In re: TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001., 2012 WL 257568 (2012) The pleadings further allege that the relationship between these charities and al-Qaeda’s terrorism was widely known and publicly reported. Throughout the 1990s, numerous media reports and statements by government officials disclosed similar facts, including the terrorist activities of al Haramain, IIRO, and WAMY. JA 2596-97, 4337-38, 7891-94. For example, a major Egyptian newspaper, Rose Al Yusuf, reported in late 1992 “that the ITRO and the Bin Laden Organization in Egypt recruited and *96 sponsored more than 700 Arab operatives to travel to Afghanistan to train as jihadist terrorists.” JA2596. International media reported “that the Cairo office of the IRO was managed by the bin Laden family and Mohamad Showki Al Istanbul, who was sentenced to death in Egypt for his Islamic extremist activities.” Jd. Another newspaper reported that “Tt]he ITIRO was shut down by Egyptian authorities later in 1993 or early 1994 as a result of the charity’s links to Osama Bin Laden.” Jd. An article in Rose Al Yusuf provided: Working with Palestinian Islamist Shaykh Abdallah Azzam, Bin-Ladin set up the ‘Jihad and Relief” guesthouse in Peshawar to receive volunteers who would arrive after a short stop in the al-Ansar guesthouse in Jeddah. The route of this process passed through the unlicensed Cairo office of the [MWL], directed by Dr. Abdallah Umar Nasif. JA2596-97. In addition, public testimony from a high-level al-Qaeda operative prior to September 11, 2001, “described how Osama Bin Laden’s brother-in-law, convicted terrorist and IIRO employee, Jamal Khalifa, opened a [MWL] office in Pakistan for the use of the founders of al Qaeda to recruit, train and equip al Qaeda terrorists.” JA2597. Moreover, it is entirely reasonable to conclude that the defendants were aware of these facts based on their obligation under the Koran to *97 inquire into the source of their zakat and haram donations, many of which went to