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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 01:57 PM
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Greg Palast: WAMY! Harken! Why Bush had FBI layoff al Qaeda, Saudis..
Edited on Sat Aug-02-03 02:02 PM by TruthIsAll
He reported this in Nov. 2001. Only now does the NYT take notice.

Connecting...dots...connecting..

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=253&row=0

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But here's the real kick in the head. Turns out that unlike the 18 minutes missing from the Nixon tape, the 28 pages missing from Congress' publicly released report on the September 11 attack has been found. And it turns out to be a summary of Saudi Arabia's financing of terrorist fronts including the 'charities' supporting Al Qaeda.

And now, the New York Times tells us, the US Senate has been embarrassed into holding hearings on those Saudi charity fronts including one named WAMY.

Of course, this is ancient news to those who watched my report on WAMY and Saudi funding of terror -- broadcast on BBC's evening news on November 9, 2001. (In the USA, that report earned me the title of 'conspiracy nut.' In America, a 'conspiracy nut' is defined as a journalist who reports the news two years before the New York Times.)

And here's the ugly little punchline to the story you WON'T read in the Times. Why has the Bush Administration covered up for WAMY and the Saudi's other blood-soaked 'charity' operations?

For the answer, let me take you back to Midland, Texas, 1986. A young old man, George W. Bush, seems to have trouble finding oil. But he strikes it rich when his flailing drilling partnership is bought out by Harken Oil. Despite the addition of the business acumen of Bush Jr., Harken faces collapse; but is pulled from the brink by a cash infusion from a Saudi, Sheik Bakhsh. The money from Arabia has nothing to do, we must assume, with Dubya's daddy at the time holding the post of Vice-President of the Free World.

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Furthermore, in the summer of 2001, Mr. Bush disbanded the US intelligence unit tracking funding of Al Qaeda. What is it our G-men were uncovering? According to two separate sources speaking to BBC, the funders of Al Qaeda fronts include those who have previously funded Bush family business and political ventures.

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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 02:06 PM
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1. In the hearings chaired by Spector
he was grilling a treasury dept offical who was being very evasive. Spector was trying to get to the bottom of who stopped the treasury from freezing the assets of World Association of Muslim Youth.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 02:24 PM
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2. Paging BevHarris
I know the black box voting remains crucial, but couldn't ProTalion take a short break from that to do a MEDIA BLAST on this one damning point.

Let the truth be revealed. May justice prevail.
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 04:14 PM
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3. Is anyone ever going to break this story?
George W. Bush is the Minnie Pearl of politics. (except she was smart and nice...)

(For those of you too young, she was a Country Comedienne whose trademark was a dangling pricetag from her hat. Junior has been well bought.)
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 04:28 PM
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4. The USA Patriot Act...
should be used to prosecute whoever interfered to the help the terrorists.
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Tammuz Donating Member (850 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 04:30 PM
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5. Dont be too quick to trust Mr.Palast!
He is ignoring the fact that most of the hijackers are still alive as reported by his very own BBC.

Most of what he says about 911 opens up the possibility of invading Saudi Arabia which just happens to have the most oil in the world.
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 04:36 PM
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6. i urge everyone who can
to send this to their local papaers and everyone else they know that won't beat em over their head with the tattered flag from the back of their pickup.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 04:47 PM
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7. Music to my ears!
Great job Greg Palast
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