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From: x <daleyl@peak.org>
Subject: Just how many tentacles does the Bin Laden octopus have?
Date: Monday, September 24, 2001 7:37 PM


The extent of the Bin Laden's organization seems immense, spreading, if
one believes the reports and they do seem credible, from German and
Europe, through the Middle East, to the Philippines, seemingly through the
Caiman Islands, Cuba and Argentina.  Now this post was sent by the
same friend in South Africa who sent the previous one.

Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:30:37 +0200

This in The Star today, by Melanie-Ann Feris:

A South African Islamic organisation based in Durban that is linked to
Osama bin Laden yesterday said it was ready to assist investigators track
down suspects wanted in connection with the US terrorist attacks. It has
emerged that South African intelligence agencies are probing about 200
people who are wanted in connection with the September 11 attacks on New
York and Washington.

Yusuf Deedat, an Islamic activist and former secretary-general of the
Islamic Propagation Centre in Durgan, said he was not aware that any of
its members were under police surveillance. "If they (the police) are
doing it, they are doing it very discreetly. I can't see any justifiable
reason for them to be keeping us under surveillance," he said. He added
that the Islamic organisation had no reason not to assist the police with
their investigation. The centre received $3,1-m in contributions from Bin
Laden between 1987 and 1996. Deedat, who has met Bin Laden personally,
said the money had been used for the propagation of Islam. Although many
of the organisation's members travelled to Islamic countries such as Saudi
Arabia,

Deedat said he was not aware of any member who had recently travelled to
and from Afghanistan, Bin Laden's apparent headquarters. US intelligence
agencies believe people whose names are on lists that they have supplied
to South African intelligence agencies have links with Bin Laden's
extensive international terrorist network, believed to encompass more than
60 countries. South Africa previously helped the US track down a Tanzanian
who sought refuge in the country following the bombings of the US
embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. Khalfan Mohamed was traced
through a photo on his application for asylum. He was convicted of murder
in a US court in June and sentenced to life imprisonment without the
possibility of parole. Commissioner Ray Lalla, head of police crime
intelligence, has confirmed that people whose names were on a list
supplied by US intelligence were being probed. Lalla said SA's role would
be to help verify information emanating from inquries in the probe. Not
all the people on the list, issued on Friday, were suspects, Lalla said.

Who was speculating last week about the effect of a cruise missile on Cape
Town??? The war might not be as remote as we've been thinking.



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