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Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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name	Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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dissolved
founder	Salman of Saudi Arabia
area_served	Bosnia and Herzegovina

|Non-profit_slogan= The Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina was an aid agency operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina funded by Saudi Arabia. Set up in 1993 during the Bosnian War to assist Bosnian Muslims, it was forced to close in 2001 after being linked to Islamist terrorism.

Founded by Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz with support from King Fahd, it reportedly spent $600 million in aid, and was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in 2001. In 2001, after the September 11 attacks, the commission's Sarajevo office was raided by NATO forces, who found material relating to those attacks and the bombings of USS Cole and US embassies in Africa, along with materials for forging US State Department badges. An employee, Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar, was detained in Camp X-Ray for an alleged plot to attack the US embassy in Sarajevo and released without charge in 2009. | access-date=2010-05-16

References

David Pallister [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/feb/23/davidpallister "Terrorist material found in Sarajevo charity raid"] ''The Guardian'' 23 February 2002. Retrieved 21 November 2013
[http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1127811912376 Saudi Charity Dropped From Suit over Sept. 11 Attacks] Law
"King Faisal International Prize".
[http://hir.harvard.edu/archives/1080 Harvard International Review: Eradicating Evil] {{webarchive. link. (20 June 2015)

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