The report said that the group drew financing in part from Pakistani expatriates in the Middle East, and that it used a front organization called Jamaat ud-Daawa to coordinate charitable activities, like relief for the victims of the October 2006 earthquake in Kashmir.
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Taking steps to avert a political turf war, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and the New York State attorney general, Eliot L. Spitzer, pledged yesterday to work together in coordinating the charitable response to the World Trade Center attack, their aides said.
B10 WORKING TOGETHER -- Mayor Giuliani and the state attorney general pledged to work together to coordinate the charitable response.
"This is absolutely the right decision," said Kathy Bushkin, president of the AOL Time Warner Foundation, which has played a leading role in trying to coordinate the charitable response to the attacks.
B2 Mourning in New York CHARITY PLAN -- Mayor Giuliani said he would coordinate the charitable groups responding to the attacks on the World Trade Center.
The federation, which coordinates the charitable efforts of 260 agencies in New York City, helps people work through emergency situations so that they can support themselves once more.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani announced yesterday that he would coordinate the charitable groups responding to the attacks on the World Trade Center, a move that comes only days after New York State's attorney general had taken steps to perform that function.
The dueling efforts to coordinate the charitable groups, and the $675 million in donations they have raised so far, left some relief officials baffled, and raised concerns that the plight of thousands of victims and their families might become entangled in a political turf war.
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