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Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (AHIF) was a charity foundation, based in Saudi Arabia. Under various names it had branches in Afghanistan, Albania, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Comoros, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Tanzania, and the United States,〔The United States Treasury Department has designated Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation as a "specially designated global terrorist" organization.(UN list of affiliates of al-Qaeda and the Taliban )〕 and "at its height" raised between $40 and $50 million a year in contributions worldwide.〔 While most of the foundation's funds went to feed poor Muslims around the world,〔 a small amount went to Al-Qaeda, and that money (and money from other Islamic charities) was "a major source of funds" for the terrorist group.〔 As late as 2004 U.S. and Saudi government efforts "to cut the flow have largely failed". On 7 June 2004, the founder and former leader of AHIF, Aqeel Abdulaziz Aqeel al-Aqeel, was listed on a INTERPOL-United Nations Security Council Special Notice for being associated with Al-Qaeda, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for "participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts of activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of" Al-Qaeda.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.interpol.int/en/layout/set/print/notice/search/un/1423269 )〕 In September 2004, the U.S. Department of the Treasury alleged that its investigation had found "direct links" between the foundation and Osama bin Laden.〔 Between 2004 and 2010, fourteen branches of the charity were listed on the UN Security Council Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee list of "individuals, groups, undertakings and other entities associated with Al-Qaeda" and subject to "sanctions measures (assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo) imposed by the Security Council".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/AQList.htm )〕 ==History== The Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation was founded in the Pakistani city of Karachi in 1988 with the aim of religious propagation and charity, but moved its headquarters to Riyadh in 1992. It set up a branch in Somalia in 1992 also. In September 2001 AHIF was named a Specially Designated Terrorist Entity by the US government. In 2002 the US and Saudi Arabia "jointly designated the Bosnian and Somalian branches of AHIF as financiers of terror, although as of 2008 critics have raised questions as to whether the Saudi government "actually closed the offshore branches of AHIF". According to author Jimmy Gurul, the US government had evidence that "AHIF offices and representatives operating throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe provided financial and logistical support" to groups "designated foreign terrorist organizations by the US State Department", including al-Qaeda, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Jemaah Islamiyah, Al-Ittihad Al-Islamiya, Lashkar e-Taibah, and HAMAS.〔 In 2004 the US "designated" 11 other branches including the US branch in Ashland Oregon. Finally, later in 2004 the US designated the entire entity, including its headquarters in Saudi Arabia.〔 At the time of its closing, AHIF had been operating in 50 countries and employed 5,000 workers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Al-Haramain Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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