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Britain
Top UK charities give £200,000 to al-Awlaki supporters
2010-11-07
Cageprisoners, a self-styled human rights organisation, has a long association with Anwar al-Awlaki, who was last week accused of being one of the figures behind the terrorist plot to blow up cargo planes which saw a powerful device defused at East Midlands Airport.

The Islamic preacher, based in Yemen, was invited to address two Cageprisoners' fundraising dinners via video link, one last year and one in 2008.

The group has now told its backers that it no longer supports the cleric and that it "disagreed" with him over "the killing of civilians". But an examination of the Cageprisoners website last week suggested that its support for the cleric was as strong as ever.

Cageprisoners was set up to lobby on behalf of terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay and those monitored under control orders in the UK.

The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that it is being funded by the Joseph Rowntree Trust, a Quaker-run fund set up by the chocolate-maker and philanthropist a century ago, and The Roddick Foundation, a charity set up by the family of Anita Roddick, the Body Shop founder, after her death three years ago.
Fire the executive teams of the charities, and look closely into the members of the boards of directors.
In its website, recently re-branded with some of the charities' cash, Cageprisoners carries more than 20 articles about al-Awlaki, describing him as an 'inspiration' and casting doubt on the evidence he is involved in terrorism.

Yet despite the heads of both MI5 and MI6 saying Awlaki uses the internet to foment terrorism, the Cageprisoners website also contains video messages from the American-born radical.

Cageprisoners - a not for profit company - is headed by Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, and also employs Feroz Ali Abbasi, another detainee freed from the controversial US base.
A pity Gantanamo won't take them back, but this means England can lock 'em up instead.
As recently as last month its website highlighted claims by Yemeni politicians that they had "never been given evidence against [Awlaki]".
Posted by:lotp

#2  Not much different than all the old charitable trusts set up by the industrial barons, that have bankrolled leftist causes.
Posted by: Pappy   2010-11-07 09:37  

#1  ...the Joseph Rowntree Trust, a Quaker-run fund set up by the chocolate-maker and philanthropist a century ago...

The Quakers should not be so naive. Giving money to supporters (Cageprisoners) of al-Awlaki will only promote war, murder and violence, and terrorism.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-11-07 09:24  

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