Uncovering Terror Funding in Foreign Aid: The Islamic Relief Agency Scandal

Cliff Smith and Sam Westrop discovered the Obama administration handed over hundreds of thousands of dollars to a designated terrorist organization linked to Bin Laden. They explain how documents acquired through an MEF lawsuit against the federal government revealed a major Christian charity and several Obama administration officials attempted to lobby on this terror group’s behalf.

Sam Westrop has headed Islamist Watch since March 2017. He is also a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Previously, he ran Stand for Peace, a London-based counter-extremism organization.
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Across the U.S., Foreign Extremists and Terror Groups Operate Openly Through the 501(c) Nonprofit System
A multilateral bank co-owned by the governments of Iran, Qatar, Turkey, among others, is financing the construction of “CAIR Plaza” in Washington D.C. to provide the terror-tied Islamist group with decades of future income, contradicting CAIR’s repeated denials of foreign support for its operations.
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