Islamabad , Pakistan ( CNN ) -- As residents of the U.S. Northeast grapple with the destruction wrought by Superstorm Sandy , an offer of assistance has come from an unlikely quarter : the leader of a radical Muslim group in Pakistan that Washington has branded a terrorist group . `` We offer our unconditional support and help for the victims '' of the storm , Hafiz Mohammad Saeed , head of the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa , said in a statement late Tuesday . `` If U.S. government allows , we will send our doctors , relief and rescue experts , food and medicine on humanitarian grounds . '' India accuses Saeed of masterminding the 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai that killed 166 people -- an allegation he denies . The United States , which has declared Jamaat-ud-Dawa a terrorist organization and put up a $ 10 million reward for information leading to Saeed 's arrest and conviction , declined the offer . `` While we have great respect for Islamic tradition of social assistance to those who are in need no matter where they might be , this particular offer strikes us as very hollow , '' State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters Wednesday . Is Sandy a taste of things to come ? Saeed said in the statement posted on Jamaat-ud-Dawa 's Facebook page Tuesday that despite the bounty and U.S. allegations about his organization , helping Americans struck by adversity is `` our religious and moral obligation . '' `` Islam orders us to help them without discriminating between religion , cast or creed , '' he said in the statement , which was set against the backdrop of an apparently fabricated image of a scuba diver swimming through a submerged Times Square subway station . His organization said on its Twitter account that it had previously carried out relief efforts following natural disasters in Sri Lanka and Indonesia . Sandy 's impact : State by state . The `` wanted '' notice for Saeed issued by the State Department 's Rewards for Justice program in April described him as a former professor of Arabic and engineering who helped found Jamaat-ud-Dawa , which aims to bring about Islamist rule in India and Pakistan . The group 's military wing , Lashkar-e-Tayyiba , which means army of the pure , is blamed for violence in the disputed territory of Kashmir aimed at liberating Muslims . After the September 11 , 2001 , attacks in the United States , Lashkar-e-Tayyiba began operating outside Kashmir . It is suspected of carrying out several high-profile attacks in India in the past few years . How you can help storm victims . The United States labeled it a `` foreign terrorist organization '' in December 2001 , and under pressure from Washington , Pakistan banned it in 2002 . But the group continues to function freely . After the U.S. government announced the reward for his capture in April , Saeed appeared on Pakistani television and seemed unruffled by the move . `` I am living my life in the open and the U.S. can contact me whenever they want , '' he said . Saeed said the Pakistani Supreme Court had cleared him and his organization of wrongdoing in relation to the Mumbai attacks in which gunmen stormed locations throughout Mumbai , killing scores of people and taking hostages . Six American citizens were killed in the carnage . `` The U.S. government is listening to the Indian lobby and not making its own decisions , '' Saeed said regarding the allegations against him . He condemned the Mumbai attacks . Pakistani authorities have refused to take him into custody , saying they have n't received `` concrete evidence '' against him . The Indian government has issued a notice with Interpol against Saeed in relation to his alleged role in the attacks . India accuses him of participating in the training of the gunmen in the Mumbai attack and has charged him in absentia . Saeed has not been indicted in the United States , but the Treasury Department designated him and three other Lashkar-e-Tayyiba leaders as terrorists in 2008 . It froze their assets in the United States and prohibited Americans from doing any business with them . 'Heroic ' Iran , 'resistive ' Syria behind Sandy , pro-Assad group claims .
NEW : United States declines offer of aid from Hafiz Mohammad Saeed . U.S. government had offered $ 10 million for information leading to his capture . He is accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks in 2008 . He denies the allegations and says the Pakistani courts have cleared him .