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| 9/11 Lawyers sniff out the money trail |
| 2003-06-09 |
| Great Article about the money trail and how it reaches from Saudi Arabia to Berkeley. But I thought this was the most interesting snippet. Al Shamal Islamic Bank was founded in April 1983, and according to a 1996 State Department Fact Sheet, Osama bin Laden invested $50 million in the bank. Al-Fadl, in the same 2001 trials regarding the East African embassy bombings testified that Al Shamal Islamic Bank was the only bank in which bin Laden kept his funds, and that bin Laden paid all the members of his terrorist network through this account. WOW! That must have made somebody's investigation a whole lot easier!! Put all his eggs in one basket, did he? According to the lawsuit briefing, during a post 9/11 hearing, the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee testified that "Al Shamal Islamic Bank operations continue to finance and materially support international terrorism and that there are indications that Osama bin Laden remains the leading shareholder of that bank." I didn't know that your remains could continue to hold stock :-) |
| Posted by:Becky |
| #2 Well if anybody can smell out money, it's lawyers. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-06-09 15:27:57 |
| #1 bada - boom *rimshot* ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-06-09 11:39:49 |