Correction to This Article
A Feb. 17 article about the use of gold in al Qaeda and Taliban financing reported incorrectly that a Saudi banker, Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, is a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden. The report was based on congressional testimony by a former director of the CIA. The story also erred in stating that Mahfouz is under house arrest. A representative of Mahfouz also denied information attributed in the story to U.S. officials that Mahfouz was under detention in 1999 and that an audit of the Saudi bank of which he was director showed links to charities controlled by bin Laden. The representative said no such audit was conducted.