The investigation and prosecution of an Alabama resident accused of funding jihadist groups in the Middle East reveals how U.S.-based terrorist financiers coach one another on how to evade scrutiny, sources told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. On Oct. 29, a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Alabama charged Alaa Abusaad, a 22-year-old resident of Tuscaloosa County, with providing al-Qaida "material support or resources" by helping remit an unspecified amount of funds to the group from February to early April of this year. Abusaad during those two months used mobile phone encryption to communicate with an undercover FBI agent who, according...
According to the criminal complaint filed in the Northern District of Alabama, Alaa Mohd Abusaad has been charged for attempting to provide material support and resources to al-Qaida, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
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