Mohammed Jamal Khalifa: Businessman Or Al Qaeda Terrorist Financier

Mohammed Jamal Khalifa was one of Osama Bin Laden's trusted contacts, while also being married to one of his sisters. Khalifa had later been accused by US authorities of funding terror plots and groups in the Philippines in the 1990s while head of the International Islamic Relief Organization branch there while also setting up legitimate charity organizations and businesses. Khalifa was also suspected of being one of the major financiers of the 1995 international terror plot, Bojinka, which was to have 12 airliners outfitted with bombs, assassinate Pope John Paul II, while having a single hijacked plane crash into CIA Langley in Virginia. After 2001 Khalifa would denounce Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, suggesting Bin Laden denounce terrorism. He was later suspected of being behind a series of theater bombings in Jordan, for which he was later found innocent of. In 2007 he was assassinated by a unknown group of people in which he was stabbed and hacked to death in Madagascar. The suspects were never arrested.