https://freerepublic.com/tag/300grandpayment/ en-us Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:15:50 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1294991/posts In what may be the most shocking news to emerge from the already stunning Oil-for-Food scandal, investigators say that Saddam Hussein bankrolled key al-Qaida players in the late 1990s - a period of time when the terror group was planning the 9/11 attacks and the Iraqi dictator was ripping off billions from the U.N. program. "Saddam had given $300,000 in cash to Ayman Al Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's number two man, in the spring of 1998," the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley on Saturday. NEWSMAX.COM https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1294991/posts#comment Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:15:50 GMT