Truthseeker, the "government" has already been told. Suliman al-Ali, who Tony's brother Khaled was involved with in the IIRO, disclosed to the feds that he sent almost $200,000 to Mercy International in Canada, which is a "branch" of the Michigan-based Mercy International.
The legal name of the Canadian office is actually Mercy International Relief Agency. In July of 1995, Umar al-Qadi, who formed the Michigan-based "Mercy", that you claim has no ties to its' "sister" branch that was involved in the financing of the embassy bombings in Africa, registered a "Mercy for International Relief Agency" in Ontario, Canada. al-Qadi described it as the registration of a "sister organization". In the United States, Mercy International used to be known as Human Concern International, an organization created in the 1980s to support the Afghan jihad against the Soviets. Mercy's Pakistan offices were headed by Ahmed Khadr, a close associate of bin Laden and an al Qaeda moneyman.
In the book Dollars for Terror it is alleged that Mercy International was a “subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood" and was able to "establish its headquarters in the United States, in the state of Michigan, with the assistance of the CIA."
The Agency provided "significant logistical and financial support to this ‘humanitarian’ organization, enabling it to act clandestinely in the various Balkan conflicts as well as within the Muslim communities of several Russian republics.”
This jives with Hartwig's testimony claiming that Madeline Albright threatened to "cut-off so-called humanitarian aid" to "Albanians" (KLA) from "Mother Teresa Society" if they did not accept US and NATO demands,
Mr. Hartwig asked a contact in the U.S. Government what Albright meant when she said that the Albanians could be cut off. The contact said that Albright was referring to the so-called "humanitarian aid" that the KLA was getting from the Mother Teresa Society.
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Also from, Dollars for Terror,
[pp. 364] "Mercy International will later be tied to al-Qaeda in a number of ways. For instance, in the mid-1990s its Pakistan branch will be headed by Zahid Shaikh Mohammed, brother of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (see 1988-Spring 1995). [Los Angeles Times, 9/1/2002] Its Kenya branch will be tied to the 1998 US embassy bombing there. Its Philippine branch is tied to Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, bin Laden’s brother-in-law. [Burr and Collins, 2006, pp. 128, 188-189] Branches of this charity in different countries have slightly different names such as Mercy International-USA and Mercy International Relief Agency..."
Saudi-sponsored humanitarian organizations such as the Mercy International Relief Organization played central roles in the 1998 US embassy bombings. At the New York trial of four men convicted of involvement in the embassy attacks, a former al-Qaeda member named several charities as fronts for the terrorist group, including Mercy. Documents presented at the trial demonstrated that Mercy smuggled weapons from Somalia into Kenya, and Abdullah Mohammad, one of the Nairobi bombers, delivered eight boxes of convicted al-Qaeda operative Wadi el-Hage's belongings — including false documents and passports — to Mercy's Kenya office.
Along with Mercy, the Kenyan government also banned the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) after the embassy bombings. From 1986 to 1994, bin Laden's brother-in-law, Muhammad Jamal Khalifa, headed the IIRO's Philippine office, through which he channeled funds to terrorist groups affiliated with al-Qaeda. Tony's brother was involved with the IIRO.
The IIRO and Mercy also financed Mohammad Sallah's bomb-making operations at Global Chemical in Chicago. Tony's father was involved with Sallah. Mohammed Mabrook was the director of Global, Sallah's bomb-making operations. The "government" quashed all investigations and prevented FBI Agent Robert Wright from writing a book disclosing the findings of his investigation, about Mercy, IIRO and Global Chemical. In 1998, the year of the embassy bombings, Khaled Elgindy was in Iraq with the IIRO under the auspices of delivering "aid" to Iraqis and Tony's father, was holding rallies in support of bomb-maker Sallah in Chicago.
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1996-Early 1997: Probe of Suspicious Company with Saudi Ties Is Stalled
A 1996 CIA report shows that US intelligence believes that the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), a Saudi charity with strong ties to the Saudi government, is funding a variety of radical militant groups (see January 1996). However, no action is taken against it. Also in 1996, Valerie Donahue, a Chicago FBI agent who is presumably part of Robert Wright’s Vulgar Betrayal investigation, begins looking into Global Chemical Corp., a chemical company that appears to be an investment fraud scheme. The company is jointly owned by the IIRO and Abrar Investments Inc. Suspected terrorism financier Yassin al-Qadi has investments in Abrar Investments and he is also director of its Malaysian corporate parent. Donahue finds that Abrar Investments gave Global Chemical more than half a million dollars, and the IIRO gave it over $1 million. Further, the Saudi embassy has recently sent $400,000 to the IIRO.
The president of Global Chemical is Mohammed Mabrook, a Libyan immigrant and suspected Hamas operative. Mabrook had previously worked for a pro-Palestinian group led by Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk. (Marzouk is in US detention from 1995 to May 1997, but he is apparently merely held for deportation and not questioned about matters like Global Chemical (see July 5, 1995-May 1997).) Donahue discovers that Global Chemical is keeping a warehouse full of highly toxic chemicals, but they do not seem to be selling them. In late 1996, a chemical weapons expert examines the chemicals and opines that they appear to be meant for a laboratory performing biochemistry or manufacturing explosives. While no direct evidence of bomb making is found, investigators know that a Hamas associate of Marzouk, Mohammad Salah, had previously trained US recruits to work with “basic chemical materials for the preparation of bombs and explosives.”(see 1989-January 1993) In January 1997, the FBI raids Global Chemical and confiscates the chemicals stockpiled in the warehouse. Mabrook is questioned, then let go. He moves to Saudi Arabia. Abrar Investments vacate their offices and cease operations. In June 1999, Mabrook will return to the US and will be prosecuted. He will be tried on fraud charges for illegal dealings with the IIRO and given a four year sentence. Meanwhile, the IIRO ignores an FBI demand for accounting records to explain how it spent several million dollars that seem to have gone to the IIRO and disappeared. In January 1997, Donahue requests a search warrant to find and confiscate the records, saying that she suspect IIRO officials are engaged in “possible mail and wire fraud… and money laundering.” Apparently, the probe stalls and the financial records are never maintained. Some investigators believe the probe is dropped for diplomatic reasons. [Wall Street Journal, 11/26/2002; Wall Street Journal, 12/16/2002; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 10/29/2003] Investigators will later be prohibited from investigating a possible link between al-Qadi and the 1998 US embassy bombings (see October 1998). After 9/11, the US will apparently have ample evidence to officially label the IIRO a funder of terrorism, but will refrain from doing so for fear of embarrassing the Saudi government (see October 12, 2001). |
