by Ganesh Sahathevan
Arab News has reported that Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa, the secretary-general of the Muslim World League and chairman of the Organization of Muslim Scholars, met Sam Mostyn AC, governor-general of Australia, at Government House in Sydney. It also reported that Secretary-General Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa met with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney and that dduring the meeting, they discussed the importance of social cohesion through mutual respect and cooperation.
The Saudi-based, Saudi-funded Muslim World League (MWL), founded in 1962, is one of the principal channels of Wahhabi infiltration, influence and control. It actively promotes Wahhabi doctrines, theology and practices on a global scale. The MWL has more than 56 offices and centers on five continents. No surprise, therefore, that Wahhabism has emerged as a major, if entirely negative, force in the world today.
MWL has been named on a number of occasions in regards to the financing of terrorism.
On August 3, 2006 The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated the Philippine and Indonesian branch offices of the Saudi-based International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) for facilitating fundraising for al Qaida and affiliated terrorist groups.
The IIRO is also known as the The Human Relief Committee of the Muslim World League. (see http://www.ustreas.gov/press/
According to the testimony of Dore Gold before a US Senate hearing (http://www.senate.
Saudi Arabia's global charities, like the Muslim World League, permitted the spread of the new militancy that was forged from the cooperation between the Wahhabi clerics and the Muslim Brotherhood refugees. After 1973, these charities benefited from the huge petrodollar resources dispensed by the Saudi government, which undoubtedly helped them achieve a global reach. Abdullah Azzam headed the office of the Muslim World League in Peshawar, Pakistan, when it served as the rear base for the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. He was joined by his student, bin Laden, who with Saudi funding also set up the Mujahidin Services Center (Maktab Khadmat al-Mujahidin) for Muslim volunteers who came to fight the Red Army. After Moscow's defeat in Afghanistan, this office became al-Qaeda.
In addition , David Kane, a US ICE agent has stated in a sworn affidavit:
The MWL, based in Saudi Arabia, was founded in 1962 with the goals of disseminating Islamic philosophy, culture, and religion, and defending Islamic causes.
I have reviewed portions of the transcript, a copy of which is available on the internet, in which El-Asahi confirms MWL is the same entity as the International Islamic Relief Organization ("IIRO").
According to a CIA report, recently made public in response to a FOIA request, of the more than 50 Islamic non-governmental organizations in existence in 1996, "available information indicates that approximately one-third of these Islamic NGOs support terrorist groups or employ individuals who are suspected of having terrorist connections." It lists the IIRO, as having "extremist connections," including to the Palestinian group Hamas, Algerian radicals, and the Egyptian precursor to al Qaeda, Al-Gamaat Al-Islamiya. "The IIRO is affiliated with the Muslim World League, a major international organization largely financed by the government of Saudi Arabia," the report states, connecting the IIRO to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and convicted terrorist Ramzi Yousef . "The former head of the IIRO office in the Philippines, Muhammad Jamal Khalifa, has been linked to Manila-based plots to target the pope and U.S. airlines; his brother-in-law is Usama bin Ladin," the report states, using alternate spellings of Mr. bin Laden's names. In addition, "another high- ranking [IIRO] official in the Philippines leads Hamas meetings, and the majority of Hamas members in the Philippines are employed by the organization." Finally, it says, " the IIRO helps fund six militant training camps in Afghanistan , according to a clandestine source."
( http://news.lp.findlaw.com/
According to Rueven Paz of the ICT:
The IIRO is connected with the Saudi governmental organization of the Muslim World League (MWL), the biggest Islamic relief organization in the world , which has over 100 branches in more than 30 countries. The organization, together with the largest Kuwaiti Islamic Relief organization, has often been accused by Arab governments—Egypt in particular—of financing Islamist terrorist groups.
(http://www.ict.org.il/
In his testimony before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary , titled
Terrorism: Two Years After 9/11, Connecting the Dots , Simon Henderson said:
(http://judiciary.senate.gov/
Documents seized in Bosnia in the year 2002 show that a meeting of "bin Laden associates" took place in Bosnia, and the MWL/IIRO offices there. At this meeting it was discussed whether or not the MWL's offices in Pakistan would be the place from which " 'attacks will be launched'". The notes from this meeting were taken on MWL/IIRO stationery.
Saudi-sponsored humanitarian organizations such as the Mercy International Relief Organization (Mercy) played central roles in the 1998 U.S. 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, including Abu Sayyaf. In January 1999, Indian police foiled a plot to bomb the U.S. consulates in Calcutta and Madras. The mastermind behind the plot was Sayed Abu Nasir, an IIRO employee who received terrorist training in Afghanistan. In 2001, Canadian authorities detained Mahmoud Jaballah based on an Interpol warrant charging him with being an Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist. In 1999, Canadian officials attempted to deport Jaballah based on his work for IIRO and what they described as IIRO's involvement in terrorism and fraud. Finally, September 11 hijacker Fayez Ahmed reportedly told his father he was going abroad to work for IIRO when he left for the suicide mission.
Like many other Saudi humanitarian organizations, IIRO is part of the Muslim World League, which is funded and supported by the Saudi government (in fact, the Muslim World League and IIRO share offices in many locations worldwide). The Treasury Department has frozen the assets of other Muslim World League member organizations suspected of funding terrorism, including the Rabita Trust. A senior League official in Pakistan, Wael Hamza al-Jlaidan, is listed on the Treasury's terrorist financial blocking order list.
These are matters of public record, but Albanese and Mostyn seem unconcerned.
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