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BEFOREATHOUGHT (106 posts)
Mar-12-03, 01:08 AM (ET)
BBC newsnight report -case 199I-WF & BUSH-BINLADEN connection
LAST EDITED ON Mar-12-03 AT 01:18 AM (ET)
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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/newsnight/attack22.ram
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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Subject Author Message Date ID
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
LAST EDITED ON Mar-12-03 AT 09:39 AM (ET) by Skinner (admin)
http://www.gregpalast.com/
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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http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=103&row=0
MaRadix (374 posts) Mar-12-03, 02:30 AM (ET)
Reply to post #1
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 $7 billion the Saudis gave to
Saddam Hussein for his nuclear program -- the first attempt
to build an Islamic Bomb. The Saudi government, according to
the defector, Mohammed Al Khilewi, slipped Saddam the
nuclear loot during the Reagan and Bush Sr. years when our
own government still thought Saddam too marvelous for words.
The thought was that he would only use the bomb to vaporize
Iranians....
Sheds a little light on the evidence we may have about
Saddam's WMD...
What do we see that we don't want to see?
What do we know that we don't want to know?
--Starhawk
Festivito (2607 posts) Mar-12-03, 07:22 AM (ET)
Reply to post #4
5. ..me too. Saudis gave Saddam 7b$ 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.
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
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4293682,00.html
---------------------------------
"FBI told to ignore bin Laden clan"
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=121452&keyword=fbi
-----------------------------------------------------
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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also reported at
http://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=103
BEFOREATHOUGHT (106 posts)
Mar-12-03, 02:03 AM (ET)
Reply to post #2
3. Kicked for East coasters in the moring
kicked
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