Reply #8: Ransom money [View All]

[KJF]

I thought this was interesting.

... Omar Sheikh settled in Lahore but visited Afghanistan on four occasions to train operatives. He claims that during these visits he met Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, and that although he was not a permanent member of al-Qaeda he helped to finance it through ransom money generated from kidnappings.

It really looks like the e-mail exchange in August 2001 did take place, as claimed by the Indians.

According to this piece, OSS is going to actually use Musharraf's book as evidence to get him out of the death penalty:

A BRITISH militant sentenced to death in Pakistan for his role in the murder of the American journalist Daniel Pearl wants to use evidence from President Musharraf’s memoir to save himself from the hangman.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2377294,00.html

Crikey!