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Photo: Independent Journal Review
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New Jersey Candidate Reportedly Volunteered For Humanitarian Group Later Found To Be Affiliated With Al Qaida
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect that at the time of Hamawy’s work with BIF, was not suspected of having any ties to Al Qaida, and the organization was praised by a U.S. Envoy. We regret not including…
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The Benevolence International Foundation (Benevolence International Fund in Canada), was a purported nonprofit charitable trust based in Saudi Arabia. It was determined to be a front for terrorist group Al-Qaeda and was banned by the United Nations Security Council Committee 1267 and the US Department of the Treasury in November 2002. The BIF's chief executive officer Enaam Arnaout began a ten-year sentence in 2003 after pleading guilty for racketeering in a U.S. federal court.

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