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Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) concerning Al-Qaida and the Taliban and Associated Individuals and Entities

NARRATIVE SUMMARIES OF REASONS FOR LISTING
QI.Q.22.01. YASIN ABDULLAH EZZEDDINE QADI

Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 08.13.2009

Yasin Abdullah Ezzedine Qadi was listed on 17 October 2001 pursuant to paragraph 8 (c) of resolution 1333 (2000) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of”, “supplying, selling, or transferring arms and related material to”, “recruiting for” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Usama bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01) and the Taliban.

Additional information:

Yasin Abdullah Ezzedine Qadi has acknowledged that he is a founding trustee and directed the actions of the Muwafaq Foundation. The Muwafaq Foundation historically operated under the umbrella of Makhtab al-Khidamat (QE.M.12.01), an organization founded by Abdullah Azzam and Usama Muhammad Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), and the predecessor to Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01). Following the dissolution of Makhtab al-Khidamat in early June 2001 and its absorption into Al-Qaida, a number of NGOs formerly associated with Makhtab al-Khidamat, including the Muwafaq Foundation, also joined with Al-Qaida.

In 1992, Qadi hired Shafiq ben Mohamed ben Mohamed al-Ayadi (QI.A.25.01) to head the European offices of the Muwafaq Foundation. During the mid-1990s, Al-Ayadi also headed the Muwafaq Foundation branch in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Qadi hired Al-Ayadi on the recommendation of known Al-Qaida financier Wa’el Hamza Abd al-Fatah Julaidan (QI.J.79.02), who fought with Usama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 1980s. At the time of his appointment by Al-Qadi as the Muwafaq Foundation’s European director, Al-Ayadi was operating under agreements with Usama bin Laden. Al-Ayadi went to Afghanistan in the early 1990s to receive paramilitary training, and then went to Sudan with others to meet Usama bin Laden, with whom they concluded a formal agreement regarding the reception and training of Tunisians. They later met with Usama bin Laden a second time, securing an agreement for Bin Laden collaborators in Bosnia and Herzegovina to receive Tunisian fighters from Italy.

In 1995, the leader of Al-Gama’at al Islamiyya, Talad Fuad Kassem, said that the Muwafaq Foundation had provided logistical and financial support for a fighters’ battalion in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the mid-1990s, the Muwafaq Foundation was involved in providing financial support for terrorist activities of the fighters, as well as arms trafficking from Albania to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Some involvement in the financing of these activities was provided by Usama bin Laden.

Qadi was also a major shareholder in the now closed Sarajevo-based Depositna Banka, in which Al-Ayadi also held a position and acted as a nominee for Qadi’s shares. Planning sessions for an attack against a United States facility in Saudi Arabia may have taken place at this bank.

Qadi further owned several firms in Albania which funneled money to extremists or employed extremists in positions where they controlled the firm’s funds. Bin Laden provided the working capital for up to five of Qadi’s companies in Albania.

 

Related listed individuals and entities:

Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Makhtab al-Khidamat (QE.M.12.01), listed on 6 October 2001

Usama Muhammad Awad bin Laden (QI.B.8.01), listed on 25 January 2001
Shafiq ben Mohamed ben Mohamed al-Ayadi (QI.A.25.01), listed on 17 October 2001
Wa’el Hamza Abd al-Fatah Julaidan (QI.J.79.02), listed on 11 September 2002