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BEFOREATHOUGHT (106 posts)

Mar-12-03, 01:08 AM (ET)

BBC newsnight report -case 199I-WF & BUSH-BINLADEN connection

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Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis before September 11

by Greg Palast and David Pallister

FBI and military intelligence officials in Washington say

they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out

full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in

the US before the terrorist attacks of September 11.

This is BBC newsnight clip.

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THe following is not related to the above BBC.

I remember seeing Kenneth Nichols OKeefe was on MSNBC's show

Nachman(some guy was filling in)talking about bush exective

order 199i-wf ordering fbi officals to back off the binladan

family and suspected Saudis. Now i search the MSNBC site to

find the transcript and its not their. This was about 3

months ago.

WTF they took it off? I'm activly searching for that

transcript, he has been on CNN also. Any help?

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gregpalast Nov 7, 2001protect freedom impeach bush nowMar-12-031

this was news to meMaRadix03/12/20034

..me too. Saudis gave Saddam 7b$ nuclear

program.Festivito03/12/20035

more protect freedom impeach bush nowMar-12-032

Kicked for East coasters in the moring BEFOREATHOUGHT03/12/20033

protect freedom impeach bush now (4332 posts)

Mar-12-03, 01:12 AM (ET)

1. gregpalast Nov 7, 2001

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FBI AND US SPY AGENTS SAY BUSH SPIKED BIN LADEN PROBES BEFORE 11 SEPTEMBER

The Guardian (London)

Wednesday Nov 7, 2001

2001 Project Censored Award Winner

Watch Greg Palast's Special Report for Newsnight CLICK here

Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis before September 11

by Greg Palast and David Pallister

FBI and military intelligence officials in Washington say

they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out

full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in

the US before the terrorist attacks of September 11.

US intelligence agencies have come under criticism for their

wholesale failure to predict the catastrophe at the World

Trade Centre. But some are complaining that their hands were

tied.

FBI documents shown on BBC Newsnight last night and obtained

by the Guardian show that they had earlier sought to

investigate two of Osama bin Laden's relatives in Washington

and a Muslim organisation, the World Assembly of Muslim

Youth (WAMY), with which they were linked.

The FBI file, marked Secret and coded 199, which means a

case involving national security, records that Abdullah bin

Laden, who lived in Washington, had originally had a file

opened on him "because of his relationship with the World

Assembly of Muslim Youth - a suspected terrorist

organisation".

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MaRadix (374 posts)

Mar-12-03, 02:30 AM (ET)

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4. this was news to me

Following the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia,

Clinton hunted Osama with a passion -- but a passion

circumscribed by the desire to protect the sheikdom sitting

atop our oil lifeline. In 1994, a Saudi diplomat defected to

the United States with 14,000 pages of documents from the

kingdom's sealed file cabinets. This mother lode of

intelligence included evidence of plans for the

assassination of Saudi opponents living in the West and,

tantalizingly, details of the $7 billion the Saudis gave to

Saddam Hussein for his nuclear program -- the first attempt

to build an Islamic Bomb. The Saudi government, according to

the defector, Mohammed Al Khilewi, slipped Saddam the

nuclear loot during the Reagan and Bush Sr. years when our

own government still thought Saddam too marvelous for words.

The thought was that he would only use the bomb to vaporize

Iranians....

Sheds a little light on the evidence we may have about

Saddam's WMD...

What do we see that we don't want to see?

What do we know that we don't want to know?

--Starhawk

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Festivito (2607 posts)

Mar-12-03, 07:22 AM (ET)

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5. ..me too. Saudis gave Saddam 7b$ nuclear program.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=195&row=1

Understand why Bush won't tell us how he knows Saddam has a

nuclear program. Keeps going back to the Saudis.

All we have, is trust.

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protect freedom impeach bush now (4332 posts)

Mar-12-03, 01:16 AM (ET)

2. more

LAST EDITED ON Mar-12-03 AT 09:40 AM (ET) by Skinner (admin)

FBI claims Bin Laden inquiry was frustrated

Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis before September 11

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"FBI told to ignore bin Laden clan"

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US agents told: Back off bin Ladens

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/07/world/world100.html

US special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family

and the Saudi royals soon after George Bush became

president, although that has all changed since September 11,

it was reported today.

And the BBC2's Newsnight program also said the younger

George Bush made his first million 20 years ago with an oil

company partly funded by the chief US representative of

Salem bin Laden, Osama's brother, who took over as head of

the family after his father Mohammed's death in a plane

crash in 1968.

The program said it had secret documents from the FBI

investigation into the terror attacks on New York and

Washington which showed that despite the myth that Osama is

the black sheep of the family, at least two other

American-based members of it are suspected of links with a

possible terrorist organisation.

The program said it had obtained evidence that the FBI was

on the trail of bin Laden family members living in the US

after, and even before, September 11.

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BEFOREATHOUGHT (106 posts)

Mar-12-03, 02:03 AM (ET)

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3. Kicked for East coasters in the moring

kicked

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urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and

practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in

the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of

'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and

which all too often we sere as willing or unwitting

instruments."-Noam Chomsky

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and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have

been handed down for many generations. But after observation

and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason

and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all,

then accept it and live up to it. "-- Gautama Buddha

"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil

obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over

the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their

government and have gone to war, and millions have been

killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that

people are obedient all over the world in the face of

poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty.

Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are

full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves

are running the country. That's our problem."-Howard Zinn

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