Now Who Would Have Thought It, Two Seemingly Moderate Muslims, Admit To Funding Terrorism?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3819504/London-couple-sent-hundreds-pounds-ISIS-fighter-nephew.html

[jackthehat]

They have been caught, tried and found guilty and will be imprisoned (I hope).......nothing to complain about, there.

[andy-hughes]

I am not sure where you get the 'seemingly moderate' bit from AOG - this couple knew their nephew was an Isis sympathiser, and the sent him money - I can't see anything 'moderate' about that.

[Mamyalynne]

It will be interesting to see the sentences handed down in November.

Glad they were caught.

[Gromit]

They sent s couple of hundred quod to their nephew.

Not really in the same league as the United States who have funded IS and al Nusra. They have sent $billions, including hundreds of Toyota Trucks.

http://m.journal-neo.org/2015/10/09/the-mystery-of-isis-toyota-army-solved/

[Gromit]

// The Portland International Jetport’s new pavement isn’t the only blacktop of its kind on American soil. Four hundred miles south, highways outside Philadelphia are lined with the same mixture, as are hundreds of potholes on the streets of New York City, a four-month-long International Business Times investigation found.

These are but a few of the many places where ISIS’ oil ends up as part of an illicit business that helps fund the group’s reign of terror, according to Kurdish officials and local police documents. Part of what makes the Islamic State group, known as ISIS, so difficult to defeat is its diverse revenue stream. The Sunni militant group draws income from taxes it levies on the people in conquered lands, kidnapping ransoms and other forms of extortion. But it also makes money to fuel attacks like the ones in Brussels last week by selling a steady stream of oil that flows from ISIS-controlled territories in Iraq to the U.S., parts of Europe and Israel. It’s a constant source of money — as much as $1 million per day at its height — that U.S. and Iraqi officials have failed to halt. //

So America are paying ISIS $1million a day for its stolen oil, and a couple bunging £230 to their nephew get prosecuted and a possible jail term. Right ho.

[naomi24]

Doesn't make it right though, does it Gromit.

[agchristie]

Helping a young relation out for the purpose of funding terrorism.

Proves that they believe blood is thicker than water..

[Gromit]

// ‘The Crown say whether the money was intended or thought to be intended for material in terms of military purposes or subsistence is irrelevant.’ //

£230 isn't going to buy many TOW launchers ($60,000 each, and apparently IS have them coming out of their ears).
£230 would buy the young man clothing and meals (subsistance).
Their guilty pleas are because the law does not differentiate what the terrorist uses the money for.

[youngmafbog]

Right on brother Gromit.

[naomi24]

Well, I'm guessing that's ok then. ;o)

[Gromit]

I wonder if Aunty sent a Postal Order?

[Peter Pedant]

£230 ? I thought it was £219 !

and yeah how many grenades does that equal ?

problem is that there is no de minimis ( = also materiality ) rule in the money laundering regs