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Prince Turki, chief of Saudi intelligence one of bin Laden's mentors
Recently Eric S. Margolis, author of War at the Top of the World : The
Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet told a television
news
interviewer that
Osama Bin Laden Had vetoed UNOCAL's pipeline offer thru Afghanistan
in
favor of
(Bridas) an Argentine firm. "Bridas told the Taliban it had no
need
for funding outside the region. Backing up their claim, they
entered
into a partnership with the Saudi firm Ningarcho. Ningarcho had
connections to Prince Turki, chief of Saudi intelligence and one
of
Osama bin Laden's mentors. Unocal's Saudi partner, Delta Oil,
was
connected to Crown Prince Abdullah. Thus, Ahmed Rashid observes,
"the
competition between Unocal and Bridas also reflected
competition
within
the Saudi Royal family. ***During 1997 Bridas and Unocal both expanded
their courtship of the Taliban. Taliban delegations traveled to
Buenos Aires where they were treated as royalty. Another
delegation
traveled to the U.S. to meet with Unocal and government
officials, and to lobby for diplomatic recognition. Bridas was
painstakingly negotiating a contract with various Afghani
factions
.*** Prince Turki al-Faisal, then head of Saudi intelligence, arranged
for bin Laden's mother to visit him in 1998. A second visit was
reportedly arranged with the knowledge of the Saudi royal family,
in
early 2000. According to Saudi dissident Saad Al-Fagih, the second
trip was to try to discourage bin Laden from taking action against
the
royal family.The BBC television program, Newsnight, reported on
November 6, 2001 that the Bush administration may have interfered
with
an FBI investigation of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, in
Falls
Church,
Virginia. Abdullah bin Laden is president and treasurer of WAMY.
Omar
bin Laden, another brother, also lives in Falls Church. WAMY
operates
out of the basement of a building at 5613 Leesburg Pike. A few
blocks
away is 5913 Leesburg Pike, where four of the hijackers that
attacked
New York and Washington are listed as having lived. Joe Trento,
identified in the broadcast as a "national security expert" said,
"The
FBI wanted to investigate these guys. This is not something that they
didn't want to do - they wanted to, they weren't permitted to."
BBC
reporter Gregory Palast: "I received a phone call from a
high-placed
member of a US intelligence agency. He tells me that while
there's
always been constraints on investigating Saudis, under George
Bush
it's gotten much worse. After the elections, the agencies were told
to
'back off' investigating the Bin Ladens and Saudi royals, and
that
angered agents. I'm told that since September 11th the policy has
been
reversed. FBI headquarters told us they could not comment on
our
findings. A spokesman said: 'There are lots of things that only
the
intelligence community knows and that no-one else ought to
know.'
Familiar Faces Many high-level Republicans are connected to or
participate in Saudi business interests. Nicholas Brady, Secretary
of
Treasury under Bush I, and Edith E. Holiday, a Bush Sr.
assistant,
both serve on the board of Amerada Hess, an American oil
company
currently undertaking a joint venture with several Saudi investors
to
develop oil resources in Azerbaijan. Vice President Dick
Cheney's
former company Halliburton was awarded was awarded a $140
million
contract by Saudi state-owned firm Aramco last month to develop an
oil
field in Saudi Arabia. A Halliburton subsidiary was hired, along
with
two Japanese companies, to build a $40 million ethylene plant.
We've
reported elsewhere on the Bush connection to the Carlyle Group,
a
merchant bank specializing in defense-related businesses. In
addition
to Bush Sr. currently, and Bush Jr. previously, prominent
Republicans
now at the Carlyle group include: Frank C. Carlucci, secretary
of
defense and national security adviser in the Reagan
administration,
former deputy director of the CIA, now chairman of the Carlyle
group.
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III The Carlyle Group held
a
controlling interest in defense contractor B.D.M. until 1998 when
it
sold its stake to TRW. Through its subsidiaries B.D.M. holds
lucrative
contracts to train and manage the Saudi National Guard. Philip
A.
Odeen, president of B.D.M. served in the defense department of
the
Nixon administration. TRW board members include former CIA
director
Robert M. Gates, and Michael H. Armacost, undersecretary of state
in
the Reagan administration and ambassador to Japan during Bush I.
The
Carlyle group was a paid adviser during the development of the
Saudi
"Economic Offset Program." The program is effectively a
legalized
kickback scheme that requires U.S. arms manufacturers doing
business
with Saudi Arabia to return some of their revenue through
contracts
with Saudi businesses, some controlled by the royal family. A
Carlyle
spokesman told the Boston Herald recently that the program had
been
discontinued, although it is not clear when. "
http://www.thedubyareport.com/bushbin.html
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q5.html
"Splits in the Saudi royal family have led to support by
different
Saudi princes for each of the two competing multi-billion
dollar
proposals to build a gas pipeline across Afghanistan. As
narrated below, Prince Turki was allied with the Argentine
company
Bridas, while Prince Abdullah was close to the Saudi company
Delta
Oil, part of the US-backed consortium headed up by Unocal.***
Bridas,
had been the first to secure local approval for a pipeline
through
Afghanistan: first in March 1995 from Turkmenistan President
Niyazov
and Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and then in February
1996
with Burhanuddin Rabbani, still recognized as the Afghan President
in
Kabul. But then
the US (and later the Taliban) stepped in to back an
alternative
pipeline project with the US company Unocal.
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q7.html
For a complete timeline on the competing Bridas and Unocal
pipelines,
go to Worldpress.org.
http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm
***
Bridas has since merged with BP Amoco Argentina
http://www.bp.com/in_your_area/transition_page.asp?id=2
Carlos Bulgheroni, co-chairman of Bridas," "Amoco reportedly plans
to
merge South American assets with Bridas of Argentina Amoco has
agreed
to merge its oil and natural-gas business in South
America's southern region with closely held Bridas of
Argentina,
creating a venture with more than $3 billion in assets, people
familiar with the deal told The Wall Street Journal. The
transaction,
which could be announced as soon as today, will give Amoco 60% of
what
will be Argentina's second-largest oil and natural-gas company,
behind
YPF. Bridas will control 40% of the venture, the people said. The
new
company, which hasn't been named, will have about 750 million
barrels
in proven reserves plus Bridas's large undeveloped acreage in
Argentina. Because Bridas will contribute properties that are
considerably more valuable than Amoco's properties, the
Chicago-based
company is expected to pay Bridas hundreds of millions of
dollars.
Neither Amoco nor Bridas would comment on the transaction, and
its
exact terms couldn't be learned. Bridas, controlled by
Argentina's
Bulgheroni family, is currently the nation's third-largest oil
and
natural-gas company, with proven domestic oil reserves of 80
million
barrels of oil and almost 1.8 trillion cubic feet of natural
gas.
Though the size of Bridas's
reserve portfolio is relatively modest, the company holds
valuable
exploration interests in more than 17 million undeveloped
acres,
mostly in Argentina. The deal doesn't include Bridas's oil and
gas
interests in the Caspian region of Turkmenistan. A continuing
dispute
with the Turkmenistan
government has forced the closure of some of Bridas's fields
there.
Amoco's venture with Bridas will be in a strong position to
take
advantage of South America's fast-growing energy market and
surging
industrial demand for natural gas in Brazil and Chile. Latin
American
energy consumption is growing at about 5% a year and the region
has
largely tapped its available hydropower reserves. Natural gas is
seen
as an attractive alternative to hydropower because it is abundant
and
clean burning. The rush to serve that market has attracted some
big
names over the past two years. Last December, Amoco paid $307
million
for half of an oil and gas exploration concern broken off from
Bolivia's state-owned oil company, Yacimientos Petroliferos
Fiscales
Bolivianos. And Spain's Repsol has earmarked some $3 billion
for
regional investments. The transaction concludes a hard-fought
auction
involving a spate of the world's major energy companies.
Bidders
included Exxon Corp., Mobil Corp., Repsol of Spain and France's
Total.
Bridas had originally planned to sell a 45% stake to raise money
for
its Turkmenistan projects. Peter Fritsch and Jonathan Friedland,
Staff
Reporters of The Wall Street Journal"
http://www.hri.org/news/europe/ebn/97-09-05.ebn.html
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"PRINCE TURKI: "THIS IMPORTANT CONFERENCE CAN NOT IGNORE THE
DAILY
RACIST PRACTICES OF THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES AGAINST THE
PALESTINIANS".
ARAFAT: "THE INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE IS THE BASIC AND
FIRM
GUARANTEE OF THE SUCCESS AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF A JUST AND
PERMANENT PEACE, THE PEACE OF THE BRAVE, IN THE WHOLE REGION."
The
conference started on august 31 and will conclude its deliberations
on
September 7.(2001)
http://www.ain-al-yaqeen.com/issues/20010907/feat8en.htm
"A former Saudi intelligence chief has revealed the contents of
a
letter, written in late August, in which the oil-rich kingdom
threatened to review ties with its key ally, the United States.
The
letter called on Washington to take active steps towards resolving
the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a rare television interview aired
on
8 November, Prince Turki Al-Faisal described how "Crown Prince
Abdullah sent a letter to President George W Bush before 11
September,
in which he stated that relations between the two countries were at
a
crossroads." Prince Turki, who stepped down in August after nearly
25
years in office as intelligence chief, was interviewed by the
London-based Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC). Prince
Abdullah
"also wrote that the kingdom would be forced to review its ties
with
the United States if the US was not ready to move ahead with finding
a
successful solution to the Middle East conflict," he said.
Prince
Turki described the letter as "strongly worded" and said it was
"unique in Arab-American relations." He also described the US
reaction
to the letter. "President Bush expressed willingness to enter
into
discussions with the kingdom about arrangements for an equitable
and
comprehensive solution to the Palestinian question," he said."
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/560/re5.htm
"An attack on Iraq would cause civilian casualties, Britain's
Foreign
Ministry and Saudi
Arabia's Prince Turki bin Faisal both tell us. collateral damage
pales
in comparison to the
damage Saddam inflicts on his own people, whether gassing five
thousand of them on one day in 1988 or
assaulting the Shi'ites in Iraq's south for more than a decade. As
in
Afghanistan, an attack on Iraq would be a humanitarian operation
that
the local population will celebrate.. ***Attacks on Iraq may
only
"bolster Saddam's position in Iraq and make the people more
supportive
of him," warns Prince Turki. That's ridiculous. Saddam will not
be
stronger after the United States gets through with him for the
simple
reason that he won't be around at all"
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/12/05/Opinion/Opinion.39356.html
" During the 1980s, the U.S. secretly provided the mujehedin with
more
than $2 billion, making the proxy war against the Soviet forces
in
Afghanistan the biggest U.S. covert operation since World War
II
Authorities say because BCCI's Abedi was so well connected to
the
Pakistani government, the bank played a key role in organizing
CIA
arms shipments from that country to the Afghan rebels. Abedi
facilitated secret visits by Casey to Islamabad, where Casey
conferred
with Pakistani officials. BCCI had close ties to Pakistani
intelligence circles. Retired senior Pakistani intelligence
officials
were employed by Attock Oil and International Travel
Corporation,
companies connected to BCCI. The father of Amjad Awan of
BCCI-Miami,
who managed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega's accounts, was a
former
head of Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence agency BCCI
shareholder
Prince Turki worked hand-in-glove with the CIA in funding the
proxy
war in Afghanistan. Turki, working closely with ISI, distributed
more
than $ 1 billion in Saudi funds to the mujehedin in the 1980s.
ISI
officials, with guidance from the CIA, provided day-to-day
military
advice to the mujehedin."
http://www.sfsu.edu/~abssa/Report7.html
http://hardtruth.topcities.com/bush_iraq_connection.htm
"Normal relations between the United States and Iraq would serve
our
long-term interests and support stability both in the Gulf and
the
Middle East," stated the top secret (BUSH I ) directive. " During
the
1992 presidential campaign, Gore called the cover up of the
secret
Bush policy to arm Iraq "bigger than Watergate ever was,"
http://www.alternatives.com/library/pol/polintel/cova0008.txt
http://hardtruth.topcities.com/bush_iraq_connection.htm
"The Saudi government is not well placed to respond to the
radical
Islamist threat. The kingdom's intelligence and security
organizations
appear to be in flux. At the end of August, Prince Saud's
brother,
Turki, resigned as head of General Intelligence, the Saudi CIA.
Western
officials say Turki, who was responsible for links with the Taliban
in
Afghanistan, was sacked, but they are at a loss to explain why.
The
new head, Prince Nawaf, seems unqualified apart from being a
half-brother and close confidant of Crown Prince Abdullah, the
de
facto Saudi ruler since King Fahd's health declined in the late
1990s.
But the crucial personality is the forceful Prince Nayef (a
full
brother
of Fahd and rival of Abdullah), the Saudi minister of interior,
responsible for internal security as well as border control."
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/watch/Policywatch/policywatch2001/5
59.htm
"Turki said that he met bin Laden several times in Saudi Arabia
and
Pakistan before he was stripped of
his Saudi citizenship in 1994. Bin Laden was "a gentle,
enthusiastic
young man, not
talkative and who did not raise his voice while talking. Bin Laden
was
generally a 'nice guy'."
"When jihad started in Afghanistan, I used to travel to Pakistan
and
sometimes to Afghanistan, to follow up
on the developments. It was there that I met him. Once or twice he
was
invited to the Saudi embassy (in
Islamabad). The first time I met him was during one of these
occasions. He was in the area supporting
jihad," the prince said."
http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/071101/dLAME54.asp
"FBI Told to Back Off Bin Ladens After Bush's Election
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2001-11/08/article5.shtml
LONDON, Nov 7 (News Agencies) - Special agents in the United States
probing relatives of Saudi-born Osama bin Laden before September 11
were told to back off soon after George W. Bush became president, the
BBC reported Tuesday. The BBC's current affairs program,
Newsnight,
said that Bush at one point
had a number of connections with Saudi Arabia's prominent bin Laden
family, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). It added there was
a
suspicion that U.S. strategic interest in Saudi Arabia, which has
the
world's largest oil reserve, dulled its inquiries into
individuals with suspected terrorist connections - so long as the
U.S.
was safe. Newsnight said it had obtained evidence that the FBI was
on
the trail of bin Laden family members living in the United
States
before, as well as after, the September 11 terrorist attacks. It
added
that Bush made his first million 20 years ago with an oil
company
partly funded by the chief U.S. representative of Salem bin
Laden,
Osama's brother. Bush also received fees as director of a
subsidiary
of Carlyle Corporation, a little-known private company which in just
a
few years since its founding has become one of America's
biggest
defense contractors, and his father, former U.S. president George
H.
Bush senior, is also a paid advisor, the program said. The
connection
became embarrassing when it was revealed that the bin Ladens held
a
stake in Carlyle, sold just after September 11, it added.
Newsnight
said it had been told by a highly placed source in a U.S.
intelligence
agency there had always been "constraints" on investigating
Saudis,
but under President George W. Bush it had become much worse. After
the
elections, the intelligence agencies were told to "back off"
from
investigating the bin Laden family, and that angered field agents,
the
program added. The policy was reversed after September 11, it
reported. The former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah
from
1987 to 1989, Michael Springman, told Newsnight, "In Saudi Arabia
I
was repeatedly ordered by high-level State Department officials
to
issue visas to unqualified applicants. "People who had no ties
either
to Saudi Arabia or to their own country. I complained there. I
complained here in Washington... to the Inspector General and
to
Diplomatic Security and I was ignored." Newsnight also said it
had
seen a document that showed U.S. special agents were investigating
a
close relative of Osama bin Laden, identified only as Abdullah,
because of his relationship with the World Assembly of Muslim
Youth
(WAMY), which the program said was a suspected terrorist
organization.
In Riyadh, the former chief of the Saudi Secret Service said that
bin
Laden had no links with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
nor
with any other U.S. agency. "His presence in the area [Pakistan
and
Afghanistan] and his activities did not call on him to have
contacts
with these bodies," Prince Turki al-Faisal said in an interview
with
the English-language Arab News and London-based Saudi-owned MBC
TV.
"Turki said that he met bin Laden several times in Saudi Arabia
and
Pakistan.Bin Laden is "a gentle, enthusiastic young man, not
talkative
and who didnot raise his voice while talking. Bin Laden is generally
a
'nice guy'," said Turki. .Turki said bin Laden founded al-Qaeda
in
1989 aiming to "defend Muslims all over the world against injustice."
"It shouldn't have taken a sleuth, however, to connect right
wing
extremists to recent acts of terrorism. They've certainly left
enough
breadcrumbs, as they lined up to support the terrorists who
destroyed
the World Trade Center. Since September 11th, representatives of
the
American Nazi Party, the Aryan Nations, Aryan Action and the
National
Alliance have all gone on record supporting al Qaida and the
attacks
against the Twin Towers, which they describe as "buildings full
of
Jews." One white supremacist website carried the question, "Is
there
not a single person who has received these anthrax letters that
isn't
an avowed enemy of the white race?"
http://mediastudy.com/articles/AVnov8-01.html
Saddam could well be the source of the anthrax attacks in the
US
using as his proxies, American
right-wing-extremists-white-supremacists-homophobes-pro-life-neo-nazi
and similar kooks. See for instance: Radical Islam, Neo-Nazis
Are
Seen Sharing Hate Rhetoric
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheLoyalOpposition/message/100
"Iraq's germ warfare program was perfected during its war with Iran
in
the 1980s. Little known outside scientific circles is the fact
that
Hussein even experimented on humans, starting around 1985 with
anthrax." (which he may have obtained from the US) All
Nuclear and Biological Roads Lead to Iraq's Hussein December 9,
2001
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-000097673dec09.story?coll=la%2D
news%2Dcomment%2Dopinions
"in February 1998, hundreds of people received an unsolicited
E-mail
message containing one of Pierce's anti-Semitic and racist
propaganda
pieces. The message was a transcript of a recent radio broadcast by
Pierce, entitled "Bill, Monica, and Saddam." In it, Pierce
claimed
that by writing about the Monica Lewinsky affair, the "Jewish
media
bosses" harmed President Clinton, who "would do whatever they told
him
to do," but "had screwed up so many times that he had become a
liability for them." Pierce also asserted that these "media
bosses"
exaggerate the danger posed by Saddam Hussein so that the
United
States will attack Iraq and aid Israel, adding "the Jews would like
to
have us get rid of Saddam Hussein and cripple Iraq for them."
Disrupting Discussion Groups *** another harassment tactic employed
by
the organization was the creation of an "Alliance Cybercell,"
whose
members disrupted Internet discussion group exchanges,
particularly
those dealing with issues of concern to the Jewish community. During
a
1996 speech to the (National Alliance) NA's Cleveland unit,
Pierce
explained how the (National Alliance) NA cells operated: "We
have
organized members working as teams, not identifying themselves
as
Alliance members but going into these discussion groups and
virtually
taking them over.." Pierce went on to say that cell leaders
"decide
what discussion groups they want to get into-analyze the
situation,
analyze the types of propaganda that have been presented by the
other
side and we go in there and just tear them apart."
http://www.adl.org/explosion%5Fof%5Fhate/exploiting%5Fharassment.html
Source for material quoted below: Trading with the Enemy: The
Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949 Charles Higham Format:
Hardcover,
277pp. ISBN: 0760700095 Publisher: Barnes and Noble Books
Pub. Date: November 1995 "W.S.S. Rodgers "linked up with the
Rockefeller empire by going into Partnership with Harry D.
Collier,
cheerful chairman of Standard Oil Of California and the former
Jersey
Standard employee Jimmy Moffett. Rodgers formed Caltex, which jointly
bought up millions of dollars worth of oil from the arabian sea.
The
banker was James S. Forrestal of the board of the Nazi General
Aniline
and Film,who was about to become Under Secretary of the Navy.
Saudi
Arabia had intricate economic and political links with Hitler. On
June
8th,1939, Khalid Al0-Hud Al Qarqani, royal counselor of Ibn Saud,
was
received by Ribbentrop in Berlin. Ribbentrop expounded to Khalid
his
general sympathy toward the arab world and pointed out that
Germany
and the arabs were linked by a common foe in the shape of the
Jews.
Khalid answered that Ibn Saud attached the greatest importance
to
entering into Relations with Germany.Khalid…stressed that the
King
hated the British, who Hemmed him in. By contrast, Khalid stated,
Ibn
Saud was sympathetic toward Mussolini. The conversation ended
with
salaams and Heil Hitlers. At 3:15 p.m. on June 17th,1939,
Hitler
received Khalid Al-Hud at the Berghof. The reception was given
worldwide attention. As a result of it Emil Puhl and Walther
Funk's
Reichsbank gave Ibn Saud a credit of one and a half million
Reichsmarks from Hitler's personal treasury for the purchase of
8,000
rifles, 8 million rounds of ammunition, light anti-aircraft
guns,
armored cars, a special Merecedes for the king and The building for
a
munitions factory. Soon after ard Emil Phul arranged a further loan
of
6 million marks that was paid in installments for the rest of the
war.
" "On November 28th,1941...the Grand Mufti of Jeruslaem, among
the
bitterest enemies of the Jews, met with the Fuhrer in Berlin.
The
Grand Mufti, with the authorization of the Arab world, expressed
his
admiration of Hitler and named the same enemies: the English, the
Jews
and the communists. He promised to guarantee assistance in war by acts
of sabotage and revolution. He offered to raise the Arab Legion
from
all available Moslem men of military age"
"Iraq has the motivation and the means to actively support the
Islamist networks of the region*** In the past, there have been
intelligence reports of possible cooperation between Iraq and Osama
bin Laden. Iraq has already tried to assassinate President Bush
Senior
in 1993, when he visited Kuwait as a private citizen. In the attack
on
the USS Cole in Aden (in) October (of 2000), there could have been
an
Iraqi connection. Iraq has excellent relations with the
anti-Western
Yemeni Islamists of the Army of Aden-Abyan, whose militants have
been
arrested by the Yemenite authorities in connection with the
attack.
Such an attack required long preparations, technical and
military
skills and good operational intelligence. In addition, the
explosive
used in the attack was sophisticated, a "shaped charge" like a
torpedo
or a missile, a device not in use by terrorist organizations,
and
which may have come from a military stockpile." "This is why
the
dismissal of Saudi Arabia's longtime chief of intelligence,
Prince
Turki al Faisal, two weeks after the September 11th attack, takes
on
significance. It was Prince Turki who, as the Washington Post
reported, "helped nurture the Afghan resistance movement that
begot
the country's Taliban leadership."
http://www.anxietycenter.com/warning-v3n45.htm
"Several days before the September 11 attacks, the Saudi chief
of
intelligence, who held that post for 25 years, Prince Turki,
brother
of the Saudi foreign minister, was abruptly fired from his post.
Turki
was hardly a man to be dismissed in such fashion; he was
responsible
for Saudi affairs with Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Saudi
liaison
with American intelligence services. It seems that Turki was the
first
high-ranking victim of a power struggle between two competing
factions
in the Saudi royal family over how to deal with American requests
to
neutralise bin Laden. Turki's removal from authority portended
further
upheaval within the ruling elite of the House of Saud. Only two
weeks
later, and a week after the attack on America, reliable reports
strongly suggest that the ailing King Fahd flew to Geneva with
a
massive entourage and now remains secluded behind the heavily
protected walls of private estates registered in the name of
his
European business partners. To bin Laden, King Fahd's departure
can
only be considered a victory in his campaign to rid Saudi Arabia
of
the contamination of American rule through their surrogates in
the
House of Saud. With King Fahd's health maintained on a 24-hour
medical
watch, and the Saudi royal family divided between the
conservative,
religious faction of Crown Prince Abdullah and that of the
defence
minister, King Fahd's full brother, Prince Sultan, Saudi
Arabia's
future political course and, with it, the stability of the Gulf
is
about to be decided.*** He is the scion of a family, led by his
father, Mohamed, that, in the mid-1960s, engineered the transfer
of
the Saudi throne away from the corrupt King Saud to the pious
King
Faisal. In effect, Mohamed bin Laden was a king-maker and his son
grew
up with an intimate knowledge of the personal proclivities and
weaknesses of the senior members of the ruling elite."ARAFAT'S
UNCLE,
HITLER'S ALLY, THE GRAND MUFTI OF JERUSALEM
http://notendur.centrum.is/~snorrigb/muftism.htm
http://www.flamemag.dircon.co.uk/yugoslavia_collaboration.htm
http://www.flamemag.dircon.co.uk/nazis_postwar_egypt.htm
http://www.srpska-mreza.com
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/handzar/handzar.htm
http://www.tabloid.net/1998/07/17/lastnazi_980717.html
http://www.indict.org/indict_web/publish/article.cfm?article_id=124
Saudis suggest Saddam had role in Sept. 11 attacks
Special to World Tribune.com GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT.COM
Wednesday, October 24, 2001 ABU DHABI - For the first time,
Saudi
Arabia has hinted that Iraq
could be involved in the Islamic suicide attacks on New York
and
Washington. Saudi Arabia continues to be split over how to respond
to
heavy criticism for its support of Osama Bin Laden. Now Saudi
officials are privately suggesting that a Middle East power,
probably
Iraq, was behind the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. The
officials have not named Iraq or its president, Saddam Hussein,
publicly. Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz
broke
Riyad's silence on the identities of the attackers and their
sponsors,
Middle East Newsline reported. Sultan is regarded as the most
pro-American figure in the Saudi leadership. "Therefore, the
big
question arises: Who stands
behind this terrorism and who carried out this complicated and
carefully planned terrorist
operation?" Prince Sultan told the Kuwaiti-based A-Siyassi
daily.
"Osama Bin Laden and those with
him have said what indicates that they stand behind this
carefully
planned act. We, in turn, ask: Are Bin
Laden and his supporters the only ones behind what happened or
is
there another power with
advanced technical expertise that acted with them?" Saudi allies
in
the Gulf region, particularly Kuwait
and Oman, are also trying to *** (draw) attention toward Iraq.
***Sultan is engaged in a struggle for succession as King
Fahd's
health continues to decline. The defense minister's rival for
the
throne is his half-brother, Crown Prince Abdullah. Abdullah's ally
is
said to be Interior Minister Prince Nayef *** The statement by
the
defense minister came hours before the arrival of German
Foreign
Minister Joschka Fischer to Riyad. *** "
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