British man added to US list of 'global terrorists' after being suspected of raising funds for Al Qaeda
- James Alexander McLintock is suspected of raising funds for Al Qaeda
- Dundee-born McLintock added to a list of global terrorists by US Treasury
- Accused along with three other men of raising money for terrorist groups
- McLintock, thought to be 52, believed to have converted to Islam in his 20s
Dundee-born James Alexander McLintock (pictured) is suspected of raising funds for Al Qaeda has been added to a list of global terrorists by the US Treasury
A British man suspected of raising funds for Al Qaeda has been added to a list of global terrorists by the US Treasury.
James Alexander McLintock, who is thought to be 52, is accused along with three other men of raising money for terrorist groups.
Born in Dundee, McLintock said in an interview with The Scotsman in 2004 that he had been a 'committed Jihadist' who fought in Afghanistan and Bosnia.
He told the newspaper he had converted to Islam in his 20s, changed his name to Yaqub McLintock and lived with his family in Pakistan.
McLintock said he started a charity and a news agency in the 1990s to show what was 'really happening' in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The US Treasury said his Pakistan-based Al-Rahmah Welfare Organisation (RWO) is a front that provides money for al Qaida, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba and other Afghan extremists groups under the guide of helping orphans.
Sanctions imposed on Thursday mean McLintock is on the department's list of specially designated global terrorists, freezes any property he has within US jurisdiction and bans Americans from doing business with him, AP reported.
Saudi Arabia also designated the same six suspected of having ties across Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
The US Treasury said in a statement: 'As of early 2013, McLintock recruited Afghan insurgents to obtain photos of children, Afghan identity documents, and cell phone numbers to create falsified dossiers used to obtain donations for RWO, which were funnelled to support al Qaida.
The US Treasury (pictured) said James Alexander McLintock's welfare organisation is a front that provides money for al Qaida, the Taliban and other Afghan extremists groups under the guide of helping orphans
'As early as 2010, McLintock used RWO and the cover of providing stipends to Afghan orphans to finance the Taliban's militant activities in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.'
The department said McLintock also regularly met with Taliban and other militant commanders.
McLintock received about £125,000 (180,000 US dollars) from donors in Britain between April 2011 and April 2012 and also received money from charities in the Persian Gulf and the United Kingdom, the US Treasury said.
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