Pat Robertson's Partner Funded Al-Qaeda!!

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Link: http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5453&abbr=cs_

<Americans United for the Separation of Church and State -- Feb. 2003

Pat Robertson Partner Charles Taylor Funded Al-Qaeda, Report Says

Liberian President Charles Taylor, a business partner of TV preacher
Pat Robertson, helped fund al-Qaeda terrorists by giving them safe
harbor in his country during a diamond-buying spree, investigators in
Europe have charged.

Investigators looking into a connection between al-Qaeda and Taylor
determined that terrorists were active in the region for at least two
months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and the
Pentagon. Investigators charged that three highly placed al-Qaeda
operatives, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and Fazul
Abdullah Mohammed, moved about in Liberia and nearby Burkina Faso,
buying diamonds that were later used to fund terrorist activities.
The trio was later joined by other a-Qaeda terrorists, who moved in
and out of Liberia at will.

The Washington Post reported that the investigators believe that
Taylor, Liberia's dictator, received a $1 million payoff for
harboring the terrorists. Al- Qaeda operatives apparently began
smuggling diamonds in the region after the U.S. government froze the
group's American assets in September of 1998, following the bombing
of two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Key al-Qaeda terrorists stepped up their activity in Liberia just
before the Sept. 11 attacks. In July of 2001, an al- Qaeda leader
flew to Burkina Faso with $1 million that was eventually turned over
to Taylor. According to the report from European investigators, the
money was to pay Taylor "to hide the two al-Qaeda operatives in Camp
Gbatala," a military facility near a farm Taylor owns.

Robertson has been in business with Taylor since 1999, when he formed
a company called Freedom Gold Limited. The company, although
chartered in the Cayman Islands, operates out of Robertson's Virginia
Beach headquarters. Robertson's agreement with Taylor gives Freedom
Gold the right to mine for gold in southeastern Liberia. If any gold
is found, Taylor's government will pocket royalty fees.>

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