Bin Laden-linked bank not on U.S. terror list

Chicago Tribune ^ | November 3, 2001 | John Crewdson

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GENEVA -- Osama bin Laden's global financial network continued to come under scrutiny this week after Swiss authorities froze two dozen bank accounts totaling $12 million linked to individuals on the Bush administration's list of supporters of bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization and affiliated terrorist groups.

The names on the U.S. list--which was expanded again Friday--range from that of Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad, the purported paymaster of the Sept. 11 operation, to the Al-Nur Honey Press Shops of San`a, Yemen.

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Another Al Qaeda defector, Essam Al-Ridi, testified that bin Laden wired him $230,000 from the Al Shamal bank to purchase a used jet trainer in Arizona. He said bin Laden wanted the plane to ship Stinger anti-aircraft missiles from Pakistan to Sudan.

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