Financiers of extremist groups are slipping through the law enforcement cracks amid suspicions and accusations that the country is part of a vast network of terrorist cells.
Two weeks before the US warned that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria members in South Africa were increasingly helping to transfer funds to the militant group’s branches across the continent, Parliament heard that the South African authorities are failing to properly profile terrorist financiers.
This dire prognosis came just two weeks before the US announced on 1 March that people in this country “are playing an increasingly central role in facilitating the transfer of funds from the top of the Isis hierarchy to branches across Africa”. National police commissioner Khehla Sitole is set to step down at the end of this month in a move President Cyril Ramaphosa said was in the interest of the country.In a new development linking SA to terrorism claims, the US said on 1 March it had sanctioned four individuals: Farhad Hoomer of Durban, Siraaj Miller of Cape Town, Abdella Hussein Abadigga, an Ethiopian based in Joburg, and Peter Charles Mbaga, a Tanzanian based in Joburg.
“South Africa’s counter-terrorism strategy does not identify the pursuit of terrorist financiers as an operational mitigant in the fight against terrorism,” it said. The couple had both UK and South African citizenship and were botanists. They were making a documentary when attacked. Ghorshid, originally from Iraq, previously faced accusations of wanting to travel to Islamic State territory and join the fighting.
Former Dutch justice and security minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus, in response to a June 2018 question about whether he was aware of Mohammed G’s suspected involvement in the Saunders kidnappings, confirmed he was.Meanwhile, a case involving allegations about Hezbollah, which the US classifies as a terrorist organisation, has come full circle.
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