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["Keaney Michael" <Michael.Keaney@xxxxxx>]

More conjecture masquerading as hard news, illustrating once more how
quick some journalists are to act as, in the words of E.P. Thompson,
public urinals for the intelligence services.


Al Qaeda moves funds

IAN BRUCE
The Herald, 18 March 2002 

      OSAMA bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network has
      begun moving funds around the world in what US
      intelligence agencies see as evidence that the
      organisation is trying to regroup and finance new
      attacks on the West.

      A CIA source said "a significant boost in money
      transfers" had been detected in the last week and
      there were indications that "leadership is active
      once more".

      There has also been a substantial increase in
      internet traffic from towns on Pakistan's northwest
      frontier to suspected terrorist cells in the Middle
      East, the Far East and Europe.

      Al Qaeda made extensive use of e-mail and
      camouflaged websites to pass instructions to its
      agents before September 11 after learning that its
      mobile and satellite phone communications could
      be monitored and even used to target missile
      attacks.

      Only a handful of the 25 al Qaeda senior
      commanders on the US State Department's
      most-wanted list have been killed or captured. The
      whereabouts of bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri, Abu
      Zubaydah, and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi, are
      unknown.

Full article at:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/18-3-19102-0-37-33.html

Michael Keaney
Mercuria Business School
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