Our tax dollars hard at work helping jihadists further their cause… (LWJ) – The administrator of the US Agency for International Development in Pakistan visited a relief camp established by the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a terrorist group supported by the Pakistani military, and delivered supplies to the camp. Rajiv Shah, the USAID chief, visited a camp yesterday in Sukkur run by the Falah-i-Insaniat, Dawn reported . Shah delivered two truckloads of supplies to the camp to be distributed by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, according to Yahya Mujahid, the terror groups’ spokesman. Falah-i-Insaniat is a known front for the for the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which in itself is a charitable front for the al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba. Falah-i-Insaniat was established in 2009 after the United Nations added Jamaat-ud-Dawa to its list of proscribed terror groups. The charitable front established relief camps and delivered aid to Pakistanis fleeing military operations in Swat and the Malakand District that began in the spring of 2009. These camps also served as fertile recruiting grounds for the Jamaat-ud-Dawa/Lashkar-e-Taiba. Background on Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamaat-ud-Dawa’s extensive links with al Qaeda and Pakistan’s military intelligence service The Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamaat-ud-Dawa and its founder, Hafiz Saeed, have strong links to al Qaeda and elements within Pakistan’s military and the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI. Osama bin Laden and his mentor Abdullah Azzam encouraged Saeed to form Lashkar-e-Taiba in the late 1980s, and helped fund the establishment of the terror outfit. Lashkar-e-Taiba, like al Qaeda, practices the Wahabi strain of Islam, and receives funding from Saudis and other wealthy individuals throughout the Middle East. Keep reading…
