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NOVEMBER 2001 : (SWITZERLAND : YOUSSEF NADA'S HOME IS SEARCHED-- See LUGANO / MILAN CELL, AL TAQWA, HAMAS, AL QAEDA) In November 2001, Swiss investigators will search the home of Youssef Nada, the leader of Al Taqwa Bank, a Swiss bank that had just been shut down by the US and the UN for alleged ties to al-Qaeda, Hamas, and other radical militant groups (see November 7, 2001). Nada and other Al Taqwa directors are prominent members of the Muslim Brotherhood. ------ "December 1982: Muslim Brotherhood Project to Infiltrate and Defeat the West," Zuma Press/ NewsCom, http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a110590kahane&scale=5#a110590kahane

NOVEMBER 2001 : (US DESIGNATES YOUSSEF NADA AS A TERRORIST FINANCIER -- SEE SWITZERLAND, ITALY, LUGANO CELL / MILAN CELL, AL TAQWA, AL QAEDA) Youssef Nada, an elderly Egyptian financier who founded and ran the Al-Taqwa ("Fear of God" in Arabic) network from bases in southern Switzerland and northern Italy, was designated a terrorist financier by the Bush administration in November 2001. A U.S. Treasury official testified to Congress that Nada had provided financial assistance to Al Qaeda both before and after the 9/11 attacks.
------- "Dubious Link Between Atta and Saddam A document tying the Iraqi leader with the 9/11 terrorist is probably fake. PLUS, how terror financiers manage to stay in business," by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, WEB EXCLUSIVE Newsweek Updated: 11:31 a.m. ET Dec.19, 2003

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NOVEMBER 2001 : (ITALY : AL QAEDA : MILAN CELL : VIA QUARANTA MOSQUE'S COMPUTERS CONFISCATED, WARRANT WAS ISSUED FOR ES SAYED) Police confiscated 11 computers from the Via Quaranta mosque in November 2001, according to court documents, after issuing an arrest warrant for its founder, Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed, during an investigation into an Islamic terrorist cell headquartered in Milan that provided logistical support to the al Qaeda network. - "Terrorists' Twin Tower Images, Secret P0rn Messages ," ABC News , 5/8/03

NOVEMBER 2001 : (ITALY : BENATTIA, CHEKKOURI, REMADNA ARRESTED IN MILAN -- See MILAN CELL ) Nabil Benattia of Tunisia, Yassine Chekkouri of Morocco and Abdelhalim Hafed Remadna of Algeria, were arrested in Milan in November in connection with an investigation of the city's mosque and Islamic cultural center. U.S. authorities have described the center as the main al-Qaida station house in Europe. - "Italy: Judge Indicts Three North Africans (connected to al-Qaeda)," AP via Europe Daily , July 18 2002