Mustafa Shalabi

Mustafa Shalabi was a founder of several charities alleged to have links to terrorism who was found murdered on February 25, 1991.[1]

Shalabi was an early associate of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, after Abdel-Rahman's arrival in the United States.[2] Funds he raised are said to have been used to finance the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Abdel-Rahman is said to have circulated a denunciation of Shalabi in early 1991.[1] Shalabi took this threat seriously enough to send his wife back to Egypt. Shalabi was found murdered a few days later. Abdel-Rahman denied knowledge of any plots to assassinate Shalabi, but the assassination is attributed to his followers.[2]

The Al Kifah Refugee Center that Shalabi founded has been described as of pivotal importance in Operation Cyclone—America's covert program to send radical, foreign, militant, fundamentalist, Islamists to Afghanistan, to strengthen the resistance against the Communists.[3] Maktab al-Khadamat, the organization Osama bin Laden was to hijack and turn into al Qaeda was one of the main beneficiaries of the American aid funneled through questionable charities like al Kifah.

According to Gerald Posner's book Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11:

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