Reply #12: Yes, but [View All]

[RainDog]

I agree with you that Amereda/Hess/Delta Oil, and the fact that Kean was on the board does not make him in any way complicit in any actions Khalid bin Mahfouz may have done.

however, do the Bushies not know ANYONE who is not in some way connected to Saudi oil interests who could have served in this capacity?

...Truman took pains to avoid the appearance as well as the fact of war profiteering...it would be nice if the commission didn't look like it might have a huge conflict of interest...

And as far as Khalid bin Mahfouz, his connection to bin Laden is more than simply being married to bin Laden's sister. The UN named bin Mahfouz as a financier of terrorism after the American Embassy bombings in Africa.

In addition, the is a very tangled web of financial connections uniting bin Laden and bin Mahfouz...maybe someone here can post a graphic from the back of the Forbidden Truth book...

but at least until recently, they both had offices in Oxford, England, in the same building...one the International Dev. Fund, or something like that, the other a Muslim charity...which has already been shown to have been a way for terrorists to launder money.

bin Mahfouz was not only in biz with Kean, btw. He was also an 11% stakeholder in Harken Energy, via James Bath, who was in Bush's National Guard Unit, and who was supposedly recruited by Poppy for the CIA.

Bath, as bin Mahfouz's partner, tried to buy an airport in Houston, as an aside.

bin Mahfouz was also one of the chief beneficiaries of the ponzi scheme known as BCCI, the largest bank fraud in world history, which was also used to funnel money/launder drug transactions/run guns for the illegal Iran/Contra operation.

So...bin Mahfouz is dirty.

And whether or not Kean was aware of these things is another issue, but if my husband had been killed on 9-11, I certainly wouldn't want the head of the committee investigating this issue to have been in biz with someone like bin Mahfouz up until three weeks before his appointment.