2/6/2001

According to the February 6, 2001, testimony of al Qaeda defector Jamal al-Fadl in the federal trial of al Qaeda members for the African U.S. embassy bombings: “At one point bin Laden wired $210,000 to a contact in Texas to purchase and import a private jet to shuttle cargo, including weapons, between Pakistan and Sudan.”

 – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 269