Jamal al Barzinji

Dr. Jamal al Barzinji is a noted American businessman and intellectual, most recently associated with the International Institute of Islamic Thought, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth and the SAAR Foundation.

Profile

Barzinji is a long-term business associate of Muslim Brotherhood activist and al Taqwa Bank chairman Youssef Nada. [Glenn R. Simpson, "Tangled Paths: A Sprawling Probe Of Terror Funding Centers in Virginia --- U.S. Tries to Tie Maze of Firms, Charities Based in Herndon Into a Global Network --- Bin Laden's "Golden Chain", Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2004] Barzinji also serves as a trustee and officer of the Amana Mutual Funds Trust, a growth and income mutual fund headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, along with SAAR co-executive Yaqub Mirza and Talat M. Othman.

He was listed as the successor registrant of Grover Norquist's defunct lobbying firm Janus-Merritt Strategies, after the departure of David Safavian. [ [http://www.madison.com/post/blogs/dailybriefing/55272 Good-Bye David Safavian] ]

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* [http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=jamal_barzinji CooperativeResearch - Jamal Barzinji]
* [http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2006/11/jamal_barzinji_.html Jamal Barzinji of the IIIT, Bank Islam & Bosnia]
* [http://vpap.org/donors/results_level2.cfm?Key=INP000272099 Virginia Public Access Project - Politican Donations - Barzinji, Jamal M]