Islamic Relief Worldwide, a Birmingham-based charity that received £3.2 million from the British government in 2013, claimed that an audit it commissioned has cleared the charity of allegations it funded terrorism; Israel has accused the charity of diverting funds to Hamas. A recently released US Senate report on post-9/11 CIA interrogations disclosed that information gained from former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg had led to the 2004 capture of al Qaeda’s Dhiren Birot a.k.a. ‘Issa al-Britani’ or ‘al-Hindi,’ who was plotting a dirty bomb attack in London. A British media outlet has exposed the activities of a prominent pro-Islamic State Twitter account based in India that communicated with British jihadists.
