“Testifying before Congress on August 1, 2002, Matthew Levitt, a senior fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, noted that Tarik Hamdi, an IIIT [Saudi-based charity International Institute for Islamic Thought] employee, had personally provided Osama bin Laden with batteries for his satellite phone, a critical link in the stateless world that bin Laden inhabits. IIIT and [the] SAAR [Foundation–another Saudi-based charity] are suspected of helping finance Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, home to some of the most accomplished suicide bombers in the Middle East. From 1986 to 1994, Muhammad Jamal Khalifa, brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, ran the IIRO’s [Saudi-based charity International Islamic Relief Organization] Philippine office, from which he channeled funds to al Qaeda. Only excellent work by the Indian police prevented another IIRO employee, Sayyid Abu Nasir, from bombing the U.S. consulates in Calcutta and Madras.”
– Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil, Page 69