http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/internat.../05TERR.html?th

"A prominent Yemeni cleric apprehended in Germany on charges of financing terrorism used a Brooklyn mosque to help funnel millions of dollars to Al Qaeda and boasted that he had personally delivered $20 million to Osama bin Laden, federal officials said today."

and...

"The case has threatened to create an international rift because officials in Yemen, which [have] been increasingly helpful in fighting terrorism, say they are skeptical of the charges against Sheik Mouyad, the imam at a prominent mosque in the capital, Sana. He runs a large charity that provides food and clothing to the poor, works in the government ministry that oversees mosques and is active in the Isla political party."

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Well, the charity front makes sense.....I don't see why that should impede a full and thorough investigation!! eek! eek!