By the AP.
To read Report: Al-Qaeda Papers: The multinational
Over 100 receipts retrieved from a building believed to have been used
by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghrebʼs local accountant shows an
organization intent on documenting even the most minor expense.
Fighters kept track of purchases as small as a single lightbulb, a
kilogram of tomatoes, the cake they ate, and the soda they drank.
Advances to individual fighters are recorded, and signed by each
receiver. They type up expense reports for trips. The receipts reveal the
corporate-like structure that Osama bin Laden, who was himself a
businessman in Saudi Arabia, before he embarked on jihad.