Despite laws, rules and policies prohibiting it, European funding of terrorism continues.

Interpal's Essam Yousef feted by arch-terrorist head of Hamas,
Ismail Haniyeh, in June 2011 [Image Source]

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
07 January '13..

So long as money flows into the hands of terrorists, acts of terrorism are in almost no danger of being stopped. While most people will not argue with that, it's far from clear that we - even the civilized, well-educated and cultured among us - agree on who the terrorists are. Result: the misery, destruction and deaths go on.

Exactly six years and one week ago, we wrote here about a British charity called Interpal [see "31-Dec-06: Terror Sinks Roots in Even the Best of Neighbourhoods"] following an expose broadcast on the BBC investigative program, Panorama.

We pointed out at the time that Interpal (full name: Palestinian Relief and Development Fund) had been certified by the US authorities as a terrorist front organization - see this 2003 US Treasury announcement declaring several organizations including Interpal as “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” groups. But we noted that Interpal was happily continuing to do business in the UK, riding above the storm. We referred to a transcript of the Panorama programme (here) and to an online streaming-video version of the entire one-hour program headlined "Faith, hate and charity".

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