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, when MEF absorbed the counter-extremism unit of Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), where he was the research director. Before that, he ran Stand for Peace, a London-based counter-extremism organization monitoring Islamists throughout the UK.
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A Year After the October 7 Attacks, Hamas-Aligned Charities Tied to Violence Overseas, Continue to Operate with No Apparent Fear of Prosecution.
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