Posted on 01/23/2002 9:13:25 PM PST by TroutStalker
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
LONDON -- The diary of a former personal secretary to Osama bin Laden reveals that al Qaeda may have been using a popular blue gemstone to help finance its operations as early as 1995.
The day planner of Wadih el Hage, who was convicted last year of conspiracy in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, provides the strongest documentary evidence to date of al Qaeda's involvement in the tanzanite trade.
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