Hezbollah’s bags of American Dollars-ZAKAT at work from Islamic Finance!

Posted by allysonrt on January 29, 2008

Hezbollah’s bags of cash
By W. Thomas Smith, Jr
Monday, January 28, 2008

For years it’s been reported that Hezbollah – the Lebanese-based Shiia
terrorist organization that by any military standards fields one of the
world’s most formidable “terrorist armies” – has been receiving money from
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the tune of $100 million,
annually. That figure was recently, reportedly upped to a staggering $400
million, and more recently to an incomprehensible one-billion U.S. dollars.

In a Jan. 11 piece for Human Events, Middle Eastern terrorism expert Dr.
Walid Phares wrote: “This ballistic leap [in funding] would enable the
organization to crush any opponent inside Lebanon and engage in worldwide
operations against Western democracies and Arab moderates.”

‘Religion of peace’…Jihad Calling

Jihad calling

Plain and simple, it is US regional policy that has radicalised Islamists in the Arab Gulf, writes Ammar Ali Hassan

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Current events in Saudi Arabia form a chapter in the slide of Islamist groups in the Gulf towards violence. One can not help but to remark upon this departure from the relatively peaceful nature that characterised the Islamist movement in the Gulf for decades, especially when compared with the experiences of other Arab and Islamic nations that, during the same period, rode the crest of Islamist violence, responding to it with greater force and persistence until the organisations that had sworn themselves to the overthrow of the state were ultimately routed, forced into tactical ideological retractions or splintered into atomised cells that buried themselves deep underground to await the right moment to resurge to the surface and lock horns with prevailing regimes.

Spain terror plot: MEA in dark over arrest of Indians

Spain terror plot: MEA in dark over arrest of Indians
25 Jan 2008, 0259 hrs IST,TNN

NEW DELHI: There appears to be some kind of a mystery about the identity of the terror suspects in Spain. While the external affairs ministry here says there has been no word from the Spanish government on the two Indian suspects apparently arrested, reports from Spain say 10 suspects, 9 Pakistanis and one Indian had been jailed by a Spanish judge on Thursday.

“We have no information from the Spanish authorities,” the MEA spokesperson said on Thursday when asked whether Spain had granted India consular access to the suspects. Sources in the government said it was unlikely that there were any Indians among the list of suspects.

Kerala-Overseas militants and security concerns

Kerala – Thiruvananthapuram

Overseas militants and security concerns

G. Anand

Strife in Sri Lanka to have a bearing on State

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The last part of a three-part series.

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Thiruvananthapuram: The strife in Sri Lanka and the presence of Islamic terrorist groups in the Maldives have a bearing on Kerala’s security, official sources say.

Militant organisations fighting the Sri Lankan government are believed to be procuring fuel, chemicals such as ammonium nitrate (a fertilizer that could also be used for making bombs), medicines, vehicle parts, welding equipment, tools and metal balls (for possible use as projectiles in improvised explosive devices) and other articles from Kerala.