The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #161326 Message #3833686
Posted By: Teribus
20-Jan-17 - 09:17 AM
Thread Name: BS: Businessmen as Leaders of Nations
Subject: RE: BS: Businessmen as Leaders of Nations
The Reuters article is March 2016, the documents related to Osama bin Laden are not, they are much older, taken during the raid in which bin Laden was killed and merely recently declassified and released.
The company mentioned was no "Construction Company" it was an Al-Qaeda "holding company", a front used as a front for receiving contributions to the cause.
Wadi al Aqiq
Part of Al-Qaeda
Details
Center of Gravity
Sudan
Goal
Holding company
Leader
Osama bin Laden
Key members
Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, Wadih El Hage
Formed - 1991
Narrative and Notes
Osama bin Laden formed a holding company called Wadi al-Aqiq in the Khartoum, Sudan, to raise money for al-Qaeda purposes. It was the first al-Qaeda company formed in Sudan.
Osama served as chairman, and Salim as the general manager.
Sources
1: United States vs. bin Laden, Atef, El Hage, Fazul Mohammed, Odeh and Al-Owhali, indictment, Nov. 4, 1998.
2: Jamal al-Fadl testimony, United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al, trial transcript, Day 2, Feb. 6, 2001.
3: Essam al-Ridi testimony, United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al, trial transcript, Day 5, Feb. 14, 2001.
Osama bin Laden was never a businessman.
Osama bin Laden was never a statesman.
Osama bin Laden was never the Leader of any Nation.