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This is really a stretch. The Bin Mahfooz, like the Bin Ladin are of Yemeni heritage. They are both large families; the Bin Ladin have four black sheep, the Bin Mahfooz have one, Khalid. Khalid was investigated and charged in the BCCI scandal, and basically since then has been happy to race horses and screw around. In the mid nineteen nineties he was involved in funding what was called the Muwafak Foundation, which operated in Sudan, Ethiopia and Bosnia and was considered an Islamist front. The tie to Bin Ladin was suggested but never proved. Once that arrangement was publicized Khalid BM proclaimed his innocence and then backed out of the organization, and even sued the magazine Africa Confidential for libel. He won, and the magazine had to pay, 200K or so. If you want to tar Americans who have had dealing at one time or another with the Bin Ladin or Bin Mahfooz families, you had better tar just about every American and every American corporation that has worked in Saudi Arabia.