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The July 4, 20o3, reporting by the Washington Post. alleging that a year-long investigation by European law enforcement agencies revealed that Charles Taylor sold diamonds to al Qaeda in. 2000 and 2o0l, is questionable. The FBI has conferred with FBi's Legal Attaches, the U.s. State Department, other U.s. agencies, and several of our foreign law enforcement counterparts in order to determine the source of this information. Based on this search, the investigation into this issue is the BFp and they specifically deny having developed any evidence to suggest al Qaeda's involvement in b6 purchasing diamonds from Charles Taylor or the region. b7C The extensive investigation conducted by the FBi in this b7D Global Witness reports. Based on the investigation conducted by the BFP, the media allegations detailing Nassour's involvement with Fee ayn on auawdgnba pue auodenr aoe ahueynxn u! bunnnngaenn puownnp is accurate; however, there is no evidence to support the allegations that al Qaeda operatives were involved in this. operation. The witness identifications of al Qaeda fugitives were made after 9/il. Furthermore, with the exception of. only two witnesses identified al Qaeda fugitives as being involved in diamond trafficking in West Africa. The senior RuF official's investigators showed the witness an FBI Most Wanted Terrorist a traditional law enforcement photo spread. Identification was after he claimed he viewed the. FBI's Most Wanted Poster on the Internet. Even though the two witnesses, and the former senior RuF official, were involved in the same diamond trafficking operations during the same time frame, they identified different al Qaeda fugitives. Both witnesses based their identification on a one-time sighting of the individuals they later Aue aaey aou pip sassaunem asaae :saagagnng epaeo ge aaam aysnoy? were not aware if they purchased diamonds. Based on the investigation conducted, it is believed that was Ghailani and Fazul Mohammed, and was referring to Souley Guisse and Mouhamed Kenemi, the two Senegalese males brought in by Aziz Nassour. the two al Qaeda fugitives identified by but did identify third al Qaeda fugitive Sheikh Ahmed, Salim Sweden.. The former RUF official met the man, he now believes to be Sweden, through Jon only one occasion, and he added that this person ler Liberia without consummating any diamond deals. The former RyF official could not provide any further information, and. after being shown a photograph of Sweden, denied ever seeing him. NO witness confirmed seeing the al Qaeda fugitive Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah. 12 REQ 5-4a thru e 000000092