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NEFA Foundation: Jihad Website Financing 101

By Evan Kohlmann

The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new post from online jihadi discussion forums about how to finance jihad-related websites without being "ensnared" in a trap by law enforcement: “If you [have] not gotten arrested yet, that does not mean you are not being monitored, and if your use of the electronic payments method has not brought you woes, then that does not mean it is safe...And the brothers missed these principles before, so it caused crises to the electronic Jihad...Here, we will learn from the previous generation, and we'll correct some of the meanings regarding the methods of electronic payments they had followed.” For example, according to the author, "do not ever pay through a credit card connected to you in any way, however distant or hard to trace the connection was.”

A translation of the post can be downloaded from the NEFA Foundation website.