The Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina was an aid agency operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina funded by Saudi Arabia.David Pallister "Terrorist material found in Sarajevo charity raid" The Guardian 23 February 2002. Retrieved 21 November 2013 Set up in 1993 during the Bosnian War to assist Bosnian Muslims, it was forced to close in 2001 after being linked to Islamist terrorism.
Founded by Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz with support from King Fahd, it reportedly spent $600 million in aid,Saudi Charity Dropped From Suit over Sept. 11 Attacks Law and was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in 2001. In 2001, after the September 11 attacks, the commission's Sarajevo office was raided by NATO forces, who found material relating to those attacks and the bombings of USS Cole and US embassies in Africa, along with materials for forging US State Department badges. An employee, Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar, was detained in Camp X-Ray for an alleged plot to attack the US embassy in SarajevoHarvard International Review: Eradicating Evil and released without charge in 2009. In 2002 U.S. authorities said $46 million of the commission's funds was unaccounted for.
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