DEAR PEGGY: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR peggy-north@monthlyherald.com
WHAT BUSH DIDN'T (WANT TO) KNOW
ABOUT 9/11
... I still didn't have an answer to all my questions. We knew that
Clinton and the Bushes were reluctant to discomfort the Saudis by unearthing
their connections to terrorists -- but what made this new president take
particular care to protect the Saudis, even to the point of stymying his own
intelligence agencies? The answers kept coming back: "Carlyle" and "Arbusto."
While some people have guardian angels, our president seems to have guardian
sheiks....Behind Carlyle is a private, invitation-only investment group whose
holdings in the war industry make it effectively one of America's biggest
defense contractors. For example, Carlyle owned United Technologies, the maker
of our fighter jets. Carlyle has the distinction of claiming both of the
presidents Bush as paid retainers. Dubya served on the board of Carlyle's
Caterair airplane food company until it went bust. The senior Bush traveled to
Saudi Arabia for Carlyle in 1999. The bin Ladens were among Carlyle's select
backers until just after the 9/11 attacks, when the connection became
impolitic. The company's chairman is Frank Carlucci, Bush Sr.'s former defense
secretary. The average Carlyle partner has gained about $25 million in equity.
Notably, Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz employed Carlyle as
his advisor in buying up 10 percent of Citicorp's preferred stock. The choice
of Carlyle for the high-fee work was odd, as the group is not an investment
bank. One would almost think the Saudi potentate wanted to enrich Carlyle's
members...
Note: Note: Jackson Stephens was, until recently, the employer of General Wesley Clark - and was perhaps the most important financial backer of Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton. It's a small world. Tom Pain, New York, USA.
BIN LADEN AND BUSINESS PARTNER
German
intelligence: Bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups
throughout Europe
A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to
assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was
uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's
international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan,
Italy, in April.
German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing
neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack
at a high-profile American target—his first since the bombing of the USS Cole
in Yemen last October. According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in
Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like
aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic
explosives.
Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill, Dubya, his former business partner?
I knew that bombshell would whip your heads around. So here's the straight
scoop, folks. In June 1977, Dubya formed his own drilling company, Arbusto
Energy ("arbusto" means "bush" in Spanish), in Midland, Texas.
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