“The following are excerpts of a written statement [issued on December 20, 2001] by the U.S. treasury secretary Paul O’Neill upon the designation of Umma Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) as a terrorist organization. UTN was ostensibly established as a charity by several Pakistani nuclear scientists including Dr. [Sultan Bashir-ud-din] Mahmood. ‘Today, we are blocking the assets of a terrorist organization, UTN, and three of its directors, because they finance terrorism. UTN and its directors provided more than money to al Qaida, they provided knowledge of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.’ ”
– Peter Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know, Pages 340-341