COMMENT: For almost a decade, we have been covering the Operation Green Quest raids of 3/20/2002 and the subsequent, ongoing subversion of the investigation into the funding of Islamist terrorism.
(Operation Green Quest is the operation launched in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 with the specific aim of cutting off funding for Islamic terrorist organizations, such as Al Qaeda, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad–all of them offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood. When the 2002 raids were executed, the investigation went right to the top of the Bush administration and the GOP.)
Although a number of institutions and individuals were raided on that date, Yaqub Mirza, who set up the institutions that were raided, was never arrested.
In addition to the links between the milieu raided on 3/20/2002 and the administration of George W. Bush, Bush friend and business partner Talat Othman and GOP bigwigs Karl Rove and Grover Norquist, one of the reasons for the curtailment of the investigation may be Nick Kaiser.
Yes, that’s Nick Kaiser of THE Kaisers, as in Kaiser Hospitals, Kaiser Permanente, shipbuilding, etc.
Nick Kaiser partnered with Yaqub Mirza in setting up Islamic equity entities. (There is no indication that Kaiser is involved in terrorist funding. People and institutions associated with his milieu were.)
All of which goes to show that power will be served. The U.S. is under the Golden Rule–he who has gold rules. Doesn’t matter if you fund terrorism, if you’re rich and Republican, you’re in like Flynn.
EXCERPT: Investors in 1984, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) approached Nick Kaiser, an experienced mutual fund manager in Indianapolis with the idea that Islamic investors had needs that were not being met. Kaiser, now president of Saturna Capital Corporation, worked with NAIT to start the first fund in North America specifically designed to meet the needs of the Muslim investor – the Amana Income Fund. A second portfolio, the Amana Growth Fund, began operations in 1994. A third portfolio, the Amana Developing World Fund, began operations in 2009.
Today, the three Amana Funds represent over $2 Billion invested according to the principles of sharia. Saturna Capital is the investment adviser of the Fund and makes the daily investment selections. Eight Amana trustees make the major decisions about operations of the Fund, review actions of the investment adviser, and set investment policies. . . .
COMMENT: Kaiser’s Saturna is partnering with an Australian group that has strong connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
EXCERPT: Regional media is reporting that Saturna Capital, a U.S. Islamic investment firm with strong ties to the Global Muslim Brotherhood, has entered into an agreement with an Australian “Islamic wealth manager” with its own ties to the Australian Muslim Brotherhood in a connection with a new Islamic equity fund to be launched in Australia later this year. According to the report:
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