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Financing Terror

9:56 AM, Sep 6, 2006 • By DANIEL MCKIVERGAN
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The Globe and Mail in Canada has more on the plot to destroy a British landmark using 600 kilograms of ammonium nitrate.

She started out looking for a husband. Instead, the young Carleton University student became a key conduit for thousands of dollars that, police say, was financing terrorism.

Zenab Armend Pisheh, an Ottawa-area chemistry student in her early 20s, says she was used by young, aspiring jihadists in Britain and Canada and that she was handpicked because "sisters don't get caught -- brothers get caught if they send money.