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The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, one<br />

of three charities whose assets have been frozen because they<br />

are suspected of funneling donations to terrorist<br />

organizations, has asked the Treasury Department for<br />

permission to transfer some of its charitable assets to another<br />

nonprofit organization. If the department approves, the<br />

foundation will give $50,000 to the Palestine Children Relief<br />

Fund, which works to bring medical services to needy<br />

children in the Mideast.<br />

In 1991, the Palestine Children Relief Fund considered two<br />

Hamas money laundering fronts as assisting organizations:<br />

The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development &<br />

Global Relief Foundation. Both of these Hamas proprietaries<br />

were closed down by the Zionist Occupational Government.<br />

Another assisting entity, the International [Islamic] Relief<br />

Organization, was raided by the FBI for filtering money to al-<br />

Qaeda, Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Hamas. The International<br />

Islamic Relief Organization has been named in a lawsuit put<br />

forward by the families of the 9/11 victims of collateral<br />

damage for having "played key roles in laundering of funds to<br />

the terrorists in the 1998 African embassy bombings" and<br />

having been involved in the "financing and ‘aiding and<br />

abetting' of terrorists in the 1993 World Trade Center<br />

bombing." Their words, not mine. On its website the Palestine<br />

Children Relief Fund says it "works with these organizations"<br />

and acknowledges their "support and cooperation."iii One<br />

particularly notable supporter of PCRF is Arab American<br />

Association of New York of which I am executive director and<br />

who has solicited donations on PCRF's behalf.iv Of course I<br />

am going to help out my cousins.

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