Two camps are believed to be in Indonesia - one in Aceh, in northern Sumatra, the other in the eastern Moluccan Islands.
Al Qaeda has also built a logistics and training base in Somalia.
There have been reports of bin Laden dropping $50,000 here and there to different commanders in Afghanistan, and the monies given to terrorists in America, but how rich is he? All those camps in multiple countries, at least 60 *cells* in different countries........he's getting funding past his fortune.
Bin Laden is a front. For who, we don't know yet. I suspect the Saudis
I don't think money is one of his big problems.
"In 1999, an estimated 290 metric tons of heroin--the most of any source area--were produced in Southwest Asia, primarily in Afghanistan. Changing political and economic conditions in Afghanistan, along with continuing drought conditions in Southeast Asia, helped Afghanistan surpass Burma to become the world's leading heroin producer in 1999."
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs/647/index.htm
"This was one of the subjects that figured during the discussions of Ms Christina Rocca, US Assistant Secretary of State, with Mullah Abdus Salam Zaeef, the Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan, and his No. 2, Mr Sohail Shaheen, in Islamabad on August 2. According to the Frontier Post of Peshawar (August 3, 2001), while briefing pressmen after the discussions, a spokesman of the Taliban said: ``We have told the US team that Afghanistan was earning $12 billion a year from the poppy cultivation and we have eliminated the poppy from the country."
http://www.blonnet.com/businessline/2001/08/10/stories/041055ju.htm