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> BUSHLADEN
> by Jared Israel [8 October 2001]
> Includes report from the 'Wall Street Journal'
>
> [The connection between the Bush and bin Laden
> families is also discussed in 'More on Bushladen
> Carlyle Group' at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bushladen2-i.htm
> and 'Bush/bin Laden Connection "has now turned into
> a scandal!"' at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/news/jw.htm
> =======================================
>
> "We will starve the terrorists of funding," he said.
> "If you do business with terrorists, if you support
> or sponsor them, you will not do business with the
> United States of America."
>
> --George Bush, 24 September 2001
>
> While thousands of human beings lie buried under
> tons of rubble in devastated Manhattan, the U.S. and
> Britain have launched a massive bombing attack on
> Afghanistan. Among the declared targets: electrical
> power facilities (1), clearly an attack on
> civilians. Hundreds of thousands of terrorized human
> beings are fleeing into the cold countryside,
> carrying with them nothing but their poverty. Among
> the weapons employed by Infinite Justice: Tomahawk
> missiles, which are partly composed of deadly
> Depleted Uranium. U.S. and British soldiers and
> Afghan civilians take note: Afghan Syndrome may be
> just around the corner. (2)
>
> But some folks are doing OK.
>
> Below we have reprinted an article from the 'Wall
> Street Journal'. It reveals that Saudi Binladin
> Group, the conglomerate owned by Osama bin Laden's
> family, has invested in:
>
> "Carlyle Group, a well-connected Washington merchant
> bank specializing in buyouts of defense and
> aerospace companies." ('WSJ,' 27 September 2001)
>
> Through his lofty position at Carlyle and as a
> consultant, George Bush Sr. is closely linked to the
> bin Ladens. As are other powerhouse U.S.
> politicians.
>
> Given that Carlyle's business is "defense," the
> Bushes and bin Ladens may well profit handsomely
> from the current war.
>
> There has been no outcry in the mass media about
> this. No U.S. newspaper has picked up the WSJ story.
> Nor has CNN or Fox.
>
> As for politicians, only those involved have
> commented, and they dismissed the bin Laden link
> without a blush. For instance, Caspar Weinberger,
> Reagan's Secretary of Defense and part of the Saudi
> Binladin connection says:
>
> "I don't think the sins of the son should be visited
> on the father or the brother and the cousins and the
> aunts." ('WSJ,' 27 September 2001)
>
> How stern Weinberger was when it came to invading
> little Grenada; how non-judgmental when his own
> interests are at stake.
>
> At first, Bush spokeswoman Jean Becker told the
> 'Wall Street Journal' that her boss had met with the
> bin Ladens only once.
>
> But "after being read the ex-president's subsequent
> thank-you note" the original "only once" claim was
> revised. In other words, she got caught in a lie and
> switched to a new story:
>
> "President Bush does not have a relationship with
> the bin Laden family," says Ms. Becker. "He's met
> them twice." ('WSJ,' 27 September 2001)
>
> Once, twice, who's counting?
>
> Clearly a) Bush has a guilty conscience, otherwise
> why not tell the truth? And b) since he's clearly in
> stonewall-mode there is no reason to believe there
> weren't more meetings with the bin Ladens. How many
> more? Who knows? But his spokeswoman's behavior
> shows this: if Bush did have more meetings, he
> surely won't come clean unless confronted with
> proof.
>
> EVEN IN AN EXPOSÉ, THE WSJ TOES THE LINE
>
> The 'Wall Street Journal' article implicitly
> supports the official story, that Osama has broken
> with his family, by telling us, as if it were a
> fact, that Osama only "worked briefly in the
> [family] business."
>
> This is not true.
>
> In an article in preparation, Emperor's Clothes will
> show that Osama directed the family business in
> carrying out at least two large projects for the
> CIA, one in the 1980s and one in the late 1990s,
> building facilities to be used by terrorists.
>
> Moreover, the only pieces of evidence that Osama bin
> Laden broke with his family are statements by him,
> his family, and U.S. officials. Since these parties
> have an interest in convincing the public that the
> connection was broken, their statements are of scant
> value.
>
> Also, there is evidence to the contrary. In "Body of
> Secrets," the new book by National Security Agency
> expert James Bamford, the author cites freedom of
> information documents revealing that:
>
> "[National Security] Agency officials have sometimes
> played tapes of bin Laden talking to his mother to
> impress members of Congress and select visitors to
> the agency." (quoted in 'Baltimore Sun', 24 April
> 2001)
>
> And another article states:
>
> "Yossef Bodansky, director of the House Task Force
> on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, said "Osama
> maintains connections" with some of his nearly two
> dozen brothers. He would not elaborate." ('San
> Antonio Express-News,' 14 September 1998)
>
> [NOTE: The connection between the Bush and bin Laden
> families is also discussed in 'More on Bushladen
> Carlyle Group' at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bushladen2-i.htm
> and 'Bush/bin Laden Connection "has now turned into
> a scandal!"' at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/news/jw.htm - Jared
> Israel and others at Emperor's Clothes ]
>
> -- Jared Israel
>
> ***
>
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> Special Report: Aftermath of Terror
> Bin Laden Family Could Profit From a Jump
> In Defense Spending Due to Ties to U.S. Bank
> By DANIEL GOLDEN, JAMES BANDLER and MARCUS WALKER
> Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
> 27 September 2001
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> =
>
> A U.S. inquiry into bin Laden family business
> dealings could brush against some big names
> associated with the U.S. government. Former
> President Bush said through his chief of staff, Jean
> Becker, that he recalled only one meeting with the
> bin Laden family, which took place in November 1998.
> Ms. Becker confirmed that there was a second meeting
> in January 2000, after being read the ex-president's
> subsequent thank-you note. "President Bush does not
> have a relationship with the bin Laden family," says
> Ms. Becker. "He's met them twice."
>
> Special Report: Aftermath of Terror Bin Laden Family
> Could Profit From a Jump In Defense Spending Due to
> Ties to U.S. Bank By Daniel Golden, James Bandler
> And Marcus Walker, Staff Reporters of 'THE WALL
> STREET JOURNAL'
>
> If the U.S. boosts defense spending in its quest to
> stop Osama bin Laden's alleged terrorist activities,
> there may be one unexpected beneficiary: Mr. bin
> Laden's family.
>
> Among its far-flung business interests, the
> well-heeled Saudi Arabian clan -- which says it is
> estranged from Osama -- is an investor in a fund
> established by Carlyle Group, a well-connected
> Washington merchant bank specializing in buyouts of
> defense and aerospace companies.
>
> Through this investment and its ties to Saudi
> royalty, the bin Laden family has become acquainted
> with some of the biggest names in the Republican
> Party. In recent years, former President Bush,
> ex-Secretary of State James Baker and ex-Secretary
> of Defense Frank Carlucci have made the pilgrimage
> to the bin Laden family's headquarters in Jeddah,
> Saudi Arabia. Mr. Bush makes speeches on behalf of
> Carlyle Group and is senior adviser to its Asian
> Partners fund, while Mr. Baker is its senior
> counselor. Mr. Carlucci is the group's chairman.
>
> Osama is one of more than 50 children of Mohammed
> bin Laden, who built the family's $5 billion
> business, Saudi Binladin Group, largely with
> construction contracts from the Saudi government.
> Osama worked briefly in the business and is believed
> to have inherited as much as $50 million from his
> father in cash and stock, although he doesn't have
> access to the shares, a family spokesman says.
> Because his Saudi citizenship was revoked in 1994,
> Mr. bin Laden is ineligible to own assets in the
> kingdom, the spokesman added.
>
> The bin Laden family has long disavowed Osama, and
> has cooperated fully with several federal
> investigations into his activities. The family
> business, headed by Osama's half-brother Bakr,
> epitomizes the U.S.-Saudi alliance that the
> suspected terrorist often rails against. After the
> 1996 truck bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, that
> killed 19 U.S. servicemen, Saudi Binladin Group
> built military barracks and airfields for U.S.
> troops.
>
> But the Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued
> subpoenas to banks used by the bin Laden family
> seeking records of family dealings, a person
> familiar with the matter said. This person said the
> subpoenas weren't an indication the FBI had found
> any suspicious behavior by the family. A family
> spokesman said he had no knowledge of the subpoenas
> but that the family welcomes them and has nothing to
> hide.
>
> People familiar with the family's finances say the
> bin Ladens do much of their banking with National
> Commercial Bank in Saudi Arabia and with the London
> branch of Deutsche Bank AG. They also use Citigroup
> Inc. and ABN Amro, the people said.
>
> "If there were ever any company closely connected to
> the U.S. and its presence in Saudi Arabia, it's the
> Saudi Binladin Group," says Charles Freeman,
> president of the Middle East Policy Council, a
> Washington nonprofit concern that receives tens of
> thousands of dollars a year from the bin Laden
> family. "They're the establishment that Osama's
> trying to overthrow."
>
> Mr. Freeman, who served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi
> Arabia during the Gulf War, says he has spoken to
> two of Osama's brothers since hijacked airplanes
> rammed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on
> Sept. 11. They told him, he says, that the FBI has
> been "remarkably sensitive, tactful and protective"
> of the family during the current crisis, recognizing
> its longstanding friendship with the U.S.
>
> A Carlyle executive said the bin Laden family
> committed $2 million through a London investment arm
> in 1995 in Carlyle Partners II Fund, which raised
> $1.3 billion overall. The fund has purchased several
> aerospace companies among 29 deals. So far, the
> family has received $1.3 million back in completed
> investments and should ultimately realize a 40%
> annualized rate of return, the Carlyle executive
> said.
>
> But a foreign financier with ties to the bin Laden
> family says the family's overall investment with
> Carlyle is considerably larger. He called the $2
> million merely an initial contribution. "It's like
> plowing a field," this person said. "You seed it
> once. You plow it, and then you reseed it again."
>
> The Carlyle executive added that he would think
> twice before accepting any future investments by the
> bin Ladens. "The situation's changed now," he said.
> "I don't want to spend my life talking to
> reporters."
>
> A U.S. inquiry into bin Laden family business
> dealings could brush against some big names
> associated with the U.S. government. Former
> President Bush said through his chief of staff, Jean
> Becker, that he recalled only one meeting with the
> bin Laden family, which took place in November1998.
> Ms. Becker confirmed that there was a second meeting
> in January 2000, after being read the ex-president's
> subsequent thank-you note. "President Bush does not
> have a relationship with the bin Laden family," says
> Ms. Becker. "He's met them twice."
>
> Mr. Baker visited the bin Laden family in both 1998
> and 1999, according to people close to the family.
> In the second trip, he traveled on a family plane.
> Mr. Baker declined comment, as did Mr. Carlucci, a
> past chairman of Nortel Networks Corp., which has
> partnered with Saudi Binladin Group on
> telecommunications ventures.
>
> Former President Carter met with 10 of Osama's
> brothers early in 2000 on a fund-raising trip for
> the Carter Center in Atlanta. According to John
> Hardman, executive director of the center, the
> brothers told Mr. Carter that Osama was completely
> removed from the family. After Mr. Carter and his
> wife followed up with breakfast with Bakr bin Laden
> in New York in September 2000, the bin Laden family
> gave $200,000 to the center. "We don't have any
> reason to think there's a connection" between Osama
> and the rest of the family, Mr. Hardman says.
>
> During the past several years, the family's close
> ties to the Saudi royal family prompted executives
> and staff from closely held New York publisher
> Forbes Inc. to make two trips to the family
> headquarters, according to Forbes Chairman Caspar
> Weinberger, a former U.S. secretary of defense in
> the Reagan administration. "We would call on them to
> get their view of the country and what would be of
> interest to investors."
>
> Mr. Weinberger said no trips to Saudi Arabia were
> planned. "If we went," he said, "we may or may not
> call upon them. I don't think the sins of the son
> should be visited on the father or the brother and
> the cousins and the aunts."
>
> There is no indication President George W. Bush has
> met any of the bin Ladens, but he was indirectly
> linked to one of them two decades ago. His longtime
> friend James W. Bath, who met Mr. Bush when they
> were both pilots in the Air National Guard, acted as
> a Texas business representative for Osama's older
> brother, Salem bin Laden, from 1976 to 1988, when
> Salem died in a plane crash. Mr. Bath brought
> real-estate acquisitions and other deals to Salem
> bin Laden, an ebullient man who headed the family
> construction business. Mr. Bath generally received a
> 5% interest as his fee, and was sometimes listed as
> a trustee in related corporate documents. Mr. Bath
> acknowledged that during the same period he invested
> $50,000 in two funds controlled by Mr. Bush but said
> that stake was unrelated to his dealings with Mr.
> bin Laden.
>
> Among the properties that Salem bin Laden bought on
> Mr. Bath's recommendation was the Houston Gulf
> Airport, a lightly used airfield in League City,
> Texas, 25 miles east of Houston. But Mr. bin Laden's
> hope that it would develop a major overflow airport
> for Houston never materialized, in part due to
> concern over wetlands. Ever since his death, his
> estate has sought to sell the airfield -- without
> success. Today, it is still on the market.
>
> (c) Wall Street Journal, 2001 * Reprinted for Fair
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> Further Reading
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>
> 1) On attacking the elctrical power grid in
> Afghanistan: "The attacks from
> carrier-based warplanes and 15 land-based bombers --
> including B-1s, B-52s and B-2s -- were reportedly
> directed against major cities throughout
> Afghanistan. Explosions were heard in the Afghan
> capital and electrical power wasinterrupted. Cruise
> missiles also hit the airport in the southern
> Taliban centre of Kandahar. " ('Calgary Herald,' 8
> October 2001)
>
> " The strikes against Afghanistan began at night.
> Supersonic jets took off from American aircraft
> carriers in the region. Heavy bombers flew from as
> far away as Missouri. Cruise missiles were fired
> from American and British ships and submarines.
> Their targets were an assortment of command posts,
> military bases and electrical plants..." ('N.Y.
> Times.' 8 October 2001)
>
> 2) IS AFGHAN SYNDROME NEXT?
>
>
> The U.S. and Britain have admitted firing 50
> Tomahawk Missiles at Afghanistan. Concerning these
> missiles, there is no question that they contain
> Depleted Uranium (DU). For example, William Arkin, a
> former U.S. intelligence officer who downplays the
> harm done by U.S. military actions, admitted during
> the bombing of Yugoslavia that Depleted Uranium (DU)
> is used as ballast in Tomahawk missiles.
> ('Washington Post,' 26 April 1999)
>
> In the 'Washington Post' article Arkin warns that
> people shouldn't "overstate the dangers" of DU.
> Alas, he has been refuted the hard way: by the
> DU-caused deaths of NATO soldiers in Kosovo.
>
> On the attempt to downplay DU dangers, see "Allies
> 'told in 1991 of uranium cancer risks'" by Felicity
> Arbuthnot at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/news/told.htm In this
> article, reprinted from the Scottish 'Sunday
> Herald,' Ms. Arbuthnot reports that Dr. Doug Rokke,
> former head of the Pentagon's DU Project, informed
> the Pentagon of the deadly harm done by DU as far
> back as 1991.
>
> Last year, the German publication, 'Der Spiegel' ran
> an article on the use of Depleted Uranium in Germany
> (!) and Somalia. Here is an excerpt, detailing the
> U.S. Army's instructions for handling urine samples
> from soldiers possibly contaminated with Depleted
> Uranium. Does it sound like critics are "overstating
> the dangers"?
> "Every urine sample was to be 'sealed in an
> absolutely solid, 1 liter, sealed container'.
>
> "This was to be placed in a second, 'similarly
> watertight container,' in which there was to be
> 'sufficient absorbent material to suck up the entire
> urine sample were it nevertheless to leak.'
>
> "This package was to be placed in a 'heavy duty
> cardboard box' swathed in warning labels
> proclaiming: 'Biohazard!'"
> [For full translation go to
> http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/spiegel.htm ]
>
> Also see: 'Deaths threaten unity of Nato,' a London
> 'Times' report published last January as it became
> clear that DU was killing NATO soldiers. Can be read
> at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/dudisunity.htm
> Is the real goal of this "Infinite War" to crush
> terrorism? If so, why are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan,
> which have directly financed and organized Islamist
> terror organizations, key allies of the U.S.
> government, which has sponsored and coddled
> terrorists throughout the Balkans, regarding which
> see, for example, "SORRY, VIRGINIA, BUT THEY ARE
> NATO TROOPS, NOT 'REBELS'" at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/times.htm
>
> For a different explanation of what is really going
> on see the following three articles:
>
> 'Why Washington Wants Afghanistan' by Jared Israel,
> Rick Rozoff & Nico Varkevisser at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/afghan.htm
>
> 'NATO Buildup in the Balkans: Part of a Deadly Game'
> by Jared Israel at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/news/farish.htm
> 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and Trying to
> Force Milosevic to Surrender?' By Jared Israel and
> Nico Varkevisser at
> http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisn.htm
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