IIRO announces bold new expansion of international support for orphans, including in countries where its offices have been shuttered for supporting terrorism
By Zachary Abuza
Yesterday the IIRO, one of the largest Saudi Arabian charities, announced that it was going to sponsor some 250,000 orphans around the world in the coming years, up from the current level of 92,000.
The IIRO spokesman announced that orphans would be sponsored in Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Chad, Tanzania, Tunisia, Sudan, Ghana, Gambia, Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Albania.
Now I am not qualified to speak about the African and European states, but on 3 August 2006, the US Treasury Department designated the IIRO offices in the Philippines and Indonesia under Executive Order 13224 for terrorist financing; both were subsequently placed on the UN 1267 Committee’s list. The IIRO’s operations in Thailand have come under scrutiny for their part in supporting the ongoing insurgency.
Now that’s chutzpah.
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://counterterrorismblog.org/mt/pings.cgi/3964
