Traitor identities emerging
from bin Laden cyber files
Investigators are racing to identify a 'golden chain' of al Qaeda financiers amid claims that some of them visited Osama bin Laden at the house near Islamabad where he was killed, London's Sunday Times reports.

The terrorist network is believed to have struggled for money, prompting bin Laden to risk meeting wealthy backers at his Abbottabad compound, the paper said.

A senior Taliban commander and bin Laden confidant said the al Qaeda leader had told him that money men from Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, came to the house.

Though at present the focus appears to be on Gulf state nationals, one shouldn't write off the possibility that names of unsavory Americans will also turn up in the various financial transactions -- perhaps including some with ties to the Pentagon or CIA.

Investigators are combing millions of pages of cyber files, we are told.