Paycheck for Terrorism: $5,300 for Suicide Attack

Sharyl Attkisson
The Daily Signal
8/21/2014

For the first time, startling details are being made public about the millions of dollars funneled from Middle East charities to Islamic terrorists and their families.

The money was used to reward terrorists and their families after attacks on Israelis and U.S. nationals visiting Israel between 2000 and 2005 during the second intifada or Palestinian uprising.

The evidence was presented today in a landmark case in New York federal court. Three hundred U.S. nationals claim Arab Bank knowingly provided financial services to terrorists and their financiers in violation of the U.S. anti-terrorism law. Arab Bank contends it did not knowingly serve terrorists.

Bank documents reveal an elaborate system for which Amman, Jordan-based Arab Bank served as the center point. Some Israelis refer to the bank as the “Grand Central Station of terrorist financing.”…

Wasfiyeh Idris, the mother of suicide bomber Wafa Idris, surrounded by other female family members, holds a portrait of her daughter at her home in the al-Amari refugee camp near the West Bank town of Ramallah 30 January, 2002. Idris believed to be the first ever female Palestinian suicide bomber, blew herself up in central Jerusalem 27 January, killing an elderly Israeli man in an attack claimed by the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a radical offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement. AFP PHOTO/Awad AWAD [Photo via Newscom]

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