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Dinner interrupted by gun-wielding kidnappers
Abductions for ransom by Muslim terrorists (fida’) are a common method of raising funds for jihad. The Al Qaeda chapter of North Africa (AQIM) has been so successful in holding Europeans for ransom...
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Officials deny paying Muslims to free a Christian
Beatrice Stockly, a Christian woman from Switzerland who worked in Timbuktu, was abducted earlier this month after an Islamist coup in the once democratic nation of Mali. Reports indicate that Stockly...
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Qatar funding Islamist rebels in Mali
A French military intelligence source has divulged that Al Qaeda-linked rebels in Mali have received financing from Qatar. This disturbing but predictable news comes as France attempts to pacify the...
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Recommended reading from the Economic Warfare Institute
Chart from UNODC’s World Drug Report 2012 Terror finance expert Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Ken Jensen have written a new piece on the Economic Warfare Institute Blog entitled “Trafficking Cocaine in the...
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Islamist rebels using charity for jihad
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Aaron Y. Zelin have compiled some very important research in a new Foreign Policy article entitled “Uncharitable Organizations” about the growing sponsorship of jihadist...
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France fuels Al Qaeda with €25m infusion
Talk about funding both sides of the conflict. While France has led the way in the fight against jihadists in Mali, it also continues to pay ransoms to Al Qaeda and its offshoots to secure the release...
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Top terror finance stories of 2013
From massacres on the streets of Syria to the streets of Boston, 2013 has offered far too many illustrations of how terror-borne bloodshed is financed: Sunni and Western powers risk funding Syrian...
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Money jihad news: recommended reading
Yasin al-Qadi, former financial associate of Al Qaeda, has been rubbing elbows with Turkish prime minister Recep Erdogan… more>> A suicide bomber targets a bank in northern Mali, killing two UN...
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Fastidious terrorists are no laughing matter
Recordkeeping for purchases as little as 60¢ by Al Qaeda in Mali engendered a lot of mirth and clever commentary in the blogosphere around Christmastime, but there’s a serious implication to the...
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UN suspects Mali terrorists are poaching wildlife
Slaughtering elephants and selling their ivory? Using the profits to buy weapons? The worrisome thing about this report is that it comes from Mali, not from East Africa where such reports are more...
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