Word: barakaat
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...Last month, the U.S. put the financial squeeze on the desperately poor country by freezing the assets of Al Barakaat, a Western Union-style money wiring service, and closing down the Internet connection of the Somalia Internet Company (and with it the whole country's Internet access), accusing both of having links with Al Qaeda. The move choked the largest revenue source of Somalia's near-stagnant economy - remittances sent home via Al Barakaat by thousands of Somalis living abroad. Somali authorities strenuously deny any Al Qaeda presence in their country, and President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan has pledged full cooperation...
...Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks, fly the day before from New York to Portland, Maine? The answer may be getting clearer in the wake of the feds' domestic shutdown last week of Al-Barakaat, a financial network based in Dubai--with at least six U.S. storefronts--accused of financing Osama bin Laden. The purported purpose of the U.S. sites was for Somali emigres to wire money back home. But two senior Bush Administration officials tell TIME that bin Laden was an Al-Barakaat founder and that Al-Barakaat's chief, Ahmed Nur Ali Jamale, steered...
...where does Atta fit in? Investigators say an official of Al-Barakaat's Boston outlet opened an account last year at a Key Bank in Portland and later sent $920,000 overseas. Now they are trying to determine whether Atta had access...
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