Bin Laden's hard drives: Follow the money

American authorities are ready to follow the money, experts say, hoping detailed ledgers and financial records were scooped up during the raid in which bin Laden was killed. They say any wealthy financiers whose donations helped support the bin Laden terror network now have reason to be nervous.

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“Al-Qaeda has traditionally been funded by deep-pocket donors,” said Stuart Levey, who served as the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence and is now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “If people have been giving money, and they don’t know yet whether their name is being identified in this intelligence, or that their name might be on a list of potential donors, they might have real reason to worry.”…

“That could really create chaos for their fundraising,” Levey said.

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