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	PO-3632: Treasury Designates Benevolence International Foundation and Related Entities
		BIF was incorporated in the State of Illinois on March 30, 1992.
		BIF operates as Benevolence International Fund in Canada and as Bosanska Idealna Futura in Bosnia.
		Enaam Arnaout, BIF's Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, recently was indicted in the United States for operating BIF as a racketeering enterprise and providing material support to organizations, including al Qaida, that are engaged in violent activities.
	www.ustreas.gov /press/releases/po3632.htm (662 words)

	Benevolence International Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was known as the Benevolence International Fund in Canada and Bosanska Idealna Futura in Bosnia.
		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.
		In 1992, the Benevolence International Corporation in the Philippines folded visible operations, while the Islamic Benevolence Committee was renamed to Benevolence International Foundation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benevolence_International_Foundation (655 words)

	CNN.com
		Benevolence International Foundation or BIF is a tax-exempt, purportedly charitable organization with offices in Illinois, Pakistan, Bosnia- Herzegovina and in other locations.
		Discovered in the possession of the Benevolence International Foundation were notes summarizing the 1988 meeting in Afghanistan at which the Al Qaida terrorists developed their network and in which it was originally formed.
		The documents uncovered from the Benevolence International Foundation, headed by the man charged in the indictment today, show the American people and show the world for the first time tangible proof of the founding of the world's most dangerous terrorist network and the oath of allegiance its members pledge.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0210/09/se.08.html (2416 words)

	Mohammed Jamal Khalifa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He started the Benevolence International Corporation in Philippines in 1988 apparently to recruit people for the against the Soviets.
		The of the Benevolence International Corporation have been of assisting the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Operation Bojinka plot that was foiled in 1995.
		In December 1 1994 Khalifa met Mohamed Loay Bayazid the of Benevolence International Foundation in the United States.
	www.freeglossary.com /Mohammed_Jamal_Khalifa (799 words)

	MCRC - Enaam Arnaout Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		BIF, a charity which provided food, shelter, medical assistance and other critically needed benefits to thousands of desperate orphans, refugees and others in countries around the world, was destroyed for no apparent reason.
		Arnaout pleaded guilty to using BIF donations in providing boots, tents, uniforms, and an ambulance to units of the Bosnian army at a time when Muslims in Bosnia were attempting to defend themselves against the genocidal atrocities of the Serbian army.
		As the government investigated the charity, BIF filed a civil suit against John Aschroft and the Justice Department to recover its illegally-seized assets and records from the FBI and to free its funds from the Treasury Department’s jurisdiction.
	www.mcrcnet.org /Cases/Enaam/press_releases.htm (5366 words)

	MCRC - Enaam Arnaout Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		CHICAGO - The executive director of Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), a charitable organization based in Palos Hills, Ill., was arrested today by the FBI, and both he and the foundation itself were charged with perjury for allegedly lying in Federal Court documents about links to international terrorism.
		BIF has never provided aid or support to people or organizations known to be engaged in violence, terrorist activities, or military operations of any nature.
		The affidavit alleges that BIF tried to frustrate international investigations during a telephone call placed on March 21, 2002, two days after the law enforcement searches in Bosnia, to Munib Zaharigac, who was serving as director of BIF in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and was in jail at the time of the conversation.
	www.mcrcnet.org /Cases/Enaam/info_050102_usinfo.htm (1648 words)

	Benevolence International Foundation
		The other was the Benevolence International Corp., founded in the Philippines by bin Laden's brother-in-law, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, also a native of Jeddah.
		The new Benevolence International was therefore based in the United States, where it could coordinate with those efforts, in addition to taking advantage of the deep pockets of American Muslims.
		The American director of BIF was a man named Enaam Arnaout, who had allegedly fought alongside bin Laden in Afghanistan (it's probably prudent to note that Arnout reflexively denies any charge associated with terrorism, even after entering a guilty plea in the Benevolence case).
	www.rotten.com /library/history/terrorist-organizations/b-i-f (1061 words)

	Internal Moves Against Terrorist Financing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Benevolence International Foundation, or BIF, is a tax-ex- empt, purportedly charitable organization with offices in Illinois, Pakistan, Bosnia- Herzegovina, and elsewhere.
		The documents uncovered from the Benevolence Inter- national Foundation, headed by the man charged in the indictment today, show the American people and the world for the first time tangible proof of the founding of the world's most dangerous terrorist network and the oath of allegiance its members pledge.
		In November, 2001, Arnaout spoke via tele- phone to a BIF employee in Bosnia and agreed with that employee that financial sup- port for an injured fighter could not be reflected on BIF's financial records and that the employee should create a new list of orphans as a means of justifying the expenditures.
	www.proconservative.net /PCVol4Is134AshIndict.shtml (1057 words)

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		In 1993 the Foundation opened an office in Florida, then moved to Chicago in order to be closer to terrorist fronts that Hamas had established in the United States.
		From Chicago, BIF actively sought donations from Muslim Americans and other sources in order to fund terrorist operations in Chechnya and the Philippines; the Philippine operations are believed to have been headed by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
		Another of BIF's more notable members was al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla, the suspected "dirty bomb" plotter who was arrested in Chicago by U.S. authorities in May 2002.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=6416 (469 words)

	Facts about terror ties of Florida mosque which received taxpayer funded help - CAIR member also official of Al Qaeda ...
		The Benevolence International Fund was active in raising funds in Canada (from its offices in Ottawa, Waterloo, and Mississauga, Ontario) to send to its representatives in war zones in Bosnia, Chechnya, the Kashmir, and to Israel, and the West Bank -- all areas where Muslim fundamentalists are active.
		The Benevolence International Fund is one of the defendants in a $1 trillion lawsuit launched by the families of the dead from the 9-11 attack.
		In addition, Benevolence International was connected to Ahmed Khadr, a Canadian Muslim extremist in the bin Laden empire whose three sons, Abdullah, Abdul Rahman and Omar, are trained al-Qaeda fighters.
	www.militantislammonitor.org /article/id/2535 (5296 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - Court Orders Resentencing For Islamic Charity Head (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Benevolence International Foundation was one of two Islamic charities based in Chicago's south suburbs that were shut down by the Treasury Department in December 2001 in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.
		Authorities raided Benevolence International Foundation offices in far-off Bosnia and removed al-Qaida documents from the hard drive of Arnaout's computer there along with cryptic messages and photos.
		The court said that between 1994 and 2001, Benevolence International Foundation raised $17 million but that only about $300,000 of that was attributable to Arnaout personally.
	cbs2chicago.com /topstories/local_story_336143807.html (566 words)

	USATODAY.com - Islamic charity supporting al-Qaeda operatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The foundation is one of two Chicago-area Islamic charities whose assets were frozen Dec. 14 on suspicion of supporting terrorism.
		Arnaout and Benevolence International were charged Tuesday with lying under oath in that case when they said the foundation doesn't fund terrorism or military activity.
		According to the affidavit, Benevolence International had links to people involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, a plot to bomb U.S. airlines and a plan to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his 1995 visit to the Philippines.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2002/04/30/charity-arrest.htm (959 words)

	Chapter 5
		During the process of the shutting down of these organizations, one of the organizations, Global Relief Foundation, demanded of the government to see the evidence upon which they based the freezing of this charity’s assets and the seizure of their property and records.
		So, Benevolence International then sued the government, suggesting that the actions that were taken against this organization were illegal under the Constitution.
		Benevolence International sued the government, and as part of that lawsuit the executive director said that they had not engaged in any terrorist-related activities.
	www.usccr.gov /pubs/sac/il0503/ch5.htm (3567 words)

	MUSLIM 'CHARITY' CHARGED WITH TIES TO AL-QAEDA
		WASHINGTON – The head of Benevolence International Foundation, a Muslim "charity" in Chicago, was indicted Wednesday on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaeda, racketeering and money laundering.
		He also claimed that raids discovered conclusive evidence that Arnaout was closely tied to al-Qaeda, including the discovery of notes from a meeting in 1988 that Ashcroft claimed detailed the start of the terror group and the original version of the Bayat, or oath of allegiance sworn by each member to Osama bin Laden.
		Benevolence's Web site details a slew of charity programs in the former Yugoslavia that claim more than $1 million was spent on relief projects.
	www.papillonsartpalace.com /mTuslim.htm (722 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		In addition to that receipt, other documents showed that Benevolence International Foundation personnel, over in Georgia, met with representatives in the Chechen Mujahedeen, who asked for financial support and asked the group to provide anti-mine boots.
		In addition, the documents indicate that the representative for Benevolence in Chechnya, or in Baku, Azerbaijan, which is next to Chechnya, was also at the same time a representative for a group named Hesbi-Islami, a military group from Afghanistan, which also has a presence in Azerbaijan.
		Those two people are referenced in the complaint because when Saleem traveled to Bosnia in the spring of 1998, he traveled with the assistance of BIF -- I say BIF, Benevolence International Foundation -- with their assistance, in the terms of they arranged the visa, they paid for the hotel.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0204/30/ip.01.html (6344 words)

	CBS News \| Islamic Charity Indicted \| May 30, 2002 05:28:08
		Prosecutors initially placed the perjury charges against Benevolence International Foundation of suburban Palos Hills and its chief executive, Enaam Arnaout, in a criminal complaint on April 30.
		Benevolence filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago, asking return of its documents and release of its assets.
		Prosecutors also said Benevolence arranged a trip to Bosnia for an al Qaeda member who later was charged in New York with conspiracy to kill Americans and pleaded guilty to attempted murder of a jail guard.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/04/30/attack/main507629.shtml (408 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| UK freezes assets of 'Bin Laden charity'
		Benevolence International Foundation raises funds for al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden
		Financial institutions were ordered to freeze funds belonging to the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF) at midnight on Monday.
		"BIF operates as an international organisation with offices around the world and is extensively involved in funding international terrorism.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2491681.stm (388 words)

	PipelineNews.org - The RIGHT News...RIGHT Now
		BIF has been designated as a terrorist funding group by the U.S. Department of Treasury, under Executive Order 13224 and also by the United Nations.
		"Benevolence International Foundation (BIF-USA), incorporated in the State of Illinois in 1992, was a U.S., tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization whose stated purpose was to conduct humanitarian relief projects throughout the world.
		Enaam Arnaout, BIF's Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, has been convicted in the United States for operating BIF as a racketeering enterprise.
	www.pipelinenews.org /index.cfm?page=rabinowitz111306.htm (847 words)

	Pravda.RU:An Islamic Foundation in the USA Made "Benevolence" to the Militants in Chechnya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Enaam Arnaut, the head of the Islamic Benevolence International Foundation which operated in the United States for nine years, has admitted that the Foundation bought uniforms and sent them for militants in Chechnya.
		The Islamic Benevolence International Foundation conducted its activity in the United States from 1992 to 2001 when it was checked by the US secret services and law enforcement bodies which accused the Foundation's leaders of conniving at the international terrorist organisation Al-Qaida that had been founded by Osama bin Laden.
		According to American sources, during the nine years of the existence of the Benevolence International Foundation, founded by Enaam Arnaut, a citizen of the United States and a Syrian by birth, collected a total of 20 million dollars, part of them was transferred to foreign terrorist organisations.
	newsfromrussia.com /usa/2003/02/11/43242_.html (265 words)

	War on Terrorism - 2064+: Re: Enaam Arnaout - Benevolence International Foundation
		Other evidence seized in March 2002 from the Bosnian offices of the Benevolence International Foundation, an Illinois-based Muslim charity, includes handwritten correspondence to and from bin Laden and documents detailing the origins, growth and expansion of his al-Qaida network in the 1980s and 1990s, the filing said.
		Though the original documents remain secret, the prosecutor described their contents and English translations for the first time in the filing unsealed this month in the case of the head of the Muslim foundation who reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors in Chicago.
		Enaam Arnaout, left, the jailed chief executive of the Chicago-based Islamic charity Benevolence International Foundation, sits next to Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in this undated photo, according to federal prosecutors in Chicago.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/81407/757289 (1024 words)

	Strategic Insights -- Al Qaeda Finances
		Benevolence was established in the late 1980’s as two separate organizations.
		The foundation’s principal benefactor was Khalid Bin Mahfouz.
		International cooperation in support of the war on terrorism financing is still patently inadequate.
	www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/2005/Jan/comrasJan05.asp (7438 words)

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		The foundation's videos and literature glorify martyrdom, and, according to the charity's newsletter, seven of its officers were killed in battle last year in Chechnya and Bosnia.
		What Benevolence does not mention, on its Web site or in its newsletters, is that these orphans attended an institution that until recently was run by a Taliban official who was also a good friend of Osama bin Laden, according to former Taliban leaders and workers at other relief groups.
		Benevolence's office in Saudi Arabia was shut down by Saudi officials several years ago in a reported crackdown on terrorism funding.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/68672/1666-1675 (7121 words)

	Terrorism Prevention and Response
		SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Benevolence International Foundation, an Illinois-based charity with broad activities in Bosnia, has emerged as a central focus of the investigation into the finances of Osama bin Laden and his Qaeda terrorist network.
		Among the evidence discovered in police raids on March 19 of eight offices and homes associated with Benevolence International in Bosnia was a computer disk with its contents deleted, investigators said.
		Among them are Benevolence International and the Saudi High Commission for Relief, a charitable foundation of the Saudi Arabian government that has spent $561 million in Bosnia.
	www.policeone.com /terrorism/articles/52417 (1900 words)

	Leader of Islamic Charity Is Accused of Lying to Court
		The man, Enaam M. Arnaout, 39, the Syrian-born director of the Benevolence International Foundation, was arrested at his home in the Chicago suburb of Justice and charged with lying under oath in documents his group had filed in federal court.
		The documents were part of a suit the group filed in January against the United States government after officials seized the foundation's assets as part of the investigations into the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.
		Matthew J. Piers, a lawyer for the foundation, said the government was trying to suggest Mr.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0403/81.html (841 words)

	Benevolence Foundation Founder Added To Designated Terrorist List \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Batargy, the founder of IBC, and Khalifa, the founder of BIC, were each known associates of Osama bin Laden, and moved in the same circles and cities in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and in Pakistan.
		Benevolence opened offices in Pakistan, Bosnia, Canada and Azerbaijan, and possibly elsewhere.
		According to the government, Benevolence engaged in a pattern of fraud, diverting funds raised for charitable purposes to terrorist activities around the world.
	intelwire.egoplex.com /2004_12_21_exclusives.html (578 words)

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