Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl steals from al-Qaeda
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 | Primary Organization | Al-Qaeda | |
| Location | Khartoum, Sudan | |
 | Time | Summer 19952 | |
| Participants | Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl1, Abu Fadhl al-Makkee1, Saad al-Sharif1, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim1, Abu Dijana al Yemeni, Osama bin Laden | |
| Participants | Ihsan el Madani1 | |
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| Narrative and Notes | |||
| Reliable | Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl collect between $100,000 and $110,000 in unauthorized 'commissions' in conducting business for al-Qaeda in Sudan. Al-Fadl used the money to buy land and a car. Eventually his bosses learned of this and confronted him in a group. Al-Fadl argued the Egyptians in al-Qaeda took commissions, so why shouldn't he? They demanded he repay the money; he repaid about $30,000 to Abu Dijana al-Yemeni. Later, he met with Osama bin Laden himself; bin Laden asked why would al-Fadl, one of al-Qaeda's first and best operatives, would steal? Al-Fadl gave the same reply regarding the Egyptians. Bin Laden said he needed to repay the money. Al-Fadl then left al-Qaeda. By mid-2006 he was an informant for the Americans.1 | |
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| 1Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl testimony, United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al, trial transcript, Day 3, Feb. 7, 2001. | |||
| 2Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl testimony, United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al, trial transcript Day 7, Feb. 20, 2001. | |||
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