Saudi High Commission for Aid to Bosnia
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The Saudi High Commission for Aid to Bosnia was a charity organization founded in 1993 by Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz and supported by King Fahd. Reportedly, it had contributed $600 million in aid to Bosnian Muslims impoverished by the civil war in the former Yugoslavia before being forcibly closed in 2001.[1]
Among the items found at Sarajevo premises the Saudi High Commission when it was raided by NATO forces in October, 2001 were before-and-after photographs of the World Trade Center, US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the USS Cole; maps of government buildings in Washington; materials for forging US State Department badges; files on the use of crop duster aircraft; and anti-Semitic and anti-American material geared toward children. Among six Algerians who would later be incarcerated at the Camp X-Ray detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba for plotting an attack on the US embassy in Sarajevo were two employees of the Commission, including a cell member who was in telephone contact with Osama bin Laden aid and al Qaeda operational commander Abu Zubayda.[2]
Its counsel is Washington, DC-based Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner LLP.
