The Benevolence International Foundation (BIF) was a nonprofit charitable trust that is suspected to have supported international terrorists worldwide. It was known as the Benevolence International Fund in Canada and Bosanska Idealna Futura in Bosnia. A charitable trust is a trust organized to serve private or public charitable purposes. ... Bosnia and Herzegovina (officially Bosna i Hercegovina, shortened to BiH, also in English variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. ...

Benevolence International Corporation is said to have been started in 1988 by Mohammed Jamal Khalifa of Jeddah, the brother in law of Osama bin Laden. Back then, it was known as an "import-export" company. It is said that this group was a front for the Abu Sayyaf group. 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mohammed Jamal Khalifa is a Saudi Arabian businessman from Jeddah who is married to one of Osama bin Ladens sisters. ... Jeddah from space, September 1995 Jeddah (also Jedda, Jiddah, or Juddah; Arabic: Ǧiddah) is a city in western Saudi Arabia, on the Red Sea. ... Osama bin Laden Usāmah bin Muhammad bin `Awad bin Lādin (born July 30 or March 10, 1957) (Arabic: ), commonly known as Osama bin Laden (Arabic: ), is usually considered to be the leader of al-Qaeda, an Islamist movement that has been involved in attacks against civilians and military... The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), or simply Abu Sayyaf, also known as Al Harakat Al Islamiyya, is a separatist group of islamist terrorists based in and around the southern islands of the Philippines, primarily Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao. ...

Meanwhile, another group known as the Islamic Benevolence Committee was founded in both Jeddah and Peshawar, Pakistan by Sheikh Adil Abdul Batargy. The group was a "charity" that openly supported rebels fighting against the Soviet Union in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Peshāwar (known as Purushapura in Sanskrit) is a city in Pakistans North-West Frontier Province (pop. ... The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a 10-year war fought between the Soviet Red Army, Afghan, and foreign fighters in Afghanistan. ...

In 1992, the Benevolence International Corporation in the Philippines folded visible operations, while the Islamic Benevolence Committee was renamed to Benevolence International Foundation. The Filipino group would become a group set up to attack U.S. interests in the Philippines. Khalid Sheik Mohammed is said to have led the rest of the group. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (Arabic: خالد شيخ محمد; also transliterated as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, and other ways) (March 1, 1964 or April 14, 1965 – present) was an important figure in Osama bin Ladens al-Qaeda organization, where he masterminded numerous plans and came to head the group...

The group was moved to the United States, with Enaam Arnaout as the director. The organization first set shop in Plantation, Florida. Arnaout married an American woman and obtained citizenship to the United States. In 1993, the organization's headquarters moved to Chicago, Illinois. The group stated that it was a charity. U.S. prosecutors believe that the group funneled money to Al-Qaida operatives around the world. Plantation is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Florida: Plantation, Broward County, Florida Plantation, Sarasota County, Florida This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Chicago, Illinois — officially the City of Chicago and colloquially known as Chicago, the Second City and the Windy City — is the third largest city of the United States after New York City and Los Angeles and is the largest inland city of the nation. ... Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ...

In late 1994, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa travelled to the United States to meet with Mohamed Loay Bayazid, who was the president of Benevolence International at the time. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

The two were arrested in Mountain View, California (near San Francisco) in December 1994. The FBI received communications from the Philippines that Khalifa was funding Operation Bojinka, a terrorist plot that was foiled on January 6, 1995. However, Khalifa was deported to Jordan by the INS in May 1995. The Jordanian court acquitted Khalifa, and he is currently in Saudi Arabia. Bayazid was also let go. His whereabouts are unknown. For the community near Martinez, California, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. ... This article is about the city in California. ... December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Operation Bojinka (also known as Project Bojinka, Bojinka Plot, Bojinga, from Arabic: بجنكة – slang in many dialects for explosion and pronounced Bo-JIN-ka, except in Egyptian where it is Bo-GIN-ka) was a planned large-scale attack on airliners in 1995, and was a precursor to the September... January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The acronym INS can refer to: Indian Navy Ship Immigration and Naturalization Service The Irish Naval Service Inertial navigation system Inelastic neutron scattering The International Numbering System number adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission Insurgency Half-Life 2 Modification [1] This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists... This article is about the month of May. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The group claimed that it was "helping those afflicted by wars. BIF first provides short-term relief such as emergency food distribution, and then moves on to long term projects providing education and self-sufficiency to the children, widowed, refugees, injured and staff of vital governmental institutions."

The U.S. Government alleges that the group sent money and communications to Osama bin Laden, purchased rockets, mortars, rifles, bayonets, dynamite, and other bombs for Al-Qaida members in Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and redirecting funds meant for charity purposes to purposes related to terrorism. The U.S. government also alleged that the group was aiding the travel of terrorists, including Khalifa, Bayazid, and Mamdouh Salim and coordinating the escape of BIF members from Bosnian police. Osama bin Laden Usāmah bin Muhammad bin `Awad bin Lādin (born July 30 or March 10, 1957) (Arabic: ), commonly known as Osama bin Laden (Arabic: ), is usually considered to be the leader of al-Qaeda, an Islamist movement that has been involved in attacks against civilians and military... A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust gas from within a rocket engine. ... Soldier Firing the M224 60mm Mortar. ... A rifle is any long gun which has a rifled barrel. ... The US Marine Corps OKC-3S bayonet From right to left: a carbine, a straight infantry officer sabre, a short curved infantry sabre (briquet), two bayonets. ... Dynamite is an explosive based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin using diatomaceous earth (Kieselguhr) as an absorbent. ... Massive ordinance air-burst bomb. ... Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ... The Chechen Republic (Russian: Чеченская Республика; Chechen: Нохчийн Республика/Noxçiyn Respublika), also known as Chechnya (Russian: Чечня, Chechen: Нохчичьо/Noxçiyçö), Ichkeria, Chechnia or Chechenia, is currently a constituent republic of the Russian Federation. ...

On November 19, 2002, the group was classified as a terrorist group funder by the United States government. In February 2003, Enaam Arnaout pleaded guilty to providing boots, tents, and uniforms for rebels in Chechnya and Bosnia. The plea agreement allowed for him to provide information to prosecutors as long as charges that are related to Al-Qaida are dropped. To this day, he publicly denies any link to the group. November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Rotten.com article about Benevolence International
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