Al-Qaida operation uncovered in Ireland - report

An FBI team has found documents in Dublin linking Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged with the September 11 attacks, to an al-Qaida cell in Ireland and one of Osama bin Laden’s money men, it was reported today.

US investigators told Fox News that there is mounting evidence of an al-Qaida presence in Ireland that has gone largely unmentioned.

Numerous US government sources told them a lengthy investigation involving British, Irish, and American agents has been under way at a mosque outside Dublin.

Dozens of people in Dublin and surrounding areas are under investigation for providing false travel documents and cash to members of al-Qaida, Fox News said.

US investigators said the documents seized in Dublin linked Moussaoui – dubbed the twentieth hijacker, with the false documents operation and an al-Qaida operative who has supplied cash to terrorists-in-transit.

Sources said documents were found in a flat in the Donnybrook suburb of Dublin, near the mosque.

The apartment once housed offices of the Mercy International Relief Agency.