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To: LindyBill who wrote (7522)	9/10/2003 6:32:04 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793707

More WOT news you won't hear from the major media..... CIA: 10 al-Qaida Backers Killed or Caught - 9 Sept 2003 newsday.com WASHINGTON -- Ten people identified as top financiers for al-Qaida have been captured or killed in the last two years, according to the CIA. The figure includes people with ties to aid groups and another non-governmental organizations that U.S. authorities believe provide money to Osama bin Laden's organization, according to an unclassified CIA summary provided to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz before his testimony to Congress on Tuesday. The CIA paper echoes themes previously presented by the Bush administration on the war with al-Qaida: Osama bin Laden's network is down, but not out. Wolfowitz read part of the summary that describes al-Qaida's central leadership as "reeling from the impact of the counterterrorist successes and our allies." Two-thirds of al-Qaida's identified leadership have been killed or captured, and the network has lost a lot of its institutional ability to launch large-scale, coordinated strikes, the report says. cont'd.....