A court dispute is casting new light on the puzzle of Missouri's scattered connections to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.
The man who bought a satellite phone that bin Laden used to plot the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 had worked for an Islamic charity in Columbia, Mo., the organization has acknowledged. But Ziyad Sadaqa had no leadership role in the Islamic American Relief Agency, its lawyer, Shereef Akeel, emphasized in an interview with the Post-Dispatch. "He was not a decision-maker," Akeel said. "The record is devoid of any evidence that he influenced the organization's conduct in any manner."
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