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The Global Relief Foundation (GRF), also known as Fondation Secours Mondial or FSM, was an Islamic charity based in Bridgeview, IL until it was raided and shut down on December 14, 2001 and listed among the "Designated Charities and Potential Fundraising Front Organizations for Foreign Terrorist Organizations" by the U. Bridgeview is a village in Cook County, Illinois in the United States. S. Treasury Department in 2002. The United States Department of the Treasury is a Cabinet department and the Treasury of the United States government.

The FBI and Treasury Dept. have asserted links between Global Relief Foundation founder Rabih Haddad and Makhtab al-Khidamat, the precursor organization to al Qaeda which was itself co-founded by Osama bin Laden. The Maktab al-Khidamat, also Maktab Khadamāt al-Mujāhidīn al-'Arab ( Arabic: مكتب الخدمات or مكتب خدمات المجاهدين العرب MAK Al-Qaeda, alternatively spelled al-Qaida, al-Qa`ida or al-Qa`idah, ( Arabic:; ar-Latn ''al-qāʿidah'' Translation: The Osama bin Laden, with some spelling variations is the name used in English to refer to (أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن born 10 March Haddad was arrested by the INS on immigration charges when the group's offices were raided. [1]

According to the Treasury Department, GRF helped fund a number of al Qaeda-sponsored activities, including bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and armed action against groups perceived to be un-Islamic. In the 1998 US Embassy bombings ( August 7, 1998) hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous Car bomb explosions at the United States [2]

Global Relief sued the Treasury Department for release of its assets in January 2002[3]. On December 31, 2002, the U. S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reverse the Treasury seizure[4]

Lawyers for Global Relief sued a number of news organizations for libel[5] for publishing FBI and Justice Department charges. The suit was dismissed by the U. S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on December 1, 2004. The court's opinion stated that "All of the reports were either true or substantially true recitations of the government's suspicions about and actions against GRF. "

References

  1. ^ Roxane Assaf (March 2002), Global Relief Foundation assets seized as Chairman is arrested on visa violation, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
  2. ^ Treasury Department Statement Regarding the Designation of the Global Relief Foundation, US Treasury, October 18, 2002
  3. ^ Allan Dodds Frank (Jan 28, 2002). The United States Department of the Treasury is a Cabinet department and the Treasury of the United States government. Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Islamic charity fights asset freeze. CNN.
  4. ^ U. S. Circuit Court 315 F. 3d 748, Global Relief Foundation, Inc, v. Paul H. O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury, et al [1]
  5. ^ Josh Gerstein (December 2, 2004). Newspapers Cleared in Libel Case. New York Sun.


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