The Al Kifah Refugee Center is a charity that was active in the United States[1] and was based in the Faruq Mosque in Brooklyn.
[2][3][4] Al Kifah Refugee Center had clandestine links to forces fighting in Afghanistan dating to the late 1980s, when the fighters enjoyed American support in their struggle against the Soviet occupiers.
that funds raised in the USA were covertly sent to Maktab al-Khidamat, an organization Osama bin Laden is said to have later transformed into al Qaeda[citation needed].
Cooperative Research asserts that Ali Mohamed, an instructor at Fort Bragg offered military and demolition training through the center.
[5] Newsweek reported that Aafia Siddiqui, who disappeared when she fell under suspicion of ties to terrorism, made large donations to the Al Kifah Refugee Center and Benevolence International.