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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject11/9/2001 4:27:06 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof   of 769670
 
Bush's bin Laden ties? The leading BBC news program 'Newsnight' claims that Bush's first million was made through "business dealings" with the bin Ladens clan.

"In a reiteration of a now well-known claim by one of George W Bush?s former business partners, the BBC said he made his first million 20 years ago on the back of a company financed by Osama?s elder brother, Salem. But it added the more disturbing assertion that both presidents Bush had lucrative stakes along with the bin Ladens in Carlyle Corporation, a small private company which has gone on to become one of America's biggest defence contractors. The bin Ladens sold their stake in Carlyle soon after September 11, it said."

Also alleged is that "...the FBI was told to 'back off' investigating one of Osama bin Laden?s brothers, Abdullah, who was linked to "the Saudi-funded World Association of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a suspected terrorist organization," whose accounts have still not frozen by the US treasury despite "being banned by Pakistan some weeks ago and India claiming it was linked to an organization involved in bombing in Kashmir".

The report, which the BBC claimed was based on a secret FBI document, numbered 199I WF213589 and emanating out of the FBI?s Washington field office, also claimed that the US administration was using "kid gloves" in tracking down Osama bin Laden and "other fanatics linked to Saudi Arabia".

timesofindia.com
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