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2009 Archive
1.
18 December 2009
Ten Pakistan citizens and one Indian national have been sentenced to jail for their part in a plot to unleash bomb attacks on the Barcelona subway. Mahroof Ahmed Mirza the alleged mastermind behind the plot was jailed for ten years and six months. All were convicted of belonging to a terrorist organisation. The members of the group reportedly became more radicalised after they made contact with the late Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
2.
18 November 2009
The alleged leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) (UID 3219) in France is currently on trial alongside 21 other suspected members for allegedly extorting five million euros from France’s Tamil community to fund their separatist struggle in Sri Lanka. Also facing trial is the group called Tamil Coordinating Committee France (UID 729060), allegedly a legal front for the LTTE but listed as a terrorist organisation by the European Union since 2006.
3.
16 October 2009
Recent reports point to foreign funding as the largest revenue source for the Taliban. Once thought to rely mostly on opium trade for funds, the Taliban has now built an array of revenue sources that include criminal rackets, donations, taxes, shakedowns, among other schemes, which makes it difficult to block the money supply according to US and Afghan officials. The CIA estimates that the Taliban received $106 million in 2008 from supporters outside Afghanistan.
4.
16 September 2009
After the second trial of the airline bomb plot case in London, Abdula Ahmed Ali , Tanvir Hussain and Assad Sarwar have all been found guilty of plotting to blow up airplanes flying to North America from the United Kingdom. Reports state that Ahmed Ali had identified seven US and Canada-bound flights to blow up over the Atlantic within a two and a half hour period.
5.
14 August 2009
A former CEO of a USA software design company has been indicted, reportedly, for concealing a US $10 million investment in the company from a suspected terrorist financier. The CEO was arrested at JFK Airport after landing from a flight from South Korea where he had been living. He is charged with making false statements on a Small Business Administration loan application to hide the fact that Yassin Qadi a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, held a substantial stake in the company.
6.
16 July 2009
The Interpol has recently issued an international arrest warrant for Omar Arturo Zabala Padilla (UID 918540), a suspected terrorist who allegedly operates as a go-between for FARC and the Sweden-based international news agency Anncol. Zabala Padilla is wanted by Colombian authorities for 'financing terrorism and the administration of resources related to terrorist activities'.
7.
15 June 2009
Shukri Abu Baker (UID 242470) and Ghassan Elashi (UID 40804), two of the founders of the Holy Land Foundation (UID 47714), have been sentenced to serve 65 years in prison. This follows their November 2008 conviction where they were found guilty of channelling more than US$12million to the Palestinian group Hamas.
8.
14 May 2009
Bashir Noorzai, a former Mujahideen warlord who is alleged to have financed the Taliban's activities through the trafficking of heroin has been sentenced to life in prison by a Federal Court in New York, USA. He is reported to have owned huge tracts of land in Kandahar, Afghanistan on which opium poppies were grown. The heroin derived from the opium was later exported to the USA. He is credited with being a close associate of Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar.
9.
16 April 2009
The charity organisation KindHearts an Ohio-based charity organisation is challenging the USA's right to freeze its assets. The charity is taking its legal challenge to the US District Court in Ohio on May 1, 2009. KindHearts was the subject of an asset freeze by the US Treasury in 2006, for its alleged assistance to Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists groups.
10.
16 March 2009
The Spanish police arrested an individual suspected of links to a Morocco-based terror cell disrupted by authorities in September 2008. The cell had allegedly planned to attack Spain. The suspect is linked to a group called Fath al-Andalus or Combat for Islamic Spain. Moroccan authorities reportedly stated that the cell had strong links to foreign extremists belonging to Al-Qaida. .
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