Al Wafa al Igatha al Islamia
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There is another organization Jamaiat Al-Wafa LiRayat Al-Musenin
Jamaiat Al-Wafa LiRayat Al-Musenin
Jamaiat Al-Wafa LiRayat Al-Musenin is a charity which has been proscribed by the Israeli government for connections to Hamas.The charity is based in Gaza. Translated into English its name is the "Loyalty Society To Care For The Aged."...

 which is proscribed by the Israeli government.


Al Wafa is an Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

ic charity listed in Executive Order 13224
Executive Order 13224
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 as an entity that supports terrorism
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...

.
United States
United States
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 intelligence
Intelligence (information gathering)
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 officials state that it was founded in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 by Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil
Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil
Adel al Zamel is a citizen of Kuwait who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba....

,
Abdul Aziz al-Matrafi
Abdul Aziz al-Matrafi
Abdallah Aiza Al Matrafi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held for six years in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.He was born on July 12, 1964 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia....

 and Samar Khand.

According to Saad Madai Saad al-Azmi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...

 Al Wafa is located in the Wazir Akhbar Khan area of
Afghanistan.

Individuals alleged to have affiliation with Al Wafa

Individuals alleged to have affiliation with Al Wafa
Name Notes
Abdul Aziz al-Matrafi
Abdul Aziz al-Matrafi
Abdallah Aiza Al Matrafi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held for six years in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.He was born on July 12, 1964 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia....

 
  • Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil's CSRT alleges al-Matrafi is one of the founders of Al Wafa.
Zaid Muhamamd Sa'id Al Husayn
Zaid Muhamamd Sa'id Al Husayn
Zaid Muhamamd Sa'id Al Husayn is a citizen of Jordan held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Al Husayn's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 50....

 
  • "The detainee admits meeting a man named "Suhaib" in Kabul. Suhaib identified himself as being from Saudi Arabia and a member of Al Wafa. Suhaib assisted the detainee with a money exchange.
  • Saad Madai Saad al-Azmi 
  • Alleged to have worked for Al Wafa for three months in Kabul
    Kabul
    Kabul , spelt Caubul in some classic literatures, is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. It is also the capital of the Kabul Province, located in the eastern section of Afghanistan...

    .
  • Said Boujaadia
    Said Boujaadia
    -Testimony:The Department of Defense did not release a transcript of Boujaadia's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, implying he chose not to participate.-First annual Administrative Review Board:...

     
  • Boujaadia's CSRT allegations state: "The detainee is associated with the al Wafa organization. "
  • Khalid Bin Abdullah Mishal Thamer Al Hameydani
    Khalid Bin Abdullah Mishal Thamer Al Hameydani
    Khalid Abdullah Mishal al Mutairi is a Kuwaiti Charity Worker who was unlawfully detained in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. He was ordered released in August 2009, when it was determined that the law required the American government to prove his guilt, rather than...

     
  • Alleged to have worked for Al Wafa
  • Abd Al Aziz Sayer Uwain Al Shammeri
    Abd Al Aziz Sayer Uwain Al Shammeri
    -Summary of Evidence memo:A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared forAbd Al Aziz Sayer Uwain Al Shammeri'sAdministrative Review Board,on20 April 2005.The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention....

     
  • One of the charges in Al Shammeri's Kuwaiti trial was that he helped fund Al Wafa.
  • Al Shammeri was acquitted.
  • Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi
    Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi
    Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi was a Kuwaiti citizen, who washeld in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 220....

     
  • One of the charges in Al Ajmi's Kuwaiti trial was that he helped fund Al Wafa.
  • Al Ajmi was acquitted.
  • Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari
    Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari
    Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari is a citizen of Kuwait, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.-Press reports:...

     
    Abdullah Ali Al Utaybi
    Abdullah Ali Al Utaybi
    Summary of Evidence memos were drafted for Al Utaybi's annual reviews in 2005 and 2006.The 2005 memo was two pages long and listed 18 factors favoring continued detention and 5 factors favoring release or transfer.The 2006 memo was three pages long....

     
  • Bessam Muhammed Saleh Al Dubaikey's Combatant Status Review Tribunal alleges a traveling companion, named Abdullah Ali Al Utaybi, was a director of Al Wafa.
  • Juma Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossary
    Juma Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossary
    Jumah Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossari is a Bahraini, formerly held in the American prison for security detainees, Camp Delta, at the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay...

     
  • An al Qaida operative said that al Dosari's sheik may have supported al Wafa's efforts in Chechnya.
  • Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz Al Baddah
    Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz Al Baddah
    Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz Al Baddah is a citizen of Saudi Arabia best known for the four and a half years he spent in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba His Internment Serial Number was 264...

     
  • Alleged to have sent funds 4.5 million Saudi Riyals to al Wafa , through a hawala.
  • Alleged to have carried $7,000, by hand, to al Wafa, in June 2001.
  • Alleged to have stayed in an al Wafa house.
  • Alleged to have met Abdul Aziz Al Matrafi, and seen him carrying a rifle, and meet with other al Wafa leaders.
  • Alleged to have fled the US aerial bombardment of Afghanistan in the company of Abdul Aziz al-Matrafi.
  • Ibrahim Muhammed Ibrahim Al Nasir
    Ibrahim Muhammed Ibrahim Al Nasir
    Ibrahim Muhammed Ibrahim Al Nasir is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 271....

     
  • Al Nasir's CSRT allegations state: "The detainee visited the Al Wafa director in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2001. "
  • Abd Al Aziz Muhammad Ibrahim Al Nasir
    Abd Al Aziz Muhammad Ibrahim Al Nasir
    Abd Al Aziz Muhammad Ibrahim Al Nasir is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 273....

     
    Sa ad Ibraham Sa ad Al Bidna
    Sa ad Ibraham Sa ad Al Bidna
    Sa ad Ibraham Sa ad Al Bidna is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Al Bidna's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 337....

     
  • Al Bidna's ARB factors state that a Saudi al Qaida facilitator facilitated his illegal entry
    Illegal entry
    Illegal entry is the act of foreign nationals arriving in or crossing the borders into a country in violation of its immigration law.Migrants from nations that do not have automatic visa agreements, or who would not otherwise qualify for a visa, often cross the borders illegally in some areas like...

     into Pakistan.
  • Bessam Muhammed Saleh Al Dubaikey
    Bessam Muhammed Saleh Al Dubaikey
    Bessam Muhammed Saleh Al Dubaikey is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, who was held in extrajudicial detention at the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.Al Dubaikey's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 340....

     
  • Detained largely because he spent four days with a traveling companion, named Abdullah Ali Al Utaybi
    Abdullah Ali Al Utaybi
    Summary of Evidence memos were drafted for Al Utaybi's annual reviews in 2005 and 2006.The 2005 memo was two pages long and listed 18 factors favoring continued detention and 5 factors favoring release or transfer.The 2006 memo was three pages long....

    , who American intelligence analysts suspect was a director of Al Wafa.
  • Sami Mohy El Din Muhammed Al Hajj
    Sami Mohy El Din Muhammed Al Hajj
    Sami Mohy El Din Muhammed Al Hajj , aka Sami Al-Haj is a Sudanese journalist for the Al Jazeera network. In 2001, while on his way to do camera work for the network in Afghanistan, he was arrested by the Pakistani army and held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba for over...

     
  • Al Jazeera cameraman.
  • "After serving as the Al-Haramayn Director in Baku
    Baku
    Baku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...

    , Azerbaijan from 1997 to January 2000, Jiman Mohammed Alawi Al Muraai, aka Abu Wafa, took a job operating the Wafa offices in Karachi
    Karachi
    Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

    , Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

    ."
  • Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir
    Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir
    Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Bwazir's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 440....

     
    Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel
    Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel
    Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel is a citizen of Yemen currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts estimate that he was born in 1978, in Ta'iz, Yemen....

     
  • Haidel's CSRT allegations state: "The detainee provided general information about an al Wafa office in Kabul. "
  • Mustafa Ahmed Hamlily
    Mustafa Ahmed Hamlily
    -Transcript:On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the United States Department of Defense published a five page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.-First annual Administrative Review Board:...

     
  • Alleged to have worked for Al Wafa in Jalalabad
    Jalalabad
    Jalalabad , formerly called Adinapour, as documented by the 7th century Hsüan-tsang, is a city in eastern Afghanistan. Located at the junction of the Kabul River and Kunar River near the Laghman valley, Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar province. It is linked by approximately of highway with...

    .
  • Fouad Mahoud Hasan Al Rabia
    Fouad Mahoud Hasan Al Rabia
    Fouad Mahmoud al Rabiah is a Kuwaiti, who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba from May 2002 to Dec 2009.Al Rabia's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 551....

     
  • Alleged that he -likely- transferred money on behalf of Al Wafa.
  • Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari
    Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari
    Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti citizen who has been detained in Guantanamo Bay since 2002. He has been charged with war crimes.The US Department of Defense reports he was born on June 3, 1975 in Kuwait City....

     
  • Al Kandari's ARB factors state: "The detainee was associated with the Al Wafa organization. "
  • Abdul Hakim Abdul Rahman Abdulaziz Al Mousa
    Abdul Hakim Abdul Rahman Abdulaziz Al Mousa
    Abdul Hakim Abdul Rahman Abdulaziz Al Mousa is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 565....

     
  • Al Mousa's ARB factors state: "nformation strongly suggests that the detainee may be identifiable with senior personnel of al Wafa. "
  • Mohammed Sulaymon Barre
    Mohammed Sulaymon Barre
    Mohamed Saleban Bare is a Somali refugee who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba....

     
  • Ran the local Pakistani office of a Somalian money transfer company, named Dahabshiil
    Dahabshiil
    Dahabshiil is an international funds transfer company headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Formed in the early 1970s, the firm operates from over 24,000 outlets and employs more than 2,000 people across 144 countries. It provides a broad range of financial services to international...

    , that American counter-terrorism authorities suspected was tied to another money transfer company, named al-Barakat
    Al-Barakat
    al-Barakat or al-Barakaat , which means "Blessings" in Arabic, is a group of companies established in Somalia in 1986. Al-Barakat has involved itself in the modern form of hawala, an informal value transfer system, and the remittance trade. By 2001, it was operating in 40 countries and was the...

    , that they suspected was tied to terrorism.
  • The 911 Commission cleared al-Barakat of the suspicion it had been involved in financing the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
  • Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil
    Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil
    Adel al Zamel is a citizen of Kuwait who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba....

     
  • Alleged founder.
  • Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i
    Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i
    Alawi denied some of the allegations, and claimed that they contained contradictions. He admitted to being an employee of Al Haramayn, but not its director...

     
  • Mar'i's CSRT alleges he visited Al Wafa's Kabul office.
  • Ahmed Abdul Qader
    Ahmed Abdul Qader
    Ahmed Abdul Qader is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense estimated that he was born in 1984, in Sana'a, Yemen and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 690...

     
  • Once met with al-Matrafi.
  • Allah Nasir
    Allah Nasir
    -Transcript:Nasir participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a ten page summarized transcripts from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal....

     
  • Alleged to have worked for Al Wafa in Herat
    Herat
    Herāt is the capital of Herat province in Afghanistan. It is the third largest city of Afghanistan, with a population of about 397,456 as of 2006. It is situated in the valley of the Hari River, which flows from the mountains of central Afghanistan to the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan...

    .
  • Aminullah Baryalai Tukhi
    Aminullah Baryalai Tukhi
    -Administrative Review Board hearing:Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings...

     
  • "Detainee associated with the leader of al Wafa, Abdulla Aziz , and received payments for arranging the travel of individuals to and from Afghanistan."
  • Ismael Arale 
  • Alleged to have served as a money courier for al Matrafi.
  • Samar Khand 
  • Alleged founder.
  • Unidentified Guantanamo detainee
  • "Detainee observed that the leader of the Al-Wafa office in Kabul
    Kabul
    Kabul , spelt Caubul in some classic literatures, is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. It is also the capital of the Kabul Province, located in the eastern section of Afghanistan...

    , Afghanistan, known as ###### carried a Kalishnikov rifle
    AK-47
    The AK-47 is a selective-fire, gas-operated 7.62×39mm assault rifle, first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is officially known as Avtomat Kalashnikova . It is also known as a Kalashnikov, an "AK", or in Russian slang, Kalash.Design work on the AK-47 began in the last year...

    , as did several of other Al-Wafa workers located there. "
  • Abu Mohammed al-Somali 
  • Alleged to have been a senior leader in al Wafa who may have received funds raised by Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz Al Baddah
    Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz Al Baddah
    Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz Al Baddah is a citizen of Saudi Arabia best known for the four and a half years he spent in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba His Internment Serial Number was 264...

    .
  • Ramadan Abdul Walid al-Balushi al-Sindi 
  • Alleged to have transported funds raised by Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz Al Baddah
    Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz Al Baddah
    Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz Al Baddah is a citizen of Saudi Arabia best known for the four and a half years he spent in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba His Internment Serial Number was 264...

    to al Wafa.
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