Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Founded | 1993 ; 30 years ago ( 1993 ) |
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Founder | Salman of Saudi Arabia |
Dissolved | 2001 ; 22 years ago ( 2001 ) |
Area served
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Bosnia and Herzegovina |
The Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina was an aid agency operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina funded by Saudi Arabia . [1] Set up in 1993 during the Bosnian War to assist Bosnian Muslims , it was forced to close in 2001 after being linked to Islamist terrorism . [1]
Founded by Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz with support from King Fahd , it reportedly spent $600 million in aid, [2] and was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in 2001. [3] In 2001, after the September 11 attacks , the commission's Sarajevo office was raided by NATO forces, who found material relating to those attacks and the bombings of USS Cole and US embassies in Africa , along with materials for forging US State Department badges. An employee, Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar , was detained in Camp X-Ray for an alleged plot to attack the US embassy in Sarajevo [4] and released without charge in 2009. [5] In 2002 U.S. authorities said $46 million of the commission's funds was unaccounted for. [4]
References
- 1 2 David Pallister "Terrorist material found in Sarajevo charity raid" The Guardian 23 February 2002. Retrieved 21 November 2013
- ↑ Saudi Charity Dropped From Suit over Sept. 11 Attacks Law
- ↑ "King Faisal International Prize" . Archived from the original on 11 August 2013.
- 1 2 Harvard International Review: Eradicating Evil Archived 20 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ William Glaberson (20 November 2008). "Judge Declares Five Detainees Held Illegally" . The New York Times . Retrieved 16 May 2010 .