Al-Quaeda Financeers

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

While the official version was, that originally only Bin Laden sponsored Al-Quaeda and the attack on america, other independent investigators later speculated, that the Weapon- and Oilindustry and some right wing thinktanks had been silently behind the Sep11th attack. Their conclusion: Some saudi arabian credit institutes orchestrated the financial transaction of this "military operation", with or without prior knowledge, what exactly would happen. Others speculated, that indirectly these companies sponsored the "masterplan" itself: Saudi Arabian intelligence (->) and their oil ties, Pakistans Secret Service Isi, parts of the Pentagon and CIA, Enron, Carlyle (->), Halliburton, BinLadin Group Inc., UNOCAL Pakistan (->), Kissinger Associates Inc (->), SG Asia Project Finance,
Northrop Grumman, Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) etc... Officially this guy had been on the list: Sheikh Saeed (->), also known as Mustafa Mohamed Ahmad aka Mustapha Ahmad Al-Hawsawi (Saudi Arabia). Sheikh Sayyid el Masry aka Mustafa Mohamed Ahmad was already mentioned in a public transcript of the trial on the Kenia Embassy Bombings from 1998, which was online since February 2001. Officially closed accounts in September/October 2001:

the Mauritanian (aka Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, Khalid Al-Shanqiti) (->) · Abu Sayyaf Group (->)

Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)

Islamic Group

al-Libi

· Libyan Islamic Fighting Group

Abu Hafs Al Masri)

Combat (GSPC)

Ahmad)

Other companies: Wafa Humanitarian Organization with offices in Jordan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and UAE; Al Rashid Trust (a.k.a. Al-Rasheed Trust) with offices in several cities in Pakistan and Afghanistan and operations in Kosovo and Chechnya; and Mamoun Darkazanli (->)Import-Export Company in Hamburg, Germany. Individuals added to the list are: Shaykh Sai'id (a.k.a. Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad); Abu Hafs the Mauritanian (a.k.a. Mahfouz Ould Al-Walid, Khalid Al-Shanqiti, Mafouz Walad Al-Walid, Mahamedou Ouid Slahi); Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi; Abd Al-Hadi Al-Iraqi (a.k.a. Abu Abdallah, Abdal Al-Hadi Al-Iraqi); Thirwat Salah Shihata (a.k.a. Tarwat Salah Abdallah, Salah Shihata Thirwat, Shahata Thirwat); Tariq Anwar Al-Sayyid Ahmad (a.k.a. Hamdi Ahmad Farag, Amr Al-Fatih Fathi); Muhammad Salah (a.k.a. Nasr Fahmi Nasr Hasanayn); and Makhtab Al-Khidamat/Al Kifah. (->Saudi Arabia) Updates on the "real financeers" in late 2002: 
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_7.html 

Sunday October 20th, 2002 WASHINGTON -- "...The United States has identified the sources of Al Qaida funding and found they were fewer in number than earlier estimated. Officials said U.S. intelligence has determined that Al Qaida is supported by 12 financiers, most of them Saudis. 
They said the Bush administration is sharing the findings with Washington's allies in NATO and the European Union...."

LA Times on the 911-Saudi connection: Saudis Must Stem Cash for Terror, Report Says By Sebastian Rotella, Times Staff Writer

(2002-12-24) BARCELONA, Spain -- Despite a crackdown on terrorism financing after the September 11 attacks, Saudi Arabia still must dismantle a system that has permitted hundreds of millions of dollars to flow to Islamic extremists through businesses and charities, according to a report submitted to the U.N. Prominent Saudi donors, companies and charities whose funds have been traced to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network by investigators around the world are still doing business, the French investigator who wrote the report said in an interview Monday. 

The problem stems in part from a blurring of religion and finance in Saudi society that impedes reform, according to the report. "Al Qaeda was able to receive between $300 [million] and $500 million over the last 10 years from wealthy businessmen and bankers, whose fortunes represent about 20% of the Saudi GNP, through a web of charities and companies acting as fronts," said Jean-Charles Brisard, the investigator. 
"Most of this financial backbone is still at large and able to support fundamentalist institutions." The 34-page report was submitted by Brisard last week at the request of the Colombian ambassador to the United Nations, the current president of the Security Council.