A family company
Personal inheritance
Business network
Donations
Inheritance
A number of businesses and other assets
His inheritance from his father
Businesses and other assets
Money from al Qaeda
What source of money did bin Laden hold in Sudan?
400 thousand
Less than $1 million a year
$300 million
None of it
$1 million per year until 1994
$30 million per year until 1994
$30 million
To fund a jihad, how much of Bin Laden's personal inheritance could have gone to the terrorists?
Through donations
Al Qaeda provided the funding
Donations
A vast personal inheritance
Fund-raising
Al Qaeda funded the plotters
How did Bin Laden fund the attack against America?
They traveled to the United States, train, and live. The plotters' tradecraft was not especially sophisticated, but it was good enough. They moved, stored, and spent their money in ordinary ways, easily defeating the detection mechanisms in place at the time
They kept moving around
They moved , spent , and stored their money in irregular ways
They moved, stored, and spent their money in ordinary ways, easily defeating the detection mechanisms in place at the time
They moved ,stored,spent their money in regular ways
How did the attack plotters avoid detection?
$400,000 - $500,000
$300 million
300 million
Between $300,000 and $400,000
$400,000 and $500,000
$30 million
Between $400,000 and $50,000
A relatively small sum
How much money did al Qaeda use to fund the 9/11 attacks?
Afghanistan government cracked down
Saudi government imposed divestiture
His family disowned him
Bankruptcy after $300 million was used to fund jihad
Government crackdown and sale of his share of the fortune
Government froze the assets
The family was forced to sell his share of their family corporation and the Saudi government froze the proceeds of that sale
By the death of his father
The Saudi government froze the proceeds of the sale and  Bin Laden was divested
How was Usama cut off from the funds of the  Bin Laden family?
They moved, stored, and spent their money in different ways
By not calling attention to themselves with large transfers of money
A network of donations
By making large donations of money
They didn't provide any funds themselves personally. It was all provided by Al Qaeda and KSM
By funneling business fortunes into terrorist activity
Al Qaeda funded the plotters
Ordinary expenditures that defeated detection
They got money by fund raising
How did the tradecraft of each of the 9/11 plotters go to fund the terrorist activities of 9/11?
The United States thought  Bin Laden financed al Qaeda's expenses through a vast personal inheritance
For many years, the United States thought  Bin Laden financed al Qaeda's expenses through a vast personal inheritance
Thought  Bin Laden financed al Qaeda's expenses through a vast personal inheritance, but discovered that roughly from 1970 through 1994,  Bin Laden received about $1 million per year-a significant sum, to be sure, but not a $300 million fortune that could be used to fund jihad
That bin laden had al qaeda via donations
Bin Laden received about $1 million per year-a significant sum
What did U.S. government erroneously believe about Bin Laden's ji-had?
Saudi government network
Business network
Donations
A fund-raising network
Inheritance
A vast fundraising network
Fund-raising
Terrorism
What kind of a network provided the $30 million al Qaeda used for its activities before 9/11?
 Bin Laden and his aides did not need a very large sum to finance their planned attack on America. The 9/11 plotters eventually spent somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and conduct their attack. Consistent with the importance of the project, al Qaeda funded the plotters. KSM provided his operatives with nearly all the money they needed to travel to the United States, train, and live. The plotters' tradecraft was not especially sophisticated, but it was good enough. They moved, stored, and spent their money in ordinary ways, easily defeating the detection mechanisms in place at the time. The origin of the funds remains unknown, although we have a general idea of how al Qaeda financed itself during the period leading up to 9/11. General Financing As we explained in chapter 2,  Bin Laden did not fund al Qaeda through a personal fortune and a network of businesses in Sudan. Instead, al Qaeda relied primarily on a fund-raising network developed over time. The CIA now estimates that it cost al Qaeda about $30 million per year to sustain its activities before 9/11 and that this money was raised almost entirely through donations. For many years, the United States thought  Bin Laden financed al Qaeda's expenses through a vast personal inheritance.  Bin Laden purportedly inherited approximately $300 million when his father died, and was rumored to have had access to these funds to wage jihad while in Sudan and Afghanistan and to secure his leadership position in al Qaeda. In early 2000, the U.S. government discovered a different reality: roughly from 1970 through 1994,  Bin Laden received about $1 million per year-a significant sum, to be sure, but not a $300 million fortune that could be used to fund jihad. Then, as part of a Saudi government crackdown early in the 1990s, the  Bin Laden family was forced to find a buyer for Usama's share of the family company in 1994. The Saudi government subsequently froze the proceeds of the sale. This action had the effect of divesting  Bin Laden of what otherwise might indeed have been a large fortune. Nor were  Bin Laden's assets in Sudan a source of money for al Qaeda. When  Bin Laden lived in Sudan from 1991 to 1996, he owned a number of businesses and other assets. 