Adel Batterjee

Adel bin Abdul-Jalil Batterjee is a noted Saudi Arabian businessman and philanthropist, most widely known as the incorporator of the U.S., Canadian, and Saudi Arabian branches of the purported terrorist funding conduit Benevolence International Foundation.cite web
author = Josh Devon and James Mitre
title = The Man Behind the Curtain: Why is Adel Batterjee free to fund terror?
url = http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-devon102802.asp
date = 2002-10-28
publisher = National Review] Batterjee is free in Saudi Arabia, but is under a worldwide travel ban, financial embargo, and weapons embargo by the UN 1267 Committee [http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/committees/1267/tablelist.htm UN list of affiliates of al-Qaeda and the Taliban] ] and a financial embargo the US Department of the Treasury. [http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/js2164.htm Former BIF Leader and al-Qaida Associate Named Under E.O. 13224] , press release by US Treasury, 21 December 2004]

As of 2002 Batterjee was head of the Al Shamal Islamic Bank in Sudan and was one of its largest shareholders. According to a 1996 U.S. State Department factsheet [http://specials.ft.com/attackonterrorism/FT3RNR3XMUC.html Trail of terrorist dollars that spans the world] , "Financial Times", 29 November 2001] the bank was capitalized with $50 million by Osama bin Laden and other National Islamic Front members. Al-Qaeda members who were funded via this bank included Jamal al-Fadl and Wadih el-Hage.c]

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* [http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=adel_batterjee CooperativeResearch entry on Adel Batterjee]
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/adel_batterjee.htm Global Security entry on Adel Batterjee]