Financial manager to bin Laden killed: Zaman

Khaleej Times ^ | December 4, 2001 | AFP

[stilts]

JALALABAD, Afghanistan - Terror suspect Osama bin Laden's financial manager, Ali Mahmud, was killed on Monday in a US airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, the provincial military commander said Tuesday. The news came from Haji Mohammad Zaman, military chief of eastern Nangarhar province who said earlier said that bin Laden was in a cave complex near here. Zaman said he was launching a major operation to encircle it.

Zaman said Mahmud was killed by a US bomb in the village of Wouchnow near the Tora Bora complex in the mountains south of Jalalabad where bin Laden was hiding along with hundreds of pro-Taliban Arab fighters. "Yesterday, when they bombed, they killed 18 persons ... (including) the financial manager of Osama, the one who was responsible for the money," Zaman told reporters here.

Zaman said his information on the death was solid and precise but did not give the source. He said Mahmud was killed around 8am (0330 GMT) Monday and funeral services had already been held. - AFP

[stilts]

...the one who was responsible for the money.

Now who is Osama going to trust with his ATM PIN number?

[verity]

Who is going to handle the 401k's now?

[Camerican]

Yeah yeah yeah... Show me the body. Then we'll stop hunting that dirt bag and move onto the next dirtbag.

[eureka!]

Good point. I would think that a "death" could be purchased from our allies as the "corpse" is spirited away. We need to see the bodies. Don't trust and definitely verify...

[NC Conservative]

IF TRUE Good News...But keep bombing.

[mlocher]

should be easy to track down obl. simply follow the trail of financial advisers that he will soon be interviewing...

[mlocher]

we need to see the bodies

actually, we need to see the pieces that once comprised the bodies.

[Osinski]

A blow more severe than killing any military advisor.

[doug from upland]

Too bad he died before getting to see his movie starring Will Smith.

[KSCITYBOY]

It won't be to hard to fund the old terrorist pension plan now will it.

[harrowup]

Who is going to handle the 401k's now?

What's that? All I've got left is a 200.5f.

[VRWC_minion]

I take it Zaman is considered a civilian by the Taliban and the American press corps.

[eureka!]

Re#7 LOL. So true...