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To: maceng2 who wrote (4691)	10/13/2001 11:42:56 AM
From: HG	Respond to of 281500

If someone already posted this, I apologise. Guess we'll never know how much of this is true.... Exposed: Musharraf was on Rabita board WASHINGTON: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was till recently on the board of the Rabita Trust, whose assets have been frozen by the US and UK for its links with Osama Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network. The Bush administration officials had warned Musharraf about the impending action and "encouraged him to disassociate himself from what they described as its founder's links to al-Qaeda", media reports said Saturday. However, to spare embarrassment to Musharraf who is under attack by fundamentalist Islamists calling for holy war against America, the treasury department only reveals where the trust is based, the New York Times reported. It simply says about the trust that it is "led by Wael Hamza Jalaidan, a founder of al-Qaeda and its chief of logistics. The Rabita Trust, the paper said, has helped resettle refugees from Bangladesh to Pakistan for three decades. "It enjoys top-level connections in Pakistan, including General Musharraf's support. But administration officials said its secretary general, Wael Hamza Jalaidan, was an original founder of al-Qaeda along with Bin Laden," the paper says quoting the officials. However, a spokesman for the Pakistani embassy in Washington said he had no information about Musharraf's links to the 'charity.'" timesofindia.com