由此 - 21 - A B 75. Mr. Farah’s article entitled “Al Qaeda’s Road Paved with Gold” concerns how “the ruling Taliban and Osama Bin Laden’s al Qaeda C A B C network sent waves of couriers with bars of gold and bundles of dollars D across the porous border into Pakistan”. E E 76. F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T D That part of the Post article dealing with ARY runs as F follows:“US investigators, led by the Customs Service, have began poring over transactions of some of Dubai’s largest and most prestigious gold brokerages for possible links to the movement of al-Qaeda or Taliban money, and have found unusual gold shipments into the United States after Sept. 11. G H A Customs official said that as part of efforts to ‘investigate terrorist financing’ the agency was ‘scrutinizing movements of gold by several companies, including ARY Gold,’ one of Dubai’s largest and most prestigious gold bullion and jewelry dealers. I ARY’s cramped headquarters is located in the heart of Dubai’s gold market – an area several blocks square, filled with stores that sell little else. [ARY], the Pakistani owner of ARY Gold, strongly denied knowingly doing business with the Taliban or alQaeda. K J L M ‘I am a God-fearing person, but all my life I have been afraid of religious people like the Taliban,’ said [ARY]. ‘I wouldn’t like to deal with Taliban people, and we don’t like Taliban people.’ ‘If you say you want 100 kilos (220 pounds) of gold, I can give you that wherever you want in 12 hours. What you do with it is your business,’ he said. N O P [ARY] who owns three of Dubai’s largest gold jewelry stores said he imports and exports gold legally. Dubai has no restrictions on either activity, and [ARY] said competitors were spreading lies about his company out of jealousy. During two interviews here, [ARY] displayed few hints that he was a powerful political and financial broker. Wearing a simple white robe, he spoke in a small office separated by a glass partition from brokers monitoring a bank of computers. On the wall were plaques commemorating his gifts to charitable causes. Q R S T U U V V