Read about how USAID has aided terrorist groups through NGOs, from Hamas in Gaza to LeT in Pakistan, as it stands exposed under the Trump administration.

The United States government’s international assistance, humanitarian relief, and development arm, USAID (the United States Agency for International Development), is in massive trouble. During the course of a few weeks under Donald Trump’s presidency, much of the agency was dismantled, its website went offline, the officials and staff encountered furloughs, firings and disciplinary leaves.

Notably, the agency’s work was halted, and transactions were frozen. Lawmakers claimed that USAID’s computer servers were taken away. Further elaborating on his plans, Trump also stated that closing down USAID “should have been done a long time ago.” He has referred to it as a component of the “deep state” and his administration recently provided information on the “ridiculous” initiatives that the agency funded over the years. However, USAID is under fire for its much darker purpose.

USAID’s influence was evident in its attempts to install puppet governments under the banner of revolution and democracy in nations such as Ukraine and Bangladesh. It cultivated close ties with radical leftist billionaire George Soros, who is notorious for his role in facilitating regime changes around the world. USAID even had connections with infamous purveyors of disinformation.

Moreover, the agency which is now facing the criticism of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) supremo Elon Musk exerted extra efforts to topple the Modi government and set up a favourable administration. USAID had its hands in every pot but its most alarming involvement pertained to its financial support and relationships with multiple Islamist and terrorist organisations.

USAID funds Pakistan-based terrorism and extremism in South Asia
As per reports, USAID provided assistance to an anti-Indian outfit that the US government has designated as a terrorist organization. It funded the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) based in Pakistan. The 26/11 assaults in Mumbai, which left 166 people dead and over 300 injured, were carried out by LeT. The Pakistani terrorists brutally murdered their victims, including six Americans. More shockingly, USAID continued to offer support to the foundation in spite of being under investigation for doing the same.
Both India and the United States labeled the LeT and its front Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) as terrorist organizations as they executed attacks and encouraged terrorism in India, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir. The use of American public funds to support an organization that the US government outlawed in 2010 was a striking example of the contradictions and hypocrisy inherent in the nation’s foreign policy.

A US State Department document, banning the outfit read, “The FIF is a Pakistan-based organisation that is closely connected to banned terrorist group LeT and its humanitarian front Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD). In essence, FIF is JUD with a new name, designed to evade scrutiny and sanctions,” and linked it to the 2008 Mumbai attacks. USAID, which handled more than half of US foreign aid, was conveniently unaware that its own government outlawed FIF.

A Muslim organization “Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD),” located in Michigan with connections to jihadist groups active in South Asia was the conduit for the aid. Established in 2005, HHRD claims to be “a global humanitarian relief and development organization responding to human suffering in emergency and disaster situations around the world.”

The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the American branch of the violent South Asian extremist group Jamaat-e-Islami, has an overseas relief arm named “Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD).” In 2017, the Middle East Forum unveiled that HHRD had collaborated with the political and philanthropic branches of Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba to host a seminar at a government-run college in Pakistan. These results triggered an investigation by USAID’s Inspector General as well as many congressional probes.