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January 9, 2006
UK: Natwest Bank Is Sued For Allowing Islamist Charity Account
With a hat-tip to Joshuapundit , the Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that one of Britain's leading high street banks, the National Westminster, or Natwest, is currently being sued by US victims of Palestinian terrorism.
The lawsuit, filed in New York's Federal Court, accuses the bank of allowing a recognised Hamas charity, to open an account and transfer funds. The charity is called Interpal, and is fronted by UK convert to Islam, Ibrahim Hewitt (pictured below, right). The bank was warned by Mossad and UK intelligence agencies about the real nature of its client, but refused to prevent Interpal from having an account. Hamas is an active supporter and instigator of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.
If found guilty, Natwest could be made to pay millions of dollars in damages.
Zvi Weiss was left severely wounded as a result of the bombing of the No. 2 bus in Jerusalem in August 2003, which left 22 people dead.Pardon my schadenfreude, but I would love to see Natwest guilty. After being a customer for seven years, I over-ran my overdraft. Even though I repaid everything, I was told I could not have an account. And Ibrahim Hewitt, who has mendaciously tried to compare Israeli bulldozing of Palestinian settlements with 6,000,000 victims of the Holocaust under Hitler - this schmuck's Hamas-involved charity gets an account? Bastards.....One of Weiss's lawyers, Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, told The Jerusalem Post that there was clear evidence to suggest that money from Saudi Arabia reached Hamas terrorists via Interpal.
"In 2003, both the US and British governments declared that the charity in question was undoubtedly linked to a functioning terrorist organization and all their bank accounts were frozen," she added.
As an aside, the National Westminster Bank was one of two high street banks which decided in October to ban all images of pigs and piggy banks from their advertising and from their premises. This was done, in case it offended Muslims. The other dhimmi bank was the Halifax. I bank with neither.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 9, 2006 5:59 PM
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