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Tangled Ties
MSNBC.Com / Newsweek National News ^ | April 7, 2004 | Newsweek

Posted on 04/07/2004 5:58:52 PM PDT by Bobby777

Edited on 04/07/2004 6:52:56 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

Law-enforcement officials follow the money trail among suspected terrorists straight to the doors of the Saudi Embassy

April 7 - Within weeks of the September 11 terror attacks, security officers at the Fleet National Bank in Boston had identified “suspicious” wire transfers from the Saudi Embassy in Washington that eventually led to the discovery of an active Al Qaeda “sleeper cell” that may have been planning follow-up attacks inside the United States, according to documents obtained by NEWSWEEK.

U.S. law-enforcement officials familiar with the matter say there is no evidence that officials at the Saudi Embassy were knowingly financing Al Qaeda activity inside the country. But documents show that while trying to trace a tangled money trail beginning with the Saudi Embassy, investigators soon drew startling connections between a group of Saudi nationals receiving financial support from the embassy and a 34-year-old microbiologist and MIT graduate who officials have since concluded was a U.S. operative for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

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Law-enforcement officials follow the money trail among suspected terrorists straight to the doors of the Saudi Embassy

ummm, no kidding ... had to excerpt though by rules ...
1 posted on 04/07/2004 5:58:53 PM PDT by Bobby777
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2 posted on 04/07/2004 5:59:26 PM PDT by Bobby777
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3 posted on 04/07/2004 6:00:34 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would never have happened!)
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To: Bobby777
If my memory serves me correctly, members of the bin Laden family lived in Boston. They were flown out of the country right after 9/11 by the Saudi government.
4 posted on 04/07/2004 6:40:07 PM PDT by Catspaw
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And, IIRC, Beverly Hills.
5 posted on 04/07/2004 8:06:28 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com (http://lonewacko.com/blog)
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To: Catspaw; All
members of the bin Laden family lived in Boston

Except for one thoroughly Westernized "Waffa bin Laden", who split suddenly for London two weeks before 9-11.

Naturally, the FEDS were interested in her!

6 posted on 04/07/2004 9:13:26 PM PDT by Lael (Patent Law...not a single Supreme Court Justice is qualified to take the PTO Bar Exam!)
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