Talat Othman ---- A name to remember

[The Lone Liberal]

Talat Othman, is a Chicago investor of Arab descent who represented the interests of Abdullah Taha Bakhsh on the board of directors of Harken Energy.

Othman gained audience with G. W. Bush during the crisis leading up to the Gulf War. The Bush white house denied that the meeting had anything to do with Bakhsh’s investments.

Now, lets take a step in one degree of separation. During the investigations of BCCI, it appeared as if for all intent and purposes Bakhsh was fronting for bin Mahfouz. Salem bin Mahfouz would be seen later by counter terrorism analyst as the owner of one of the key conduits for the growing global terror network.

Now, lets connect one more dot. Footnote in House of Saud, House of Bush, “In 2002, during the presidency of George W. Bush, Othman again won access to the White House and met with Secretary of Treasury Paul O’Neil to discuss the U.S. government raids on Muslim charities that were allegedly funding terror.”

No wonder Bush cut the Treasury’s request for 80 more agents were to be dedicated to finding terrorist funds.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. So it's another money connection between numbnuts and....

...Osama bin Laden.

As Woodstein said in "All the President's Men", follow the money.

This sounds like a good book. Do you recommend it?

[jean]

2. Why don't you notify Quiddity at uggabugga.com about this guy - that site

has massive graphs like this one (bush the businessman):

http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/2003_09_21_uggabugga_archive.html#106449000607397949

...maybe Mr Othman warrants attention.The home page is:

http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/


If you email Quiddity please put a "Q" at the start of the subject line since they are getting tons of spam right now and sort it out with the help of the Q. Here's the email:

[e-mail]

[SpiralHawk]

3. Follow the money

to the fetid basement of BushCo International.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. kick

(tho slighltly off the deep end at times) check out Dave Emory's archives:

Use the search engine here:
http://rpirani.best.vwh.net/FTR_Search.html

He's covered several WSJ journal articles by Glenn Simpson on Othman, the "Green Quest" Treasury Dept. raids & so on plus the whole Harken/Aloha deal.