[6] The organization has been called "an al Qaeda front that transfers millions from wealthy Saudis to bin Laden" by the U.S. Treasury Department.
[8] Documents in 1993 show that the Muwaqaf was located in Somalia, but its headquarters were recorded as being in Delaware, which has the most relaxed corporate disclosure requirements in the United States.
[8] The Muwafaq was also linked to mujahedeen operations in the Balkans and Europe, with offices registered in Croatia, Albania, Bosnia, Austria, and Germany.
[8] In 1995, Ramzi Yousef was arrested for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York which caused Pakistani authorities to raid the Islamabad offices of both Muwaqaf and another charity, Mercy International.
In the interview bin Laden named Muwaqaf in Zagreb, Croatia as a part of a humanitarian organization network of which he was a major supporter.
[8] In 1997, the bad publicity from the Africa Confidential article caused the Saudi government to end their operations, but its infrastructure, its legal system, and some of its schools and clinics were not ever formally dismantled.