Islamic American/African Relief Agency (IARA-USA)
Houston, TX

Al Qaeda; Hamas

A branch of the IARA-USA (a/k/a the Islamic American/African Relief Agency), designated a terrorist organization on October 13, 2004, was located in Orlando, FL. IARA-USA and five of its former employees and associates - Mubarak Hamed, Ali Mohamed Bagegni, Ahmad Mustafa, Khalid Al-Sudanee and Abdel Azim El-Siddiq- were indicted for illegally transferring funds to Iraq, falsely denying that an associate of Osama bin Laden had been an employee of IARA, and engaging in prohibited financial transactions for the benefit of U.S.-designated terrorist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Former U.S. Congressman Mark Deli Siljander was also charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice in the case. He pleaded guilty in July 2010 to obstructing justice and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. According to a Department of Treasury press release, IARA was responsible for moving funds to terrorists in the Palestinian territories, "notably serving as a conduit to Hamas in one Western European country."."

See: US v. Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA)