Treasury Designates Al-Zarqawi Financier
By Andrew Cochran
The U.S. Treasury Department just announced the designation of Bilal Mansur Al-Hiyari for providing financial support to the al-Zarqawi network in Iraq. Al-Hiyari became acquainted with al-Zarqawi in 1989 when they met in Afghanistan. "According to information available to the U.S. Government, their relationship continued through the mid-1990s, when Al-Hiyari returned to Jordan where al-Zarqawi was serving out a sentence in Jordanian prison. According to information available to the U.S. Government, Al-Hiyari traveled to Iraq in 2003 where he sent funds to support al-Zarqawi's operations through several of al-Zarqawi's messengers. In October 2004, the State Security Court of Jordan convicted Al-Hiyari of providing funds to the Zarqawi Network. At the conclusion of his trial, however, he was released from prison."
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