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...close to the case told TIME that beginning in January 1999 monthly payments of $2,000 were made from Princess Haifa's checking account to Majida Dwaikat, wife of Osama Bassnan. A Saudi national, Bassnan was living in San Diego last year and has been linked to Omar al Bayoumi, a Saudi student who befriended two men who wound up helping crash Flight 77 into the Pentagon. The sources also say that the ambassador, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, gave $15,000 to Bassnan...
...gave away for charity may have been passed on to others." It's quite common for Saudi royals to give away large sums to countrymen who ask. What's more, agents haven't turned up evidence that Bassnan knew about the 9/11 plot, and the FBI has concluded that Bayoumi was not a witting accomplice...
Still, Bassnan was charged with visa fraud and deported on Nov. 17, and the FBI hasn't closed the investigation into his and Bayoumi's finances. The princess has her accountant scrutinizing all the checks from the account in question; no doubt she and her husband will think twice the next time someone begs their generosity. --By John Cloud. Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Elaine Shannon and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...Diego has concluded that they paid their bills with money transferred via the same channels that funneled money to Mohammed Atta and other hijackers based in Florida: al-Qaeda financial operatives transferred funds to them accounts in the United Arab Emirates. "We had ample opportunity with Al Bayoumi in custody to run out that end of it, and it didn't produce," says a federal law enforcement official. "That's why he was cut loose. We could not find any contact between him and terrorists, any involvement (with al-Qaeda.) There was nothing to indicate he's any different form...
...investigation of Bayoumi and attracted the attention of investigators with the Joint Intelligence Committee, and, according to knowledgeable sources, some of these investigators came to suspect that there was more to the story than the FBI had found. The backroom dispute over the vigor of the FBI's investigation, and Congressional displeasure at being denied access to an FBI informant in the San Diego Arab community, has now spilled into public view. The leaks have thrown the FBI and Justice Department on the defensive. Now the spill-over from this long running dispute has put additional pressure on the already...