This document profiles 10 women who have been convicted of funding terrorist organizations. They include Aafia Siddiqui who raised money for Bosnian and Chechen groups and was sentenced to 86 years for attempted murder; Amina Farah Ali who raised $8,600 for al-Shabaab in Minnesota and was sentenced to 20 years; and Amera Akl who planned to smuggle cash to Hezbollah and was sentenced to 40 months in prison. The women funded or supported groups like al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab and the Taliban through activities such as wiring money, smuggling cash, and online incitement.

1. 10 women who
funded terrorism
By moneyjihad.wordpress.com

2. 
Raised money Bosnian &
Chechen front charities
Bought $10K of body
armor & other supplies
to support jihad
Sentenced in 2010 to 86
years in federal prison
for attempted murder &
other charges
Aafia Siddiqui

3. 
Raised $8,600 in
Minnesota for al-
Shabaab
Sentenced in 2013 to
20 years in prison
Assisted by fellow
Islamist girlfriend
Hawo Mohamed
Hassan
Amina Fara Ali

4. 
Wife of jihadist who
left UK to fight in
Syria
Hired girlfriend
Nwal Msaad to
smuggle 20,000 euros
in her panties to her
husband
Found guilty in
August 2014
Amal el Wahabi

5. 
Malika El Aroud
Incited jihad on the
Internet from Belgium
Prosecutors said “she
was a decision-maker
and fundraiser” for Al
Qaeda
Sentenced in 2010 to 8
years in prison for
establishing, leading
and financing a terrorist
group

6. 
 Sentenced to 8 years in prison for sending $1,450
from San Diego to al-Shabaab in 2012
Nima Ali Yusuf

7. 
Lebanese mother in
Ohio planned to
smuggle a car full of
cash to Hezbollah to
fight against Israel
Pleaded guilty to
conspiring to support a
foreign terror group
Sentenced to 40 months
in prison in 2011
Amera Akl

8. 
Funded the men of
“The Portland 7” who
attempted to enlist
with the Taliban
Pleaded guilty in 2003
Convicted on 6 counts
of money laundering
October Martinique
Lewis

9. 
Oytun Ayse Mihalik
Pharmacist wired $2,050 from California to
Pakistani terrorists
Sentenced to 5 years in prison in 2013

10. 
 Washington State woman was co-leader of an
international 5-woman cell of al-Shabaab financiers
 Arrested and charged in 2014
Hinda Osman Dhirane

11. 
Samantha Lewthwaite
 The “white widow” financed a 2011 Christmas bomb
plot in Mombasa, Kenya.
 Rumored to have funded or been involved with al-
Shabaab’s Westgate mall attack in Nairobi
 Still at large