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Oilwellian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 10:37 PM
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Here's what Bush is hiding within the 28 redacted pages
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Nine hundred families of September 11 victims recently filed a trillion-dollar lawsuit against members of the royal Saudi family, businessmen worth a combined $5 billion, and banks and charities. The lawsuit accuses them of financing Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban government. And one of the defendants - Saudi Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz -- will likely draw increasing attention in coming months due to his past business relationships with President George W. Bush - the sweetheart deals he made during the elder Bush's presidency.

According to a Saudi government audit acquired by U.S. intelligence officials, five of Saudi Arabia’s wealthiest businessmen, including National Commercial Bank (NCB) founder and chairman Khalid bin Mahfouz, transferred personal funds along with $3 million diverted from a Saudi pension fund, to New York and London banks with accounts linked to terrorism. (USA Today, 10-28-99)

The money transfers were discovered in April, 1999 after the royal family ordered an audit of both NCB and Sheikh Mahfouz.

The plot thickens when we find Mahfouz is also linked by marriage to terrorist Osama bin Laden, as Mahfouz’s sister is married to the Al Qaeda leader, according to not only former CIA Director James Woolsey in 1998 Senate testimony, but also Jean-Charles Brisard, lead 9/11 lawsuit attorney Ronald Motley's researcher, and author of the book, The Forbidden Truth.

<much much more on the history of Sheikh Mahfouz and the Bush crime family>

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00148.htm


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Resistance Is Futile Donating Member (693 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:11 PM
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1. Rumors, bargins and lies
Another fact that might be hidden in the 28 missing pages is confirmation of the reports that Shrub ordered the CIA to back off investigating terrorist connections around the bin Laden family as such investigations were harming the Bush family's business interests.
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:16 PM
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2. i gotta believe if the report had that kind of information....
..either graham or cleland would have leaked it to the press. doncha think?
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whoYaCallinAlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:21 PM
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3. That's what I've been saying too on other theads.
If there was a bombshell in those 28 pages, surely it would have leaked out by now. The intelligence committees of both houses have seen the full report. Something BIG would have leaked by now.
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:26 PM
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4. Or, that kind of stuff IS in the report, and it hasn't leaked out because
ALL Democrats priviy to the information are HONERALBLE with GREAT INTEGRITY, and take their oath of office, and the constraints imposed on themselves, very seriously, and the Repukes are being as partisan as ever and would cover up for the good of the party AGAINST the good of the country, so they are completely happy not to leak the damaging info, either?
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:32 PM
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9. i think in certain cases they would make exceptions....
....i believe if the report detailed bush calling the cia off of bin laden (which i believe bush probably did), max cleland would have spilled the beans. max cleland is a true patriot and he's not going to allow the bush family criminals to continue to rape the people of this nation.
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:28 PM
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6. that kind of stuff is already public knowledge
John O'neil talked about this with the press in 2001 before 911.

he was a true american hero trying to do his job and twarted by the bush cabal, plain and simple.

peace
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Semi_subversive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:46 PM
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12. And doncha think
that Sen. Graham will wait for an opportune time to disclose what those 28 pages say? Hope he sticks to land travel.
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Oilwellian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:27 PM
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Exactly
That's why John O'Neil resigned in disgust. I also believe the August 6th briefing is being hidden as well. If it comes out that Bush knew there was an imminent threat of a terrorist attack a month before 911, it won't jive with his behavior in the classroom; Condi saying they just had no idea; and those famous words, "lucky me, I hit the trifecta."
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:49 PM
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14. and taking the month of aug. off
and he is doing it AGAIN when it should be clear to all - according to them as well - that we are in a global war with terrorist.

you'd think he'd have something... more pressing than clearing brush.

it's probably in his - our ceo's - 'contract' though :puke:

peace
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 12:19 AM
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16. Marvin P Bush company hired O'Neil to work WTC on 911 hmmm?
Edited on Wed Jul-30-03 12:31 AM by ElsewheresDaughter
i wonder if the fact that Marvin P. Bush was on the board of Securacom corp that had the security contract on WTC, United Airlines and Dulles Airport on 911?, are in that report?? yup hired John O'Neil to work at WTC which was his first and last day on the job for Securacom on 911

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm

Bush-Linked Company Handled Security for the WTC, Dulles and United
by Margie Burns

George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family.

The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a ``completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center ``up to the day the buildings fell down."

It also had a three-year contract to maintain electronic security systems at Dulles Airport, according to a Dulles contracting official. Securacom/Stratesec also handled some security for United Airlines in the 1990s, according to McDaniel, but it had been completed before his arriving on the board in 1998.

McDaniel confirmed that the company has security contracts with the Department of Defense, including the U.S. Army, but did not detail the nature of the work, citing security concerns. It has an ongoing line with the General Services Administration - meaning that its bids for contracts are noncompetitive - and also did security work for the Los Alamos laboratory before 1998.

Marvin P. Bush, the president's youngest brother, was a director at Stratesec from 1993 to fiscal year 2000. But the White House has not publicly disclosed Bush connections in any of its responses to 9/11, nor has it mentioned that another Bush-linked business had done security work for the facilities attacked.

Marvin Bush joined Securacom when it was capitalized by the Kuwait-American Corporation, a private investment firm in D.C. that was the security company's major investor, sometimes holding a controlling interest. Marvin Bush has not responded to telephone calls and e-mails for comment.

more...

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ErasureAcer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:27 PM
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5. Moore will get this in his documentary about 9/11 ties and the Bushes
before the big election. The truth will come out soon...within the year.

Bush can keep covering it up, but eventually Moore or the media will get this out on Bush's connection to terrorists before the general election.

Bush is toast.
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Oilwellian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:29 PM
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7. Excellent point
I'll try and keep Led Zeppelin's song "When the Levee Breaks" in mind. :D
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whoYaCallinAlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:30 PM
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8. Hope you're right.
I just wonder what Moore will come up with that Congressional investigators couldn't.
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:52 PM
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15. here is a whole encyclopedia of links on 911 - TOP SECRET
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Oilwellian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 02:08 AM
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18. Great links, thanks
:kick: for the early morning crowd
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:33 PM
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10. i hope you're right!
someone needs to expose the criminals.
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:35 PM
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11. Graham is a key person with a mission, he's not going to leak and
have that regurgitated by the press all day every day. He is too smart. But can't you see someone leaking to that naughty little boy Gertz and then all of right blaming it on Graham.
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 11:48 PM
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13. Mahfouz-Islamic Institute-Norquist The redacted portion probably name
Norquist and many others


quote
"According to U.S.-Qatar Business Council Online (6-20-2001), the meeting was sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, the Islamic Institute, and the Gulf Center for Studies at the University of Qatar.

Congressman Sununu was accompanied on the trip -- led by Rep. Dana Rohracacher -- along with six other congressmen < Representatives Bob Barr R-GA), Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL), Buck McKeon (R-CA), Nick Rahall (D-WV), Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX), and Tom Tancredo (R-CO)>.

But curiously, Bush Administration political operative Grover Norquist -- president of Americans for Tax Reform and founder of the Islamic Institute which helped sponsor the conference and paid for Rep. Sununu to visit Qatar -- was also there, according to a phone conversation Norquist had with Joshua Marshall, former Washington editor of the American Prospect."...unquote

http://www.tomflocco.com/Will%20Sununu's%20TV%20Pollster.htm

Norquist is associated with Mahfouz.

There have been many articles in the past. Supposedly, Norquist does not deny his relationship with the Institute and the Mahfouz link.

Search on Islamic Institute Norquist Mahfouz and you will find plenty.



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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 12:57 AM
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17. kick
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dusty64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 06:55 AM
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19. Interesting. No one
really quite believes me when I tell them of the bin laden-bush connection. It is pretty convincing that we do NOT have a free media anymore.
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