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...only thing bin Laden has accomplished is to increase the suffering of Muslims and make them the most distrusted people on the face of the earth. CHARLES MCKENNA New York City...
...area, where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet. "It's like the Wild West there," says a Pentagon official. "Crime, religious extremism and politics are all linked under the table." For several years the CIA has had a team of agents monitoring terrorists from Hizballah, Hamas and, more recently, Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, who have poured into tri-border towns like Paraguay's Ciudad del Este to cut deals with Colombian drug traffickers and European and Asian mafia lieutenants. Counterterrorism officials believe bin Laden has set up cells to proselytize the large Middle East expatriate population living...
...claiming that the U.S. has never presented evidence to merit a crackdown. That may change this week, when U.S. diplomat Bill Burns visits Saudi Arabia. He will bring with him, U.S. sources tell TIME, intelligence data linking some of the kingdom's leading money men and charities to Osama bin Laden. The data will include sensitive intercepts, human intelligence and wire transfers to back up American demands that the Saudis freeze assets of suspected bin Laden financiers...
...Saudi in Burns' cross hairs: wealthy businessman Yasin al-Qadi, who has raised millions of dollars for a Saudi charity named by the U.S. as a possible bin Laden front. Al-Qadi has repeatedly protested his innocence, and is challenging a freeze on his assets in a court in Britain. The U.S. last week shipped to London a hefty package of intelligence data to strengthen the British case, sources tell TIME...
...PRINCE AL-WALEED BIN TALAL BIN AB AL-SAUD parlayed a 1979 inheritance of $15,000--and a house that he mortgaged for $400,000--into a $20 billion empire. A Saudi royal and the world's sixth wealthiest individual, al-Waleed, 46, is a global investor whose moves are followed closely by CEOs and money managers. His interests range from his own construction, hotel and oil firms to the stocks of troubled brand-name firms, including Compaq, Disney and Kodak. The prince, who follows the markets by satellite from his yacht, scored his first...