Great Article! oops! Al-Qaida newly suspected in 8 cities The indictment traces a trail of money transfers to and from the United Arab Emirates, where al-Hawsawi allegedly coordinated payments for the Sept. 11 attacks. It charges that days before Sept. 11, some of the 19 hijackers who died on the four jetliners used in the operation wired tens of thousands of dollars of unused money back to al-Hawsawi.
For the first time, however, documents seized among thousands of pieces of evidence in the joint U.S.-Pakistani raid this month � including computers, hard drives and cellular telephones � revealed that al-Qaida money transfers into the United States had continued after September 2001, senior officials said on condition of anonymity.
U.S. and Pakistani officials said al-Hawsawi was not cooperating with his interrogators in an undisclosed country, but they called the documents a big break. The documents could provide �a direct link to potential terrorists,� especially to sleeper cells in the United States, one of the officials said....
�If the money trail is followed, I believe that the entire al-Qaida network around the world can be located,� Gohel said in an interview.
U.S. officials said the search for Osama bin Laden had netted only low-level al-Qaida operatives so far in Pakistan, but they told NBC News that the breakthrough arrests of Mohammed and al-Hawsawi were reason for new optimism.
For the first time, however, documents seized among thousands of pieces of evidence in the joint U.S.-Pakistani raid this month � including computers, hard drives and cellular telephones � revealed that al-Qaida money transfers into the United States had continued after September 2001, senior officials said on condition of anonymity.
U.S. and Pakistani officials said al-Hawsawi was not cooperating with his interrogators in an undisclosed country, but they called the documents a big break. The documents could provide �a direct link to potential terrorists,� especially to sleeper cells in the United States, one of the officials said....
�If the money trail is followed, I believe that the entire al-Qaida network around the world can be located,� Gohel said in an interview.
U.S. officials said the search for Osama bin Laden had netted only low-level al-Qaida operatives so far in Pakistan, but they told NBC News that the breakthrough arrests of Mohammed and al-Hawsawi were reason for new optimism.
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