Al Q's Road Paved With Gold: Secret Shipments Traced Through UAE (2002)

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Al Qaeda's Road Paved With Gold --Secret Shipments Traced Through a Lax System In United Arab Emirates 17 Feb 2002 Dubai, United Arab Emirates --Just as the United States and its allies swept toward Afghanistan's main cities last autumn, the ruling Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network sent waves of couriers with bars of gold and bundles of dollars across the porous border into Pakistan... Dubai is also one of the region's most open banking centers and is the commercial capital of the United Arab Emirates, one of three countries that maintained diplomatic relations with the Taliban until shortly after Sept. 11. Sitting at a strategic crossroad of the Persian Gulf, South Asia and Africa, Dubai has long been a financial hub for Islamic militant groups. Much of the $500,000 used to fund the Sept. 11 attacks came through Dubai, investigators believe. (Hurry and read the article, before the PentaPost scrubs it from its archives. --LRP)

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1. I think the new deal is a repayment for UAE's cooperation with Bush

bin Laden during and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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