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...hostile regime." But Bush's actions, except for Iraq, haven't matched the dire nature of the threat described-and his rhetoric has betrayed a moral simplicity that misrepresents the true difficulties of the struggle. Take the "with us or against us" point: Saudi Arabia is the primary funder of Islamic radicalism in the world. Pakistan is the primary residence of the most dangerous terrorists. Both are nominally "with...
...Market is the brainchild of Gregory C. Carr, a philanthropist and 1986 graduate of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Carr is the namesake of the Carr Center for Human Rights at the KSG and the funder of a radio station in Kandahar, Afghanistan...
...intelligence also targeted the firm Al-Taqwa, based in Switzerland. Egyptian-born owner Youssef Nada denies bin Laden ties, but U.S. officials tell TIME that Al-Taqwa manages funds for al-Qaeda. As for Blessed Relief--a Saudi charity identified as a funder of al-Qaeda--U.S. officials reject claims by one of its founders that it has been dormant for five years. Sources say intelligence shows the charity financed movements of people, money and weapons in Bosnia as recently...
...Laden's involvement. Ressam and several of his Montreal-based associates, once linked to the brutal Algerian terror organization Armed Islamic Group, had grown away from that band's local fight. FBI agents have unverified reports that they trained at camps in Afghanistan, where bin Laden is a major funder of Islamic militancy. While police found no signatures that prove the provenance of the timing devices in Ressam's car, the units were "strikingly similar" to ones produced at bin Laden's camps...
...organization is far less centralized than those of previous high-profile terrorists, such as the Palestinian Abu Nidal. After all, Bin Laden is less of a CEO and more the head of a loosely grouped holding company. He built his network by putting his considerable resources as a funder and fund-raiser at the center of an international movement to recruit fighters from throughout the Arab world to help Afghanistan resist the Soviet invasion. Those fighters became a nucleus that was deployed in other conflicts involving Muslims, such as Bosnia and Chechnya - and, at Bin Laden-financed camps in Afghanistan...