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Article: FINANCIAL EMPIRE FUELS BIN LADEN'S TERROR NETWORK.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2001
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WASHINGTON -- One of Osama bin Laden's companies in Sudan would export sugar to Afghanistan and return with a cargo that included U.S.-made Stinger missiles.
Another firm appeared to deal with finance, but some of its employees were allegedly traveling the world as terrorists. A third company was in the fishing business but allegedly used the profits to pay for the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. Bin Laden also had a $50 million investment in a Sudanese bank.
The businesses are part of bin Laden's six-year sojourn in Sudan. It was there, in northern Africa, where bin Laden appears to have built much of the financial, fund-raising and terrorist ...