The Obama administration approved a grant of $200,000 of taxpayer money to an al-Qaeda affiliate in Sudan, the Middle East Forum discovered.
According to the Treasury, ISRA began cooperating with MK in 1997, raising $5 million for the terror group by 2000.
In 2003, ISRA raised money to help fund Hamas suicide bombings.
In 2004, the Treasury's ban included all branches of ISRA, including a US branch, Islamic American Relief Agency, which had illegally transferred upwards of $1.2 million to terror groups and Iraqi rebels.
200,000 of the total $723,405 were earmarked for ISRA. In November 2014, a World Vision official told World Vision that ISRA may be on the Treasury's list of terror organizations, a USAID official told MEF. Thereafter, USAID ordered that World Vision "Suspend all activities with ISRA" and told the US State Department, the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, and USAID's Office of the Inspector General of the development.
On May 7, 2015, OFAC licensed World Vision International and authorized "a one-time transfer of approximately $125,000 to ISRA.".
In August 2015, USAID official Daniel Holmberg informed an official in the State Department that ISRA's executive director had requested guidance on how ISRA could remove itself from the US list of terror organizations.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/249575
According to the Treasury, ISRA began cooperating with MK in 1997, raising $5 million for the terror group by 2000.
In 2003, ISRA raised money to help fund Hamas suicide bombings.
In 2004, the Treasury's ban included all branches of ISRA, including a US branch, Islamic American Relief Agency, which had illegally transferred upwards of $1.2 million to terror groups and Iraqi rebels.
200,000 of the total $723,405 were earmarked for ISRA. In November 2014, a World Vision official told World Vision that ISRA may be on the Treasury's list of terror organizations, a USAID official told MEF. Thereafter, USAID ordered that World Vision "Suspend all activities with ISRA" and told the US State Department, the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, and USAID's Office of the Inspector General of the development.
On May 7, 2015, OFAC licensed World Vision International and authorized "a one-time transfer of approximately $125,000 to ISRA.".
In August 2015, USAID official Daniel Holmberg informed an official in the State Department that ISRA's executive director had requested guidance on how ISRA could remove itself from the US list of terror organizations.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/249575
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