Heroin traffic finances bin Laden
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Osama bin Laden is using cash from the Afghanistan heroin market to finance his life on the run, paying bodyguards and buying off warlords in Pakistan, says a congressman who has visited the region.
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Every day, American Airlines Flight 914 takes off from Bogota, Colombia, at 8:20 a.m. and touches down at the Miami airport at noon. In the jet's cargo hold are usually bags and bags of euros that investigators say are part of a huge $1.4 billion cocaine money-laundering scheme.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died in Paris last month, had investments worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including a stake in an Egyptian mobile phone company and a piece of a New York bowling alley, according to a news magazine report.
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An alleged close associate of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is facing a number of charges, including providing material support for terrorism, the U.S. Office of Military Commissions said Friday.
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THE al-Qaeda terror network spent less than $US50,000 ($71,000) on each of its main attacks except the September 11 suicide hijackings, a UN report says.
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While Abu Musab Zarqawi has assembled temporary alliances with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network over the years, evidence shows that he has always sought to forge his own path with a largely distinct agenda.
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Drug enforcement agencies asked Congress for an additional &#36;780 million Wednesday to fight the rapidly expanding heroin trade in Afghanistan.
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A U.N. report released Tuesday showed that the "runaway train of drug addiction" has slowed, with estimated levels of global use holding steady for the third year in a row. Afghanistan's opium production, however, increased dramatically.
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The US Senate votes to double the reward for the death or capture of Osama Bin Laden to $50m.
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Pakistan offers rewards totalling more than $1m for the capture of six top al-Qaeda suspects.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba Aug. 24, 2004 - Salim Ahmed Hamdan says he earned a pittance for his family as Osama bin Laden&#39;s driver prior to the Sept.
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The al-Qaida (website - news) terror network spent less than $50,000 on each of its major attacks except the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings and one of its hallmarks is using readily available
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Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a major blow in the war on terror in March 2003: The government had charged a Muslim cleric with personally handing &#36;20 million to Osama bin Laden.
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It&#39;s splitsville for Manhattan bowling kingpin Tom Shannon and the grad-school buddy who secretly invested $1.3 million of Yasser Arafat&#39;s money in his business.
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The CIA estimates that prior to Sept. 11, Al Qaeda was spending about $30 million per year. Since then, the US has seized some $265 million in assets linked to the group.
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The al-Qaida terrorist network spent less than $50,000 on each of its major attacks except for the Sept. 11, 2001, suicide hijackings, and one of its hallmarks is using
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LONDON, November 20 (Online): Afghanistan is a &quot;narco-economy&quot; and as such a likely breeding ground for terrorists, Britain said yesterday, after the United Nations reported a 64 per cent increase in opium cultivation.