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Bosnia Court Case Highlights Europe & Levant Link
September 08, 2021
The indictment of a Bosnian women charged with providing financing for the estimated hundreds of Bosnian citizens fighting in Iraq and Syria for the Islamic State points to the active finance-fighter networks linking European actors to Islamist militants in the Levant.
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Taliban Delivers US Military Materiel to Iran
September 07, 2021
Social media sites associated with Iran's Islamist regime showed the Taliban delivering a convey of US military vehicles to Iran, part of the estimated billions of dollars of weapons seized by the Taliban's newly established Islamic Emirate in the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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BBC News: Afghanistan: Qatar and Turkey Become Taliban's Lifeline to the Outside World
September 07, 2021
The Islamist regimes of Qatar and Turkey have taken the lead in opening diplomatic, economic, and security dialogue with the Taliban leadership of the new Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, signaling a move by Doha and Ankara to differentiate themselves ideologically from Islamist states such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which view radical Islamism as a threat to state security.
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FDD: Financial Watchdog Cracks Down on Turkish Public Lender’s German Subsidiary
September 07, 2021
Turkey's two largest banks, with direct ties to senior government officials in Turkey's Islamist regime, are under scrutiny in Germany and the United States, with Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) imposing strict regulatory requirements and fines on Ziraat Bank, Turkey's largest public lender, based on evidence of the bank's illicit financial activities involving Russian and Turkish sources.
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Osama Bin Laden's Security Chief Appears in Public in Afghanistan
September 07, 2021
The sighting of Osama bin Laden's security chief Amin al Haq in public in Afghanistan signals the ongoing ties between Al Qaeda (AQ) and the Taliban, as well as the porous borders between Afghanistan and Pakistan, as al Haq helped Osama bin Laden escape into Pakistan during the US assault on the AQ headquarters in Afghanistan's Tora Bora, while AQ fighters have supported the Taliban insurgency against US coalition forces over the past twenty years.