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FINANCIAL EXPRESS; BIN LADEN LINK TO BCCI MARK WATTS Sunday Express; FINANCE; Pg. 2 November 11, 2001

FBI AGENTS investigating the financing of the terrorist attacks in America are poring over prosecution files on the $ 10billion BCCI collapse 10 years ago.

The FBI is convinced many of those who helped finance Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network were involved in the BCCI scandal. The New York district attorney's office, which led some BCCI prosecutions, has given the FBI access to its old case files on the world's most spectacular banking collapse.

A source said: "The FBI believes many of the key figures in the BCCI affair also have roles in financing al-Qaeda."

The CIA used BCCI as a channel to fund the Afghan fighters who resisted

This line of inquiry is sensitive because Bin Mahfouz is an associate of a Texas businessman who, in the Seventies, helped finance George W Bush's oil company, Arbusto Energy.

Soviet occupation, a network that became al-Qaeda. The source said investigators had been asking questions about the Saudi billionaire banker Khalid Bin Mahfouz, Bin Laden's brother-in-law. This line of inquiry is sensitive because Bin Mahfouz is an associate of a Texas businessman who, in the Seventies, helped finance George W Bush's oil company, Arbusto Energy.

The businessman invested money in the US on behalf of Bin Mahfouz. The Sunday Express revealed three weeks ago how Bin Mahfouz, who paid $ 225million after a plea bargain with New York prosecutors over his role in BCCI, and who was accused in the Irish parliament of helping to finance Bin Laden's terror network, was a "core shareholder" along with Barclays in a Guernsey-registered bank.