U.S. Treasury Department: Islamic Finance 101 Training
http://www.saneworks.us/uploads/news/applications/7.pdf
--- seminar to training U.S. Treasury Department employees in Islamic Finance in DC on November 6, 2008
---- speakers to include: Mahmoud El-Gamal, Rice University; Sarah Bell, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, Shariah Capital; Rushdi Siddiqui, Dow Jones Indexes; Michael McMillen – Islamic Legal Forum, American Bar Association; David Loundy – VP & Corporate Counsel, Devon Bank

--- Speaker Shaykh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo has worked for the pro-Wahhabist International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) organization and who was secretary of the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) beginning in 1989.  IIIT was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum as one of the Muslim Brotherhood's like-minded "organizations of our friends."  The Investigative Project has linked members of the FCNA to Islamist extremism and terrorism.  DeLorenzo was the Wall Street Journal's "Chief Shariah Officer" for a November 18, 2007 conference promoting Sharia Finance.
--- See Jeffrey Imm November 14, 2007 article: "Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, and Islamist Financing"
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/070.html

----- hat tip to ACT for America!