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UP FRONTWednesday 2 March 2016

Osama bin Laden wanted his
fortunes to be used ‘on jihad’

A South Korean war veteran waves a South Korean national flag during a rally against North Korea’s DEB RIECHMANN the Director of National In-
rocket launch and nuclear test in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 1, 2016. A U.N. Security ROBERT BURNS telligence.
Council vote on the toughest sanctions on North Korea in two decades has been postponed until Associated Press They address a range of
Wednesday morning at Russia’s request, the United States and France said Tuesday. WASHINGTON (AP) — In topics, including fractures
his handwritten will, al- between al-Qaida and
(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) Qaida leader Osama bin al-Qaida in Iraq, which
Laden claimed he had eventually splintered off
UN to vote on new North Korea sanctions about $29 million in per- into what is now known as
sonal wealth — the bulk the Islamic State; and bin
EDITH M. LEDERER day asked the council to and food shortages. of which he wanted to Laden’s concerns about
Associated Press schedule a vote Tuesday White House spokesman be used “on jihad, for the his organization’s public
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A afternoon. But the U.S. Mis- Josh Earnest said Tuesday sake of Allah.” image and his desire to
U.N. Security Council vote sion to the United Nations that the U.S. administration The will was released Tues- depict it as a united net-
on the toughest sanctions said “Russia invoked a pro- knows the North Korean day in a batch of more work.
on North Korea in two de- cedural 24-hour review of people “have suffered for than 100 documents In a letter to one of his
cades has been postponed the resolution, so the vote far too long” because of seized in a May 2011 raid wives who had been liv-
until Wednesday morning will be on Wednesday.” decisions from their gov- that killed bin Laden at his ing in Iran,
at Russia’s request, the Unit- The U.S., its Western allies ernment. “And that’s why compound in Abbotta- bin Laden expressed wor-
ed States and France said and Japan pressed for new this sanctions regime is tar- bad, Pakistan. ry that her visit to a dentist
Tuesday. sanctions that went be- geted more specifically at The al-Qaida leader could have presented the
The U.S. and North Ko- yond the North’s nuclear the North Korean elite.” planned to divide his Iranians an opportunity to
rea’s traditional ally China and missile programs but For the first time, the draft fortune among his rela- implant a small chip un-
spent seven weeks nego- China, Pyongyang’s neigh- resolution would require tives, but wanted most of der her skin, apparently as
tiating the new sanctions, bor, was reluctant to im- the 192 other U.N. mem- it spent to conduct the a tracking device.
which includes manda- pose measures that could ber states to inspect all work of the Islamic ex- “My dear wife,” he be-
tory inspections of cargo threaten the stability of cargo from North Korea tremist terror network be- gan. “I was told that you
ships leaving and entering North Korea and cause its or heading to the country hind the Sept. 11 attacks. went to a dentist in Iran,
North Korea, in response to economy to collapse. for illicit goods, ban any The will did not disclose and you were concerned
Pyongyang’s latest nuclear The final draft, obtained sale or transfer of small much detail about where about a filling she put in for
test and rocket launch. by The Associated Press, arms and light weapons to he amassed his wealth, you. Please let me know
Both are in defiance of pre- would eliminate loopholes Pyongyang, and require but bin Laden’s father ran in detail ... any suspicions
vious council resolutions. in previous sanctions resolu- all countries to expel dip- a successful construction that any of the brothers
But Russia, which received tions and impose new ones. lomats from the North who company in Saudi Ara- may have about chips
the new draft Thursday But it stresses that the new engage in “illicit activities.” bia for years, and the will planted in any way.”
along with other council measures are not intended It would also for the first noted that $12 million was The Iranian dentist might
members, asked for time to to have “adverse humani- time impose significant from his brother on behalf have used a slightly en-
study the lengthy text, and tarian consequences” for sanctions on broad sec- of the Bin Laden Co. larged syringe to make
suggested changes. civilians, the majority who tions of the North Korean The threat of sudden such an implant, bin
The United States late Mon- face economic hardships economy. death was on his mind Laden wrote in the letter.
years before the fatal raid The U.S. translation is un-
in Pakistan. dated.
“If I am to be killed,” a bin “The size of the chip is
Laden son wrote his father about the length of a
in a 2008 letter, “pray for grain of wheat and the
me a lot and give con- width of a fine piece of
tinuous charities in my vermicelli,” bin Laden
name, as I will be in great said.
need for support to reach He asked her to recall the
the permanent home.” exact date of her dental
The letters were included work, “also about any sur-
in a batch of documents gery you had, even if it
released by the Office of was only a quick pinch.”