Word: funder
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...Laden's involvement. Ressam and several of his Montreal-based associates, once linked to the brutal Algerian terror organization Armed Islamic Group, had grown away from that band's local fight. FBI agents have unverified reports that they trained at camps in Afghanistan, where bin Laden is a major funder of Islamic militancy. While police found no signatures that prove the provenance of the timing devices in Ressam's car, the units were "strikingly similar" to ones produced at bin Laden's camps...
...organization is far less centralized than those of previous high-profile terrorists, such as the Palestinian Abu Nidal. After all, Bin Laden is less of a CEO and more the head of a loosely grouped holding company. He built his network by putting his considerable resources as a funder and fund-raiser at the center of an international movement to recruit fighters from throughout the Arab world to help Afghanistan resist the Soviet invasion. Those fighters became a nucleus that was deployed in other conflicts involving Muslims, such as Bosnia and Chechnya - and, at Bin Laden-financed camps in Afghanistan...