Post-occupation Al-Hawza and the non-political murder — 1

In 2004 an arrest war­rant issued for Muq­tada Al-Sadr accused him of involve­ment in Al-Khoei mur­der, I don’t know who killed Al-Khoei, but I do know that his mur­der had noth­ing to do with pol­i­tics. The moti­va­tion was sim­ply: money and corruption.

In this post I will show you that all supreme Ayatollah’s in Iraq includ­ing Sis­tani must be ques­tioned as sus­pects involved with this mur­der, and step by step I will show you why he was murdered.

A scene of angry Shi­ite men blocked all roads lead to Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf scream­ing “City yes, Imam no” when the U.S. occu­pa­tion tanks tried to enter the city.

At the same event there was another scene which shocked and ter­ri­fied the pub­lic, pro­voked anger among the Shi­ites. They saw the son of one of the reli­gious author­i­ties wav­ing his hand from inside an Amer­i­can Abrams tank.

After few weeks, the vis­i­tor who lit­er­ally came on the back of an Amer­i­can tank is mur­dered, he was Abdul Majid Al-Khoei the eldest son of the late Shi­ite supreme-cleric Abu al-Qasim Al-Khoei .

Abdul Majid Al-Khoei returned to Najaf from Lon­don where he lived and run one of the largest Shi­ite insti­tu­tions (Al-Khoei Foun­da­tion in other Euro­pean coun­tries its called Ahl al Beit), so what is this foundation?

Imam Al-Khoei Foundation

Founded in 1989 by the for­mer supreme-cleric Abu Al Kasim Al-Khoei, appoint­ing his son Moham­mad Taqi Al khoei as the head of the orga­ni­za­tion, main task is to col­lect Shi­ite pub­lic dona­tion [Al Kumus, Al Nithuur…etc] to Al-Hawza.

Con­sid­er­ing the deter­ring sit­u­a­tion between Iran and the U.S., fears of impos­ing finan­cial embargo against Iran, the British gov­ern­ment con­vinced Moham­mad Taqi to move the head­quar­ter to Lon­don as a char­ity foun­da­tion to become (reli­gious cul­tural char­ity foun­da­tion).

Has branches in four con­ti­nents, Al Khoei Foun­da­tion is a giant finan­cial insti­tu­tions, a Black Hole vac­u­ums bil­lion dol­lars from Shi’a in Gulf Coun­tries and Islamic states, India, Pak­istan, Afghanistan and west­ern coun­tries with Shi’a communities.

After Al Khoei [the father] death, the foun­da­tion own­er­ship went to Sis­tani [Abdul Majid Al-Khoei’s first assis­tants “Al-Shahrastani” is mar­ried to Sistani’s sis­ter” and he rec­om­mended Sis­tani as the next supreme-cleric, told you before they are all one “mafia” fam­ily]. As stated in Al Khoei’s will that the Foun­da­tion goes to the next supreme-cleric while his son stay as the head of the Foun­da­tion, runs the business.

Moham­mad Taqi man­aged to smug­gle his brother Abd Al Majid Al Khoei out of Iraq to Lon­don to run this foun­da­tion. With­out ask­ing Sistani’s author­ity, the broth­ers used an amount of $750 mil­lion and bought a lux­u­ri­ous build­ing in Lon­don to become the foun­da­tions new head­quar­ter (next time I will tell you the story of the third brother).

The foun­da­tion became an inter­na­tional investor (super­mar­kets chains and tea fac­to­ries in East Asia, India and some invest­ments in Africa) after it is reg­is­tered by the UNESCO as a Her­itage Foun­da­tion (with the help of Leith Kubba for­mer Iraqi gov­ern­ment spokesman lob­by­ing by king Hus­sein of Jor­dan who medi­ated in the U.N.)

While the rest of the money dis­ap­peared, Sis­tani appointed a Board of Trustees headed by Lebanese cleric (Mohammed Mehdi Shams Al Din), to be hon­est, Shams Al Din tried to reform the orga­ni­za­tion and to return the $750 mil­lion spent by Mohammed Taqi, but he failed.

In his long res­ig­na­tion let­ter to Sis­tani, Shams Al Din wrote the following:

This Foun­da­tion is beyond Sistani’s reli­gious author­ity or his super­vi­sion, the Foun­da­tion insists on engag­ing in polit­i­cal activ­i­ties and par­tic­i­pat­ing in con­fer­ences of polit­i­cal nature, in favor of this state against other state.

Next we will see what Shams Al Din meant…

- What is Al-Hawza?

- Inside Al-Hawza.