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Article: BIN LADEN DELIVERED WEAPONS, PROFITS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- 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 US-
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 US 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 sojurn in Sudan.
It was there, in northern Africa, where bin Laden appears to have
built much of the financial, fund-raising, and terrorist empire now
under intensive investigation by ...