Just a bit of trivia, but just days before Sept 11, 2001 there was a UN big race conference in Durban, South Africa which degenerated into an anti-Israeli, anti-US hatefest. It got so bad that Powell walked out:
SEPTEMBER 3, 2001 : (DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA : US PULLS OUT OF UN RACISM CONFERENCE) Israel and the U.S. have pulled out of the U.N. Conference Against Racism after compromise over condemning Israel had failed --- "U.S. pulls out of racism conference," CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/09/03/racism.conference/index.html
SEPTEMBER 8, 2001 : (DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA : UN RACISM CONFERENCE ENDS AFTER DAYS OF ANTI-US, ANTI-ISRAEL RHETORIC) --- "Racism conference ends," BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1530000/1530976.stm
After reporting back to al-Makkee, Al-Fadl was sent to speak with a new contact, Abu Rida al-Suri. This meeting took place at the Ikhlak Company in the Baraka building in Khartoum. Al-Suri instructed Al-Fadl to return to Basheer and report that the organization had an “electric machine” capable of testing uranium. Again through an intermediary, Al-Fadl arranged a meeting with Basheer and, in a small house in the town of Bait al-Mal, north of Khartoum, Al-Fadl and al-Suri were shown a cylinder approximately 2-3 feet tall with a lot of words engraved on it. The men were given a note that Al-Fadl was told to deliver to another contact, Abu Hajer, and then await further instructions.
Al-Fadl did not recollect exactly what was written on the paper, only that it was written in English, said “South Africa” on it, and contained a serial number. The source is worth a good read : - "WMD TERRORISM AND USAMA BIN LADEN," by Kimberly McCloud and Matthew Osborne , CNS Reports, http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/binladen.htm.