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Hackers Find Bin Laden's Accounts
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| October 1, 2001
| James Middleton, Vnunet.com, Copyright © 2001 VNU
Posted on 10/01/2001 6:07:28 PM PDT by VA Voter
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:02:04 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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A group of UK hackers claims to have captured confidential banking information on the wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden, and Al Qaeda, the organisation he heads up.
According to 27-year-old millionaire Kim Schmitz, otherwise known as convicted hacker "Kimble", the group broke into systems at the AlShamal Islamic Bank to obtain the data.
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If true, this is delicious.
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posted on
10/01/2001 6:07:28 PM PDT
by
VA Voter
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To: VA Voter,snopercod,mommadooo3,JeanS
Bump.
To: VA Voter
Aren't the Dims in congress gutting John Ashcroft's request to use foreign terrorist info obtained through illegal methods? If not, it SOUNDS like something they would do.
Leni
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posted on
10/01/2001 6:14:50 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
To: VA Voter
I hope he has a couple of SAS friends guarding his physical back while he rummages through cyberspace
To: VA Voter
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posted on
10/01/2001 6:16:20 PM PDT
by
Eric Esot
To: VA Voter,Travis McGee,harpseal,M Kehoe,joanie-f,snopercod,brityank,Covenantor
It's in the Sudan, naturally.
To: VA Voter
Three things:
1) as a former employee of a bank myself, and knowing something of how security works, I'm suspicious.
2) Does it really seem likely that bin Laden has a recognizable name on any account anywhere in the world? The "al-Qaeda" passbook savings account with "Osama bin Laden" as the owner? I'm suspicious.
3) "Hackers" routinely claim responsibility for acts of God, accidents, equipment failures, and daring feats of hax0ring that are totally unverifiable by anyone else. I'm suspicious.
Take this one with a giant grain of salt unless and until you see third-party confirmation.
To: VA Voter
Bin Laden in new link to London
Jamie Doward in New York
Sunday September 30, 2001
The Observer
US investigators trying to seize Osama bin Laden's assets are examining the relationship between two London-based banks and the Sudanese AlShamal Islamic Bank, reportedly set up by the terrorist in 1991 to help fund his al-Qaeda network. The probe centres on the British Arab Commercial Bank and the Banque Française de l'Orient.
The news has emerged as one source close to the hunt said investigators have established that several of the world's biggest banks outside the US have yet to freeze accounts known to be used by al-Qaeda. Last week the US government announced it was freezing the assets of 27 individuals and organisations believed to have terrorist links, and warned the world's banks it would act against them if they were involved in money-laundering.
'There are a number of banks in Europe that have accounts which are not frozen and which present a clear and present danger. We are concerned about a bank based in Switzerland, for example,' the source said.
Intelligence sources say the Foreign Terrorist Asset Tracking Centre, set up by the US Treasury in response to the 11 September attacks, wants to establish whether AlShamal was able to open 'correspondent accounts' - accounts which allow foreign banks to 'nest' in UK banks and use their services, includ ing money-transfer facilities - with the British Arab Commercial Bank in the City and Banque Française de l'Orient in Mayfair.
AlShamal lists the two banks as correspondent banks in its promotional material and on its website. AlShamal also lists a third London-based correspondent bank, American Express Bank. Investigators say that account has been dormant for some time and was closed this month.
A London account with Barclays, allegedly used to channel cash for bin Laden's UK operations, was frozen after the atrocities.
AlShamal lists other correspondent banks, including Commerzbank in Frankfurt, Crédit Lyonnais in Geneva and Standard Bank of South Africa in Johannesburg, raising fears that al-Qaeda has a global financial network.
Last week Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate's Investigation Sub-Committee, said: 'The evidence is clear that terrorists are using our own financial institutions against us.'
To: Bigun ,Flying a , USConservative , Ativenom , JD792 , Pocat , Memother ,
BTTT
To: VA Voter
BUMP
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posted on
10/01/2001 6:25:29 PM PDT
by
abigail2
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
bump
To: First_Salute
Gee,..the (shareholders) link doesn't seem to be active...
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posted on
10/01/2001 6:27:36 PM PDT
by
Dallas
To: VA Voter
To: VA Voter
That was always the good side of hackers - they like freedom as much (or more?)than anyone - and they must know these pseudo-Islamists are anti-freedom. Go get 'em, fellas.
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posted on
10/01/2001 6:34:20 PM PDT
by
lds23
To: VA Voter
That was always the good side of hackers - they like freedom as much (or more?)than anyone - and they must know these pseudo-Islamists are anti-freedom. Go get 'em, fellas.
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posted on
10/01/2001 6:34:21 PM PDT
by
lds23
To: Dallas
It was a quick cut and paste; lost the full links; but still shows the bank locus.
To: First_Salute
I hope this is true.
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posted on
10/01/2001 6:36:23 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: general_re
I, too, am suspicious, especially of the claims of freezing Taliban accounts. Why would Osama and/or the Taliban allow their accounts to be "freezable"; in other words, why would they allow their money to be either identifiable or in such a position as to allow a bank to freeze their accounts? You could have predicted, as I'm sure Osama did, that going after the funds would have been one of the first acts of retaliation. It doesn't make sense that precautions weren't taken and that his loot was just sitting there for the freezing.
To: First_Salute
Way to go hackers!!! We got em by the camels testicles.
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