609-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a communication from German Al Qaida member Bekkay Harrach a k a Abu Talha the German titled O Allah I Love Thee Part 2 In the message Harrach who was named a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the U S Treasury Department in October...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1475http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D147509-Nov-09Newsweek credited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann with discovering Anwar al Awlaki s web posting praising Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan as a hero NEFA s posting of al Awlaki s remarks was cited by USA Today The NY Daily News and Fox News Further Kohlmann and NEFA were quoted or cited ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1604http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D160409-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement issued by Anwar al Awlaki an Al Qaida linked U S citizen titled Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing in which al Awlaki profusely praised the Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hassan is a hero He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradictio...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1546http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D154606-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a letter from an unnamed Palestinian Islamist in the Gaza Strip posted on several prominent jihadi forums thanking the top commander of the Shabaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia for announcing a new campaign to launch military attacks on Israel ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1512http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D151205-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained an English transcript of an interview with Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid regarding the October 28th attack on the UN Guesthouse in Kabul that left 11 dead including 5 UN workers According to the interview A great number of foreigners who are to monitor the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1595http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D159505-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained an English transcript of a new audio recording of Shaykh Ibrahim al Rubeish titled The Masks Have Fallen During the audio produced by Al Qaida s network in the Arabian Peninsula Yemen al Rubeish condemned the widely reported initiative by Saudi King Abdullah...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1474http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D147405-Nov-09NEFA Foundation Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed on MSNBC about the Fort Hood shootings ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1593http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D159304-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained an English transcript for a recent terrorist propaganda video titled The Descendants of Mohammed bin Maslamah which was produced by Al Qaida s network in the Arabian Peninsula Yemen The video purports to document the failed August 2009 assassination attempt on...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1594http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D159404-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained an English transcript of a recent audio recording by Shaykh Ibrahim al Rubeish titled Why Mohammed Bin Nayif During the audio produced by Al Qaida s network in the Arabian Peninsula Yemen al Rubeish lays out the justification for Al Qaida s attempted August ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1511http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D151103-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained an interview with Sheikh Abdul Manan Niyazi Governor and Military Official for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan The Taliban in Herat Province published in Al Somood a monthly Islamic magazine published by the Taliban s media center According to Al Somood Niy...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1588http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D158803-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communiqu from Shabaab al Mujahideen declaring the formation of the Al Quds Brigade According to the statement on October 30 2009 Hundreds of thousands of citizens in the Islamic districts in the south and middle of Somalia came out to the s...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D1473http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D147302-Nov-09The NEFA Foundation has released the 22nd report in the ldquo Target America rdquo series a PowerPoint presentation on the accused jihadist network operating in Raleigh North Carolina and an alleged plot involving members of that cell to attack the U S Marine Corps base in Quantico Virginia...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1587http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D158730-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a biography posted on a jihadist website of al Qaida Commander Saleh Ali Nabhan who was killed in a U S helicopter strike south of Mogadishu in September 2009 According to the document Nabhan traveled to Afghanistan where he attended the Khalden...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1497http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D149728-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqu from the Islamic State of Iraq ISI claiming responsibility for the suicide car bombings that left more than 160 dead and injured nearly 500 According to the statement One of the selected targets that was chosen this time was the m...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1510http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D151027-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communication from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban titled Regarding the Runoff Elections which noted that runoff elections are being held again to keep the attention of our countrymen and the public of the world diverted in order to hide their ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D1472http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D147225-Oct-09Najibullah Zazi emigrated with his family from Afghanistan as a child and grew up in Flushing Queens He shared the same interests as other typical American teens including a love of video games and the latest fashion trends He dropped out of high school and began operating a coffee cart in Lower...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1586http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D158622-Oct-09In a posting on an Al Qaida web forum a jihadist recounted his journey from Saudi Arabia to join the Shabaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia in the process providing valuable insight into the radicalization process and the logistics involved in waging jihad in a foreign land Identifying the imp...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1603http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D160321-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a claim of responsibility from a Sunni militant group known as Jondollah The Army of God for the October 18 suicide bombing attack on a delegation of senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers in the southeast corner of the country near the bord...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1441http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D144119-Oct-09NEFA Director of Research Ron Sandee was quoted in a Washington Post article on Western recruits including Abu Ibrahim al Amriki joining the jihadist cause in Afghanistan Pakistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1442http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D144219-Oct-09NEFA s video footage of Abu Ibrahim al Amriki was featured on Fox News s Happening Now ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1562http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D156219-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from Al Qaida s network in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM mourning the death of Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud in a U S air strike According to the statement Mehsud was graced with martyrdom at the hands of the ruthless power and the mo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1440http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D144018-Oct-09The Toronto Star interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article on the influence of Anwar al Awlaki the subject of a NEFA backgrounder ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1438http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D143817-Oct-09The Los Angeles Times quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on the Islamic Jihad Union and Abu Ibrahim al Amriki in an article on Al Qaida s capabilities ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1439http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D143917-Oct-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s report on Mustafa Abu al Yazid was referenced in a Newsweek article on al Yazid ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1437http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D143716-Oct-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for an Associated Press article on Pakistan s plans to dislodge jihadists from South Waziristan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1575http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D157516-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of an April 2001 bulletin from the Pakistani terrorist organization Lashkar e Taiba unraveling the early history of the organization and featuring the founding role of Abu Waleed a k a Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi who has been named by the Indian and Pakista...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1509http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D150916-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new document from the designated terrorist organization known as the Islamic Jihad Union IJU offering a message from the German Taliban Mujahideen The statement encourages German ISAF soldiers serving in Afghanistan to abandon their posts or else face grav...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1463http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D146316-Oct-09Following reports of an alleged connection to NYC terror suspect Najibullah Zazi attention has focused on Al Qaida s number 3 Shaykh Mustafa Abu al Yazid a k a Shaykh Saeed al Masri The NEFA Foundation is releasing a video screenshot montage of al Yazid ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1462http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D146215-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a communiqu from Shaykh Mustafa Abu al Yazid a k a Shaykh Saeed mourning the death of Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud in a U S air strike In the statement al Yazid said Emir Baitullah Mehsud was a model of boldness and unyieldi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1561http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D156115-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from Al Qaida s network in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM announcing the founding of a specialized media wing known as the Andalus Foundation According to the statement due to our belief that the battle of pen is no less important than the battle of...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1436http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D143615-Oct-09The Associated Press quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article on nbsp Al Qaida s Mustafa Abu al Yazid an individual featured heavily in NEFA s online library ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1508http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D150814-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communication from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban titled On the Occasion of the Eighth Anniversary of the American Attack on Afghanistan in which the Taliban noted they were promising they would withdraw within three months in their words a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1435http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D143513-Oct-09Wired s Danger Room blog quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article on the Taliban s use of YouTube ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1434http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D143412-Oct-09The Daily Beast quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article titled Al Qaeda s Web Revival ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1433http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D143308-Oct-09Wired cited NEFA s posting of nbsp Abu Yahya al Libi s The Ruling Concerning Muslim Spies ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1574http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D157408-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqu from Waliur Rehman Emir of Mehsud Taliban in South Waziristan Agency mourning the death of Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud in a U S air strike In his statement Rehman said that Mehsud s faithfulness devotion and lov...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1461http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D146104-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new recording of Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri confirming the recent death of Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud in a U S air strike In the message al Zawahiri praised Mehsud for creating a massive Jihadi movement that...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1398http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D139801-Oct-09When Ibn al Sheikh al Libi died in a Libyan prison in May 2009 the response from the Global Jihad Movement was more intense than anticipated The NEFA Foundation has released a short report about al Libi and translated three recently acquired documents concerning his life Shortly after his death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1399http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D139901-Oct-09The NEFA Foundation has released a new Backgrounder by NEFA Senior Analyst Madeleine Gruen titled Abdullah al Faisal Extremist Ideologue with Influence in the West Al Faisal is an extremist ideologue based in Jamaica who reaches supporters worldwide via the Internet and through extensive inter...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1400http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D140001-Oct-09Following Hakimullah Mehsud s meeting with tribal reporters last week the NEFA Foundation gained access to a brief autobiographical sketch handwritten by the TTP leader to provide a reliable account of his life and origins to the media The NEFA Foundation is releasing an exclusive package based on...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1432http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D143201-Oct-09The Washington Times cited NEFA s translation of the Turkestan Islamic Party article titled America is Leading the Capitalist World Towards Collapse ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D1524http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D152428-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new video recording of German Al Qaida member Bekkay Harrach a k a Abu Talha the German titled Security is a Mutual Interest In the tape Harrach sought to influence the German populace ahead of the September 27th elections by stressing the perils of contin...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1429http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D142925-Sep-09The Sydney Morning Herald highlighted the expert witness testimony of NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in the case of Belal Khazaal who was sentenced to twelve years in prison for compiling a do it yourself jihad manual ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1430http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D143025-Sep-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a New York Daily News article on Usama Bin Laden s latest audio message ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1431http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D143125-Sep-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC to discuss the thwarted bomb plots in Texas and Illinois ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1460http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D146025-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new audio recording of Usama Bin Laden produced by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation and titled A Message from Shaykh Usama Bin Laden to the People of Europe During his speech Bin Laden called upon Europe to abandon its NATO partnership with the U S or fa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1573http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D157323-Sep-09Following the reported death of Islamic Jihad Union IJU Leader Najmiddin Kamolitdinovich Jalolov in a U S drone strike in Pakistan the NEFA Foundation is releasing a May 2007 interview with Jalolov on the official IJU website In the interview Jalolov identified as Ebu Yahya Muhammed Fatih sh...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1428http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D142822-Sep-09The French publication lepoint fr cited NEFA s translation of Shabaab s demands for the release of the French security consultant ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1467http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D146722-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has released an image of the cover of the 21st issue of the official magazine of Hamas al Iraq a prominent Sunni insurgent organization aligned with the local Muslim Brotherhood Released on September 11 2009 the cover features a shattered Statue of Liberty Al Qaida in Iraq...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1584http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D158421-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from the Shabaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia in which Shabaab issued conditions for the release of a French security consultant who was kidnapped from a Mogadishu hotel on July 14 Shabaab demanded that 1 The French Government must stop all ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1585http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D158521-Sep-09The Shabaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia has released a new propaganda video titled Labayk Ya Osama or At Your Service O Osama The video includes footage of the Abu Suleim training camp in southern Somalia and new scenes of Abu Mansour the American a k a Omar Hammami The NEFA F...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1427http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D142720-Sep-09The Washington Post quoted NEFA s translation of Mullah Omar s Ramadan message ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1507http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D150719-Sep-09The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban have released a new letter from their shadowy leader Amir al Mumineen Mullah Mohammed Omar to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al Fitr In his letter Mullah Omar blamed Western powers for impos ing a corrupt and stooge administration on the people ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1583http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D158318-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communiqu from Shabaab al Mujahideen lauding the martyr Abu Idrees al Muhajir and providing a short overview of his life Originally from Sudan al Muhajir moved to Saudi Arabia where he found the book of Imam Abu Muhammad al Maqdisi named The ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1582http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D158217-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqu from the Shabaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia celebrating the Martyrdom of Embassy bombing suspect Saleh Ali Nabhan who was killed in a U S helicopter strike south of Mogadishu According to the statement In the attack six ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1572http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D157217-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated an article published in the Turkestan Islamic Party s Islamic Turkestan magazine titled America is Leading the Capitalist World Towards Collapse In analyzing the sources of the financial crisis TIP wrote that The events of 9 11 and the destructi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1545http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D154517-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqu from the Ziad Al Jarrah battalion of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades claiming responsibility for a rocket attack launched from Lebanon on the Nahariya settlement on September 11 2009 The statement claimed the outrageous hostility of ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1506http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D150615-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communication from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban titled A Book of Rules which lays out the organization s practical methodology in military affairs According to the text It is compulsory for all the Mujahideen their provincial and dist...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1425http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D142515-Sep-09The Weekly Standard cited NEFA s translation of a two part interview with TIP commander Abdul Haq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1426http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D142615-Sep-09CNSNews com referenced NEFA s transcript of a video featuring Saleh Ali Nabhan who was killed in a recent U S strike ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1424http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D142414-Sep-09The Washington Independent and Politico cited NEFA s translation of the latest Usama Bin Laden tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1571http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D157114-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a two part interview with Turkestan Islamic Party TIP commander Abdul Haq which was published in the TIP s Islamic Turkestan magazine According to the U S Treasury Department Haq directed TIP s military commander in January 2008 to attack va...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1459http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D145914-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new audio recording produced by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation of Usama Bin Laden speaking to the American people on the anniversary of 9 11 During his sermon Bin Laden called upon Americans to end their support for Israel and in exchange offered to resp...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1423http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D142305-Sep-09NEFA Director of Strategic Operations David Draper was quoted in a Fox News report on American nbsp Shabaab al Mujahideen member Omar Hammami a k a Abu Mansoor al Amriki ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1422http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D142204-Sep-09The Associated Press quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article examining Saudi summer camps intended to counter radicalization ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1421http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D142103-Sep-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a National Post article on the Toronto 18 Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee Younis Tsouli Aabid Khan and Mirsad Bektasevic ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1458http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D145802-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new video recording produced by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Wing of Shaykh Khalid bin Abdul Rahman al Hussainan titled A Calm Dialogue With Obama Al Hussainan mocked the efforts of President Barack Obama and the U S military to reinvigorate counter insurgency a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1397http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D139701-Sep-09The NEFA Foundation has released a four part package by NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco with reporting by Javed Afridi comprised of An analysis titled Competing Voices Within the Taliban Leadership in Pakistan A profile of Waliur Rehman Emir of Mehsud Taliban in South Waziristan Agency ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1592http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D159231-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communique from Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claiming responsibility for the attempted assassination of the Deputy Interior Minister of Saudi Arabia Prince Mohammed bin Nayef al Saud The statement identified the suicide bomber behind the a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1457http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D145729-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new video recording produced by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation featuring Dr Ayman al Zawahiri and titled The Path of Doom During his sermon Dr al Zawahiri sharply condemned the Pakistani military campaign to restore control over restive regions in the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1466http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D146628-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communique from Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI claiming responsibility for the coordinated August 19 suicide bombing attacks on Iraqi government ministries in the capital Baghdad According to the statement disciples of the Islamic St...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1505http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D150526-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated an interview with Taliban representative Abu Bakr al Qurashi published in the Global Islamic Media Front s official magazine Sada al Jihad In the interview al Qurashi was asked What is your opinion towards what al Jazeerah channel had marketed reg...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1420http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D142025-Aug-09The Associated Press quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about Shabaab al Mujahideen propaganda ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1560http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D156021-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new statement from Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM in which the group offers consolation and condolences to Nigerian Muslims in response to the swift Nigerian government crackdown on the nascent Boko Haram movement According to the statement we follow...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1559http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D155919-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new statement from Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM claiming responsibility for an August 8 suicide bombing attack on the French embassy in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott The communique identified the bomber as Abu Obaidah Musa al Basri ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1544http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D154418-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communique from the Martyr Ezzedeen al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement mourning the martyrdom of five comrades slain in clashes last Friday in the southern Gaza town of Rafah with outlaws from Jund Allah Ansar Accord...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1543http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D154317-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new statement from Jund Ansar Allah a Palestinian Al Qaida startup franchise in the Gaza Strip declaring the foundation of an Islamic Emirate in Bayt al Maqdis under the command of cleric Shaykh Abu al Nour al Maqdisi One day after the communique was issued ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1419http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D141917-Aug-09CNSNews com cited NEFA s posting of Jund Ansar Allah s threatened response to its clashes with Hamas ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1542http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D154216-Aug-09The Palestinian militant group known as Jund Ansar Allah has threatened an unspecified response in coming days in revenge for clashes with Hamas security forces in the southern Gaza Strip According to a new statement from Jund Ansar Allah posted on August 16 we did not intend to bomb any se...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1504http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D150414-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new message posted by Abdullah al Wazir the official online correspondent for the media wing of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan sharply denying reports that the leader of the Pakistani Taliban Baitullah Mehsud has been killed in a U S missile strike Accordi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1417http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D141713-Aug-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article on the conviction of Ehsanul Islam Sadequee ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1418http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D141813-Aug-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann authored an article for Dateline NBC featuring an exclusive interview with the official spokesman for the Islamic Army in Iraq IAI in which he praised President Obama for promoting the ideals of a shared community and mutual respect ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1373http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D137312-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new post from online jihadi discussion forums of undetermined authenticity that describes a dispute over two French security consultants in Somalia who were kidnapped from a Mogadishu hotel on July 14 The dispute surrounding the hostages reportedly ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D1445http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D144512-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has released the 20th report in the ldquo Target America rdquo series which focuses on the conspiracy to attack Jewish centers in the Bronx and a military facility in Newburgh NY Four Newburgh New York men were arrested in the Riverdale section of the Bronx on the night ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1570http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D157011-Aug-09The NEFA foundation has obtained and translated an article from the Turkestan Islamic Party s TIP magazine Islamic Turkestan titled The Enemy Is Terrified by Our Operations by Abdullah Mansur In this November 2008 article Mansur described the wave of TIP attacks in the lead up to the 2008 B...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1416http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D141610-Aug-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness on behalf of DOJ in the Atlanta trial of Ehsanul Islam Sadequee ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1456http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D145609-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new video interview of Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri produced by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation During the interview al Zawahiri strongly criticized Iran noting Iran had her image scandalized in front of the entire world ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1591http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D159106-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqu from Al Qaeda s network in Yemen claiming responsibility for a recent violent clash with Yemeni security forces in the Mareb province According to the statement as a result of the battle Al Qaida captured seven Yemeni soldiers kill...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1415http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D141505-Aug-09The Washington Examiner referenced a Washington Post interview with NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in which Kohlmann discussed tracking terrorists online ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1414http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D141403-Aug-09The Yemeni Observer cited NEFA s posting of Anwar al Awlaki s statement praising Al Qaida in Yemen ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1590http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D159003-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement issued by Anwar al Awlaki an Al Qaida linked U S citizen in which al Awlaki celebrated the humiliating defeat suffered by the Yemeni government in recent clashes with mujahideen Al Awlaki said The first face to face fight between the army and the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1602http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D160203-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqu from the Tandzim Al Qaida of Indonesia claiming responsibility for the July 17 2009 bombings at the J W Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels in Jakarta that killed seven and injured more than fifty people Purportedly posted on behalf of Noordin Mohamma...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1395http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D139501-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has released a new chart by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann titled Charting the Ongoing Drought in Taliban Media The chart helps illustrate how over the past few weeks the number of daily communiqu s and statements issued online by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1396http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D139601-Aug-09The NEFA Foundation has released the final installment of a three part report by NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco titled Militant Groups Active in the Bajaur Region The NEFA Foundation has closely followed the evolution of the Taliban insurgency in Pakistan s west and recent developments i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1413http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D141301-Aug-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed on MSNBC about homegrown terrorism ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D1360http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D136029-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a December 13 2008 Muslim Brotherhood communication that discusses the Brotherhood s use of cyberspace as a quot new and effective means of communication at a time when most attempts to have a media outlet have failed to find their way into official recog...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1541http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D154128-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a statement from the Ezzedeen al Qassam Brigades the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement regarding the withdrawal of U S forces from Iraqi cities According to the communiqu cause and that they drowned in Iraq s mud Moreover th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1465http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D146528-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new audio recording from the Amir al Mumineen Commander of the Faithful of Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI Abu Omar al Baghdadi In the tape al Baghdadi noted that if the American occupiers have a presence even in a small region in the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1581http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D158127-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from the Shabaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia announcing that Beginning from the publishing of this announcement a number of non governmental organizations and foreign committees currently operating in Somalia have had their offices completely...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1455http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D145524-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a DNI Open Source Center translation of Sheikh Abu Yahya al Liby s book Guidance on the Ruling of the Muslim Spy The book includes an introduction by Dr Ayman al Zawahiri and noted that spies are old hunchbacked men who cannot even walk strong young men wea...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1558http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D155823-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new audiotape from Abu Anas Al Shanqiti of Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM In this speech Al Shanqiti stated that AQIM s swords will not be put down until they purify the Islamic Maghreb from the atrocities of the impure apostat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1557http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D155721-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb claiming responsibility for killing twenty eight Malian troops and kidnapping another three during an attack on a military convoy in northern Mali on July 4th According to the statement A fierce bat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1569http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D156920-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from the Turkestan Islamic Party TIP titled In Occasion of the Communists Massacre of Our Muslim Nation in China and in Urumqi East Turkistan In the statement TIP s military commander warned you ought to know that this Muslim people has m...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1580http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D158019-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new audio recording of Abu Mansoor al Amriki an American mujahid previously featured in a Shabaab al Mujahideen video from Somali in which al Amriki responded to President Barack Obama s speech in Cairo which was titled A New Beginning In this tape ti...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1556http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D155618-Jul-09Historical LIFG Statements re AQ Taliban RelationshipThe NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communiqu from current and former members of the Libyan Islamic Islamic Fighting Group LIFG Britain in which this faction of the LIFG announced its split with Al Qaida The faction criticized ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1503http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D150316-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new post from online jihadi discussion forums asserting that the Taliban is in desperate need of money After discussing the plundering of trucks quot carrying supplies for the heretics quot the poster stated quot Let the brothers know that I pu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1412http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D141215-Jul-09The German press agency DPA cited NEFA s translation of the latest Dr Ayman al Zawahiri tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1454http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D145414-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new audio recording produced by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation of Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri titled A Message to My Muslim Brothers and Sisters in Pakistan During the recording al Zawahiri appealed to Muslims in Pakistan to support A...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1411http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D141112-Jul-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an extensive New York Times article on Americans joining the Somali extremist group Shabaab al Mujahideen ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1453http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D145309-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a June 25 2009 video featuring Sheikh Abu Yahya al Liby entitled Algeria Between the Sacrifice of Fathers and Loyalty of Children In the video al Liby sent a greeting of love kindness honor brotherhood loyalty and support to the Muslim Alge...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1555http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D155502-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communique from Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb threatening to carry out terrorist attacks against France in revenge for the recent decision by the French government to ban the niqab a full body veil worn by some conservative Muslim women Accordi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1393http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D139301-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has released the first installment of a three part report by NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco titled The Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan The Bajaur Case The NEFA Foundation has closely followed the evolution of the Taliban insurgency in Pakistan s west and recent development...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1394http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D139401-Jul-09The NEFA Foundation has released the second installment of a three part report by NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco titled The Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan The Bajaur Case The NEFA Foundation has closely followed the evolution of the Taliban insurgency in Pakistan s west and recent developmen...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1554http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D155429-Jun-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new statement from Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM claiming responsibility for the killing of American Christopher Leggett in Mauritania According to AQIM the organization s brigades in Mauritania on the morning of Tuesday 23rd ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1410http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D141028-Jun-09A Los Angeles Times article titled Turks increasingly turn to Islamic extremism quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann and cited a NEFA translation of a statement by Shaykh Mustafa Abu al Yazid ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1540http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D154026-Jun-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new statement from the Army of Islam a k a Jaish al Islam in the Gaza Strip a Palestinian Islamic militant faction opposed to Hamas announcing that it is withdrawing from a mutual agreement with the online jihadi logistical support group kno...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1452http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D145226-Jun-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of an Arabic language interview Shaykh Mustafa Abu al Yazid a k a Shaykh Saeed gave to Al Jazeera television on June 22 2009 Asked about Pakistani nuclear weapons Abu al Yazid replied Allah willing the nuclear weapons will not fall in the hand ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1409http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D140923-Jun-09The Toronto Star featured NEFA s exclusive video of terrorist training by the Toronto 18 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1539http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D153922-Jun-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated an audio recording from Abu Abdullah al Muhajir the leader of Jundullah in Palestine an Al Qaida startup group based in Gaza In the recording titled The Proclamation al Muhajir states we tell our brothers the mujahideen in Afghanistan Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1408http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D140818-Jun-09NEFA Director of Strategic Operations David Draper was quoted in a Fox News article on the recently released Guantanamo Bay Uighar detainees ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D1444http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D144417-Jun-09The NEFA Foundation has released the 19th report in the Target America series which focuses on the conspiracy to establish a jihad training camp in Bly Oregon in late 1999 through early 2000 In October 1999 Seattle native James Ujaama came up with the idea of openi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1451http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D145116-Jun-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a new audio recording from Al Qaida leader Usama Bin Laden titled Speech to the Pakistani Nation During the recording Bin Laden asserted that Obama and his administration have instilled new seeds to increase the hatred and revenge towards Americ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1450http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D145013-Jun-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a new video recording of most wanted American Al Qaida spokesman Adam Yehiye Gadahn titled Let s Continue our Jihad and Sacrifice During the video produced by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation Gadahn sharply criticized the Obama administratio...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D1443http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D144310-Jun-09The NEFA Foundation has released the eighteenth installment in the Target America series which examines the June 1 2009 shooting attack by Muslim convert Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammed formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe at a U S Army Navy recruiting center in Little Rock Arkansas The attack kil...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1449http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D144909-Jun-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of an audio message from Shaykh Mustafa Abu al Yazid a k a Shaykh Saeed In May 2007 Al Qaida s official As Sahab Media Wing identified al Yazid as the overall head of al Qaida Organization in Afghanistan According to As Sahab al Yazid took pa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1448http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D144803-Jun-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a statement from Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri titled The Executioners of Egypt and Cooperatives of America Welcome Obama In the statement al Zawahiri said The White House has announced that Obama will send from Egypt a mess...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1407http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D140703-Jun-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness on behalf of the Department of Justice in the Atlanta trial of Syed Haris Ahmed ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1553http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D155303-Jun-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqu from Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM announcing the killing of British hostage Edwen Dyer AQIM said that on 5 31 2009 at Seven Thirty in the evening local time the British hostage was killed so he can taste and ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1392http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D139201-Jun-09The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ronald Sandee titled Al Qaida and Europe The Case of the German Pakistani Aleem Nasir Nasir was arrested in June 2007 in Pakistan on suspicion of involvement in a bomb plot Following his return to Germany ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1579http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D157925-May-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from the Shabaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia announcing that their former spokesman Shaykh Mukhtar Robow a k a Abu Mansur has been replaced by Shaykh Ali Dheere for unexplained reasons The statement notes Shaykh Abu Mansur may Allah p...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1406http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D140622-May-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a New York Daily News article examining the half baked plots hatched by homegrown extremists ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1552http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D155222-May-09In February 2009 the NEFA Foundation published a communiqu from Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM claiming responsibility for the kidnapping of U N special envoy for Niger Robert Fowler his Canadian aide Louis Guay and four European tourists According to the statement Fowler ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1502http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D150219-May-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and produced an edited transcript of an open question and answer session with Afghan Taliban media wing spokesman Ahmad Mukhtar that took place several days ago over an Arabic language Internet chat forum During the exchange when asked about the Taliban s stance on...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1578http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D157813-May-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new post from an online jihadi discussion forum highlighting a golden opportunity for migration and jihad in Somalia The author of the post writes Why Somalia and not some other country After some reflection on the fronts of jihad and fighting I did not find...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1538http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D153811-May-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from Hamas titled Anti Hamas Approach Fading In the statement dated May 7 2009 Hamas notes that Since the conclusion of Zionist 22 day military offensive in January which coincided with U S President Barack Obama taking power in Washington ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1464http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D146407-May-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from the Islamic Army in Iraq IAI titled An Open Letter to U S President Barack Obama A Golden Opportunity to Accomplish the Mission In the letter the Emir of the IAI writes we call upon you and the American people if there is a just stan...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1568http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D156806-May-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from the Turkestan Islamic Party TIP titled The Chinese and Pakistani Media are Full of Lies and Accusations In the statement dated May 1 2009 the TIP warned The American government announced last month that the Turkistan Islamic Party is ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1405http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D140506-May-09The Weekly Standard s blog referenced NEFA s translation of the latest Turkestan Islamic Party statement ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1389http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D138901-May-09The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior investigator Evan Kohlmann titled Shabaab al Mujahideen Migration and Jihad in the Horn of Africa The report is a comprehensive analysis of the Shabaab al Mujahideen Mujahideen Youth Movement in Somalia including sub chapters on ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1390http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D139001-May-09The NEFA Foundation has released the expert witness report and PowerPoint slideshow presented by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann during the recent trial of Swedish national Oussama Kassir in federal court in New York On May 12 2009 Kassir was convicted on all eleven counts he faced includ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1391http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D139101-May-09The NEFA Foundation has released a new interactive chart by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann titled Al Qaida s Online Couriers The Al Fajr Media Center and the Global Islamic Media Front GIMF The chart maps out in detail the multi step process by which multimedia recorded by mujahideen ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D153http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D15330-Apr-09The NEFA Foundation has released the seventeenth installment in the Target America series which examines the discovery of explosive materials in the trunk of a car in Goose Creek South Carolina in the course of a routine car stop that took place in August 2007 The s...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1404http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D140430-Apr-09The Washington Independent cited NEFA s exclusive footage of an English language interview with Haji Muslim Khan the spokesman of Tehrik e Taliban Swat Valley Pakistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1551http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D155130-Apr-09In February 2009 the NEFA Foundation published a communiqu from Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM claiming responsibility for the kidnapping of U N special envoy for Niger Robert Fowler his Canadian aide Louis Guay and four European tourists According to the statement Fowler ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1403http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D140329-Apr-09ISN Security Watch quoted Senior Investigator Douglas Farah in an article on Iran s Latin America inroads ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1501http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D150126-Apr-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban assailing purported American efforts to shut down Taliban web sites and radio stations On April 18 2009 The Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration is starting a broad effor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D1596http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D159626-Apr-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban assailing purported American efforts to shut down Taliban web sites and radio stations On April 18 2009 The Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration is starting a broad effor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1402http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D140224-Apr-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Globe and Mail article on the release of the U N special envoy for Niger and his Canadian aide who had been held hostage by Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1401http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D140122-Apr-09NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness on behalf of the Department of Justice in the Oussama Kassir case in New York ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1447http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D144719-Apr-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a message from Shaykh Mustafa Abu al Yazid a k a Shaykh Saeed titled A Message to the People of Pakistan In May 2007 Al Qaida s official As Sahab Media Wing identified al Yazid as the overall head of al Qaida Organization in Afghanistan Ac...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1342http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D134216-Apr-09The NEFA Foundation has transcribed and translated video messages from senior commanders of the Turkestan Islamic Party TIP featured alongside recently released footage of a TIP training camp located somewhere in northwest Pakistan The speakers featured in the video include the current emir of th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1341http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D134113-Apr-09The NEFA Foundation has released English translations of a series of recent communiques issued by the Turkestan Islamic Party TIP over the past year The TIP is a splinter faction of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement ETIM primarily based in Waziristan and elsewhere in the North West Frontier P...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1303http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D130309-Apr-09The Washington Independent referenced NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ronald Sandee s most recent Special Report Core Al Qaida in 2008 A Review ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D1340http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D134009-Apr-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new post from online jihadi discussion forums about how to finance jihad related websites without being ensnared in a trap by law enforcement If you have not gotten arrested yet that does not mean you are not being monitored and if your use o...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1339http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D133906-Apr-09The NEFA Foundation has published a letter written by Abu Mansoor al Amriki an American mujahid recently featured in a Shabaab al Mujahideen video from Somalia dated January 8 2008 and titled To the beloved Mujaahideen in specific and the Muslims in general In the letter Abu Mansoor sc...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1302http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D130202-Apr-09Fox News quoted a NEFA analyst in a on air report on a recently released video of an American citizen fighting with Al Shabaab in Somalia ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1338http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D133802-Apr-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new statement from Al Qaida s Committee in Yemen claiming responsibility for a March 16 suicide bombing attack on South Korean tourists near the city of Shibam naming the bomber as Abu Ubaidah al Jarrah According to the statement This was execu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1908http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D190801-Apr-09In April 2009 a federal judge sentenced Dritan Duka and Shain Duka to life in prison plus an additional consecutive 30 years Dritan and Shain s brother Eljvir Duka received a life prison term Following the Duka s sentencing Ralph J Marra Jr Acting U S Attorney for the District of New Jer...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1279http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D127901-Apr-09The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ronald Sandee titled Core Al Qaida in 2008 A Review Delivering the Intelligence Community s annual threat assessment in February 2009 Director of National Intelligence Dennis C Blair noted that In Pakist...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D1337http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D133730-Mar-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqu from Abu Qatada describing his incarceration in the U K and responding to the British government s decision to deport him to Jordan where he has been convicted in absentia on terrorism charges Qatada assailed the contempt and hatred which the Britis...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1301http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D130126-Mar-09The Jamestown Foundation cited NEFA s translation of the mid March Usama Bin Laden tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1318http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D131824-Mar-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new audio recording from Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri released on March 24 and titled Crusade Sets Its Sights on the Sudan During the recording Dr al Zawahiri insisted I am not defending Umar al Bashir or his regime nor am I defending wh...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1336http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D133620-Mar-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqu from Hamas military wing the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades addressing the prisoner swap According to the statement The Zionist enemy has not provided any new offer recently What Olmert has tried to propagate in the Zionist media in recent days is ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1335http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D133519-Mar-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communiqu from a previously unknown Palestinian Al Qaida faction claiming responsibility for the murder of two Israeli policemen in the West Bank According to the statement from the World Islamic Front for the Liberation of the Al Aqsa Mosque Al...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1317http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D131719-Mar-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new audio recording released on March 19 2009 of Shaykh Usama Bin Laden titled Fight On Champions of Somalia During the recording produced by Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation Bin Laden condemned the decision of former Somali Islamic Courts Union ICU p...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1300http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D130018-Mar-09CQ cited NEFA s translation of the Bekkay Harrach tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D1334http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D133416-Mar-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a German language video recording of German Al Qaida member Bekkay Harrach a k a Abu Talha the German produced by the As Sahaab Media Foundation During the video titled Islam and the Finance Crisis Harrach asked Where are the taxes that the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1316http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D131614-Mar-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a new audio recording from Al Qaida leader Usama Bin Laden titled Practical Steps to Liberate Palestine During the recording Bin Laden asks how long must our family in Palestine live in fear while we enjoy security albeit a false temporary ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1319http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D131912-Mar-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from the Islamic State of Iraq ISI claiming responsibility for the March 8th suicide bombing outside Baghdad s police academy that killed 28 According to the statement Our brother said Allahu Akhbar and detonated his belt amongst them leaving...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1277http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D127701-Mar-09The NEFA Foundation has released a new roster created by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann charting the eight most prominent jihad media organizations active in Central Asia namely Al Qaida s As Sahab Media Foundation Labayk Media Productions Ummat Studios the Islamic Movement of Uzb...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1278http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D127801-Mar-09The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Analyst Steve Merley titled The Union of Good INTERPAL and the U K Member Organizations The Union of Good UG is a coalition of Islamic charities that provides financial support to both the Hamas social infrastructure as well as ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1299http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D129924-Feb-09CNS News again cited NEFA s translation of the new Dr Ayman al Zawahiri audio tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1298http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D129823-Feb-09CNS News cited NEFA s translation of the latest Dr Ayman al Zawahiri audio tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1333http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D133322-Feb-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu dated February 18 from Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM claiming responsibility for the kidnapping of U N special envoy for Niger Robert Fowler his Canadian aide Louis Guay and four European tourists According to the statement...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1315http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D131522-Feb-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new audio recording from Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri released on February 22 and titled From Kabul to Mogadishu During the recording Dr al Zawahiri congratulated the Shebaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia on their recent victories again...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1294http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D129420-Feb-09Fox News aired a report on NEFA s video of a suicide bombing in Khost in southeastern Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1332http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D133216-Feb-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqu dated February 3 denying reports of the surrender of Abou Tamim Amine a k a Ben Touati Ali According to the statement following the imprisonment of Brother Amine the commander of the al Ansar Brigade may Allah protect him ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1331http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D133111-Feb-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban claiming responsibility for the coordinated February 11 2009 attack on the Ministry of Justice the Directorate of Prisons and the Ministry of Education in Kabul which killed at least 26 Accor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1293http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D129310-Feb-09Fox News quoted NEFA Director of Strategic Operations David Draper in an article discussing the Saudi rehabilitation program ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1330http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D133009-Feb-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqu from Jaish al Islam Army of Islam in Gaza in which the group urges the Austrian government to release Muhammad Shawqi Mahmoud from jail In March 2008 Mahmoud was sentenced to four years in prison for belonging to a terrorist organization Mahmou...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1329http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D132905-Feb-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new audio recording dated January 13 of the top commander from Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud titled Gaza Between the Hammer of the Jews and Crusaders and the Nail of the Apostates Abdel Wadoud co...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1328http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D132803-Feb-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqu from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban rejecting the formation of new paramilitary security organizations in Afghanistan modeled on the apparent success of the Awakening movements in Iraq The Taliban warned that the K...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1292http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D129203-Feb-09The N Y Daily News Mouth of the Potomac blog cited NEFA s translation of the latest Ayman al Zawahiri tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1314http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D131403-Feb-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new audio recording from Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri released on February 3 and titled Sacrifices of Gaza and the Plotting Against It During his address Dr al Zawahiri expressed his solidarity with embattled Palestinian resi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1272http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D127201-Feb-09U S government agencies are increasingly concerned about the ability of pro Jihad ideologues to use the Internet to incite U S based Muslims to conduct terrorist attacks Indeed there have been several terrorism cases in the years since 9 11 in which actors based in Western countries were influen...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1274http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D127401-Feb-09The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Contributor nbsp Antje Kraschinski analyzing the Al Qaida video A Bailout Plan for Germany The January 2009 video features German citizen Bekkay Harrach and is the third German language video issued by Islamic terror groups since October 2008 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1276http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D127601-Feb-09The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann titled The Eleven Saudi Guantanamo Veterans Returning to the Fight The report includes in depth profiles of eleven former Saudi detainees in Guantanamo Bay Cuba who are now listed on the Kingdom of Saudi A...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1327http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D132701-Feb-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new video from the Al Qaida Organization in the Arabian Peninsula released on January 23 featuring two former inmates at the U S military prison in Guantanamo Bay Cuba who have returned to senior positions within Al Qaida During the video former...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1326http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D132629-Jan-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a newly released German language propaganda video from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan IMU produced in September 2008 During the video a group of German nationals fighting with the IMU in Afghanistan offered messages and commentary to those livi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1324http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D132428-Jan-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communique from Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM denying recent reports that a group of Al Qaida fighters perished in Algeria after mistakenly contracting fatal doses of the plague during a biological warfare experiment gone wrong Accordin...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1325http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D132528-Jan-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban titled Closing the Cages of Guantanamo is Not Enough According to the statement This action of Barack Obama regarding Guantanamo prison can be regarded as a positive step to strengthen peace...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1291http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D129128-Jan-09The New York Post cited NEFA s final video recorded will of Kuwaiti national Abdullah al Ajmi ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1290http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D129027-Jan-09On the front page of its website Fox News featured NEFA s final video recorded will of Kuwaiti national Abdullah al Ajmi a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay who allegedly executed a suicide truck bombing on behalf of Al Qaida in Mosul ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D1323http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D132320-Jan-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new German language video recording of German Al Qaida member Bekkay Harrach a k a Abu Talha the German produced by the As Sahaab Media Foundation During the video titled A Bailout Plan for Germany Harrach threatened I asked the German pe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1289http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D128915-Jan-09United Press International cited NEFA s translation of the most recent Usama Bin Laden audiotape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1313http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D131315-Jan-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new Arabic language audio recording of Al Qaida leader Usama Bin Laden titled A Call for Jihad to Stop the Gaza Assault During the recording Bin Laden called upon Muslims around the world to mobilize the youth into jihadi fighting units in the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1322http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D132213-Jan-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a biography issued by the Shabaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia of an American jihadi recruit recently killed in a missile strike in southern Somalia Former Seattle Washington resident Ruben Shumpert a k a Amir Abdul Muhaimeen was allegedly un...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1310http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D131008-Jan-09The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new audio recording from Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri released on January 6 and titled The Massacre of Gaza and the Siege of the Traitors During his address Dr al Zawahiri condemned the ongoing Israeli raids in Gaza and blame...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1270http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D127001-Jan-09The NEFA Foundation has released a new Spot Report titled Ummah Welfare Trust and the Barclays Bank Controversy On December 16 2008 a representative from Barclays Bank PLC wrote to the Ummah Welfare Trust UWT to inform the organization that after a review of Barclays business risk exposur...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1271http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D127101-Jan-09The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Analyst Steve Merley titled The Union of Good A Global Muslim Brotherhood Hamas Fundraising Network The Union of Good is a coalition of Islamic charities that provides financial support to both the Hamas social infrastructure as we...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1321http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D132129-Dec-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement issued by Anwar al Awlaki an Al Qaida linked U S citizen addressed to the Shabaab al Mujahideen as well as a communiqu Shabaab issued in response On December 21st al Awlaki released a message titled Salutations to al Shabab of Somalia in which h...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1288http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D128829-Dec-08Newsmax interviewed NEFA Senior Analyst Madeleine Gruen for an article on Hizb ut Tahrir in which Gruen discussed the group s innovative radicalization tactics ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1285http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D128524-Dec-08Welt Online cited NEFA s translation of an Islamic Army of Iraq IAI communique in which the IAI nbsp admits grudging admiration for aspects of the U S election ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1286http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D128624-Dec-08The Philadelphia Inquirer referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s expert witness testimony in the Fort Dix trial ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1284http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D128422-Dec-08Wired s Danger Room blog cited NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah s book Merchant of Death in an article on arms dealer Viktor Bout The Associated Press interviewed Farah about Bout s extradition hearing in Thailand ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1283http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D128321-Dec-08The New York Daily News quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann and cited NEFA s translation of an Islamic Army of Iraq IAI communique in which the IAI nbsp admits grudging admiration for aspects of the U S election ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1500http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D150021-Dec-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqu from the media spokesman of the Islamic Army in Iraq IAI Dr Ali al Nuaimi concerning the recent U S presidential elections According to Dr al Nuaimi s statement There were significant lessons demonstrated during the recent Am...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1282http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D128219-Dec-08Fox News quoted NEFA Director of Strategic Operations David Draper in an article about the shut down nbsp of a jihadist group trying to invade Facebook ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1320http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D132019-Dec-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated two new communiqu s from the Al Qaida linked Fatah al Islam in Lebanon and Syria On November 29 Fatah al Islam issued a statement condemning Syria s entrance into the public arena against Fatah al Islam If this organization is wiped out then no ot...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1281http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D128118-Dec-08The Economist cited NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah s book Merchant of Death in an article on arms dealer Viktor Bout ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D1280http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D128013-Dec-08The Wall Street Journal cited an Idara Khidmat e Khalq web page directing donations through the Bank of New York that was provided to the paper by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1025http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D102512-Dec-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated recent communiques from two major Sunni insurgent groups active in Iraq voicing their solidarity with and support for the Mujahideen Army in their ongoing war of words with the leader of Al Qaida in Iraq Abu Hamza al Muhajir On November 6 the Saad B...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D170http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D17011-Dec-08The Wall Street Journal quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article titled Officials Worry Attacks in Mumbai Could Spur Copycats in the West ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D171http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D17110-Dec-08Wired s Danger Room quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article on American jihadists who have trained with Lashkar e Taiba ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D927http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D92710-Dec-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new video interview of Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri produced by Al Qaida s As Sahaab Media Foundation and titled The Lions of Al Azhar During the interview al Zawahiri called upon fellow Egyptians to observe a general strike in honor of besi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D172http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D17209-Dec-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness on behalf of DOJ in the trial of an alleged homegrown terrorist cell that plotted to attack Fort Dix The Newark Star Ledger the Philadelphia Inquirer and United Press International reported on Kohlmann s testimony ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D928http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D92808-Dec-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new Arabic language audio recording from Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri released on December 1 During the recording titled The Death of Our Heroes and Betrayal of Our Rulers al Zawahiri hailed the recently executed cul...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D173http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D17307-Dec-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article on Lashkar e Taiba s Western recruits that focused heavily on the case of Aabid Khan in which Kohlmann served as an expert witness ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1026http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D102605-Dec-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communique from a prominent Sunni insurgent group in Iraq known as the Mujahideen Army The statement issued in response to a controversial recent audio address from Al Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Hamza al Muhajir angrily condemned Abu Hamza for s...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D174http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D17404-Dec-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann authored an MSNBC article drawing heavily on his interview withAbdullah Muntazir a chief spokesman of LET s accused political wing Jamat ud Dawa ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D175http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D17504-Dec-08The Wall Street Journal quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article on Western converts who have trained for jihad with Lashkar e Taiba ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D176http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D17603-Dec-08NBC News reported on NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s interview with a spokesman forJamat ud Dawa LeT s political wing ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D177http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D17702-Dec-08NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah was quoted in a Guardian article that discussed wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1910http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D191002-Dec-08 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D178http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D17801-Dec-08In a report on extremism in Somalia ABC News utilized clips obtained by the NEFA Foundation of a video recording from the Shebaab al Mujahideen Movement featuring footage of a locally based jihad training camp The report also quoted NEFA Director of Strategic Operations David Draper ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D1268http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D126801-Dec-08Following today s conviction of five men in New Jersey federal court for plotting to kill members of the U S military the NEFA Foundation is providing an expert report submitted in the case by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann Initiated by a homegrown cell that was in the words of one plo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D95http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D9501-Dec-08The NEFA Foundation is making available the expert witness report filed by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on behalf of the Crown Prosecution Service in Regina v Mohammed Ajmal Khan Palvinder Singh and Frzana Khan The report provides an in depth examination of Lashkar e Taiba s LeT his...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D96http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D9601-Dec-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann titled Inside As Sahaab The Story of Ali al Bahlul and the Evolution of Al Qaida s Propaganda The report is based upon previously unseen evidence presented during the recent Guantanamo Bay military commission...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D179http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D17929-Nov-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about possible British links to the Mumbai attacks ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D180http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D18026-Nov-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed on MSNBC s Hardball about the Mumbai attacks ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1058http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D105826-Nov-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communique from the Shebaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia denying published reports that it intends to fight with local pirate forces for control of a hijacked Saudi supertanker off the coast of East Africa The communique condemned the Arab...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D181http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D18125-Nov-08NEFA granted Fox News exclusive access to its detailed reports on the activities of terrorists in support of an in depth feature onShabaab al Mujahideen NEFA is also quoted repeatedly in the report ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D182http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D18224-Nov-08MSNBC s Deep Background interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about newly released clips depicting 9 11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah stumbling through the recording of his martyrdom tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D183http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D18324-Nov-08The Dallas Morning News quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah on the convictions in the Holy Land Foundation retrial ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1059http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D105921-Nov-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban rejecting Afghan President Hamid Karzai s solemn offer to Mullah Omar to guarantee his security and safety if he would agree to willingly participate in peace negotiations The Taliban assert tha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D184http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D18420-Nov-08The Washington Post quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on the newest Dr Ayman al Zawahiri tape November 15 2008 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D929http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D92919-Nov-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new audio recording from Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri released on November 19 2008 titled On the Parting of Bush and the Arrival of Obama During the recording al Zawahiri issued a message to U S President Elect Obama warning him of the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D204http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D20415-Nov-08The Australian reported on Belal Saadallah Khazaal s conviction in absentia on terror charges in Lebanon and referenced testimony given by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann during Khazaal s NSW Supreme Court trial ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D154http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D15413-Nov-08The NEFA Foundation has released the sixteenth installment in the Target America series which examines the 2006 07 plot to attack jet fuel tanks and the adjoining fuel pipeline at New York s John F Kennedy International Airport JFK The attack was conceived by Guyanese American Russell Defrei...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1060http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D106013-Nov-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban addressed to U S President elect Barack Obama The Taliban assess that the overwhelming victory of Barrack Obama the candidate of the Democrats in the US Presidential Election and his assumption...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D185http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D18512-Nov-08The New York Daily News cited NEFA s translation of a recent Omar al Baghdadi message addressed to the new rulers in the White House ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D186http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D18612-Nov-08Andrew Sullivan s The Daily Dish and Politico cited NEFA s translation of acommunique issued by the Political Council of the Iraqi Resistance PCIR addressed to U S President elect Barack Obama ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1027http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D102712-Nov-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new Arabic language communique issued by the Political Council of the Iraqi Resistance PCIR an umbrella organization which oversees the political interests of several major Sunni insurgent groups in Iraq including the Islamic Army in Iraq IAI the Salahudeen a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1028http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D102811-Nov-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new audio recording from the Amir al Mumineen Commander of the Faithful of Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI Abu Omar al Baghdadi According to al Baghdadi the purpose of the audio recording addressed to the new rulers in the White House ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1029http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D102910-Nov-08The NEFA Foundation has transcribed and translated a highly controversial new interview with Abu Hamza al Muhajir the leader of Al Qaida in Iraq During the interview produced by the official media wing of Al Qaida in Iraq Abu Hamza pointedly accused various other Sunni insurgent groups including...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D187http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D18706-Nov-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a New York Daily News article about Al Qaida s reaction to Barack Obama s election victory ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D188http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D18804-Nov-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an MSNBC Deep Background article about the lack of an October Surprise by Usama Bin Laden ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1030http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D103004-Nov-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communique issued by the Ansar al Islam Organization in Iraq formerly known as the Ansar al Sunnah Army in which the group distanced itself from illegal actions and criminal behavior allegedly committed by unspecified factions from within ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D97http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D9701-Nov-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah titled Lessons Learned from the Campaign Against the FARC in Colombia This paper is the fourth NEFA Foundation report on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D189http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D18930-Oct-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness on behalf of the Department of Defense in the Guantanamo Bay war crimes trial of Ali Hamza al Bahlul Al Bahlul created a U S S Cole propaganda video that Kohlmann described as one of the most popular al Qaida video s of all ti...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D190http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D19029-Oct-08The Washington Post quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah for an article on the unstanched flow of drug money in Mexico Farah commented on the pipeline that has been created from South America to the United States where drugs people weapons and cash are trafficked and that could be...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D191http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D19127-Oct-08Internet News quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article on the emerging use of Twitter as a terrorist tool ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1061http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D106124-Oct-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban rejecting the notion that a U S sponsored Awakening movement in South Asia styled after the model recently developed in Sunni areas of Iraq has any chance of success in Afghanistan Accord...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1062http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D106222-Oct-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated selected articles from the official magazine of Al Qaida s network in Yemen quot Sada al Malahim quot The articles include two reports from an ongoing series titled quot Men on the Road quot profiling notable Al Qaida figures from Yemen and Saudi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D192http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D19222-Oct-08The Christian Science Monitor quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article addressing the recent Sunni Shiite battle of website hackers ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D193http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D19322-Oct-08CBC News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article examining the ties between convicted British terrorist Aabid Khan and an alleged Canadian terror cell The National Post reported on the same story and referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s Special Report on the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D194http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D19421-Oct-08Congressional Quarterly cited NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah s Counterterrorism Blog post about Al Qaida gloating over the financial meltdown ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D195http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D19521-Oct-08A Danish court convicted Hammad Khurshid and Abdolghani Tohki of preparing a terrorist attack and sentenced the men to 12 and 7 years in prison respectively NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness on behalf of the PET and the Danish Public Prosecutor s Office in the c...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D196http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D19619-Oct-08The Daily Times Pakistan quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on the closure of the Al Ekhlaas Al Firdaws and Al Boraq forums ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1063http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D106319-Oct-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated selected articles from the official magazine of Al Qaida s network in Yemen quot Sada al Malahim quot The articles include a report published in the first issue of the magazine released in January 2008 documenting a failed Yemeni government secur...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D197http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D19718-Oct-08A front page Washington Post article extensively quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on the sudden closure of three of the top Internet discussion forums currently used by Al Qaida United Press International also reported on this story The NEFA Foundation previously released a communique...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D198http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D19816-Oct-08RIA Nivosti reported on clips obtained by the NEFA Foundation of a video recording from the Shebaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia featuring footage of a locally based jihad training camp ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D199http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D19916-Oct-08Fox News featured clips obtained by the NEFA Foundation of a video recording from the Shebaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia featuring footage of a locally based jihad training camp ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1064http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D106416-Oct-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new selected article from the official magazine of Al Qaida s network in Yemen Sada al Malahim in this case featuring an interview with most wanted Saudi Al Qaida operative Nayif bin Mohammed al Qahtani a k a Abu Hummam al Qahtani During the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1065http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D106514-Oct-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new statement from Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM claiming responsibility for a September 14 2008 attack on a local military convoy in the Mauritanian region of Zerouate According to the statement this attack was carried out t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D1066http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D106611-Oct-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated an Arabic language statement from the Al Fajr Media Center the official online logistical network responsible for disseminating messages from various Al Qaida military factions announcing the sudden closure of three of the top Internet discussion forum...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1067http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D106709-Oct-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained an Arabic language video recording released by the Shebaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia featuring a statement from Kenyan national Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan a k a Abu Yousef who is currently wanted by the FBI in connection with the 2002 attacks in Mombasa K...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D930http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D93008-Oct-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and transcribed a copy of the latest English language video message from American Al Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn a k a Abu Azzam al Amriki released on October 3 titled The Believer Isn t Stung from the Same Hole Twice Breaking his silence after a nearly ten ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D200http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D20007-Oct-08Congressional Quarterly reported on a Homeland Security Policy Institute George Washington University event titled Targeting Terrorist Finances at which Senior Investigator Douglas Farah discussed failed states that are simply criminal syndicates ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1068http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D106807-Oct-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated four new statements from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban In these new communiques the Taliban have denied widespread rumors of Saudi sponsored peace talks with the Afghan government and have mocked news that U S troops withdrawing f...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D201http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D20104-Oct-08NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah was quoted in a Congressional Quarterly article on reorganization fatigue in the Intelligence Community ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1069http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D106902-Oct-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated Arabic language biographies of foreign fighters particularly those from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait which appear to document a shift in focus away from the jihad in Iraq and towards the growing conflict in Pakistan and Afghanistan The biographies include ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D98http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D9801-Oct-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ronald Sandee titled quot The Islamic Jihad Union quot The Islamic Jihad Union was founded by breakaway fighters from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in March 2002 in Pakistan s Tribal Areas The organizati...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D99http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D9901-Oct-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Analyst Steve Merley titled The Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe The Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe FIOE claims to be an independent organization representing the interests of Muslims in Europe In reality ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D202http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D20226-Sep-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness on behalf of the PET and the Danish Public Prosecutor s Office in the case of Hammad Khurshid et al in Copenhagen ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D203http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D20326-Sep-08The Dallas Morning News Crime Blog noted NEFA s work chronicling the evidence on the Muslim Brotherhood that emerged during the first Holy Land Foundation trial ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D205http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D20523-Sep-08United Press International published an article highlighting NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah s new Special Report on the FARC s international network ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D206http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D20623-Sep-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann participated in a panel at the Rayburn House Office Building titled The Jihadists Revolt Against Al Qaeda Why Some of Al Qaeda s Old Allies Have Turned Against It Congressional Quarterly quoted Kohlmann in an article on the panel ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1031http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D103122-Sep-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated two recent statements issued respectively by the Ansar al Islam Organization in Iraq formerly known as the Ansar al Sunnah Army and a breakaway faction which refers to itself as the Shariah Committee of the Ansar al Sunnah Army In response to alle...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D207http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D20721-Sep-08The Associated Press quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s assessment that the Pakistan Marriott bombing was likely the work of Al Qaida or Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D208http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D20820-Sep-08The UK s ITN quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article on the delayed release of Al Qaida s 9 11 video The Results of Seven Years of Crusades ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1070http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D107020-Sep-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated two new statements from Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM condemning the recent military coup in Mauritania and claiming responsibility for a series of suicide bombings and other attacks targeting the Algerian army police and foreign...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D209http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D20919-Sep-08The Toronto Star reported that Until it appeared online this week prosecutors of Canada s largest homegrown terror case did not know about a video showing members of the Toronto 18 at an alleged training camp despite it being evidence in the trial of a British extremist with links to the group ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D210http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D21019-Sep-08The Associated Press Agence France Presse the CanWest News Service the Toronto Star the Canadian Press CityNews and the National Post published articles about NEFA s exclusive footage of a terror training camp in Canada ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D931http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D93119-Sep-08The NEFA Foundation has released a transcript of an audio recording of Al Qaida Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri released on August 24 titled In Lamentation of a Group of Heroes During the brief recording produced by Al Qaida s official As Sahab Media Wing al Zawahiri mourned the recent k...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D211http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D21118-Sep-08CBC conducted a radio interview with NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann aboutNEFA s exclusive footage of a terror training camp in Canada ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D212http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D21218-Sep-08The Globe and Mail devoted an entire article to NEFA s exclusive footage of a terror training camp in Canada ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1889http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D188918-Sep-08In this nbsp document DOJ reveals that Mohamad Shnewer also discussed carrying out attacks on various civilian federal facilities In a court filing DOJ wrote that Shnewer and an FBI informant CW1 discussed attacking federal government buildings in downtown Washington D C including the White...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1071http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D107118-Sep-08In light of the attack on the U S embassy in Sanaa the NEFA Foundation is releasing two statements issued by Al Qaida in Yemen this summer On June 4 2008 the group issued a statement claiming responsibility for the bombardment of a security camp which it asserted was widely known for its con...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D213http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D21317-Sep-08NEFA s exclusive footage of a terror training camp in Canada was highlighted in an MSNBC Deep Background article ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D1072http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D107216-Sep-08On September 12 an interview with an Al Qaida soldier conducted by the Al Yaqin Media Center was posted on a jihadist website In the interview the soldier warns of the presence of sleeper cells in the U S and notes that Texas is in our sight He adds We in the Al Qa ida organization kn...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D214http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D21411-Sep-08The Australian cited the expert witness testimony of NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article discussing the conviction of former Qantas Airlines baggage handler Belal Khazaal for knowingly making a document connected with assistance in a terrorist act ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D215http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D21508-Sep-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an MSNBC Deep Background article on American apathy toward recent Al Qaida communications such as today s Ayman al Zawahiri video Kohlmann said that Zawahiri keeps rehashing the same set of basic issues over and over again Given a country li...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D932http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D93208-Sep-08The NEFA Foundation is releasing additional content drawn from Al Somood a monthly Islamic magazine published by the Taliban s media center In this piece dated August September 2006 Sheikh Abu Yahya al Liby reveals The Truth About What Happens Behind the Bars Al Liby who was being held by th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D216http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D21606-Sep-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Telegraph article on the likely death of Adam Gadahn in a U S Predator missile strike ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1073http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D107304-Sep-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement issued by the Taliban titled The Most Acrimonious Week for Occupation Forces The statement lauds the August 2008 ambush that killed 10 French soldiers and asserts that the puppet administration of Kabul has tried to cover up the true information about...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D100http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D10001-Sep-08The NEFA Foundation has published a new report by NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah titled The FARC s International Relations A Network of Deception This paper is a follow up to two previous NEFA Foundation reports on the state of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Fuerzas Armadas ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D101http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D10101-Sep-08The NEFA Foundation has published a new report by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann titled Anatomy of a Modern Homegrown Terror Cell The report focuses on the recent criminal trial of Aabid Hussain Khan at the Blackfriars Crown Court in London as told through the actual evidence seized by U...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1074http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D107427-Aug-08The NEFA Foundation is releasing additional content drawn from Al Somood a monthly Islamic magazine published by the Taliban s media center In this piece dated July 2007 Al Somood provides a biography of Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah who was killed by NATO and Afghan troops in May ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D1075http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D107525-Aug-08Earlier this month British authorities arrested three individuals including two as they prepared to leave Britain on terrorism charges According to open source reporting the arrests were linked to an online threat to Prime Minister Gordon Brown that was posted in January 2008 on al ekhlaas net ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D217http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D21723-Aug-08NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah served on a distinguished international panel of judges to select the finalists for the first Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D218http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D21821-Aug-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness in the trial of Belal Saadallah Khazaal in New South Wales Australia Supreme Court The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Kohlmann s testimony ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D933http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D93320-Aug-08The NEFA Foundation has released a transcript of the latest audio message from Al Qaida s Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri Addressing his plea to the Pakistani military al Zawahiri spoke for the first time in English and called upon low and mid ranking soldiers to violently revolt against th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D219http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D21917-Aug-08A St Louis Post Dispatch article on DEA Operations Chief Michael Braun quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D1076http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D107617-Aug-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communique issued by Shamsuddin Batukaev the Wakil Head of the Caucasus Emirate in which he commented on widely replicated reports that Chechen units and volunteers from Chechnya are participating on Russian side in war against Georgia He acknowledged that...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D1077http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=55#D107717-Aug-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a July 5 2008 report from the Chechen mujahideen press agency which stated that the intelligence service Mukhabarat of the Caucasus Emirate received information about an upcoming military operation that Russia will conduct against Georgia Further opera...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1078http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D107814-Aug-08The NEFA Foundation is releasing a transcript which will later be accompanied by audio video of an exclusive interview of Haji Namdar who was shot to death at a mosque in Khyber Agency on August 13 2008 the Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan took credit for the attack Among the most well known radical ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D220http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D22014-Aug-08An International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism ICT report on Venezuelan Ties to Hezbollah cited NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s report What the FARC Papers Show Us about Latin American Terrorismmerican Thinker ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1079http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D107912-Aug-08In the coming weeks the NEFA Foundation will be releasing a stream of content drawn from Al Somood a monthly Islamic magazine published by the Taliban s media center In this piece dated July 2007 Al Somood interviews Almullah Akhthar Muhammad Mansur the Taliban s Military Command...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D934http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D93411-Aug-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a Pakistani television interview of Shaykh Mustafa Abu al Yazid a k a Shaykh Saeed In May 2007 Al Qaida s official As Sahab Media Wing identified al Yazid as the overall head of al Qaida Organization in Afghanistan According to As Sahab al ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D935http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D93506-Aug-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a copy of the statement from Al Qaida leader Mustafa Abu al Yazid acknowledging the martyrdom of most wanted Egyptian Al Qaida commander Abu Khabab al Masri a k a Midhat Mursi al Sayyid Umar in a U S airstrike targeting a lawless region of nort...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D221http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D22102-Aug-08An article in the American Thinker discussing the Muslim Brotherhood noted that a wealth of material demonstrating their historic and contemporary Islamist goals aims and objectives can be found at the NEFA site ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D222http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D22228-Jul-08The Associated Press Reuters andthe Los Angeles Times reported that NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann aired his 90 minute video The Al Qaida Plan to military jurors during the Guantanamo trial of Salim Hamdan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D223http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D22328-Jul-08NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah will testify before the U S House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism Nonproliferation and Trade this Thursday at a hearing titled Foreign Aid and the Fight Against Terrorism and Proliferation Leveraging Foreign Aid to Achieve U S Policy Goals ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D224http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D22424-Jul-08The San Francisco Bay Guardian cited Merchant of Death authored by NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah as the definitive book on Viktor Bout ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D225http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D22521-Jul-08The Department of Defense intends to utilize NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann as an expert witness in the Guantanamo trial of Salim Hamdan Usama Bin Laden s former driver ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D226http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D22616-Jul-08Der Spiegel provided a link to the NEFA website and cited NEFA in an article on Omar Ahmed Khadr ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D227http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D22708-Jul-08United Press International published an article based on NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s exclusive interview with the Islamic Army of Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D228http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D22808-Jul-08Spain s El Confidential interviewedNEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D229http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D22907-Jul-08MSNBC s Deep Background featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s exclusive interview with the Islamic Army of Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1032http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D103207-Jul-08The NEFA Foundation has released an English transcript of a third exclusive insurgent interview recently conducted by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on this occasion with Dr Ali al Naimi official spokesman of the Islamic Army in Iraq IAI one of the largest and most influential Sunni in...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D102http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D10201-Jul-08NEFA Foundation Senior Investigator Douglas Farah testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Terrorism Nonproliferation and Trade at a hearing titled Foreign Aid and the Fight Against Terrorism and Proliferation Leveraging Foreign Aid to Achieve U S Policy Goals Fa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D103http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D10301-Jul-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new analytical chart that contrasts the shifting patterns in propaganda releases by the Taliban in Afghanistan versus Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI over approximately a one year period from April 2007 to July 2008 The numbers on the chart represent th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D104http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D10401-Jul-08As the third anniversary of the botched 7 21 bombings approaches the NEFA Foundation is releasing a PowerPoint briefing authored by NEFA Senior Analyst Josh Lefkowitz titled The July 21 2005 London Transport Bombings An In Depth Look at the Planning Execution and Failure of the Attack Dra...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D105http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D10501-Jul-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann titled Jihad Networks in Pakistan and Their Influence in Europe The paper is based upon a presentation given by Mr Kohlmann on July 10 before the III International Course on Jihad Terrorism Contingency Plan...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D106http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D10601-Jul-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by Claudio Franco titled The Evolution of the Taliban in Pakistan during the February May 2008 Period The Peace Accord Era Franco explores the evolution of the insurgency in North Western Pakistan from February May 2008 a time characterized by an at...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D107http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D10701-Jul-08This paper by NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah is a follow up to a report by the NEFA Foundation on April 1 2008 on the state of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia FARC the Western Hemisphere s oldest insurgency The purpose of this pape...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D230http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D23030-Jun-08CBS News Internet Terror Monitor highlighted NEFA s exclusive interview with Mangal Bagh the de facto leader of Lashkar e Islam ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D231http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D23126-Jun-08America gov a State Department website interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah for an article on the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act and provided a link to the NEFA website ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D232http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D23224-Jun-08Washington Post foreign correspondent Craig Whitlock cited NEFA as one of the best online public resources regarding al Qaeda online ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D233http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D23324-Jun-08The Washington Post quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in the second in a series of articles addressing Al Qaida s online presence In many many ways the damage has already been done said Evan F Kohlmann an expert on al Qaeda s online operations who serves as a consultant to the F...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D234http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D23418-Jun-08MSNBC s Deep Background featured the exclusive interviews of Iraqi insurgents conducted by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1033http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D103318-Jun-08The NEFA Foundation has released English transcripts of two exclusive interviews recently conducted by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann with Hamas al Iraq and the Al Rashideen Army arguably two of the most influential Sunni insurgent factions fighting in Iraq Both groups have insisted tha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1080http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D108018-Jun-08In light of the June 14 2008 warning by the U K Foreign Office that it believes terrorists may be planning to carry out attacks in the UAE the NEFA Foundation is releasing a July 2005 communique from the military wing for the Al Qaida Organization in UAE and Oman titled A Letter to the UAE Opp...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1081http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D108117-Jun-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communique from Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb claiming responsibility for several recent terrorist attacks in Algeria including a June 8 bombing near the Beni Amrane train station which killed a French contractor working for the Ra...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D235http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D23513-Jun-08In an interview on MSNBC s Deep Background NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco analyzed U S government radio ads requesting the Afghan public s help in locating Adam Gadahn Franco is labeled an enterprising journalist by MSNBC ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D236http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D23612-Jun-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann published an article in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science titled Homegrown Terrorists Theory and Cases in the War on Terror s Newest Front ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1082http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D108210-Jun-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a statement dated June 4 from Shaykh Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud the top commander of Al Qaida s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM titled Here We Come O Sister In his statement Wadoud swore revenge on the governments of North Africa for a vio...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1083http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D108309-Jun-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communique from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban movement defending the recent peace accord negotiated between the Pakistani government and local Taliban forces According to the statement We consider the peace accord in Pakista...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D936http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D93607-Jun-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a copy of an audio recording of Dr Ayman al Zawahiri released by Al Qaida s official As Sahab Media Wing on June 4 titled On the Anniversary of the Disaster A Call to Help Our People in Gaza During the recording al Zawahiri once again called up...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D937http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D93705-Jun-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a communique issued by senior Al Qaida commander Mustafa Abu al Yazid claiming responsibility for the June 2 suicide bombing attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad Pakistan According to al Yazid one of the courageous heroes from Al Qaida executed a m...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1034http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D103404-Jun-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated two new statements from an emerging Sunni insurgent faction calling itself the Iraqi Martyrs Brigades In its initial statement of purpose the IMB indicated that its fighters were being guided both by Muslim Shariah law and contemporary laws Our...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D237http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D23703-Jun-08Congressional Quarterly referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s comment that political fallout from the U S election is being manipulated by Al Qaida as propaganda fodder ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D238http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D23802-Jun-08In an article on the suicide bombing attack outside the Danish embassy in Pakistan Bloomberg cited NEFA s translation of the Q A session with Ayman al Zawahiri In that session al Zawahiri threatened attacks on Denmark ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1035http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D103502-Jun-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement from the Islamic Army of Iraq in which the group s spokesman denied the capture of one of the organization s leaders in Tikrit According to Dr Ali al Neeme all the leaders of the army thankfully are safe and continue their struggle...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1085http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D108502-Jun-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new interview published by the Islamic Jihad Union IJU with Abdul Gaffar al Almani better known as Eric B a 20 year old German convert to Islam from Neuenkirchen in Saarland who traveled to Pakistan in 2007 and joined the Islamic Jihad Union IJU Accordin...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D108http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D10801-Jun-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained an exclusive video recorded interview with Mangal Bagh the charismatic de facto leader of Lashkar e Islam LI in control of approximately three quarters of Pakistan s Khyber Agency Bagh took control of Lashkar e Islam approximately two years ago from its original...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D109http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D10901-Jun-08Following the U K Court of Appeal decision to overturn the conviction of the Lyrical Terrorist Samina Malik the NEFA Foundation is releasing a PowerPoint briefing authored by NEFA Senior Analyst Josh Lefkowitz that provides an overview of Operation Orbile the British counterterrorism investig...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D110http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D11001-Jun-08In the wake of today s conviction of three men in federal court in Toledo Ohio for conspiring to help kill U S soldiers in Iraq the NEFA Foundation is providing an expert report submitted in the case by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann During the investigation of the three men Mohammed Ama...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D111http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D11101-Jun-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new dossier written by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann examining the role of Shaykh Mustafa Abu al Yazid a k a Shaykh Saeed appointed in May 2007 as the overall head of al Qaida Organization in Afghanistan According to Al Qaida s official As Sahab M...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1036http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D103631-May-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new video recording and separately a text communique from Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI During the video an unidentified individual presented as the official ISI spokesman for the Nineveh province of Iraq Mosul sharply denied reports o...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D239http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D23931-May-08The Orange County Register cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s assessment that Adam Gadahn may be dead due to the lack of English subtitles in recent Al Qaida videos ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1086http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D108631-May-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communique and audio recording from an emerging branch of the Al Qaida aligned Fatah al Islam movement based in the Gaza Strip On January 12 2008 the group issued a statement naming its local commander in the Palestinian territories as Abu Abdelr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D240http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D24030-May-08Government Executive quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah in an article on terrorism financing Farah commented that the Viktor Bout case highlights a growing nexus of contacts and collaboration between terrorist networks and transnational criminal organizations ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D938http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D93830-May-08The NEFA Foundation has translated further excerpts from Dr Ayman al Zawahiri s second round of answers to some of the hundreds of questions recently submitted on extremist web forums by Al Qaida supporters and other interested parties In response to various questions regarding the structure and r...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D939http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D93929-May-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a copy of a May 18 audio recording from Al Qaida Usama Bin Laden titled A Message to the Islamic Nation During his speech Bin Laden called upon Muslim youths particularly those living in countries neighboring Israel to immediately take up arms in d...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D241http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D24128-May-08The New York Times blog cited a CT Blog posting by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in which Kohlmann asserted that a purported nuclear threat by Al Qaida certainly was not the product of the terror group and instead was a prank ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D242http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D24224-May-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in the Australian publication The Advertiser in an article which examined Al Qaida s presence on the Internet ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D243http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D24324-May-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in the Australian publication The Advertiser in an article which examined Al Qaida s presence on the Internet ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D244http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D24424-May-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s commentary on the lack of English subtitles in recent Al Qaida videos is cited in a Press Enterprise CA article on Adam Gadahn ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D940http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D94022-May-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a copy of a new audio recording from Al Qaida leader Usama Bin Laden titled A Message to the People of the West from the Shaykh Usama Bin Laden The Reasons for the Conflict on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Israeli Conquest During his speech Bi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D245http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D24521-May-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness on behalf of the Department of Justice in the Ohio trial of three men charged with conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D246http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D24620-May-08Europe Press reported that NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann will speak at a July conference in Seville sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Defense and the U S Embassy in Spain ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D941http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D94111-May-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of new letter from Al Qaida leader Mustafa Abu al Yazid confirming the death of Al Qaida lieutenant Abu Sulaiman al Otaibi a k a Mohammed al Thibaiti during clashes with the crusaders and apostates in the Paktika province of Afghanistan According to Sau...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D247http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D24708-May-08NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah participated on a panel alongside the former Deputy Director of the CIA and the former Director of the CIA s National Clandestine Service titled Global Strategy to Counter Terrorism and Extremism ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D248http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D24807-May-08Congressional Quarterly Homeland Security a subscription service referenced the NEFA Special Report Terrorists Behind Bars ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D942http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D94206-May-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of Dr Ayman al Zawahiri s second round of answers to some of the hundreds of questions recently submitted on extremist web forums by Al Qaida supporters and other interested parties Exclusive English translations of selected questions and answers are now ava...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1037http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D103705-May-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a copy of an audio recording released on April 14 2008 of Abu Omar al Baghdadi the leader of Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI In his audio statement al Baghdadi acknowledged concerns that were brought to my attention by several Shaykhs f...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1038http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D103803-May-08The Army of al Mustafa a k a Jaish al Mustafa a Sunni insurgent group which has claimed credit for at least three joint operations with Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI since January 2008 has suddenly broken off relations with the ISI accusing its local commanders of engaging in threa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D249http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D24902-May-08The Jurist the website of the University of Pittsburgh s School of Law labeled NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s book Al Qaida s Jihad in Europe The Afghan Bosnian Network a fascinating read ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D112http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D11201-May-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by Senior Analyst Josh Lefkowitz titled quot Terrorists Behind Bars quot which examines the myriad complexities the worldwide prison system must address when managing incarcerated extremists While in prison jihadists have caused officials fits by ra...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D113http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D11301-May-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Analyst Steve Merley titled The Muslim Brotherhood in Belgium Belgium has become an important center for the global Muslim Brotherhood in Europe Since its origins in early student organizations the Belgian Brotherhood network has grow...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D250http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D25029-Apr-08Belgian television station RTL ran a segment on NEFA Senior Analyst Steve Merley s report titled The Muslim Brotherhood in Belgium ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1087http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D108729-Apr-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated an interview of a Turkish Islamic Jihad Union IJU fighter According to the IJU Abu Yasir Al Turki left everything he had in Turkey following the verse of Allah c c to do Jihad migrated to live the life of the companions of Muhammed and is pres...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D251http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D25128-Apr-08Slate Magazine noted that NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Merchant of Death is helping to heighten our awareness of the unprecedented threats posted by the new forms of global crime ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D252http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D25228-Apr-08NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt was quoted in a New Yorker article on the investigation and prosecution of Al Haramain officials ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D253http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D25326-Apr-08NBC News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about concerns that England and other European countries face a heightened threat of terrorist attacks ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D943http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D94321-Apr-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a copy of a new audio recording released on April 17 of Al Qaida s Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri During the audio recording Dr al Zawahiri boasted the first signs of victory have already appeared Soon Iraq will become a fortress of Is...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1039http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D103918-Apr-08During a March 2008 raid northwest of Baghdad the U S military seized a letter intended for Al Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al Masri that was authored by an insurgent named Abu Safyan In the letter Abu Safyan advises that we must always leave the enemy in psychological conflict and worr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1040http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D104015-Apr-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a communique issued by Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI marking the fifth anniversary of the U S invasion of Iraq The statement boasted that thanks to the existence of the ISI instead of speaking about achieving their targets like disbelieving ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D1088http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=50#D108815-Apr-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communique released on April 5 2008 by the Shabaab al Mujahideen Movement in Somalia The statement welcomed the recognition of Shabaab as an international terrorist organization by the U S government As we are a part of the Salafi Jihadi I...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D254http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D25414-Apr-08Germany s first TV channel ARD aired a profile of Germany s first suicide bomber Cuneyt Cifti on the news program Report M Uuml NCHEN The NEFA Foundation s video footage of Cifti featured prominently in the report ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1089http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D108910-Apr-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated an April 7 2008 communique issued by the Al Qaida Network in the Islamic Maghreb formerly known as the Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat GSPC complaining that for the third time the deadline of the ultimatum given to Austria by the mujahidee...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D1090http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=60#D109009-Apr-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a copy of a purported communique from the Jund al Yaman Brigades of the Al Qaidat ul Jihad Organization in the Arabian Peninsula dated April 7 2008 The statement claimed credit for several recent terrorist attacks in Yemen including the April 6 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D255http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D25508-Apr-08NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Merchant of Death was referenced in an article on Viktor Bout in the May issue of the International Enforcement Law Reporter ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D256http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D25608-Apr-08NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah delivered the keynote address at a Hudson Institute event titled Iran s Growing Presence in Latin America ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1041http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D104108-Apr-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of an Islamic Army of Iraq IAI communique that appears to claim credit for a joint military operation with Ansar al Islam AI also known as the Ansar al Sunnah Army Ansar al Islam is normally a close ally of Al Qaida in Iraq and there has been ongoing fr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D257http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D25705-Apr-08NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah authored a lengthy piece on arms dealer Viktor Bout in the Australian publication The Advertiser ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1091http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D109105-Apr-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement issued by the Taliban blasting the outcome of the NATO meeting in Romania According to the Taliban the meeting failed to chalk out any plan for future The NATO countries repeated the same old slogans during the summit meeting The NATO member countr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D258http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D25804-Apr-08The New York Times quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in a report on Abu Yahya al Libi identified as a rising leader for the next phase of Al Qaeda s war ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D155http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D15503-Apr-08Concurrent with the start of the trial of eight alleged conspirators the NEFA Foundation has released the fifteenth installment in its Target America series examining the 2006 plotto detonate liquid explosives on board several commercial aircraft departing from England and bound for the United ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D944http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D94402-Apr-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a new 90 minute audio recording released today of Al Qaida s Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri During the audio recording Dr al Zawahiri responded to many of the hundreds of questions recently submitted on extremist web forums by Al Qaida supporters...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D114http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D11401-Apr-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah titled What the FARC Papers Show Us about Latin American Terrorism On May 1 2008 Raul Reyes a senior commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC was killed when Colombian troops raided h...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1092http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D109201-Apr-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement issued by the Taliban claiming that two attacks on Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan were part of a chain of revenge for Fitna a controversial film produced by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders The Taliban communique states One of the Dutch memb...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D259http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D25930-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation is a non profit foundation created after the attacks of September 11 2001 in order to help prevent future tragedies in the U S and abroad by exposing those responsible for planning funding and executing terrorist activities To that end we routinely post the results of our r...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D260http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D26028-Mar-08CBS News Internet Terrorism Monitor reported on NEFA s video footage of Cuneyt Ciftci the first German suicide bomber who carried out an attack in Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D261http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D26128-Mar-08MSNBC s Deep Background quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article on jihadist advances in cyber security which allow Al Qaida to communicate on an almost invisible level ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D262http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D26227-Mar-08NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article examining the growing crisis in Somalia and the role of Al Shabaab ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D263http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D26327-Mar-08The Boston Globe interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article on U S companies that host terrorist websites and the U S government s response ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1093http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D109327-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement issued by Mulla Beradar the second ranking official in the Taliban in which he warns of a spring offensive Beradar announces now the winter is coming to an end and spring is around the corner the Emirate Islamic of Afghanistan have launched a new op...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D264http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D26426-Mar-08Newsweek interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the latest Ayman al Zawahiri tape which he labeled palpably different from prior messages ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D945http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D94524-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a new audio recording from Al Qaida s Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri titled A Call to Help Our People in Gaza During his speech Zawahiri called upon Muslims everywhere to attack the interests of the Jews and the Americans Select your target...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D946http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D94621-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a new audio recording from Al Qaida leader Usama Bin Laden titled The Way for the Salvation of Palestine During his speech Bin Laden insisted that control of Palestine shall only be reclaimed with iron and fire and admonished Muslims that the neare...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1042http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D104220-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of an interview with a senior military commander of the Hamas al Iraq insurgent group in the restive Diyala province of Iraq During the interview the unnamed Hamas commander sharply condemned the criminal actions launched by the Al Qaida network targeting i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D265http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D26520-Mar-08Fox News published NEFA s full translation of the latest Usama Bin Laden audio tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D266http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D26619-Mar-08NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah participated in a Counterterrorism Foundation panel on Hugo Chavez FARC and South America Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D947http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D94719-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a new audio recording from Al Qaida leader Usama Bin Laden titled May Our Mothers Be Bereaved Of Us If We Fail to Help Our Prophet During his speech Bin Laden once again condemned the publication of cartoons in Denmark deemed offensive to Islam and t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D267http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D26718-Mar-08Mother Jones magazine interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah for an article on the capture of Viktor Bout ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D156http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D15618-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation has released the fourteenth installment in its Target America series examining the planned 2004 attack on the Herald Square subway station in New York City Working closely with an NYPD informant whom they believed would provide explosives conspirators Shahawar Matin Siraj ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1094http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D109418-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a March 17 2008 communique issued by the Al Qaida Network in the Islamic Maghreb formerly known as the Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat GSPC granting Austria an extension to respond to their conditions for the release of two Austrian hostages...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1095http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D109518-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a March 13 2008 communique issued by the Al Qaida Network in the Islamic Maghreb formerly known as the Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat GSPC establishing terms for the release of two Austrian tourists in Tunisia The communique which also in...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D268http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D26816-Mar-08A new report by the Financial Action Task Force cited the work of NEFA Senior Investigators Doug Farah and Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D269http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D26916-Mar-08An article in The East African which highlighted Viktor Bout s business dealings in Africa referenced Merchant of Death NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book on Bout ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1096http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D109613-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a March 10 2008 communique issued by the Al Qaida Network in the Islamic Maghreb formerly known as the Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat GSPC claiming credit for the alleged kidnapping of two Austrian tourists in Tunisia According to the s...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D270http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D27012-Mar-08Foreign Policy magazine featured an interview with NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah asking him Seven Questions about Viktor Bout ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D271http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D27110-Mar-08A Boston Globe editorial cited Merchant of Death NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book on Viktor Bout ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D272http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D27209-Mar-08The Times of London interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah who commented on the U S government s schizophrenic policies on Viktor Bout ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D273http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D27307-Mar-08The Associated Press Time The New York Times The Washington Times The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph cited NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Merchant of Death in reports on Viktor Bout s arrest ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D274http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D27407-Mar-08NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was interviewed for a front page Washington Post article on Viktor Bout CNN International also interviewed Farah ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D275http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D27506-Mar-08NPR s All Things Considered interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah about Viktor Bout Farah also appeared on Al Jazeera and MSNBC ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D276http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D27606-Mar-08ABC News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah for an article discussing Viktor Bout s involvement in flying U S supply missions in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D277http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D27706-Mar-08The Associated Press The Los Angeles Times U S News World Report BBC News Agence France Presse and RIA Novosti all referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Merchant of Death which documents Viktor Bout s activities in rigorous detail ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D278http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D27805-Mar-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Associated Press article examining the increasing sophistication of As Sahab Al Qaida s media branch ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D279http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D27902-Mar-08The New York Post quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing reactions on jihadist message boards to a picture of Barack Obama dressed as a Somali elder ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D280http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D28002-Mar-08NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Merchant of Death was reviewed in The Charleston Gazette WV ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D1499http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D149902-Mar-08On March 2 2008 a lengthy book by Dr Ayman al Zawahiri titled The Exoneration A Treatise Exonerating of the Nation of the Pen and the Sword of the Denigrating Charge of Being Irresolute and Weak was published on jihadist websites The book is a response to attacks by Sayid Imam Sharif better ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D115http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D11501-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new Spot Report in the wake of the March 26 2008 indictment of Muthanna al Hanooti the long time public relations coordinator for Life for Relief and Development LRD a charitable organization based in Southfield Michigan The Department of Justice alleges t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D116http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D11601-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new chart by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann mapping the complex network of Sunni insurgent groups fighting in Iraq The chart includes representations for the four dominant insurgent umbrella groups Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI the Reform and J...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D117http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D11701-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco and NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ronald Sandee titled Developments in the Jihadi Resurgence in Pakistan January 2008 The report serves as a comprehensive study of events across various turbulent r...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D118http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D11801-Mar-08The NEFA Foundation is making available the expert witness report filed by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on behalf of the U S Attorney s Office for the District of Connecticut in U S v Hassan Abu Jihaad On March 5 a jury in New Haven found Abu Jihaad guilty of providing material suppo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D281http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D28129-Feb-08The Reuters blog cited NEFA s transcript of the most recent Ayman al Zawahiri tape in which Al Qaida s number two official mourns the death of Abu al Laith al Libi ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D282http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D28229-Feb-08On Capitol Hill NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann participated in a NEFA co sponsored panel discussion along with the Chief Technology Officer for VeriSign titled Meta Terror Terrorism and the Virtual World ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D283http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D28328-Feb-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted extensively in a MSNBC First Read article about a flap on Al Hesbah an Al Qaida message board sparked by a picture of Barack Obama dressed as a Somali elder ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D284http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D28427-Feb-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a lengthy Washington Post article examining the terrorist ties of imam Anwar Aulaqi who counseled three of the 9 11 hijackers and now lives in Yemen Kohlmann labeled him a huge inspiration to home grown terror cells in the U K and Europe ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D948http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D94827-Feb-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a new video recording released today of Al Qaida s Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri mourning the recent death of Abu al Laith al Liby during a U S air strike in northern Pakistan In his video statement al Zawahiri acknowledged the significance of ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D285http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D28526-Feb-08The Associated Press the New Haven Register and the Hartford Courtant reported on NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s expert witness testimony in the Hassan Abuhihaad case ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D286http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D28625-Feb-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness in the case against Hassan Abujihaad ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D287http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D28725-Feb-08The Independent quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s work on the Revolutionary United Front RUF in a piece about the revelations emerging during Charles Taylor s Crimes Against Humanity trial ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D288http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D28824-Feb-08The Associated Press cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s analysis of Azzam Publications in an article on the case against Hassan Abujihaad whose trial is slated to begin Feb 25 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D289http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D28922-Feb-08Congressional Quarterly CQ referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s assessment that Georgetown University s John Esposito is a longtime supporter of the international Muslim Brotherhood in a CQ report on Congressman Frank Wolf s scrutiny of Georgetown s Center for Muslim Christian Und...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1043http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D104322-Feb-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of an audio recording released on February 13 of Abu Omar al Baghdadi the leader of Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI In his audio statement al Baghdadi was sharply critical of the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D290http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D29019-Feb-08The New York Times interviewed NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt and extensively examined his work on U S judicial opinions mentioning Muslims or Islam Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D291http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D29115-Feb-08NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was quoted in a Voice of America report on the killing of Hezbollah s Imad Mugniyeh Assessing Mugniyeh s level of involvement in Hezbollah at the time of his death Farah stated that it was highly unlikely that he had simply gone into retirement ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D292http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D29214-Feb-08Following a Daubert hearing a Connecticut federal judge approved NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann as an expert witness for the government in the case against Hassan Abujihaad a former U S Navy sailor indicted on terrorism and espionage charges ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1097http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D109713-Feb-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communique issued by Hezbollah in which the terror group responds to the assassination of Imad Mugniyeh Hezbollah blamed Israeli criminal hands for Mugniyeh s killing and asserted we pledge to continue the martyr s path until achieving complete victory...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1098http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D109809-Feb-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a February 3 2008 communique issued by the Al Qaida Network in the Islamic Maghreb formerly known as the Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat GSPC responding to the reported martyrdom of senior Al Qaida military commander Abu ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1099http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D109909-Feb-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a February 2 2008 communique issued by the Al Qaida Network in the Islamic Maghreb formerly known as the Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat GSPC claiming responsibility for an attack on the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1100http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D110009-Feb-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a January 29 2008 communique issued by the Al Qaida Network in the Islamic Maghreb formerly known as the Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat GSPC claiming responsibility for a massive suicide truck bombing targeting the headq...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1044http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D104409-Feb-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of the diary of Abu Tariq an Al Qaida in Iraq AQI leader who identifies himself as Emir of al Lavin and al Mashadah Sector the diary was seized by U S military personnel during a raid and provides considerable insight into the current status of som...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D949http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D94907-Feb-08Al Qaida s leader in Afghanistan Shaykh Mustafa Abu al Yazid has issued a videotaped statement vowing revenge for the killing of senior Al Qaida commander Abu al Laith al Liby in a January 2008 Predator drone strike in Pakistan Al Yazid warned that Al Liby s supporters will not rest until they a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1045http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D104503-Feb-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of recent communique issued by the Nineveh province branch of Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI In the statement the ISI denied responsibility for a deadly explosion on January 23 in the Zanjili neighborhood of Mosul and strongly criticized apo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D119http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D11901-Feb-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah titled An Analysis of the Spanish Suicide Bombers Case The report studies a recent criminal case in Madrid focusing on 10 individuals nine of them citizens of Pakistan and one of India who were detained shor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D950http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D95031-Jan-08The online distribution network responsible for disseminating messages from Usama Bin Laden known as the Al Fajr Media Center has issued a new statement announcing the martyrdom of senior Al Qaida commander Shaykh Abu al Laith al Liby along with a group of his brothers on the earth of Muslim ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D293http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D29330-Jan-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann identified as one of the world s foremost internet terror experts was quoted in a news com au article about terrorist groups use of shadowy mysterious almost anonymous figures such as Baghdad sniper Juba in order to spread their message of hate ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D294http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D29428-Jan-08NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt participated in a panel discussion on Capitol Hill about the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in the Boim case ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D157http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D15728-Jan-08The NEFA Foundation has released the thirteenth installment in its Target America series examining the foiled 2007 plot to attack the U S Army base at Fort Dix New Jersey Initiated by a homegrown cell that was in the words of one plotter eager to hit a heavy concentration ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D295http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D29526-Jan-08NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah authored a Washington Post article registration required examining the serious often underestimated threats to our national security posed by the FARC s criminal and terrorist activities coupled with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez s institutional supp...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D296http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D29624-Jan-08NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt authored an article on lawfare efforts to achieve military objectives through legal tools that was published in Family Security Matters In the piece Breinholt assesses the recent lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights against former DOJ attorn...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D297http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D29720-Jan-08The Boston Globe interviewed NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt for an article examining the U S war on terror financing Breinholt commented Before 9 11 there were basically three people at the Justice Department responsible for terrorist financing and I was one of them ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D298http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D29817-Jan-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann published an article in the Sentinel the monthly journal of West Point s Combating Terrorism Center The piece examines case studies in which users on extremist Internet forums become suicide bombers in the service of Al Qaida in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D299http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D29916-Jan-08BBC News quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in a story on Younis Tsouli a k a Irhaby007 who pled guilty in July 2007 to inciting murder for terrorist purposes Kohlmann testified as an expert witness in Tsouli s trial ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D300http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D30016-Jan-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for an extensive Times Online London article on Younis Tsouli a k a Irhaby007 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D301http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D30115-Jan-08The New York Sun interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann and highlighted his paper on Al Qaida s MySpace websites which was published in the Sentinel the monthly journal of West Point s Combating Terrorism Center ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1046http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D104608-Jan-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of an online question and answer session conducted over the Paltalk chat network with a fighter from Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq ISI During the interview the ISI fighter discussed the varying state of relations between the Islamic State and an ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D302http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D30207-Jan-08NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness in a civil lawsuit filed against Syria in U S District Court in Washington D C by the families of two U S contractors murdered by Abu Musab al Zarqawi in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D158http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D15805-Jan-08The NEFA Foundation is providing an updated version of this Target America report in light of guilty pleas from three plot conspirators and the release of a number of documents including the 104 page JIS Protocol authored by mastermind Kevin James The material provides rare insight into the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1047http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D104704-Jan-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a recent communique issued by the prominent Sunni insurgent organization known as the Islamic Army of Iraq IAI According to the statement After a call from our supporters and brothers in Samarra and its various neighborhoods mujahideen from the I...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D951http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D95103-Jan-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained the latest audio recording of Usama Bin Laden titled The Way to Frustrate the Conspiracies During his speech Bin Laden called upon insurgent groups who have resisted joining Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq urging them to follow the lead of commanders like ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1101http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D110103-Jan-08The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated the latest communique issued by the Al Qaida Network in the Islamic Maghreb formerly known as the Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat GSPC claiming responsibility for yesterday s suicide bombing attack on a police station in An Naciria appr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D120http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D12001-Jan-08The NEFA Foundation has released a new analytical report titled The Criminal Terrorist Nexus and its Pipelines This report is adapted from a presentation NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah delivered to the U S Special Operations Command in Tampa Florida In March 2000 Farah was named West Af...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D121http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D12101-Jan-08The NEFA Foundation is making available the expert witness report produced by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on behalf of New Scotland Yard in the case of Younis Tsouli jihad webmaster Irhaby007 Waseem Mughal and Tariq Al Daour The three defendants were accused of various criminal charg...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D122http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D12201-Jan-08The NEFA Foundation is making available exclusive excerpts from the expert witness report filed by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on behalf of the U S Attorney s Office in Boston in U S v Muhamed Mubayyid Emaddedine Muntasser and Samir al Monla On January 11 a Massachusetts jury fou...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D303http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D30301-Jan-08NEFA s Target America report The East Coast Buildings Plot is highlighted as a helpful resource in the January 1 2008 edition of the Security Director s Report ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1103http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D110330-Dec-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated the latest communique issued by the Al Qaida Network in the Islamic Maghreb formerly known as the Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat GSPC claiming responsibility for recent terrorist attacks in Algeria and neighboring Mauritania According ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1102http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D110230-Dec-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communique from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban announcing the sudden dismissal of Mansour Dadullah as their top military commander According to the statement Mansour Dadullah has refused to obey our orders and has carr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D1110http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D111030-Dec-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in which Brotherhood Executive Bureau Member Mahmud Ghozlan condemned Bin Laden s frequent speeches propagating for Jihad asserting that in reality Al Qaeda did nothing but dividing the Muslim world Ghozlan...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D304http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D30428-Dec-07The Bosnian Serb paper Glas Srpske labeled NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann one of the leading experts on international terrorism in an article discussing the recent death of two Bosnian mujahideen in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D305http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D30527-Dec-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussed the implications of Benazir Bhutto s assassination on MSNBC s Countdown with Keith Olbermann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D159http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D15922-Dec-07This NEFA Foundation Target America report focuses on the homegrown threat documenting Muslim convert Derrick Shareef s plans to launch a grenade attack on the CherryVale Shopping Center in Rockford Illinois In preparation for his assault Shareef carried out surveillance on the mall attemp...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1105http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D110522-Dec-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communique from Taliban leader Mullah Omar in which he appeals to Muslims to help their Mujahideen brothers and do Jihad because it is clear that the invaders will never withdraw their forces He also advises the Mujahideen that they must not allow t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D1106http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=54#D110622-Dec-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communique from the Taliban on the battle for Musa Kala which asks how many weeks will the invaders be able to maintain control of the Musa Kala district ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D306http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D30621-Dec-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah and NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt participated in a FrontPage Magazine symposium on the Muslim Brotherhood Farah argued that the Brotherhood has adeptly couch ed its extremist agenda in moderate language while Breinholt asked why is there such a debate a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D307http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D30720-Dec-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Tucker to address Al Qaida s promise that Al Qaida number two Ayman al Zawahiri would answer questions in an online forum ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1048http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D104820-Dec-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated the first three episodes from a new series published by Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq titled The Secrets of History Zarqawi As I Knew Him The series offers a perspective into the mind of the late Al Qaida leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi and his...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D308http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D30819-Dec-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Associated Press article on Al Qaida s invitation to journalists to submit questions to Ayman al Zawahiri ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D952http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D95217-Dec-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated two new statements from Al Qaida s Deputy Commander Dr Ayman al Zawahiri 1 An audio recording titled Annapolis The Betrayal and released on Dec 14 and 2 A subsequent video interview released on Dec 16 In the first recording al Zawahiri c...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1049http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D104916-Dec-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communique from the leader of the Ansar al Sunnah Army in Iraq JAAS Commander Abu Abdullah al Shafi In his statement al Shafi acknowledges After a period of fighting back against the American assault in 2003 the leadership of Ansar al...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D309http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D30916-Dec-07Clips of a BBC interview with NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann were featured in the latest As Sahab Ayman al Zawahiri video ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D310http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D31013-Dec-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Washington Post article on the maturing of Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM Kohlmann labeled AQIM s propaganda wing remarkably sophisticated ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D311http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D31113-Dec-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article on the Algeria bombings Kohlmann assessed that the attacks were carried out by a jihadi movement that is flailing about wildly in the hopes of replicating the comparative success of Abu Musab al Zarqawi in Ira...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D312http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D31212-Dec-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness in the Danish prosecution of the Al Aqsa Foundation which has allegedly funneled money to Hamas ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D313http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D31312-Dec-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah and NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt participated in a special panel on the Holy Land Foundation and the Muslim Brotherhood on Capitol Hill A Congressional Quarterly article summarized Farah s presentation and highlighted his argument that you have to create a n...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D1107http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=58#D110712-Dec-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a communique issued by the Al Qaida Network in the Islamic Maghreb formerly known as the Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat GSPC claiming responsibility for yesterday s twin suicide car bombings in the capital of Algeria targeting local offi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1050http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D105010-Dec-07In this audio statement Abu Omar al Baghdadi the leader of Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq declared the formation of a new armed unit the Al Sadeeq Brigade and the beginning of a military offensive known as the Battle of the Martyr Abu Umar al Kurdi This offensive will be based on bomb...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D1109http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=46#D110907-Dec-07Today a female suicide bomber killed at least 16 people in an attack in Muqdadiya Iraq A historical document posted by the Al Qaida linked website Qoqaz net provides insight into one perspective on the role women should play in jihad The document states It should be noted that physical figh...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1108http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D110807-Dec-07Hamas English language website has posted a transcript of a Q A session with Abu Obaida the spokesman for Hamas military wing the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades When asked why Hamas stay s silent and doesn t punish infidel regimes that support the Palestinian Authority over Hamas Abu Obaida ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D160http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D16006-Dec-07The NEFA Foundation has released a Target America report examining the plot by a Bahrain based cell to launch a cyanide gas attack on the New York City subway system According to former CIA Director George Tenet when the cell asked Al Qaida s central leadership for permission to launc...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D314http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D31404-Dec-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified in the Boston trial of Muhamed Mubayyid et al as an expert witness Under examination by federal prosecutors Mr Kohlmann explained how particular Muslim charities in the areas where Muslim holy warriors are trying to reclaim Muslim land provide mo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D315http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D31502-Dec-07According to The Washington Post NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Merchant of Death was one of the best nonfiction works of 2007 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D316http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D31601-Dec-07A New York Post editorial on the new Usama Bin Laden tape cited NEFA s translation Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D123http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D12301-Dec-07A report is available for download authored by NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ronald Sandee titled The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Netherlands A former senior analyst in the Dutch Defense Intelligence Service Mr Sandee attempts to paint as complete a picture as possible...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D953http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D95330-Nov-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a new audio recording from Al Qaida leader Usama Bin Laden titled A Message to the Peoples of Europe During his speech Bin Laden acknowledged being responsible for 9 11 but strongly criticized the U S and its European allies for continuing military...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D954http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D95425-Nov-07Al Qaida s official online distribution network responsible for disseminating messages from Usama Bin Laden known as the Al Fajr Media Center has issued a new statement titled We ll Do It Again Annapolis Shall Not Rescue Their Metropolis Written by a Soldier in the Army Aiming to Destroy The...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D317http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D31725-Nov-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Times of London article on the central role imprisoned terrorist Louai al Sakka claims he has played in a number of attacks including 9 11 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D318http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D31818-Nov-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah reviewed three books on nuclear proliferator A Q Khan in The Washington Post ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D319http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D31911-Nov-07The Associated Press quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article highlighting efforts by University of Arizona researchers to automate the analysis of online jihadism Kohlmann labeled the effort absolutely necessary ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D320http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D32005-Nov-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah spoke at American University about his book Merchant of Death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1051http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D105104-Nov-07The Islamic Army in Iraq IAI one of the largest and most influential Sunni insurgent groups active in Iraq has issued yet another stinging condemnation of Al Qaida s network in Iraq from its media spokesman Dr Ali al Naimi Ac...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D124http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D12401-Nov-07A report is available for download by Senior Investigator Douglas Farah and titled The Madrid Indictment Steps Toward Countering the Global Jihad Movement The report is based primarily upon facts revealed during the recent trial in Spain of eighteen suspects alleged to be members of terrorist or...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D125http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D12501-Nov-07A report is available for download from the NEFA website authored by Senior Analyst Josh Lefkowitz and titled quot The 1993 Philadelphia Meeting A Roadmap for Future Muslim Brotherhood Actions in the U S quot In October 1993 key members of the Muslim Brotherhood s U S Palestine Committee prim...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D126http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D12601-Nov-07An exclusive report is available for download from the NEFA website by NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco titled A Taliban Resurgence The Destabilization of Kabul Although the defeat of the Taliban regime in 2001 seemed complete and virtually effortless the initial optimism has long since...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D321http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D32131-Oct-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was interviewed on the Hugh Hewitt radio show to discuss the NEFA Foundation s latest report on the Muslim Brotherhood and the influence of the Brotherhood both in the United States and abroad ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D322http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D32228-Oct-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was quoted in a Dallas Morning News editorial on the invaluable evidence that emerged during the HLF trial NEFA s HLF exhibit library was lauded for the eye opening look it provides at that evidence ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D323http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D32328-Oct-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a United Press International article on the most recent Osama bin Laden audiotape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D324http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D32426-Oct-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article on Al Qaida s struggles in Iraq Kohlmann called Iraq Al Qaida s greatest achievement and its greatest failure ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D325http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D32526-Oct-07Nationally syndicated columnist Cal Thomas authored a piece in The Washington Times examining the evidence revealed during the Holy Land Foundation HLF trial Thomas drew attention to the thoroughly researched and documented HLF exhibit page compiled by the NEFA Foundation ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D955http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D95524-Oct-07Al Qaida s official online distribution network responsible for disseminating messages from Usama Bin Laden known as the Al Fajr Media Center has issued a new statement strongly criticizing the Arabic language Al Jazeera satellite television network which it has accused of deceitfully manipula...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D956http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D95623-Oct-07In this message Usama Bin Laden urged unity amongst Iraqi insurgents Sticks refuse to break when banded together But if they come apart they break one by one My brothers the amirs of the Mujahid groups the Muslims are waiting for you to gather under one banner to enforce the truth And when ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D326http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D32623-Oct-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah delivered a presentation at George Washington University about his book Merchant of Death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D327http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D32723-Oct-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a NBC News story on Osama bin Laden s latest audiotaped message in the story Kohlmann labeled Bin Laden s criticisms of the Iraqi insurgency quite amazing ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D328http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D32821-Oct-07A Washington Post review called NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Merchant of Death a riveting investigation of the world s most notorious weapons dealer ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D329http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D32919-Oct-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified this week as an expert witness in two separate terrorism trials on behalf of the U K Crown Prosecution Service and New Scotland Yard s SO 15 Counter Terrorism Command at the Old Bailey in central London The two cases Regina v Samina Malik and Regi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D330http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D33016-Oct-07George Mason University hosted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah for a discussion of his book Merchant of Death Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D331http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D33116-Oct-07A Washington Times editorial referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann and cited NEFA translations of communiqu s that reflect increasing divisions between Al Qaida and other Sunni insurgents ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D332http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D33216-Oct-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a New York Daily News story on the status of Al Qaida s network in Iraq in which he argues that the organization has reached a crisis point ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D333http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D33312-Oct-07The NBC News Investigative Unit cited NEFA s translations of recent statements from jihadist organizations in Iraq and quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in a story examining the widening rift between Iraqi insurgent groups and Al Qaida ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1052http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D105210-Oct-07A response to recent criticisms by Abu Omar al Baghdadi and other spokesmen for Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq In its statement the 1920 Brigades dismissed these claims as an effort at settling a score or possibly even the pr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D334http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D33409-Oct-07MSNBC s Keith Olbermann interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about a leak that purportedly revealed a backdoor providing advance access to Al Qaida tapes before they were publicly released ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1053http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D105307-Oct-07A statement warning that arrogant quarreling provoked by Al Qaida supporters over such chat forums is threatening the integrity of the Obelisk network In its statement Asaeb al Iraq al Jihadiya directly calls upon the leadership of Al Qaida s ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1054http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D105405-Oct-07A statement accusing Al Qaida s Islamic State of Iraq of killing its fighters in Diyala and desecrating their bodies To make things worse they dug up their bodies from the graves further mutilated them beheaded them and showed them off from their vehicles while driving through the town...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D335http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D33504-Oct-07A United Press International article quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s analysis of the Islamic State of Iraq s conflict with fellow Sunni insurgents ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1055http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D105502-Oct-07A statement accusing Al Qaida s network in Iraq of fanaticism and murdering Iraqi Muslim civilians ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D127http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D12701-Oct-07An exclusive report is available for download from the NEFA website focusing on The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States by NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ron Sandee and NEFA Senior Analyst Josh Lefkowitz The report is based upon exhibits from t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D128http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D12801-Oct-07An analytical report is available for download from the NEFA website focusing on the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group LIFG authored by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann with NEFA Senior Analyst Josh Lefkowitz This document is based upon an expert witness report filed in 2007 on behalf of Sco...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D336http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D33629-Sep-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about the killing of Al Qaida in Iraq AQI leader Abu Osama Tunisi by the U S military Kohlmann noted that an AQI affiliated web site had announced the death of an individual by the same name in 2006 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D337http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D33728-Sep-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah delivered a talk at the New American Foundation on his book Merchant of Death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D338http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D33823-Sep-07Scotland on Sunday quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann identified as a leading al Qaeda expert who assessed the danger posed by convicted terrorist Mohammed Atif Siddique Kohlmann stated At first glance Mohammed Siddique might seem to be a reasonably poor candidate as an internat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D339http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D33923-Sep-07NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah published an article in the Sunday Outlook section of The Washington Post on notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout the man who makes war possible For more on Bout see Farah s book Merchant of Death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1056http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D105621-Sep-07A statement warning that arrogant quarreling provoked by Al Qaida supporters over such chat forums is threatening the integrity of the Obelisk network In fact according to Iraqi Hamas they are so desperate to prove their pos...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D957http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D95720-Sep-07In this message Usama Bin Laden urged the Pakistani people to overthrow Pervez Musharraf Pervez s invasion of Lal Masjid in the City of Islam Islamabad is a sad event like the crime of the Hindus in their invasion and destruction of the Babari Masjid this event demonstrated Musharraf s insis...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D340http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D34017-Sep-07Newsweek quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article discussing the release of a new Usama Bin Laden tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D341http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D34117-Sep-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was quoted in a Dallas Morning News article on the Holy Land Foundation trial The article noted that Mr Farah co wrote the first comprehensive analysis of the Holy Land documents for the Nine Eleven Finding Answers Foundation NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D161http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D16117-Sep-07This Target America report focuses on 9 11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed s KSM plan to utilize two British Al Qaeda operatives Richard Reid and Sajid Badat to blow up U S bound commercial airliners with shoe bombs On December 22 2001 Reid attempted to bring down American Airlines ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D1057http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=45#D105714-Sep-07In recent weeks Al Qaida led terrorist franchises in Afghanistan and Iraq have released several new recordings of speeches by senior Al Qaeda leaders This audio recording released on September 14 from Abu Omar al Baghdadi the commander of Al Qaeda s Islamic State of Iraq is pa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D342http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D34213-Sep-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah appeared on Comedy Central s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss his book Merchant of Death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D343http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D34313-Sep-07Mother Jones magazine interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah about his book Merchant of Death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D344http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D34412-Sep-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah delivered a talk at the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS on his book Merchant of Death Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D345http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D34511-Sep-07NEFA Investigator Claudio Franco was interviewed during an NBC Nightly News segment by Senior Investigative Correspondent Lisa Myers about his trip to observe an underground Taliban training camp operating north of the Afghan capital Kabul ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D346http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D34611-Sep-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC Tucker to discuss the state of Al Qaida six years after 9 11 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D347http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D34708-Sep-07Scotland s Daily Record reported on the expert witness testimony of NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in the trial of Mohammed Atif Siddique Kohlmann told the court that Siddique possessed videos traditionally downloaded at password protected sites ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D958http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D95808-Sep-07In this message Usama Bin Laden informed the American people that there are two solutions for stopping the Iraq war The first is from our side and it is to continue to escalate the killing and fighting against you This is our duty and our brothers are carrying it out and I ask Allah to gran...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D348http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D34807-Sep-07The Times of London reported on NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s testimony in the Mohammed Atif Siddique trial Kohlmann assessed that there were Al Qaida recruiting videos on Siddique s computer ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D349http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D34906-Sep-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s expert witness testimony in the Mohammed Atif Siddique case was referenced in a Scottish Press Association article Noting that Siddique possessed Usama Bin Laden s declaration of war on the Americans and a document encouraging suicide bombings from Al Qaid...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D350http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D35006-Sep-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Associated Press article titled Experts say Denmark emerging target for Islamic terror Kohlmann commented For the last two years there s been a sudden uptick in Islamist rhetoric against Denmark ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D351http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D35128-Aug-07C Span s Book TV interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah about his book Merchant of Death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D352http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D35227-Aug-07NBC News quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann during a segment on the hunt for Usama Bin Laden ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D353http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D35326-Aug-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was interviewed for an Associated Press article on the slew of incriminating Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas documents released during the Holy Land Foundation trial ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D354http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D35426-Aug-07The News Tribune Tacoma WA reviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Merchant of Death and noted that Farah and his co author do a masterful job of researching a figure who is reclusive and enigmatic The book is an authoritative profile of one of the world s most dangerous men ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D355http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D35522-Aug-07United Press International reported on NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s revelation that Viktor Bout wanted by the U S government received 60 million for moving supplies into Iraq for the U S military ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D356http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D35621-Aug-07ABCNews com s The Blotter interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah about Viktor Bout s work with the U S military ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D357http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D35721-Aug-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for a NBC Nightly News feature on the central role the Internet plays in recruiting and training jihadists ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D162http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D16214-Aug-07This Target America report documents 9 11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed s KSM plot to utilize Jemaah Islamiyah JI operatives to hijack a plane gain access to the cockpit by detonating shoe bombs and crash it into the Library Tower the tallest building on the West Coast KSM selected JI...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D358http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D35812-Aug-07A New York Daily News article on American Al Qaida member Adam Gadahn quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D359http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D35904-Aug-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah appeared on Fox News Fox and Friends to talk about his book Merchant of Death Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D360http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D36003-Aug-07Dr J Peter Pham Director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs James Madison University referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s findings on Al Qaida s diamond connections in testimony before the Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global He...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D361http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D36102-Aug-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was interviewed on NPR s Diane Rehm Show about his book Merchant of Death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D129http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D12901-Aug-07A report is available for download from the NEFA website titled The Ikhwan in North America co authored by NEFA Senior Investigator Douglas Farah and NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ron Sandee This report is intended to offer readers a short history of the Muslim Brotherhood s activities...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D130http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D13001-Aug-07A report is available for download from the NEFA website titled State of the Sunni Insurgency in Iraq This 31 page document is intended to offer readers a clearer understanding of the changing dynamics behind the Sunni insurgency in Iraq based primarily upon a critical analysis of open source i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D362http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D36231-Jul-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah appeared on Al Jazeera s English language television station to discuss his book Merchant of Death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D163http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D16331-Jul-07The plot to attack a Columbus Ohio area shopping mall is featured in this Target America report In July 2007 Nuradin Abdi a Somali national living in Columbus admitted his involvement in a cell that included Iyman Faris currently serving 20 years in prison for assessing targets on behalf...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D164http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D16423-Jul-07This Target America report focuses on the plot directed by 9 11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to collapse the Brooklyn Bridge Columbus Ohio truck driver Iyman Faris who is currently serving a 20 year prison sentence researched gas cutters on the Internet and traveled to NYC to assess ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D363http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D36323-Jul-07Washington Post radio interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah about his book Merchant of Death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D364http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D36419-Jul-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article examining links between Al Qaida in Iraq and Al Qaida central leadership Kohlmann remarked Of course there s some communication back and forth but as it s been described to me Al Qaeda in Iraq operates as a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D365http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D36516-Jul-07A Christian Science Monitor article on a new Usama Bin Laden tape and the increased tempo of Al Qaida propaganda releases quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D165http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D16516-Jul-07The NEFA Foundation examines a Hamas plot to attack members of the U S and Canadian Jewish communities as well as to assassinate an Israeli official visiting the U S According to the Israeli government Ahmed Wahabe a senior Hamas terrorist tasked Jamal Akal a Canadian citizen to raise f...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D366http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D36614-Jul-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was quoted in a Village Voice article about the arrest of notorious Syrian arms dealer Monzer al Kassar ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D367http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D36712-Jul-07MSNBC s Live with Dan Abrams featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann during a segment on the National Intelligence Estimate and DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff s gut feeling that an attack would occur during the summer ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D368http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D36811-Jul-07National Public Radio interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah about Viktor Bout and his book Merchant of Death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D166http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D16609-Jul-07This Target America report shines a spotlight on the Atlanta Georgia cell in Younis Tsouli s global Internet based jihadist network That Atlanta cell transmitted surveillance video of Washington D C landmarks to Tsouli in the U K and according to FBI Director Robert Mueller had long t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D369http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D36908-Jul-07A Washington Times review of NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Merchant of Death assessed that the work was an exhaustively researched extensively footnoted expose of Mr Bout and his clandestine network ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D370http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D37006-Jul-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a New York Daily News article and an Associated Press article about Al Qaida webmaster Younes Tsouli Kohlmann testified as an expert witness in Tsouli s U K trial in May 2007 Tsouli and his co conspirators pled guilty in July 2007 to inciting m...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D371http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D37106-Jul-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s research on Al Qaida s diamond connection was cited in a Congressional Research Service report on Africa Command ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D1111http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D111106-Jul-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in which the Brotherhood denied that Al Qaida s Dr Ayman al Zawahiri was a Brotherhood member Brotherhood Executive Bureau member Dr Mohamed Morsy said that Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri has never been affiliated to ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D372http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D37205-Jul-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for an extensive Washington Post feature on Younes Tsouli and his fellow conspirators ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D373http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D37305-Jul-07The Associated Press interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article about Younes Tsouli ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D374http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D37402-Jul-07CNBC s Kudlow Company featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing terror threats in the U S and U K ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D375http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D37502-Jul-07MSNBC s Tucker Carlson interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the botched terrorist attacks in England and Scotland Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D376http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D37601-Jul-07Men s Vogue printed excerpts from NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Merchant of Death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D377http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D37730-Jun-07A New York Daily News article on the bombs utilized by the failed London bombers quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D378http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D37829-Jun-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Hardball and Tucker to discuss the failed London bombings ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D167http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D16725-Jun-07This Target America report details the plot to bomb the Port Authority Trans Hudson Corporation PATH tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey Describing the plot which allegedly was directed by a self initiating foreign cell that had access to al Qaeda s connections FBI New York Direct...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D168http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D16818-Jun-07This NEFA Foundation report details the chillingly detailed surveillance British Al Qaida operative Dhiren Barot and his co conspirators conducted on the Citigroup Center the New York Stock Exchange the Prudential Plaza the International Monetary Fund Building and the World Bank By striking at ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D379http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D37914-Jun-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for a New York Daily News article on an Al Qaida video that featured the U S Capitol in flames ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D380http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D38011-Jun-07Publishers Weekly called NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Merchant of Death an absorbing expos that is the product of energetic research ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D381http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D38107-Jun-07A New York Daily News article examining fighting between Al Qaida in Iraq and fellow Sunni insurgents cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s analysis ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D382http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D38206-Jun-07A Jerusalem Post article on predatory lawsuits by Islamists cited NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s analysis that researchers will get tired of the cost and the hassle and simply shut up ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D383http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D38306-Jun-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah authored an article in The New York Daily News highlighting the terrorist threat in South America and the Caribbean ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D384http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D38404-Jun-07A Maclean s article on Charles Taylor quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D169http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=30#D16904-Jun-07The NEFA Foundation examines the Miami based plan allegedly organized by Narseal Batiste to wage a full ground war against the United States in order to kill all the devils they could in a mission that would be just as good or greater than 9 11 In addition to plotting to use e...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D385http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D38503-Jun-07A Staten Island Advance article on Charles Taylor quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D386http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D38603-Jun-07NBC News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the plot to bomb JFK airport in New York ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1537http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D153701-Jun-07On May 25 2007 copies of a new video recording were publicly distributed over password protected Al Qaida Internet websites after being authenticated by the pre eminent Al Fajr Media Center The seven minute recording contains a speech by a masked individual identifying himself only as the milita...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D387http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D38721-May-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified in a British court as a witness on behalf of the United Kingdom Crown Prosecution Service CPS in the trial of Younes Tsouli Waseem Mughal and Tariq al Daour The three defendants were accused of various criminal charges including inciting others ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D388http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D38815-May-07The Associated Press referenced NEFA s interview footage of Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah which was featured on ABC News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D389http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D38914-May-07The NEFA Foundation obtained exclusive access to the last known interview with Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah before he was killed by U S and Afghan forces on May 12 in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan The video aired on ABC World News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D390http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D39014-May-07National Public Radio interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on schisms between Iraqi insurgent groups ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D391http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D39112-May-07Agence France Presse cited a translation provided by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann of an interview with a senior Al Qaida in Iraq official ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D1112http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D111207-May-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood titled Hamas Dismisses Zawahiri s Criticism Responding to criticism by Al Qaida s Dr Ayman al Zawahiri who attacked Hamas involvement in the political process Hamas leader Osama Hamdan said Al Zawahiri...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1912http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D191207-May-07On May 7 2007 federal agents made a series of arrests following a lengthy investigation that uncovered a plot to murder members of the U S military In indictments filed in June 2007 prosecutors charged Serdar Tatar of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Mohamad Shnewer of Cherry Hill New Jersey and b...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1913http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D191306-May-07 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1914http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D191405-May-07 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D392http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D39203-May-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Agence France Presse article on developments in the Iraqi insurgency ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D393http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D39301-May-07A Christian Science Monitor article on the rise of Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb formerly GSPC quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D131http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D13101-May-07A report is available for download from the NEFA website titled Two Decades of Jihad in Algeria the GIA the GSPC and Al Qaida by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann The report examines the rise of the jihadist movement in Algeria and attempts to trace its evolution in tactics ideology ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D394http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D39428-Apr-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for a New York Daily News article on captured Al Qaida leader Abd Al Hadi Al Iraqi ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D395http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D39525-Apr-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness on behalf of U S federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York SDNY in the trial of Dr Rafiq Sabir since convicted of conspiring to provide material support to Al Qaida ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D396http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D39614-Apr-07Rome s La Repubblica referenced the efforts of NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco to secure the release of La Repubblica correspondent Daniele Mastrogiacomo who along with his two aides was kidnapped by the Taliban ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D397http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D39710-Apr-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Blood from Stones is referenced in a Weekly Standard article ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D398http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D39806-Apr-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article on the spread of Islamic extremism in Morocco and the recent arrest of alleged plotters from society s upper echelons ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D399http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D39930-Mar-07A Washington Post article about alleged U S S Cole plotter Abd al Rahim al Nashiri s claims of torture in a CIA prison quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1892http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D189230-Mar-07On March 30 2007 Eljvir Duka says when they speak about Jihad people have forgotten about this thing in religion And people are afraid because of spying when the chance comes by to raise the arms you have to know that it is in religion Jihad ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D400http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D40026-Mar-07The Baltimore Sun interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article examining the Defense Department s Cyber Crime Center ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1886http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D188623-Mar-07On March 23 2007 Dritan Duka notes that we don t talk about Jihad struggle in front of him He then states to FBI informant Besnik Bakalli you got be careful Cause maybe you re an FBI how can I know ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1884http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D188423-Mar-07 On March 23 2007 Shain Duka says if we get caught and we are like this UI after all it s the way Allah God has said it He adds we shouldn t talk a lot Because when we talk a lot at least we can say we don t have the balls and won t do anything FBI 302 s ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1888http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D188816-Mar-07According to the complaint Mohamad Shnewer suggested attacking two American warships when they docked in the Port of Philadelphia and bemoaned the fact that they had missed an opportunity to attack United States military personnel during the Army Navy football game that had been recently played in...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D401http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D40114-Mar-07The Richmond Times Dispatch reported on the videotaped deposition NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah gave in a civil suit filed against Sudan by families of U S S Cole victims Farah stated that Sudan basically gave al Qaida the breath of life it needed ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D402http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D40212-Mar-07A Newsweek article on suicide bombers quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D1113http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D111312-Mar-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in which Hamas leader Osama Hamdan responded to Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri s criticism of the Mecca Declaration Paraphrasing Hamdan the Brotherhood reported that Hamdan attacked Al Zawahiri s statements fiercely be...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1903http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D190310-Mar-07In this March 10 2007 recorded conversation nbsp Dritan Duka exclaims I m ready He notes seven are a lot you can do a lot with seven people Shain chimes in if nothing else at least we have to send money ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1891http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D189109-Mar-07In this March 9 2007 conversation Dritan Duka explains that it s all the same those who give money or fight He further notes that every person that gave money for weapons and bullets UI for example It s a good deed when there s money and when your sic UI UI for example food that s j...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D403http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D40309-Mar-07NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt authored a commentary published at Findlaw titled Is Lawfare Being Abused by American Lawyers ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D404http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D40408-Mar-07MSNBC s Tucker featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann talking about the hunt for Usama Bin Laden ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D405http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D40502-Mar-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann described as a leading expert on the insurgency with a remarkably intimate view of the Iraq insurgency provided an overview of the insurgency for beginners at Salon com ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D406http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D40601-Mar-07Counterterrorism Homeland Security Reports recommended NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s book Al Qaida s Jihad in Europe The Afghan Bosnian Network as well as NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s books Merchant of Death and Blood From Stones as good books for CT professionals ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D407http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D40728-Feb-07Counterterrorism Homeland Security Reports identified the NEFA Foundation s Target America series as very good reads for CT professionals ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D408http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D40828-Feb-07MSNBC s Scarborough Country featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing Iranian surveillance of New York City locations ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D409http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D40927-Feb-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Tucker show to discuss the Taliban s failed attempt to assassinate Vice President Dick Cheney Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D410http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D41017-Feb-07An Associated Press article quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s analysis of an Al Qaida video purporting to depict the seizure of a U S Afghan post in southern Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D411http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D41113-Feb-07NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Scarborough Country to discuss U S strategies for interrogating Islamic extremists ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1536http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D153610-Feb-07On February 2 the Salahudeen Brigades in Palestine an Islamic militant faction associated with the Popular Resistance Committees PRC released a new statement on behalf of commander Abu Abir a k a Mohammed Abdul Aal In the communique Abu Abir directly endorsed Al Qaida s Islamic State of...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1901http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D190107-Feb-07During a February 7 2007 conversation Duka Duka says Bin Laden is a strong leader he is a billionaire himself He left all of it for Islam He is a person who has acted Dritan Duka chimes in Having all that money and he goes and lives in caves to fight Eljvir continues He s the real Iman ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1897http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D189705-Feb-07In a February 5 2007 conversation during their Pennsylvania retreat Eljvir Duka explains that in Islam you are permitted to lie in war Why So you don t give yourself up At another point in the discussion Dritan Duka comments in order to spread your way you have...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1902http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D190204-Feb-07During a February 4 2007 conversation with Mahmoud Omar Mohamad Shewer is asked who the people running the government in Iraq now The Sunni or the Shiite Shnewer responds All hateful Shiite s damn them They created a rift as soon as we got there They are in collusion with the American inv...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1906http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D190604-Feb-07During a February 4 2007 conversation with Mahmoud Omar Mohamad Shewer says I wish for someone who s expert in explosives has knowledge about anything related to explosives Do you know anyone who knows about explosives He notes that with such knowledge you could carry out a spectacular op...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1893http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D189303-Feb-07In this February 3 2007 conversation several men discuss the permissibility of suicide bombings Shain Duka asks where does it say in the Koran that you can t do suicide bombs Where in the Koran does it say that He continues My thinking my thinking suicide bomb...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1898http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D189801-Feb-07In this February 1 2007 conversation Shain Duka says If you don t fight then it s possible that you lose your religion Dritan chimes in It s an obligation Earlier in the chat Shain complained that in the beginning you know what they were saying on the news about Albanians Albanians a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D412http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D41217-Jan-07NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was quoted in a McClatchy Newspapers article on Charles Taylor ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D1114http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D111401-Jan-07The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in which Dr Mohamed Habib the Brotherhood s first deputy chairman said The world now have come to realize the crystal clear difference between the Muslim Brotherhood s ideology and that of Al Qaeda network t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D413http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D41329-Dec-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann analyzed the implication of Saddam Hussein s hanging on MSNBC s Tucker ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D414http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D41424-Dec-06A New York Daily News article examining the rise of the Al Qaida linked Islamic Courts Union in Somalia quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1896http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D189622-Dec-06On December 22 2006 Dritan Duka says Have you seen how Americans lie to you as if it s nothing The person who doesn t keep his word needs to be killed you don t want to see that person again ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D1115http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D111521-Dec-06The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in which Brotherhood leader Dr Essam El Erian commented on a message released by Al Qaida s Dr Ayman al Zawahiri The speech of Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri confirms a very important point a clear disagreement betwe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D1116http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D111621-Dec-06The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in which Hamas leader Dr Mousa Abu Marzouk stated that Al Qaida s Dr Ayman al Zawahiri s statements express his views and ideology which are totally different from our views every one knows to what extent the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D415http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D41505-Dec-06Ed Zwick Director Producer of Blood Diamonds starring Leonardo DiCaprio revealed during a Washington Post online chat that NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Blood from Stones was very helpful in making the movie ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D416http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D41604-Dec-06NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ron Sandee published an Occasional Research Paper titled The Role of the Akramiya in the May 13 2005 Unrest in Andijan for the Hudson Institute s Center for Eurasian Policy ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D417http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D41704-Dec-06The San Diego Union Tribune highlighted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Blood from Stones as a valuable resource for those eager to learn more about the diamond trade ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1887http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D188703-Dec-06In a December 3 2006 conversation with Mohamad Shnewer Serdar Tatar raises doubts about Mahmoud Omar s trustworthiness He says I mean you known him only for only two years Not that he s a bad guy or anything like that I never see his kids I never seen his family nothing like that And you kn...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1900http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D190028-Nov-06In a November 28 2006 conversation with Mahmoud Omar Serdar Tatar says sometimes war is not the only way you could do it from the inside He continues The reason why I wanted to become a police officer to have something with the surroundings He adds You move up You have inside informa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D418http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D41828-Nov-06New York Newsday recognized NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s groundbreaking discovery that Al Qaida was linked to the African diamond trade ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D419http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D41926-Nov-06The New York Daily News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for a piece on the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D420http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D42019-Nov-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Sunday Times London article on the murder of whistleblower Dale Stoffel in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D421http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D42106-Nov-06Newsweek interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on the possibility that Usama Bin Laden would release a tape to coincide with the mid term elections ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D422http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D42203-Nov-06U S News and World Report lauded NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s superb piece on Viktor Bout in Foreign Policy Magazine ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D423http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D42301-Nov-06NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah co authored an article in Foreign Policy Magazine on Viktor Bout ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D424http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D42431-Oct-06NBC News Senior Investigative Correspondent Lisa Myers interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on the possibility of an October surprise a tape released by Usama Bin Laden to coincide with the mid term elections ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D425http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D42528-Oct-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a National Journal article on splits in the Iraqi insurgency ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D426http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D42619-Oct-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on NBC Nightly News to discuss the increased frequency of sniper attacks on U S military personnel in Iraq Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D427http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D42718-Oct-06MSNBC s Scarborough Country hosted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann to discuss an unverified threat to detonate dirty bombs at seven NFL stadiums ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D428http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D42817-Oct-06United Press International referenced analysis by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann of a possible behind the scenes power struggle among Iraqi insurgents ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D429http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D42908-Oct-06Cox News Service interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah on the threat of radical Islam in West Africa ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D430http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D43001-Oct-06NBC Nightly News featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing the release of an Al Qaida videotape that showed some of the 9 11 hijackers training and recording their last wills ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1894http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D189429-Sep-06In this Septembers 29 2006 conversation Dritan Duka reports that on the news the American military said straight forward that we can t win with Al Qaeda He adds The Mujahideens Holy warrior are very strong for us When an FBI informant Besnik Bakalli says Run away then you mother f ck...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1905http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D190522-Sep-06On September 22 2006 Eljvir Duka says to Mahmoud Omar and Mohamad Shnewer So we need to do this and we need like a Fatwa Edict from a Sheikh When Omar asks But you trust the Sheikh for the Fatwa Edict Duka replies We will find one who we can trust Later ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D431http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D43121-Sep-06United Press International cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s conclusion that the UAE remains important for Al Qaida financial and logistical activity ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D432http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D43216-Sep-06NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ron Sandee presented at the Washington Institute s Weinberg Founders Conference on Jihadist Threats to the West In the West ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1895http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D189515-Sep-06In this September 15 2006 conversation Dritan Duka comments They didn t even kill civilian They told them two two weeks before that they are going to hit in America And the Americans knew that they are going to unintelligible those buildings Because two hours before there were police officer...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D433http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D43308-Sep-06MSNBC s Tucker featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing the current state of affairs in Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D434http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D43405-Sep-06National Public Radio interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about an Al Qaida video featuring Adam Gadahn that directed Americans to convert to Islam ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D435http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D43505-Sep-06A Christian Science Monitor article on the capture of Al Qaida in Iraq s purported second in command quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D436http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D43604-Sep-06E Week referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s Foreign Affairs article The Real Online Terrorist Threat ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D437http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D43704-Sep-06The Pittsburgh Tribune Review quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article about the soft sentences Europe hands down to convicted terrorists ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D438http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D43802-Sep-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on NBC Nightly News to discuss American Al Qaida member Adam Gadahn ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D439http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D43901-Sep-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann published an article titled The Real Online Terrorist Threat in Foreign Affairs ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D440http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D44026-Aug-06National Public Radio interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on jihadists use of the Internet as a social networking tool ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D441http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D44125-Aug-06An International Herald Tribune article quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on the role Islamic charities play in financing terrorism ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1899http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D189925-Aug-06In an August 25 2006 conversation Eljvir Duka remarks This is a Jihad holy struggle this is a legitimate Jihad holy struggle this is the Jihad holy struggle which we being oppressed and we re resisting that oppression now Do you understand and anybody who can should go should join and ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D442http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D44224-Aug-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Scarborough Country to assess CNN s documentary In the Footsteps of bin Laden ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D443http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D44321-Aug-06A Christian Science Monitor article examining the ties of Jill Carroll s kidnappers to Al Qaida in Iraq quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D444http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D44418-Aug-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article that analyzed the increased recruitment of young Muslims for jihad Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D445http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D44516-Aug-06A Christian Science Monitor article analyzing a ring allegedly responsible for kidnapping Jill Carroll and other Westerners quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D446http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D44611-Aug-06A New York Post article on the thwarted U K plot targeting U S bound commercial airliners quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D447http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D44710-Aug-06NBC News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the plot to bomb U S bound transatlantic flights ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D132http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D13201-Aug-06Though for some news of a reported Al Qaida plot to down multiple commercial airliners with liquid explosives may sound exotic and unusual in fact U S authorities have been aware of such a threat from Al Qaida affiliates for over a decade In 1995 when U S and Philippine security services unco...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D133http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D13301-Aug-06A report is available for download from the NEFA website titled The Jihadists of Pakistan Jaish e Muhammad JEM Harakat ul Mujahideen HUM and Anjuman Sipah e Sahaba SSP The document is based upon an expert witness report that was submitted by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on beh...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1911http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D191101-Aug-06This nbsp document provides extensive details on the plot targeting Fort Dix For example the filing reveals that on August 1 2006 in a recorded conversation Shnewer said to FBI informant Mahmoud Omar If you really want to do anything here there is Fort Dix I don t want to exaggerate I assure...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1890http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D189001-Aug-06This nbsp document challenges the defendants motion to strike language in the superseding indictment regarding their associations with the jihadist teachings of al Qaeda and other radical Islamist organizations DOJ wrote that jihadist principles caused the defendants to undertake the crimina...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1535http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D153531-Jul-06After days of Israeli military attacks on targets in South Lebanon thought linked to the Shiite Hezbollah militia sentiment among Sunni extremists remains divided over the proper response to events in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip While the Taliban and Al Qaida s deputy commander Ayman al Zawahiri ha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1904http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D190428-Jul-06In this July 28 2006 recorded conversation Dritan Duka expresses his desire to move his family to Yemen Egypt Afghanistan or somewhere over there because over there we fighting He adds I want to go where they re fighting and be with people who believe ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D448http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D44828-Jul-06NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was interviewed for a National Post Canada article about Ayman al Zawahiri s call for Muslims to support Hezbollah in its war with Israel ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D449http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D44928-Jul-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Tucker to talk about the status of Sunni Shiite relations and the impact of the Hezbollah Israeli war ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D450http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D45027-Jul-06The Associated Press quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann assessing that in the latest Ayman al Zawahiri tape Zawahri seems to be suggesting that the jihad to liberate Palestine is a natural outgrowth of the jihad in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D451http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D45127-Jul-06MSNBC s Tucker interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the release of a new Ayman al Zawahiri tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D452http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D45225-Jul-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Scarborough Country to discuss his acquisition of a Hezbollah training tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D453http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D45320-Jul-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for NBC s Today show about the threat Hezbollah poses to the U S ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D454http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D45418-Jul-06MSNBC s Scarborough Country featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing Hezbollah s presence in the U S ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D455http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D45511-Jul-06NEFA Director of Analysis and Research delivered a briefing at the Transatlantic Institute on the challenge of integrating immigrants ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D456http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D45611-Jul-06National Public Radio interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about Al Qaida s media wing As Sahab ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D457http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D45709-Jul-06NEFA Senior Investigator Claudo Franco authored a piece in the Times of London linking 7 7 suicide bomber Mohamed Sidique Khan to Omar Sharif and Hanif Asif two British residents responsible for the Mike s Place bombing in Tel Aviv ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D458http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D45809-Jul-06The Independent on Sunday London cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s analysis of an Adam Gadahn Ayman al Zawahiri tape that also featured one of the 7 7 suicide bombers ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D459http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D45908-Jul-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Associated Press article about a newly released Adam Gadahn Ayman al Zawahiri tape that asserted two 7 7 suicide bombers trained with Al Qaida ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D460http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D46007-Jul-06The Washington Post quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s conclusion that the most recent Ayman al Zawahiri video made it clear that Al Qaida carried out the 7 7 attacks ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D461http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D46105-Jul-06The Associated Press interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article assessing a video that depicted foreign fighters waging jihad alongside local Somali extremists ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D462http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D46202-Jul-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Associated Press report stating that the Al Qaida media machine is astonishingly effective Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D463http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D46301-Jul-06An extensive Atlantic Monthly article on Al Qaida webmaster Younes Tsouli quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann Kohlmann testified as an expert witness in Tsouli s U K trial in May 2007 Tsouli and his co conspirators pled guilty in July 2007 to inciting murder for terrorist purposes ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D464http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D46429-Jun-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s The Situation with Tucker Carlson Scarborough Country and Rita Cosby Live Direct to discuss the latest Usama Bin Laden audiotape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D465http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D46526-Jun-06Newsweek interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the likely impact of Abu Mussab al Zarqawi s death ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D466http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D46625-Jun-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed by the Associated Press for an article examining the process by which Al Qaida distributes its propaganda videos ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D467http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D46723-Jun-06MSNBC s Countdown featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing the arrest of an alleged terrorist cell in Miami ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D468http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D46821-Jun-06A New York Daily News article quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s analysis that a message providing details about the killing of two kidnapped U S soldiers in Iraq was bogus ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D469http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D46920-Jun-06NBC News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for a segment on the mutilation and murder of two U S soldiers in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D470http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D47020-Jun-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Countdown to discuss Abu Mussab al Zarqawi s successor and the murder of two U S soldiers in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D471http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D47120-Jun-06United Press International interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the confusion surrounding the identity of Abu Musab al Zarqawi s successor ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D472http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D47217-Jun-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a lengthy Toronto Star article examining the exploits of Younes Tsouli whom Kohlmann labeled the Godfather of cyber terrorism for Al Qaeda Kohlmann testified in Tsouli s U K terrorism trial as an expert witness in May 2007 Tsouli and his co ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D473http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D47316-Jun-06The Associated Press asked NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann to assess an Al Qaida in Iraq terrorist blueprint purportedly seized from an Al Qaida safehouse ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D474http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D47416-Jun-06The New York Daily News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the U S military s assertion that Abu Ayyub al Masri had taken control of Al Qaida in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D475http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D47512-Jun-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Associated Press article on Al Qaida in Iraq s new leader Abu Hamza al Muhajer ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D476http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D47611-Jun-06Information provided by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was utilized in a New York Times Week in Review report on the Iraqi insurgency ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D477http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D47710-Jun-06The New York Daily News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article speculating on Usama Bin Laden s likely reaction to the death of Abu Musab al Zarqawi ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D1117http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D111710-Jun-06The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in which Hamas leader Osama Hamdan reaffirmed that Hamas s vision of resistance is completely different than what Al Qaeda believes in and promotes Hamdan added that Hamas has its own and clear vision in res...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D1118http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D111809-Jun-06The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in which Brotherhood leader Dr Mohammed Habib rejected Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri s criticism of the Egyptian judges The Muslim Brotherhood reaffirms its support for the fine majority of Egyptian judges and their l...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D478http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D47809-Jun-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Associated Press article on the uncertainty surrounding Abu Musab al Zarqawi s successor ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D479http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D47908-Jun-06The Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for a segment on the death of Abu Musab al Zarqawi Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D480http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D48008-Jun-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Scarborough Country Live Direct with Rita Cosby and Hardball to discuss the death of Abu Musab al Zarqawi ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D481http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D48108-Jun-06National Public Radio produced a featured segment on NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s monitoring of jihadist websites ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D482http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D48206-Jun-06The Wall Street Journal interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article on Younes Tsouli s link to a global network of terrorist cells located in among other locations the U K U S Canada Bosnia and Denmark ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D483http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D48306-Jun-06National Public Radio interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about Al Qaida webmaster Younes Tsouli and the role of the Internet in the global jihad ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D484http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D48404-Jun-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Atlanta Journal Constitution article about the Internet s role in connecting terrorist cells in Georgia Canada and the U K ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D485http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D48524-May-06The Associated Press quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article about Usama Bin Laden s most recent audiotape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D486http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D48624-May-06MSNBC s Scarborough Country featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing security at U S airports ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D487http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D48710-May-06NBC Nightly News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for a segment on the increased tempo of Al Qaida and Taliban operations in Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D488http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D48804-May-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on NBC News to discuss a possible power struggle between Usama Bin Laden Ayman al Zawahiri and Abu Musab al Zarqawi over control of Al Qaida ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D489http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D48902-May-06National Public Radio interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for a story examining whether recent messages from Usama Bin Laden Ayman al Zawahiri and Abu Musab al Zarqawi were coordinated ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D490http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D49027-Apr-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article on the release of a video featuring Abu Musab al Zarqawi ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D491http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D49125-Apr-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed on MSNBC s Scarborough Country about the importance and relevance of Usama Bin Laden ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D492http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D49225-Apr-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on NBC News to analyze an Abu Musab al Zarqawi videotape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D493http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D49324-Apr-06NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was the featured guest for a Washington Post online chat session on the capture of Charles Taylor and the destructive leaders still in power on the continent ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D1119http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D111924-Apr-06The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in which Hamas spokesperson Samy Abu Zehry rejected Usama Bin Laden s criticism of Hamas participation in legislative councils and elections Hamas has its own agenda that is not compatible with Al Qaeda s Ham...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D494http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D49423-Apr-06NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah authored a Washington Post article discussing Charles Taylor s capture and the current situation in Africa ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D495http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D49519-Apr-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was the featured guest for a Washington Post online chat session titled Tracking Terrorists Online ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D496http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D49619-Apr-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was featured in Washington Post video titled e Qaeda that examined how jihadists exploit the Internet Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D1597http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D159715-Apr-06The Al Hesbah network media forum has released their sixth official public statement announcing the arrest of a chief web administrator known as Abu Musab al Mohtaseb According to the document He was arrested for spreading truth The crusaders realized the importance of the threat posed by the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D497http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D49713-Apr-06The Washington Post interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for a story examining jihadist attempts to avoid law enforcement monitoring of their online activities ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D1598http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D159811-Apr-06The Islamic Army in Iraq IAI a prominent Sunni insurgent faction based in central Iraq has released a statement citing the importance of jihadi media work According to the statement the Al Hesbah network forum strengthens the mujahideen and includes uplifting and delightful news about th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1534http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D153411-Apr-06A previously unknown group calling itself Al Qaida s Committee in Palestine has claimed responsibility for an alleged rocket attack on a strategic target in Israel According to a statement from the group The operation was kept in secret until now in order to insure the safety of our mujahidee...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D498http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D49805-Apr-06A Wall Street Journal article about Yeslam Bin Laden Usama s half brother cited documents obtained by the NEFA Foundation that revealed he has been the subject of money laundering and terrorism finance inquiries by police in Italy and France since 2003 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D499http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D49905-Apr-06NBC Nightly News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about an Iraqi insurgent video that depicted the burning of a American pilot s body ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D500http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D50002-Apr-06A New York Times Week in Review article on Charles Taylor quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D501http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D50131-Mar-06The Associated Press quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in a story forecasting a rise in kidnappings by Iraqi insurgents ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D502http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D50230-Mar-06NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s revelation that Charles Taylor was an informant for the Defense Department was referenced in a Salon com article ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D503http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D50330-Mar-06MSNBC s Abrams Report featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing reporter Jill Carroll s release from captivity in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D504http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D50426-Mar-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann assessed Abu Musab al Zarqawi s absence from the public eye in a New York Daily News article ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D505http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D50501-Mar-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Scarborough Country to comment on a report examining terrorist utilization of fake marriages to enter the U S ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D506http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D50627-Feb-06MSNBC s The Abrams Report featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing developments in the kidnapping of reporter Jill Carroll in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D1523http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D152324-Feb-06The January 2006 republication of cartoons from Denmark lampooning the Prophet Mohammed has caused a growing wave of bitter anger and violence to spread throughout the Muslim world and likewise among well organized groups of extremists living in Western nations On February 3 a U K based militant...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1885http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D188523-Feb-06In a February 23 2006 conversation Dritan Duka comments I don t trust anyone and added there are a lot of spies And on September 1 2006 Eljvir Duka says that the majority of people can t be trusted today ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D507http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D50723-Feb-06Africa News cited NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s assessment that Charles Taylor was linked to the Al Qaida diamond trade ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D508http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D50823-Feb-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann analyzed the Dubai Ports World controversy on MSNBC s Scarborough Country ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D509http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D50922-Feb-06MSNBC s Scarborough Country interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the Dubai Ports World controversy ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D510http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D51021-Feb-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussed the Dubai Ports World story on MSNBC s Countdown ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D511http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D51112-Feb-06The Independent on Sunday London quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on the Danish cartoon controversy ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D520http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D52001-Feb-06NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah published an article in Counterterrorism Homeland Security Reports on Al Qaida s finances and the presence of foreign fighters in Iraq The same issue highlighted Farah s presentation at the Air Force Academy on non state armed groups and Evan Kohlmann s chart o...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D512http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D51231-Jan-06The Washington Post interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article on the latest Ayman al Zawahiri tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D513http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D51328-Jan-06The Associated Press interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for a story examining the murder of whistleblower Dale Stoffel in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D514http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D51423-Jan-06NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah authored an article in The New Republic on Viktor Bout and his relationship with the U S military Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D515http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D51523-Jan-06MSNBC s The Abrams Report featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing the kidnapping of reporter Jill Carroll in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D516http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D51620-Jan-06A New York Daily News story on the latest Usama Bin Laden tape quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D517http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D51720-Jan-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on NBC Nightly News as well as MSNBC s Abrams Report to analyze the release of an Usama Bin Laden tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D518http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D51817-Jan-06NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussed Jill Carroll s kidnapping on MSNBC s Scarborough Country ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D1120http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=47#D112011-Jan-06The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of a statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in which Dr Mohamed Habib the Brotherhood s first deputy chairman responded to Dr Ayman al Zawahiri s criticism of the Brotherhood s involvement in the political process Habib stated the Muslim Brotherhood...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D519http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D51910-Jan-06A Weekly Standard article cited NEFA Director of Analysis and Research s analysis of the Sudanese Popular Defense Forces ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D521http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D52126-Dec-05U S News World Report interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for a story on the rise of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat GSPC ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D1907http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=63#D190716-Dec-05This receipt dated December 16 2005 documents Serdar Tatar s purchase of a Beretta CX4 Storm rifle Photographs Ammunition Weaponry Ammunition and Smoke Canisters Recovered from 500 Park Boulevard Apartment 145B Cherry Hill New Jersey res...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D522http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D52213-Dec-05The Boston Globe interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the power dynamic between Usama Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D523http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D52311-Dec-05The Sunday Oregonian reported on a presentation titled Oregon s Connection to International Terrorism delivered by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann before an audience of approximately 400 people that included Oregon U S Attorney Karin Immergut The article commented that he talks specifics...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D524http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D52407-Dec-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Scarborough Country to discuss the shooting by a federal air marshal of a passenger at Miami International Airport who claimed to have a bomb ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D134http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D13401-Dec-05An occasional report prepared on behalf of the NEFA Foundation is available for download analyzing the origins and structure of Al Qaida s Committee in the Arabian Peninsula during its first two years of operation 2002 2003 The report focuses on the cells inspired by senior Saudi Al Qaida operativ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D525http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D52528-Nov-05MSNBC s Countdown interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about a video that depicted contractors from Aegis Defense Services shooting seemingly at random at passing vehicles on the road to the Baghdad Airport ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D526http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D52622-Nov-05The New York Daily News referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s analysis of a blast that the U S military originally speculated may have killed Abu Musab al Zarqawi and a handful of his top lieutenants ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D527http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D52720-Nov-05United Press International interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the resiliency of Abu Musab al Zarqawi s network ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D528http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D52817-Nov-05The Tampa Tribune quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for a story examining efforts by private web warriors to shut down jihadist websites ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D529http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D52914-Nov-05A Christian Science Monitor piece on the Iraqi role in the Amman Jordan hotel bombings quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D530http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D53014-Nov-05MSNBC s Scarborough Country interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the failed female suicide bomber in the Amman Jordan attack ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D531http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D53110-Nov-05NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco contributed reporting from Afghanistan for a Sunday Times London article on a Dutch assessment that conditions in Afghanistan were too dangerous for additional Dutch troops to be deployed ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D532http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D53202-Nov-05United Press International interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah about possible sabotage in the October 22 2005 crash of a Nigerian airliner that killed over 100 people ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D533http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D53328-Oct-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann assisted Swiss police in the investigation of two North Africans who were arrested in connection with the fraudulent use of a University of Geneva computer lab At the lab they were involved in disseminating jihad propaganda videos and inciting racial hatred...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D534http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D53411-Oct-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Countdown to discuss the threat eventually deemed non credible to the New York City subways ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1533http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D153308-Oct-05An organization calling itself Al Qaida s Jihad in Palestine has reportedly been distributing leaflets from the Salahudeen al Ayyubi Mosque in the Gaza Strip on the occasion of Ramadan One document urging Muslims to restore the era of the first Islamic empire described how t he West appoint...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D535http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D53506-Oct-05MSNBC s Rita Cosby Live Direct and Countdown interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the New York City subway threat ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D536http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D53603-Oct-05NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was quoted in an USA Today story about the resiliency of Al Qaida in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D537http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D53702-Oct-05NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah authored an article in The Washington Post on the threat posed to African stability by exiled Liberian leader Charles Taylor ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D135http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=24#D13501-Oct-05A leadership chart is available for download focusing on the Iraq based network of known operatives loyal to Abu Musab al Zarqawi and Al Qaida s Committee in Mesopotamia Though much more expansive than previous efforts this chart is based upon similar products distributed in recent months by the I...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D538http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D53830-Sep-05The New York Daily News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about President Bush s claim that Abdallah Najim Abdallah Muhammad al Juwari a k a Abu Azzam was the second most wanted Al Qaeda leader in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D539http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D53929-Sep-05A Washington Post article referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s analysis of President Bush s assertions about Abu Azzam ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D540http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D54027-Sep-05A Christian Science Monitor article on foreign fighters in Iraq cited a translation published by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann of a guide for would be Jihadis ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D541http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D54119-Sep-05NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco published an article in Eurasianet on low voter turnout for the Afghan parliamentary and provincial council elections ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D1522http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D152215-Sep-05In a new communiqu verified as authentic by the same online authority responsible for distributing credible material from Abu Musab al Zarqawi a group calling itself Al Qaida s Committee in Northern Europe has issued a threat to carry out additional suicide bombing attacks similar those that too...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D542http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D54213-Sep-05The Ottawa Sun quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann identified as an Internet terror expert discussing jihadist recruitment ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D543http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D54311-Sep-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for an Ottawa Sun story on governmental responses to terrorism in which Kohlmann commented When it comes to using the Internet terrorists are better than us ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D544http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D54409-Sep-05The Associated Press interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article examining the increasing significance of Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar e Taiba Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D545http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D54508-Sep-05NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco wrote an article for Eurasianet in which he noted that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has reported encouraging news on the Afghan government s efforts to curb narcotics production ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D546http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D54608-Sep-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Voice of America News story about jihadist recruitment in England ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D547http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D54706-Sep-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for a New York Post article about Irhabi 007 a k a Younes Tsouli Kohlmann went on to testify as an expert witness in the U K trial of Tsouli who pled guilty to terrorism offenses in July 2007 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D548http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D54804-Sep-05British newspapers The Independent on Sunday The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph asked NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann to analyze a videotape featuring 7 7 suicide bomber Mohammad Siddique Khan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D549http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D54903-Sep-05The Guardian quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s assessment of the Mohammad Siddique Khan tape ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D550http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D55029-Aug-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a New York Post story on an Al Qaida guide titled The Road Through Syria to Jihad in Iraq that Kohlmann discovered and translated ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D1521http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D152129-Aug-05An Algerian terrorist commander once thought to head a transnational sleeper cell network that included would be Al Qaida Millenium bomber Ahmed Ressam has resurfaced in Bosnia Herzegovina vehemently denying allegations recently presented to the Bosnian Supreme Court in Sarajevo that his foreign mu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D551http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D55125-Aug-05NBC News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about a jihadist web posting claiming that Usama Bin Laden recently suffered wounds during combat ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D552http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D55222-Aug-05The New York Post quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in a story examining the role link analysis played in Saddam Hussein s capture ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D553http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D55319-Aug-05MSNBC s Countdown interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about a rocket attack on an American warship in Jordan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D554http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D55419-Aug-05United Press International cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article highlighting the fact that terrorists who previously targeted the United States are now in Bosnia ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1532http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D153216-Aug-05A previously unknown group calling itself the Al Qaida Palestine Frontier Jihad Brigades responsible for at least one rocket attack on Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip has issued a detailed political platform and has sworn a bayat oath of allegiance to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D555http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D55509-Aug-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Countdown to discuss a front page New York Times report that a secret Pentagon unit pegged four of the future hijackers more than a year before the September 11 attacks ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D556http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D55608-Aug-05A Washington Post article about Al Qaida webmaster Babar Ahmad quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann and noted that Kohlmann had tracked Azzam com one of Ahmad s websites since the late 1990s ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D557http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D55708-Aug-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann participated in a Washington Post online chat titled Al Qaeda and the Internet ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1531http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D153106-Aug-05A previously unknown group calling itself the Al Qaida Palestine Frontier Jihad Brigades has released a video allegedly depicting an August 1 Sajil rocket attack on Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip According to a statement read by a masked militant we confirm that this operation comes as a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D558http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D55805-Aug-05National Public Radio interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah about regulation of money remittal services ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D559http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D55905-Aug-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor report on the release of a video featuring Ayman al Zawahiri ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D560http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D56029-Jul-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s The Abrams Report to discuss the investigation of the 7 7 and 7 21 London bombings ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D1520http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D152028-Jul-05Last May at the height of the Newsweek Quran desecration fiasco a group of Al Qaida supporters and clerics held an anti American rally in central London The organizers included Shaykh Omar Bakri Mohammed founder of the fanatical British Al Muhajiroun movement and Yasser al Sirri a leader of th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1530http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D153026-Jul-05In a new communiqu posted online and verified as authentic by sources close to Abu Musab al Zarqawi the Egyptian Tawheed wal Jihad Movement has claimed responsibility for recent suicide bombing attacks in the Sinai resort towns of Taba and Sharm el Sheikh The statement justified the latest carn...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D561http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D56126-Jul-05MSNBC s Countdown interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the London and Sharm el Sheikh bombings Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D562http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D56225-Jul-05A Christian Science Monitor article on the rise of a jihadi suicide culture cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D1519http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=56#D151924-Jul-05 Not far from the south London neighborhood where British police have been frantically searching for additional would be suicide bombers lies the unassuming town of Brixton Coincidentally or not Brixton is also the former home of Shaykh Abdullah al Faisal a Jamaican born Islamic convert and re...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D563http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D56323-Jul-05The Independent London quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on the rise of the cyberjihad ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D564http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D56422-Jul-05MSNBC s Countdown interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the Metropolitan Police shooting of an individual incorrectly thought to be a suicide bomber on a London subway ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D565http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D56522-Jul-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for a National Post Canada story on suicide bombers in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D566http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D56614-Jul-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for a Christian Science Monitor article examining the increasing isolation of hard line Islamists from mainstream Muslims ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D567http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D56714-Jul-05MSNBC s Scarborough Country interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about his experience speaking with extremists in England including convicted terrorist Abu Hamza al Masri in 2002 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D568http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D56814-Jul-05The Pittsburgh Tribune Review quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article about the life sentence given to convicted terrorist Ali al Timimi who served as the spiritual mentor to a group of Virginia men seeking to fight U S troops Kohlmann testified as an expert witness in the cas...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D569http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D56914-Jul-05The Press Trust of India quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in a story examining the terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D570http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D57013-Jul-05The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s assessment that the GIA and GSPC have a presence in Sweden ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D571http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D57113-Jul-05Newsweek interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for a story examining Internet vigilantes who seek to combat cyberterrorists ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D572http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D57212-Jul-05A Christian Science Monitor article speculating on the role Britain s involvement in Iraq played in radicalizing the 7 7 bombers quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D573http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D57310-Jul-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann told the San Francisco Chronicle that there is a great deal of evidence to suggest a direct correlation between insurgent propaganda and the recruitment of individuals into the terrorist movement ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D574http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D57408-Jul-05A Christian Science Monitor article on European efforts to fight terrorism cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D575http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D57508-Jul-05MSNBC s The Abrams Report featured NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing the 7 7 London suicide bombings ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D576http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D57608-Jul-05The Pittsburgh Tribune Review quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann s analysis of British counterterrorism efforts ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D577http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D57707-Jul-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Scarborough Country and The Abrams Report to talk about the London bombings ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D578http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D57803-Jul-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted by the Associated Press assessing that al Qaida in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia may be going into a new period of activity Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D579http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D57922-Jun-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed on MSNBC s Countdown evaluating the CIA ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D580http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D58020-Jun-05NBC Nightly News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about foreign fighters in Iraq ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D581http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D58120-Jun-05National Public Radio interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah for a segment on the charges filed against Charles Taylor by a United Nations war crimes tribunal ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D582http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D58220-Jun-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Countdown to discuss the hunt for Usama Bin Laden ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D583http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D58317-Jun-05A New York Daily News story cited the organizational chart produced by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann depicting the structure of Abu Musab al Zarqawi s group Al Qaeda in the Land of the Two Rivers ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D584http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D58408-Jun-05Newsweek interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the existence of terrorist training camps in Pakistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D585http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D58529-May-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann assessed the French legal system s treatment of terrorists when interviewed for a Pittsburgh Tribune Review article ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D586http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D58627-May-05CNN International cited NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s assertion that Charles Taylor was on the U S intelligence payroll in the mid 1990s at a time when some of the worst atrocities were being committed ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D587http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D58725-May-05The Associated Press quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in a story about the purported wounding of Abu Musab al Zarqawi ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D588http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D58818-May-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Countdown to talk about a purported secret meeting in Syria between Abu Musab al Zarqawi and Al Qaida leaders during which al Zarqawi ordered the ratcheting up of violence ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D589http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D58916-May-05NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s analysis of the Al Qaida diamond connection is examined in an U S News World Report article ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1566http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D156606-May-05The United Nations has finally announced the designation of the Pakistani terrorist organization Lashkar e Taiba LET a k a The Army of Medina The Army of the Pure and Righteous under UN resolution 1267 for connections to Al Qaida the Taliban and Usama Bin Laden Over the past two decades...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D590http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D59005-May-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Boston Globe article on the capture of Abu Farraj al Libbi ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D591http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D59104-May-05United Press International referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s analysis of Charles Taylor s finances ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D592http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D59203-May-05Africa News quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s critical assessment of U S intelligence capabilities in West Africa ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D593http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D59327-Apr-05Africa News referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s expose of Charles Taylor s plans to retain power in Liberia ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D594http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D59425-Apr-05The Washington Post published an editorial by NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah in which he argued that if Charles Taylor escapes prosecution West Africa will be endangered and U S moral leadership severely diminished ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D595http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D59525-Apr-05The New Republic quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s revelation that Taylor was a paid informant of the U S Defense Department intelligence service and reported regularly on his trips to Libya from at least 1992 to 1995 Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D596http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D59623-Apr-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Guardian London article stating that Britain is an enormous terrorist target but there s been no al Qaida attacks that is a testament ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D597http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D59713-Apr-05Newsweek interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann on the muddled verdict in the British ricin plot trial ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D598http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D59811-Apr-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a New York Daily News story on claims that the U S government had opportunities to kill Abu Musab al Zarqawi before the Iraq war ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D599http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D59907-Apr-05NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah delivered a briefing at the Henry L Stimson center on Spoiler Networks and Illicit Trade ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D600http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D60030-Mar-05NBC Nightly News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about a jihadist web posting on an Internet location used by Iraq s top terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi that details how to fire a shoulder fired missile and provides maps showing flight paths and new security perimeters from N...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D601http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D60118-Mar-05U S District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was qualified to testify as an expert witness in the trial of alleged terrorist Ali al Timimi Brinkema said Despite the defense characterizations and despite Mr Kohlmann s youth this court has watched him test...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D602http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D60215-Mar-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Scarborough Country to discuss an alleged threat linked to Abu Musab al Zarqawi pertaining to U S restaurants schools and malls ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D603http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D60310-Mar-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on NBC News to analyze actor Russell Crowe s claims that he received FBI protection due to an Al Qaida kidnapping threat ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D604http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D60408-Mar-05MSNBC s Countdown interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about a CIA veteran s assertion that Al Qaida has attempted to penetrate the Intelligence Community ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D605http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D60503-Mar-05The Associated Press quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in a story examining Al Qaida in Iraq s new online magazine Zurwat al Sanam ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D606http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D60621-Feb-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for a USA Today article on terrorist involvement in cyberfraud ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D607http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D60716-Feb-05NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah testified before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on the Terrorist Response to U S Financial Defenses ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D608http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D60804-Feb-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on ABC News 20 20 to discuss terrorist videotapes ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D609http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D60902-Feb-05The Associated Press interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for a story on clashes between security forces and jihadists in Kuwait ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D610http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D61001-Feb-05NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC s Countdown to assess a purported claim by an Iraqi insurgent group that it was holding an American soldier hostage that soldier turned out to a doll ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D611http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D61128-Jan-05The Associated Press quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article documenting efforts by Iraqi insurgent groups to use the Internet to try to scare away Iraqi voters Previous NewsMore News ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D612http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=28#D61203-Jan-05A Weekly Standard review of NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah s book Blood from Stones stated As our national security establishment adapts to confront the considerable challenge posed by such places we can be grateful to intrepid explorers like Douglas Farah who have already made the journey ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1529http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D152924-Dec-04The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas has released video of a December 12 tunnel bombing attack on an Israeli military outpost in the Gaza Strip Five Israeli soldiers were killed and six wounded near Rafah when a booby trapped tunnel blew up underneath the outpost This attack marks the seco...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1527http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D152711-Sep-04Hamas releases a video showing a suicide car bomb attack on an Israeli military checkpoint in the Gaza Strip Hamas identified the driver as 23 year old Tareq Hmeid ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D1528http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=57#D152811-Sep-04The Palestinian group Hamas has released new video of a Sept 9 Rocket Propelled Grenade RPG attack on an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip near the Al Jabaliya Refugee Camp The Israeli Army has just ended 3 day large scale incursion into the northern Gaza strip aimed at deterring Hamas rocket att...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D1599http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D159920-Aug-04The official website of Abu Musab al Zarqawi and the Tawheed wal Jihad Movement has been taken over by a hackers group calling itself TeaMz UsA The site has been the source of several videos depicting the murder of foreign hostages held in the central Sunni region of Iraq audio recordings of Abu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D1600http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D160009-Aug-04The investigation of British Internet jihad supporter Babar Ahmad by federal authorities in Connecticut appears to have led to several other suspects within the U S who were aiding Ahmad in providing material support to designated international terrorist organizations One of the men New Jersey co...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1565http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D156502-Aug-04The organization calling itself the Al Islambouli Brigades of Al Qaida has released its second communique taking credit for an ambush attack using assault rifles and grenades on a group of Pakistani soldiers traveling in a military vehicle near Khuzdar about 300 kilometers southwest of the Afgha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1563http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D156331-Jul-04The Islamic Jihad Movement of Uzbekistan has issued a statement taking responsibility for a series of suicide bombings in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent The attacks targeted the U S and Israeli embassies as well as the office of a local prosecutor involved in a case against alleged supporters of t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D1564http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=59#D156431-Jul-04A group called the Al Islambouli Brigades has taken credit for an assassination attempt on Pakistani Prime Minister designate Shaukat Aziz A suicide bomber exploded at a campaign rally near Fateh Jang narrowly missing the Prime Minister and killing at least nine others including Aziz s personal...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D1601http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=61#D160124-Jul-04Islamic militants claim to have hacked into a U S Army computer system based in South Korea The militants were able to seize control of the system in June 2004 but did not seek to immediately destroy the system in order to spy on them To prove the veracity of these claims the hackers produ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D959http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D95904-Jan-04According to this transcript provided by the CIA s Open Source Center Usama Bin Laden stated there can be no dialogue with occupiers except through arms Islamic countries in the past century were not liberated from the Crusaders military occupation except through jihad in the cause of God U...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D960http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D96013-Dec-01According to the Department of Defense which provided this transcript In mid November Usama Bin Laden spoke to a room of supporters possibly in Qandahar Afghanistan These comments were video taped with the knowledge of Bin Laden and all present In the tape Bin Laden explained we calculat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D961http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D96121-Jun-01In this tape Usama Bin Laden lauds the October 2000 bombing of the U S S Cole in Yemen the youth rushed for Jihad and in Aden they rushed attacked and destroyed a battle ship that is feared by fear itself It increases your fear when it is in anchor and when it sails It crosses the sea with p...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D962http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D96222-Aug-98In August 1998 Al Quda al Arabi spoke to Usama Bin Laden s media spokesman following the U S missile strike against Bin Laden camps in Afghanistan launched in retaliation for the Africa Embassy bombings Promising further attacks Bin Laden said the battle has not yet started and that the answ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D963http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D96301-Jun-98In May 1998 Al Quda al Arabi received a copy of a statement issued by Usama Bin Laden in which he congratulated Pakistan on acquiring nuclear weapons Bin Laden encouraged Muslims to support the jihad of the Pakistani people and the Muslim peoples afflicted by the Indian occupation Further Th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D964http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D96428-May-98Interviewed by ABC News John Miller Usama Bin Laden said We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians they are all targets Especially since American officials have stated after the Khobar bombing that there was a lack of information and all American civilia...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D965http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D96519-May-98In May 1998 Al Hayah received a copy of a statement issued by the World Islamic Front the original statement by the World Islamic Front was signed by among others Usama Bin Laden and Dr Ayman al Zawahiri This communique called for Muslims to wage the jihad against the Americans and the Israel...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D966http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D96618-May-98In May 1998 Al Quda al Arabi received a copy of a statement issued by Usama Bin Laden in which he commented on the U S government s designation of Afghanistan as a state sponsor of terrorism According to Bin Laden the U S announcement was a certificate of good conduct for the Taliban governme...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D967http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D96723-Mar-98In March 1998 Al Quda al Arabi received a statement from Usama Bin Laden titled One of Them Bears Witness that emphasized the need for young men ulema notables traders and tribal chiefs to move out of Muslim countries to work for God s cause and run the jihad for God s cause battalions in o...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D968http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D96823-Feb-98In February 1998 Al Quda al Arabi published a statement by the World Islamic Front that was signed by Usama Bin Laden Dr Ayman al Zawahiri Abu Yasir Rifa i Ahmad Taha a leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group Sheikh Mir Hamzah Secretary of the Jamiat ul Ulema e Pakistan and Fazlul Rahman Em...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D969http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D96918-Mar-97This document is a transcript of an Usama Bin Laden interview with Hamid Mir published in Islamabad Pakistan and translated by the CIA s Foreign Broadcast Information Service Bin Laden commented on mujahideen involvement in the 1993 attack on U S troops in Somalia My associates killed the Ameri...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D970http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D97001-Mar-97Interviewed by CNN s Peter Arnett Usama Bin Laden explained We declared jihad against the US government because the US government is unjust criminal and tyrannical It has committed acts that are extremely unjust hideous and criminal whether directly or through its support of the Israeli occup...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D971http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D97127-Nov-96This document is a transcript of an Usama Bin Laden interview with London s Al Quds Al Arabi translated by the CIA s Foreign Broadcast Information Service Bin Laden remarked Terrorism if it is against criminals thieves and bandits is a legitimate thing adopted by all states in all ages The b...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D972http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D97211-Oct-96Interviewed by Nida ul Islam a Sydney magazine that lists one of its goals as safeguarding and standing up to the zionist crusade assaults against Islam and Muslims Usama Bin Laden stated After the end of the cold war America escalated its campaign against the Muslim world in its entirety ai...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D973http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D97301-Aug-96In Usama Bin Laden s infamous Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places Bin Laden stated to push the enemy the greatest Kufr out of the country is a prime duty No other duty after Belief is more important Utmost effort should be made to prepare an...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D974http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D97410-Jul-96This document is a transcript of an Usama Bin Laden interview with London s The Independent provided by the CIA s Foreign Broadcast Information Service In the interview Bin Laden said I believe that sooner or later the Americans will leave Saudi Arabia and that the war declared by America again...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D975http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D97517-Jun-96This document is a transcript of an Usama Bin Laden interview with Cairo s Rose Al Yusuf translated by the CIA s Foreign Broadcast Information Service In the interview Bin Laden stated To put it simply the Bin Ladin Establishment s aid covers 13 countries including Albania Malaysia Pakistan...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D976http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D97611-Jul-95In this letter released by the U S military Usama Bin Laden wrote to Saudi ruler King Fahd We send to you this open letter void of royal formalities and majestic titles It is a guileless approach to you with some remarks about the atrocities you and your clan have perpetrated against God and H...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D977http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D97709-Aug-94Reporting on a faxed statement it received Al Quds Al Arabi stated that the Saudi Islamic opposition Advice and Reform Commission headed by Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin has announced the opening of an office in London The commission said in a statement signed by Shaykh Bin Ladin that the commission ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D978http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D97809-Mar-94In this interview translated by the CIA s Foreign Broadcast Information Service Bin Laden is interviewed in Khartoum Sudan Bin Laden told the reporters The accusation that we support terrorism is a hostile imperialist method designed to suppress Muslims determination and paralyze their movem...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D979http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D97901-Jan-94In this letter released by the U S military Usama Bin Laden wrote to Taliban leader Mullah Omar During the previous period with the grace of Allah we were successful in cooperating with our brothers in Tajikistan in various fields including training We were able train a good number of them ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D980http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D98001-Jan-94In this letter released by the U S military Usama Bin Laden wrote to the scholars of Deyubende in Peshawar Pakistan that the nation waits for a clear Fatwa from you and a clear plan to follow so they can lift away this aggression imposed on them the holy places and their children Are you w...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D981http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=44#D98101-Jan-94In this letter released by the U S military Usama Bin Laden wrote to Aba Khalid that we have looked at your suggestions in this matter and we are studying them and we will inform you of what we decided by the will of Allah In conclusion we thank you for your concern and your support to the b...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3218http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3218 Indictment Added 12 21 09 According to the testimony of an FBI agent Knoxville convenience store operator Hazam Ali Ahmed indicted for being a felon in possession of two firearms quot referred to jihad quot and asked a confidential source quot if he would be interested in joining jihad He...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3219http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3219 Indictment Added 3 16 10 Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed who previously lived in Sweden and is thought to be an Eritrean citizen was indicted in NY federal court for providing material support to Shabaab al Mujahideen In April 2009 he allegedly trained for jihad to include learning bombmaking ski...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3220http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3220 Statement by Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Robert Bonner Added 7 27 08 CBP Commissioner Robert Bonner stated quot at CBP we identify potential terrorists if not every day almost every other day Let me mention a couple of examples of some more recent alert work by CBP personnel ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3221http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3221 DOJ Press Release on Arrest Added 12 20 07 In August 2004 British authorities arrested Babar Ahmad on an arrest warrant and criminal Complaint issued in Connecticut Complaint Added 12 20 07 Ahmad a jihadist webmaster allegedly conspired to provide material support to terrorists Acco...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3222http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3222 Indictment Added 7 28 08 In March 2002 Attiqulah Sayed Ahmadi was indicted in California for being a felon in possession of a firearm a semi automatic rifle and pistol Superseding Indictment Added 7 28 08 In June 2003 Attiqulah Sayed Ahmadi was also charged with unlawful procurement ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3223http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3223 DOJ Press Release on Conviction Added 4 10 08 In May 2005 Dearborn Michigan resident Sadeq Naji Ahmed was convicted for making false statements to the Office of Personnel Management The DOJ press release notes quot the evidence presented at the two day trial showed that on October 3 2002 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3224http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3224 DOJ Press Release on Ahmed IndictmentIn April 2006 an Atlanta jury indicted Syed Haris Ahmed a naturalized U S citizen studying at Georgia Tech University for providing material support to terrorists Superseding Indictment adding Sadequee as a defendant In July 2006 Syed Haris Ahmed ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3225http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3225 Indictment Added 12 20 07 In July 2006 Ahsan was arrested by British law enforcement authorities in London he has been charged in Connecticut with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists Federal prosecutors state that from quot approximately 1997 through at least August 2004 Ah...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3207http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3207 Indictment Added 8 23 08 Akram Musa Abdallah a k a Abu Saiaf of Mesa Ariz was charged with making false statements related to his involvement in fund raising activities for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief amp Development According to DOJ quot Abdallah knowingly and willfully made a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3208http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3208 Information Added 10 4 08 In April 2008 Mohamad Fouad Abdallah was charged in Michigan federal court for emailing threats to blogger Debbie Schlussel Abdallah wrote quot HEY WHITE BITCH JEW nbsp FUCK YOU nbsp HEZBOLAAH IS AWESOME WE WILL NEVER DIE BITCH WERE GONNA BLOW YOU UP quot sic...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3209http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3209 Indictment Rahmat Abdhir is a U S citizen living in San Jose California and the brother of Zulkifli Abdhir In September 2003 the U S government designated Zulkifli Abdhir as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist due to his leadership role in Jemaah Islamiyah the U S government believes he...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3210http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3210 Indictment In August 2004 federal prosecutors indicted Columbus Ohio resident Nuradin Abdi for providing material support to Al Qaida as well as obtaining and using fraudulent travel documents As DOJ notes quot the indictment alleges that on April 27 1999 Abdi applied to the Immigration an...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3211http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3211 Indictment Added 7 28 08 In February 2001 Samir Abdoun was indicted in the Southern District of California for using a false passport using false entry documents using false immigration identification making a false statement in an immigration matter and social security fraud ICE Fac...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3212http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3212 Complaint Added 10 19 09 According to a JTTF agent Abdow M Abdow a U S citizen of Somali descent lied to the FBI when questioned about renting a car and driving to Las Vegas with four other individuals The FBI s investigation of Abdow is linked to a broader probe of approximately 20 U S b...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3227http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3227 Superseding Indictment Added 4 9 08 Abdurahman Alamoudi who quot is the founder and former executive director of the American Muslim Council AMC the founder of the American Muslim Foundation AMF and an influential member of other Islamic political and charitable organizations quot wa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3228http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3228 ICE Fact Sheet on Departure Added 7 28 08 According to ICE quot On May 27 2004 ICE agents in San Diego arrested 34 year old Hasan Saddiq Faseh Alddin a Saudi national and U S legal permanent resident on immigration charges resulting from two prior convictions for domestic violence The ar...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3229http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3229 Information Added 11 10 09 Minnesota resident Adarus Abdulle Ali pled guilty to lying to a federal grand jury when he denied that he knew Minneapolis men were traveling to Somalia to wage jihad The FBI s investigation of Ali is linked to a broader probe of approximately 20 U S based individual...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3230http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3230 Indictment In February 2007 federal prosecutors in New York arrested Alishtari on charges of terrorism financing material support of terrorism international money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud According to DOJ quot ALISHTARI a 53 year old resident of Ardsley New York facilitated t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3231http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3231 Complaint Added 3 28 09 According to a document filed in federal court by FBI Special Agent and JTTF member Tim Lauster Jr Chicago resident Mohammed Alkaramla who holds dual U S and Jordanian citizenship ldquo mailed a threatening letter to the Ida Crown Jewish Academy rdquo that stated ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3233http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3233 DOJ Press Release on Indictment Added 4 10 08 In July 2004 Ali Mohammed Abboud Almosaleh was indicted in Minnesota and charged with making false statements to U S Customs and Border Patrol agents According to DOJ quot on July 7 2004 Almosaleh arrived at the Minneapolis St Paul Internatio...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3234http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3234 ICE Press Release on Deportation Added 4 28 08 In December 2005 Abdullah Alnoshan was deported to Saudi Arabia ICE explains quot Alnoshan who served as the director of the Virginia office of the Muslim World League an international charity based in Saudia Arabia was first arrested at his ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3235http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3235 Complaint Added 4 18 08 In February 20007 federal prosecutors in Rochester New York filed a complaint against Yehia Ali Ahmed Alomari Saleh Mohamed Taher Saeed and Mohamed Al Huraibi alleging that the men who ran grocery stores in Rochester conspired to launder money The men who were t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3236http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3236 Indictment Added 5 7 09 In July 2008 Ali Amirnazmi was indicted in Pennsylvania on numerous charges quot relating to his participation in illegal business transactions with Iran between in or about 1996 and in or about July 2008 and lying to federal officials about those transactions The cha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3237http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3237 Army Public Affairs Article Added 7 28 08 A February 2004 Army Public Affairs article noted quot A mobilized Washington state National Guardsman has been taken into custody for allegedly attempting to aid the al Qaida terrorist network Spc Ryan G Anderson of the Guard rsquo s 81st Armor Br...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3238http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3238 Indictment Added 12 14 09 Amir Hossein Ardebili was indicted for violating the Arms Export Control Act International Emergency Economic Powers Act smuggling conspiracy and money laundering U S Government Sentencing Memorandum Added 12 14 09 According to DOJ ldquo from his bastion i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3239http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3239 Superseding Indictment Added 7 5 08 In September 2005 federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment in the case of Yassin Muhiddin Aref and Mohammed Mosharref Hossain both residents of Albany New York As DOJ explained quot the Indictment charged Aref and Hossain with agreeing to condu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3240http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3240 Indictment Added 1 26 08 In February 2003 federal prosecutors announced the filing of 50 count indictment in Tampa Florida that charged quot a total of eight defendants under RICO with operating a racketeering enterprise from 1984 until the present that engaged in a number of violent activiti...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3241http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3241 Indictment Contempt In an indictment filed in October 2003 Ashqar a former professor at Howard University was charged with contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Hamas U S network Indictment Racketeering Conspiracy In August 2004 federal prosecutors i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3242http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3242 Answer and Brief by the United States in Response to Defendant s Motion to Suppress Statements Added 7 30 08 This filing states quot On July 13 1998 defendant boarded an airplane at Detroit Metro Airport on an international flight His ultimate destination was Lebanon He was approached by a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3243http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3243 Complaint Added 6 18 10 In Bajram Asllani 29 a resident of Mitrovica Kosovo was charged in a criminal complaint with providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder kidnap maim and injure persons abroad According to DOJ quot Asllani also known as Bajram Aslani or ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3245http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3245 DOJ Press Release on Indictment Added 7 28 08 In March 2004 following a probe by the JTTF federal prosecutors in Arkansas indicted Hasan Ali Ayesh and William Miller As DOJ explained quot Ayesh was charged with 650 counts of structuring currency transactions to avoid federal reporting requi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3259http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3259 Indictment Added 1 30 08 Yaser Bushnaq named as an unindicted coconspirator in the Holy Land Foundation HLF prosecution and identified as a member of the U S Muslim Brotherhood s Palestine Committee has been indicted in Virginia for unlawful procurement of citizenship Prosecutors allege th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3260http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3260 Information Added 4 9 08 The Information alleged that New Orleans residents Cedric Carpenter and Lamont Ranson quot agreed to produce false identification documents namely Mississippi driver rsquo s licenses Social Security cards and birth certificates knowing that the intended recipients ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3261http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3261 Indictment Tax Evasion In May 2006 prosecutors in Michigan unsealed an indictment against Talal Khalil Chahine the owner of the ldquo La Shish rdquo restaurant chain and Elfat El Aouar a ldquo La Shish rdquo financial manager and Chahine rsquo s wife According to DOJ quot Talal Chahine...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3262http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3262 DOJ Press Release on Indictment Added 1 23 08 On September 14 2005 a federal grand jury indicted Chandia a Maryland resident and Mohammed Ajmal Khan a British citizen of Pakistani descent for providing material support to Lashkar e Taiba a designated foreign terrorist organization The pr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3263http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3263 Complaint Added 2 09 10 Federal prosecutors in Florida announced that Yi Lan Chen a Taiwan passport holder was arrested on charges of illegally exporting commodities for Iran rsquo s missile program According to DOJ quot Chen facilitated the purchase and export of various dual use goods fro...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3247http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3247 DOJ Press Release on Indictment Added 12 20 07 In September 2004 DOJ indicted British citizen Sajid Badat on a number of charges including conspiracy to destroy an aircraft and conspiracy to commit homicide Federal prosecutors asserted he conspired with Richard Reid ldquo to detonate homemad...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3248http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3248 Indictment Added 4 10 08 In May 2003 DOJ announced the indictments of Yemeni nationals Jamal Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al Badawi and Fahd Al Quso for quot plotting al Qaeda rsquo s October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in the harbor of Aden Yemen in which 17 American sailors were killed quot Furthe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3249http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3249 Indictment Added 7 14 09 Alleged Afghan narcotics trafficker Haji Bagcho was charged in a two count indictment with one count of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin knowing and intending that it would be imported into the United States and one count of distribution of one kil...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3250http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3250 Indictment In April 2005 U S prosecutors announced the indictment of Dhiren Barot Nadeem Tarmohamed and Qaisar Shaffi on charges of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to destroy buildings Barot and his coconspirators conduct...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3251http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3251 Indictment On June 22 2006 Narseal Batiste Patrick Abraham Stanley Grant Phanor Naudimar Herrera Burson Augustin Lyglenson Lemorin and Rothschild Augustine were indicted in Miami Florida on four counts including conspiring to provide material support to Al Qaida and conspiring to levy war...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3252http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3252 Indictment Added 2 17 08 Sabri Benkahla was indicted in February 2006 on obstruction of justice and perjury charges As DOJ explains quot this investigation arose as part of the investigation of individuals attending the Dar al Arqam Islamic Center in Falls Church Virginia In June 2003 Benk...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3253http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3253 Indictment Added 7 30 08 In September 2001 Al Fuqra member Bilal Adullah Ben Benu was indicted in Virginia on weapons charges Superseding Indictment Added 7 30 08 Additional weapons charges were filed Memorandum Opinion Added 7 30 08 In July 2002 a judge rejected a motion to ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3254http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3254 Indictment Added 7 28 08 Soliman Biheiri was indicted in Virginia for making false statements and fraudulently procuring a passport According to the indictment quot Biheiri falsely stated to agents of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that he did not have a social or business ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3255http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3255 Complaint Added 7 28 08 Bitar who according to press reports was on the terrorist watch list was charged with fraudulently procuring a passport He used the name Sergio Soto when applying for his passport Indictment Added 7 28 08 Bitar was indicted in Colorado for making a false stat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3282http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3282 Indictment Added 12 20 07 In October 2006 a federal grand jury in California indicted Adam Gadahn also known as Azzam al Amriki or Azzam the American for committing treason and providing material support to Al Qaida quot for making a series of propaganda videotapes quot for the terror group...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3283http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3283 Indictment Added 3 7 09 Shahrazad Mir Gholikhan was indicted in Florida in December 2005 for attempting to export night vision goggles to Iran She was arrested after a DHS ICE undercover investigation Superseding Indictment Added 3 7 09 This superseding indictment was filed in April 20...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3284http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3284 ICE Press Release on Departure Added 4 8 08 This January 2005 ICE press release announced that Wagdy Mohamed Ghoneim quot an Egyptian national who served as an imam at the Islamic Institute of Orange County departed the United States Monday evening Ghoneim 53 agreed to leave the country vo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3285http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3285 ICE Press Release on Deportation Added 7 28 08 This December 8 2005 ICE press release stated quot Mohamed Ahmed Hassan Ghorab a 47 year old citizen of Egypt was returned from the United States to his native Egypt this morning by ICE Detention and Removal Operations officers Ghorab the Ima...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3286http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3286 Affidavit of FBI Special Agent Edward Needham Added 12 14 07 Needham wrote that Lackawanna New York resident Sahim Alwan stated during a September 2002 interview that quot he and his friends had attended terrorist training in Afghanistan when they went to the Middle East in the spring summer ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3287http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3287 Complaint Added 4 19 08 On May 20 2005 Ronald Allen Grecula of Bangor Pennsylvania was arrested in Houston Texas on charges of attempting to provide material support to Al Qaida According to the prosecution quot in April 2005 through approximately May 20 2005 Ronald Allen Grecula nego...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3289http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3289 Indictment Added 7 29 08 In April 2005 Hajaig was indicted in Atlanta for being an alien in possession of a firearm DOJ Press Release on Indictment Added 7 29 08 As DOJ explained quot the case is being investigated by members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force which is located at the F...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3290http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3290 ICE Press Release Added 2 17 08 This ICE document notes that quot on February 8 2005 a U S Immigration Judge ordered that a Jordanian national who served as a key fund raiser for an organization suspected of funneling money to the terrorist group Hamas must leave the United States The judg...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3291http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3291 Affidavit of FBI Special Agent Peter Ashooh Added 11 27 08 In an affidavit filed in federal court in Virginia FBI Special Agent Peter Ashooh who notes that he quot investigate s terrorism matters quot summarized the investigation of Amjad Hamed lawful permanent resident Hamed s brot...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3292http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3292 Indictment Added 10 17 08 A Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation has led to the indictment of quot fourteen members of a criminal enterprise operating out of five St Louis area convenience stores on federal racketeering and multiple related charges quot According to DOJ quot Members ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3293http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3293 Superseding Indictment Added 8 11 10 Prosecutors in Alabama quot unsealed a September 2009 superseding indictment against Omar Hammami 26 a U S citizen and former resident of Daphne Alabama also known as Abu Mansour al Amriki or Farouk The three count indictment alleges that Hammami ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3294http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3294 DHS Brief in Support of Appeal Added 6 5 08 The DHS Brief alleges that Mourad El Hamyani quot attended a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan in or around September 2001 assisted in the planning and execution of an armed robbery on December 14 2001 intended to fund terrorist activities ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3295http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3295 Indictment Added 3 26 08 Federal prosecutors in Michigan indicted Muthanna al Hanooti the long time former public relations coordinator for Life for Relief and Development LRD a charitable organization based in Southfield Michigan as well as the former President of Focus on American and Ar...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3296http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3296 Second Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling Added 12 20 07 The court denied a motion by Haouari to reconsider his case In July 2001 a New York jury convicted Haouari for conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist act for his role in the Millennium bomb plot targeting Los Angeles Internat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3297http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3297 Seattle Police Certification for Determination of Probable Cause Added 7 28 08 As this document explains quot on 7 28 06 at 1603 hours a lone gunman later identified at Naveed Afzal Haq 9 23 1975 entered the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle When Haq entered the building he was armed wi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3298http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3298 Indictment Added 11 9 08 In April 2008 nine individuals were indicted on narcotics trafficking charges in Florida Superseding Indictment Added 11 9 08 In April 2008 Chekri Mahmoud Harb a k a quot Taliban quot and a handful of other individuals were named in a recently unsealed su...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3299http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3299 FBI Statement on Investigation Added 11 10 09 The FBI has released a statement on the Fort Hood investigation asserting that ldquo At this point there is no information to indicate Major Malik Nidal Hasan had any co conspirators or was part of a broader terrorist plot hellip rdquo The FBI co...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3300http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3300 Indictment Added 5 12 10 U S citizens Sabirhan Hasanoff and Wesam El Hanafi were indicted in New York for conspiring to provide material support including computer advice and assistance to Al Qaida According to DOJ quot In February 2008 El Hanafi traveled to Yemen where he met with two m...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3301http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3301 Indictment Added 12 20 07 According to prosecutors quot from January 2004 through May 2006 HASHMI 27 a United States citizen provided material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization namely al Qaeda In connection with these charges HASHMI assisted al Qaeda by providing ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3416http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3416 Superseding Indictment Added 12 20 07 This superseding indictment filed in Brooklyn federal court in March 2006 alleged that Siraj conspired to bomb the Herald Square subway station in Manhattan DOJ Press Release on Siraj Conviction Added 12 20 07 In May 2006 Siraj was convicted of c...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3417http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3417 Complaint Added 7 10 08 Riad Skaff a naturalized U S citizen from Lebanon quot was employed by Sunline Services Sunline a subcontractor for Air France at O rsquo Hare International Terminal 5 from 1999 until his arrest on January 28 2007 Defendant worked as a ground services coordin...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3404http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3404 FBI Press Release on Conviction Added 4 8 08 In January 2006 an Indiana jury convicted Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaabanof six counts including Conspiracy Acting as a Foreign Agent without Notification one violation of the Iraqi Sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3412http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3412 Criminal Information Added 7 28 08 In August 2006 Mohamed Shorbagi was charged with providing material support to Hamas Plea Agreement Added 12 20 07 In October 2006 DOJ announced that Mohamed Shorbagi had pled guilty to providing material support to Hamas According to DOJ quot SHO...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3413http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3413 FBI Seeking Information Added 7 31 08 The FBI is seeking information on Adnan El Shukrijumah who quot speaks English and carries a Guyanese passport but may attempt to enter the United States with a Saudi Canadian or Trinidadian passport quot He is wanted in connection with possible terr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3414http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3414 Indictment 2004 Added 7 29 08 In November 2004 Ruben Shumpert a k a Amir Abdul Muhaimin was indicted in Seattle for dealing in counterfeit U S currency Shumpert Letter to Judge Added 7 29 08 Shumpert wrote a 12 page letter to the judge in his case U S Government Sentencing ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3419http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3419 Testimony of Former INS Commissioner James Ziglar Before the 9 11 Commission on Deportation Added 4 19 08 According to former INS Commissioner James Ziglar quot on June 12 2002 Nabil Soliman was removed to Egypt after apprehension and removal proceedings undertaken by the INS Soliman was su...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3421http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3421 Indictment Added 4 9 08 Taleb Jedi a United States citizen was indicted in Brooklyn New York in September 2006 on federal charges of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization the Mujahedin e Khalq MEK by attending a MEK training camp in Iraq in 1999 Accord...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3422http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3422 Indictment Added 12 20 07 Al Timimi a Virginia imam and the spiritual mentor of the quot paintball jihadis quot was indicted on a number of charges including soliciting others to wage war against the United States and attempting to aid the Taliban DOJ alleged that on September 16 2001 at...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3424http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3424 Indictment Added 5 10 10 Anthony Joseph Tracy a U S citizen and Muslim convert who also used the aliases ldquo Yusuf Tracy rdquo and ldquo Yusuf Noor rdquo was indicted in Virginia for conspiring to induce aliens to enter the U S and making a false statement on a passport application q...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3425http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3425 Indictment In August 2002 a Washington court indicted Ujaama a U S citizen for conspiring to provide material support to Al Qaida According to the indictment quot the purpose of the conspiracy was to offer and provide facilities in the United States of America for training of persons intere...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3426http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3426 Indictment Added 6 08 10 Eight individuals were indicted in New York federal court for conspiring to use Liberia as a staging area for the distribution of more than 100 million of cocaine As DOJ explained quot During the last decade drug trafficking organizations based in South America have...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3427http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3427 DOJ Press Release on Arrest Added 4 19 08 In October 2004 the Department of Justice announced that quot Ahmed Hassan Al Uqaily 33 of Nashville Tennessee was arrested in Nashville after taking possession of two disassembled machine guns and four disassembled hand grenades along with hund...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3435http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3435 Indictment Added 10 5 08 In September 2008 a quot federal grand jury in Miami FL returned a Superseding Indictment charging eight individuals and eight corporations in connection with their participation in conspiracies to export U S manufactured commodities to prohibited entities and to ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3437http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3437 ICE Fact Sheet on Deportation Added 4 19 08 On March 29 2005 Fawaz Yunis who was quot convicted in Washington D C of leading the hijacking of a Jordanian airliner and later blowing it up as it sat on the tarmac quot was deported to Lebanon Yunis who was quot affiliated with the Am...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3438http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3438 Superseding Indictment Added 3 14 08 Federal prosecutors in Florida unsealed an indictment against Dr Muhammad Ishaq Zafar and Dr M Tariq Randhawa on an array of charges including conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business operating an unlicensed money transmitting busi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3429http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3429 Indictment Added 7 23 09 In July 2009 DOJ unsealed charges against Bryant Neal Vinas a k a quot Ibrahim quot quot Bashir al Ameriki quot and quot Ben Yameen al Kanadee quot a Latino American from Long Island New York who traveled to an Al Qaida traning camp in Pakistan and met Al Q...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3430http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3430 Indictment Added 3 15 09 In December 2007 U S authorities arrested Laura Wang Woodford quot a U S citizen who served as the director of Monarch Aviation Pte Ltd Monarch a Singapore company that has imported and exported military and commercial aircraft components for more than 16 yea...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3431http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3431 DOJ Press Release on Indictment Added 3 27 08 In August 2004 federal prosecutors in Minnesota indicted Mohammed Abdullah Warsame for conspiring to provide material support to Al Qaida Affidavit of NYPD Detective Terrence McGhee Added 3 27 08 McGhee an NYPD Detective assigned to the Join...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3432http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3432 Indictment Added 4 14 09 Manhattan District Attorney Robert M Morgenthau announced an 118 count indictment of Li Fang Wei a Chinese citizen quot and his company for charges relating to the misuse of Manhattan banks and the proliferation of illicit missile and nuclear technology to the Govern...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3440http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3440 Indictment Added 7 18 09 Federal prosecutors in Boston unsealed an indictment against Oussama Abdul Ziade and Buford George Peterson quot both former officers of Ptech Inc Ptech a computer software company which was principally located in Quincy Massachusetts with making false stateme...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3441http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3441 Proposed Redacted Affidavit in Support of Application for Search Warrant October 2003 Added 4 23 08 In March 2002 the FBI launched a series of raids on residences businesses and charitable organizations in Northern Virginia In this affidavit Customs Service Special Agent David Kane expl...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3442http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3442 Testimony of Former INS Commissioner James Ziglar Before the 9 11 Commission Added 7 27 08 Former INS Commissioner James Ziglar testified before the 9 11 Commission that quot In early June 2002 the INS received information that a group of Tunisian nationals residing in the Dale City area of S...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3443http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3443 Fact Sheet Department of Justice Anti Terrorism Efforts Since 9 11 Added 7 27 08 According to the Department of Justice quot In a Chicago area investigation in 2003 a court authorized delayed notification search warrant allowed investigators to gain evidence of a plan to ship unmanned aerial...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3354http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3354 Complaint and Affidavit of ICE Special Agent Thomas Carroll Added 2 29 08 ICE Special Agent Thomas Carroll a member of the FBI s Joint Terrorism Task Force submitted this affidavit in support of an application for a criminal complaint charging Islamic Center of Sharon MA imam Muhammad Masood...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3355http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3355 Indictment Added 1 19 10 Federal prosecutors in California charged three men in a conspiracy to ship items from the United States to Iran in violation of U S sanctions imposed on that country and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act IEEPA Jiraiir Avanessian 56 of Glendale Cali...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3356http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3356 Indictment In August 2007 Yousef Samir Megahed and Ahmed Abellatif Sherif Mohamed two University of South Florida USF students were indicted in Florida for transporting explosives materials without permits Mohamed was also charged with distributing information about building and using an exp...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3351http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3351 ICE Press Release on Deportation Added 4 21 08 In January 2007 ICE announced that Saudi citizen Majid Al Massari had been deported to Saudi Arabia According to ICE Al Massari was arrested quot in July 2004 for overstaying his visa while he was living in Seattle and working for the University...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3352http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3352 Indictment Abu Hamza Added 2 27 08 An indictment filed in New York in April 2004 charges Abu Hamza an imam residing in England with quot hostage taking and conspiracy to take hostages in connection with an attack in Yemen in December 1998 that resulted in the death of four hostages The ind...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3269http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3269 Indictment Added 2 17 08 In April 2005 Wesam Delaema an Iraqi born Dutch citizen was indicted in Washington D C on a number of charges including conspiring to murder U S nationals outside the U S DOJ alleges that quot Delaema traveled from the Netherlands to Iraq in October 2003 and met ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3270http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3270 Information Added 12 24 08 In December 2008 Saube Jassim Al Dellemy an Iraqi national living in Maryland pleaded guilty to conspiracy to act as an agent of Iraq According to DOJ Al Dellemy who became a lawful permanent resident of the United States in 2000 came to the United States as a s...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3381http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3381 Indictment Added 4 10 08 In January 2005 a New York jury indicted Bashir Noorzai and charged him with violations of the federal narcotics laws According to the indictment Bashir Noorzai quot led an international heroin trafficking organization the Noorzai Organization responsible for man...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3382http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3382 Indictment Added 6 15 09 Federal prosecutors in New Jersey charged Mahmoud Nusier Paul Michael Kwan and Nancy Gomez all currently residing in the Philippines with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and unauthorized access to computer systems as well as other counts According to DOJ the three...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3383http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3383 Indictment Added 7 28 08 In October 2005 Obeid was indicted in Ohio for making a false statement to the FBI Plea Agreement Added 7 28 08 Obeid pled guilty to making a false statement to the FBI Government Sentencing Memorandum Added 7 28 08 According to this document quot The ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3384http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3384 Indictment Added 11 24 09 On August 20 2009 a federal grand jury returned a five count indictment charging Mahamud Said Omar with terrorism offenses According to the indictment from September 2007 through August 2009 According to DOJ quot Omar who is a Somali citizen but was granted perm...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3385http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3385 Indictment Hassoun In a document filed in a Miami court in January 2004 Palestinian national Adham Amin Hassoun was indicted for being an alien in possession of a firearm Superseding Indictment Hassoun In March 2004 Hassoun was also charged with making a false statement to a federal a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3386http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3386 DOJ Press Release on Indictment Added 12 20 07 In August 2003 a federal grand jury in New York indicted Uzair Paracha a Pakistani national residing in the United States for conspiring to provide material support and resources to Al Qaida Paracha and his father Saifullah conspired with two Al...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3387http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3387 Indictment Added 2 27 08 On April 11 2007 Christopher Paul a k a Abdulmalek Kenyatta a U S citizen was indicted in Columbus Ohio and charged with conspiring to provide material support and resources to terrorists Authorities allege he targeted ldquo European tourist resorts where Amer...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3388http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3388 Indictment Added 1 25 08 Prosecutors alleged that quot the conspiracy involved fraudulent testing for commercial driver rsquo s licenses on the part of the South Central Career Center Truck Driver Training School SCCC in West Plains and Muslim Brothers and Sisters MBS a trucking company th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3389http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3389 Plea Agreement Prouty In November 2007 Nada Nadim Prouty pled guilty in a Michigan court quot to charges of fraudulently obtaining U S citizenship which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about her relative...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3390http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3390 Information Added 5 21 10 Kansas City Mo resident and Moroccan native Khalid Ouazzani pled guilty in federal court to his role in a conspiracy to provide material support to Al Qaida He also pleaded guilty to bank fraud and money laundering Ouazzani a naturalized U S citizen swore an oat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3391http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3391 Information Added 4 9 08 Mohammad Salman Farooq Qureshi was charged in Louisiana in February 2005 for making false statements to the FBI quot regarding the true nature and extent of his involvement with and knowledge of Wadih El Hage his associates and the non governmental organization Help A...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3407http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3407 Complaint Federal agents arrested Islamic convert Derrick Shareef on December 6 2006 when he attempted to procure grenades and handguns during a meeting with an undercover agent He had recorded a martyrdom video in which he stated quot My name is Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef I am 22 years of ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3408http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3408 Indictment Added 4 4 08 New Jersey federal prosecutors indicted Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh for his involvement in the conspiracy to murder Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl According to the indictment quot it was part of the conspiracy that defendant Ahmad Omar Saaed Sheikh posing as Bas...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3409http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3409 ICE Fact Sheet on Deportation Added 4 17 08 According to ICE quot on May 17 2005 ICE officials removed from the United States Hamid Sheikh 41 a native and citizen of Pakistan who was living in the Philadelphia area ICE and FBI agents first identified Sheikh in June 2003 when the Philade...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3410http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3410 Indictment Added 4 9 08 In April 2007 Najib Shemami of Sterling Heights Michigan was indicted for acting as an agent of the Government of Iraq According to DOJ quot the indictment alleges that Shemami traveled from Michigan to Iraq on several occasions and met with officers of the Iraqi Int...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3358http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3358 Complaint Added 9 08 10 Hakimullah Mehsud the self proclaimed emir of the Pakistani Taliban was charged in Washington D C federal court with terrorism conspiracy for his role in the murder of seven American citizens on Dec 30 2009 at a U S military base in Afghanistan According to court f...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3359http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3359 Testimony of Former INS Commissioner James Ziglar Before the 9 11 Commission on Deportation Added 7 28 08 Former INS Commissioner James Ziglar testified before the 9 11 Commission that quot In May 2002 the FBI received information that Tunisian Ahmed Merzouk an employee of All Action Securit...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3360http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3360 Indictment of Brano Milovanovic Added 1 25 08 FBI agents from the Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force JTTF arrested Spokane Washington residents Brano Milovanovic the operator of quot CDL Consulting quot and Saud Grebic in connection with a scheme that helped dozens of mostly Bosn...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3361http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3361 DOJ Press Release on Arrest Added 12 20 07 DOJ reported that quot Mohammed Al Hasan Al Moayad 54 of Sanaa Yemen and Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed 29 also of Yemen were arrested on Jan 10 2003 in Frankfurt Germany based on complaints issued in Brooklyn New York quot According to DOJ ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3362http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3362 Indictment Added 6 11 10 A federal grand jury indicted six individuals one American and five Iranian citizens on charges of conspiring to illegally provide satellite hardware and technology to Iran in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and money laundering The i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3393http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3393 DOJ Press Release on Indictments In September 2007 a grand jury quot indicted 39 individuals and one business on charges arising from money laundering conspiracy to bribe a public official operating unlicensed money transmitting businesses and failing to file currency transaction reports quot...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3394http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3394 Criminal Information Added 4 24 08 In January 2008 Weiss Rasool a Sergeant with the Fairfax County VA Police Department was charged with unauthorized computer access for intentionally accessing the FBI s National Crime Information Center NCIC computer system and obtaining vehicle inf...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3395http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3395 Complaint Added 12 20 07 In this document FBI Special Agent Margaret Cronin details the struggle to subdue failed shoe bomber Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 Indictment Added 12 20 07 Reid was indicted on a number of charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass dest...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3396http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3396 Complaint Added 1 05 08 On December 14 1999 Ahmed Ressam a k a Bennie Antoine Norris was arrested attempting to enter the U S with a trunk full of explosives material He was planning to bomb Los Angeles International Airport Indictment Added 2 27 08 In January 2000 Ressam was in...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3397http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3397 Superseding Indictment Added 12 20 07 In October 2006 federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced the filing of a superseding indictment charging Reynolds with attempting to provide material support to terrorist groups soliciting crimes of violence and possession of hand grenades quot DOJ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3398http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3398 Complaint Added 7 16 09 On June 4 2009 Raed Abdul Rahman Alsaif who was ticketed to travel on US Airways from Tampa to Portland with a stop in Phoenix attempted to pass through Tampa International Airport security with a seven inch knife concealed in one of his carry on bags Security noted...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3399http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3399 Information Paul Rockwood Added 7 22 10 Paul Rockwood a k a Bilal was charged in Alaska with quot knowingly and willfully mak ing false material statements and false material representations to federal agents with respect to planned actions of domestic terrorism quot by denying that he d...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3400http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3400 Indictment Added 2 25 10 Samer Mehdi of Paraguay Khaled Safadi of Miami Ulises Talavera of Miami FL Emilio Jacinto Gonzalez Neira of Paraguay Cedar Distributors Inc Cedar a Miami based freight forwarding company owned by Safadi Transamerica Express of Miami Inc a Miami based freigh...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3401http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3401 DOJ Press Release on Complaint Added 1 21 10 Federal prosecutors in New York indicted Reza Safarha Nick Mohamey and Mohammad Soroush Mahalaty for conspiring to launder money from the United States to Iran According to DOJ quot From 2007 to 2008 SAFARHA MOHAMEY and MAHALATY engaged in the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3402http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3402 Indictment Added 11 24 09 As DOJ announced quot On August 20 2009 a federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment charging Ahmed Ali Omar Khalid Abshir Zakaria Maruf Mohamed Hassan and Mustafa Salat with terrorism related offenses These men were charged in the summer of 20...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3307http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3307 Information Added 9 2 08 In May 2008 Richard David Hupper was charged in the Southern District of Florida with providing material support to Hamas Defendant s Sentencing Memorandum Added 9 2 08 Hupper worked for the International Solidarity Movement and donated 20 000 quot directly t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3308http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3308 Indictment Added 9 24 08 Mohammed Kamel Ibrahim and Sampson Lovelace Boateng were indicted for their role in a conspiracy to smuggle East Africans into the U S through Mexico Plea Agreement Sampson Lovelace Boateng Added 9 24 08 Boateng pled guilty in March 2008 Plea Agreement M...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3309http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3309 ICE Press Release on Indictment Added 2 27 08 In September 2004 Jordanian citizen Atef Hasan Ismail Idais was indicted in Pennsylvania for making false statements on a visa application according to prosecutors quot on July 19 2000 Idais knowingly made a false statement in an application fo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3325http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3325 Indictment Added 1 26 09 In July 2008 federal prosecutors in Florida charged Hassan Saied Keshari Traian Bujduveanu Kesh Air International Corp and Orion Aviation Corp quot for their participation in a conspiracy to export military aircraft parts to Iran The defendants are charged in an e...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3326http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3326 Complaint A complaint filed in a Massachusetts court charged Abdullah Ahmed Khadr with possession of a destructive device in furtherence of a crime of violence while in Afghanistan and Pakistan in October 2004 IndictmentKhadr whose father quot was a trusted associate quot of Usama Bin Lad...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3327http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3327 FBI Terrorism in the United States 1997 Added 7 30 08 In its 1997 annual report the FBI provided the following summary of the thwarted bomb plot quot On July 31 1997 a cooperating witness informed the New York City Police Department NYPD that a recent Palestinian immigrant to the United ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3328http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3328 ICE Fact Sheet on Conviction Added 4 9 08 In September 2004 a New York jury convicted Muhammad Khalil the Imam and director of the Dar Ehya Essunnah mosque in Brooklyn on quot charges of conspiring to submit hundreds of false applications on behalf of illegal aliens from the Middle East expl...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3329http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3329 DOJ Press Release on Guilty Plea Added 6 21 10 Iranian national Omid Khalili pled guilty in Alabama federal court admitting he attempted to illegally export fighter jet or military aircraft parts from the United States to Iran As DOJ explained quot Khalili along with his co conspirator Masu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3330http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3330 Indictment Added 10 24 08 In October 2008 federal prosecutors in New York indicted Haji Juma Khan an Afghan drug trafficker and charged him with quot conspiracy to distribute narcotics with intent to support a terrorist organization quot According to DOJ quot Since at least 1999 Khan le...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3311http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3311 ICE Press Release Added 2 17 08 Ismail was deported in August 2004 this ICE press release states quot Ismail claimed he was merely a Web site designer However documents seized from HLF showed he also had a significant role in fund raising quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3312http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3312 Indictment Added 7 16 09 An indictment against Salah Osman Ahmed of Brooklyn Park MN and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse of Seattle WA has been unsealed charging them with providing material support to terrorists in connection with a sweeping probe examining the disappearance of nearly 20 men who trav...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3313http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3313 DOJ Press Release on Iqbal Indictment Added 2 27 08 In August 2006 Staten Island New York resident Javed Iqbal was charged with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act IEEPA According to DOJ quot through a company called HDTV Ltd located in Brooklyn IQBAL a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3314http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3314 Indictment Added 1 11 08 Jabar was indicted in Arkansas in August 2005 for attempting to provide material support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization the Palestinian Islamic Jihad use of a false social security number making a false statement on a naturalization application and making a fal...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3315http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3315 Information Added 1 17 08 According to this document Canadian Al Qaida member Mohammed Mansour Jabarah attended training camps in Afghanistan swore loyalty to Usama Bin Laden and plotted to bomb the U S Embassies in Singapore and the Philippines Sentencing Memorandum Added 1 20 08 T...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3316http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3316 Superseding Indictment Added 7 26 08 Federal prosecutors in Maryland filed a superseding indictment in January 2008 charging Darrick Michael Jackson with lying on his government employment application for a security guard position at Andrew Air Force Base As DOJ has explained quot a backgrou...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3317http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3317 DOJ Press Release on Arrest Added 5 7 09 In December 2008 Jahedi quot the president of the Alavi Foundation on a charge of obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying documents required to be produced under a grand jury subpoena concerning the Alavi Foundation s relationship with Bank Me...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3318http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3318 Indictment Added 12 14 07 In August 2005 federal prosecutors indicted four California men Kevin James Levar Washington Gregory Patterson and Hammad Samana on an array of charges including conspiracy to levy war against the U S government DOJ alleged that the men planned to attack U ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3319http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3319 ICE Fact Sheet on Guilty Plea Added 4 21 08 According to this ICE fact sheet quot on July 15 2005 Maher Amin Jaradat an Israeli born Palestinian and naturalized U S citizen pleaded guilty in Alexandria Virginia to fraudulently procuring U S citizenship after an ICE led Joint Terrorism T...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3320http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3320 Complaint According to this filing by Timothy Harrington a Detective in the NYPD s Intelligence Division Tariq Javid unlawfully procured citizenship and failed to disclose that he was a member of Sipah e Sahaba a Foreign Terrorist Organization Javid also was observed taking pictures of quot t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3321http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3321 Indictment Added 12 7 08 An investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force in coordination with several other agencies has resulted in the indictment in Fresno CA of Abdel Baset Jawad and three others on bank fraud charges quot stemming from their scheme to defraud Valley First Credit Union...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3322http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3322 Judgment Ahmad Musa Jebril and Musa JebrilThe Jebrils were convicted in November 2004 on an array of charges including bank fraud mail fraud social security fraud money laundering and being felons in possession of firearms three shotguns and ammunition In 1998 the Jebrils had been convic...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3323http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3323 DOJ Press Release on Indictment Added 9 7 08 In June 2007 federal authorities in New York announced the arrest of Monzer Al Kassar a k a quot Abu Munawar quot a k a quot El Taous quot an international arms dealer charged with conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3272http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3272 DOJ Press Release on Convictions Added 2 4 08 In February 2008 Brandywine Maryland residents Mohammad Amin Doudzai and Nadia Naeem were convicted of conspiracy to obstruct and obstruction of proceedings before a United States agency immigration fraud and false statements Doudzai a civilia...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3273http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3273 DOJ Press Release on Convictions I Added 2 17 08 In July 2004 Ghassan Elashi Bayan Elashi Basman Elashi Hazim Elashi Ihsan Elashi and their computer company Infocom were convicted for conspiring to violate the Export Administration Regulations and the Libyan Sanctions Regulations The Elas...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3274http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3274 DOJ Press Release on Indictment In November 2007 federal authorities announced the arrest of twelve people on an array of charges including narcotics trafficking selling counterfeit goods and crimes designed to conceal large sums of cash from authorities According to DOJ the arrests were quo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3275http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3275 Indictment Possession of Fraudulent Immigration Documents According to the indictment quot on or about September 6 2001 in Ramsey County in the State and District of Minnesota Elzahabi did knowingly possess a green card knowing such a document had previously been procured by me...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3276http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3276 Complaint Added11 24 09 As DOJ announced quot On October 9 2009 a criminal complaint was filed charging Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax and Abdiweli Yassin Isse with conspiring to kill kidnap maim or injure persons outside the United States The affidavit filed in support of the complaint states...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3277http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3277 Deportation Notice Added 7 30 08 In October 2002 DHS informed Foad Farahi the Imam at the Shamsuddin Islamic Center in North Miami Beach Florida that he was deportable because he is an Iranian citizen who overstayed his F 1 student visa Order Granting Voluntary Departure Added 7 30 08...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3278http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3278 Indictment Added 7 28 08 In August 2007 Pennsylvania prosecutors indicted Moneer Farhat charging him with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm an Intratec Model AB 10 9 mm semiautomatic pistol and aiding and abetting false statements to a federal firearms licensee during the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3279http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3279 DOJ Press Release on Indictment Added 4 7 09 A federal grand jury in Miami indicted Baktash Fattahi an Iranian national and legal U S resident along with ten others on charges of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act the U S Iran Embargo and the Arms Export...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3280http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3280 Criminal Information Added 2 27 08 On May 1 2003 Iyman Faris a k a Mohammed Rauf a Columbus Ohio truck driver and naturalized U S citizen was indicted for providing material support to Al Qaida DOJ Press Release on Guilty Plea Added 12 20 07 Faris pled guilty in June 2003 On b...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3303http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3303 Plea Agreement Added 8 18 09 A third man has pled guilty in connection with a sweeping probe examining the disappearance of nearly 20 Americans who traveled to Somalia to join Al Shabaab Kamal Said Hassan reportedly returned to the US after linking up with the terrorist group According to his ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3304http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3304 Complaint Added 9 21 10 Sami Samir Hassoun a 22 year old Chicago resident was arrested and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction after placing a backpack which he thought contained an explosive device into a curbside trash receptacle near a crowded North Side street corner...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3305http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3305 Superseding Indictment Conspiracy to Attack Americans Overseas Added 12 20 07 In February 2007 a Cleveland grand jury returned a superseding indictment in the pending case against Mohammad Zaki Amawi Marwan Othman El Hindi and Wassim I Mazloum charging Zubair A Ahmed and his cousin Khale...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3265http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3265 Indictment Added 10 26 08 In July 2006 a quot federal grand jury in Cleveland returned an indictment charging Fayez Damra aka Alex Damra and Fawaz Damra with conspiring to defraud the United States tax evasion and assisting in the preparation and presentation of a materially false tax ret...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3266http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3266 Indictment Added 2 17 08 In December 2003 Ohio imam Fawaz Damra was indicted on naturalization fraud charges According to DOJ Damra concealed from the former INS his membership in and or affiliation with 1 Afghan Refugees Services Inc aka Al Kifah Refugee Center 2 Palestinian Islamic...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3267http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3267 Indictment Added 2 17 08 In February 2007 Bassam Darwishahmad was indicted in Tennessee on a number of charges including making false statements on an immigration document DOJ Press Release on Guilty Plea Added 2 17 08 In April 2007 DOJ announced that quot Bassam Darwishahmad pleade...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3364http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3364 White House Fact Sheet on Designation as Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Added 2 27 08 In June 2005 the White House announced that Afghan drug dealer Baz Mohammad had been named a Foreign Narcotics Kingpin DOJ Press Release on Extradition Added 2 27 08 In October 2005 DOJ quot announced th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3365http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3365 Indictment Added 5 16 08 In December 2006 Khan Mohammed a member of an Afghan Taliban cell was indicted in Washington D C for distributing opium and heroin knowing it would be imported into the U S He hails from the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan Superceding Indictment Added 5 16 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3366http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3366 Indictment Added 2 17 08 In April 2007 New Jersey prosecutors indicted Mazen Mokhtar on two counts of failing to file business tax returns and three counts of filing false personal tax returns quot According to the Indictment Mokhtar was the president and sole shareholder of Mindcraft Inc ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3367http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3367 Indictment Added 9 03 09 Federal prosecutors in Alabama announced that ldquo Jacques Monsieur a Belgian national and resident of France suspected of international arms dealing for decades has been arrested on charges alleging that he conspired to illegally export F 5 fighter jet engines and p...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3368http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3368 Indictment Added 8 11 10 Prosecutors in the Southern District of California quot unsealed an October 2009 indictment against Jehad Serwan Mostafa 28 aka Ahmed Emir Anwar Awar a U S citizen and former resident of San Diego California The indictment alleges that Mostafa conspired to...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3369http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3369 Third Superseding Indictment Added 6 18 09 In March 2008 this third superseding indictment was filed in California against Seyed Mahmood Mousavi charging him with six counts pertaining to tax evasion violations of the economic embargo against Iran and or lying to federal investigators to gai...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3370http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3370 Indictment Added 1 10 08 Moussaoui who attended the University of South Florida with Youssef Megahed and Ahmed Abellatif Sheriff Mohamed was indicted for possessing a firearm despite being the holder of a non immigrant visa Megahed and Mohamed have been indicted in Florida for transporting ex...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3371http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3371 Indictment Moussaoui was indicted in Virginia on a number of charges including conspiring to commit aircraft piracy and conspiring to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries The indictment notes that quot in or about June 2001 in Norman Oklahoma ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI made inqu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3372http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3372 Testimony of Former INS Commissioner James Ziglar Before the 9 11 Commission on Deportation Added 4 18 08 Former INS Commissioner James Ziglar testified before the 9 11 Commission that quot on June 2 2002 Pakistani Nasir Ali Mubarak attempted to purchase a oneway airline ticket to Sacrament...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3373http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3373 Indictment Emadeddin Muntasser and Muhamed Mubayyid were indicted for engaging in a scheme to conceal material facts from the United States and conspiring to defraud the United States Muntasser was also charged with making false statements and Mubayyid was charged with making and filing false ta...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3374http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3374 Indictment Added 4 11 08 According to this indictment filed in June 2001 in Virginia quot the military wing of Saudi Hizballah was headed at all relevant times by Ahmed Al Mughassil aka Abu Omran a native of Qatif in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia In his role as military commande...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3375http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3375 ICE Fact Sheet on Deportation Added 4 17 08 According to ICE quot on May 17 2005 ICE officials in San Francisco removed Khamal Muhammad 23 a native and citizen of Pakistan from the United States to Pakistan ICE agents arrested Muhammad in San Francisco in January 2004 for overstaying the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3376http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3376 FBI Press Release on Arrest Added 6 4 09 The SAC of the FBI s Little Rock office issued a statement noting that quot On June 1 2009 Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammed formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe was arrested by th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3377http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3377 Complaint Added 4 23 09 Somali pirate Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse has been brought to New York after he was captured following the quot April 8 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama container ship in the Indian Ocean and the subsequent taking ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3378http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3378 ICE Press Release on Deportation Added 4 9 08 In August 2004 Sajjad Nasser was deported to Pakistan In December 2003 a Denver jury convicted Nasser who participated in a training camp sponsored by Jaish e Mohammed of possessing counterfeit immigration documents He was sentenced to time ser...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3341http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3341 Indictment Added 2 29 08 Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts indicted Samuel Lewis a k a Shaheed Lewis on a number of charges including making a false statement during a firearm purchase Affidavit of ATF Special Agent Michael Curran Added 2 29 08 According to ATF Special Agent Mich...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3342http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3342 Complaint Added 7 28 08 Criminal Information Added 7 28 08 Indictment Added 12 20 07 Walker Lindh was indicted in Virginia on a number of charges including conspiring to murder U S nationals and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists According to this filing quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3343http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3343 Indictment Added 4 9 08 Mahmoud Maawad a student at the University of Memphis was indicted in January 2006 for wire fraud and fraudulent use of a social security number Superseding Indictment Added 4 9 08 Evidence Seized Added 4 9 08 According to this filing searches of Maawad ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3344http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3344 Indictment Added 3 26 09 In an indictment that was originally filed under seal in the District of Columbia in July 2008 DOJ charged Mac Aviation Group an Irish trading company and quot three of its officers with purchasing helicopter engines and other aircraft components from U S firms and ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3345http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3345 Complaint Added 12 20 07 According to DOJ Maldonado quot traveled from Houston TX to Africa in November 2005 and then on to Somalia in December 2006 to join the Islamic Courts Union ICU and elements of Al Qaeda to fight jihad against the Transitional Federal Government to establish an ind...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3346http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3346 ICE Press Release Added 2 17 08 In February 2006 an Immigration judge in Seattle ordered Sam Malkandi an Iraqi citizen residing in Kirkland Washington removed from the U S The press release notes quot during Malkandi rsquo s immigration hearings ICE attorneys introduced evidence that Mal...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3347http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3347 Complaint Added 2 6 08 According this filing by FBI Special Agent Robert Long Malki made multiple false statements on his naturalization form and his SF 86 security clearance form including lying about his name his birth date and his place of birth Long writes quot the defendant was born ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3348http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3348 ICE Fact Sheet on Deportation Added 4 9 08 According to this ICE fact sheet quot on January 23 2004 ICE officials removed a 36 year old former Boston cabdriver Nabil Al Marabh to Syria after a federal immigration judge ruled that Al Marabh posed a threat to U S national security and was a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3349http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3349 Indictment False Statements Added 5 1 09 In May 2003 al Marri was charged in Illinois with making false statements to FBI agents during the investigation of the 9 11 attacks He was also charged with making false statements to banks in Macomb Illinois identity fraud and access device credi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3332http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3332 Complaint Added 3 17 09 In March 2009 Iranian citizen Hossein Ali Khoshnevisrad and his Tehran business Ariasa AG Ariasa were quot charged with purchasing helicopter engines and advanced aerial cameras for fighter bombers from U S firms and illegally exporting them to Iran using companie...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3333http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3333 Complaint Added 3 22 09 Jimmy Lee King was charged in Seattle with being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute According to open source reporting King was an associate of Ruben Shumpert Shumpert a k a Amir Abdul Muhaimeen was allegedly und...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3334http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3334 Indictment Insurance Fraud Added 12 20 07 In December 2004 Karim Koubriti and Ahmed Hannan were indicted in Michigan on insurance fraud charges stemming from injuries purportedly suffered in an auto accident In June 2003 Koubriti was convicted on terrorism and fraud charges while Hannan was...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3335http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3335 Indictment Added 11 28 09 In November 2009 federal prosecutors in Philadelphia unsealed a 33 count indictment charging Sadek Mohamad Koumaiha Mohamad Kassem Sibai Hassan Mahmoud Koumaiha Ali Ibrahim El Sayed Abdallah Mohamad Majed Bilal Hussein Hamden a k a ldquo Billy rdquo Shady Anis...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3336http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3336 Superseding Indictment Added 7 28 08 In March 2005 Mahmoud Youssef Kourani was indicted in Michigan for providing material support to Hezbollah DOJ Press Release on Guilty Plea Added 7 28 08 In announcing Kourani s guilty plea DOJ stated quot The information presented to the court at...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3337http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3337 DOJ Press Release on Guilty Pleas Added 9 29 09 Aviation Services International B V quot ASI quot an aircraft parts supply company in the Netherlands Robert Kraaipoel a citizen of the Netherlands and the director of ASI and Robert Neils Kraaipoel a citizen of the Netherlands the sale...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3338http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3338 Affidavit of LAPD Officer Daweon Kim Added 8 28 09 Shamsha Laiwalla a 44 year old Pakistan native has pled guilty to identity theft charges in connection with an LAPD FBI investigation that according to The LA Times probed quot an extensive fraud ring involving several DMV employees she reg...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3339http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=51#D3339 Complaint Added 7 28 08 In August 2003 Hemant Lakhani a British arms dealer was arrested quot on charges that he tried to complete the sale of a shoulder fired missile with the understanding that it was going to be used to shoot down an American commercial airliner quot As DOJ explained ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2662http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2662 Opinion Responding to a motion by the ACLU seeking documents pertaining to the NSA s warrantless wiretapping program the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance FISA Court publicly released its third opinion in history In denying the ACLU s motion the court ruled that quot the identification of ta...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2663http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2663 Complaint Added 11 9 08 The Al Haramain Islamic Foundation AHIF filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department seeking ldquo revocation of its designation on the grounds that the designation is not supported by the administrative record and that the designation and review process violated it...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2664http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2664 Complaint Added 9 14 09 Detained as a material witness for 15 days in the Sami Omar al Hussayen case U S citizen Abdullah al Kidd sued an array of U S government officials According to the complaint he ldquo was held in 24 hour lockdown in maximum security facilities transported between t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2665http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2665 Complaint Added 1 13 08 This filing alleges that quot by serving as the ultimate paymaster to the families and charitable committees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip operated on behalf of Hamas PIJ AAMB and PFLP the Arab Bank facilitated the increase in terrorist operations carried out by th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2666http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2666 First Amended Complaint Added 1 12 08 The parents of David Boim a 17 year old American shot and killed by Hamas terrorists while waiting at a West Bank bus stop sued a number of alleged Hamas front groups in the U S alleging that they quot solicited financed and provided material support ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2667http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2667 Complaint Added 1 12 08 On September 4 1997 U S citizen Yael Botvin was killed in a Hamas suicide bombing at Jerusalem rsquo s Ben Yehudah Mall The complaint notes that quot on September 10 2003 this Court entered judgment against Defendants Iran MOIS IRG and the senior official Defenda...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2668http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2668 Supreme Court Decision Added 6 12 08 The Supreme Court ruled that those held at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in the federal courts The Court wrote quot the laws and Constitution are designed to survive and remain in force in extraordinary times Liberty and security can be re...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2669http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2669 Amended Complaint Added 1 13 08 According to this complaint quot his civil action seeks to hold those responsible for a more subtle and insidious form of terrorism that which attempts to hide behind the facade of legitimacy These entities cloaked in a thin veil of legitimacy were and are t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2670http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2670 Complaint Added 1 13 08 This complaint alleges that the Arab Bank quot a Jordanian bank headquartered in Amman Jordan with a federally licensed and regulated branch office in the state of New York has and is continuing to knowingly provide distribute and administer the distribution of...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2671http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2671 Second Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling Added 1 13 08 Providing background on the case the ruling notes that quot Ehrenfeld is the author of Funding Evil How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It which was published by Bonus Books in 2003 in the United States Mahfouz is a Saudi Arabian...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2672http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2672 Complaint Added 7 6 08 Dr Abdel Moniem Ali El Ganayni a native born Egyptian who became a U S citizen in 1988 and who worked as a physicist at Bettis Laboratory a Pittsburgh facility dedicated to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program sued the Department of Energy DOE and the DOE Secretary...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2673http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2673 Order and Judgment Added 1 13 08 The families received a judgment for over 327 million ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2674http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2674 Order and Judgment Added 1 13 08 The Flatow family received a default judgment for over 225 million ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2675http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2675 Complaint Added 1 12 08 The State Department denied Habib a visa asserting he has quot engaged in terrorist activities quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2676http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2676 Memorandum Opinion Added 1 13 08 Order and Judgment Added 1 13 08 Following the June 1996 Khobar Towers bombing the family members and estates of 17 of the 19 U S servicemen killed in the attack sued among others the Islamic Republic of Iran ldquo Iran rdquo ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2677http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2677 Complaint Added 1 13 08 Following the May 2003 Al Qaida bombing of a Saudi Arabian National Guard compound in Riyadh Vinnell Corporation employees and their families sued Saudi Arabia for failing to provide adequate security at the compound The complaint states quot the security provided and...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2678http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2678 Second Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling Added 1 13 08 The court revived Higazy s suit in part but affirmed other elements of the district court s dismissal ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2679http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2679 Memorandum Opinion Added 1 12 08 In denying the Holy Land Foundation s HLF claim that the Treasury Department s Office of Foreign Asset Control OFAC illegally froze its asset U S District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled in June 2003 quot The seven volume 3130 page administrative record in th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2680http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2680 Opinion Ruling in a case challenging the prohibition on providing quot material support quot to terrorist groups the 9th U S Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that certain terms such as providing quot service quot quot training quot and quot expert advice quot are quot void qu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2681http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2681 Memorandum Opinion Added 1 13 08 The court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a 314 million judgment ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2682http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2682 First Amended Complaint Added 1 22 08 According to the complaint Bruce Tefft a former CIA officer quot hired by the NYPD to act as a counterterrorism advisor quot was responsible for subjecting the plaintiff quot to almost daily virulent anti Muslim and anti Arab harassment in his workpla...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2683http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2683 Complaint Added 1 22 09 Saudi citizen Yassin Abdullah Kadi has sued Henry Paulson Adam Szubin and the U S Treasury Department s Office of Foreign Asset Control challenging his quot wrongful and unconscionable designation quot as a quot Specially Designated Global Terrorist quot in October...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2684http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2684 Complaint Added 7 28 10 In a lawsuit filed in New York federal court 91 American Israeli and Canadian victims of Hezbollah rocket attacks launched during the 2006 war with Israel sued Al Jazeera for 1 2 billion dollars According to the law firm that filed the suit quot Al Jazeera intentiona...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2685http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2685 Complaint Added 2 25 10 In U S federal court eighty five American Israeli and Canadian victims of Hezbollah rocket attacks have sued the Central Bank of Iran ldquo CBI rdquo Bank Saderat Iran of Teheran and Bank Saderat PLC of London for 1 billion in compensatory damages and an unspeci...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2686http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2686 Complaint Added 4 14 09 30 American citizens injured in Hezbollah rsquo s rocket attacks on northern Israel in summer 2006 have sued Hezbollah and North Korea The complaint asserts that North Korea provided material support to Hezbollah by building an ldquo Extensive tunnel system hellip so tha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2687http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2687 First Amended Complaint Added 1 13 08 According to the complaint quot the Republic of Sudan acting through the Defendant the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of the Sudan entered into an arrangement with al Qaeda and Hezbollah under which those organizations received shelter and pro...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2688http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2688 Complaint Added 2 8 09 As this document states quot This lawsuit challenges OFAC rsquo s freeze pending investigation and the threatened designation as violations of the First Fourth and Fifth Amendments and as arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedures Act In addition it...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2689http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2689 Complaint Added 7 15 08 The victims of Hezbollah attacks sued the American Express Bank Ltd and Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL alleging that the two banks quot intentionally and or negligently provided extensive banking services to Hizbollah which caused enabled and facilitated the terrorist ro...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2690http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2690 First Amended Complaint Added 1 13 08 This complaint asserts that quot Arab Bank has substantially assisted HAMAS and the PIJ in the furtherance of a murderous conspiracy to commit multiple acts of international terrorism as defined by 18 U S C sect sect 2331 and 2332 and has committed nume...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2691http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2691 Complaint Added 1 13 08 This complaint alleges that quot Arab Bank has aided and abetted and conspired to commit acts of international terrorism resulting in the killing attempted killing and maiming of scores of American citizens in Israel since September 2000 quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2692http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2692 Complaint Added 6 24 09 In November 2008 an official complaint was filed by four plaintiffs against the Council on American Islamic Relations Action Network CAIR and related co conspirators in D C federal court Former clients of Morris Days a ldquo resident attorney rdquo serving the CAIR...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2693http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2693 Second Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling Added 1 12 08 The court affirmed the constitutionality of the NYPD s searches noting that the quot search program serves a special need and on balance is reasonable quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2694http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2694 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus Added 12 8 08 A lawsuit filed in Washington D C seeks to address the case of U S citizen Naji Hamdan who is currently detained in the U A E As the lawsuit explains quot The FBI intensively surveilled and interrogated Naji Hamdan an American citizen over ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2695http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2695 Complaint Added 11 16 09 Amir Mohamed Meshal a U S citizen and resident of Tinton Falls NJ who was detained for more than four months in Ethiopia has sued the FBI agents involved in his interrogations According to the lawsuit quot On or about January 24 2007 while fleeing Somalia with ot...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2696http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2696 Complaint Added 7 22 09 Freedom Watch filed a 10 trillion class action lawsuit against Iran in Washington D C federal court The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Nasrin Mohammadi of Beverly Hills Calif whose brother Akbar was a student at the University of Tehran and an active leader of the 19...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2697http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2697 Complaint Convicted Africa Embassy bomber Mohamed Rashed Daud Al Owhali sued then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in October 2007 arguing that the Special Administrative Measures SAM governing his incarceration were unconstitutional ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2698http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2698 Third Amended Complaint Added 1 13 08 The plaintiffs sought damages from Sudan and Iran for aiding abetting and conspiring with the Africa Embassy bombers Declaration of Former FBI Special Agent John Cloonan Added 1 13 08 Former FBI Special Agent John Cloonan den...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2699http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2699 Memorandum Opinion Added 2 27 08 Ruling in a lawsuit filed by family members of David Ben Rafael a one time U S citizen who became an Israeli diplomat and was one of 29 victims in the 1992 Hezbollah bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina a judge determined that Iran quot provided materi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2700http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2700 Memorandum Opinion Added 1 13 08 The court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a 2 65 billion dollar judgment Claim Against Alavi Foundation Assets Added 3 03 10 In Sept 2007 family members and representatives of the estates of US service persons killed in the Oc...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2701http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2701 Amended Complaint Added 1 22 08 According to this document quot the bombing of UTA Flight 772 was ordered and carried out by those in the highest levels of the Libyan government including Defendants Qadahfi Senoussi Elazragh Naeli Musbah Shibani and Hammouda in revenge for French suppo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2702http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2702 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Opinion Added 10 4 08 The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a case filed by quot aliens who responded to the Special Call In Registration Program instituted after the terrorist attacks on September 11 2001 and were subsequently placed in deportation ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2703http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2703 Complaint Added 4 24 08 M Akifur Rahman a U S citizen sued Michael Chertoff in June 2005 because quot on four occasions in the last 15 months upon his reentry to the United States agents of the United States Department of Homeland Security unjustifiably detained Mr Rahman and sometimes...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2704http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2704 Complaint Added 1 12 08 On September 19 2006 the U S government informed Tariq Ramadan an Islamic scholar who had been offered a job as a tenured professor at Notre Dame University that it was denying his visa application because he had engaged quot in terrorist activity by providing mater...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2705http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2705 Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Opinion Added 1 12 08 This ruling upheld a court s decision denying Sudan s motion to dismiss Opinion and Order Added 1 12 08 The plaintiffs won a judgment for nearly 8 million ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2706http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2706 Complaint Added 1 12 08 According to this complaint quot defendants PA PLO and Yasser Arafat advocated encouraged solicited facilitated incited for sponsored organized planned and executed acts of violence and terrorism against Jewish civilians in Israel Gaza and the Judea and Sama...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2707http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2707 First Amended Complaint Added 1 12 08 Lawyers for nationally syndicated talk show host Michael Savage explain that quot this lawsuit concerns the infringement of the copyright to the October 29 2007 show wherein a dramatic meaningful and powerful segment of the Savage Nation was and continues...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2708http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2708 Complaint Added 8 29 08 Erich Scherfen a Gulf War combat veteran who converted to Islam and now works as a pilot for a small regional airline has sued the federal government for placing him and his wife on the terrorist watch list According to a press release issued by the ACLU quot Scherfe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2709http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2709 Opinion A federal appeals court affirmed that the Customs and Border Patrol did not violate the rights of individuals who attended the December 2004 Reviving the Islamic Spirit RIS Conference in Toronto and were then subjected to searches and detentions at the U S Canada border The ruling note...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2710http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2710 Complaint Added 7 9 08 In a lawsuit filed in New York Israeli victims of Hezbollah attacks sued a number of Lebanese banks including Fransabank Sal Banque Libanese Pour Le Commerce and the Middle East Africa Bank asserting that quot each defendant intentionally knowingly recklessly or...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2711http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2711 Treasury Department Assessment of Civil Money Penalty Added 1 13 08 According to this document quot during the period from 2001 through 2004 Arab Bank New York cleared funds transfers for originators or beneficiaries that the Office of Foreign Assets Control or the Department of State lat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2712http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2712 Complaint Added 12 21 08 In December 2008 the U S announced quot the filing of a civil Complaint seeking forfeiture of the 40 interest in 650 Fifth Avenue Company the owner of the 36 story office tower at 650 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan New York which is held by Assa Corporation The offic...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2713http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2713 New York County District Attorney rsquo s Office Press Release Added 1 11 09 A 2006 investigation by the N Y County District Attorney s Office quot into the relationship between the Government of Iran and two New York entities the Alavi Foundation and Assa Corporation uncovered evidence quo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2714http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2714 First Amended Complaint Added 1 13 08 Victims of Hamas terror attacks sued National Westminster Bank NatWest which is headquartered in the U K alleging that the bank quot knowingly collected provided and transmitted money and financial services to HAMAS quot The complaint asserts that...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2715http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2715 Complaint Added 1 13 08 The complaint alleges that an array of quot charities banks front organizations and financiers are what allowed the attacks of September 11 2001 to occur Terrorists like Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network do not exist in a vacuum They cannot plan train and...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2716http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2716 Complaint Added 10 4 08 Bilal Abdul Yasin who owns Chinca s Market in Chico California has sued the FBI and the California Alcohol and Beverage Control ABC Board for allegedly conspiring to quot entrap quot him quot into committing a crime quot purchasing cigarettes that were represe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2717http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2717 Complaint Added 5 25 09 Chicago FBI agent Robert G Wright Jr sued the FBI to challenge the Bureau s refusal to allow him to publish a 500 page book quot Fatal Betrayals quot which outlines what he asserts were the FBI s efforts to thwart his investigation of terrorists in the Chicago area ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2718http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2718 Complaint Added 8 24 08 Victims of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorist attacks sued the Bank of China BOC in California Superior Court alleging that quot beginning in July 2003 BOC began to provide extensive banking services to PIJ and Hamas Specifically between 2003 and the dat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2719http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2719 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 7 28 10 The U S Treasury Department announced that it designated Gul Agha Ishakzai the head of the Taliban s financial commission Amir Abdullah former treasurer to seni...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2720http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2720 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 12 4 07 According to Treasury Droukdel the leader of Al Qaida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb AQIM quot reportedly supervised the April 2007 AQIM bombings of the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2721http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2721 Transcript of Press Conference Held by Australian Federal Police Commission AFP Mick Keelty on Haneef Charges On July 14 2007 AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty announced that Dr Mohamed Haneef had been charged with providing support to a terrorist group i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2722http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2722 Australian Federal Police Press Release on Charges On November 17 2005 Australian authorities arrested seventeen individuals in News South Wales and Victoria and charged them with an array of offences including Acts in Preparation of a Terrorist Act and...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2723http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2723 New South Wales Supreme Court Judgment On Motion for Access to Documents Regina v Khazaal 2006 NSWSC 1353 read judgment on NSW Caselaw This October 2006 ruling by the New South Wales Supreme Court dismissed a motion by the Australian government s...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2724http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2724 Australian Federal Police Annual Report 2005 2006 Discussing Conviction In April 2004 Faheem Lodhi a Pakistani born Australian citizen who conspired with Lashkar e Taiba trained terrorist Willie Brigitte was arrested and charged with terrorism offen...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2730http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2730 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Press Release on Arrests Added 9 01 10 In announcing the arrests of two Ottawa residents Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh and Misbahuddin Ahmed and London Ontario resident Khurram Syed Sher the RCMP revealed that quot The individua...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2731http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2731 Reasons for Order and Order In December 2005 Hassan Almrei a Syrian national detained in Canada on a Security Certificate requested to be released from detention A judge ruled quot in balancing the interests of national security and personal liberty ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2732http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2732 Reasons for Judgment In this December 2004 ruling a Canadian court addressed the case of Adil Charkaoui a permanent resident arrested in May 2003 on a Security Certificate The government believes that quot the appellant is a member of the terrorist org...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2733http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2733 Reasons for Order This March 2005 ruling explains why Harkat s Security Certificate is quot reasonable quot Harkat was first detained in December 2002 According to CSIS quot prior to arriving in Canada Mr Harkat engaged in terrorism by supporting t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2734http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2734 Ontario Provincial Province Press Release Added 7 14 10 Ontario Provincial Police OPP have charged Salman An Noor Hossain quot under a seldom used section of the Criminal Code of Canada governing hate crimes quot after quot a five month investigatio...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2735http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2735 Reasons for Order and Order Ikhlef was detained on a security certificate due to his alleged ties to the Armed Islamic Group GIA and Ahmed Ressam The court ruled in this document quot Said Atmani Fatah Kamel Adel Boumezbeur and Ahmed Ressam were all...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2736http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2736 Canada Revenue Agency Press Release IRFAN Suspension Added 4 26 10 The Canada Revenue Agency CRA issued a one year Notice of Suspension to the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy Canada IRFAN Canada for failing to maintain books and ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2737http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2737 Ontario Superior Court of Justice The Ruling on the Application to Stay the Habeas Corpus Proceedings This August 2005 ruling notes that quot Mahmoud Es Sayyid Jaballah is believed by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and the Solicitor General ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2738http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2738 Immigration and Refugee Board Adjudication Division Decision This October 2001 summarizes the case against Kalifa noting quot We then heard from the assistant chief of the anti terrorism section of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service According t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2739http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2739 U S Complaint A complaint filed in a Massachusetts court charged Khadr with possession of a destructive device in furtherence of a crime of violence while in Afghanistan and Pakistan in October 2004 U S Indictment Khadr whose father qu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2740http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2740 Reasons for Order Momin Khawaja a one time contractor at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs was arrested in Ottawa in March 2004 and charged in connection with his role in a British cell that plotted attacks in the U K five of those cell members were convict...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2741http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2741 Reasons for Order and Order In November 2005 a Canadian judge ruled that quot Mr Mahjoub has not satisfied me that his release would not pose a danger to national security or to the safety of any person quot The judge further noted quot Mr Mahjoub ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2742http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2742 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Press Release on Charges In September 2007 Canadian authorities charged Said Namouh who moved to Canada in 2003 after marrying a Quebec resident with conspiring for the purpose of delivering placing discharging or detonat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2743http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2743 Reasons for Judgment and Judgment This January 2007 ruling evaluated the case of Mohammad Ashraf Siddiqui who quot while at college attended meetings of a Mohajir student organization which ultimately became the Mohajir Quomi Movement MQM quot T...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2744http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2744 RCMP Press Release on Arrest Added 4 19 09 Following a joint investigation with U S authorities the RCMP announced the arrest of Toronto resident Mahmoud Yadegari for attempting quot to procure and export items known as pressure transducers This device which is used in the p...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2745http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2745 U S State DepartmentDesignation Added 7 13 10 Caucasus Emirates leader Doku Umarov has been designated by the U S Secretary of State under Presidential Executive Order 13224 According to State quot The emergence of Umarov as the leader of the Chechen insurgency int...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2746http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2746 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 4 21 09 In designating Abdul Haq the overall leader and commander of the Eastern Turkestan Islamic Party ETIP the U S Treasury Department stated that quot Abdul Haq raised funds ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2747http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2747 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 5 29 09 In designating Abd Al Menhem Qubaysi the U S Treasury Department stated that quot Qubaysi is a Cote d Ivoire based Hizballah supporter and is the personal representative of H...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2748http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2748 Crown Prosecution Service Press Release on Charges In July 2007 the Crown Prosecution Service charged Bilal Abdulla with conspiracy to cause explosions due to his involvement in the botched June 2007 London bombing and the follow up attack on Glasgow Airp...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2749http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2749 U S Treasury Department Press Release on Designations Added 10 30 08 In October 2008 the U S Treasury Department designated three U K based members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group LIFG One of the individuals Abdulbasit Abdulrahim quot was one of the mos...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2750http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2750 Metropolitan Police Service Police Press Release on Convictions and Sentencing Added 2 4 08 Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali Ismail Abdurahman Abdul Waxid Sherif Wahbi Mohamed and Muhedin Ali were convicted in a British court of assisting the 7 21 London plo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2751http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2751 Farewell Email from Kafeel Ahmed Added 4 12 08 Prosecutors in England have released the transcript of an email written by Kafeel Ahmed to his brother Sabeel Ahmed shortly before Kafeel crashed his burning Jeep Cherokee into a terminal at Glasgow Airpor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2752http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2752 Greater Manchester Police Press Release on Charges In September 2007 Raingzieb Ahmed was charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 According to the press release quot between 22 April 2004 and 24 August 2006 Ahmed directed the activities of an organisatio...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2753http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2753 Crown Prosecution Service Press Release on Conviction Added 5 22 09 In March 2009 Waheed Ali Sadeer Salim and Mohammed Shakil were acquitted of conspiracy to cause an explosion The Crown Prosecution Service had argued that the quot men conspired together and with ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2754http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2754 Greater Manchester Police Press Release on Conviction In May 2007 a British jury convicted Omar Altimimi of six offences under the Terrorism Act 2000 and two offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 Detective Chief Superintendent Tony Porter head o...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2755http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2755 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Guilty Plea In April 2005 Sajid Badat a British Al Qaida operative was sentenced to 13 years in prison in England after pleading guilty in February 2005 to conspiracy to destroy damage or endanger an aircraf...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2756http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2756 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Charges In August 2004 Dhiren Barot Nadeem Tarmohamed Qaisar Shaffi Mohammed Naveed Bhatti Abdul Aziz Jalil Omar Abdul Rehman Junade Feroze and Zia Ul Haq were charged in England with conspiring to commi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2757http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2757 Charity Commission Report on Al Ikhlas Foundation Added 5 10 10 The Charity Commission the independent regulator of charities in England and Wales published a report on its inquiry into the Al Ikhlas Foundation According to the Charity Commission qu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2758http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2758 Crown Prosecution Service Leicestershire Annual Report 2002 2003 Added 7 30 08 The CPS wrote quot Following the events of 11 September 2001 in New York a police inquiry was conducted into the activities of a group of North Africans living in Leic...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2759http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2759 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Conviction In April 2005 Bourgass was convicted of quot plotting to manufacture homemade poisons and explosives with the intention of causing fear and injury to those who come into contact with them quot Acc...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2760http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2760 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Convictions Added 4 18 08 In April 2008 the Metropolitan Police Service announced that six men have been convicted on a number of terrorism related charges Omar Brooks a k a Abu Izzadeen Simon Keeler Ib...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2761http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2761 Appeals Court Ruling Upholding Conviction In March 2004 the Supreme Court of Judicature Court of Appeal explained its rationale for dismissing the appeal of Abdullah al Faisal who was convicted in 2003 for soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus The c...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2762http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2762 Crown Prosecution Service Press Release on Convictions Added 6 11 08 A jury convicted the wife brother in law and sister in law of failed 7 21 bomber Hussain Osman for quot assisting an offender and failing to give information to the police quot Acc...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2763http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2763 Crown Prosecution Service Press Release on Convictions Added 2 26 08 A British court convicted Mohammed Hamid a k a Osama Bin London of soliciting to murder and providing terrorism training for running terrorist training camps in the British countrysi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2764http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2764 Royal Courts of Justice Ruling Issuing Writ of Habeas Corpus Added 1 30 08 Farid Hilali was arrested in England in September 2003 and has been accused by Spanish officials of having connections to Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas Yarkas conviction in Spain fo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2765http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2765 Metropolitan Police Service Press Conference on Arrests On August 10 2006 a Met Police press release announced that quot a major terrorist plot to allegedly blow up aircraft in mid flight has been disrupted in a joint pre planned intelligence led operat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2766http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2766 Avon and Somerset Police Press Release on Arrest Added 6 17 08 In April 2008 19 year old Muslim convert Andrew Ibrahim was arrested under the Terrorism Act in Comb Paddock Westbury Upon Trym According to the Avon and Somerset Police quot a controlle...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2767http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2767 Transcript of Press Conference with Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner Sir Ian Blair July 22 2005 At this press conference Met Police officials released pictures of the suspects provided details of the events of 7 21 and pleaded for the public s...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2768http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2768 Crown Prosecution Service Press Release on Conviction Added 8 18 08 Sultan Muhammed Hammaad Munshi and Aabid Khan were convicted in England on charges that included possessing an article for a purpose connected with terrorism and making a record of information likely...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2769http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2769 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Sentencing Added 7 29 08 In March 2006 Mohammed Ajmal Khan was sentenced to nine years in prison for buying quot equipment for use in terrorist operations some of which may have been used against Coalition ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2770http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2770 Crown Prosecution Service Press Release on Charges In February 2007 the Crown Prosecution Service announced charges against five individuals who allegedly participated in a plot to kidnap and behead a Muslim member of the British Armed Forces In January ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2771http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2771 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Convictions In April 2007 Omar Khyam Anthony Garcia Waheed Mahmood Jawad Akbar and Salahuddin Amin were convicted on terrorism charges Nabeel Hussain and Shujah Mahmood were found not guilty Deputy Assista...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2772http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2772 Lancashire Police Press Release on Charges Added 9 9 08 Three individuals arrested on August 14th 2008 at Manchester Airport were charged on August 28 with terrorism offences For instance Ishaq Kanmi was charged with among other crimes 1 Soliciting ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2773http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2773 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Conviction In November 2007 Malik was found guilty of possessing documents likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing acts of terrorism The Met Police reports quot Officers searched her room and...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2774http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2774 Metropolitan Police Service Summary of Conviction Added 7 30 08 The Met Police wrote quot In January 2006 Abu Bakr Mansha was convicted and jailed for six years for terrorist targeting His targets were a decorated British soldier and two London busine...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2775http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2775 Crown Prosecution Service Press Release on Conviction In February 2006 Abu Hamza was convicted on an array of charges including six counts of soliciting to murder Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald QC commented quot when we reviewed Abu Hamz...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2776http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2776 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Sentencing In July 2007 Nassari was jailed in England for three and a half years for possession of material that would be useful to terrorists According to the Met Police quot Officers searched Nassari s lug...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2777http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2777 Greater Manchester Police Press Release on Charges Added 11 24 09 Four men Matthew Ronald Newton Munir Ahmed Farooqi Haris Farooqi and Israr Hussain Malik were charged with terror offences following their arrest in England on November 16th Whil...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2778http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2778 Special Immigration Appeals Commission Open Judgment This March 2004 document points out that Abu Qatada quot was convicted in absentia in Jordan for his involvement in terrorist attacks there in March and April 1998 and in relation to a plot to plant bo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2779http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2779 Greater Manchester Police Service Press Release Added 5 3 09 On April 8 2009 quot in an intelligence led operation that required intervention to disrupt activity 12 men were arrested under the Terrorism Act One was subsequently released into the custody of the UK...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2780http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2780 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Sentencing Added 1 24 08 Qureshi a dental assistant who admitted preparing to commit an act of terrorism overseas received a four and a half year prison term The press release states that quot In late 2006...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2781http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2781 Greater Manchester Police Press Release on Guilty Plea and Sentencing According to the prosecutor Rahman was part of a cell in Manchester England that was quot involved in scouting recruiting and encouraging others to join their holy war Their int...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2782http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2782 Metropolitan Police Service Summary of Conviction Added 7 30 08 The Met Police wrote quot In May 2006 Kazi Rahman was jailed for nine years for attempting to buy hi powered weaponry for terrorist purposes He was arrested as he was collecting the weapo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2783http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2783 Crown Prosecution Service Press Release on Umran Javed Conviction In January 2007 Umran Javed was convicted of soliciting to murder and stirring up racial hatred charges stemming from his conduct at a protest over the Danish cartoon controversy ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2784http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2784 Court of Appeal Ruling Added 2 14 08 The U K Court of Appeal ruled that former 9 11 suspect Lofti Raissi who was imprisoned for four and a half months before being released can claim compensation from the British government The court stated quo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2785http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2785 Judgment Added 12 04 07 Raissi the brother of former 9 11 suspect Lofti Raissi won a judgment for still to be determined damages against the Metropolitan Police for wrongful arrest However Lofti Raissi s wife Sonia lost her lawsuit as the judge de...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2786http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2786 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Sentencing In July 2007 Irfan Raja Aitzaz Zafar Usman Malik Awaab Iqbal and Akber Butt were convicted in England for quot possessing large amounts of extremist material to help them prepare for training ca...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2787http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2787 Devon and Cornwall Police Press Release on Charges Added 6 4 08 U K authorities charged Muslim convert Nicky Reilly with a number of offences including one under the Terrorism Act 2006 for his role in an explosion at the Giraffe restaurant in Exeter ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2788http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2788 Greater Manchester Police Press Release on Charges Added 2 8 09 In the first case of its kind a woman in the U K pled guilty to disseminating a terrorist publication in Manchester Crown Court According to police Shella Roma quot was arrested after a man working a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2789http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2789 Crown Prosecution Service Press Release on Conviction In September 2005 a British jury convicted Andrew Rowe of two counts of possession of an article for terrorist purposes Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald QC said quot This was the first ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2790http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2790 Metropolitan Police Service Press Release on Charges In November 2005 Younis Tsouli a twenty three year old Moroccan with U K residency who studied Information Technology at Westminster College of Computing and Waseem Mughal a twenty three year old wh...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2791http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2791 European Union Court of Justice Press Release on Overturning of Asset Freezes Added 9 7 08 Yassin Abdullah Kadi a resident of Saudi Arabia and Al Barakaat International Foundation established in Sweden were designated in 2001 by the U N s Sanctions C...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2792http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2792 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 11 20 08 The U S Treasury Department designated quot Redouane El Habhab a Germany based terrorist financier and facilitator who has provided financial support and o...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2793http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2793 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 12 5 08 The U S Treasury Department designated three members of a German Islamic Jihad Union IJU cell who were arrested in September 2007 for quot preparing terror...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2794http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2794 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 10 19 09 The U S Treasury Department designated German national Bekkay Harrach quot an al Qa ida member believed to be currently located in the Afghanistan Pakistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2795http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2795 Department of Defense Summary of Evidence Added 12 10 07 According to the Department of Defense Aamer currently detained at Guantanamo Bay is quot a known al Qaida facilitator quot quot was identified as a member of the London al Qaida cell quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2796http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2796 Department of Defense Press Release on Charges Added 3 14 08 The Department of Defense DOD announced that Muhammad Rahim al Afghani identified as quot one of Usama bin Ladin rsquo s most trusted facilitators and procurement specialists quot had be...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2797http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2797 Director of National Intelligence Biography Added 2 11 08 This one page document summarizes Ali Abdul Aziz Ali s terrorist career Also known as Ammar al Baluchi Ali Abdul Aziz Ali quot is a member of an extended family of extremists that has spawned...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2798http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2798 Department of Defense Press Release on Charges Added 2 8 08 The Department of Defense announced that Guantanamo Bay detainee Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul will face charges for providing material support for terrorism and for murder among other crim...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2799http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2799 Department of Defense Charge Sheet Added 5 30 08 An Algerian citizen Barhoumi quot attended terrorist training at the Khalden Camp in Afghanistan quot in 1999 Then he quot became an explosives trainer for al Qaeda training members of al Qaeda on e...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2800http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2800 Director of National Intelligence Biography Added 2 11 08 This one page document summarizes Binalshibh s terrorist career in addition to his role as a quot key facilitator quot in 9 11 he quot was a lead operative quot in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed s ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2801http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2801 Director of National Intelligence Biography Added 2 11 08 This one page document summarizes Bin Attash s terrorist career noting he quot is the scion of a prominent terrorist family quot He was involved in the USS Cole bombing and was originally se...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2802http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2802 MI5 Document Attempt to Recruit el Banna Added 12 10 07 Visiting el Banna a k a Abu Anas at his home a MI5 agent and a Met Police Special Branch Detective Sergeant told el Banna that quot if he chose to help us by providing details of all his activi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2803http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2803 Department of Defense Press Release on Charges Added 2 29 08 The Department of Defense announced that charges had been finalized and referred to a military commission in the case of Saudi Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi the brother in law of 9 11 hij...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2804http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2804 Department of Defense Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings Added 12 10 07 According to the Department of Defense Deghayes attended an Al Qaida training camp in Afghanistan traveled to Afghanistan on a fake passport quot had a good rela...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2817http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2817 Department of Defense Charge Sheet Added 5 25 08 In May 2008 the Department of Defense DoD announced that charges had been filed against Sudanese detainee Noor Uthman Muhammed According to DoD Muhammed served as deputy emir of the Khaldan training c...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2818http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2818 Department of Defense Combatant Status Review Tribunal Hearing Transcript ndash Declassified June 2009 Added 6 22 09 On June 15 2009 the CIA released a still highly redacted transcript of Al Nashiri rsquo s combatant status review tribunal hearing A...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2819http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2819 Department of Defense Charge Sheet 2008 Added 5 30 08 Al Qahtani a Saudi citizen traveled to Afghanistan shortly after 9 11 and quot attended an al Qaeda military training camp near Kabul quot At the direction of Muhammed Atef the head of al Qaeda s military c...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2820http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2820 Department of Defense Press Release on Finalized Charges Added 3 5 08 The Department of Defense announced that charges have been finalized against Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi of Sudan who will face a military judgefor providing...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2821http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2821 Department of Defense Summary of Evidence Added 3 11 09 According to open source reporting former GITMO detainee Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul ISN 008 is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir and is a top Taliban operations officer According to the DOD Summary of Evidence ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2822http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2822 Mohamedou Ould Salahi v Obama Memorandum Order Added 4 19 10 A federal court has ordered the release of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Salahi concluding that the evidence did not support the conclusion that quot at the time of his capture Salahi was a pa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2823http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2823 Department of Defense Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings Added 12 10 07 Samuer was granted aslyum in the U K in 2000 after feeling Algeria According to this Department of Defense document he traveled to Afghanistan at the urging of a ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2824http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2824 Department of Defense Charge Sheet 2008 Added 5 30 08 Al Sharbi a Saudi citizen who studied at Embry Riddle University in Arizona traveled to Afghanistan in August 2001 to receive terrorist training He attended the al Farouq camp and met Usama Bin L...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2825http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2825 Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board Added 1 25 09 Saudi citizen Sa id Ali Jabir Al Khathim Al Shihri who was released from GITMO to Saudi Arabia in 2007 has emerged as the deputy leader of Al Qaida in Yemen Al Shihri allegedly played a r...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2827http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2827 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 8 09 10 In announcing quot a set of designations targeting the Government of Iran s support for terrorism and terrorist organizations including Hizballah Hamas Palestinian Islamic Ji...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2828http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2828 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 1 19 09 The U S Treasury Department designated four Al Qaida operatives who were detained in Iran in 2003 and in the process revealed notable information on links between Al Qaida an...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2829http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2829 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 7 14 09 The U S Department of the Treasury announced the targeting of quot Iran based individual Abu Mahdi al Muhandis and Iraq based Shia extremist group Kata ib Hizballah for threat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2830http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2830 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 3 30 10 The U S Treasury Department designated Muthanna Harith al Dari for providing support to Al Qaida in Iraq AQI According to Treasury quot As of August 2008 al Dari intended...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2831http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2831 Judge s Ruling on Charges In November 2005 Boutrab an Algerian arrested near Belfast in April 2003 was convicted on a number of terrorism charges The judge ruled that Boutrab possessed quot discs intended by the authors to be used for terrorist purp...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2832http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2832 Government Press Office Press Release on Arrest On November 1 2003 Israeli security forces detained Jamal Akal a Canadian citizen who had lived in Canada since 1999 On November 24 2004 Akal pled guilty in an Israeli military court to conspiring to co...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2833http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2833 Charge Sheet According to this document Awis who was arrested in April 2002 quot was a senior leader in the Tanzim and Al Aqsa brigades both major terrorist organizations quot Further he quot was responsible for the planning of several terrorist a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2834http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2834 Indictment In this August 2002 filing Israel charged that Barghouti was the head of Fatah Tanzim and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in the Judea and Samaria area Appendix to Indictment This document lists the attacks carried out by Barghout...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2835http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2835 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 3 23 10 The U S Department of the Treasury designated the Islamic National Bank INB of Gaza for being controlled by Hamas and for providing financial services to Hamas...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2836http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2836 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Release on Arrest Added 3 28 08 The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that quot Said Maduhi 42 a Belgian national was arrested on December 29 2003 at the Erez crossing as he tried to enter the Gaza Stri...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2837http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2837 Israeli Justice Ministry Press Release on Request for Arrest Warrant In a 1995 statement announcing plans to file an an arrest warrant for Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook who was detained in New York the Israeli Justice Ministry asserted that Hamas quot...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2838http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2838 IDF Press Release on Arrest Added 3 15 10 The Israeli Defense Force announced that Maher U rsquo dda a Hamas operative quot responsible for the murder of more than 70 Israelis quot has been arrested According to the IDF quot U rsquo dda is one of ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2839http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2839 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Release on Banning Order Added 7 8 08 The Israeli government announced that quot Defense Minister Ehud Barak recently signed an order declaring 36 funds around the world members of the Union of Good organization to be banned asso...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2840http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2840 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 6 18 08 The U S Treasury Department quot designated the Kuwait based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society RIHS for providing financial and material support to al Qaida ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2841http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2841 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 1 7 09 In January 2009 the U S Treasury Department designated the Waad Project a Hezbollah run construction company According to Treasury quot Hizballah has used the Waad Project ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2842http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2842 Punjab Police Interrogation Report Added 12 13 09 According to a Pakistani police report the five Americans from the Washington suburbs who were arrested December 9 ldquo were of the opinion that a Jihad must be waged against the infidels for the atrocities committe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2843http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2843 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 4 19 10 The U S Treasury Department designated Mohammed Mazhar the director of al Akhtar Trust for his fundraising activities and financial and other support for Al Qaida and the Tal...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2844http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2844 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 7 13 09 On July 1 2009 the U S Treasury Department targeted the ldquo support networks of al Qaida and Lashkar e Tayyiba LET in Pakistan by designating four individuals Fazeel A...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2845http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2845 White House Executive Order on Terrorist Financing Added 7 6 08 In September 2001 the White House issued an Executive Order on Terrorist Financing quot blocking property and prohibiting transactions with persons who commit threaten to commit or support terrorism ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2846http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2846 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 5 27 08 In designating four leaders of the Al Qaida linked Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar e Tayyiba LET the U S Treasury Department highlighted LET s role in the I...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2847http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2847 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 6 18 08 In designating seven members of the Rajah Solaiman Movement RSM the U S Treasury Department stated quot RSM has assisted with the terrorist plots of the al Q...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2848http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2848 Letter from FBI Director Robert Mueller to Cabinet Secretary for Justice Kenny MacAskill Added 8 24 09 In a blistering rebuke to Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Justice Kenny MacAskill FBI Director Robert Mueller wrote that his decision to release convict...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2849http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2849 Opinion According to this filing quot in 1998 when the Taliban were largely in control of Afghanistan the appellant joined the Hizbi Islami the Party of Islam which was under the leadership of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Under that leadership the party or f...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2850http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2850 Judge s Sentencing Statement In October 2007 a Scottish judge sentenced Siddique to eight years in prison after he was convicted on terrorism charges Lord Carloway wrote quot The articles which you had in your possession included a large number of file...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2851http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2851 Opinion Zeghadou claimed asylum asserting that quot he fears persecution torture and death from the Algerian state if returned to Algeria because of his active support of Islamists there quot A judge dismissed his petition ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2852http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2852 Ministry of Home Affairs Press Release on Detentions Added 1 24 08 According to a government press release Muhammad Zamri bin Abdullah quot Zamri quot radicalized two individuals quot with his pro armed jihad ideology quot The government statemen...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2853http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2853 Ministry of Home Affairs Press Release on Releases Added 9 17 08 Reflecting a continued commitment to the quot reeducation quot of Islamic extremists a topic examined in detail in the NEFA Special Report quot Terrorists Behind Bars quot the Singap...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2854http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2854 Ministry of Home Affairs Press Release on Escape 1 Added 2 29 08 The government of Singapore has announced the escape from custody of Jemaah Islamiyah member Mas Selamat bin Kastari who allegedly was involved in plotting to hijack a plane and crash it i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2855http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2855 Ministry of Home Affairs Press Release on Detention Added 3 23 08 Singapore s Ministry of Home Affairs announced the arrest of Jemaah Islamiyah operative Rijal Yadri bin Jumari According to Singapore s government quot Rijal was a member of the JI rsqu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2856http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2856 State Department Designation as Foreign Terrorist Organization Added 3 18 08 The State Department announced that it has designated the Somali Islamist group Al Shabaab as a Foreign Terrorist Organization According to State quot Al Shabaab is a violent...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2857http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2857 U S Treasury Department Designation Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 11 20 08 In designating three leaders of the Somali Islamist group Al Shabaab Treasury noted that a quot number of al Shabaab members are affiliated with al Qaida and many of al Shaba...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2858http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2858 U S Treasury Department Designation Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 2 28 08 The Treasury Department designated four individuals for quot facilitating and controlling the flow of money weapons terrorists and other resources through Syria...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2859http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2859 U S Treasury Department Designation Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 5 17 09 The Treasury Department designated Syria based Sa ad Uwayyid Ubayd Mu jil al Shammari a k a Abu Khalaf for acting quot for or on behalf of quot Al Qaida in Iraq AQI quot...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2860http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2860 U S Treasury Department Designation Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 12 7 07 The Treasury Department designated seven individuals with ties to the Iraqi insurgency and the Saddam regime Al Rawi who is Chairman of the Iraqi Wing of the Syri...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2861http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2861 U S Treasury Department Designation Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 1 9 08 The Treasury Department designated four individuals and one entity under Executive Order 13438 quot for threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and the Governme...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2862http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2862 U S Treasury Department Designation Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 6 18 08 The Treasury Department designated Najmiddin Kamolitdinovich Jalolov and Suhayl Fatilloevich Buranov both quot leaders of the Islamic Jihad Union IJU an al Qai...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2863http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2863 U S Treasury Department Designation Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 6 18 08 The Treasury Department quot designated two Venezuela based supporters of Hizballah Ghazi Nasr al Din and Fawzi Kan an along with two travel agencies owned and c...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2864http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2864 State Department Designation Added 5 14 10 The U S Secretary of State has designated Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP leaders Qasim al Rimi and Nayif al Qahtani under E O 13224 As State explained quot Qasim al Rimi is AQAP rsquo s senior mil...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2814http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2814 Director of National Intelligence Biography Added 6 22 09 According to the Director of National Intelligence quot before his 2003 capture Pakistani national Majid Khan was an al Qaida operative with direct connections to the United States In 1996 Kh...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2815http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2815 Statement to the House of Commons on Binyam Mohamed by Binyam Mohamed Added 4 07 10 Foreign Secretary David Miliband made a statement to the House of Commons on February 10th on the Binyam Mohamed case Miliband said ldquo the paragraphs released today...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2726http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2726 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist Added 12 4 07 The U S Treasury Department designatedKhalifa Muhammad Turki al Subaiy Abd al Rahman Muhammad Jaffar Ali and Adil Muhammad Mahmud Abd al Khaliq for providing ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2727http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2727 Indictment Filed in April 2006 this indictment alleges that the cell which was composed of a Swedish citizen a Turkish national and three Bosnians planned ldquo to commit a terrorist act in hellip Bosnia and Herzegovina or some other European country...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2728http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2728 U S Treasury Department Press Release Specially Designated Global Terrorist In July 2006 Treasury named Al Razziq a Canadian and Sudanese citizen a Specially Designated Global Terrorist noting quot Abd Al Razziq has provided administrative and logi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2806http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2806 Department of Defense Transcript of Combatant Status Review Tribunal Hearing Added 1 25 09 In an Al Qaida in Yemen video released in January 2009 al Harbi appeared beside Sa id Ali Jabir Al Khathim Al Shihri identified as deputy leader of the group Both al Harbi an...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2807http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2807 Department of Defense Charge Sheet Added 8 10 08 The Department of Defense charged Salim Hamdan for his role as Usama bin Laden s bodyguard and driver Hamdan was acquitted on a conspiracy charge but convicted for supporting terrorism He was sentenced ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2808http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2808 Department of Defense Charge Sheet Added 6 4 08 The Department of Defense charged Mohammed Hashim for his involvement in a rocket attack on Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2809http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2809 Director of National Intelligence Biography Added 2 11 08 This one page document offers an overview of al Hawsawi s life in addition to serving as a financial facilitator in the 9 11 plot he also had worked in Al Qaida s media center and facilitated o...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2810http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2810 Department of Defense Press Release on Charges Added 2 1 08 DOD announced that charges were referred to a military commission in the case of Mohammed Jawad DOD notes that Jawad quot attempted to commit murder and cause serious bodily injury on or about...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2811http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2811 Interrogation Log Added 2 11 08 This classified log of al Kahtani s interrogations was leaked to the media Department of Defense Summary of Evidence Added 2 11 08 This document notes that al Kahtani swore bayat to Usama Bin Laden and ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2812http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=53#D2812 Department of Defense Press Release on Charges Added 3 12 08 The Department of Defence announced that charges had been sworn against Mohammed Kamin for his alleged involvement in Al Qaida DOD alleges that quot Kamin conducted surveillance on U S military bases pla...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2659http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2659 Complaint Added 2 20 09 In a lawsuit filed in D C federal court 193 plaintiffs sued several U S oil companies including NuCoastal Corporation El Paso Energy Corporation and Bayoil Bahamas alleging that they ldquo provided illegal financial and material support for known terrorists incl...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2660http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=52#D2660 Fourth Amended Complaint Added 1 13 08 The complaint alleges that quot Iran and Sudan aided and abetted conspired with and materially supported the terrorist group that destroyed the two US embassies quot in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 Order Added 1 13 08 A j...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2115http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2115The Department of Justice press release summarizing the initial indictment which was filed on July 27 2004 offers the following overview quot The indictment alleges the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development HLF of Dallas Texas was an organization created by among others def...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2116http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2116On November 24 2008 after seven days of deliberation and six weeks of testimony a jury convicted HLF and five of its leaders on charges of providing material support to Hamas As DOJ stated quot The government presented evidence at trial that as the U S began to scrutinize individuals and ent...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1922http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1922On December 4 2001 the U S Treasury Department shut down HLF The accompanying Treasury Department press release announced that the Holy Land Foundation masquerades as a charity while its primary purpose is to fund Hamas This is not the case of one bad actor stealing from the petty cash drawer...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1923http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1923 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1924http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1924 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1925http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1925This fifty one page Action Memorandum authored by Dale Watson Assistant Director of the FBI s Counterterrorism Division and sent to Richard Newcomb Director of the Treasury Department s Office of Foreign Asset Control lays out HLF s ties to Hamas in rigorous detail According to th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1926http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1926In denying HLF s claim that the Treasury Department s Office of Foreign Asset Control OFAC illegally froze its asset U S District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled in June 2003 The seven volume 3130 page administrative record in this case provides substantial support for OFAC s determination that HL...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1927http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1927In this August 30 2000 letter a State Department official informs HLF President Shukri Abu Baker that continuation of HLF s relationship with the U S Agency for International Development USAID is contrary to the national defense and foreign policy interests of the United States ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1928http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1928In December 2004 a federal magistrate judge found HLF civilly liable in the death of David Boim a 17 year old American shot and killed by Hamas terrorists while waiting at a West Bank bus stop In the 156 million judgment the judge also held liable the Quranic Literacy Institute the Islamic Ass...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1929http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1929This government exhibit maps out HLF s ties to Hamas while this exhibit lays out the connections in a more comprehensive manner ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1930http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1930This slide displays the myriad familial relationships between HLF officials and Hamas leaders overseas including Khalid Mishal and Mousa Abu Marzook HLF s Links to Other Terrorism Investigations On August 16 2007 a Miami jury convicted Adham ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1931http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1931These two slides excerpted from a larger document available here demonstrate the links between the U S and International Muslim Brotherhood and highlight the key personnel at HLF IAP and UASR Also evident is the critical role played by unindicted co conspirator Mousa Abu Marzook the one t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1932http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1932This document discusses the origins of a number of U S organizations including the Muslim Students Association the Muslim Arab Youth Association the Islamic Society of North America IAP UASR and HLF ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1933http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1933In a talk titled Ikhwan in America Zeid al Noman makes a number of significant revelations about the U S Brotherhood s inner workings Al Noman states recruitment used to take place in the following format attending the MSA conferences and choosing active Arab elements and approa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1934http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1934NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah has blogged extensively on this document One key excerpt follows The process of settlement is a Civilization Jihadist Process with all the word means The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1935http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1935According to the bylaws the Palestine Committee is a specialized committee emanating from the Palestine Section which was formed by the executive office of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Levant countries Its scope of work is limited to North America and its contacts include other countries The Co...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1936http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1936 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1937http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1937In addition to providing an organization chart this document also lists those serving on the Central Committee the Shura Council and the Executive Committee of the Muslim Brotherhood s Palestinian Committee ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1938http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1938A phonebook seized in 2004 from the Virginia home of unindicted co conspirator and Palestine Committee member Ismail Elbarrasse lists the names of the U S Muslim Brotherhood s leadership ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1939http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1939 This document lists members of the Brotherhood s Palestine Committee both within the U S and internationally Notable names include those of HLF officials Ghassan Elashi Mohammed El Mezain and Shukri Abu Baker IAP officials Ismail Elbarasse and Yasser Bushnaq and individuals that went on t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1940http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1940In the agenda and meeting minutes from a July 1994 Palestine Committee meeting the author discusses developing the work of the following organizations IAP HLF UASR and the Council on American Islamic Relations CAIR The author also points out the need for trained resources in the media and...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1941http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1941This document was seized in the house of U S Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee member Abdelhaleem Ashqar and provides background on the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas The paper asserts that one goal should be familiarization of and publicizing Hamas while another goal should be improving th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1942http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1942This spreadsheet provides the names of HLF employees their date of hire the years during which they worked for HLF and their salary The U S government s list of unindicted co conspirators indicates that an array of HLF employees were members of the U S Muslim Brotherhood s Palestine Committee ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1943http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1943In 1988 OLF sent 250 175 overseas to K amp A Trading Between 1989 and 1991 K amp A Trading sent Mousa Abu Marzook over 1 000 000 one such transaction is here ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1944http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1944The government has introduced a handful of checks Mousa Abu Marzook wrote to IAP Those donations include checks for 50 50 55 1 000 2 591 3 200 5 000 5 000 5 000 5 000 6 000 7 000 7 500 7 753 10 000 10 000 10 000 10 000 15 000 15 000 15 000 nbsp 15 000 15...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1945http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1945In support of UASR which he co founded Marzook wrote UASR checks for 540 10 000 14 554 14 930 15 000 21 774 26 000 30 000 30 000 34 169 34 424 and 40 000 In total Marzook transferred 286 272 to UASR ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1946http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1946HLF Chairman and IAP co founder Ghassan Elashi also served as Vice President of Infocom a Richardson Texas based computer company Elashi ran the company with his four brothers In July 2004 Ghassan Elashi Bayan Elashi Basman Elashi Hazim Elashi Ihsan Elashi and Infocom were con...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2118http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2118In preparation for the second Holy Land Foundation trial prosecutors filed asecond supplemental trial brief laying out their argument Notably prosecutors again will delve into the expansive Muslim Brotherhood network in the U S quot the defendants through the HLF were engaged in a conspiracy...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2119http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2119 Prosecution Exhibit Map 1 World Map Prosecution Exhibit Map 2 Middle East Prosecution Exhibit Map 3 Israel Palestinian Territories Egypt Jordan Prosecution Exhibit Map 4 Israel Palestinian Territories Jordan ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2120http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2120DOJ writes that IAP quot was designed as a propaganda facility responsible for Intifada festivals involving the defendant HLF pro Hamas publications and the general rallying of support within the American Palestinian community The IAP was the first organization to publish an English version o...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2121http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2121This quot demonstrative quot chart reflects the political military and social quot dawa quot arms of Hamas ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2122http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2122Thisdocument provides a history of key dates for several Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the U S For example according to the document quot In 1981 the Ikhwan founded the Islamic Association for Palestine to serve the cause of Palestine on the political and media fronts quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2123http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2123In a talk titled quot Ikhwan in America quot Zeid al Noman makes a number of significant revelations about the U S Brotherhood s inner workings Al Noman states quot recruitment used to take place in the following format attending the MSA conferences and choosing active Arab elem...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2124http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2124NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah has blogged extensively on this document One key excerpt follows quot The process of settlement is a Civilization Jihadist Process with all the word means The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2125http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2125 According to the bylaws the Palestine Committee is a specialized committee emanating from the Palestine Section which was formed by the executive office of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Levant countries Its scope of work is limited to North America and its contacts include other coun...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2126http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2126 The suggested amendments note that the quot instructions of the International Shura Council and the Office of Guidelines in regards to the Palestinian issues through the Secretariat General dated 8 1 1990 state the following 2 Giving attention to holding conferences relating to...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2127http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2127In the agenda and meeting minutes from a July 1994 Palestine Committee meeting the author discusses developing the quot work of the following organizations quot IAP HLF UASR and the Council on American Islamic Relations CAIR The author also points out quot the need for trained resources i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2128http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2128In addition to providing an organization chart this document also lists those serving on the Central Committee the Shura Council and the Executive Committee of the Muslim Brotherhood s Palestinian Committee ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2129http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2129This document was seized in the house of U S Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee member Abdelhaleem Ashqar and provides phone fax numbers for Palestine Committee members inside and outside America ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2130http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2130 This October 1992 quot special non periodical bulletin quot authored by Hamas and distributed to the Palestine Committee in various countries notes quot that the brothers should work on spreading the contents of the bulletin and the ideas contained in it among the Ikhwans and the co...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2131http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2131 This manual lays out the Brotherhood s plan for an array of different departments committees including quot The Sisters quot quot The Youth quot quot The Dawa quot quot South America quot and quot Security quot This document was seized in a s...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2132http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2132 This document lays out various goals the means of execution a time frame for execution and identifies an execution party as well as a follow up party This document was photographed during a covert search of Abdelhaleem Ashqar s home ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2133http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2133This document was photographed during a covert search of the house of U S Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee member Abdelhaleem Ashqar and provides background on the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas The paper asserts that one goal should be quot familiarization of and publicizing Hamas quot whi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2134http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2134 According to this section of the Annual Report the Palestine Committee contains quot The Islamic Association for Palestine The Occupied Land Fund The United Association for Studies amp Research The Office of Foreign Affairs The Investment Committee The Rehabilitation Committee...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2135http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2135 According to this meeting agenda the Palestine Committee heard updates from IAP OLF the Rehabilitation Committee the Media Company Levant Finance and the quot Palestine branch M Information quot This document was seized in a search of Ismail Elbar...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2136http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2136 This document memorializes the agenda for a meeting of the Palestine Committee s Financial Committee which was held in February 1989 in Washington D C The document discusses the Fund HLF ISNA the Association IAP and the World Muslim League Another ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2137http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2137This December 1988 document summarizes a meeting that was called in an quot attempt to fill in the leadership vacuum which is expected to occur in the upcoming years and to create a second line of leadership to take over the administrative planning executive or technical duties quot The meeti...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2138http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2138 Financial Records 1 Financial Records 2 Financial Records 3 Financial Records 4 Financial Records 5 Financial Records 6 Financial Records 7 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2139http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2139 1992 Form 1040 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2140http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2140In the second trial the defense entered this chart summarizing the transfers between Mousa Abu Marzook and HLF s top officials The below information is drawn from NEFA s HLF Trial 1 library A 10 000 check Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook wrot...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2141http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2141The government introduced asummary page demonstrating the frequent phone contacts between Marzook and the defendants New Jersey Bell Phone Records South Central Bell Phone Records Bell Atlantic Phone Records Bell ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2142http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2142The government introduced asummary page of 757 864 in contributions Mousa Abu Marzook made to IAP Some of the individual checks were also entered into evidence The defense entered into evidence thesefinancial records ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2143http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2143In support of UASR which he co founded Marzook transferred 286 272 to UASR The defense entered into evidence thesefinancial records ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2144http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2144Between 1989 and 1991 K amp A Trading a Saudi company sent Mousa Abu Marzook over 1 000 000 K amp A Trading was headed by Khairy H Al Agha a Saudi Palestine Committee member Al Agha s name is evident on this application to open a bank account as well as on this Marzook financial statement...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2145http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2145U S authorities seized Mousa Abu Marzook s phonebook after detaining him on an Israeli arrest warrant in July 1995 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2146http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2146An internal IAP memo provides additional insight into the organization s genesis quot In the beginning of the eighties the Islamic action for Palestine experienced distinguished leaps At the inside level groups and apparatuses were formed to confront the Zionist enemy At the outside level a ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2147http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2147In this flyer IAP announces that Khalil al Kouka quot one of the deported leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas quot will be a guest at an IAP festival This document was seized in a search of Ismail Elbarasse s home ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2148http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2148 Ila Filastine October 1988 This issue includes Hamas charter and ads for OLF Ila Filastine December 1988 January 1989 This issue includes a statement from Hamas and an ad for OLF Ila Filastine February 1989 This i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2149http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2149Thisflyer published by IAP marks the one year anniversary of Ahmed Yassin s imprisonment and asserts he was tortured by Israel ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2150http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2150In this book titled quot The Jihadist School Izz Al Din Al Qassam quot and published by IAP IAP profiles the man after whom Hamas military wing is named The book notes that he knew that quot jihad is the only path to freedom quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2151http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2151In thisdocument IAP provides ldquo a detailed scheme of our current projects as well as our plans for the near future along with their financial costs rdquo The author of this document is Nihad Awad one of the three incorporators of the Council on American Islamic Rel...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2152http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2152The prosecution entered into evidence the Summer Fall 1996 edition of the Middle East Affairs Journal published by UASR The publication includes an article titled quot Hamas Military Operations Resistance or Terrorism quot as well as a piece titled quot Ahmed Yassin A Leader in Limbo qu...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2153http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2153The prosecution entered 295 pages of North American Islamic Trust NAIT financial records NAIT was named an Unindicted Co Conspirator by DOJ In June 2008 the North American Islamic Trust NAIT and the Islamic Society of North America ISNA challenged Appendix their ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2154http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2154 Mufid Abdulqader Shukri Abu Baker Ghassan Elashi Mohamed El Mezain Abdel Rahman Odeh ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2155http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2155 Articles of Incorporation Occupied Land Fund Application for Certificate of Authority by a Non Profit Corporation Holy Land Foundation New Jersey Department of State Registration Holy Land Foundation Article...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2156http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2156A Palestinian Authority document on Hamas fundraising notes that Hamas collects 10 of its budget from the U S Organizations supporting Hamas include HLF IAP UASR and Mecca Investments Other entities in Europe the Middle East and Africa are also identified ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2157http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2157 OLF s IRS 1023 OLF s Letter 1045 OLF IRS 990 1989 scanned upside down OLF IRS 990 1990 OLF IRS 990 1991 HLF IRS 990 1992 HLF IRS 990 1993 As highlighted below t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2158http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2158 Annual Report 1997 Annual Report 2000 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2159http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2159This slide displays the myriad familial relationships between HLF officials and Hamas leaders overseas including Khalid Mishal and Mousa Abu Marzook ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2160http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2160This slide lays out the phone contacts between HLF offices and Hamas leaders overseas including Khalid Mishal and Abdel Aziz Rantisi ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2161http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2161These minutes document a 1990 Occupied Land Fund board meeting in Los Angeles attended by Mohamed El Mezain Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker A plan for a quot public relation and information program quot were discussed ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2162http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2162These minutes document a 1990 Occupied Land Fund board meeting in Los Angeles attended by Mohamed El Mezain Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker Again a quot media strategy quot was discussed ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2163http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2163These minutes document a 1991 Occupied Land Fund board meeting in Los Angeles attended by Mohamed El Mezain Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker Two transfers of 50 000 involving the Hamas linked Islamic University of Gaza are referenced ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2164http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2164These minutes document a 1991 Occupied Land Fund board meeting in Los Angeles attended by Mohamed El Mezain Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker Possible board members were discussed including Jamal Badawi Nabil Sadoun and Jamal Said ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2165http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2165These minutes document a 1992 Occupied Land Fund board meeting in Los Angeles attended by Mohamed El Mezain Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker Better relations with the Jerusalem office were highlighted as a key action item for 1992 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2166http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2166Shukri Abu Baker authored this document summarizing his July August 1991 trip to the Occupied Territories where he traveled to Jerusalem Bethlehem Gaza Tulkarem Jericho Jenin Nablus and elsewhere He noted that he told the quot officials quot he met with that it was quot necessary that the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2167http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2167This document signed by the head of the Central Committee notes that quot the Fund will commit to paying 25 000 annually to the Central Committee quot This document was seized in a search of Ismail Elbarasse s home ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2168http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2168Thisdocument explains that the Occupied Land Fund changed its name to the Holy Land Foundation quot after a study from the inside and contacts with the outside and upon a request from the inside to change the name and outside consultations quot HLF hoped that this change would quot bring its...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2169http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2169This spreadsheet provides the names of HLF employees their date of hire the years during which they worked for HLF and their salary The U S government s list of unindicted co conspirators indicates that an array of HLF employees were members of the U S Muslim Brotherhood s Palestine Committee ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2170http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2170 The below documents except when noted were entered into evidence in trial 1 Over the course of its existence IAP worked diligently to raise money for HLF A series of documents highlight the IAP HLF relationship One such document known as the quot Ramadan Agreemen...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2171http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2171The U S government s trial brief provides this background on the Oslo Accords quot Although there are varying accounts as to the exact date at which the First Intifada officially ended by most accounts 1993 and the signing of the Oslo Accords signified the end quot As the government notes ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2172http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2172In this September 13 1993 intercepted telephone conversation between Abdelhaleem Ashqar Shukri Abu Baker and Omar Ahmad a k a Omar Yehya the three men discuss the details of the upcoming Philadelphia conference During trial 1 the fulltranscript was entered into evidence A s...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2173http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2173Thischart identifies the individuals attending the conference as well as their affiliations HLF IAP Palestine Committee CAIR etc ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2174http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2174 Surveillance Picture 1 Surveillance Picture 2 Surveillance Picture 3 Surveillance Picture 4 Surveillance Picture 5 Surveillance Picture 6 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2175http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2175 Marriott Bill AMEX Bill ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2176http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2176This document lays out the conference s agenda stating that the seminar s goals are quot determining the strategies policies and frames of Islamic activism for Palestine in North America in the near and far stages in its following aspects Political action and public relations Popular action C...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2177http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2177On this tape Omar Ahmad explains the purpose of the meeting to the attendees saying quot This meeting was called for by the Palestine Committee to study the situation in light of the latest developments on the Palestinian arena its effects and impact on our work here in America quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2178http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2178With the conference in its early stages Shukri Abu Baker makes a telling request asking the attendees quot Please don t mention the name Samah in an explicit manner We agree on saying it as sister Samah the session here is joint workshop between the Holy Land Foundation and the IAP quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2179http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2179During this session Gawad last name unknown highlights widespread ignorance about the Oslo Accords quot How many people have read it the agreement One in every thousand So how do you expect these people to defend the future of the Movement and the Movement s position What is needed th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2180http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2180During this session Abdelhaleem Ashqar tackles the topic of quot the relationship of America to the inside quot Ashqar notes that quot What pushed me to this topic is three consideration and several incidents First of all the incident of Mohamed Salah The first result conc...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2181http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2181On this tape Gawad last name unknown declares that quot America constitutes five fundamental axises for the Movement quot According to Gawad the first axis is quot to remain a secure place for the Movement quot Gawad continues quot Two potentials from the community specia...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2182http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2182In this transcript Abou Basem last name unknown announces that his quot paper has six points which were discussed in the meeting of Al Quds Committee for Human Services quot Abou Basem states quot The first point is that it might be suitable for the charitable organizations work...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2183http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2183During this session Palestine Committee member Muin Shabib tells the group that quot there was a noticeable absence for Islamic organizations in the West Bank and the Gaza Sector whether before the Intifada until now quot He proceeds to describe Hamas presence in ten sectors including educa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2184http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2184On this transcript Shukri Abu Baker and Omar Ahmad discuss the relationship between HLF and IAP Abu Baker says quot some of the brothers greatly exaggerate the relationship between the Islamic Association for Palestine and the Fund and that is because it is not understood the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2185http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2185On this tape Abdel Rahman last name not listed on FBI transcript but note that Abdul Rahman Baraksi was at the meeting tells conference attendees that quot in the coming stage the most important thing we can provide is to support Jihad In Palestine I believe it is the only way if we want to...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2186http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2186An unidentified speaker begins this session by quot talking about the future of the political media and public activism and public relations quot According to this individual quot The main goal we should follow while doing media activism is awareness quot He suggests building quot awaren...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2187http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2187Continuing the debate from the prior session Omar Ahmad disputes Shukri Abu Baker s assertion that the organizations can hide their Islamic character On this tape Ahmad says quot I personally believe that anybody s secret will be revealed right now no matter what names you will use they will ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2188http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2188On this tape Nihad Awad continues his prior presentation stressing the importance of quot keeping up with the internal events and incidents and breaking the Western black out of them quot Discussion then turns to a statement that HLF IAP and ten Islamic organizations issued about...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2189http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2189On this tape debate circles back to whether the Palestine Committee should form a new organization Osama no further information asks quot how is this organization going to be different in its dealing from the Islamic Association for Palestine if it is an Islamic one Do you wa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2190http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2190In this transcript Akram last name not listed on the FBI transcript but HLF and IAP representative Akram Kharoubi attended the meeting suggests quot we should try to publish some articles by representatives of the Islamic Movement in U S papers quot He then warns attendees that quot there ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2191http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2191On this tape an unidentified speaker rejects the assertion that Committee members should temper their language arguing quot If we retreat and didn t insist on our own initial position people won t have someone as a role model Therefore we must remain steadfast on our Islamic position and wor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2192http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2192In this transcript Shukri Abu Baker tells the group that America represents quot a safe place for the Movement quot He later asks the attendees quot Should most of the effort be focused on stabilizing the organizations in America and focusing on the U S front or should focus be on the domesti...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2193http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2193In this transcript Akram last name not listed on the FBI transcript but HLF and IAP representative Akram Kharroubi attended the meeting delivers a presentation on impact of the accord quot on charity work in America quot According to Akram quot the morale of donors will be more...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2194http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2194On this tape Shukri Abu Baker analyzes the best strategy for communicating with Americans about the Oslo Accords saying quot It does not benefit me to show to the American people that I am against the accord because I hate Abou Ammar Yasser Arafat and hate the Palestinian Liberation Organi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2195http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2195Here the conversation again centers around the need quot to have an organization to conduct research or studies about Islamic Palestinian activism in America It would be an organization which conducts research at the World Islamic Movement s level to tell you what to do and how to act tell us...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2196http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2196In this transcript an unidentified speaker continues his review of the international landscape and tells the group quot if you want to move and to work go ahead but without mentioning that we are being supported by Syria or encouraged by Syria I mean just like Hizbollah worked quot Abou Ahma...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2197http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2197On this tape an unidentified speaker rejects the assertion that Committee members should temper their language arguing quot If we retreat and didn t insist on our own initial position people won t have someone as a role model Therefore we must remain steadfast on our Islamic position and wor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2198http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2198 The below information is drawn from NEFA s library of HLF trial 1 documents unless otherwise noted According to a declassified FBI memo quot in early 1994 Abdelhaleem Ashqar s Al Aqsa Educational Fund AAEFI and the HLFRD were in conflict over fund raising issue...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2199http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2199In June 1994 Shukri Abu Baker and Mohamed Anati Exec Dir of HLF Jerusalem signed an agreement identifying HLF Jerusalem as HLF USA s quot sole agency in the West Bank and Israel quot Documents pertaining to HLF Gaza are here and here and here And in this documen...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2200http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2200In June 1997 Shukri Abu Baker wrote a letter to the Associated Press complaining about a three part series titled quot Jihad USA quot Abu Baker stated that quot we at the Holy Land Foundation are outraged to find our name in the middle of an article that is desperately trying to divert attentio...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2201http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2201In December 1997 Shukri Abu Baker Haitham Maghawri and two unidentified individuals were recorded discussing the Israeli closure of HLF s Jerusalem office Planning a media strategy to handle the crisis Abu Baker tells the unidentified male that quot we are going to say quot that quot you hav...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2202http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2202These documents 1 2 trace HLF s transfers to its overseas offices ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2203http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2203In February 1998 HLF received an intercepted fax from the wife of Fawaz Abd al Rahman Hammad who was detained at the time in Israel She requested ldquo A certificate providing that Mr Fawaz Abd al Rahman Hammad was working as an economic consultant for your projects...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2204http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2204Thisdocument summarizes events involving HLF fundraiser Mufid Abdulqader who was a long time member of the Al Sakhra band which frequently performed pro Hamas songs and skits at IAP and HLF events For example at the IAP s Third Intifadah Festival Al Sakhra sang quot You will not cross over my...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2205http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2205HLF s list of overseas speakers contains a litany of individuals the U S government has tied to Hamas in fact FBI Special Agent Robert Miranda testified in court that over three dozen of those speakers were linked to Hamas For example the U S government has identified Mohammed Sia...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2206http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2206A search of HLF s property turned up these records which document financial transfers to the families of martyrs Another document found in an HLF search lists the names of martyrs In July 1993 Shukri Abu Baker wrote ldquo The truth is tha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2207http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2207HLF official Abdel Rahman Odeh personally sponsored the child of Hamas bombmaker Yehya Ayyash following his death DOJ also entered into evidence this letter from Odeh referencing checks which were to be sent to the Ayyash family An article o...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2208http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2208During a May 2001 conference call HLF rsquo s Akram Mishal is asked about possible aid opportunities for ldquo emergency cases rdquo particularly those afflicted by ldquo natural illness rdquo He explains that ldquo under the current circumstances in the Intifada case we give the priority ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2209http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2209A letter addressed to Shukri Abu Baker and seized from Ismail Elbarasse s home establishes the relationship or lack thereof between numerous Zakat Committees and Hamas For example according to the author quot all of quot the Ramallah Zakat Committee is quot ours quot Similarly assessing t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2210http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2210When announcing the HLF indictment then Attorney General John Ashcroft revealed that quot the Islamic Center of Gaza was established by HAMAS leader and founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin and was used by him to coordinate and conduct HAMAS activities quot Aschroft noted that quot between April 1989 an...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2211http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2211In August 2007 the U S Treasury Department named the Al Salah Society a Specially Designated Global Terrorist SDGT According to Treasury quot the Al Salah Society supported Hamas affiliated combatants during the first Intifada and recruited and indoctrinated youth to support Hamas s activitie...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2212http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2212HLF made several transfers to the al Razi hospital which has been linked to Hamas This report on the quot Islamic Hospital quot in Jenin details the affiliations of employees and the board of directors Many are listed as quot Islamist brother quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2213http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2213Between 1992 and 1996 HLF sent the Islamic Society of Gaza 80 750 Thisdocument includes a recommendation from Hamas leader Ahmad Yasin who writes ldquo I certify that the brothers who are in charge of the Islamic Society Jabalia City branch are benevolent people w...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2214http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2214The government of Israel closed the Islamic Relief Agency IRA on March 17 1996 An FBI memo notes quot Based upon the search of the IRA offices on July 27 1995 and November 8 1995 the GOI determined that the IRA transferred funds to among others the families of HAMAS activists who carried...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2215http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2215On May 29 2003 the Treasury Department labeled the Al Aqsa International Foundation a Specially Designated Global Terrorist revealing that quot Al Aqsa is a critical part of Hamas terrorist support infrastructure Through its headquarters in Germany and branch offices in the Netherlands Denmar...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2216http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2216The U S government describes the Islamic Relief Committee as quot part of the HAMAS social infrastructure in Israel and the Palestinian territories quot These internal documents from the Islamic Relief Committee which received funds from HLF state quot You do not know how happy people becom...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2217http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2217OLF wrote a 50 000 check to the Islamic University of Gaza A State Department the memonotes that quot out of the list of eleven current board members 6 are known members of Hamas Ten former members of the Board also held positions in the Palestinian government headed by Hamas tha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2218http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2218According to this Hamas letter quot we have 7 out of 11 quot of the Bethlehem Zakat Committee This slide offers more information on the Committee s affiliation with Hamas and documents HLF s significant financial support for the Committee as well as for the Bethlehem Orphans Society The abov...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2219http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2219The HLF indictment identifies the Jenin Zakat Committee as a quot Hamas controlled organization quot while this FBI memo provides details on the Hamas ties of some of the organization s personnel And as noted above this letter asserts that the Jenin Zakat Committee is quot guaranteed quot M...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2220http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2220The HLF indictment identifies the Nablus Zakat Committee as a quot Hamas controlled organization quot This FBI memo cites a 1997 Israeli government interview with quot Mohammad Anati HAMAS activist and former head of the HLFRD Jerusalem quot in which Anati reported that the Nablus Zakat Commi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2221http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2221According to this letter quot all of quot the Ramallah Zakat Committee belongs to Hamas And an FBI memo citing Israeli information identified a number of Ramallah Zakat Committee associates as quot HAMAS activists quot For example Aqel Suliman Muhammad Rabia the Committee s then Director ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2222http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2222The HLF indictment identifies the Qalqilia Zakat Committee as a quot Hamas controlled organization quot This conclusion echoes that of a letter to Shukri Abu Baker referenced above which concludes that the Qalqilia Zakat Committee quot is ours and it is guaranteed quot And this government sl...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2223http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2223The HLF indictment labels the Tukarem Zakat Committee a quot HAMAS controlled organization quot and this slide provides further details on those ties The above paragraph is drawn from the library of exhibits from trial 1 HLF gave the Tulkarem Zakat Committee 366 58...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2224http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2224 Tulkarem Zakat Committee This chart depicts Bilal Khamis Hosnia Khawaja Amar Badawi Fathi Qarawi Ali Dado and Omar Badir Tulkarem Zakat Committee Bilal Khamis Tulkarem Zakat Committee Hosni Khawaja Tulkarem Zakat Com...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2225http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2225 Nablus Zakat Committee This chart depicts Hamed Bitawi Abderahim Al Hanbali Adly Rifat Yaish and Husni Bourini subcommittee Nablus Zakat Committee Hamed Bitawi Nablus Zakat Committee Abderahim Al Hanbali Nablus Zakat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2226http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2226 Qalqilia Zakat Committee This chart depicts Ibrahim Dawoud and Riad Walwil Qalqilia Zakat Committee Ibrahim Dawoud Qalqilia Zakat Committee Riad Walwil ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2227http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2227 Jenin Zakat Committee Key Leadership This chart depicts Mohammed Fuad Abu Zeid Zeid Zakarneh Ahmed Salatneh Ziyad Abdel Ghani Issa Jamal Abu Al Hija and Ibrahim Jaber Jenin Zakat Committee Mohammed Fuad Abu Zeid Jeni...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2228http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2228 Ramallah Zakat Committee Key Leadership This chart depicts Mahmud Rumhi Omar Hamdan Mahmud Musleh Ahmad Zeid Fadel Hamdan and Husni Abu Awad Ramallah Zakat Committee Mahmud Rumhi Ramallah Zakat Committee Omar Hamdan...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2229http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2229 Islamic Charitable Society of Hebron Key Leadership This chart depicts Abd al Khaliq al Natshe Hashem Natshe Muhamad Eid Misk Adnan Masouwda Adel Jneidi Azzam Salhab Moustafa Shawe Fathi Amru and Hateem Kafeesheh Islamic Charitable Society of Hebron ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2230http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2230 Islamic Science and Culture Society Key Leadership This chart depicts Jamil Hammami Ibrahim Abu Salem Hassan Al Keek and Jamal Tawil Islamic Science and Culture Society Jamil Hammami Islamic Science and Culture Society Ibrahim Abu Sal...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2231http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2231 Bethlehem Orphan Care Society Key Leadership This chart depicts Ghassan Harmas Bethlehem Orphan Care Society Ghassan Harmas Thissummary document was entered into evidence in trial 2 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2232http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2232 Islamic Center of Gaza Islamic Society of Gaza Al Salah Society This chart depicts Ibrahim Al Yazour Khalil Al Kuka Ahmad Bahr Hamad Al Hassanat and Ahmad Al Kurd Ahmed Yasin is depicted at the top of the chart Thissummary docum...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2233http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2233 Islamic Center of Gaza Ibrahim Al Yazouri Islamic Center of Gaza Khalil Al Kuka Thissummary document was entered into evidence in trial 2 as were these communications with HLF And in this document seized in a search of HLF al M...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2234http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2234 Islamic Society of Gaza Ahmad Bahr Islamic Society of Gaza Hamad al Hassanat Thissummary document was entered into evidence in trial 2 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2235http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2235 Moya ed Mahmoud Iyadah Salah Eddin This poster states quot With all pride and glory the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas Tulkarem Governate eulogizes Its righteous son the man of Quran and Creed the heroic al Qassami quot Eddin is identified as quot the executor of...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2236http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2236 Salah Eddin Nour Eddin Darouza According to this poster quot Aboul Nour quot was assassinated with the hand of treachery and betrayal on 7 25 2001 A D On the land of the city of Nablus quot Hashem Al Najjar and Hamed Abu Hijla This is ldquo Hamas postca...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2237http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2237 Orphan Martyrdom Records This document provides details on orphans whose fathers cause of death was quot martyrdom quot Thissummary document was entered into evidence in trial 2 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2238http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2238 Paper on Dealing with the Expected Withdrawal from the Sector ndash May 23 2004 This document states quot The attached is our proposed paper concerning the issue of the possible withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the Movement rsquo s position in that regard rdquo ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2239http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2239 Internal Hamas document This document states that ldquo work is underway to provide money to aspects relating to the martyrs and the detainees hellip rdquo quot Have Mercy on our Martyrs quot This document states quot may God reward you hellip for your J...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2240http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2240The defense entered into evidence a USAID document summarizing the vetting of numerous Palestinian charities Further this memo from an individual working at the U S Embassy in Tel Aviv noted that no derogatory information had been found on the Al Razi Charitable Hospital ldquo Zakat Fund Committ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2241http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2241Evaluating a family s need for assistance this HLFdocument notes the following about the family in question ldquo As for the housing situation of the family it is poor The house needs many repairs and refurbishments which the head of the household will undertake with the sums he received as ai...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2242http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2242Abdel Rahman Odeh wrote to Akram Mishal to inform him about a 55 check ldquo from Baher Hammad for an orphan sponsorship on condition that he is the son of a martyr from the Ramallah region rdquo Odeh adds ldquo please do the necessary as soon as possible and send the orphan rsquo s picture to...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2243http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2243This donor from Vancouver sent HLF 300 and wrote quot I am enclosing with this letter of mine a small money transfer for my Mujahideen brothers in Palestine and I ask God to bless it for them and to help them keep them steadfast and to support them with victory quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2244http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2244A donor from New Jersey wrote Shukri Abu Baker and said quot may God bless you and all the honorable brothers who perform the best of charitable deeds which is supporting the Mujahideen in the occupied lands quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2245http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2245This donor from Vancouver sent OLF 9 873 and said that it was a quot contribution to support the Jihad in Palestine quot He noted that he was the quot person in charge of the Fund in Canada quot and requested media materials ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2246http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2246In this letter Asthma R AlSaieh writes to OLF quot You used to send me publications about Hamas communiqus and about the activities of the Islamic Office then you stopped I presented to some of our brothers in God my colleagues at work the idea of supporting the Uprising by God s grace it ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2247http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2247In an exhibit suggesting that HLF donors were aware of the organization s alleged true mission HLF donor quot Sultan Mahmoud quot wrote in November 1996 quot enclosed is modest contribution sic for our people suffering from Jewish Christian Western crimes In s allah Both will be defeated ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2248http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2248HLF official Shukri Abu Baker published this ode to Hamas titled quot Hayzum Hamas has Arrived quot in IAP s Ila Filastine The ode ends by asserting quot we will not accept any other than Hamas quot An ad for OLF follows the piece ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2249http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2249In this wiretapped conversation between HLF officials Mohamed El Mezain and Abdel Rahman Odeh Odeh calls El Mezain on January 22 1995 to inform him that quot a beautiful operation just took place quot Odeh tells Mezain that a Hamas suicide bombing in Beit Lid killed 18 Israeli soldiers and woun...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2250http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2250A prosecution slide entered into evidence in trial 2 summarizes some of the events below Authorities seized a security manual from Infocom the computer company run by HLF official Ghassan Elashi That manual provided an array of suggestions such as quot agreeing on a c...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2251http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2251In this March 1996 recorded conversation Ghassan Elashi Shukri Abu Baker and Wijdan Abu Baker react to a Jerusalem Post article on IDF raids of the Holy Land Fund office in Jerusalem and the Islamic Relief Committee in Nazareth Shukri Abu Baker then states ldquo the...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2252http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2252In this April 15 1996 wiretapped recorded conversation Shukri Abu Baker and Ghassan Elashi discuss the passage of the 1996 Anti Terrorism Bill by the U S Congress Abu Baker asks quot do you have a version of the Terrorism Bill the new one quot He notes that quot It is gonna ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2253http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2253In December 2004 a federal magistrate judge found HLF civilly liable in the death of David Boim a 17 year old American shot and killed by Hamas terrorists while waiting at a West Bank bus stop In the 156 million judgment the judge also held liable the Quranic Literacy Institute the Islamic Ass...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2254http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2254Shukri Abu Baker sfull deposition in the lawsuit was entered into evidence in the first trial however in the retrial only excerpts were entered ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2255http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2255Mohamed El Mezain s full deposition in the lawsuit was entered into evidence in the first trial however in the retrial only excerpts were entered ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2256http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2256In a sworn declaration filed in a lawsuit filed against John Ashcroft HLF official Shukri Abu Baker wrote quot Neither I nor to my knowledge any of the founders of this charity have had any connection whatever to Hamas or to any terrorist groups or to terrorism I do not believe that suicide b...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2257http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2257In this wiretappedAugust 1 1997 conversation Shukri Abu Baker calls Ghassan Elashi to inform him that three men suspected of ties with Hamas had been arrested for plotting an attack on a Brooklyn subway station Note the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General produced an investigativ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2258http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2258In an August 1995 Op Ed The Dallas Morning News urged that Mousa Abu Marzook be quot deported and permanently barred from the United States quot It adds that the quot FBI has noted in the past that cells of the Hamas organization are known to be operating even in North Texas quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2259http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2259In an April 1 1996 telephone interview recorded by the U S government HLF official Shukri Abu Baker tells a Dallas Morning News reporter quot I can speak for the Holy Land Foundation very comfortably We have never raised sighs money for Hamas We we we have never in any written communic...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2260http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2260In December 1999 Dallas Morning News reporter Steve McGonigle visited HLF s Gaza office setting off a frenzy of concern amongst HLF officials In this intercepted conversation Shukri Abu Baker is livid that McGonigle introduced himself as Abu Baker s friend spitting ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2261http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2261In 1996 HLF officials Shukri Abu Baker and Akram Mishal posed as Infocom employees when applying for Saudi visas In this letter to the Saudi Embassy seized during a search of Infocom Mishal is identified as Infocom s International Sales Manager Abu Baker s visa appli...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2262http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2262This map is intended to show the proximity of the headquarters of HLF and Infocom ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2263http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2263This contract outlines the IT services Infocom will provide HLF ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2264http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2264In this June 2001 recorded conversation between Wijdan Abu Baker Shukri Abu Baker Ramzi Abu Baker and Akram Mishal a potential fundraising trip to Saudi Arabia is discussed Shukri states quot I am not really enthusiastic about traveling quot He continues quot when it has to do with Palest...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2265http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2265In this February 1995 recorded conversation between Mohamed El Mezain and Abdel Rahman Odeh the men discuss structuring transaction to avoid the regulatory scrutiny that comes with depositing over 10 000 Odeh asks ldquo do you normally deposit 10 000 and over in the bank or do you always make i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2266http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2266In this October 1994 recorded conversation between Mohamed El Mezain and Abdelhaleem Ashqar Ashqar reports that ldquo Rabin and his government are shutting down even the charitable organizations hellip rdquo El Mezain replies ldquo They still threaten and making noise and stuff I said lsquo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2267http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2267In this document photographed during a covert search of Abdelhaleem Ashqar s home Ashqar provides Mohamed El Mezain a k a Abu Ibrahim with bank account numbers for the Islamic Complex in Gaza Al Islah Society in Gaza the Islamic University and the Committee of the Islamic Sciences amp Cult...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2268http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2268This Palestine and Lebanon Relief Fund Interpal document provides a list of banks handling the accounts of various Hamas linked organizations such as the Tulkarem Zakat Committee and the Nablus Zakat Committee ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2269http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2269 San Diego Proclamation Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development Day Certificate of Appreciation Governor of Oklahoma Tornado Relief Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Receipt for Tornado Relief American Red Cross of Texas ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2270http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2270 Donation Agreement with Wheelchair Foundation Wheelchairs to Bosnia 2001 Wheelchair Foundation Thank You 2001 Akram Mishal Letter re Wheelchairs Donated to Palestinians Photo 1 Wheelchair Project Photo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2271http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2271 OLF Disbursements 1988 OLF Disbursements 1989 OLF Needy Families Sponsorship Project OLF Needy Families Sponsorship Project 2 Shukri Abu Baker AMEX Statement August 1990 Shukri Abu Bake...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2272http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2272Exhibits capture the mundane nature of much of HLF s work Abdel Rahman Odeh Weekly Report Abdel Rahman Odeh Weekly Reports 2 Abdel Rahman Odeh HLF Service Agreement Code of Ethics Retirement P...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2273http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2273 Bank Account Record 1 Bank Account Record 2 This document includes records of payments to Mousa Abu Marzook Bank Account Record 3 Bank Account Record 4 Bank Account Record 5 Bank Accou...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2274http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2274During a covert search of Abdelhaleem Ashqar s residence authorities photographed hisaddress book This address book excerpt was also entered into evidence as was this excerpt ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2275http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2275This fatwa issued by Akeel Al Nashmi of the University of Kuwait and supported by Yousef al Qaradawi who helped HLF raise funds states quot we believe that the meaning of the In the Path of Allah includes supporting Islamic da wa and making the Word of Allah high prevail This is strongly ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2276http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2276The HLF defense entered into evidence a document showing that Jamal Hamami was frequently invited to speak in the U S by the U S Information Agency and other entities A 1995 fax from the IAP Information Office identified Hamami as a Hamas leader Further he has been named in U S go...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2277http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2277 Photo 1 House Exterior Photo 2 Computer Discs Seized Mushtaha was a member of the U S Muslim Brotherhood s Palestine Committee and an Islamic Association for Palestine board member The individual to whom he sold his Falls Church Vi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2278http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2278This document whose author is not identified details a trip to quot occupied Palestine quot from May 17 June 4 1991 Among other topics the report details quot the situation of the Hamas Movement quot quot the situation of the Dawa a work in the 48 territories quot and quot the gener...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2279http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2279This internal Hamas memorandum titled quot Meeting with the Iranian Administration quot lays out the meeting agenda and provides a ldquo summary of the meetings which took place with the Iranians so far rdquo an assessment of Hamas rsquo relationship with Iran and ldquo useful information...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2280http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2280Shortly after U S officials detained Mousa Abu Marzook on an Israeli arrest warrant in July 1995 Hamas spokesman Ibrahim Ghousbeh sent a fax to Senator Orrin Hatch warning him that quot The continued detention or the handing over of Dr Abu Marzuq to the Israelis will provoke a wave of outrage ag...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2281http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2281In this picture Muslim Brotherhood leader Yousef al Qaradawi is pictured beside Hezbollah s Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas Khaled Mishal ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2282http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2282The HLF defense entered into evidence this Washington Institute PolicyWatch briefing by Matt Levitt who testified as an expert witness for the prosecution According to his biography Levitt is a senior fellow and director of The Washington Institute s Stein Program on Co...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2283http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2283On May 27 2009 U S District Judge Jorge Solis handed down lengthy sentences on the Holy Land Foundation defendants DOJ provides the following summary Shukri Abu Baker 50 of Garland Texas was sentenced to a total of 65 years in prison He was convicted of 10 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2284http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2284This demonstrative 4 slide exhibit addresses the following topics Hamas Charity Committees Identifying Characteristics The Life Cycle of a Typical Hamas Activist Hamas Charity Wing The Early 90 s Ha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2285http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2285Discussing the Islamic Charitable Society Hebron the author of this letter seized in 2004 declares that all of it is ours In 2001 the FBI reported that Muhammad Ayad Muhammad Missaq the organization s director manager was identified by Israeli authorities as a senior HAMAS activist Minutes...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2286http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2286 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2287http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=64#D2287 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2413http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2413 Infocom maintained websites for HLF and IAP According to court records HLF paid Infocom 409 258 80 between 1990 and 2001 Reflecting the incestuous relationship Ghassan Elashi was often the authorizing payee ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2414http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2414 In 1996 HLF officials Shukri Abu Baker and Akram Mishal posed as Infocom employees when applying for Saudi visas Abu Baker s visa application is here while Mishal s is here In this letter to the Saudi Embassy Mishal is identified as Infocom s International Sales Manager ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2415http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2415 As noted above Infocom maintained IAP s website Additionally Ghassan Dahduli identified as a member of the U S Muslim Brotherhood s Palestine Committee has served as an IAP board member and worked at Infocom ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2416http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2416 In 1991 IAP wrote UASR checks for 2 500 2 500 and 5 000 which totaled 10 000 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2417http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2417 As noted above according to DOJ UASR quot was designed for ideological research and development intended to promote a fundamentalist view of the Palestinian issue The UASR was also involved in passing Hamas communiqus to the United States based Muslim Brotherhood community and rela...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2418http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2418 Over the course of its existence IAP worked diligently to raise money for HLF A series of documents highlight the IAP HLF relationship One such document known as the quot Ramadan Agreement quot establishes that quot HLF shall pay the AMS IAP a total of 40 000 U S dollars for...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2419http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2419 DOJ writes that IAP quot was designed as a propaganda facility responsible for Intifada festivals involving the defendant HLF pro Hamas publications and the general rallying of support within the American Palestinian community The IAP was the first organization to publish an Eng...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2420http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2420 Abdullah Azzam appears on the cover of the November December 1989 issue of IAP s Ila Filastine The publication mourns the quot passing of our beloved sheik quot and remembers his quot extreme love for Palestine quot The magazine added quot the Islamic Association for Palestine ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2421http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2421 In April 1992 the Brooklyn office of the Al Kifah Refugee Center wrote IAP a 2 000 check As noted above the U S government considers Al Kifah to quot be the pre cursor organization to al Qaida and the basis for its infrastructure quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2422http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2422 Ahmad Yassin was the founder and leader of Hamas and was killed by Israeli forces in March 2004 The Israeli government notes that Yassin was quot the authorizing and initiating authority for all Hamas terrorist attacks emanating from the West Bank and Gaza Strip quot T...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2423http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2423 An internal IAP memo provides additional insight into the organization s genesis quot In the beginning of the eighties the Islamic action for Palestine experienced distinguished leaps At the inside level groups and apparatuses were formed to confront the Zionist enemy At the out...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2424http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2424 In this book titled quot The Jihadist School Izz Al Din Al Qassam quot and published by IAP IAP profiles the man after whom Hamas military wing is named The book notes that he knew that quot jihad is the only path to freedom quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2425http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2425 In this October 10 1994 report the IAP Information Office provides a quot special report about the Jihadist heroic operation in the midst of the city of West Jerusalem quot that was quot carried out on the fifth anniversary of the Al Aqsa mosque massacre which took the lives of ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2426http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2426 In this flyer IAP announces that Khalil al Kouka quot one of the deported leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas quot will be a guest at an IAP festival This flyer shows that al Kouka appeared along with Ahmad Al Qattan Al Qattan recently delivered a speec...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2427http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2427 At the IAP s Third Intifada Festival the following words were sung quot Khaibar khaibar O Jews The Army of Army of Muhmmad will be back With the Intifada with the Intifada with the Intifada with the Intifada The Intifada is ongoing until the land is free again O son of th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2428http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2428 In this excerpt the unidentified speaker says quot Brothers and sisters on behalf of your brothers who are in charge of the Islamic Association for Palestine in North America Tucson Arizona branch I am happy to welcome you at the start of this blessed evening which is held on t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2429http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2429 Board of Directors IAP website circa 2000 Palestine Committee members Kifah Mustapha Ghassan Dahduli and Hassan Sabri are listed as IAP board members Board of Directors IAP website circa 2001 Palestine Committee members Kifah Mustapha and Fa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2430http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2430 In October 1994 HLF wrote the Council on American Islamic Relations CAIR a 5 000 check shortly after CAIR s founding In 2003 Congressional testimony CAIR official Nihad Awad denied that CAIR received seed money from HLF calling this claim an quot outright lie quot When presen...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2431http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2431 All three CAIR incorporators Omar Ahmad Nihad Awad and Rafeeq Jaber have held senior positions at IAP In a 2000 article Nihad Awad provided this background quot After the Gulf War was over I was offered a job with the Islamic Association for Palestine IAP as t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2432http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2432 A number of one time CAIR officials have also held positions at organizations that allegedly are part of Hamas U S infrastructure For example HLF Board Member Riad Abdelkarim served as an official with CAIR s California branch And CAIR Research Director Mohamed Nimer ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2433http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2433 CAIR has been a vociferous defender of the members of the alleged Hamas network This transcript of an August 1995 intercepted phone call between Shukri Abu Baker and Ghassan Elashi documents CAIR s efforts to support Mousa Abu Marzook during his U S detention see p 12 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2434http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2434 CAIR s response following the March 2004 assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin is noteworthy In a press release CAIR quot condemned the assassination of a wheelchair bound Palestinian Muslim religious leader calling it an act of state terrorism quot The press release descr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2435http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2435 Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad are listed in this document as members of the U S Muslim Brotherhood s Palestine Committee Ahmad and Awad also attended the 1993 meeting of the Palestine Committee in Philadelphia Minutes from a 1994 meeting of the Palestine Committee discuss ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2436http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2436 The U S government s trial brief provides this background on the Oslo Accords quot Although there are varying accounts as to the exact date at which the First Intifada officially ended by most accounts 1993 and the signing of the Oslo Accords signified the end quot As the gove...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2437http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2437 In this undated intercepted telephone conversation between Abdelhaleem Ashqar Shukri Abu Baker and Omar Ahmad a k a Omar Yehya the three men discuss the details of the upcoming Philadelphia conference A significant portion of the conversation is spent talking about ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2438http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2438 This document lays out the conference s agenda stating that the seminar s goals are quot determining the strategies policies and frames of Islamic activism for Palestine in North America in the near and far stages in its following aspects Political action and public relations Pop...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2439http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2439 On this tape Omar Ahmad explains the purpose of the meeting to the attendees saying quot This meeting was called for by the Palestine Committee to study the situation in light of the latest developments on the Palestinian arena its effects and impact on our work here in America ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2440http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2440 With the conference in its early stages Shukri Abu Baker makes a telling request asking the attendees quot Please don t mention the name Samah in an explicit manner We agree on saying it as sister Samah the session here is joint workshop between the Holy Land Foundation and th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2441http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2441 During this session Gawad last name unknown highlights widespread ignorance about the Oslo Accords quot How many people have read it the agreement One in every thousand So how do you expect these people to defend the future of the Movement and the Movement s position Wha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2442http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2442 During this session Abdelhaleem Ashqar tackles the topic of quot the relationship of America to the inside quot Ashqar notes that quot What pushed me to this topic is three consideration and several incidents First of all the incident of Mohamed Salah The firs...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2443http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2443 On this tape Gawad last name unknown declares that quot America constitutes five fundamental axises for the Movement quot According to Gawad the first axis is quot to remain a secure place for the Movement quot Gawad continues quot Two potentials from the comm...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2444http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2444 In this transcript Abou Basem last name unknown announces that his quot paper has six points which were discussed in the meeting of Al Quds Committee for Human Services quot Abou Basem states quot The first point is that it might be suitable for the charitable orga...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2445http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2445 During this session Palestine Committee member Muin Shabib tells the group that quot there was a noticeable absence for Islamic organizations in the West Bank and the Gaza Sector whether before the Intifada until now quot He proceeds to describe Hamas presence in ten sectors i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2446http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2446 On this transcript Shukri Abu Baker and Omar Ahmad discuss the relationship between HLF and IAP Abu Baker says quot some of the brothers greatly exaggerate the relationship between the Islamic Association for Palestine and the Fund and that is because it is not und...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2447http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2447 On this tape Abdel Rahman last name not listed on FBI transcript but note that Abdul Rahman Baraksi was at the meeting tells conference attendees that quot in the coming stage the most important thing we can provide is to support Jihad In Palestine I believe it is the only way...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2448http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2448 An unidentified speaker begins this session by quot talking about the future of the political media and public activism and public relations quot According to this individual quot The main goal we should follow while doing media activism is awareness quot He suggests buildin...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2449http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2449 Continuing the debate from the prior session Omar Ahmad disputes Shukri Abu Baker s assertion that the organizations can hide their Islamic character On this tape Ahmad says quot I personally believe that anybody s secret will be revealed right now no matter what names you will ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2450http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2450 On this tape Nihad Awad continues his prior presentation stressing the importance of quot keeping up with the internal events and incidents and breaking the Western black out of them quot Discussion then turns to a statement that HLF IAP and ten Islamic organization...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2451http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2451 On this tape debate circles back to whether the Palestine Committee should form a new organization Osama no further information asks quot how is this organization going to be different in its dealing from the Islamic Association for Palestine if it is an Islamic ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2452http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2452 In this transcript Akram last name not listed on the FBI transcript but HLF and IAP representative Akram Kharoubi attended the meeting suggests quot we should try to publish some articles by representatives of the Islamic Movement in U S papers quot He then warns attendees tha...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2453http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2453 On this tape an unidentified speaker rejects the assertion that Committee members should temper their language arguing quot If we retreat and didn t insist on our own initial position people won t have someone as a role model Therefore we must remain steadfast on our Islamic po...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2454http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2454 In this transcript Shukri Abu Baker tells the group that America represents quot a safe place for the Movement quot He later asks the attendees quot Should most of the effort be focused on stabilizing the organizations in America and focusing on the U S front or should focus be ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2455http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2455 In this transcript Akram last name not listed on the FBI transcript but HLF and IAP representative Akram Kharroubi attended the meeting delivers a presentation on impact of the accord quot on charity work in America quot According to Akram quot the morale of donor...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2456http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2456 On this tape Shukri Abu Baker analyzes the best strategy for communicating with Americans about the Oslo Accords saying quot It does not benefit me to show to the American people that I am against the accord because I hate Abou Ammar Yasser Arafat and hate the Palestinian Libe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2457http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2457 Here the conversation again centers around the need quot to have an organization to conduct research or studies about Islamic Palestinian activism in America It would be an organization which conducts research at the World Islamic Movement s level to tell you what to do and how t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2458http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2458 In this transcript an unidentified speaker continues his review of the international landscape and tells the group quot if you want to move and to work go ahead but without mentioning that we are being supported by Syria or encouraged by Syria I mean just like Hizbollah worked q...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2459http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2459 According to a declassified FBI memo quot in early 1994 Abdelhaleem Ashqar s Al Aqsa Educational Fund AAEFI and the HLFRD were in conflict over fund raising issues HAMAS Political Bureau head Mousa Abu Marzook designated the HLFRD as the primary fund raising entity in the Unit...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2460http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2460 This slide shows the primary recipients of HLF funds in 1991 and 2001 there is little variance between the years ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2461http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2461 This Israeli government document identifies organizations quot designated as terrorist organization s pursuant to Israel s prevention of terrorism ordinance quot Israel banned HLF on May 6 1997 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2462http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2462 A letter addressed to Shukri Abu Baker and seized from Ismail Elbarasse s home establishes the relationship or lack thereof between numerous Zakat Committees and Hamas For example according to the author quot all of quot the Ramallah Zakat Committee is quot ours quot Similarl...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2463http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2463 The HLF indictment identifies the Qalqilia Zakat Committee as a quot Hamas controlled organization quot This conclusion echoes that of a letter to Shukri Abu Baker referenced above which concludes that the Qalqilia Zakat Committee quot is ours and it is guaranteed quot And this...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2464http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2464 The HLF indictment identifies the Jenin Zakat Committee as a quot Hamas controlled organization quot while this FBI memo provides details on the Hamas ties of some of the organization s personnel And as noted above this letter asserts that the Jenin Zakat Committee is quot guara...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2465http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2465 The HLF indictment identifies the Nablus Zakat Committee as a quot Hamas controlled organization quot This FBI memo cites a 1997 Israeli government interview with quot Mohammad Anati HAMAS activist and former head of the HLFRD Jerusalem quot in which Anati reported that the Nabl...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2466http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2466 HLF Occupied Land Fund donations to Lajnat Sanduk Zukat Tulkarm are evident here The Arab Bank s London branch conducted those transactions ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2467http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2467 According to the above mentioned letter quot all of quot the Ramallah Zakat Committee is quot ours quot And an FBI memo citing Israeli information identified a number of Ramallah Zakat Committee associates as quot HAMAS activists quot For example Aqel Suliman Muhammad Rabia ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2468http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2468 The HLF indictment labels the Tolkarem Zakat Committee a quot HAMAS controlled organization quot and this slide provides further details on those ties Yet again the defense has countered by pointing out that the organization was registered with the Palestinian Authority Additiona...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2469http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2469 According to the above Hamas letter quot we have 7 out of 11 quot of the Bethlehem Zakat Committee This slide offers more information on the Committee s affiliation with Hamas and documents HLF s significant financial support for the Committee as well as for the Bethlehem Orphans ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2470http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2470 This exhibit documents a July 2001 grant for 5 000 from HLF to the Muslim Youth Association Hebron quot for the purpose of organizing a summer camp quot The Israeli government labeled the Muslim Youth Association Hebron a terrorist organization in February 2002 noting that it ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2471http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2471 Discussing the Islamic Charitable Society Hebron the author of this letter seized in 2004 declares that quot all of it is ours quot In 2001 the FBI reported that Muhammad Ayad Muhammad Missaq the organization s director manager was identified by Israeli authorities quot as a se...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2472http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2472 The HLF indictment alleges that the Islamic Science and Culture Committee was quot operated on behalf of or under the control of HAMAS quot Further this Hamas letter claims that quot we have 3 of our people on it quot And this fax with HLF s number on it includes an Associat...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2473http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2473 When announcing the HLF indictment then Attorney General John Ashcroft revealed that quot the Islamic Center of Gaza was established by HAMAS leader and founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin and was used by him to coordinate and conduct HAMAS activities quot Aschroft noted that quot between...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2474http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2474 In this letter Ahmad Mohamed Bahr Secretary General of the Islamic Society of Gaza thanks HLF for its support in quot providing urgent assistance to relief the children of the martyrs the wounded the injured and the needy quot This IAP report identifies Bahr as a Hamas leader ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2475http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2475 The government of Israel closed the Islamic Relief Agency IRA on March 17 1996 An FBI memo notes quot Based upon the search of the IRA offices on July 27 1995 and November 8 1995 the GOI determined that the IRA transferred funds to among others the families of HAMAS activis...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2476http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2476 The U S government describes the Islamic Relief Committee as quot part of the HAMAS social infrastructure in Israel and the Palestinian territories quot These internal documents from the Islamic Relief Committee which received funds from HLF state quot You do not know how happ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2477http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2477 Between 1995 and 2001 HLF sent 392 869 to Fayez Abu Aker whom the U S government identified as a Hamas affiliated money exchanger The individual transactions can be seen here while additional background on Fayaz Abu Aker is here ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2478http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2478 Between 1998 and 2000 HLF sent 512 394 to Falah Herzallah whom the U S government identified as a Hamas affiliated money exchanger The individual transactions can be seen here ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2479http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2479 According to this Hamas letter quot the majority quot of the Patient s Friends Society Hebron belongs to Hamas Collaboration between HLF and the Patient s Friends Society Hebron can be seen here while background on the Patient s Friends Society Hebron is here ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2480http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2480 In August 2007 the U S Treasury Department named the Al Salah Society a Specially Designated Global Terrorist SDGT According to Treasury quot the Al Salah Society supported Hamas affiliated combatants during the first Intifada and recruited and indoctrinated youth to support Ham...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2481http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2481 In August 2003 the U S Treasury Department labeled the Sidon Lebanon based Sanabil Association for Relief and Development a Specially Designated Global Terrorist SDGT According to Treasury Sanabil quot receives large quantities of funds raised by major Hamas affiliated charitie...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2482http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2482 As noted earlier although the UK Charity Commission has refused to act against Interpal the U S Treasury Department designated Interpal a Specially Designated Global Terrorist on August 22 2003 That designation declared quot Reporting indicates that Interpal is the fundraising c...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2483http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2483 On May 29 2003 the Treasury Department labeled the Al Aqsa International Foundation a Specially Designated Global Terrorist revealing that quot Al Aqsa is a critical part of Hamas terrorist support infrastructure Through its headquarters in Germany and branch offices in the Nethe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2484http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2484 The Israeli government banned the World Assembly of Muslim Youth WAMY in 2002 for its ties to Hamas and the U S government has identified the Palestinian branch of WAMY as a member of the quot Hamas international fundraising network quot HLF received this letter fro...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2485http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2485 In this 1999 letter to the Director of HLF the Islamic Society Jibalia Camp thanks HLF for its support noting that the quot assistance is being distributed to those who deserve it from the families of martyrs and the imprisoned quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2486http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2486 This slide highlights the 8 429 293 HLF transferred to its offices in the Palestinian territories As a corollary receipts of transfers from HLF to HLF Gaza for 21 000 45 000 65 458 and 219 126 have been entered into evidence All of the individual transfers are evident here ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2487http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2487 As the HLF indictment explains quot in 1992 the Government of Israel deported over 400 members of HAMAS and other Islamic terrorist organizations to Southern Lebanon in response to a surge in violence by HAMAS militants against Israeli soldiers police and civilians The HLF provid...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2488http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2488 HLF s list of overseas speakers contains a litany of individuals the U S government has tied to Hamas in fact FBI Special Agent Robert Miranda testified in court that over three dozen of those speakers were linked to Hamas For example the U S government has identifie...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2489http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2489 HLF fundraiser Mufid Abdulqader was a long time member of the Al Sakhra band which frequently performed pro Hamas songs and skits at IAP and HLF events For example at the IAP s Third Intifadah Festival Al Sakhra sang quot You will not cross over my blood over my blood You will ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2490http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2490In this scene Abdulqader sings quot Where are you O fleeting Zionist Where are you Where are you hiding behind your tanks and your armored vehicles Where are you faced with the children of stones Where are you O fleeting Zionist Hamas is after you every where Where are you O fleeting Zi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2491http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2491 During a 1990 fundraiser the Al Sakhra band sang quot You will not live in my homeland in my homeland Death to you under the ground and glory to us above the ground quot The crowd continued quot O children of the stones come on and wage a raid Surround them Kill them Wi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2492http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2492 During a fundraiser exact date and location unidentified in the exhibit Mohamed El Mezain said quot two days from now will come upon us the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Muslim Mujahid Scholar Sheik Abdullah Azzam who visited us two years ago and I was with him on the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2493http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2493 During a fundraiser exact date and location unidentified in the exhibit Mohamed El Mezain told the crowd quot may He destine for us martyrdom on the land of Al Aqsa while coming and not retreating and to show the Jews of Palestine especially and their allies a black day like...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2494http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2494 HLF official Shukri Abu Baker published this ode to Hamas titled quot Hayzum Hamas has Arrived quot in IAP s Ila Filastine The ode ends by asserting quot we will not accept any other than Hamas quot An ad for OLF follows the piece ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2495http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2495 In this intercepted October 24 1994 conversation between Mohamed El Mezain and Seif no further information the men excitedly discuss the body count following a suicide bombing On October 19 1994 a Hamas suicide bomber attacked a Tel Aviv bus killing 23 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2496http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2496 In this wiretapped conversation between HLF officials Mohamed El Mezain and Abdel Rahman Odeh Odeh calls El Mezain on January 22 1995 to inform him that quot a beautiful operation just took place quot Odeh tells Mezain that a Hamas suicide bombing in Beit Lid killed 18 Israeli sol...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2497http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2497 In this wiretapped conversation between HLF officials Mohammed El Mezain and Abdel Rahman Odeh Odeh phones El Mezain on January 5 1996 to report that quot they assassinated Yehia Ayyash quot quot the Engineer in Palestine quot El Mezain responds quot May God have mercy and give...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2498http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2498 HLF official Abdel Rahman Odeh personally sponsored the child of Hamas bombmaker Yehya Ayyash following his death Yahya Yahya Ayyash was sponsored by member 240091 identified here as Odeh And this HLF communication notes that the orphan forms for quot the children of Yehia quot ar...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2499http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2499 In this April 15 1996 wiretapped conversation Shukri Abu Baker and Ghassan Elashi discuss the passage of the 1996 Anti Terrorism Bill by the U S Congress Abu Baker asks quot do you have a version of the Terrorism Bill the new one quot He notes that quot It is g...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2500http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2500 In July 1995 U S officials detained Mousa Abu Marzook on an Israeli arrest warrant During an August 24 1995 conversation monitored by U S authorities Shukri Abu Baker said quot he is a political prisoner quot Ghassan Elashi responded quot Yes a political prisoner how can...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2501http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2501 In this October 20 1995 intercepted conversation between Mohamed El Mezain and Mohamed Al Hanooti Al Hanooti says quot regarding collection of donations for this one who is in jail has there been an agreement on something like that or the issue is still not settled I don t know ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2502http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2502 In May 1997 Marzook was deported to Jordan In a wiretapped conversation Mohamed El Mezain s wife notifies El Mezain that quot your brother arrived Jordan and is saying hello to you quot An elated El Mezain replies quot By Almighty God A thousand congratulations quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2503http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2503 Following the botched 1997 Israeli attempt to kill Hamas leader Khalid Mishal in Jordan Shukri Abu Baker told HLF fundraiser Mufid Abdelqader quot I think we should publish an ad We pay for it from here no problem If they publish it in the Jordanian newspaper that the residents ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2504http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2504 In this wiretappedAugust 1 1997 conversation Shukri Abu Baker calls Ghassan Elashi to inform him that three men suspected of ties with Hamas had been arrested for plotting an attack on a Brooklyn subway station Note the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General produced a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2505http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2505 In August 1998 following the Africa Embassy bombings the U S launched cruise missile strikes at Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and al Shifa a Khartoum Sudan pharmaceutical plant that quot intelligence reports said was manufacturing a precursor ingredient for nerve gas wit...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2506http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2506 In this August 31 1999 wiretapped conversation between HLF employee Ayman Ismail and an unidentified male Ismail echoed a CNN report that noted that quot Jordanian security forces raided office sic belonging to leaders of the fundamentalists sic Islamic group Hamas on Monday arr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2507http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2507 According to prosecutors Musa Abu Marzook ordered security for OLF Prosecutors highlighted a 3 218 check Marzook wrote to fellow Ruston Louisiana resident Izzat Mansur and pointed out that Mansur was identified as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood s Palestine Committee ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2508http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2508 Authorities seized a security manual from Infocom the computer company run by HLF official Ghassan Elashi That manual provided an array of suggestions such as quot agreeing on a cover for the reason of the meeting quot quot avoiding having the meetings at the homes of those who a...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2509http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2509 This government slide summarizes the instances in which Shukri Abu Baker said quot Samah quot Hamas spelled backwards as a code word for Hamas In a sworn declaration filed in the Boim civil lawsuit Abu Baker denied that there was anything sinister behind 1993 Philade...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2510http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2510 In this letter Asthma R AlSaieh writes to OLF quot You used to send me publications about Hamas communiqus and about the activities of the Islamic Office then you stopped I presented to some of our brothers in God my colleagues at work the idea of supporting the Uprising by G...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2511http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2511 In an exhibit suggesting that HLF donors were aware of the organization s alleged true mission HLF donor quot Sultan Mahmoud quot wrote in November 1996 quot enclosed is modest contribution sic for our people suffering from Jewish Christian Western crimes In s allah Both wil...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2512http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2512 This donor from Vancouver sent HLF 300 and wrote quot I am enclosing with this letter of mine a small money transfer for my Mujahideen brothers in Palestine and I ask God to bless it for them and to help them keep them steadfast and to support them with victory quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2513http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2513 This 910 donation from the Markaz Ul Islam Congregation of Fort McMurray Alberta Canada was sent to OLF quot for our brothers in Palestine quot The letter continues quot this is a gesture of our support to liberate the holy lands We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta ala to strengthe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2514http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2514 This donor from Vancouver sent OLF 9 873 and said that it was a quot contribution to support the Jihad in Palestine quot He noted that he was the quot person in charge of the Fund in Canada quot and requested media materials ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2515http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2515 This donor from New Jersey wrote Shukri Abu Baker and said quot may God bless you and all the honorable brothers who perform the best of charitable deeds which is supporting the Mujahideen in the occupied lands quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2516http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2516 This exhibit translates the memo notes from a number of checks written to OLF by individual donors Memo notes include quot The Mujahideen of Palestine quot and quot Charity for Palestine The Intifada quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2517http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2517 In this transcript of a wiretapped phone conversation a potential donor asks an HLF employee quot do you sponsor families who men go on Jihad quot The HLF employee responded quot Uh no I am not sure I do not know exactly what you mean by on on Jihad but Uh we receive applica...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2518http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2518 This 1998 letter to HLF written by Fawaz Abd al Rahman Hammad s wife notes that Hammad quot is presently detained in Israel quot and requests quot a certificate providing that Mr Fawaz Abd al Rahman Hammad was working as an economic consultant for your projects with charitable le...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2519http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2519 In an August 1995 Op Ed The Dallas Morning News urges that Mousa Abu Marzook be quot deported and permanently barred from the United States quot It adds that the quot FBI has noted in the past that cells of the Hamas organization are known to be operating even in North Texas quot...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2520http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2520 In an April 1 1996 telephone interview recorded by the U S government HLF official Shukri Abu Baker tells a Dallas Morning News reporter quot I can speak for the Holy Land Foundation very comfortably We have never raised sighs money for Hamas We we we have never in any wr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2521http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2521 In December 1999 Dallas Morning News reporter Steve McGonigle visited HLF s Gaza office setting off a frenzy of activity amongst HLF officials In this intercepted conversation Shukri Abu Baker is livid that McGonigle introduced himself as Abu Baker s friend spitting ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2522http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2522 Upset about the The Dallas Morning News coverage of HLF IAP and other Muslim organizations HLF sued the paper as a quot last resort in trying to stop a defamation campaign quot and quot an attempt to delegitimize quot the organization s work Supporters of the l...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2523http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2523 In a sworn declaration filed in the Boim civil lawsuit HLF official Shukri Abu Baker wrote quot Neither I nor to my knowledge any of the founders of this charity have had any connection whatever to Hamas or to any terrorist groups or to terrorism I do not believe that suicide bo...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2524http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2524 During the 1993 Philadelphia meeting Shukri Abu Baker admitted that quot we give the Islamists 100 000 and we give others 5 000 We should never ever be agents of others but we should maintain a balance The Foundation must stay on its legal track as far as charitable projects are...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2525http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2525 The HLF defense has entered into evidence photos of HLF efforts overseas Examples can be seen of the quot Demolished Homes Project quot as well as of other efforts A money transfer related to the quot Demolished Homes quot project is here ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2526http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2526 The HLF defense has entered into evidence a document showing that Jamal Hamami was frequently invited to speak in the U S by the U S Information Agency and other entities A 1995 fax from the IAP Information Office identified Hamami as a Hamas leader Further he has bee...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2527http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2527 The HLF defense has introduced communications between the U S Embassy in Tel Aviv and the U S Agency for International Development U S AID in which the U S Embassy reported that it possessed quot no derogatory information quot on a number of organizations federal prosecutors h...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2528http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2528 To address the 50 000 check OLF wrote to the Islamic University of Gaza the HLF defense introduced a State Department memo revealing that quot from 2002 through 2006 USAID provided approximately 134 455 in assistance quot to the Islamic University of Gaza The mem...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2529http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2529 This letter formalizes a quot joint agreement to share responsibility for the production of bread for Kosovar refugees in Albania quot Participants included HLF the United Nations World Food Programme and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2530http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2530 Exhibits capture the mundane nature of much of HLF s work Work Ethics and Expectation s Code of Ethics Weekly Report Check List Abdel Rahman Odeh s Application for Employment with I 9 and W 4 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2531http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2531 Exhibits include the passports of Shukri Abu Baker Akram Mishal and Abdel Rahman Odeh ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2532http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2532 Copies of Musa Abu Marzook s phone records can be seen here and here ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2533http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2533 Copies of OLF s phone records can be seen here here and here ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2534http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2534 HLF quot A Story of Growth and Prosperity quot This document describes the evolution of HLF and highlights the steadily increasing donations the organization attracted Two 1300 checks from the Muslim Arab Youth Association MAYA to Ghassan Ela...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2535http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2535 This fatwa issued by Akeel Al Nashmi of the University of Kuwait and supported by Yousef al Qaradawi who helped HLF raise funds states quot we believe that the meaning of the In the Path of Allah includes supporting Islamic da wa and making the Word of Allah high prevail Thi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2536http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2536 Shortly after U S officials detained Mousa Abu Marzook on an Israeli arrest warrant in July 1995 Hamas spokesman Ibrahim Ghousbeh sent a fax to Senator Orrin Hatch warning him that quot The continued detention or the handing over of Dr Abu Marzuq to the Israelis will provoke a wave...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2537http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D2537 Prosecutors have introduced into evidence propaganda honoring Hamas quot martyrs quot that was seized by the Israeli military Other propaganda can also be seen in this section Mahmoud Ali Alhilwa quot martyred in the battle defending the Jenin camp ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1916http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1916 The Department of Justice press release summarizing the initial indictment which was filed on July 27 2004 offers the following overview The indictment alleges the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development HLF of Dallas Texas was an organization created by among othe...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1918http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1918 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1919http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1919 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1920http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=65#D1920The U S government s trial brief provides an introduction to Hamas as well as to the key players in the Muslim Brotherhood s U S network As evidenced by documents seized in 2004 from the Virginia home of unindicted co conspirator and fellow Palestinian Committee member Ismail Elbarrasse as wel...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3458http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3458 quot Legal Barriers to Information Sharing The Erection of a Wall Between Intelligence and Law Enforcement Investigationst Organizations in the Twenty First Century quot August 2004 An August 2004 monograph titled quot Legal Barriers to Information Sharing The Erection of a ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3459http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3459 quot Disrupting Threat Finances Utilization of Financial Information to Disrupt Terrorist Organizations in the Twenty First Century quot October 2007 As the author explains quot this monograph focuses on the ways the U S Government can effectively fight terror...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3464http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3464 quot Securing the Global Supply Chain Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism C TPAT Strategic Plan quot February 2006 Customs and Border Patrol CBP explains that its quot priority mission is to prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3465http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3465 quot Why Have We Not Been Attacked Again Competing and Complementary Hypotheses for Homeland Attack Frequency quot June 2008 The Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Science International Applications Corporation released a report titled quot Why Have We Not Been Attacked Aga...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3466http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3466 quot Transitions in Iraq Changing Environment Changing Organizations Changing Leadership quot July 2006 A declassified report by the Department of Defense s Joint Center for Operational Analysis JCOA titled quot Transitions in Iraq Changing Environment Changing Organiza...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3467http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3467 quot National Infrastructure Protection Plan 2009 quot February 2009 The Department of Homeland Security s National Infrastructure Protection Plan NIPP has been released According to DHS quot The NIPP provides the unifying structure for the integration of existing and future CIKR cr...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3472http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3472 quot Criminal Acts Against Civil Aviation 2000 quot This document produced by the Federal Aviation Administration s Office of Civil Aviation Security quot compiles incidents that have taken place against civil aviation aircraft and interests world...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3461http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3461 ldquo Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities September 2001 October 2003 rdquo May 2004 August 24 2009 The much anticipated CIA Inspector General rsquo s report titled ldquo Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities September 2001 October 2...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3462http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3462 quot National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism quot February 2006 This Department of Defense document asserts that quot it is of supreme importance that the United States Military understand the nature of the threat and the nature of this war This understandin...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3469http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3469 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp quot Testimony of Bruce Swartz Deputy Assistant Attorney General Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee quot October 2010 Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing titled quot The al Megrahi Release One Year Later rdquo ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3470http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3470 quot Review of the Department rsquo s Preparation to Respond to a WMD Incident quot June 2010 The Department of Justice s Office of the Inspector General has released a report reviewing DOJ s preparation to respond to a WMD attack According to the rep...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3487http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3487 quot Global Trends 2025 A Transformed World quot November 2008 The National Intelligence Council produced quot Global Trends 2025 A Transformed World quot quot to stimulate strategic thinking about the future ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3488http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3488 quot Testimony of Mitchell D Silber Director Intelligence Analysis Before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee quot November 2009 Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Go...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3489http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3489 quot Mumbai Combined Arms Operation quot December 2008 The Overseas Security Advisory Council OSAC is a Federal Advisory Committee with a U S Government Charter to promote security cooperation between American b...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3490http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3490 quot Osama Bin Laden A Case Study quot 1999 In 1999 Dr ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3491http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3491 quot Protective Intelligence and Threat Assessment Investigations A Guide for State and Local Law Enforcement Officials quot January 2000 The authors a Psychologist for the Secret Service and the Deputy Special...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3494http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3494 quot U S International Broadcasting Is Anybody Listening quot In a report titl...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3495http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3495 quot Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula and Somalia quot January 2010 In a newly released report the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff revealed that quot Law enforcement and inte...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3496http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3496 quot Unclassified Executive Summary of the Committee Report on the Attempted Terrorist Attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and Additional Views of Senators Chambliss and Burr quot Ma...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3476http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3476 quot Top Ten Challenges Facing the Next Secretary of Homeland Security quot September 2008 The Homeland Security Advisory Council has released a report titled quot The Top Ten Challenges Facing the Next Secretary of Homeland Security quot One of t...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3477http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3477 Testimony by Ted Dagne Congressional Research Service quot The Horn of Africa Current Conditions and U S Policy quot June 2010 Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health the Congressio...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3478http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3478 quot Statement by Ambassador at Large Dell L Dailey quot July 2008 Ambassador at Large Dell L Dailey Coordinator for Counterterrorism U S Department of State testified about quot how...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3480http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3480 quot A Line in the Sand Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border quot According to this report quot the number of aliens other than Mexican OTMs illegally crossing the border has grown at an alarming rate over the past several yea...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3481http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3481 quot The Oklahoma City Bombing Was There a Foreign Connection quot December 2006 According to this report quot There is serious yet in some cases circumstantial evidence that suggests a possible Middle Eastern connection to the Oklahoma...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3482http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3482 quot Statement by FBI Supervisory Special Agent Bassem Youssef quot May 2008 In a statement submitted to the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime Terrorism and Homeland Security FBI Supervisory Special Agent Bassem Youssef w...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3483http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3483 quot al Qaeda The Many Faces of an Islamist Extremist Threat quot June 2006 The content in this report includes an overview of the strategic threat posed by Al Qaida the impact of the Iraq war on the global jihad background on other jihadi...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3484http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3484 quot ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen High Value Detainees in CIA Custody quot February 2007 A quot Strictly Confidential quot February 2007 Red Cross report on the treatment of 14...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3485http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3485 quot Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism quot May 2000 The National Commission on Terrorism chaired by Ambassador L Paul Bremer III noted that quot international terrorism poses an increasingly dangerous and difficul...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D3455http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D3455 Counter Terrorism White Paper 2010 Added 3 02 10 According to a Counter Terrorism White Paper released by the Australian government There remain a significant number of Australian extremists radicalised to the point of being willing to engage in violence to advance their political aims Th...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D3457http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D3457 UN Report on Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto Assassination Added 4 19 10 A newly released United Nations inquiry concluded that Security arrangements by Pakistan s federal and local authorities to protect assassinated Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto were fatally insufficient and ineffective and ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1212http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1212 Transnational Terrorism The Threat to Australia 2004 Added 3 30 08 As the Forward to this report explains the purpose of this White Paper is to assist readers with a deeper understanding and awareness of the nature of the contemporary terrorist threat posed to Australia and Australia...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1213http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1213 Review of the Re Listing of Al Qa ida and Jemaah Islamiyah as Terrorist Organizations 2004 Added 3 30 08 October 2006 Added 3 30 08 This report provides historical background on Al Qaida and Jemaah Islamiyah ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1214http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1214 Annual Report 2006 2007 Releasing its 2006 2007 annual report the Canadian Security Intelligence Service CSIS notes that the threat of terrorism from extremists posed the most immediate danger to Canada and Canadians in 2006 07 Reflecting the increased prominence of the homegrown threa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1215http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1215 Leading Islamist Extremist Authors Added 11 27 09 A SECRET assessment titled Leading Islamist Extremist Authors produced by Canada s Integrated Threat Assessment Centre ITAC has become public The document examines key ideologues whose works have contributed to Islamist radicalization i...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1216http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1216 Assessment of the Terror Threat Against Denmark April 2008 The Danish Security Intelligence Service released an Assessment of the Terror Threat Against Denmark which states that the reprinting of the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed has lead to a renewed negative focus on Denmark in a num...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1217http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1217 quot Report on an Unannounced Full Follow Up Inspection of HMP Whitemoor quot April 2008 Echoing themes examined in the NEFA Special Report quot Terrorists Behind Bars quot the Chief Inspector of Prisons in England assessed the situation at HMP Whitemoor prison and noted that staff quot ex...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1218http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1218 The United Kingdom s Strategy for Countering International Terrorism Annual Report March 2010 The Secretary of State for the Home Department has released the United Kingdom s Strategy for Countering International Terrorism Annual Report Home Office Name Hate Promoters Excluded from the U...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1219http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1219 Investigation into the Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Underground Station on 22 July 2005 January 2006 The Independent Police Complaints Commission IPCC examined the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes by Metropolitan Police Service officers following the 7 7 s...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1220http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1220 Scotland Yard Report into Assassination of Benazir Bhutto Added 2 8 08 After the December 27 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi Pakistan the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command joined the investigation According to the U K the primary focus of ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1221http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1221 EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2010 Added 5 05 10 Europol has released its Terrorism Situation and Trend Report which aims to provide law enforcement officials policymakers and the general public with facts and figures regarding terrorism in the EU while also seeking to identify...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1222http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1222 Interpol Orange Notice for 85 terrorist suspects wanted by Saudi Arabia February 2008 Added 3 12 2009 Interpol has issued an international security alert known as an Orange Notice for 85 terrorists suspected of plotting attacks against Saudi Arabia from abroad According to Interpol the ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1223http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1223 The Radical Dawa in Transition The Rise of Islamic Neoradicalism in the Netherlands October 2007 In this report the Director General of the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands reveals that the AIVD has established that the non violent version of rad...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1224http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1224 Ideology and Strategy of Jihadism February 2010 The Netherlands National Coordinator for Counterterrorism has released a report titled Ideology and Strategy of Jihadism According to the Dutch government The Jihadist movement is the driving force behind the current worldwide terrorist wa...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1225http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1225 The Jemaah Islamiyah Arrests and the Threat of Terrorism January 7 2003 Added 3 30 08 This lengthy report published by Singapore s Ministry of Home Affairs provides extensive detail on Jemaah Islamiyah s historical background objectives and strategy and links with other org...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1226http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1226 Report November 2007 The United Nations team concludes There may have been fewer major operations than Al Qaida leaders would have liked but the arrest or death of suspected Al Qaida related terrorists in more than 40 countries around the world since the Team last reported in November 20...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1611http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1611 Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism Volume 1 July 2009 A report released by the British House of Lords EU Committee slammed the UK government for its complacent attitude toward possible links between pirates and terrorists According to the report any study of terrorist finan...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1612http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1612 quot Review of the Intelligence on the London Terrorist Attacks on 7 July 2005 quot May 2009 This report addresses the unanswered questions relating to the intelligence on the 7 7 bombers particularly those arising out of the investigation of the 2004 fertiliser bomb CREVICE plot quot ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1613http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1613 Dossier on Mumbai Attacks January 2009 Added 1 12 09 The Indian government has released a dossier on the Mumbai terror attacks that includes a chronology of events pictures of items discovered on the boat used by the operatives to reach Mumbai explanations of code words utilized and trans...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1614http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=49#D1614 2009 Annual Report on Afghanistan Added 6 11 09 This Annual Report on Afghanistan produced by NATO s Public Diplomacy Division offers a general look at progress in each of the three main lines of effort in which NATO ISAF is involved security governance and development It goes beyond setting ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3507http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3507 Initial Report September 1996 In this report the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security chaired by Vice President Al Gore recommended quot twenty specific actions that provide near term improvements in aviation security quot Final Report February 1997 Address...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3502http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3502 ...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3503http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3503 quot Five Years Post 9 11 One Year Post Katrina The State of America s Readiness A 183 City Survey quot July 2006 183 cities r...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3504http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3504 quot The Joint Operating Environment 2008 Challenges and Implications for the Future Force quot November 2008 The Joint Forces Co...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3505http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3505 quot Iranian Strategy in Iraq Politics and Other Means quot October 2008 Based on quot interrogation summaries of captured mil...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3498http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3498 quot Significant Incidents of Political Violence Against Americans 1997 quot This report was published by the State Department s B...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3499http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3499 quot Mass Transit System Threat Assessment quot February 2008 In an Unclassified For Official Use Only assessment that has been l...http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3500http://nefafoundation.org//index.cfm?PageID=48#D3500 quot Remarks by Assistant Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David S Cohen to the Washington Institute for Near East...