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To: Snowshoe who wrote (44187)	9/15/2002 5:56:24 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

this al-Jazeera jerk We probably had a tail on this guy, and that helped us find the terrorists. I hope so, anyway.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (44187)	9/15/2002 9:39:21 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

And even more crucial from that article: The interviews were videotaped on al Qaeda equipment, but his hosts kept the tapes. They promised to provide them later. Fouda heard nothing about them for several weeks. Then came a note requesting $1 million for the tapes, and complaining that the "struggle was in a difficult situation." Payment was not part of the deal, Fouda said, and he left Pakistan; he cried as he packed. "I felt it was my work, not something to sell. Later a request arrived for $17,000. "Some discount," Fouda said. "This seemed to me a symptom that something was wrong, there was some breakdown. These people don't ask for money." A very TELLING indicator that, if true, seems to indicate that the monied individuals responsible for funding Al-Qaeda in the past have decided that it might be such a good idea to continue doing so in the future. Hawk