French Magistrate Widens Bin Laden Finance Probe

Investigating magistrate Renaud Van Ruymbeke received court authorization to extend his investigation after Yeslam bin Laden was questioned on Sept. 27 over allegations of links with the organizers of attacks in 2001 in the United States, the paper said in its Saturday edition.

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On Dec. 5, 2001, French authorities opened an investigation into financial transfers carried out through Paris between firms grouped within the Saudi Investment Company (SICO) run by Yeslam bin Laden, who also manages some assets of the family's Saudi Binladin Group (SBG)

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Although he denied having had any contact with his half- brother for the past 20 years, the paper said, documents held by Swiss banking authorities suggest that Yeslam and Osama bin Laden held a joint account in Switzerland between 1990 and 1997, according to Jean-Charles Brisard -- a private investigator hired by families of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Yeslam told French investigators in September that he had omitted to mention the existence of that account, while still insisting he had not had mixed with his half-brother, Le Monde said.



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"according to Jean-Charles Brisard -- a private investigator hired by families of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks."

Brissard co-authored 'Forbidden Truth: US-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt For bin Laden'. It is a very well researched expose into the international financial ties between the first families of Big Oil.

Could their money be mixed up in this? Perhaps the French will find out?

"terrorists" Figures that France has to do the investigation our government refuses to do.