Jamaat Ul-Fuqra

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

Jamaat ul-Fuqra (JF) or "community of the impoverished", a terrorist outfit operating in Pakistan and North America, was formed by a Pakistani cleric, Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, in New York in 1980, on his first visit to the US. Mubarak Gilani's intention in forming the outfit was to 'purify' Islam through violence. Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, who calls himself the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr, is the chief of JF. Jamaat ul-Fuqra is headquartered in Hancock, New York. 

A media report has indicated that the JF is being probed for links with Richard Reid (->), a Briton, accused of trying to use explosives in his shoes to blow up a Paris-to-Miami jetliner on December 22, 2001. 

Gilani was later under investigation for money laundering from the US into Pakistan and vice versa. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating connections between a small black Muslim community in California's Sierra Nevada valley, called Baladullah and the JF. Source: http://www.kashmirherald.com/profiles/jamaatulfuqra.html

Gilani was interrogated regarding the killing of Daniel Pearl. He could confirm, that Pearl was on his way to interview him, when he was kidnapped. It is assumed, even by US intelligence, that Jamaat ul-Fuqra and/or Pearls killers have strong ties to ties Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate (Isi). 

Al Fuqra, which used to be known as Jamaat-ul-Fuqra, "is a splinter group of the extremist Army of Muhammad, a jihadi organization recently banned by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. It has had long-standing connections with senior ISI officials, State Department analysts said. 

The links are so clear, said former CIA chief of counterterrorism Vince Cannistraro (->), that "Gilani has some former senior ISI official sitting on the board of his organization." Al Fuqra has close ties with another Pakistani extremist group, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, which, significantly, was left off Musharraf's Jan. 12 list of banned organizations. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/1/30/182250.shtml 

Daniel Pearl, former head of the Wall Street Journal's bureau in Bombay, India, was officially investigating on Richard Reid.