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Report: Obama Knowingly Funded al-Qaeda Affiliate with Taxpayer Cash

According to The National Reviewthe Obama administration paid large sums of taxpayer cash to a known affiliate of the terrorist group al-Qaeda.

The Middle East Forum has discovered that the Obama administration approved a grant of $200,000 of taxpayer money to an al-Qaeda affiliate in Sudan — a decade after the U.S. Treasury designated it as a terrorist-financing organization,” according to the report. “More stunningly, government officials specifically authorized the release of at least $115,000 of this grant even after learning that it was a designated terror organization.”

In October 2004 the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the Khartoum, Sudan-based Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) to be a terrorist organization.

Read the full story from Big League Politics


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