[JohnBerger]

Didn't Ali Mohammed accompany Zawahiti everywhere on one of those trips? Ali Mohammed was in big with some of the authorties.

Yes, the 1995 trip. Ali M. and Khalid abu al Dahab lived in Santa Clara and facilitated Zawahiri on fundraising trips around the country. Funds from this trip were said to be disappointing. Feds suspect the money were used for an Egyptian embassy bombing later that year. This is all from a combination of the WSJ, Sacramento Bee and SF Chronicle, plus some related court documents which are much less detailed.

jmb

[aristeides]

Laurie Mylroie argues in her new book Bush Versus the Beltway that that Egyptian embassy bombing was in fact the work of the Iraqis. If she's right, I doubt if they needed money that much.