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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?

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To: Scoobah who started this subject	5/16/2002 11:55:12 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	of 32591

Oil it ticker than - US citizen blood - Bush Was Warned bin Laden Wanted to Hijack Planes By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON, May 15 — The White House said tonight that President Bush had been warned by American intelligence agencies in early August that Osama bin Laden was seeking to hijack aircraft but that the warnings did not contemplate the possibility that the hijackers would turn the planes into guided missiles for a terrorist attack. "It is widely known that we had information that bin Laden wanted to attack the United States or United States interests abroad," Ari Fleischer, the president's press secretary, said this evening. "The president was also provided information about bin Laden wanting to engage in hijacking in the traditional pre-9/11 sense, not for the use of suicide bombing, not for the use of an airplane as a missile." nytimes.com bin Laden Family had $2 billion in this company thecarlylegroup.com now the company got "re-structered " redherring.com Among those associated with Carlyle are former U.S. president George Bush Sr., former U.K. prime minister John Major, and former president of the Philippines Fidel Ramos. And Carlyle has counted George Soros, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, and Osama bin Laden's estranged family among its high-profile clientele. The group has been able to parlay its political clout into a lucrative buyout practice (in other words, purchasing struggling companies, turning them around, and selling them for huge profits)--everything from defense contractors to telecommunications and aerospace companies.

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