Al-Zawahiri solicited funds under the guise of refugee relief

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Thursday, October 11, 2001 | Lance Williams, Erin McCormick, Chronicle Staff Writers

[Axion]

Two confessed members of a Silicon Valley terrorist cell say they brought Osama bin Laden's top aide to the Bay Area several years ago to raise money for terror attacks, according to documents and interviews.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is bin Laden's chief deputy and a suspect in a long list of terrorist crimes that includes planning last month's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, visited the United States in the 1990s on covert fund-raising trips, the two men have told authorities.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, just more proof how Arabic terrorists have waltzed into this country thanks to our INS and open borders to all to collect money and God knows what else!