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DUBIOUS ABOUT DUBAI DUBAI or NOT TO BUY

 

Our long-awaited series DUBIOUS ABOUT DUBAI DUBAI or NOT

TO BUY begins here.

Before you read it you should know that we supported President Bush

in the 2004 election. We think that President Bush has been right

most of the time in the war on terror.

When we differ with President Bush we ask that people contact

President Bush at http://www.whitehouse.gov

to provide President Bush with their opinions, which we hope

will be in agreement with ours.

We differ with President Bush over his support for a so-called

" palestinian state " . We totally oppose the creation of any so-called

" palestinian state "

We also differ with President Bush over his support for the so-called

" Dubai Deal " . We totally oppose the so-called " Dubai Deal " .

Some background on the matter begins here:

" Thursday, February 23, 2006

Treasury officials say Snow has severed all relations with CSX

By: MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary John Snow, who headed CSX Corp. before

joining the administration, had severed relations with his former

company before CSX announced it was selling foreign port operations

to Dubai Ports World, Treasury officials said Thursday.

Treasury spokesman Tony Fratto said Snow had no financial

relationship with CSX when the company decided to sell its

international terminal operations to Dubai Ports World in 2004.

Fratto spoke after ...a letter " (from a member of Congress)

" Thursday to Treasury Department inspector general Harold Damelin

asking that his office investigate the transaction and Snow's links

to his former employer.

" Given that Secretary Snow had previously disclosed a deferred

compensation package with CSX valued at between $5 (million) and $25

million and $33.2 million from a special retirement pension, one

would expect that any financial benefit from the sale of CSX World

Terminals to Dubai Ports World, including stock holdings, would have

been revealed, especially if there might be any residual from

subsequent actions such as these, " (the member of Congress) " said in

her letter.

Fratto said the decision on whether to launch an investigation will

be up to the inspector general, but that Snow would welcome any

review of the matter. Fratto said it would show that Snow had

violated no government ethics rules regarding his relations with CSX.

The spokesman said Snow received $33.2 million as part of his

severance package with CSX when he resigned from the company on Jan.

31, 2003, prior to being sworn in as Treasury secretary on Feb. 3,

2003.

In addition to the $33.2 million, Snow also received a lump-sum

payment of $8.03 million in 2004 in deferred compensation. After

that payment, Snow had no further financial relationship with his

former company except for a fixed annual pension of $79,129.

" Secretary Snow left on Jan. 31, 2003, and he has had no involvement

or interest in the direction of the company since he left, " Fratto

said.

Fratto said Snow learned of the sale by CSX of its foreign port

operations in 2004 to Dubai Ports World by reading about it in the

newspaper.

Snow told reporters Wednesday that he was not involved in the

interagency review of the transaction that will allow Dubai Ports

World to assume significant operations at six U.S. ports. Fratto

said Snow has followed government ethics rules that require him to

recuse himself from dealing with any matters at Treasury involving

his former employer.

Lawmakers in both parties have questioned whether U.S. security

against terrorist attacks will be jeopardized by having a state-

owned United Arab Emirates company operating at the ports. "

SOURCE:

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/02/24/news/nation/17_38_402_23_0

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In December of 2002 Treasury Secretary to be Snow was in the news in

some of the items below:

CSX's Snow Tapped for Treasury Secretary. We have mixed feelings

about

the recent Treasury Department " shakeup " . The resignation of the

former Treasury Secretary, long associated with ALCOA ( " Thomas Mellon

and Sons Bank, founded in 1869, helped finance an aluminum reduction

company owned by Alfred Hunt and Charles Hall, which became known as

Alcoa.)

http://zeeb.library.cmu.edu/SAA-

PghHostCmte/articles/PittsburghHistory

..html

and his replacement with

a new Treasury Secretary was interesting. The new Treasury Secretary

is said to be a " deficit hawk " . That is a good omen if he is allowed

to be a " deficit hawk " in his new post as Treasury Secretary.

Moreover, Snow replaced Paul O'Neill formerly of ALCOA.

Our series delves somewhat into the history of ALCOA and O'Neill,

including O'Neill's notorius criticism of President Bush's excellent

decision to liberate Iraq. A decision we fully supported, and still

support. When President Bush is right he is right. The liberation

of Iraq was right then and is still right. Please

contact President Bush at http://www.whitehouse.gov

to tell him that you support the liberation of Iraq.

" CSX's Snow Tapped for Treasury Secretary

Mon Dec 9th 2002, By Adam Entous

WASHINGTON (Reuters) President Bush on

Monday named John Snow, chairman of railroad giant CSX Corp., as his

new Treasury secretary and promised bold new measures to reinvigorate

the

U.S. economy-and the stock market-before the 2004 re-election

campaign.

" John Snow will be a key adviser on the economy

and a key advocate of my administration's agenda

for growth, new jobs and wider and more

international trade, " President Bush said at a brief

ceremony. "

In January of 2002 c.e. Dubai was in the news in some of the items

below:

THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVILIZATION AGAINST TERROR

Police link Calcutta shooting to Sept 11

http://in.news./020123/64/1edwh.html

Wednesday January 23, 3:07 PM

By Sanjeev Miglani

 

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Police probing a shooting at a

U.S. cultural centre in Calcutta said on Wednesday they

were following a trail that led all the way to those involved in

the September 11 attacks on the United States.

An official from India's Central Bureau of Investigation

(CBI) told Reuters New Delhi had prepared a dossier on

links between militant groups operating in India and those

suspected of carrying out the airliner attacks on the World

Trade Center.

The file had been given to U.S. authorities.

The probe takes added significance after Indian Home Minister Lal

Krishna Advani said on Tuesday those

behind the Calcutta attack may have links to Pakistan's main

intelligence agency-an allegation dismissed as " baseless " by

Islamabad.

At least four police guards were killed on Tuesday when gunmen opened

fire on the American Center, which

houses the U.S. press attache, a trade office and an American

library.

Another 20 people were wounded, including 18 police, a pedestrian

and a private security guard. No Americans were hurt.

The investigation is focusing on an alleged militant-Asif Raza

Khan-who died last year while trying to escape

police custody in the western state of Gujarat.

Police in Calcutta said one group that claimed responsibility for

Tuesday's attack said it was to avenge Asif Raza

Khan.

A senior intelligence official in Gujarat told Reuters Khan had once

confessed to sending money via an

intermediary to Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian believed to have flown

one of the hijacked planes into the World Trade Center.

Vipul Vijay, Deputy Inspector General of Police (Intelligence) in

Gujarat, said Khan confessed to sending $100,000 raised through a

kidnapping to a person named Omar Sheikh, " who in turn sent the money

to Mohamed Atta " .

Omar Sheikh was one of three men released by India in return for the

freeing of hostages after an Indian plane

was hijacked to Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1999.

CBI spokesman S.M. Khan said Indian police had shared this

information

with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose director Robert

Mueller was in Delhi on Tuesday.

CALCUTTA CONNECTION

Vijay said Asif Raza Khan admitted to kidnapping Calcutta shoe

magnate Partha Burman in July last year.

Burman was released after several weeks in circumstances unexplained

at the time.

Vijay said a ransom of 37.5 million rupees ($777,041) was paid, of

which $100,000 was sent to Omar Sheikh.

Born in Calcutta on September 3, 1974, Asif Raza Khan joined the now-

banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in 1991.

" He had a burning desire to do something for the Muslim cause, " Vijay

said.

According to his confession, he trained in handling weapons in

Pakistan-administered Kashmir, returning to India

in 1994.

Islamabad has consistently denied training and arming Islamic

militants and sending them into the Indian state of

Jammu and Kashmir to join a revolt against Indian rule there.

Police in New Delhi arrested him in 1994 and he was jailed for five

years for illegal possession of weapons.

It was in Delhi's Tihar jail that he met Omar Sheikh and Maulana

Masood Azhar, head of the now-banned

Kashmiri separatist group Jaish-e-Mohammad, who was also released in

the hostage exchange after the 1999 hijacking. " They became friends

and this was a meeting of minds. They planned several kidnappings to

fund terrorist attacks on Indian establishments, " said Vijay.

The Jaish-e-Mohammad was one of two Pakistan-based groups blamed by

India for a deadly attack on its

parliament last month. It was banned by Pakistan after India

mobilised

its army to try to force Pakistan to crack

down on Islamic militants.

By the time Khan was arrested again in October 2001 there were seven

cases against him in Calcutta, Delhi and

Gujarat for kidnappings and war against the state.

He was arrested in the Indian capital and interrogated by Delhi

police

before being sent to Gujarat for questioning

about the kidnapping of a jeweller from the town of Rajkot.

A CBI official said Khan admitted working for a Dubai-based man,

known

variously as Farhan, Aftab Malik and

Aftab Ansari.

India's foreign ministry said on Tuesday Farhan, who it said was

believed to have links with some Pakistan-based

militant groups, had claimed responsibility for the Calcutta attack. "

Wednesday January 23, 5:26 PM

http://in.news./020123/64/1ee8t.html

Calcutta attack revives South Asia tension

By Terry Friel and Simon Denyer

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD

(Reuters) - The police on

Wednesday detained five people-

including three Islamic teachers-

over an attack on a U.S. cultural

centre that has stoked tensions between India and Pakistan.

The five were picked up near the India-Bangladesh border

north of Calcutta, where gunmen shot dead four police

guards outside the American Center on Tuesday.

A police official said the three teachers were from Islamic

madrassa schools. India has long complained some madrassas harbour

Islamic militants. The Calcutta raid, a month after a deadly attack

on parliament, sparked a new slanging match between nuclear-armed

India and Pakistan, already locked in a tense military stand-off.

India blames the parliament attack on Pakistan-based Islamic

militants

and says Islamabad's main intelligence

agency may also have ties to those behind the Calcutta raid.

Pakistan has rejected the latest charge as " baseless " .

Pakistan's The News said India's charges were dangerous.

" Blaming Pakistan needlessly can only vitiate the already tense

situation and make the work of peacemakers more

difficult, " the newspaper said in Wednesday's editorial.

TRAIL LEADS TO U.S. ATTACKS

India's foreign ministry said responsibility for the attack on the

American Center in crowded downtown Calcutta

was claimed by a Dubai-based man, named as Farhan, who had links with

some Pakistan-based militant groups.

He is also known variously as Aftab Malik and Aftab Ansari and

officials Calcutta police say one of the groups

he has been linked to claimed it carried out the attack in revenge

for

the death in police custody of alleged militant

Asif Raza Khan.

That group, Harkat-e-Jihad-e-Islami, also reportedly has operations

in

Bangladesh, which has tightened security

along its border with India and around U.S. installations in the

country in the wake of the Calcutta killings.

Police investigating the raid said the trail led all the way to the

September 11 attacks on the United States.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said New Delhi had prepared

a dossier on links between militant groups in India and the suspects

of the World Trade Center attacks, which it had given to U.S.

authorities.

A senior police intelligence officer told Reuters Khan had once

confessed to sending money via an intermediary

to Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian believed to have flown one of the

hijacked planes into the World Trade Center.

U.S. Consul-General in Calcutta Christopher Sandrolini said it was

too

early to know whether the attack on the

American Center was targetted specifically at the United States.

" Whether it had an anti-police element at all, or whether that was

mixed with a specifically anti-American

message, it is a little hard to know where to draw those lines,

given the circumstances of the attack, " he told Star News television.

Extra police and heavily-armed police commandos have been moved in to

guard the cultural centre, near the

consulate. Sandbag bunkers have been built and the bloodstains

cleaned

away. The area remained cordoned off to pedestrians and vehicle

traffic and the usually bustling building looked deserted, although

it was officially open for business.

While not directly blaming Islamabad for Tuesday's attack, Indian

officials pointed to patterns of crime and

terrorism which New Delhi has long alleged can be traced to

Pakistan's

Inter-Services Intelligence (SIS), with

links to the Gulf.

India accuses the ISI and the Pakistani army of training, financing

and inserting guerrillas into the Himalayan region of Jammu and

Kashmir.

TROOPS DUG IN

Pakistan denies sponsoring terrorist groups, but says it offers moral

support for Kashmiri " freedom fighters " .

In the wake of the December 13 parliament attack, New Delhi demanded

Islamabad close down the groups and

hand over 20 alleged terrorists, including several Pakistani

citizens.

The row triggered a massive military build-up-one million troops

are

dug in along both sides of the now heavily-mined border-and fears of

a

fourth war between the military giants. Pakistan has banned five

groups, including the two blamed for the December 13 raid, and

rounded up 2,000 people.

But the Indian government, weeks away from crucial state polls that

could trigger an early national election, says

that is not enough and it has yet to be convinced of Pakistan

President Pervez Musharraf's sincerity. It says that despite

Musharraf's promises, guerrillas are still sneaking into Kashmir,

where both armies are exchanging mortar and small arms fire almost

daily as winter sets in. The United States, which has been pressing

for a peaceful end to the stand-off, says the number of militants

infiltrating into the Himalayan region was falling. "

Wednesday January 23, 5:36 PM

http://in.news./020123/64/1ee9l.html

Police detain five over Calcutta attack

By Kamil Zaheer

CALCUTTA (Reuters) - Police detained five people on

Wednesday near the Bangladesh border over an attack

outside a U.S. cultural centre in Calcutta in which four

guards died.

The five, including three teachers from Islamic madrassa

schools, were taken into custody in the town of Basirhat,

north of Calcutta, a police official said.

Indian authorities have long alleged some of the schools are

used as a cover for Islamic militants and accuse

Pakistan-backed guerrillas of sneaking in through the

Bangladesh border and launching attacks.

" Five people have been detained... in connection with the attack on

policemen at the American Center, " said the

police official, who did not want to be named. He gave no further

details.

Four policemen died and 18 others were wounded on Tuesday when gunmen

fired on them outside the American

Center. The attack came during a shift change, which meant twice the

normal number of guards were outside the building, near the U.S.

consulate.

But the timing also meant nobody was inside the building, located in

the heart of India's most congested city.

ATTACK REKINDLES TENSION

The attack comes amid inflamed tensions between India and Pakistan,

which have mobilised their armies after an

attack on parliament last month that New Delhi blamed on

Pakistan-based militants fighting its rule in Kashmir.

Islamabad has dismissed as " baseless " Indian allegations Pakistan's

Inter-Services Intelligence agency was linked

to the gunmen, who fled after attacking the centre.

Indian authorities have branded the assault outside the imposing

modern brown cultural centre, set behind a high

steel pike fence, as a terrorist attack.

But U.S. officials say it is too early to know if the attack was

specifically targetted at the United States.

" We are closely working with the investigative agencies and our

embassy in New Delhi and the state administration, " U.S.

Consul-General Christopher Sandrolini told reporters after meeting

senior police. He declined any further comment.

DUBAI MAN CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY

India's foreign ministry said responsibility for the attack was

claimed by a Dubai-based man, named as Farhan,

who had links with some Pakistan-based militant groups. He is also

known variously as Aftab Malik and Aftab Ansari.

Security was sharply increased outside the American Center on

Wednesday as a dozen steel-helmeted commandos carrying automatic

weapons patrolled.

High sandbag bunkers have now been erected at both sides of the

entrance. The bloodstains from the shooting

are gone but the gates are pockmarked with bullet holes and much of

the crime scene is still marked out with red-and-white police

tape.The street which had been shut after the attack was open and

curiousity-seekers gawked from car windows as they passed.

The building which houses a cultural centre and library and normally

draws of hundreds of students, was officially

open for business. But there were few visitors.

Calcutta residents were coming to grips with the possibility that the

city may now be on the militants' map.

" I was really surprised that this happened in Calcutta. We have never

seen this kind of terrorist attack, " said P.P.

Bhattcharjee, a computer firm employee.

Calcutta's The Telegraph newspaper said in an editorial: " The

delusion

that West Bengal is a state where its

citizens are safe has been dispelled by a spray of bullets from

Kalashnikovs. "

There was also public anger that the policemen tasked with guarding

the centre were equipped only with old .303

rifles and " lathis " (long bamboo sticks) -- no match for the

attackers' AK-47 assault rifles.

" They were sitting ducks. They didn't have modern weapons, they need

modern weapons and terror training, " said Bhattcharjee.

Police admitted the guards were not ready for such an assault. The

communist state government's policy had

been to allow peaceful demonstrations outside the centre, police

commissioner Sujoy Kumar Chakraborty said.

" This force was not meant for this sort of an attack. "

" Wednesday January 23, 5:06 AM

India alleges Pakistan linked to US office attack

http://in.news./020122/64/1ec5a.html

By Terry Friel

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has alleged Pakistan is

linked to gunmen who attacked a U.S. cultural centre in

Calcutta, intensifying the tense military standoff between the

nuclear foes.

Four police guards were shot dead on Tuesday outside the

centre, which housed the press attache, a trade office and a

popular American library near the U.S. consulate. No

Americans were hurt.

Police in Calcutta, India's most densely populated city,

rounded up scores of people for questioning and made

random checks of guesthouses, airports, railway stations and bus

terminals.

Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said a Dubai-based member of a group

with links to the Pakistan

government's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency had claimed

responsibility for the attack, by phone call from

Dubai.

The foreign ministry said the caller, known as Farhan or as Aftab

Malik, might also be linked to the militant

Harkat-e-Jihad-e-Islami group, which Calcutta police said had also

claimed responsibility.

Advani stopped short of suggesting the ISI itself was involved.

A Pakistani spokesman said in Islamabad: " These are totally baseless

charges. As you know, Pakistan has condemned terrorism in all its

forms and manifestations. "

New Delhi blamed a December 13 raid on its parliament, in which 14

people died, on Pakistani-based militants

fighting its rule in divided Kashmir. It demanded Islamabad crack

down

on militant groups and hand over 20

alleged terrorists.

There are two Harkat-e-Jihad-e-Islami militant groups based in

Pakistan-administered Kashmir: the Jammu and

Kashmir wing, which has denied involvement, and the International,

which has not spoken.

TALIBAN ALLIES

Harkat-e-Jihad-e-Islami International fought alongside the Taliban

and

says 85 of its men died in the U.S.-led

war in Afghanistan. It was not clear which group India was referring

to.

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation chief Robert Mueller was in New

Delhi on Tuesday for talks on combating terrorism.

" I have to wait to see what the facts bear out to see responsibility

and motivation for the attack, " he said. " I am

unaware of specific information in recent days relating to attacks on

particular (American) facilities. "

India and Pakistan have rushed troops, tanks and missiles to their

border and an estimated one million men are

now dug in along the tense and now heavily landmined 3,310 km

frontier

from Kashmir in the Himalayas to the

Arabian Sea.

Pakistan has denounced terrorism, banned five militant

groups-including the two India blamed for the parliament attack-and

rounded up about 2,000 people.

But India says it has yet to see proof of Islamabad's sincerity and

says separatists are still crossing from Pakistani

territory into Indian Kashmir, where the two armies exchange mortar

and small arms fire almost daily.

The hostile neighbours have fought three wars-two over Kashmir-since

independence in 1947, when Britain

divided its South Asian empire into Islamic Pakistan and mainly Hindu

but secular India. "

India confident proposed Phalcon sale

from Israel will go ahead

BBC Monitoring South Asia - January 15,

2002

[With thanks to Arms Trade Newswire]

India Tuesday 15 January said it was

confident that the proposed sale

of three Phalcon Airborne Warning and

Control System (AWACS) from

Israel will go through. Discounting

media reports quoted to US

officials that Washington had told Tel

Aviv to keep on temporary hold

the sale of these advanced planes,

India's Defence Minister George

Fernandes told PTI: " As far as I know

we are getting them. I have no

idea where these reports to the

contrary are coming from, " Fernandes,

who is leaving on a six-day visit to the US on Tuesday night said,

adding that the issue could figure in his talks with the US leaders.

He was commenting on reports that US had urged Israel to defer

selling

arms to India because of the military confrontation brewing between

India and Pakistan. Last week the visiting Israeli Foreign Minister

Shimon Peres had indicated in reply to a spate of questions on the

estimated 1bn US dollar deal that it may go through.

The Phalcon planes are produced by Israel and therefore do not

require

US approval. But because America is a close ally, Israel prefers to

have all deals cleared by Washington.

An Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesperson said reports of

pressure on Israel not to sell arms supplies to India were not

correct. A similar Israeli deal for sale of Phalcon AWACS to China

had

fallen through two years ago when Washington objected to the sales.

Highly placed Indian air force sources here said that the Chinese

sales had not gone through as along with the outright sales, the deal

also entailed transfer of technology for making these highly

sophisticated planes in China. They said Washington had raised

legitimate objections to the transfer of technology as a number of

main and sub-systems of the Phalcons were American. The sources said

that they did not visualize any such hitch with India as New Delhi

was

only asking for outright purchase of these aircraft and not transfer

of technology.

Fernandes, as well as other defence officials, did not comment on

other reports that US officials had raised stronger objections to the

reported interest shown by Israel to sell Arrow-2 anti-tactical

ballistic missile defence system to India. The system is a joint

US-Israeli venture for which Washington has provided a majority of

the

development funding. The US officials claimed that the Arrow sale may

violate the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).

 

 

 

 

Role of Sen. Dole's Husband at Issue

By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum

Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, February 24, 2006; Page A06

The lobbying of former Senate majority leader Robert J. Dole on

behalf of the Dubai-owned company set to take over management of

terminals at six major U.S. seaports is creating a political problem

for his wife, Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.).

The chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party, Jerry Meek,

yesterday called on Sen. Dole to remove herself from " any

congressional oversight " of the Dubai port deal. " The fact that

Dubai is paying her husband to help pass the deal presents both a

financial and ethical conflict of interest for Senator Dole, " Meek

said. "

(THE LAW FIRM OF) " Former senator Dole (R-Kan.), 82,…

Alston & Bird LLP, helped steer the application of Dubai Ports World

through the federal bureaucracy over the past few months, and Dole

signed on as a lobbyist for the company this week. His spokesman

would not say what lobbying, if any, Alston & Bird is now doing in

Congress; the firm's spokeswoman did not return telephone messages.

Dubai Ports World beefed up its lobbying efforts, including on

Capitol Hill, after lawmakers threatened this week to scuttle the

transaction. The lawmakers said they feared that national security

might be compromised by letting a Middle Eastern firm manage key

U.S. ports.

SOURCE:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

dyn/content/article/2006/02/23/AR2006022301882.html?nav=rss_business

Dole's top staff for his 1996 Presidential bid had deep ties

to the Tobacco Industry. As Federal Budget Surpluses Vanishes and

Deficits Loom on the Horizon the ability of Tobacco to cause people

to

die earlier should be a boon to a cash poor Federal Government. One

Tobacco company recently made that point to the Czech government.

" Only a few months before Iraq invaded Kuwait, Senator Bob Dole told

(then Israeli Defense Minister Moshe) Arens that Saddam Hussein's

threats against Israel were meant only as an indication of his

response if Israel were to attack Iraq, and therefore were not to be

taken seriously. "

Dole visited

Iraq himself and apologized to Saddam for a Voice of America report

on

Iraq that had criticized Saddam. Dole went on to tell Saddam that

the

person responsible for the report had been fired. Dole criticized

Israel for arresting terror gang boss Sheik Obeid. Obeid was one of

the terror gang bosses who cowardly send fanatics out to do their

bidding while hiding themselves. Such cowards are often bullies

attacking civilians. Dole claimed that Israel had " kidnapped " Obeid

and should release him. Dole was running his own links to terror

gangs

in Lebanon in an attempt to win freedom for Western hostages held by

the thugs. Dole's vicious criticism of Israel may at least in part be

due to his own tragic self-image. Wounded seriously in World War Two,

Dole appeared to suffer from his own version of the Stockholm

Syndrome. For those not familiar with it, it was coined to describe

some of the victims of terrorism. Specifically terror victims who end

up siding with the terrorists who take them hostage. Dole's spirit

was evidently broken by that trauma for after he was wounded he

decided that he would " blame the enemies of Germany, rather than

Germany for his wounds " . He went so far as to learn German as he

rebuilt his persona. Please see : Senator For Sale: An Unauthorized

Biography of Senator Bob Dole by Hilton, Stanley Format: Hardcover -

Dust Jacket Publisher :New York St Martin's Press 1995 "

http://www.suntimes.com/index/willhtml

.. http://www. suntimes.com/index/will html

http://www.sacbee.com/voices/national/will/ " George F. Will is an

ABC News commentator, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of a

syndicated column which appears in more than 450 newspapers .He

became

a contributing editor of Newsweek magazine in 1976

and one year later was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. "

wrote of then US Senator and Vice Presidential Candidate Bob Dole of

Kansas in 1976 : " People who lie about history

deserve to be forgotten by it. " Will was responding to Dole's

comments

in his televised Vice-presidential debate with then US Vice

President

Walter Mondale, Dole said in that debate in

response to a question on the pardon of former US President Nixon

by

then US President Ford: " Well, it, uh, it is an appropriate topic I

guess, but it's not a very good issue, any more than

the war in Vietnam would be, or World War II, or World War I, or the

war in Korea. All Democrat wars. All in this century. I figured up

the other day, if we added up all the killed and wounded in Democrat

wars in this century, it would be about1.6 million

Americans, enough to fill the city of Detroit. "

When I saw that

debate in 1976 I was horrified. Had America stayed out of World War

Two what sort of world would this be? Clearly it would be one in

which

Dole was not wounded in that war. It would also be one that most

probably would have been won by Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini. Is that

the kind of world Dole wishes we were in now? " George F. Will is

an ABC News commentator, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of a

syndicated column which appears in more than 450 newspapers .He

became

a contributing editor of Newsweek magazine in 1976 and one year later

was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. " wrote of then US

Senator & Vice Presidential Candidate Bob Dole of Kansas in 1976 :

" People who lie about history deserve to be forgotten by it. " Will

was

responding to Dole's comments in his televised Vice-presidential

debate with then US Vice President Walter Mondale, Dole said in

that debate in response to a question on the pardon of former US

President Nixon by then US President Ford: " Well, it, uh, it is an

appropriate topic I guess, but it's not a very good issue, any more

than the war in Vietnam would be, or World War II, or World War I, or

the war in Korea. All Democrat wars. All in this century. I figured

up the other day, if we added up all the killed & wounded in Democrat

wars in this century, it would be about 1.6 million Americans, enough

to fill the city of Detroit. " When I saw that debate in 1976 I was

horrified Dole was wounded in World War II. Like those suffering from

" Stockholm Syndrome " who side with the terrorists who take them

hostage Dole's spirit was evidently broken by that trauma for after

he

was wounded he decided that he would " blame the enemies of Germany,

rather than Germany for his wounds " . He went so far as to learn

German

as he rebuilt his persona. Please see : Senator For Sale: An

Unauthorized Biography of Senator Bob Dole by Hilton, Stanley Format:

Hardcover - Dust Jacket Publisher :New York St Martin's Press 1995.

Associated Dealer BOOKWORM of Greenville There are other issues to

consider here. Dole's alleged links to Joe DioGuardi, for example

Philip F.

Anschutz, DOLE'S FELLOW KANSAN, WHOSE CORPORATION HAS BEEN A TOP

CONTRIBUTOR, AND RAILROAD

EXECUTIVE, ALONG WITH OTHERS ON A HARRIMAN FAMILY HISTORIC RAILROAD

ASSET.

SEE ALSO:Senator for Sale: An Unauthorized Biography

of Senator Bob Dole Hardcover, 320 Pages, Saint Martin's Press, LLC,

August 1995ISBN: 0312136005 Author: Hilton, Stanley Description: A

blistering, no-holds-barred portrayal of Senator Bob Dole by a former

aide. Hilton paints a disturbing portrait of the senator, exposing

Dole's colossal political money machine which generates $118,000 a

week. Thought-provoking and compelling, Senator for Sale compares

Dole to Richard Nixon and speculates on what a Dole presidency would

be like. I read " Senator for Sale " when Dole was finally nominated

for

President. The key element in it for me was the " Stockholm syndrome "

Dole seemed to experience after being wounded in World War Two when

he

decided that he would blame not Germany, but he " enemies of Germany

" for his wounds & to study German. It would seem that his spirit was

broken by the event and he sided with those who had wounded him by

blaming their " enemies "

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/2671/

http://voyager.learntech.com/catalog/maus/indepth/

http://www.ngc.peachnet.edu/Academic/Arts_Let/LangLit/dproyal/spiegel

..

htm

http://arts.ucsc.edu/derek/Art.html

http://www.bookwire.com/bbr/interviews/art-spiegelman.html

 

" Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006 10:29 a.m. EST

Jimmy Carter Backs Dubai Ports Deal

The Bush administration's plan to turn over control of six major

U.S. ports to a Dubai company suffered another blow on Monday, when

former President Jimmy Carter endorsed the deal.

" The overall threat to the United States and security, I don't think

it's exists, " Carter told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

" My belief is that the president and his secretary of state, the

Defense Department and others have adequately cleared the Dubai

government or organization to manage their ports, " Carter added. " I

don't think there's any particular threat to our security. "

Carter praised Dubai's handling of ports in the United Arab

Emirates, saying: " I've been to Dubai, and I've seen the remarkable

port facilities they have there, perhaps the best in the world. "

Carter's endorsement of the Dubai deal, however, is sure to heighten

concern that it's the wrong thing to do - especially considering his

reputation as the worst president of the 20th Century.

In 1979, the Georgia Democrat helped usher in the era of Mideast

terrorism against the U.S. by yanking American support from the Shah

of Iran.

The shah was succeeded by the Ayatollah Khomeini, whose

revolutionary guards took over the U.S. embassy and held Americans

who worked there hostage for 444 days.

Carter also presided over the giveaway of the Panama Canal, whose

vital Atlantic and Pacific ports are now controlled by Communist

China. "

source:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/21/103107.shtml

Former President Jimmy

Carter is notorious for his connections with one of Murtha's many

contributors: Lockheed. Indeed Murtha contributors include Cassidy

& Associates a contributor which was " registered to represent foreign

clients from Brazil, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Saudi Arabia,

and Taiwan. " speaking of representing foreign interests:

Billy Carter, " There's a lot more Arabs than there is Jews. "

http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/carter_b.htm

Billy Carter (William A. Carter, III) is the brother of former

President Jimmy Carter. In 1978, Carter met with a group of

businessmen who were interested in meeting him and for the purpose

of visiting Libya. The Libyans had advised the group they were

interested in investing in businesses in Atlanta, Georgia. The group

finally got together in Plains, Georgia and extended their

invitation to Billy Carter to visit Libya. A group of businessmen

and some lawyers from the Plains area went to Libya where they were

entertained by the American Representatives and some Libyan

representatives, but never met with Qadaffi, the Libyan leader.

After the return home, no business deals were ever made between the

groups, but Billy Carter did secure some personal loans from the

Libyan Government. "

14th July 1980 Finally registers as a foreign agent of the Libyan

government after receiving a $220,000 loan from Libya.

22nd July 1980 Congress announces intention to hold Billygate

hearings. White House

admits asking Billy Carter to use influence with Libya to help

Americans held hostage in Iran.

26th July 1980 Americans for Democratic Action call for the

resignation of Attorney

General Ben Civiletti for his alleged role in Billygate.

28th July 1980 Sen. Dennis DeConcini says fugitive financier Robert

Vesco claims

responsibility for Billy Carter-Libyan connection, which was an

effort to embarrass Carter administration.

30th July 1980 Justice Dept. says Billy Carter lied about his first

payment from

Libya; documents reveal Billy received access to State Dept. cables

from his

brother, the president. White House confirms president discussed

cables with

brother. Libya reportedly sought aid from Billy Carter in acquiring

C-130

transport planes embargoed by President Carter.

31 Jul 1980 Billy Carter denies he saw classified State Dept. cables

or that he

lied to Justice Dept. about payment from Libya.

4th August 1980 President Carter holds a press conference

on " Billygate. " That same

day, Senate hearings begin on Billy Carter's representation of the

Libyan government.

2nd October 1980 Senate subcommittee issues report on its hearings

into Billy Carter's Libyan connection.

30th October 1980 White House Press Secretary Jody Powell accuses

Republican senators

of leaking Justice Dept. report criticizing President Carter for his

role in

Billy Carter/Libya affair. "

" FOREIGN DESK | October 22, 1981

AMERICAN PILOTS REPORTED FLYING IN LIBYAN FORCES

By JEFF GERTH and PHILIP TAUBMAN, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES;

THIS ARTICLE IS BASED ON REPORTING BY JEFF GERTH and PHILIP TAUBMAN

and WAS WRITTEN BY MR. GERTH.

American pilots and aircraft mechanics, including military veterans,

are flying and maintaining Libyan Air Force planes in an operation

organized by Edwin P. Wilson, a former American intelligence agent,

according to associates of Mr. Wilson. The American flight

personnel, as well as pilots from Canada and Britain, have been

recruited and paid by companies controlled by Mr. Wilson and, at

least since last year, have flown a Libyan fleet of American-made

cargo and transport aircraft and helicopters, the associates said.

One Western pilot recruited by Mr. Wilson said that American pilots

flew helicopters in support of the Libyan invasion of Chad this

year, but the extent to which Western recruits are involved directly

in Libyan combat missions could not be determined. The pilot said he

was paid about $3,000 a month. Coordination in London Some of the

American pilots and mechanics have been recruited in the United

States by other Americans. Most of the operation is coordinated

through a London office that represents several African and European

companies controlled by Mr. Wilson, according to his associates. "

NATIONAL DESK | October 23, 1981

RECRUITER FOR PROJECT IN LIBYA SOUGHT PERSONNEL IN ALABAMA

By EDWARD T. POUND, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES

Working under a contract to maintain Libyan aircraft and train

pilots, Edwin P. Wilson, a former American intelligence agent who is

now a fugitive in Libya, sent a retired Army sergeant here this year

to offer $60,000 to $72,000 a year to pilots, mechanics and other

flight personnel if they would work for the Libyan Air Force.

According to several people familiar with the recruiting effort,

Kenneth G. Beck, the Army veteran, returned in July to southeast

Alabama, where he lived before going to North Africa to work for Mr.

Wilson, in an effort to recruit a dozen pilots and other specialists

for Mr. Wilson's Libyan operations. Some of those interviewed by Mr.

Beck said that his main recruiting pitch was that the job was a

chance to earn a lot of money in a short time. It could not be

determined how many Americans Mr. Beck recruited. Only one, Richard

L. Love, a helicopter pilot, is known to have signed on with Mr.

Wilson's London-based company, Western Recruitment Inc., as a result

of Mr. Beck's efforts. Officials at Gatwick Airport at London said

today that Mr. Love and several others left this morning on a flight

to Libya. "

" In 1989 President Carter interceded *** on behalf of *** Terry

Boullata, a field worker for the Palestinian Human Rights Information

Center. Boullata had been imprisoned in November 1987 for allegedly

belonging to a terrorist organization called the Democratic Front for

the Liberation of Palestine. Boullata was allowed out in 1989 to come

to the United States *** The Carter Center: Follow the MoneyBut it's

the financing behind Georgia's Carter Center and the Jimmy Carter

Library that raises serious doubts that the former president is, in

actuality, a wholly neutral intermediary in the troubled region.

NewsMax has reviewed annual reports that indicate millions of

charitable dollars have flowed into the center from His Majesty

Sultan

Qaboss bin Said Al Said of Oman, Jordan, from the Kingdom of Saudi

Arabia, and from the Government of the United Arab Emirates.

Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been donated to

the

center by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. H.R.H.

Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah of Morocco has also contributed

tens

of thousands of dollars. There are no corresponding contributions

apparent from Israeli sources, however. As the center's literature

describes, " The Carter Center and the Jimmy Carter Library were built

in large measure thanks to the early leadership and financial

support of the Carter Center founders. " Three of those generous

founders: Agha Hasan Abedi On July 5 1991, banking regulators

targeted Abedi's Bank of Credit and Commerce

International (BCCI), " " triggering a worldwide financial tidal wave.

To date, accountants

and lawyers have managed to recoup (discounting fees) $7 billion

out of the $12 billion money pit that fueled the BCCI fraud. Agha

Hasan Abedi, a banker and self-styled mystic on first-name terms with

Carter, created BCCI in 1972. Abedi had charmed seed money out of

Arab sheikhs, organizing camel races and hunting trips. The Bank of

America bought into BCCI as a way of buying access to the Middle

East,

holding a 30 percent stake at one point before dumping its holdings

in the late-1970s His Majesty King Fahd of Saudi Arabia Last month

Saudi Arabia transferred $15.4 million in advance aid to the

Palestinian Authority. The transfer was made to a controversial Arab

League fund, a product of the recent Arab summit in Beirut. According

to Arab spokesmen, the money was hurriedly contributed due to the

dire plight of the Palestinian people as a result of " vicious Israeli

aggression. " King Fahd, Crown Prince Abdullah and Defense Minister

Prince Sultan jointly donated $4.8 million to launch the fund pot,

while Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz sent an estimated

$800,000 to the families of " 155 Palestinian martyrs " killed in the

current Israeli offensive. Hasib J. Sabbagh Sabbagh is the chairman

of Consolidated Contractors Co. of Oman, Jordan. He is also the

Senior

Fellow for the Middle East of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is a membership

organization contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy. The Council

publishes Foreign Affairs, a leading journal on global issues.

Individual, foundation, and corporate donors, together with

multilateral development assistance programs, support the Carter

Center's current annual operating budget of around $30 million.***.

Carter on the Record *** Carter *** roundly lambasted Ariel Sharon

for actions and attitudes, past and present: " - sounds to us like

arafat, back from the grave. or maybe Hitler, back from the grave,

ghost wrote this disgusting anti-Semitic garbage: " His rejection of

all peace

agreements that included Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands, his

invasion of Lebanon, his provocative visit to the Temple Mount, the

destruction of villages and homes, the arrests of thousands of

Palestinians and his open defiance of *** demand that he

comply with international law have all been orchestrated to

accomplish his ultimate goals: to establish Israeli settlements as

widely as possible throughout occupied territories and to deny

Palestinians a cohesive political existence, " Carter said in a recent

New York Times piece. " It is time for the United States, as the sole

recognized intermediary to consider more forceful actions***, " Carter

added. " The rest of the world will welcome this leadership. " U.S.

Leverage Over Israel Carter also said that U.S. aid of $10 million a

day should give the U.S. some leverage over Israeli policy, noting

that former president Bush had threatened to cut off this assistance

in 1992 to discourage the building of Israeli settlements between

Jerusalem and Bethlehem :***

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/28/112225.shtml

One of the world's biggest sweet teeth is in the mouth of the

Coca-Cola Company, user of vast amounts of sugar. One of the world's

potentially biggest sweet teeth suppliers is Cuba, producer of vast

amounts of sugar " .In 1991 Cuba was still a one-commodity country, as

dependent on sugar cane exports as it had been before the revolution "

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/cuba/sustainable/worldwatchCu

b

a1997.html

" Cuba's sugar mono-culture, amounting to around 4/5ths of total

exports, and the country's heavy dependence on the US for both trade

and investment, made Cuba extremely vulnerable to the whims of the US

sugar market. "

http://www.weltpolitik.net/regionen/amerika/1093.html%20

American " friendship " with Cuba could potentially mean that vast

amounts of cheap Cuban sugar, produced by workers under guess what

sorts of conditions, might well end up in Coca-Cola and similar

products. Looked at that way Jimmy Carter's trip to Castro's Cuba may

well have some interesting underpinnings. " Excerpt from Speech of

Jimmy Carter November 12th, 1974 Commission on Foreign Relations In

Georgia: " Georgia has a particular advantage over some states in that

we have our own built in State Department in the Coca-Cola Company.

They provide me, ahead of time, with much more penetrating analyses

of

what the country is, what it's problems are, who its leaders are, and

when I arrive there , provide me with an introduction to the leaders

of that country in every realm of life in which we have an interest. "

" Jimmy Carter Speaks to Fulbrighters (excerpted from a transcript of

President Carter's address.) I also want to thank Coca-Cola, who have

made it-who has made it possible for this foundation to be successful

and stable financially. When I was governor of Georgia, The Coca-Cola

Company was my State Department. And everywhere I went, on missions

of

trade and commerce and understanding, when I got off the airplane,

the

Coca-Cola people would be there with a nice limousine, and the next

morning they would arrange a meeting with all the business leaders of

that country in its capital, and I would speak to them about the

benefits of investing in Georgia and buying Georgia products, one of

which, notcoincidentally, was Coca-Cola. "

http://www.fulbright.org/prize/1994/carter2.htm

" 1906 ~ The first two countries outside the United States to bottle

Coca-Cola were Cuba and Panama. "

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4269/history.html

" In 1992 US Senator Torricelli introduced the Cuban Democracy Act

which extended

the trade ban to overseas subsidiaries of US companies, although this

did not prevent firms like Coca Cola sending supplies to Cuba via

Mexico . " . http://www.labor.net.au/worksite/cuba.html

" Cuba's Coke, for example, comes from the Coca Cola Company of

Mexico.*** Coca-Cola (is among the companies which have registered)

their Cuban trademarks " http://mediastudy.com/articles/bdcuba3.html

" stores in Cuba have numerous US products, including Coca-Cola "

http://www.cubacenter.org/media/recent_briefs/us_embargo2.html

" soda pops account for one-fourth of the annual sugar consumption in

the United States "

http://www.factmonster.com/ce5/CE009082.html

Carter took a 3 week Latin American trip on Lockheed planes.

Also please do a search for Lockheed Scandal in any internet search

engine

" Speaking Notes for The Carter Center Board of Councilors

Meeting concerning the role of faith groups in health "

http://www.ihpnet.org/bocmartxt.htm

" Influential economic groups lobby the US against most of its actions

opposing Khartoum. First, Sudan is the primary and by far the most

important world producer of gum Arabic, a product indispensable to

the

fabrication of candies, soft drinks such as Coca-cola, and

pharmaceuticals.*** most probably under the influence of these the

oil

and gum Arabic lobby groups, the US has begun softening its

position on the issue of terrorism in Sudan. *** on September 27,

2001, the US abandoned its veto on the lifting of UN sanctions

against

Khartoum, and the multilateral sanctions were finally revoked. "

http://www.jha.ac/articles/a085.htm

" Back in 1996, when the U.S. slapped economic sanctions on Sudan for

its alleged sponsorship of terrorism, one exception was made: gum

arabic. This little known substance derived from Acacia trees is a

critical ingredient in consumer products from soft drinks to candy

bars and cosmetics to the ink in our daily newspapers. The CEOs of

the huge corporations which manufacture these products lobbied

heavily

for the gum arabic exception to the Sudan trade sanctions. It seems

that Sudan is the source of some 80% to 90% of the world's gum arabic

supply. Ban all trade with Sudan and your corner grocery would be out

of Coca Cola within a week. The exception was granted. Now comes the

hard part. Although Osama bin Laden's ties to the pharmaceutical

factory were " fuzzy, " it appears his ties to the Sudanese gum arabic

industry may be more substantial. "

http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/99-03%20SPR/enemy.html

" In November of 1997, President Clinton issued an Executive Order to

stop all trade and foreign investment in the country of Sudan.

However, Sudan produces and exports 90% of the world's gum arabic, a

raw material used in Coca-Cola and newspaper. An exception to the

Order was made. Ironically, in August, (Osama bin-Laden) a man who,

according to the Washington Post, controls the gum arabic industry,

is

suspect in the bombings of two U.S. embassies. "

http://www.jhu.edu/~newslett/09-10-98/Features/8.html

" Former President Carter met with 10 of Osama(bin Laden)' s brothers

early in 2000 on a fund-raising trip for the Carter Center in

Atlanta.

*** 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.***

Carter got TEN MILLION DOLLARS FROM BCCI FOR THE

CARTER LIBRARY. BCCI was deeply involved in financing the

Presidential library, charities, and travel of President Jimmy

Carter.

Jimmy Carter was no fan of George McGovern. Carter called McGovern's

proposed defense cuts " a radical departure from America's 200 year

old

desire to be able to defend itself " . Carter said McGovern's proposed

cuts in defense would have " a devastating effect " on Georgia. Carter

was flown to Brazil by Lockheed while still a Georgia politician. Nor

was Carter a big friend of civil liberties. His 1976 position paper

on

crime quotes him as saying that: " Defendants who are repeatedly out

on

bail commit more crimes. The best deterrent to crime, from within the

criminal justice system is the certainty of swift, firm punishment.

That doesn't exist now. " On August 14th, 1970 Carter told the Atlanta

Journal " All the policemen and firemen in the state are for me and

Lester (Maddox) . I'm not kidding, you ask `em. " Lester Maddox was

Carter's running mate in that election.

http://www.mupress.org/webpages/books/short.html

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9487/cvlrts64.htm " Lester

Maddox, an Atlanta, Georgia restaurateur distributes axes to white

customers and encourages them to scare off the three Negroes who want

to enter. " Carter referred to Maddox as " the essence of the

Democratic

Party " and said " I'm proud to be on the ticket with him. " On

September

15th, 1970 the Savannah Morning News reported that " Carter

triumphantly tripped across Georgia, and along the way picked up the

support of segregationist Roy Harris of Augusta. Harris , chairman of

the American Independent Party ( George Wallace) In Georgia broke a

self-imposed silence and said he will vote for Carter. Harris rode in

a car with Carter From his law office in Augusta to a television

station. On the way said Harris, " he asked me what I thought he

should

do and I told him to just keep doing what he's been doing. It appears

now that most of the men who supported Wallace in 1968 are falling in

behind Carter. "

http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozhistory/c/0974

4

0.html

" In 1970, political experts gave Carter little chance of winning the

Democratic nomination for governor. The heavily favored candidate was

Carl E. Sanders, a liberal who had served as governor from 1963 to

1967. During the campaign, Carter opposed the busing of students to

achieve racial balance in schools. He also took other stands that

were

important to Georgia's rural, conservative voters. Carter's critics

charged he was appealing for the support of segregationists. " The

June

14th, 1970 Atlanta Constitution reported that: " Sanders is fighting

off a determined Carter And a double-barreled anonymous smear

campaign

that is saturating the mails. Two weeks ago thousands of photographs

that Sanders says were

`doctored' were mailed out, showing Sanders receiving a champagne

shampoo from a Negro basketball player. The photo was taken when

Sanders was an owner of the Atlanta Hawks, and a member of his

winning

team was giving him the traditional treatment. The champagne soaking

picture was mailed to white Baptist preachers and white barber shops

all over the state. " Ray Abernethy, a former vice president of

Carter's ad agency was quoted in a March 7th , 1976 article in THE

DETROIT SUNDAY NEWS, : " Abernethy says that some Carter campaign

operative incorporated the newspaper photo in a leaflet and

distributed it in white conservative areas in an attempt to emphasize

Sanders' harmony with blacks. " Abernethy Was quoted as saying: " We

had

an operation jokingly referred to as the `stink tank'. The objective

was to help King take black votes away from Sanders. One of the

things

we did was to produce a series of last minute radio ads for King, (an

African-American candidate used by Carter to divide and conquer).

They ran on stations all over Georgia during the last few days of the

campaign. The King radio blitz was financed out of Carter campaign

funds. We laundered the Material through a small ad agency so the

thing couldn't be traced back to the Carter campaign. " (JIMMY CARTER

ALLEGEDLY GOT TEN MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE INFAMOUS

ARAB CIA DRUG BANK: BCCI, FOR THE CARTER LIBRARY, ANDY YOUNG

ALLEGEDLY GOT $100,000 FROM BCCI, JACKSON ALLEGEDLY GOT $5 MILLION

DOLLARS FOR HIS OPERATION PUSH FROM IRAQ AND ALLEGEDLY GOT ANOTHER $5

MILLION DOLLARS FOR OPERATION PUSH FROM LIBYA)

http://www.zoa.org/pressrel/19970923a.htm " The State Department's

opposition to Jews living on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives on the

grounds that it " changes the character " of the mostly-Arab

neighborhood is reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's 1976 remark about

protecting the " ethnic purity " of some American neighborhoods, the

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) said. " In 1976 Carter told a

Boston rally that it would be all right to send children to

segregated

private schools. While Governor of Georgia Carter supported a one day

school boycott to pressure the Georgia legislature To pass an

anti-busing resolution calling for an anti-busing amendment to the

Constitution. The Georgia NAACP said that during Carter's

administration " the number of blacks (hired) have not significantly

increased " and noted " little progress " of hiring blacks in the

Highway Patrol Department, the Governor has

ignored a telegram if necessary the NAACP will take action in court. "

Carter said on February 17th, 1972 that the Georgia legislature

should

pass a resolution stating: " No student shall be assigned to

nor compelled to attend any particular public school on account of

race, religion, color or national origin " ,

Carter said that " If the legislature does not act on this amendment,

it would be all right for Georgia parents to hold their children out

of school briefly. The massive forced busing of students such as that

now taking place in Richmond County is the most serious threat to

education . " A few months AFTER the Kent State massacre

http://www.may4.org/ " the May 4, 1970, tragedy at Kent State

University: four students were killed and nine other students were

injured when members of the Ohio National Guard fired 67 bullets into

a crowd of unarmed students under the noonday sun during an anti-war

demonstration " Carter said that as Governor of Georgia he would

authorize the National Guard

to : " take whatever action is necessary including shoot to kill

orders

to restore order.- I will not permit disruptions in our cities and on

our college campuses. " " Coke's $1.5 million gift will give Latin

America a leg up Wendy

Bowman-Littler The Coca-Cola Co.'s Latin America Group has given $1.5

million to The Carter Center and Emory University***.

The grant money will carry forward a new initiative that was

announced

in December 1997 by former U.S. President and head of The Carter

Center Jimmy Carter, Emory President *** The grant will be

distributed

to Emory and The Carter Center in increments of $300,000 a year

during

the next five years (through 2002) to strengthen ties with Latin

America and Caribbean communities, Diaz said. Half of the $1.5

million

gift will be used to fund annual high-level conferences at The Carter

Center during the next five years. The Carter Center's Latin American

and Caribbean Program will bring together

leaders in the areas of government, business and public service from

throughout North, South and Central Latin America to establish a

model

for developing countries to strengthen investment potential in the

region, Diaz said.*** "

http://atlanta.bcentral.com/atlanta/stories/1998/08/31/newscolumn9.ht

m

l

" The Center established its board in 1994. Chaired by former

President

Jimmy Carter with Rosalynn Carter as vice chair *** " the Board

decides

and supports the Center's mission and manages its property and

assets.

Members of the Board are appointed both by The Carter Center and

Emory

University, with the president of Emory serving as an ex-officio

member. Jimmy Carter, Chair Rosalynn Carter, Vice Chair (other

members

include) Claus M. Halle, International Consultant The Coca-Cola

Company " http://www.cartercenter.org/trustees.html

" President Carter gave the green light for covert support to the

Mujaheddin six months before the December 1979 invasion. In the words

of then National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, a major

architect of Carter's policy, they were " drawing the Russians into

the Afghan trap. " The US supported seven fundamentalist extremist

groups throughout the 1980s and into the early 90s with cash,

sophisticated weapons, and training to the tune of $5

billion-according to official figures. The secret Black Budget of the

CIA reportedly quadrupled to $36 billion per year when Reagan became

president in 1980, and some of this money went to support secret

operations in Afghanistan. Some of the earliest training exercises

took place inside the US, including rifle shooting at the High Rock

gun club in Naugtuck, Connecticut. More technical training took place

at the CIA's Camp Peary, nicknamed " The Farm, " northeast of

Williamsburg, Virginia. Among the topics covered by training sessions

were surveillance and countersurveillance, counter-terrorism,

counter-narcotics and paramilitary operations. Around the same time,

a

source of private funding was sought for the war. Osama bin Laden, a

man with " impeccable Saudi credentials " (his father's construction

company had just been awarded a contract to rebuild and restore the

holy sites in Mecca and Medina) was given " free rein in Afghanistan "

by the CIA. Using his share of his family's business empire, he built

training camps and airplane landing strips, and carved underground

bunkers in the mountains of Afghanistan, all with Washington's

approval. Just across the border, bin Laden's base in Pakistan was

the

Binoori mosque in Karachi. The prayer leader at this mosque was one

Mullah Mohammed Omar, now " supreme leader " of the Taliban After the

Soviet withdrawal in 1989, the Mujaheddin groups began turning their

US-supplied weapons on each other, and on the civilian population of

Afghanistan. In 1990, the CIA began supplying the Mujaheddin

directly,

rather than using Pakistan's ISI intelligence service as a conduit

According to then chief of ISI's Afghanistan branch, Mohammad

Youssaf,

the CIA's aim was to " play on differences between the various

factions

and their commanders, " in an effort to " curb the power " of the

factions and make way for an unknown " Transition Regime, " perhaps the

Taliban. The CIA's propping up of the fundamentalist terrorists in

Afghanistan began to show its consequences during this period. The

first victims were the people of Afghanistan. The group getting the

most US aid, led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, began rocket shelling Kabul.

A close friend of bin Laden, Hekmatyar was understood by his

benefactors to be " a nut, an extremist, and a very violent man " (US

ambassador to Afghanistan Robert Neumann). In the 1970s he gained

notoriety for throwing acid on the faces of women who refused to wear

the veil. Journalist Michael Griffin writes of Kabul under

Hekmatyar's

onslaught: " no city since the end of the Second World War *** had

suffered the same ferocity of jugular violence as Kabul from 1992 to

1996 ***. " From 1990-1994 45,000 civilians were killed, 300,000 had

fled to Pakistan, and Kabul was " turned into a rubble " *** Most

Afghans are now without livelihood, reduced to begging from

international aid agencies. They currently live under the fascistic

Taliban, who keep bin Laden safe. Terrorists trained and armed by the

CIA to fight in Afghanistan have since been implicated in attacks on

the World Trade Center in 1993, and in US embassy bombings in Kenya

and Tanzania in 1998, which killed hundreds of people. These efforts

pale in comparison to the recent destruction in Manhattan,

Washington,

and Pittsburgh. If proven guilty in fair trial, bin Laden should

certainly be held accountable . ***. It was our officials who

originally unleashed these forces of destruction on Afghanistan.

Perhaps the faces of Zbigniew Brzezinski, William Casey, Jimmy

Carter,

and Ronald Reagan should be on the TV screen too, next to Osama bin

Laden's and the empty holes in the ground where twin towers stood.

The

author is on the Board of Directors of the Afghan Women's Mission,

and

is a Staff Scientist at the California Institute of Technology. "

http://www.zmag.org/ingallscalam.htm " U.S.: Cuba Has Bioweapon

Program Mon May 13, 4:56 PM ET

By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The State

Department held Monday to an assertion that Cuba has at least a

limited biological warfare program and has provided such

biotechnology to other nations. " We stand by every word of

(Undersecretary of State) John Bolton's speech, " Otto Reich, the

assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere, told The

Associated Press. Besides, Reich said, Carl Ford, the assistant

secretary of state for intelligence and research, had given some of

the same information to Congress at a March hearing. "

http://story.news./news?

tmpl=story & u=/ap/20020513/ap_on_go_ca

_st_pe/us_cuba_4

" May 16, 2002 U.S. Challenges Cuba to Disprove Bioweapons Charge

By REUTERS Filed at 6:31 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United

States, which has accused Cuba of trying to develop biological

weapons

under the cover of its advanced pharmaceutical industry, said on

Thursday Havana should open its laboratories to the international

community. "

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-cuba-usa-

bioweapons.h

tml

Another axis of evil: Carter, Castro, Arafat and his evil Holocaust

Denying successor, Saddam, bin Laden

Carter has proven that he is a vicious enemy of both Jews and of

African Americans. He fits in well with bin Laden, " Arafat Sends

Letter Of Thanks To Castro By Jim Burns. CNSNews.com

Senior Staff Writer. June 15, 2001. CNS News (CNSNews.com) -

Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat sent a letter of thanks to Cuban

Leader Fidel Castro for the communist leader's support of the

Palestinians in their conflict

with Israel. The Palestinian Ambassador to Cuba read the letter

during

a pro-Palestinian rally in front of the U.S. Interest Section offices

in Havana on Thursday night. Castro along with Cuban Foreign Minister

Felipe Perez Roque and Otto Rivero, president of the Cuban Union of

Young

Communists, as well as thousands of Cubans attended the rally. "

http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y01/jun01/18e7.htm

" If Saddam was using another country as a surrogate in his

efforts to develop biological weapons, the most logical one

was Cuba. There are several reasons: i) Cuba has been

developing biological weapons since the 1980s and has

thousands of scientists and technicians working in its

bioengineering and genetic industry, which is attached to

Castro's office; ii) Castro is an ally of Saddam Husseim and

shares with him a pathological hatred of the US; iii) Cuba is

not subject to UN inspection; iv) it is an Stalinist society

where there is no freedom of the press and an overwhelming

repressive apparatus allows the regime to work in utmost

secrecy; and, v) it is very close to the US mainland, allowing

the use of migratory birds as " hosts " for viruses.. "

http://www.nocastro.com/Terrorism/wnilevrs2.htm Here's another

horror show that we

are very thankful Carter did not get away with:

" Mideast Mirror October 11, 1994 SECTION: IRAQ; Vol. 08, No. 196

HEADLINE: What's to be done about Saddam Hussein? * Seek a negotiated

settlement with the help of the Arab League and Jimmy Carter- Mustafa

Murad in al-Ahrar "

http://inic.utexas.edu/menic/utaustin/course/oilcourse/mail/iraq/0012

..

html

" bin laden a bigot

excerpted from the 23rd January 2002

piece in the

Chicago Tribune

" Bin Laden and his quest for slaves

Clarence Page

Is Osama bin Laden, on top of his other sins, a racial bigot?

 

That question crossed my mind as I was reading a translation of the

amateur video of bin Laden that was made in November in

Kandahar and released by the Bush administration.

At one point, according to translators for the Bush administration

and

the Washington Post, bin Laden praises the two young Saudi

brothers involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks like this:

" Killing oneself for the sake of God was better than the books and

pamphlets. They [the brothers] made the whole world listen to

them whether Arab or non-Arab or slaves [using a derogatory term for

blacks] or Chinese. Better than millions of books, tapes or

booklets. "

The possibility that bin Laden refers to blacks with a derogatory

word

for slaves caught my eye, since he has long been suspected

of supporting and even participating in the slave trafficking that

still goes on in the Middle East, despite the efforts of modernists

to wipe it out.

In 1999, a report in the London Sunday Telegraph accused him of

paying

Ugandan rebels in rifles for every African child they

supplied to work in the marijuana fields that fund Al Qaeda.

The child of a wealthy Saudi construction family, bin Laden also is

known to have lived in Sudan for several years, building roads

and other infrastructure and ingratiating himself with Sudan's

Taliban-like leaders.

For years, American human-rights organizations have protested the

trafficking of black Christians and other non-Muslims captured

by government troops in the southern Sudan during that country's long

civil war.

" If he was in Sudan for five years, he [bin Laden] learned slurs like

`abid' well because that's the word Sudanese elites tend to use

for all blacks, " said Charles Jacobs, head of the Boston-based

American Anti-Slavery Group, Telephone: 617-426-8161

198 Tremont Street, #421, Boston, MA 02116

E-mail: info

http://www.anti-slavery.org/

which has made numerous

abolitionist trips to Sudan.

 

Indeed, other experts told me that " abid " or " abd " (Arabic spellings

do not translate uniformly to the English alphabet) is about as

offensive as you can be in some contexts, depending on how it is

used.

But George Michael, of Diplomatic Language Services, an Egyptian who

helped translate the tape for the Bush administration, said

the word he heard was not " abid " but " zingi " or " zinge, " which he

views as more offensives than " abd. "

" Bin Laden is well-educated, " said Michael, who practiced pharmacy in

Saudi Arabia. " A well-educated person would not use that

word in public. "

This touched off a dispute among other experts I contacted.

Walid Phares, a Florida Atlantic University professor of Middle East

studies, said he distinctly heard the word " abid " on the

videotape, although he conceded that the government's playback

machines undoubtedly were more clear than his.

Nevertheless, he thought the word " abid " was much worse than " zingi, "

a word that generally refers to sub-Saharan Africans, slave or free.

In his world, God-Allah gives rights only to those who to

the same narrow Wahabism sect that grounds Al Qaeda and

the Taliban. Everyone else is inferior, even if they believe fully in

Islam's other tenets.

*** There also is a

dangerous ideology behind the evil*** known popularly as Islamism.

It's not always easy to figure out what bin Laden and his gang are

talking about, but one message rings clear. If they had their

way, they'd make slaves of all of us, not just Africans. "

http://www.miraserve.com/pressrev/EN23Jan02.htm

We continue to urge that you contact President Bush

http://www.whitehouse.govto urge him to abandon the so-called " Road

Map " , which we feel would result in all out war because an Israel

without strategic depth, i.e. without full control of 100% of Judea

and Samaria , the so-called " West Bank " , a misnomer if ever there

was one, would have to respond to the inevitable arab attack with

everything it had on minute one of the attack. Please tell President

Bush to permanently and completely abandon his call for the

establishment of a so-called " palestinian " state. We should never

reward terrorism. Terrorism must be punished. On the plus side

although we are not affiliated with either party, witness our call

above to President Bush to permanently and completely abandon his

call for a so-called " palestinian " state ,The Republican National

Committeewww.gop.com has a video that illustrates the point of

Democrats being soft on national security issues. They describe it as

follows: " When it comes to leading Democrats and Iraq, we've seen it

all. First, they voted for the war; then they claimed it was a lie.

Some Democrats have called for immediate withdrawal, others call for

a phased withdrawal, and others are saying they won't have a

position until it's " the right time " . Now, some of the democrat

leaders have taken their most extreme and dangerous position yet;

predicting the defeat of our troops in Iraq. Watch the new web

video, " Retreat and Defeat, " that exposes this cut-and-run strategy

for what it is.Watch Howard Dean saying that we won't win in Iraq,

and John Kerry talking about our troops " terrorizing " children in

the dead of night. Think about the message this sends to our troops;

that we will be intimidated by terrorists and assassins, and that we

walk away from their mission. Our troops are watching. America is

watching. Send these Democrats the message that surrender is not an

option; and that we stand together with our troops for victory in

Iraq. Sincerely, Ken Mehlman Chairman, Republican National Committee

Republican National Committee | 310 First Street, SE | Washington,

DC 20003 e: info

p: 202.863.8500 | f: 202.863.8820 | "

All of which brings us to the matter of electronic intelligence.

So-called " elint " , gleaned from phone calls, faxes, emails, etc.

intercepted by the NSA, (National Security Agency), is in the news

because of the matter of the approval, or alleged lack of approval,

by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) courts of that

elint.

The question of course is, " Who watches the watchers? " or " Who

guards the guards? " as the old saying goes. Not only the NSA and the

President and those delegated by the President but the FISA courts

themselves. Who appointed the judges? Who hired the clerks? Who

safeguards the records of FISA courts from hackers? Could one or

more of those working at FISA, from Judges to Clerks,etc. be working

for one or more enemies of America? We certainly hope not, but we do

not know one way or the other. If you had a case in which

intelligence might lead you to believe that a weapons of mass

destruction attack on America, or one, or more, of its allies, was

imminent and you were the President of the United States, would you

put safeguarding your own political interests by covering yourself

and your proverbial rear end by getting a FISA warrant ahead of

everything else, or would you do your sworn duty to protect America

and its citizens by authorizing the electronic intercepts to prevent

such an attack? We are thankful that President Bush appears to have

done the latter rather than the former. So who can you trust? Is the

X-Files mantra: " trust no one " applicable? Kim Philby , secretly a

colonel in the old Soviet KGB, penetrated British intelligence where

he rose to become the head of anti-Soviet activities for British

intelligence, where he worked in liaison with the American FBI and

CIA, while secretly reporting on all of this to Moscow.

Would you have trusted Philby before he was unmasked? Many made

that terrible mistake. Can you trust the FISA courts, from judges to

clerks, etc. with the security of the United States and its allies?

If you go to

http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/ames/ames.htm

you will see the story of Aldrich Ames, " arrested by the FBI in

Arlington, Virginia on espionage charges on February 24, 1994. At

the time of his arrest, Ames was a 31-year veteran of the Central

Intelligence Agency (CIA),

who had been spying for the Russians since 1985. "

If you go to

http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/hanssen/hanssen.htm

you will see the story of Robert Philip Hanssen " a veteran

FBI counterintelligence Agent " (who) " was arrested by the FBI and

charged with committing espionage by providing highly classified

national security information to Russia and the former Soviet

Union. " My Silent War, The Autobiography of a Spy

Kim Philby, Introduction by Phillip Knightley Foreword by Greene

Graham " Harold Adrian Russell (Kim) Philby (1912 - 1988)

Harold Adrian Russell (Kim) Philby Harold Adrian Russell (Kim)

Philby was a senior officer in the British Secret Intelligence

Service (SIS) for ten years, but was actually an agent of the Soviet

KGB. *** "

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/philby_harold.shtml

" Kim Philby

born Jan. 1, 1912, Ambala, India

died May 11, 1988, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.

byname of Harold Adrian Russell Philby British intelligence

officer until 1951 and the most successful Soviet double agent of

the Cold War period.

While a student at the University of Cambridge, Philby became a

Communist and in 1933 a Soviet agent. He worked as a journalist

until 1940, when Guy Burgess, a British secret agent who was himself

a Soviet double agent, recruited Philby… "

source: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9059646

" December 20th, 2005, c.e.

Clinton Claimed Authority to Order No-Warrant Searches

Does anyone remember that?

In a little-remembered debate from 1994, the Clinton administration

argued that the president has " inherent authority " to order physical

searches — including break-ins at the homes of U.S. citizens — for

foreign intelligence purposes without any warrant or permission from

any outside body. Even after the administration ultimately agreed

with Congress's decision to place the authority to pre-approve such

searches in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court,

President Clinton still maintained that he had sufficient authority

to order such searches on his own. " The Department of Justice

believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent

authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign

intelligence purposes, " Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick

testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on July 14,

1994, " and that the President may, as has been done, delegate this

authority to the Attorney General. "

" It is important to understand, " Gorelick continued, " that the rules

and methodology for criminal searches are inconsistent with the

collection of foreign intelligence and would unduly frustrate the

president in carrying out his foreign intelligence responsibilities. "

Executive Order 12333, signed by Ronald Reagan in 1981, provides for

such warrantless searches directed against " a foreign power or an

agent of a foreign power. "

Reporting the day after Gorelick's testimony, the Washington Post's

headline — on page A-19 — read, " Administration Backing No-Warrant

Spy Searches. " The story began, " The Clinton administration, in a

little-noticed facet of the debate on intelligence reforms, is

seeking congressional authorization for U.S. spies to continue

conducting clandestine searches at foreign embassies in Washington

and other cities without a federal court order. The administration's

quiet lobbying effort is aimed at modifying draft legislation that

would require U.S. counterintelligence officials to get a court

order before secretly snooping inside the homes or workplaces of

suspected foreign agents or foreign powers. "

In her testimony, Gorelick made clear that the president believed he

had the power to order warrantless searches for the purpose of

gathering intelligence, even if there was no reason to believe that

the search might uncover evidence of a crime. " Intelligence is often

long range, its exact targets are more difficult to identify, and

its focus is less precise, " Gorelick said. " Information gathering

for policy making and prevention, rather than prosecution, are its

primary focus. "

The debate over warrantless searches came up after the case of CIA

spy Aldrich Ames. Authorities had searched Ames's house without a

warrant, and the Justice Department feared that Ames's lawyers would

challenge the search in court. Meanwhile, Congress began discussing

a measure under which the authorization for break-ins would be

handled like the authorization for wiretaps, that is, by the FISA

court. In her testimony, Gorelick signaled that the administration

would go along a congressional decision to place such searches under

the court — if, as she testified, it " does not restrict the

president's ability to collect foreign intelligence necessary for

the national security. " In the end, Congress placed the searches

under the FISA court, but the Clinton administration did not back

down from its contention that the president had the authority to act

when necessary.

• Byron York, NR's White House correspondent, is the author

of The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic

Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted

Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President — and Why They'll Try

Even Harder Next Time.

Frankly we would not have trusted Bill Clinton, who turned the US

Air Force into Air bin Laden,in support of bin Laden's thugs in the

Kosovo War of 1999, with doing the job we expect of Presidents. Nor

would we have trusted BCCI's pal Jimmy Carter, with doing the job we

expect of Presidents. So if you cannot trust Clinton or Carter, why

trust the security of FISA courts, judges, clerks, or data to be

secure at the possible expense of the lives of the Americans and the

lives of the peoples of the allies of America? " BCCI, THE CIA AND

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

The Official Record

The CIA's first user request in connection with BCCI was from the

Federal Reserve in 1981, which asked the CIA whether the CIA had any

derogatory information concerning the Middle Eastern shareholders

who were about to buy Financial General Bankshares (FGB), which

later became First American Bankshares, through the holding company

CCAH. The CIA, after reviewing its records, told the Federal Reserve

that it had no derogatory information on the shareholders, who

included Kamal Adham and Abdul Raouf Khalil, the past and then-

current Saudi intelligence liaisons to the United States.(10)

The CIA did not tell the Federal Reserve that Adham and Khalil were

foreign intelligence liaisons of the United States, nor did it

advise the Federal Reserve that both Adham and a third FGB

shareholder, Faisal al-Fulaij, had been the subject of a Securities

and Exchange Commission probe in connection with violations of the

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by Boeing and Lockheed for arms sales

to Saudi Arabia.(11) 11. Staff interview, Virgil Mattingly, Federal

Reserve, June, 1991, and review of Federal Reserve documents.

Clark Clifford had his own long-standing ties to Khashoggi. In 1981,

Khashoggi took $250,000 from Northrop intended for Saudi Arabian Air

Force General Hashim M. Hashim. Four years later, Northrop released

documents accusing Khashoggi of demanding the bribe for the general,

and then converting it to his own use, Khashoggi retained Clifford

to represent him in the subsequent federal grand jury investigation

of the matter. Significantly, both Kamal Adham and Faisal al Fulaij,

BCCI's front-men for the 1981 takeover, were investigated as well as

Khashoggi for taking money from Northrop and Lockheed in connection

with U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia.(83) 83. The New York Times, p.

56, September 3, 1975. "

material immediately above found at url immediately below:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/11intel.htm

 

another notorious supporter of the Dubai deal is one Danny Glover

A list entitled: " The Ten Most Dishonorable Americans " listed none

other than Danny Glover as Number 3:

" 3. Danny Glover: Also joining the chorus of affluent America-haters

is actor Danny Glover, who, while attending last year's

International Festival of New Latin American Film in Cuba, condemned

U.S. sanctions and threats of a war against Iraq. " Our government

has declared itself an uncontested empire, " Glover said, agreeing

with Harry Belafonte's assertion that the Bush administration seeks

only " to extend its imperialist, economic and political domination

all over the planet. " " My position on the war is very clear, " says

Glover, " above all for the impact that it will have on women and

children in Iraq who are already suffering the consequences of

sanctions. " He does not mention that the sanctions are in place for

one reason alone: Saddam's utter refusal to comply with the terms to

which he agreed following the Gulf War. At the February 15 " peace "

rally in New York, Glover had nothing negative to say about Saddam,

while he condemned President Bush and " his administration of liars

and murderers. "

Glover came in ahead of

" 4. John Walker Lindh: The " American Taliban "

on that list.

source:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6432

Glover is also to be found as a participant in an anti-Israel event

at

http://www.adl.org/Israel/israel_protest_calendar_archive_2003.asp

which kept track of anti-Israel events.

in " THE NEW WAR ON THE JEWS

Peace Movement or War on the Jews?

By Greg Yardley

FrontPageMagazine.com

October 28, 2003 "

Yardley noted that:

" Fellow headline speaker Danny Glover screamed himself hoarse,

calling America an `empire' and assuring the crowd they

were `speaking truth to power'. "

source: http://www.dafka.org/NewsGen.asp?S=4 & PageID=543

" Tuesday, July 26, 2005 9:40 a.m. EDT

Chavez' New TV Station Praises Castro, Danny Glover, Latin

Supporters

A new TV station backed by Venezuela's government began transmitting

Sunday in various countries across Latin America, carrying praise by

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the American actor Danny Glover

and others….Glover, a station board member and strong supporter of

Chavez, said the station has a key role acting as a counterbalance

to the " giant to the north. " source:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/26/94229.shtml

" Abu Dhabi is the largest of the seven emirates that

comprise the United Arab Emirates and was also the largest of the

former Trucial States. Abu Dhabi is also a city of the same name

within the Emirate that is the capital of the country, in north

central UAE. The city lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the

Persian Gulf from the central western coast. An estimated 1,000,000

lived there in 2000, with about an 80% expatriate population… "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Dhabi

" BCCI, THE CIA AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

Introduction

The relationships involving BCCI, the CIA, and members of the United

States and foreign intelligence communities have been among the most

perplexing aspects of understanding the rise and fall of BCCI. The

CIA's and BCCI's mutual environments of secrecy have been one

obvious obstacle. For many months, the CIA resisted providing

information to the Subcommittee about its involvement with and

knowledge of BCCI. Moreover, key players who might explain these

relationships are unavailable. Some, including former CIA director

William Casey, and BCCI customers and Iranian arms dealers Ben

Banerjee and Cyrus Hashemi, are dead. Others, including most of

BCCI's key insiders, remain held incommunicado in Abu Dhabi. While

promising in public hearings to provide full cooperation to the

Subcommittee, to date the Abu Dhabi government has refused to make

any BCCI officers available for interview by the Subcommittee.

Former BCCI chairman Agha Hasan Abedi remains severely incapacitated

due to a heart attack. Finally, some persons in a position to know

portions of the truth have denied having any memory of events in

which they participated and of documents which they reviewed. …Other

Iranian Arms Dealers and BCCI

Ben Banerjee…Documents obtained by the Subcommittee, filed in a

British criminal case later brought against Aspin for fraud in

connection with the attempted sale of the American TOW missiles to

Iran in 1984, and a second attempted sale in 1985, include a " pro-

forma invoice, " dated November 21, 1985, for the supply and delivery

of 1250 units of BCM 71A TOW MISSILES, manufactured in the USA, " all

brand new in manufacturers original packing, " from B.R. & W.

Industries, Ltd., signed by Ben Banerjee, U.S., denominated " lift

trucks " for the purpose of bank and customs documentation, and

handled by BCCI in London. The invoice was accompanied by telexes

and letters on BCCI stationary of a nature and type ordinarily used

by BCCI, showing BCCI providing counter guarantees and letters of

credit for a transaction involving the " lift trucks " in November and

December, 1985, involving the Iranian government and its bank, Bank

Melli, and channeled through the Arabian Gate General Trading Co. of

Dubai, United Arab Emirates.(86) In staff interviews, BCCI Paris

manager Chinoy confirmed that Banerjee banked with BCCI in London

and was involved in " large dealings with Iran. " (87)

SOURCE:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/11intel.htm

from another source:

" The player behind Dubai Ports World, UAE President and Emir of Abu

Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, is the son of

the founder of Bank of Commrce and Credit International (BCCI), "

according to a U.S. Senate committee report issued in 1992 " Abu

Dhabi was present at BCCI's creation as one of two providers of

BCCI's capital. It was BCCI's largest depositor, and its largest

borrower, and for most of BCCI's existence, its largest shareholder.

The relationship between the two entities was, as Price Waterhouse

told the Bank of England days before BCCI's closure, " very close, "

with BCCI providing services to the ruling family of Abu Dhabi far

beyond the ordinary relationship of a bank to either its

shareholders or depositors...

....As Abu Dhabi's representative, Ahmed Al Sayegh, testified, " in

excess of $2 billion was entrusted to Abedi and Naqvi for investment

by Their Highnesses Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Khalifa under a power of

attorney between 1980 and 1990. " (32) Al Sayegh did not identify how

much in excess of $2 billion was entrusted to BCCI, but given Abu

Dhabi's testimony that it lost $6 billion in all in BCCI's collapse,

the amount must have been considerable.

ABU DHABI: BCCI'S FOUNDING AND MAJORITY SHAREHOLDERS

Introduction

There was no relationship more central to BCCI's existence from its

inception than that between BCCI and Sheikh Zayed and the ruling

family of Abu Dhabi.

Abu Dhabi was present at BCCI's creation as one of two providers of

BCCI's capital. It was BCCI's largest depositor, and its largest

borrower, and for most of BCCI's existence, its largest shareholder.

The relationship between the two entities was, as Price Waterhouse

told the Bank of England days before BCCI's closure, " very close, "

with BCCI providing services to the ruling family of Abu Dhabi far

beyond the ordinary relationship of a bank to either its

shareholders or depositors.(1)

There are numerous examples of the centrality of the Abu Dhabi

relationship to BCCI, and its unusual nature.

In 1972, when BCCI was created, Abu Dhabi shareholders purchased 20

percent of its stock with an investment of $500,000, and then

generously agreed to have that interest drop to just over one

percent of BCCI just three years later.

In January, 1978, when BCCI decided to enter the United States and

purchase shares in Financial General Bankshares, and needed two

additional names, the ruling family of Abu Dhabi supplied them.

In 1980 and 1981, when BCCI needed a purchaser for Bank of America's

shares in BCCI, and had no one other than its bogus Grand Caymans

bank-within-a-bank, ICIC, to buy them, Abu Dhabi stepped in once

again to increase its interest in BCCI.

Throughout the 1970's and 1980's, the Abu Dhabi ruling family and

the Abu Dhabi government placed billions of dollars in deposits at

BCCI and its affiliates, such as ICIC, giving BCCI and its head,

Agha Hasan Abedi, the right to manage those assets, and a power of

attorney to act in the name of Sheikh Zayed.

In 1990, when accountants and regulators in the United Kingdom found

fraud at BCCI, the Abu Dhabi ruling family and government stepped in

again, agreeing to formally buy the bank, assert control, guarantee

its losses, replace BCCI's head with the head of its own BCCI

affiliate, the Bank of Credit and Commerce Emirates (BCCE), move

BCCI's operations and records from London to Abu Dhabi, and work on

a plan to find a way to save the bank despite its having

acknowledged " mishandling " at least $2.2 billion of Abu Dhabi's

money.

By July 5, 1991, when BCCI was closed globally, the Government of

Abu Dhabi, its ruling family, and an investment company holding the

assets of the ruling family, were the controlling, and

official " majority " shareholders of BCCI—owning 77 percent of the

bank. But since the remaining 23 percent was actually held by

nominees and by BCCI's alter-ego ICIC, Abu Dhabi was in fact BCCI's

sole owner.

After July 5, 1991, it was in Abu Dhabi that most of BCCI's top

officials remained, where they remain under the control of the Abu

Dhabi government, under conditions said to be luxurious, which the

Abu Dhabi government refuses to discuss. While there, they have

remained incommunicado, and out of the reach of foreign

investigators, unwilling, or unable, to tell the world what

happened.

In short, there is no question that the relationship between Abu

Dhabi and BCCI was central to both, and that no adequate

understanding of BCCI is possible without an understanding of the

Abu Dhabi relationship. Yet according to the testimony presented to

the Subcommittee by Abu Dhabi, that relationship was one that boiled

down to little more than victim (Abu Dhabi) and criminal (Abedi and

BCCI). In essence, according to Abu Dhabi, BCCI abused Abu Dhabi's

trust by stealing deposits and mismanaging a bank it owned, making

Abu Dhabi by its own account BCCI's largest victim, losing what it

describes as some $6 billion in all.

Thus, by Abu Dhabi's account, it never knew that most or all of

BCCI's shareholders were front-men or nominees for BCCI, including

the heads of state of several of the smaller sheikhdoms of the

United Arab Emirates of which Sheikh Zayed is president, sheikhs who

are generally understood to treat Sheikh Zayed with great deference.

It never knew that such prominent shareholders as Kamal Adham and

A.R. Khalil, two successive heads of Saudi intelligence, were also

nominees for the bank, along with such well-known Middle Eastern

financial figures as Faisal Fulaij of Kuwait and Ghaith Pharaon of

Saudi Arabia. Unlike these other figures, who were part of BCCI's

deceptions, and who by Abu Dhabi's account participated in BCCI's

schemes to deceive Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi contends it was innocent of

wrongdoing, and utterly duped.(2) To quote the testimony of Abu

Dhabi's witness before the Subcommittee, Ahmed Al Sayegh:

We didn't know anything about the bank [bCCI] because of our passive

role in the past [prior to taking control in April 1990].(3)

However, unlike any other shareholder, officer, attorney, agent or

depositor of BCCI, Abu Dhabi has been in the position, since April,

1990, of having total control over BCCI's records. At least eighteen

of its key officers, who have remained held incommunicado and under

house arrest in Abu Dhabi since BCCI's collapse. During that period,

Abu Dhabi has chosen not to make any of these witnesses available to

U.S. law enforcement. While it did, temporarily, make some key

documents available to the Federal Reserve concerning the

involvement of non-Abu Dhabi figures in BCCI's wrongdoing prior to

BCCI's closure, it has at all times prevented federal investigators

from having free access to BCCI's records, and all access to those

records has been ended since July 5, 1991.

Thus, Abu Dhabi has remained throughout the past fourteen months in

the position of being able either to prove its assertions, or risk

disproving them, through the simple act of granting access to the

critical BCCI information it alone controls, in witnesses and

documents. Yet it has chosen not to do so. In the process, Abu Dhabi

has made, and broken, repeated commitments to provide both witnesses

and documents to the Justice Department, the New York District

Attorney, and the Senate, going as far back as November, 1990, and

continuing to the present.

Given Abu Dhabi's suppression of critical information about its role

in BCCI, its contention that it is innocent of all wrongdoing in

connection with BCCI, would, on this basis alone, inevitably be

viewed with some skepticism.

But despite Abu Dhabi's withholding of essential witnesses and

documents, BCCI financial records obtained to date by investigators,

together with testimony and statements from BCCI insiders, outline a

picture of the relationship which suggests that Abu Dhabi officials

were indeed knowing participants in substantial wrongdoing

pertaining to BCCI's activities in the United States and elsewhere,

that members of the Abu Dhabi ruling family participated in risk-

free investments in BCCI banks, and that Abu Dhabi officials

engaged, as of April, 1990 on some issues and on others much

earlier, in a cover-up of fraudulent activity involving BCCI, which

continues, in substantial part, to this day.

Findings

** Members of Abu Dhabi's ruling family appear to have contributed

no more than $500,000 to BCCI's capitalization prior to April 1990,

despite being the record owner of almost one-quarter of the bank's

total shares, with a book value of over $750 million as of December

31, 1989. However, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, holder of a

10 percent interest in BCCI beginning in 1980, appears to have made

some cash payments for its interest in BCCI, which had a book value

of approximately $250 million as of December 31, 1989. An unknown

but substantial percentage of the shares acquired by Abu Dhabi

overall in BCCI appear to have been acquired on a risk-free basis—

either with guaranteed rates of return, buy-back arrangements, or

both.

** The apparent interest held in BCCI by the Abu Dhabi ruling

family, like the apparent interests held by the rulers of the three

other gulf sheikdoms in the United Arab Emirates who owned shares of

BCCI, materially aided and abetted Abedi and BCCI in projecting the

illusion that BCCI was backed by, and capitalized by, Abu Dhabi's

wealth. However, Abu Dhabi provided BCCI only the use of its name

rather than substantial capital, until at least 1980-1981. At that

time, " investments " made in BCCI by the Abu Dhabi Investment

Authority to purchase shares of BCCI sold by the Bank of America to

ICIC, appear to have involved actual payments from Abu Dhabi,

according to some documents, on a no-risk, guaranteed return basis.

** Shares in Financial General Bankshares held by members of the Abu

Dhabi ruling family in late 1977 and early 1978 appear to have been

nominee arrangements, adopted by Abu Dhabi as a convenience to BCCI

and Abedi, under arrangements in which Abu Dhabi was to be without

risk, and BCCI was to guarantee the purchase through a commitment to

buy-back the stock at an agreed upon price. Later, one of the two

original members of the Abu Dhabi ruling family in fact sold back

his shares to another BCCI front-man, Kamal Adham.

** Abu Dhabi's representative to BCCI's board of directors, Ghanim

al Mazrui, received unorthodox financial benefits from BCCI in no-

risk stock deals which may have compromised his ability to exercise

independent judgment concerning BCCI's actions; confirmed at least

one fraudulent transaction involving Abu Dhabi; and engaged in other

improprieties pertaining to BCCI; but remains today in place at the

apex of Abu Dhabi's committee designated to respond to BCCI's

collapse.

** In April, 1990, Abu Dhabi was told in detail about BCCI's fraud

by top BCCI officials, and failed to advise BCCI's external auditors

of what it had learned. Between April, 1990 and November, 1990, Abu

Dhabi and BCCI together kept some information concerning BCCI's

frauds hidden from the auditors.

** From April, 1990 through July 5, 1991, Abu Dhabi tried to save

BCCI through a massive restructuring. As part of the restructuring

process, Abu Dhabi agreed to take responsibility for BCCI's losses,

Price Waterhouse agreed to certify BCCI's books for another year,

and Abu Dhabi, Price Waterhouse, the Bank of England, and BCCI

agreed to keep all information concerning BCCI's frauds and other

problems secret from BCCI's one million depositors, as well as from

U.S. regulators and law enforcement, to prevent a run on the bank.

** After the Federal Reserve was advised by the New York District

Attorney of possible nominee arrangements involving BCCI and First

American, Abu Dhabi, in an apparent effort to gain the Federal

Reserve's acquiescence in BCCI's proposed restructuring, provided

limited cooperation to the Federal Reserve, including access to

selected documents. The cooperation did not extend to permitting the

Federal Reserve open access to all BCCI documents, or substantive

communication with key BCCI officials held in Abu Dhabi, such as

BCCI's former president, Swaleh Naqvi. Access was sufficient,

however, to permit the Federal Reserve to identify critical

documents regarding frauds involving non-Abu Dhabi shareholders and

borrowers of BCCI and BCCI itself pertaining to CCAH/First American,

the National Bank of Georgia and the Independence Bank. That access

ended with the closure of BCCI July 5, 1991.

** From November, 1990 until September 21, 1992, Abu Dhabi failed to

provide documents and witnesses to U.S. law enforcement authorities

and to the Congress, despite repeated commitments to do so. Instead,

it actively prevented U.S. investigators from having access to vital

information necessary to investigate BCCI's global wrongdoing. As of

September 21, 1992, Abu Dhabi began making certain documents

available for review by U.S. law enforcement, in a move apparently

timed to coincide with the publication of this report. No

representation has been made by Abu Dhabi, or by U.S. law

enforcement, as to the significance or completeness of the documents

Abu Dhabi selected for law enforcement review at its Washington,

D.C. Embassy. Moreover, none of the BCCI officials held in Abu Dhabi

have yet to be made available for interview by U.S. law enforcement.

At the time of writing of this report, none of the newly available

documents had been made offered by Abu Dhabi for review by the

Subcommittee.(4)

** The proposed agreement between Abu Dhabi and BCCI's liquidators

to settle their claims against one another contains provisions which

could have the consequence of permitting Abu Dhabi to cover up

wrongdoing it may have had in connection with BCCI.

** Answers by Abu Dhabi's representative to key questions from the

Subcommittee about Abu Dhabi's role in BCCI, were non-responsive,

evasive, and misleading, although for the most part artfully crafted

to avoid being literally untrue.

** There is some evidence that the Sheikh Zayed may have had a

political agenda in agreeing to the involvement of members of the

Abu Dhabi ruling family and its investment authority in purchasing

shares of Financial General Bankshares, then of CCAH/First American.

This evidence is offset, in part, by testimony that Abu Dhabi share

purchases in the U.S. bank were done at Abedi's request and did not

represent an actual investment by Abu Dhabi until much later.

Origin and Nature of BCCI-Abu Dhabi Relationship

The chapter on BCCI's early history describes in detail the early

history of Abu Dhabi and BCCI, which is recapitulated in summary

form here.

Abu Dhabi is the largest and wealthiest member of the United Arab

Emirates, an oil-rich federation of sheikhdoms, formed in 1971,

whose rulers own all the land and natural resources of their nations

in fee simple absolute, with no distinctions being made among the

wealth of the ruler, his family, and the nation itself. Sheikh Zayed

of Abu Dhabi, installed in 1966 as head of the newly wealthy oil

state through a British-led coup against his brother in 1966, soon

after developed a relationship with Agha Hasan Abedi, head of the

United Bank of Pakistan. Six years later, when Abedi decided to form

BCCI, he did so after receiving the blessing of Sheikh Zayed, and a

commitment of support. That support involved a tiny capital

contribution to the bank by Abu Dhabi -- $500,000 -- and a huge

placement of petrodollars.

As set forth in the chapter on BCCI's early history in some detail,

the relationship between BCCI and Sheikh Zayed exceeded normal

standards of bank/client relationships in a number of respects. BCCI

was not merely a bank owned in part by Sheikh Zayed. Sheikh Zayed

was not merely BCCI's largest depositor. BCCI for many years handled

almost every financial matter of consequence for the Sheikh and his

family, as well planning, managing, and carrying out trips abroad,

and a wide range of services limited only by the desires of the Al

Nayhan family itself.(5)

In his testimony of May 18, 1992, Abu Dhabi's representative Ahmed

Al Sayegh suggested that Abedi's role in Abu Dhabi has been much

overstated:

When Mr. Abedi was a respected banker and founder of BCCI, his role,

therefore, was limited to his bank. . . . His role in the case, I

guess, was limited to inducing potential investors in making

commitments to his bank, whether buying shares or placing

deposits. . . He was not a financial advisor [to Abu Dhabi or Sheikh

Zayed].(6)

Other information obtained by the Subcommittee from many sources

demonstrates that Al Sayegh's testimony on this point was untrue. In

fact, for over twenty years, Abedi created and managed a network of

foundations, corporations, and investment entities for Abu Dhabi's

ruling family, of a complexity similar to the network he had created

at BCCI itself. BCCI handled the financing arrangements for many of

these entities, and managed a variety of Abu Dhabi's portfolio

accounts in U.S. dollars.(7) As far back as 1969 and 1970, when

Abedi was still head of the United Bank in Pakistan, Abedi

established a cargo shipping company, the Hilal Group, operated by

Associated Shipping Services, Limited, London, as an operational

company for Abu Dhabi's Department of Private Affairs. Though

primarily used to own cargo ships, the entity was also used for

trading in equities, holding property investments, and other direct

investments. One of the entities owned by Hilal Group, Progressive

Investment, had Abedi on its board. Later, when BCCI established the

Cromwell Hospital in London to provide a medical facility for the

Abu Dhabi ruling family and other prominent Middle Easterners, Abedi

arranged for the financing of the purchase for Abu Dhabi through a

complex series of transactions involving BCCI and a shell

corporation holding Sheikh Zayed's interests by which BCCI lent the

funds for the hospital in pounds against dollar accounts of the

Department of Private Affairs, with the result that the hospital

investment did not appear on the books of the Department.(8)

Moreover, BCCI and Abu Dhabi also engaged in a series of joint

ventures, managed by BCCI, throughout the 1980's. Typical of such

ventures was the China-Arab bank, a joint venture of BCCI and the

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, established in China in 1985

coincident with BCCI's opening of offices in China, to use funds

from Abu Dhabi to invest in China. BCCI accounting records show a

number of other ventures involving BCCI and Abu Dhabi in China, as

well as numerous financial relationships involving BCCI and Abu

Dhabi interests throughout the 1980's.(9)

Contrary to Al Sayegh's testimony, Abedi had broad authority over

the investments and finances of the ruling family until his stroke

in 1989. As the present chairman of the Department of Private

Affairs of Sheikh Zayed, Ghanim Al Mazrui testified in civil

litigation in 1982, Abedi could even be viewed as an official of the

Abu Dhabi government, because of his position on the Abu Dhabi

committee responsible for overseeing Abu Dhabi's wealth.(10)

As Bert Lance observed, the relationship was exceedingly intimate:

Mr. Abedi . . . had, in effect, for lack of a better term, been kind

and attentive to Sheikh Zayed when he was still wandering around in

the desert and he had all his assets in his tent somewhere . . . I

think this is important to you as you search for the truth, to

understand that that relationship went back a long way—and it went

back before Sheikh Zayed became " the richest man in the world " at

that point in time, with an income of some $4 billion or $5 billion,

as the press reported; that there had been a relationship that had

developed that Mr. Abedi had helped Sheikh Zayed when he had no real

power or influence . . . Sheikh Zayed had absolute and total trust

and coincidence in Mr. Abedi, that whatever Mr. Abedi said or

suggested was something that Sheikh Zayed would look on with favor;

that Mr. Abedi had, in effect, built the house where we were

[meeting with Sheikh Zayed in his palace] outside of Lahore without

any guidance or direction from Sheikh Zayed, and it was that sort of

relationship. It was very, very unique.(11)

BCCI also provided members of the Abu Dhabi ruling family with

personal services, ranging from Sheikh Zayed's own modest needs to

the more elaborate requirements of his sons and members of his

retinue. A history of BCCI's protocol department, and its

relationship to Abu Dhabi, is set forth in the chapter on BCCI's

early history.

Throughout the first critical decade of BCCI's eighteen year

existence, as much as 50% of BCCI's overall assets were from Abu

Dhabi and the Al Nayhan family, who were earning about $750 million

a year in oil revenues in the early 1970's, an amount that rose to

nearly $10 billion a year by the end of the decade. Until the

formation of a separate affiliate, the Bank of Credit and Commerce

Emirates (BCCE), BCCI functioned as the official bank for the Gulf

emirates, and handled a substantial portion of Abu Dhabi's oil

revenues. And yet from the beginning, there was an oddity about this

central relationship: at no time while Abedi was in charge of BCCI

did Abu Dhabi hold more than a small share of BCCI's recorded

shares. Abu Dhabi appears not to have invested substantial funds in

BCCI, but instead to have insisted on guaranteed rates of return for

the use of its money. Thus, rather than being a major investor in

BCCI, in the early years, Abu Dhabi only agreed to place extremely

large sums of money as deposits at the bank, which BCCI used in lieu

of capital.

As a result of the Abedi-Zayed agreement, Abedi now had essentially

unlimited resources to create BCCI. He could now act simultaneously

as manager of billions of Sheikh Zayed's personal wealth, as banker

to the United Arab Emirates of which Sheikh Zayed was chief of

state, and as chairman of a new bank that had guaranteed assets of

hundreds of millions of dollars from its inception.(12)

Abedi thus relied on the Sheikh's resources to finance his rapid

expansion, not through capital investment, but as a huge depositor.

The result was BCCI's finances quickly became so intermingled with

the finances of Abu Dhabi that it was difficult even for BCCI

insiders to determine where one left off and the other began.

Whether Abu Dhabi insiders, including Abu Dhabi's representative on

BCCI's board of directors, Ghanim Al Mazrui, knew of this

intermingling, remains an open question.

Abu Dhabi's Ownership Interest In BCCI

Although Abu Dhabi had a key interest in BCCI from its creation, in

accord with Abu Dhabi's failure to provide the initial funds for

capitalization, BCCI's early stock recordations did not show Abu

Dhabi as the actual owner of the bank. A snapshot of BCCI shares

from Bank of America files as of September 30, 1977 described BCCI's

majority owner as ICIC, at 50.1 percent; its most important minority

owner as Bank of America, at 30 percent; and its largest Arab owner

as Majid Al-Futaim of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates at just 4

percent, with the members of the family of Abu Dhabi owning just 3.4

percent all told.(13)

According to Abu Dhabi itself, it actually had a 20 percent interest

in BCCI in 1972, which then dropped to less than five percent some

two years later, with Abu Dhabi remaining a " passive investor, "

without formal representation on BCCI's board until 1981.(14)

In response to the Subcommittee's request for information on the

history of Abu Dhabi's ownership interest in BCCI, Abu Dhabi

provided on May 13, 1992, a list of Abu Dhabi shareholding in BCCI

Holdings (Luxembourg) S.A., one of BCCI's two flag-ship holding

companies, which it described as " based on preliminary review of

documents. "

The shareholding list provided by Abu Dhabi does not begin until

1975, three years following BCCI's founding in 1972, and after, for

reasons not fully explained, Abu Dhabi's declared ownership in BCCI

shares had dramatically dropped. It shows an unusual pattern of

ownership of BCCI shares by the Al Nayhan family and the Abu Dhabi

Investment Authority (ADIA).

Overall, after beginning at 20 percent in 1972, the Al-Nayhan

family's ownership of BCCI dropped to less than three percent in

1975, and then to just over one percent of BCCI in 1976, where its

interest remained, with small increases until 1980. In 1980, the Al

Nayhan family's holdings of BCCI sharply increased to over 8

percent, in 1981 increased sharply again to over 18 percent, and by

1984 had reached 27 percent, and by 1986, 33 percent, where it

remained until 1990, when Abu Dhabi became—officially—a 77 percent

owner of BCCI.(15)

What is unusual about this pattern is the drop from Abu Dhabi's

holdings of 20 percent to less than 2 percent in three years,

followed by an increase from 2 percent to 18 percent five years

later. It is difficult to understand why any shareholder of a

rapidly growing bank would be willing to sell off or dilute so much

of its interest in the years in which the bank's value was rapidly

increasing, and then buy back that interest at far greater cost

following five years of growth.

Sheikh Zayed's own holdings of BCCI displayed a still stranger

pattern. After owning 20 percent of BCCI in 1972, his personal

ownership had dropped to 2.26 percent in 1975, dropped still further

to less than one percent—just .59 percent—in 1976, and lower yet in

1977 to .47 percent of BCCI, before suddenly climbing in 1980 to

4.11 percent, when Sheikh Zayed purchased 80,000 shares in the bank.

Sheikh Zayed then resold these same 80,000 shares the following

year, reducing his ownership interest from the 4.11 percent back

to .47 percent. In 1984, he purchased BCCI shares anew and his

interest again climbed to over four percent, the vicinity in which

his personal interest in BCCI remained to BCCI's closing.

Despite explicit requests to do so, Abu Dhabi failed to provide to

the Subcommittee any explanation of the peregrinations of Abu

Dhabi's ownership of BCCI stock, the price paid for the shares

purchased, or the price received for the shares sold. Prior to the

May 14 hearing, staff advised lawyers for Abu Dhabi that the

purchase and sales prices of the stock and any funds provided by Abu

Dhabi to BCCI as capital were critical issues requiring answers.

Apart from the statement that Abu Dhabi paid $500,000 for its

original interest in BCCI in 1972, Abu Dhabi provided no answer to

these questions. To the extent that Abu Dhabi did not pay for such

shares, there would be substantial questions as to whether it, like

BCCI's other shareholders, was also a nominee for BCCI.

The patterns shown above, for the period up to April, 1990 are in

some respects more consistent with a nominee relationship as with an

ownership relationship, except for the 10 percent ownership of BCCI

held from 1980 on the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which appears

to be genuine. However, even that ownership interest in BCCI by Abu

Dhabi cannot be viewed as conclusive in the absence of access to any

buy-back arrangements from BCCI that might have existed.

For example, evidence for concluding that Sheikh Zayed's interests

in BCCI could have been as a nominee for BCCI, or interchangeable

with BCCI, is the purchase by him for an unknown price and sale for

another unknown price, of 80,000 shares in BCCI, over one year. This

is not a normal practice for share trades in a privately held bank

by a party with a long-standing ownership interest in the bank.

Similar transactions involving BCCI's manipulation of shares in

CCAH/First American were definitively found by the Federal Reserve

to have been either shams or nominee transactions.

On the other hand, Abu Dhabi did, from 1981 onwards, own ever

increasing percentages of BCCI, principally through Sheikh Zayed's

son, Sheikh Khalifa, and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority,

becoming the largest shareholders of the bank at some point in the

1980's. This suggests the possibility that Abu Dhabi actually owned

the stock, regardless of guaranteed returns or buy-back arrangements

to " eliminate " risk to Abu Dhabi.

Following the May 14, 1992 hearing in which Abu Dhabi's

representative, Ahmed Al Sayegh, testified, the Subcommittee tried

again to elucidate the truth about this issue.

It reiterated in questions to Al Sayegh the request that Abu Dhabi

specify the capital actually paid in by the Abu Dhabi shareholders

at the time of each stock purchase, including the date of each

infusion of capital, and the amount paid in. Al Sayegh did not

provide the answer to the question of how much Abu Dhabi paid each

time for its shares of BCCI stock. Instead, he stated:

Many of the Majority Shareholders' share purchases were from third

parties, rather than purchases of newly-issued stock, and other

stock acquisitions came in the form of dividends. . . In any event,

I am unaware of the details of amounts paid for shares in particular

transactions.(16)

The Subcommittee has asked Abu Dhabi to provide a knowledgeable

witness regarding such questions for over two years, beginning in

July, 1990. In the spring of 1992, it requested that Abu Dhabi's

representative on BCCI's board of directors, Ghanim Al Mazrui,

appear to testify. Instead, Al Sayegh was selected. His written

answers were provided to the Subcommittee five weeks after his

testimony, through Abu Dhabi's Washington, D.C. lawyers at Patton,

Boggs & Blow. Hence, Al Sayegh's statement that he is " unaware of

the details " amounts to nothing less than a refusal by the

government of Abu Dhabi to answer the questions asked: what the Abu

Dhabi shareholders of BCCI actually paid for the fifteen separate

purchases of BCCI stock listed by Abu Dhabi as having been made and

what other shareholders paid for the shares of BCCI stock sold in

that period by Sheikh Zayed, his son, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, and

the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Answers to those questions would

be vital in demonstrating that Abu Dhabi was a legitimate, non-

nominee shareholder for all of its shares. The fact that Abu Dhabi

has refused to answer these questions suggests that the facts if

revealed would not be helpful to Abu Dhabi's position that it was

never a nominee for BCCI, and was always at risk.

Information contained in the Section 41 report of Price Waterhouse

of June, 1991, provided to the Bank of England and obtained by the

Subcommittee in an uncensored form only in late August, 1992,

further suggests that the shares in BCCI held by the ruling family

of Abu Dhabi were purchased according to BCCI's typical practices

for nominees—paid for by loans from BCCI itself, with buy-back

agreements and guarantees to insure the purchaser against loss.

The Section 41 report states that the initial capitalization of BCCI

was just $2.5 million, and that subsequent increases of

capitalization, to $845 million as of December 31, 1990, had been

carried out through the extensive use of nominee arrangements,

financed directly by loans from BCCI and its bank-within-a-bank,

ICIC Grand Caymans.

In the report, Price Waterhouse specifically found that members of

the Ruling Family of Abu Dhabi acquired their shares on the basis of

guaranteed rates of return and buy-back arrangements, with the

result that they were not at risk for their

ostensible " shareholdings " of BCCI.(17)

While the evidence is not conclusive, there is a significant

possibility that BCCI simply loaned the ruling family the funds for

its stock, or provided them gratis

A list of major loans to shareholders of BCCI prepared in connection

with a BCCI audit for the year ending September 30, 1987, shows

lending to the Ruler of Abu Dhabi as standing at $620,800,000 --

some $74 million more than the authorized " limit " for lending to

Sheikh Zayed establish by BCCI's credit committee, and more than

twice the amount lent to the next highest borrower, Ghaith Pharaon

at $283,900,000. A second such list, dated July 31, 1991, shows

loans to the Abu Dhabi group from BCCI totalling $371.8 million,

with an additional $17.5 million in loans to Abu Dhabi from BCCI's

affiliate, ICIC, for a total lending to Abu Dhabi of just under $390

million. After the Abu Dhabi group, BCCI's next highest level of

lending to a shareholder was to its front-man, Kamal Adham, at

$323.5 million. In either period, the size of the lending to Abu

Dhabi was sufficiently substantial that it could have been applied

to any number of purposes by either BCCI or Abu Dhabi, including the

financing of a significant proportion of the holdings of members of

the Abu Dhabi ruling family in BCCI itself and in CCAH/First

American.(18)

Abu Dhabi's Involvement in the FGB Purchase

A lengthy account of how Abu Dhabi became involved as shareholders

in the purchase of Financial General Bankshares (FGB) is set forth

in the chapter on BCCI's entry into the United States.

The key questions that have arisen regarding those facts are whether

Sheikh Zayed had a political agenda in participating in BCCI's

secret purchase of FGB; whether the Abu Dhabi shareholders were

BCCI's nominees in connection with those purchases; whether the Abu

Dhabi shareholders knew that BCCI was the real owner of FGB; and

whether Abu Dhabi shareholders or representatives knowingly

participated in false statements made to the Federal Reserve in

connection with the purchase. "

" If America

loses this war, " said Secretary of the Interior (Harold)

Ickes, June 26, 1941, " it can thank the Aluminum Corporation of

America. " " By its cartel agreement with I.G. Farben, controlled by

Hitler, " writes Seldes, " Alcoa sabotaged the aluminum program of the

U.S. air force. The Truman Committee (on National Defense, chaired by

then- Senator Harry S. Truman in 1942) heard testimony that Alcoa's

representative, A.H. Bunker, $1-a-year head of the aluminum section

of

O.P.M., prevented work on our $600,000,000 aluminum expansion

program. "

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power and influence within the Hitlerian Nazi state. I. G. has been

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guiding hand in the creation of the Farben empire, the early Farben

Vorstand included Carl Bosch, Fritz ter Meer, Kurt Oppenheim and

George von Schnitzler (All were charged as " war criminals " after

World

War II)- In 1928 the American holdings of I. G. Farben (i.e., the

Bayer Company, General Aniline Works, Agfa Ansco, and Winthrop

Chemical Company) were organized into a Swiss holding company, i. G.

Chemic (Inter-nationale Gesellschaft fur Chemisehe Unternehmungen A.

G.), controlled by I. G. Farben in Germany. In the following year

these American firms merged to become American I. G. Chemical

Corporation, later renamed General Aniline & Film. Hermann Schmitz,

the organizer of I. G. Farben in 1925, became a prominent early Nazi

and supporter of Hitler, as well as chairman of the Swiss I. G.

Chemic

and president of American I. G. The Farben complex both in Germany

and

the United States then developed into an integral part of the

formation and operation of the Nazi state machine, the Wehrmacht and

the S.S.- I. G. Farben is of peculiar interest in the formation of

the

Nazi state because Farben directors materially helped. Hitler and the

Nazis to power in 1933- I.G. Farben contributed 400,000 RM to

Hitler's

political " slush fund. " It was this secret fund which financed the

Nazi seizure of control in March 1933.- The Economic Power of I. G.

Farben Qualified observers have argued that Germany could not have

gone to war in 1939 without I. G. Farben. Between 1927 and the

beginning of World War II, I.G. Farben doubled in size, an expansion

made possible in great part by American technical assistance and by

American bond issues, such as the one for $30 million offered by

National City Bank. By 1939 I. G. acquired a participation and

managerial influence in some 380 other German firms and over 500

foreign firms. The Farben empire owned its own coal mines, its own

electric power plants, iron and steel units, banks, research units,

and numerous commercial enterprises. There were over 2,000 cartel

agreements between I. G. and foreign firms - including Standard Oil

of

New Jersey, DuPont, Alcoa, Dow Chemical, and others in the United

States, one post-war investigation by the U.S, War Department

concluded that: Without I. G.'s immense productive facilities, its

intense research, and vast internationalaffiliations, Germany's

prosecution of the war would have been unthinkable and impossible;

Farben not only directed its energies toward arming Germany, but

concentrated on weakening her intended victims, and this

double-barreled attempt to expand the German industrial potential for

war and to restrict that of the rest of the world was not conceived

and executed " in the normal course of business. " The proof is

overwhelming that I. G. Farben officials had full prior knowledge of

Germany's plan for world conquest and of each specific aggressive act

later undertaken.- Directors of Farben firms (i.e., the " I. G. Farben

officials " referred to in the investigation) included not only

Germans

but also prominent American financiers. This 1945 U.S. War Department

report concluded that I.G.'s assignment from Hitler in the prewar

period was to make Germany self-sufficient in rubber, gasoline,

lubricating oils, magnesium, fibers, tanning agents, fats, and

explosives. To fulfill this critical assignment, vast sums were spent

by I.G. on processes to extract these war materials from indigenous

German raw materials - in particular the plentiful German coal

resources. Where these processes could not be developed in Germany

,they were acquired from abroad under cartel arrangements. For

example, the process for iso-octane, essential for aviation fuels,

was

obtained from the United States, in fact entirely [from] the

Americans

and has become known to us in detail in its separate stages through

our agreements with them [standard Oil of New Jersey] and is being

used very extensively by us.- The process for manufacturing

tetra-ethyl lead? essential for aviation gasoline, was obtained by I.

G. Farben from the United States, and in 1939 I.G. was sold $20

million of high-grade aviation gasoline by Standard Oil of New

Jersey.

Even before Germany manufactured tetra-ethyl lead by the American

process it was able to " borrow " 500 tons from the Ethyl Corporation.

This loan of vital tetra-ethyl lead was not repaid and I.G. forfeited

the $1 million security. Further, I.G. purchased large stocks of

magnesium from Dow Chemical for incendiary bombs and stockpiled

explosives, stabilizers, phosphorus, and cyanides from the outside

world. In 1939, out of 43 major products manufactured by I.G., 28

were

of " primary concern " to the German armed forces. Farben's ultimate

control of the German war economy, acquired during the 1920s and

1930s

with Wall Street assistance, can best be assessed by examining the

percentage of German war material output produced by Farben plants in

1945. Farben at that time produced 100 percent of German synthetic

rubber, 95 percent of German poison gas (including all the Zyklon B

gas used in the concentration camps), 90 percent of German plastics,

88 percent of German magnesium, 84 percent of German explosives, 70

percent of German gunpowder, 46 percent of German high octane

(aviation) gasoline, and 33 percent of German synthetic gasoline-

There erenumerous Farben arrangements with American firms, including

cartel marketing arrangements, patent agreements, and technical

exchanges as exemplified in the Standard Oil-Ethyl technology

transfers mentioned above. These arrangements were used by I.G. to

advance Nazi policy abroad, to collect strategic information, and to

consolidate a world-wide chemical cartel. One of the more horrifying

aspects of I.G. Farben's cartel was the invention, production, and

distribution of the Zyklon B gas, used in Nazi concentration camps.

Zyklon B was pure Prussic acid, a lethal poison produced by I.G.

Farben Leverkusen and sold from the Bayer sales office through

Degesch, an independent license holder. Sales of Zyklon B amounted to

almost three-quarters of Degesch business; enough gas to kill 200

million humans was produced and sold by I.G. Farben. The Kilgore

Committee report of 1942 makes it clear that the I.G.Farben directors

had precise knowledge of the Nazi concentration camps and the use of

I.G. chemicals. This prior knowledge becomes significant when we

later

consider the role of the American directors in I.G.'s American

subsidiary. The 1945 interrogation of I.G. Farben director yon

Schnitzler reads:

Q. What did you do when they told you that I.G. chemicals was [sic]

being used to kill, to murder

people held in concentration camps?

A. I was horrified.

Q. Did you do anything about it?

A. I kept it for me [to myself] because it was too terrible .... I

asked Muller-Cunradi is it known to you and Ambros and other

directors

in Auschwitz that the gases and chemicals are being used to murder

people.

Q. What did he say?

A. Yes: it is known to all I.G. directors in Auschwitz.

There was no attempt by I.G. Farben to halt production of the gases -

General Dyestuff Corporation was established as the exclusive selling

agent for products manufactured by Gasselli Dyestuff (renamed General

Aniline Works, Inc., in 1929) and imported from Germany. The stock of

General Aniline Works was transferred in 1929 to American I.G.

Chemical Corporation and later in 1939 to General Aniline & Film

Corporation, into which American I.G. and General Aniline Works were

merged. American I.G. and its successor, General Aniline & Film, is

the unit through which control of I.G.'s enterprises in the U.S. was

maintained. -the board of American I.G. had three directors from the

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the most influential of the various

Federal Reserve Banks. American I.G. also had interlocks with

Standard

Oil of New Jersey, Ford Motor Company, Bank of Manhattan (later to

become the Chase Manhattan), and A.E.G. (German General

Electric) " http://www.consortiumnews.com/121900b.html

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