When it comes to major funders of the Republican 
party who are also (alleged) financiers of al Qaeda, we make a special effort to be thorough.
So remember Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, the guy who got indicted two weeks ago for trying to fund new terrorist training camps in Pakistan (apparently it’s a growth industry at the moment). Reports at the time said Alishtari had given just over $15,000 to the Republicans. But Paul Kiel looked a bit closer. And it turns out that the true number was $35,000.
There was an extra $20,000 Alishtari contributed to the National Republican Senatorial Committee on August 9th, 2003. (It went unnoticed because his name was misspelled on the disclosure form.)
Admittedly, it ain’t the $152,000 he tried to contribute to al Qaeda. But not chump change either.
