If this report is true, allied forces have made a major capture in Iraq–an al Qaeda money man who used his leather business to launder more than $100 million for the terror network.
If true, this is a real victory.
Here’s an interesting bit:
A statement from the military said the man, who was detained in the central Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Kindi, was suspected of handing over 50,000 dollars a month to Al-Qaeda using his leather merchant business as a front.
“He is believed to have received one hundred million dollars this summer from terrorist supporters who cross the border illegally or fly into Iraq from Italy, Syria and Egypt,” the military said.
He is suspected of travelling abroad himself to seek money for Al-Qaeda and of employing up to 50 extremists to help deliver bomb-making materials to insurgents attacking the US-led coalition.
The US military also accused the unnamed man of involvement in two attacks on a revered Shiite mosque at the heart of Iraq’s bitter sectarian conflict.
He was linked to purchasing explosives and weapons for the February 2006 attack on the Al-Askari mosque in Samarra, widely seen as the trigger of Iraq’s sectarian strife. Another attack on June 13 of this year destroyed the mosque’s two minarets.
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1. major:Another victory that barely reaches the light of day in America….
At least the weak-dick Republicans could beat their own drum…they are pathetic…
and the Democrats are traitors
Oct 5, 2007 - 12:29 am