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| Report Says Bin Laden Paid Bail In Canada |
| 2002-12-17 |
| Source: National Post Osama bin Laden sent two operatives to Canada to post bail for a jailed member of his al-Qaeda network, according to the newly released confession of an Egyptian who travelled to Vancouver to act as middleman in the transaction. "I'll talk! I'll talk! Just give me something to drink besides (ugh!) Molson!" The two al-Qaeda members were dispatched to B.C. with US$3,000 to secure the release of Essam Hafez Marzouk, according to a transcript of the interrogation of Abul-Dahab, the middle-man, obtained last week by the SITE Institute terrorism research group in Washington, D.C. Marzouk, who was arrested in 1993 upon arrival at Vancouver airport, knew bin Laden from the Soviet war in Afghanistan and later ran one of his terrorist training camps. Abul-Dahab, one of the men sent to help him, was a sales representative for a chemical company and described the trip as a "jihad mission" to free Marzouk. "We're gonna bust this guy out! Gimme some dough!" Abul-Dahab said he was instructed to withdraw the money from a California bank account and give it to another al-Qaeda agent, Ali Mohamed. Both Abul-Dahab and Ali Mohamed travelled to B.C. with the cash "to try and release jihad member Essam Mohamed Hafez Marzouk who had been arrested by Canadian authorities, and to pay his bail," according to the Egyptian police report. He said he was told that "this money was from Osama bin Laden to help Essam Mohamed Hafez who was imprisoned in Canada," according to a transcript of his interrogation. He said bin Laden's money was delivered to Marzouk's Vancouver lawyer. "Okay, Lawyer. Here's the money. If this don't work, we use guns..." However the lawyer, Phil Rankin, told the National Post he did not recall getting any money from Marzouk's colleagues. "I have no recollection of ever receiving money from anybody but Marzouk," he said. "Maybe his wife brought me some money at some point, I can't recall that even." "I know nossing! Nossing! Tell them, Hogan!" Marzouk was arrested for carrying a false Saudi passport. He spent almost a year in detention in B.C. but was released and his claim for refugee status was accepted. I don't think there's any such thing as a genuine Soddy passport... Only later did Canadian and U.S. intelligence agents discover that Marzouk was not only a veteran of the war in Afghanistan but also an active member of the Egyptian wing of al-Qaeda, Al Jihad. He is suspected of involvement in planning the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 200. That certainly wouldn't disqualify him for refugee status in Canada. It ain't like Tanzania's someplace in Manitoba, and even if it was, there weren't all that many killed, and most of them were some sort of Africans... He left Canada in 1997, reportedly to fight the Serbs in Kosovo, and was later found in Azerbaijan and taken to Egypt, where he is now jailed. Ummm... Azerbaijan is not now and never has been in Kosovo. There aren't any Serbs there, either. There are a few Islamists, though... Last fall, stationery belonging to his B.C. company, 4-U Enterprises, was found in an al-Qaeda safehouse in Kabul. Oh, shucks. There's a perfectly logical explanation for that. It's, ummm... Before his arrest on terror-related charges, Abul-Dahab was involved in the financing of al-Qaeda operations. He would receive "jihad money transfers" from bin Laden aides and redirect them to terrorist cells around the world. The money went "to various jihad stations in Pakistan, Egypt, Yemen, Australia and Canada," the Egyptian police report says. One of the transfers to Pakistan "was used to fund the bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad," it says. Muslim charity dollars at work. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 I hate terrorists. They change the spelling of their names to confuse westerners. Some Arab countries balk at putting fingerprints on Visas; they say it will interfere with Arab-American relations. Yeah, right; it will interfere with them conducting clandestine attacks and a clandestine war against against us is the truth of the matter. I have found several names in Arab government offices connected to terrorists and terrorism. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-11-10 7:42:56 PM |