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OCTOBER 2001 : (ALGERIANS INVOLVED IN STRASBOURG PLOT WERE IN CONTACT WITH ITALY'S MILAN CELL VIA PHONE -- See GSPC) Transcripts of those cell phone conversations indicate that the suspects were in contact with other suspected terrorists operating near Milan last October [2001]. The report by Italian anti-terrorist police identified the suspects by their full names of Aeurobi Beandalis, 26, Fouhad Sabour, 37, Salim Boukari, 30, Lamine Maroni, 31, and Samir Karimou, 33. However, Italian authorities said only Fouhad Sabour's identity had been verified and the others were possibly aliases.... ---- "Terror suspect tells German court: 'You're all Jews," by Melissa Eddy, AP via Jerusalem Post , April 16, 2002

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NOVEMBER 2001 : (SWITZERLAND : YOUSSEF NADA'S HOME IS SEARCHED-- See LUGANO / MILAN CELL, AL TAQWA, HAMAS, AL QAEDA) In November 2001, Swiss investigators will search the home of Youssef Nada, the leader of Al Taqwa Bank, a Swiss bank that had just been shut down by the US and the UN for alleged ties to al-Qaeda, Hamas, and other radical militant groups (see November 7, 2001). Nada and other Al Taqwa directors are prominent members of the Muslim Brotherhood. ------ "December 1982: Muslim Brotherhood Project to Infiltrate and Defeat the West," Zuma Press/ NewsCom, http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a110590kahane&scale=5#a110590kahane

NOVEMBER 2001 : (US DESIGNATES YOUSSEF NADA AS A TERRORIST FINANCIER -- SEE SWITZERLAND, ITALY, LUGANO CELL / MILAN CELL, AL TAQWA, AL QAEDA) Youssef Nada, an elderly Egyptian financier who founded and ran the Al-Taqwa ("Fear of God" in Arabic) network from bases in southern Switzerland and northern Italy, was designated a terrorist financier by the Bush administration in November 2001. A U.S. Treasury official testified to Congress that Nada had provided financial assistance to Al Qaeda both before and after the 9/11 attacks.
------- "Dubious Link Between Atta and Saddam A document tying the Iraqi leader with the 9/11 terrorist is probably fake. PLUS, how terror financiers manage to stay in business," by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, WEB EXCLUSIVE Newsweek Updated: 11:31 a.m. ET Dec.19, 2003