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It’s difficult to overstate the importance of this story. The Chronicle of Higher Education (sub. required) on Wednesday published an article about Khalid bin Mafouz, a wealthy Saudi banker, and his successful effort to persuade the Cambridge University Press to halt the publication of four books that detail how Saudi citizens use their wealth to finance global terrorism. One of those books, Alms for Jihad, was once on sale at Amazon and elsewhere, but it has been pulled from sale and copies of it are now being pulped. Cambridge has even sent out letters to libraries that stock it...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Charities 'linked' to bin Laden By Sean O'Neill THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) Pg. 04 January 18, 2002, Friday F IVE British-registered Islamic charities are being investigated for alleged links to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, the Charity Commission said yesterday. Four of the trustees of the charity, which received more than pounds 600,000 in donations in 1999, are brothers of Khalid bin Mahfouz, who was named in the Irish parliament last year as bin Laden's brother-in-law and a "major financial backer of the international ...