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Politics : PRESIDENT JOHN FORBES KERRY

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (598)	3/11/2004 11:16:58 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) of 1017

Bushes and Bin Laudens In Business Together: The Saudi Binladin Group, banked with Citigroup and invested with Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. Over time, the bin Ladens did business with such icons of Western culture as Disney, the Hard Rock Café, Snapple and Porsche. In the mid-1990s, they joined various members of the House of Saud in becoming business associates with former secretary of state James Baker and former president George H.W. Bush by investing in the Carlyle Group, a gigantic Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm which G.W. Bush was also associated with. As Charles Freeman, the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, told the Wall Street Journal, "If there were ever any company closely connected to the U.S. and its presence in Saudi Arabia, it's the Saudi Binladin Group."

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