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-Bruce from http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/default.aspx, October 19 Delhi edition, page 15 Tsunami funds in terror hands Drimi Chaudhuri Kolkata TSUNAMI DONATIONS post December 2004 may have been diverted to terror modules across the world believes US terrorism experts. Professor Jimmy Gurulé, former assistant attorney general of the United States and an expert on terrorist funding network, says the US government had identified around 48 charities, which directly or indirectly fund terrorist organisations. Some percentage of the multi-billion dollars donated by the international community towards tsunami rehabilitation were diverted to terror groups like Al-Qaeda, Gurulé said. While US Treasury and state departments are currently looking into the matter, some money might also have made its way to terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), which was behind the series blast on Mumbai local trains, he said. Gurulé, who was also Under Secretary for Enforcement, US Treasury Department from 2001 to 2003, said that his government has come out with a guideline in September, meant for the international community, suggesting the charities, which are genuine in their efforts and also the necessary checks and balances on how to donate money. In Saudi Arabia alone, some of these organisations collected as zakaat or religious donation around US $10 billion and $1 billion. Around one to four per cent of these funds are diverted for purposes of terror. Saudi-based International Islamic relief Organisation is one such organisation with offices in 20 countries and it has been found that the organisation has close ties with AlQaeda, he pointed out. Gurulé further said that another efficient system of funding terror outfits is through hawala, largely practiced in the sub-continent. 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