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The Benevolence International Foundation (''Benevolence International Fund'' in Canada, ''Bosanska Idealna Futura'' in Bosnia) (BIF) was a purported nonprofit charitable trust based in Saudi Arabia. It was a front for al-Qaeda. It was banned by the United Nations Security Council Committee 1267〔(Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities )| QDe.093 BENEVOLENCE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION|〕 and the US Department of the Treasury in November 2002.〔 〕 BIF's chief executive officer Enaam Arnaout began serving a ten-year sentence in 2003 after pleading guilty for racketeering in U.S. Federal Court.〔("New Sentence for Charity Director" ), ''New York Times'', February 18, 2006〕 The foundation was founded in 1987 by Adel bin Abdul-Jalil Batterjee of Jeddah Saudi Arabia. (Batterjee was later personally embargoed by the UN〔 from December 2004 until March 2013 and by the US from December 2004 on.〔) Its website stated it was a "humanitarian organization ... helping those afflicted by wars", providing "short-term relief such as emergency food distribution", and later "long term projects ... education and self-sufficiency to the children, widowed, refugees, injured and staff of vital governmental institutions." BIF had offices in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo and Zenica), Canada, China, Croatia, Georgia (Duisi and Tbilisi), the Netherlands, Pakistan (Islamabad, Peshawar), the Palestinian Territories, Russia (Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Moscow), Saudi Arabia (Riyadh and Jeddah), Sudan, Tajikistan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Yemen.〔 The list of 20 main financiers of al-Qaeda, composed by Osama bin Laden in 1988 and dubbed by him the Golden Chain, was found in the Bosnia office of Benevolence International Foundation when it was raided in March 2002.〔(Matthew Levitt's Testimony ) before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security, 10 September 2003〕 ==History== Islamic Benevolence Committee ('' Lajnat al-Birr al-Islamiah'') was founded in 1987 by Adel bin Abdul-Jalil Batterjee ((アラビア語:عادل بن عبد الجليل بترجي)) of Jeddah Saudi Arabia.〔 It had operations in both Jeddah and Peshawar, Pakistan. The group was a "charity" that openly supported fighters against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, supplying weapons and funds to the mujahideen, and facilitating the immigration of foreign volunteer jihadists into that conflict zone.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6416 )〕 Another organization, Benevolence International Corporation is said to have been started in 1988 by Mohammed Jamal Khalifa of Jeddah, the brother in law of Osama bin Laden. Back then, it was known as an "import-export" company. It is said that this group was a front for the Abu Sayyaf group. In 1992, the Benevolence International Corporation in the Philippines folded visible operations, while the Islamic Benevolence Committee was renamed to Benevolence International Foundation (BIF). The new entity, was incorporated as a tax-exempt nonprofit in Illinois on March 30, 1992.〔 The group was moved to the United States, with Enaam Arnaout as the director. The organization first set shop in Plantation, Florida. Arnaout married an American woman and obtained citizenship to the United States. In 1993, the organization's headquarters moved to Chicago, Illinois. The Filipino BIC group would become a group set up to attack U.S. interests in the Philippines. Khalid Sheik Mohammed is said to have led the rest of the group. On 15 June 1994, US Ambassador Melissa Wells visited the BIF headquarters on an envoy from President Bill Clinton, and met with Ma'moun Muhammad al-Hasan Bilou and "praised BIF and its efforts to provide humanitarian relief".〔Fitzgerald, Patrick J. United States of America v. Enaam M. Arnaout, "(Governments Evidentiary Proffer Supporting the Admissibility of Co-Conspirator Statements )", before Hon. Suzanne B. Conlon〕 In late 1994, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa travelled to the United States to meet with Mohamed Loay Bayazid, the president of Benevolence at the time. 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「Benevolence International Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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