I think there was a BBC (not sure) report on the 12/13th of November, just as Kabul fell. In the report, NA soldiers took the reporters to a Kabul house that was full of documents, bombs, mines, guns, etc. One of the documents had a business card attached to it, the company was CANADIAN and was in the flight simulator business. The person's name was islamic but I didn't catch the company name. Anyone happen to have/seen this clip??
Surrey business card found in Kabul
Salim Jiwa
The Province
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
The discovery of documents in the Afghanistan home of a member of al-Qaida -- Osama bin Laden's terror group -- has renewed interest among U.S. intelligence agencies in the activities of two former Surrey residents.
Reports from Kabul yesterday said journalists found a business card containing the Surrey address and the name Amr Mohamed Hamed in a home abandoned by a member of al-Qaida. Also discovered was the address of a company identified as 4-U-Enterprises Ltd. on 135th Street in Surrey.
The ransacked Kabul hideout also contained documents relating to flight training and flight simulation. It is not clear whether the training documents are linked to Hamed or his business partner and fellow terrorist Essam Hafez Marzouk, who also lived in Surrey prior to mid-1998.
A 1999 Province investigation found that Marzouk was a trainer for bin Laden and had lived in Surrey before his arrest in Egypt after being linked to the terror group Al Jihad. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour.
Muslim community sources told The Province at the time that Hamed was killed in a bin Laden camp when then U.S. president Bill Clinton unleashed a hail of cruise missiles on al-Qaida bases in retaliation for the East African embassy bombings in 1998.
Hamed and Marzouk were listed as directors of 4-U-Enterprises Ltd. when the company was founded in April 1998, shortly before the two left Canada.
Canadian authorities have conducted an exhaustive investigation of both Marzouk and Hamed and their friends but have yet to find any links to any terrorist plots in Canada.
A BBC reporter who entered the home in Kabul found Hamed's business card among other documents.
sjiwa@pacpress.southam.ca