The Wall Street Journal quietly reported on September 27, 2001 that the Bin Laden family had invested with The Carlyle Group, a merchant bank that boasts several Reagan-era former government figures including George Bush Sr. among its management. The story received some attention from the alternative media, but even the fact that George W. Bush sat on the firm's board for four years barely raised eyebrows in the mainstream media or among the public. In fact, the Journal's revelation was the tip of the iceberg. Growing out of their roots in the oil business, the interests, ambitions, and achievements of Bushes, the Bin Ladens, and most importantly the Saudi royal family have been intertwined for a quarter century. What follows is The Dubya Report's brief chronicling of that history. http://www.thedubyareport.com/bushbin.html
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD FBI 'was told to back off bin Laden family' London: United States special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family and the Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president, although that has all changed since September 11, a BBC television program has claimed BBC2's Newsnight also said on Tuesday night that it had secret documents from the FBI investigation into the terrorist attacks which showed that despite claims that Osama bin Laden is the black sheep of the family, at least two other US-based members are suspected of links with a possible terrorist organisation. The program said it had obtained evidence that the FBI was on the trail of bin Laden family members living in the US before September 11. A document showed that special agents from the Washington field office were investigating Abdullah, a close relative of Osama, because of his relationship with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a suspected terrorist organisation, it said. The US Treasury has not frozen WAMY's assets, and insists it is a charity, the program said, yet Pakistan had expelled WAMY "operatives" and India claimed WAMY was funding an organisation linked to bombings in Kashmir. The FBI did look into WAMY but for some reason agents were pulled off the trail, it said. The former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah from 1987 to 1989, Michael Springman, told the program: "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 ... and I was ignored." He added: "What I was doing was giving visas to terrorists, recruited by the CIA and Osama bin Laden to come back to the United States for training to be used in the war in Afghanistan against the then Soviets." The program said it had been told by a highly placed source in a US intelligence agency there had always been "constraints" on investigating Saudis, but <font color=RED>under President George Bush it had become much worse</font>. After the elections, the intelligence agencies were told to "back off" from investigating the bin Laden family and the Saudi royals. The policy was reversed after September 11, it reported.
================================ Enemies in IRAQ, Afghanistan need some daisy cutters also. Harrytrader; You have made some good points in the past; but I dont run a securtity backgroung on most people i write or do business with. BBC is like ABC, CBS, many in major media; generally hate & lie about any kind of conservative especially one of the wisest /wealthiest conserrvatives like king Solomon. Dow Jones & Bloomberg & smartmoney.com & King Solomon generally much more accrurate than BBC, CBS. If they find out someone is a king Solomon reader the BBC & CBS maybe HATES that group from a long way off; but afraid to tell the truth about fanatical muslims. Fortunately about 90% of the one billion muslims arent fanatics. Looks like shorts did well this am; Art Cashin noted shorts help fuel rally unlike most of BBC, CBS which almost always ignore Art Cashin conservative comments.