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Swiss-Based al-Qaeda Suspect Had Saudi Passport
(Financial Times-UK) Stephen Fidler - A Swiss-based businessman accused by the U.S. Treasury of providing financial help to bin Laden and al-Qaeda carried a Saudi diplomatic passport, according to documents in a book published on Thursday in Paris. The documents include a letter from the U.S. Treasury to the Swiss authorities, which says that al-Qaeda and its leader received financial assistance from businessman Ali bin Mussalim "as of late September 2001." A copy of bin Mussalim's diplomatic passport is included. The disclosures, contained in Al-Qaeda Will Conquer (Al-Qa'ida Vaincra), by Guillaume Dasquie, will be uncomfortable reading for the Saudi government, which has disputed any suggestions of official complicity in the attacks of September 11, 2001. Bin Mussalim had served as intermediary in negotiations in 1994 between the French and Saudi governments to supply frigates to the Saudi navy. He was found dead in his residence in Lausanne last June, a month after reports of the U.S. Treasury letter first emerged.