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Obama administration knowingly gave $200,000 in taxpayer money to Al Qaeda affiliate in Sudan

Jul 27, 2018 10:11 am By Robert Spencer

More aid and comfort to the enemy. Is that not the very definition of treason? The Obama administration’s strategy seemed to be to weaken the U.S. politically, militarily, and economically, leveling the differences between it and other countries, on the assumption that the U.S. was the cause of the world’s ills. He should be tried for treason, but of course will not be.

“EXCLUSIVE: Obama administration gave US aid money to Al Qaeda affiliate in Sudan,” by Eylon Aslan-Levy, i24 News, July 25, 2018:

The Obama administration gave taxpayer money to an Al Qaeda affiliate in Sudan — with most of the funds transferred after officials became aware of the mistake, a joint i24NEWS-Middle East Forum investigation reveals.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) gave $200,000 to the Khartoum-based Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), a designated global terror entity placed on the US sanctions list over its financial support for Osama Bin Laden and other terrorist groups including Hamas.

Independent sources have confirmed to i24NEWS that the funds were stopped as soon as it became clear that ISRA was a proscribed group — but that the US Treasury nonetheless issued a special license permitting a one-time $125,000 transfer to ISRA once the mistake was known.

In February 2014, USAID authorized a grant of $723,405 to World Vision, an evangelical international charity, for a humanitarian project in the Blue Nile region of Sudan. According to the funding agreement, $200,000 of that grant was designated as a sub-award for the Islamic Relief Agency for the purposes of humanitarian relief for displaced persons.

Ten years earlier, however, the George W. Bush administration had designated the worldwide network of ISRA as a global terrorist entity for its financial support for Osama Bin Laden and others. The US Department of the Treasury announced in October 2004 that ISRA was “formerly affiliated” with Maktab Al-Khidamat, the precursor organisation of Al Qaeda, and that its international offices “provided direct financial support” for Osama Bin Laden.

The US Treasury also singled out ISRA for “serving as a conduit to Hamas” in an unnamed European country during the Second Intifada of the early 2000’s, raising funds and transferring them to the Palestinian territories for terror attacks against Israelis.

This designation blocked all of ISRA’s US-based assets and criminalized the provision of funds or support to any of its offices. ISRA was placed on the “Specially Designated Persons List” maintained by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and was also marked as prohibited or restricted on the US government database of service providers.

Under the funding agreement with USAID, World Vision was required to verify that ISRA was not on the sanctions list. World Vision told i24NEWS that it searched the blocked parties list for “Islamic Relief” in Sudan, and no results came up. The database in fact lists ISRA as based in Missouri, registered at the address of its former American offices.

It is not clear why USAID failed to check that ISRA was not on the sanctions list. An official said USAID partners have the “primary responsibility” to run those checks, but USAID “did not identify ISRA as an organization subject to US sanctions when it made the initial award”.

World Vision says in May 2014, it applied to the Treasury to renew its registration as a charity working in Sudan, listing ISRA as a sub-grantee. It says the Treasury approved the renewal in August “without any comments or questions” about ISRA.

In November 2014, World Vision alerted USAID that its local partner might be the same Islamic Relief Agency that appears on the Treasury’s sanctions list. World Vision suspended transactions with ISRA while USAID informed the State Department and the Treasury.

USAID confirmed with the Treasury that ISRA “appears to be the same entity” as the one on the sanctions list, and then wrote to World Vision in February 2015 ordering it to suspend any further transfers to ISRA….

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Filed Under: Barack Obama Tagged With: Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), US Agency for International Development (USAID)


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  1. Kilfincelt says

    Jul 27, 2018 at 10:14 am

    Big surprise! Not!!! I’ve said for a number of years that Obama should have been on trial for treason for aiding and abetting the enemy. This info. needs to be mainstreamed.

    • Andy says

      Jul 27, 2018 at 4:14 pm

      off topic.

      Help a Patriot Veteran get a Message To Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy (R)

  2. No Muzzies Here says

    Jul 27, 2018 at 10:37 am

    He’s giving us the finger literally and figuratively. He committed treason, but it was Trump who was accused of treason for talking to Putin.

    • Mac-101 says

      Jul 27, 2018 at 10:41 am

      While Obama is on a hit mike tellin the Ruskies he’ll have more flexibility after the elections and gittin half a million for a 20 minute speech. Chump change to the Millions that the Clinton Crime Foundation got from the Ruskies and other less than desirables. Now I read the Clinton Foundation got millions from blood diamonds, let alone cornering the market on gold mini in Haiti, and perhaps much worse there. Never forgit Monica Petersen! Ya can’t make this stuff up!

    • J D S says

      Jul 28, 2018 at 10:24 pm

      Go figure?????

  3. James Lincoln says

    Jul 27, 2018 at 10:51 am

    Former President Obama, at the very least, a Muslim sympathizer. At worst, a traitor to the United States.

    • Andy says

      Jul 27, 2018 at 11:48 pm

      Creation of Obama

      Joy Villa & YouTuber Slightly Offensive Assaulted and robbed at Trump Star On Hollywood Blvd

      • Andy says

        Jul 27, 2018 at 11:59 pm

        If Fascism Ever Comes To America, It Will Come In The Name Of Liberalism

        • Andy says

          Jul 28, 2018 at 12:50 am

  4. SAE says

    Jul 27, 2018 at 11:19 am

    Akin to a cunning, TOOTHY, Cheshire cat, everything about obama is repugnant -even his disappearing & reappearing @ will…residing in DC while scheming his national “community-disorganizing” agenda. Obama’s ascent to presidency….definitely diabolical.

    On the bright side, there’s a price to pay in his dark future.

  5. infidel says

    Jul 27, 2018 at 12:18 pm

    What an ingrate REPUGNANT disgusting fellow…

  6. duh swami says

    Jul 27, 2018 at 1:33 pm

    O The Magnificent , Champion of Choom and Blow, also gave aid and comfort to the Muslim Brotherhood in their bid to take over Egypt, The Afghan Taliban in exchange for a deserter, and Iran…
    The Dems cheered and the R’s and the FBI looked the other way and saw nothing…When it comes to O The Magnificent and ‘Snow White’ Hillary Justice takes a vacation…

  7. Lebel says

    Jul 27, 2018 at 1:35 pm

    “It is not clear why USAID failed to check that ISRA was not on the sanctions list. An official said USAID partners have the “primary responsibility” to run those checks, but USAID “did not identify ISRA as an organization subject to US sanctions when it made the initial award”.”

    Right, Obama was heading USAID and approving all operations. He approved personally a loan to terrorist groups because he’s a secret Muslim.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 28, 2018 at 12:56 am

      Does Lebel have any problem with US taxpayer dollars going to an Al Qaeda affiliate? Why would he?

  8. Richard Orberson says

    Jul 27, 2018 at 7:40 pm

    Dmitry Baxter, (Jul. 20, 2018). Inspector General: Obama Paid $300 Million To ‘People Who Don’t Exist’. YourNewsWire.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jul 27, 2018 at 9:24 pm

    Obama administration knowingly gave $200,000 in taxpayer money to Al Qaeda affiliate in Sudan
    ………………..

    Appalling–but who can be surprised?

  10. Indiana Tom says

    Jul 27, 2018 at 11:05 pm

    He should be tried for treason, but of course will not be.
    Why? He was just following his true faith which supersedes a silly country like the USA.

  11. Johm says

    Jul 28, 2018 at 4:54 am

    Obummer is a total idiot who discrases himself with the stupid things he did to expand the NWO agenda .

  12. Theophilos justus says

    Jul 28, 2018 at 8:25 am

    Why presidents give money away without the authorization of Congress?.

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