According to Middle East intelligence reports, bin Laden financed small convoys of recruits from the Arab world through his businesses in Sudan. Among them was Karim Said Atmani who was identified by authorities as the document forger for a group of Algerians accused of plotting the bombings in the United States of America. He is a former roommate of Ahmed Ressam, the man arrested at the Canandian U.S. borderin mid December 1999 with a car full of nitroglycerin and bomb making materials. He was convicted of colluding with Osama bin Laden by a French court.
A Bosnian government search of passport and residency records, conducted at the urging of the United States, revealed other former mujahideen who were linked to the same Algerian group or to other groups of suspected terrorists, and had lived in the area 60 miles (97km) morth of Sarajevo, the capital, in the past few years. Khalil al-Deek, was arrested in Jordan in late December 1999 on suspicion of involvemint in a plot to blow up tourist sites; a second man with Bosnian citizenship, hamid Aich, lived in Canada at the same time as Atmani and worked for a charity associated with Osama bin Laden. In its June 26, 1997, report on the bombing of the Al Khobar building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, The New York Times noted that those arrested confessed to serving with Bosnian Muslims forces. Further, the captured men also admitted to ties with Osama bin Laden.
In 1999 it was reealed that bin laden and his Tunisian assistant Mehrez Aodouni were granted citizenship and Bosnian passports in 1993 by the government in Sarajevo.This information was denied by the Bosnian government following the September 11 attacks, but it was later found that Aofouni was arrested in Turkey and that at that time he posssessed the Bosnian passport. Following this revelation, a new explanation was given that bin laden "did not personally collect his Bosnian passport" and that officials at the Bosnian embassy in Vienna, which issued the passport, could not have known who bin Laden was at the time.The Bosnian daily Oslobodenje published in 2001 that three men, believed to be linked to bin Laden, were arrested in Sarajevo in July 2001. The three ,one of whom was identified as Imad EI Misri, were Egyptian nationals. The paper said that two of the suspects were holding Bosnian passports.
In 1998 it was reported that bin Laden was operating his al-Qaeda network out of Albania. The charleston Gazette quoted Fatos Klosi, the head of the Albanian intelligence Service, as saying a network run by Saudi exile Osama Bin laden sent units to fight in the Serbian province of Kosovo.
Confirmation of these activities came from Claude Kader, a French national who said he was a member of bin Laden's Albanian network.
By 1998 four members of Egyptian Islamic jihad were arrested in Albania and extradited to Egypt.
A Bosnian government search of passport and residency records, conducted at the urging of the United States, revealed other former mujahideen who were linked to the same Algerian group or to other groups of suspected terrorists, and had lived in the area 60 miles (97km) morth of Sarajevo, the capital, in the past few years. Khalil al-Deek, was arrested in Jordan in late December 1999 on suspicion of involvemint in a plot to blow up tourist sites; a second man with Bosnian citizenship, hamid Aich, lived in Canada at the same time as Atmani and worked for a charity associated with Osama bin Laden. In its June 26, 1997, report on the bombing of the Al Khobar building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, The New York Times noted that those arrested confessed to serving with Bosnian Muslims forces. Further, the captured men also admitted to ties with Osama bin Laden.
In 1999 it was reealed that bin laden and his Tunisian assistant Mehrez Aodouni were granted citizenship and Bosnian passports in 1993 by the government in Sarajevo.This information was denied by the Bosnian government following the September 11 attacks, but it was later found that Aofouni was arrested in Turkey and that at that time he posssessed the Bosnian passport. Following this revelation, a new explanation was given that bin laden "did not personally collect his Bosnian passport" and that officials at the Bosnian embassy in Vienna, which issued the passport, could not have known who bin Laden was at the time.The Bosnian daily Oslobodenje published in 2001 that three men, believed to be linked to bin Laden, were arrested in Sarajevo in July 2001. The three ,one of whom was identified as Imad EI Misri, were Egyptian nationals. The paper said that two of the suspects were holding Bosnian passports.
In 1998 it was reported that bin Laden was operating his al-Qaeda network out of Albania. The charleston Gazette quoted Fatos Klosi, the head of the Albanian intelligence Service, as saying a network run by Saudi exile Osama Bin laden sent units to fight in the Serbian province of Kosovo.
Confirmation of these activities came from Claude Kader, a French national who said he was a member of bin Laden's Albanian network.
By 1998 four members of Egyptian Islamic jihad were arrested in Albania and extradited to Egypt.
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