The Case for the Impeachment of George W. Bush
Tom Jigme Wheat
Chapter 1
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IMPEACH BUSH
by
Thomas J. Wheat
George W. Bush was never legally elected President in the Florida 2000
elections. Also He was either complicit or inept in preventing the
9/11/01 terrorist attacks. It was his father's administration who put
Osama on the CIA payroll. He ignored multiple warnings that the
terrorists were going to strike. Finally Bush's family history shows
that his grandfather was a banker for adolph hitler, and that Bush was
in Business with James Bath who was in business with Osama Bin Laden's
elder brother, Salem Bin Laden. Bush must be impeached from office. He
is bad for America. He's allowed the NSA to spy on our phonecalls.
Bush will trample civil liberties to cement the Republican
establishment long after he is gone. Consider what would happen if Al
Gore would have won. We would have had two Democrat appointed Supreme
Court Justices. These are lifetime appointments. Presidents'
throughout history have used foreign policy to expand their control
over domestic policy. The White House Administration's War on Terror
is a cloak for partisanship, terrorist blackmail and is an attempt to
salvage the President's failed Domestic agenda.
The Florida 2000 Election Conspiracy
According to Greg Palast and Martin Luther King III Bush gerrymandered
the vote in Florida. In all it is believed that 90,000 eligible black
and Hispanic voters were denied the right to vote. These people were
denied the right to vote because Database Technologies (ChoicePoint)
incorrectly classified these eligible voters as felons. Florida
Secretary of State Kathleen Harris hired Database Technologies. She
was in charge of elections in Florida. It was Kathleen Harris who was
also in charge of Jeb Bush's reelection campaign. Database Tech. was
hired approximately a year before the elections offering a $4.3
million dollar bid to tabulate votes. The former company who had
tabulated the votes for Florida offered a bid for $5700 dollars.
The US civil Rights commission also found clear evidence of voter
disenfranchisement. http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/ch9.htm
Essentially, what happened was that if an eligible black voter with no
felonies on his record shared the same surname as another felon both
people were denied the right to vote. .
Some features of DBT's voting irregularities include for instance
people being charged for future crimes that they never had committed.
For instance take the case of Thomas Alvin Cooper, who was denied the
right to vote in 2000 for a crime he supposedly committed in 2007. All
told some 325 eligible voters were denied the right to vote because of
future crimes they had never committed. Remember Al Gore lost Florida
by 537 votes when the US Supreme Court stopped Florida vote recount.
Out of that 179,855 ballots were never counted.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/09/president.election
Furthermore, 4917 eligible black voters were disqualified from voting
for felonies they never committed and for which DataBase Technologies
(ChoicePoint) had blank conviction dates.
Sources Cited:
US Commission on Civil Rights http://www.usccr.gov/ findings:
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/ch9.htm
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/appendix/lichtman/ltrpt.htm
http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/feature/2000/12/04/voter_file/index.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,824555,00.html
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/12/21/State/No_telling_if_voter_r.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/newsnight/1174115.stm
Greg Palast is a reporter for the BBC, the Observer, and the
Manchester Guardian. Also, he is the author of, "The Best Democracy
Money Can Buy," a book about the 2000 elections and multinational
corporate corruption.
Also Check out Alan Dershowitz's book: "Supreme Injustice: How the
High Court Hijacked Election 2000"Amazon.com Dershowitz is a professor
at Harvard Law school.
Dershowitz essentially argues in his book that the supreme court
decision Bush vs. Gore, 2000) violated the past supreme court ruling
Marbury v Madison 1803 specifically the principle of Judicial review.
(85) He argues that Article II of the US constitution gives state
legislatures the right to determine how they conduct
elections.Dershowitz argues that (Bush v. Gore, 2000) violates the
10th amendment. He argues that the 10th amendment and marbury versus
madison gives the state judiciary the right to rule on laws that are
contradictory, essentially the same power enjoyed by the us supreme
court. At issue was the fact that the Florida Supreme court had ruled
that pursuant to the Florida election law principle of Clear voter
intent via the numerous errors by the votomatic machines warranted an
extension of the secretary of state's voter certification deadline by
12 days in order to conduct a manual recount.
The supreme court in a 5-4 decision ruled on procedural grounds that
this violated article II. It should be noted that the five judges who
voted to stop the recount were all republican appointees. Florida's
clear voter intent law says even if ballots are improperly cast if
there is sufficient evidence to prove voter intent the ballots must be
counted.(59, 86-87) "manual recount authorized in section 102.166(4)
(d). Section 102.166(7)(b) states: If a counting team is unable to
determine a voter's intent in casting a ballot, the ballot shall be
presented to the county canvassing board for it to determine the
voter's intent. "
The certification deadline conflicted with the spirit of clear voter
intent because it made it impossible to conduct a manual recount when
there was strong evidence showing machine malfunction and confusingly
designed ballot cards. Dershowitz argues that according to the
principle of Judicial review the Florida Supreme court acted within
its jurisdiction by extending the voter certification deadline.
Bush filed suit to US supreme court relying on the doctrine of equal
protection from the 14th amendment. He argued that improperly cast
ballots regardless of the circumstances were void and should not be
counted. He argued that to count these ballots would be discriminatory
to him and create a process called voter dilution. Essentially he
argued that only properly submitted ballots should be cast (even
despite the mechanical error of the votomatic machines) and that to
count disqualified ballots would dilute his share of the vote and
thereby violate the Equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
However, it should also be noted that many of the ballots properly
submitted were not tallied by the votomatic machines. Dershowitz
argues that Florida's Clear voter intent law is guranteed by the equal
protection clause. (57-61)
Dershowitz rightly states that The 14th amendment was originally
created to end discrimination against minority races and that it was
appaling that such a law was used to disenfranchise minorities when it
had been crafted for their benefit. The bush dominated supreme court
used that very same amendment to disenfranchise african american's
from voting. By far the largest number of rejected ballots were cast
by blacks and voters who traditionally voted democrat.(80) It should
be noted that the chief justice william Rehnquist was a strong
supporter of racial seggregation early on in his career. He argued
that Plessy vs. ferguson should be upheld and that brown v board of
education was unconstitutional.(Dershowitz, 142)
179,855 ballots were not counted because of the malfunctioning voting
machines or because in the case of butterfly ballots they were
designed ambigously. Only when the intial manual recount was closing
the gap on the Bush lead did he claim a violation of equal protection.
Furthermore the Supreme court cited no legal precedent (Stare Decisis)
for its ruling in nullyfying the state's rights jurisdiction of the
florida supreme court other than to say Article II had been violated.
(132)
It is humorous to acknowlege that republicans always bring up the
state's right argument but in this case they clearly violated the
power of the state court to interpret and rule on conflicting laws.
Justice Scalia almost always champions state's rights cases but in
this case his ruling reflected reactionary seggregationalist
federalism. (125)
Also the Newsweek article "The Truth behind the pillars," exposed the
fact that Justice Sandra day O'conner already had a partisan viewpoint
regarding the election. while at a party eyewitness accounts overheard
here saying that Gore's lead in the polls was 'terrible.'
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmnew/is_200012/ai_kepm319403
Of equal Interest: O'conner also signaled her intention to only retire
if a republican president was elected. (156) Also the "Uncle Tom"
Justice Clarence Thomas recieved less than favorable ratings from the
american bar association.(198) see "Thomas the least qualified nominee
so far?" National Law Journal 9/16/91 It should be noted Bush no
longer allows the ABA to screen prospective Judges. (200),
Inconclusion the supreme Court's ruling on article II actually
violated that statute. Article II does give the state's rights to have
their legislature determine how to conduct presidential elections.
However, you had to conflicting florida election laws. There was the
voter certification deadline and the clear voter intent law. The 10th
amendment and marbury versus madison 1804, gives the state judiciary
under the power of state's rights and judicial review to rule on
conflicting laws. The conservative arguements against this are weak
and they refuse to acknowlege that the voting machines did not even
tabulate some properly cast ballots. Furthermore the Supreme Court
cited no legal precedent in Bush v Gore, 2000. How would the
constitution of the United States of america or the Bill of Rights be
irrevocably harmed by the florida supreme court's ruling that the
voter certification deadline be extended by 12 days. Conservative
arguments against this are a red herring fallacy. The resulting
argument actually violates the rationale behind the equal protection
clause of the 14th amendment. Thus the procedural ruling
disenfrancised 179,000 people. Furthermore The ruling was partisan
since the judges who voted for the majority opinion were republican
appointees and those who were disenfranchised were blacks and democrat
voters. This proves that America no longer has a independant judiciary
the cornerstone of a true democracy!
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Background on the Bush family:
The NAZI Connection
Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush was a banker for Adolph Hitler. In
1942 He had his assets in the Union Banking Corporation seized under
the Trading with the Enemy Act. Prescott's Union Banking Corp worked
for Brown Brothers Harriman, which was owned by Nazi Financier Fritz
Thyssen. Bush helped Thyssen move assets through front companies
around the world. Thyssen became wealthy when Hitler decided to rearm
Germany. He had owned the largest steel company in Germany. Bush also
had financial dealings with several German companies who utilized
slave labor from NAZI concentration camps.
For more info: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
Bush is also the descendant of English royalty on his mother's side.
This country was founded as the result of the tyranny of King George.
According to this Guardian article George Bush is a direct descendant
of William of Normandy. According the guardian, "Mr. Bush has direct
descents from William the Conqueror, Henry II and Charles II according
to Burke's Peerage."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/US_election_race/Story/0,2763,393341,00.html
BUSH'S ROLE IN THE 9/11/01 TERROIST ATTACKS
Bush and the CIA had plenty of warnings to know that Osama Bin Laden
was planning a terrorist attack on American soil. The first warning
that Osama was targeting US government installations was when his Al
Qaeda organization bombed the Khobar towers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in
1996. The second warning came in 1998when Osama bombed 2 US embassies
in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es alaam, Tanzania. The next warning came in
2000, when Osama bombed the US naval ship, the USS Cole.
The Warnings on Bush's Watch
On July 10th 2001, Kenneth Williams an agent with the FBI submitted a
memo to his superiors indicating that agents of Osama Bin Laden were
attending Arizona and Florida flight schools and that they were not
staying long enough to learn how to land. The FBI's Phoenix memo was
classified by the Counter terrorism Division as a low threat priority.
Two of the suspects in Williams's investigation, Hani Hanjour and
Nawaf al Hamzi later crashed flight 77 into the pentagon on 9/11/01.
Excerpt from the memo:
"The purpose of this communication is to advise the Bureau...of the
possibility of a coordinated effort by Usama Bin Laden to send
students to the United States to attend civil aviation
universities...Phoenix has observed an inordinate number of
individuals of investigative interest who are attending or who have
attended civil aviation colleges in the state of Arizona"
"Phoenix believes that it is more than a coincidence that subjects who
are supporters of UBL [Usama Bin Laden] are attending Civil aviation...
colleges in the state of Arizona. As receiving offices are aware,
Phoenix has had significant UBL associates/operatives living in the
state of Arizona conducting activity in support of UBL. Wadih El Hage,
a UBL lieutenant recently convicted for his role in the 1998 bombings
of US embassies in Africa, lived in Tuscon, Arizona for several years
in the 1980's."
sources:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0412042phoenix1.html
Kenneth Williams: Man of the Memo Sunday, May. 19, 2002 By DAVID
SCHWARTZ, ELAINE SHANNON AND MICHAEL WEISSKOPF
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,238561,00.htmlfix link
The second warning came when Bush was given a memo, entitled "Bin
Laden Determined to Strike US," in which it underlined that Bin Laden
was planning to "bring the fighting to America." Bush gave the memo
low priority.
Excerpt:
"Clandestine, foreign government and media reports indicate Bin Laden
since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US."
The declassified version of the Memo is available @
http://us.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo
Bush also received warnings from German and Russian intelligence
services. Both The German and Russian sources said terrorists were
planning to hijack planes and that Al Qaeda was planning to attack US
interests.
Excerpts:
"German Intelligence alerted the Central Intelligence agency,
Britain's MI-6 intelligence service, Israel's Mossad in June 2001 that
Middle Eastern terrorists were training for Hijackings and targeting
American and Israeli interests...Russian President Vladimir Putin has
said publicly that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the
United States last summer [2001] that suicide pilots were training for
attacks on US Targets."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53065,00.html
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/06/26/8695.html
A total lapse in Judgment: The State Department's Visa Express Program
In June of 2001The US State department instituted a new program for
Saudi nationals wanting to visit the US. The Visa Express program did
not require a face to face interview. Most applicants only had to send
off their applications by mail to gain approval. According to Unger
and a US Consular official Jessica Vaughan, the mailing of
applications and approval of visas by mail created a likely scenario
of identity fraud.
Three people who were approved for Visas by the State Department's
Visa Express program in Saudi Arabia, turned out to 9/11 hijackers.
Their names were Abdulaziz Alomari, Khalid Almidhar and Salem Alhazmi.
Alomari with Muhammed Atta at the controls crashed Flight 11 into the
World trade center. Almidhar crashed Flight 77 into the Pentagon.
Alhamzi was on the same flight as Al-midhar.
Sources
Unger, Craig. "House of Bush House of Saud," pgs. 231, 247-248, 260
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/terror/articles/visa011212.htm
Collusion with other Intelligence sources:
Just as the two jets slammed into the World Trade Center, 5 Israelis,
two of them with ties to Mossad were seen videotaping the terrorist
attacks and were seen celebrating the event. A woman saw the melee and
called the police. By 4 pm the group was arrested. In the van the
police found $4700 dollars, foreign passports and box cutters, the
same used by the terrorist hijackers. After a brief incarceration the
group was deported in November 2001.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744&contrassID=/has%5C
A shot in the Dark
According to the Jewish Newspaper, Haaretz, in an article entitled
"Odigo says workers were warned of attack," by Yuval Dror, two
employees of the Odigo received instant messages warning that
terrorist attacks were going to occur a full two hours before they
happened.
Source: full URL? http://www.haartzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744
Irony or Prophesy
According to statement posted on former Congressman Christopher Cox's
website on the day of the terrorist attacks, Cox describes that he is
with Paul Wolfowitz and Don Rumsfeld discussing how they could win
enough votes for Bush's defense plan. Cox then says, Donald Rumsfeld
blurted out: "And let me tell you, I've been around the block a few
times. There will be another event." He repeated it with
emphasis""There will be another event." "Within minutes of that
utterance, Rumsfeld's words proved tragically prophetic." Christopher
Cox was the former republican chairman of the House Select Committee
on Intelligence. In 2005 he was appointed by Bush to be the chairman
of the SEC.
The Bush-Bin Laden Connection
According to Judicial Watch a public interst law firm in Washington
D.C. Bush's father worked for the Bin Laden family when he was on the
board of directors of the Carlyle group. The article goes on to
suggest that due to GHW Bush's financial dealings with the Bin Laden
group and the Saudi Arabian government, "..it raises, in the least a
conflict of interest problem." The article goes on to suggest that
Bush gave the Saudis the 'kid gloves' treatment after 9/11/01 despite
the fact that the majority of the hijakkers were Saudis. Unger himself
supports this assertion by stating, "Over time the Bin Laden's did
business with such icons of western culture as Disney, the Hard Rock
cafe, Snapple, and Porrsche. In the mid-nineties they joined various
members of the House of Saud in becoming business associates with
former Secetary of state James Baker and former President George H.W.
Bush by investing in the Caryle group..."(Unger, 6)
The Judicial Watch article suggests that is possible that the US's
deferential treatment shown to Saudi Arabia could be derived in part
to Bush's father's close relationship with the Saudi regime. Bush II
also had indiect ties to the Saudis in the 1980's. The Saudi's did so
because they were desirous of gaining the Attention of Bush's father
when he was Vice President and later President, by investing in his
son's failing companies, Arbusto and Harken energy. Bush was in
Business with James Bath who was in business with Osama Bin Laden's
elder brother, Salem Bin Laden. As Unger States:"...The Bin Laden's had
only indirect connections to Bush family and its allies. James Bath
the american business representitive of Salem Bin Laden, knew both
George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush. Khalid Bin Mafouz who was close
to the Bin Ladens and the royal family, had helped finance the Houston
Skyscraper for the Texas Commerce Bank, in which James Baker had a
significant stake. He also had ties to Bath." (Unger, 101)
http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer_1685.shtml
Unger, Craig. "House of Bush House of Saud," Scribner, 2004
The Great Escape
The US government allowed the Bin Laden family to fly out of the
country without being interrogated while all Air traffic had been
grounded in the days after the terrorist attacks. Certaintly this was
a sign of special treatment being accorded to the Bin Laden family by
Bush. Unger states; "On Tuesday, september 18th, at Logan Airport, a
specially reconfigured Boeng 727...had been chartered by the Bin
Ladens and flew 5 passengers, all of them members of the Bin Laden
family, out of the country from Boston."(11) The Bin Laden family was
allowed to leave the country without interrogation and was allowed to
fly when the FAA declared a ban on all privately chartered flights.
"The Commission's report omits the fact that the passenger Learjet
flew from Tampa to Lexington when restrictions on private plans were
still operative. " (Unger, 291)
In conclusion I hope this paper establishes some reasonable doubt in
the minds of Americans concerning the benign qualities of our
president. Consider the fact that Al gore won the popular vote and
Bush had to use the republican dominated Supreme Court to legitimise
his presidency. The fact is that the Bush re election campaign
committed fraud and disenfranchised thousands of african americans.
Also Bush was counting on the Pearl Harbor Syndrome to give him
unlimited power after 9/11. His approval ratings before 9/11 were
40-50% and right after 9/11 they skyrocketed. Now his ratings have
nose dived again and so he searchs for a way to use foreign policy and
terrorist blackmail to make him a leader who circumvents the
democratic process in the name of patriotism.
Tom Jigme Wheat
by
Thomas J. Wheat
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Saddam Hussein was allied with the US from 1981 until the Gulf War. He
had been on the CIA payroll since 1959. The US armed Saddam in order
to use him in their proxy war with Iran. The US administration knew he
was using poison gas against Iranians, Shiites and Kurds and did
nothing. The Reagan defense establishment along with Donald Rumsfeld
should be indicted for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein.
Bush claimed he had evidence that Iraq was producing weapons of Mass
destruction. He used that assertion to justify invading Iraq. He had
Colin Powell go to the UN and say that Iraq was producing biological
weapons. (275) He also said Saddam attempted to by uranium from Niger.
This story later proved to be a fabrication. The documents were
forged. To date no weapons of mass destruction have been found in
Iraq.
He tried to insinuate that there was a connection to Saddam Hussein
and Al Qaeda. There in fact was no such link. Former Bush Secretary of
State, Colin Powell publiclly stated there was no Iraq link to Al
Qaeda.
See the New York Times article "Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda are not
allies." Abu Musab Al Zarqawi did not begin to infiltrate Iraq a full
year later. Saddam was a secular Sunni not a Wahabi fundamentalist
Sunni like Zarqawi.
Proof US supported Saddam in the 1980's when he was using poison gas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,866942,00.html
Furthermore US companies had been exporting to Iraq items related to
the manufacturing of biological weapons. The administration of GHWB
throughout July 1990 opposed Congress's attempt to visit sanctions on
Iraq. Then on july 19 1990 The State Dept. sent a memo advocating
tougher export controls with Iraq in regards to its brisk trade with
western firms involved in chemical and biological weapons production.
As Unger states: "According to the memo a review had uncovered 73
export licenses for goods sent to Iraq that were "probably
proliferation related," including 17 licenses for bacteria that could
be used with biological weapons and computers for chemical and weapons
programs." (Unger, 131)
Also see this report that underlines the fact that the US exported
poison gas to Iraq. Dean Foust and John Carey, "A US Gift to Iraq:
Deadly Virus," Business Week, September 20, 2002
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2002/nf20020920_3025.htm
Also according to Unger, in 1984 the Centers for Disease Control in
Atlanta began supplying Saddam with viruses...", retroviruses,
bacteria, and even tissue that was infected with the bubonic
plauge...and several types of West Nile virus." (68 - 69)
By November 1983, a US State Department memo confirmed Iraqi chemical
weapons producers were buying materials "from western firms, including
possibly a US foreign subsidiary."(Unger, 67) Also see "Iraq Use of
Chemical Weapons," unclassified memo from Jonathan Howe to the
secretary, November 1st 1983, National Security Archives. Also see
Howe's memo to Lawerence Eagleburger regarding Western firms selling
Chemical weapons related technology to Saddam Huessin. For a summary
see this washington post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52241-2002Dec29?language=printer">Click
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Bush I finally lost his cool with Saddam when he invaded Kuwait. GHWB
had many ties to Kuwait. The former emir had granted his struggling
oil company, Zapata Offshore an exclusive contract to build Kuwait's
first offshore oil rig. Bush was indebted to Kuwait and he showed it.
Operation Desert Storm was considered a success but Bush I left Saddam
in power.
Currently, Saddam is being tried by a US backed Iraqi Court for using
poison gas on the Kurds in Halabja in March 1988. What most Americans
do not know is that is the poison gas was dispersed with US supplied
helicopters. (79) No doubt Saddam deserves the sentence of death.
However, this mass murderer was the US's Frankenstein. The US was
still allies with Saddam during the time he was using poison gas to
quell his opposition. While the US tried to claim plausible
deniability regarding their support for Saddam when he was using
chemical weapons, the Reagan Bush administration claimed that they
tried to pressure him from gassing his opposition; the reality was
Saddam continued to use Chemical weapons and the US continued to
support him.
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Saudi Royal family's link to Osama Bin Laden:
Abu Zubaydah and Saudi prince Ahmed bin Salman Abdul Aziz
Abu Zubaydah was an Al Qaeda operative who was apprehended by US
forces in Pakistan. During his interrogation in which he was
administered sodium pentothal, he said that the royal family of Saudi
Arabia had made a deal with Al Qaeda, allowing them to remain in the
country so long as Al Qaeda did not attack the royal family.
Zubaydah's initial interrogators were Pakistani ISI and so he believed
that if he could name his benefactor, Prince Ahmed he would be
released. It turns out he had the cell phone number of the prince. He
also said the prince knew beforehand that 9/11 was going to happen. On
September 22nd the prince mysteriously died of a heart attack.
Zubaydah named other princes and they died within weeks of Prince
Ahmed. (Unger, Craig. "House of Bush House of Saud," 268)
Also see Princess Haifa who gave two of the 9/11/01 hijakers money.
(273)
Zubaydah also named Pakistani Air Marshall, Mushaf Ali Mir as a key
contact. Mushaf died in a plane crash not long after Zubaydah
implicated him. Definitely, this is evidence of a cover-up.
Furthermore, Bush refused to declassify a 900-page report about Saudi
Arabia's role in 9/11. Senator Bob Graham said, "They are protecting a
foreign government." (Unger, 277)
Source: Unger, Craig. House of Bush House of Saud
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Bush went AWOL when he was in the National Guard.
"In 1972 orders required Bush to report to a lieutenant colonel...
William Turnipseed, in Montgomery Alabama. But according to
Turnipseed, Bush never showed up." (Unger, Craig. "House of Bush House
of Saud," pg. 115)
websources: Colin Powell on Saddam and Al Qaeda
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3909150/
Newyork times article: "Saddam Hussein and Al qaeda are not allies"
http://www.csis.org/index.php?option=com_csis_pubs&task=view&id=1827
declassified docs on Iraq's use of chemical weapons
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsaebb/nsaebb82/iraq24.pdf
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsaebb/nsaebb82/iraq25.pdf
Tom Jigme Wheat
by
Thomas J. Wheat
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In this section I explore the connections concerning George Bush II's
ineptitude as a businessman, a man who should have been investigated
for stock fraud and insider trading, as well as his connection to the
now defunct bank, BCCI. BCCI funneled money to Bush to bail out his
company, was alleged to have laundered drug money and later collapsed
in a bank fraud scandal.
Bush was a failed businessman. Every Business he founded folded. The
one successful venture he ever had was one he bought a part ownership
share in the Texas Rangers Baseball team. However, that money was
fraudently obtained from when he sold his share in Harken Energy
stock, just before the company's stock price folded.
Bush was investigated by the SEC for insider trading, but the charges
were dropped. It turns out that the head of the SEC was appointed by
Bush's Father, who was president at the time.
In 1977 Bush founded his first company, Arbusto Energy. Bush's company
struggled and never found any oil. Then Phillip Uzielli a friend of
James Baker bailed Bush out. He gave Bush 1 million dollars in
exchange for 10% of the company. However, Arbusto Energy was only
worth $382,000 according to Time magazine. Uzielli paid 26 times the
market price of Arbusto for his 10% share. Obviously he was paying for
influence.
In 1984 Bush merged Arbusto with another one of his companies,
Spectrum 7. In 1985, Spectrum 7 lost 1.6 million dollars. Bush was
doomed for failure. The oil boom in Texas had long ended. The next
year Spectrum 7 owed over 3 million dollars. Then as if there was
really a stroke of luck, Billionaire financier George Soros bailed him
out and bought his company for 2.25 million. Bush made 600,000 dollars
out of the deal, including a seat on the board of directors making
120,000 dollars a year. In 1989 after Spectrum 7 merged with Harken
energy, Harken lost 12 million dollars. In 1990 Harken lost 40 million
dollars. (Unger, 118)
On June 22nd 1990 Bush sold 212,140 shares of Harkens stock for
$848,560. It turns out Harken's second quarter losses were 23 million
dollars. It was at this point that the SEC decided to investigate Bush
for insider trading. However Bush declined to hand over any documents
citing Attorney Client privilege. August 21st 1991 the SEC decided not
to charge Bush with insider trading.
It turns out that the Chairman of the SEC, Richard Breedon, was a
former lawyer from James Baker's law firm Baker-Botts, and had been
nominated by Bush's Father, the President at the time, to the post as
head of the SEC. (124) James Baker was Bush's father's Secretary of
State. Furthermore the SEC's general counsel, James Doty also belonged
to James Baker's lawfirm. Doty later recused himself. Doty also
represented Bush when he tried to buy the Texas Rangers Baseball team.
Bush's lawyer Robert Jordan was law partners with Doty and Breedon in
the Baker-Botts lawfirm. Bush later appointed him to be ambassador to
Saudi Arabia.
It was Paul Krugman, the syndicated columnist for the new york times,
who said that: "Mr. Bush profited personally from aggressive
accounting identical to recent scams [Enron and Arthur Anderson] that
have shocked the nation."
Paul Krugman, "Succeeding in Business," New York Times, July 7, 2002
Obviously Bush circumvented what it takes to achieve the american
dream. He was immune from failure because his father secured investors
to invest in a failing company and when the company folded Bush's
father, the president sheilded him from sanctions by the SEC. Needless
to say the SEC was also packed with Bush supporters. The fact that the
investigation was riddled with conflicts of interests says alot about
the respect that the Bush dynasty has for the rule of law when it
comes to themselves.
Bush was also tied to a bank called BCCI: a bank prosecuted for fraud
and linked to the drug trade
Bank of Credit Commerce International (BCCI)
biggest share holder, Khalid bin Mafouz, (indicted for fraud) founded
by Agha Hasan Abedi notable fact: funneled money to George W. Bush
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At one time BCCI was the fastest growing bank in the world. In 1972 it
was worth 200 million. In 1977 it was worth 2 billion. BCCI laundered
Saudi money to Iraq to faccilitate arms purchases. (78) It was also
used by the US and Saudi Arabia to funnel money to the Afghani
Mujahadin, (112) and the Nicaraguan Contras, the latter were known
drug traffikers. (Unger, 34) BCCI also funneled money to bail out
President George W. Bush's failing company, Harken energy. (112)It was
Arkansas investment banker, Jackson Stephens who managed to raise 25
million to bail out Bush. Money was wired to Bush through the Union
Bank of Switzerland. UBS was linked to BCCI via a joint venture in a
Geneva bank.(121) Bush was also bailed out by, Abdullah Taha Bakhsh.
His investment gave him 17.6% equity in Bush's company. He was also
connected to BCCI, via his control of the Saudi Finance company which
was partly owned by BCCI shareholders.(121) He was also business
associates of Khalid bin Mafouz.
The 1992 Senate investigation into BCCI noted that their common
business practices were to operate through, "shell corporations, bank
confidentiality, and secrecy havens,, layering of corporate structure,
front men and nominees,..kickbacks and bribes, intimidation of
witnesses, and retention of well placed insiders to discourage
govermental action." (121-122)
There were also credible reports that suggested BCCI laundered drug
money and that the Justice Dept. impeded Congressional investigations
regarding BCCI's link to drug traffiking.(126)
BCCI went out of business in 1991.
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see Bert Lance
also see a Wall Street Journal article, "Family Ties" written by
Thomas Petzinger, Peter Truell, and Jill Abramson pg. A1
Also see:
"Outlaw Bank," Financial Times, July 13th, 1992
The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations,
Senator John Kerry, and Sen. Hank Brown, December 1992, 102nd
Congress, 2nd session,, Senate print 102-140
Google search terms:
James Bath, BCCI, Ghaith Pharon, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan
(United Arab Emirates)
James Bath was friends with, James Baker III, and Bush when he served
in the Texas National Guard. He was also business associates with
Khalid bin Mafouz. Bath was also Salem Bin Laden's personal
representative to America when hefunneled 50,000 dollars to bush to
help him set up Arbusto energy in 1978 and 1979.
Book Source: Unger, Craig. "House of Bush House of Saud," 2004
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BCCI The Bush CIA drug bank
http://www.geocities.com/s011023/The_BCCI_Debacle.html
Bush Stock Fraud and his link to BCCI
BACK HOME
BCCI: THE ARABS AND BUSH'S DRUG BANK?
BCCI FUNNELED MONEY TO BUSH'S COMPANY HARKEN. BCCI LAUNDERED
PANAMANIAN & COLUMBIAN DRUG MONEY, ARMS SALES TO PAKISTAN, ACTED AS A
BANKER TO THE ABU NIDAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, 'MANAGED
PROSTITUTION,' & FUNNELED MONEY TO THE (DRUG RUNNING CONTRA DEATH
SQUADS. <--(GHWB'S PET PROJECT!))
EXCERPTS from: "The BCCI Affair - BCCI's Criminality"
from (Federation of American Scientists)
Source: BCCI's Criminality
A SHOCKING DISCOVERY
(BCCI: management of prostitution) [Notable Excerpt]
"According to one U.S. investigator with substantial knowledge of
BCCI's activities, some BCCI officials have acknowledged that some of
the females provided some members of the Al-Nahyan family were young
girls who had not yet reached puberty, and in certain cases, were
physically injured by the experience. The official said that former
BCCI officials had told him that BCCI also provided males to
homosexual VIPs.(74) "
74. Staff interviews, U.S. investigator, February, 1992. "
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Summary Excerpts from BCCI's Criminality
"BCCI's founder, Agha Hasan Abedi and his assistant, Swaleh
Naqvi" (Pakistani Bank)
"made up of multiplying layers of entities, related to one another
through an impenetrable series of holding companies, affiliates,
subsidiaries, banks-within-banks, insider dealings and nominee
relationships. By fracturing corporate structure, record keeping,
regulatory review, and audits, the complex BCCI family of entities
created by Abedi was able to evade ordinary legal restrictions on the
movement of capital and goods as a matter of daily practice and
routine. In creating BCCI as a vehicle fundamentally free of
government control, Abedi developed in BCCI an ideal mechanism for
facilitating illicit activity by others, including such activity by
officials of many of the governments whose laws BCCI was breaking. "
"Though fragmentary, these records are also voluminous, amounting to
at least 9,000 boxes in New York and Miami alone, and several million
pages. Foreign BCCI document repositories of BCCI, especially in the
United Kingdom, the Grand Caymans, and "Abu Dhabi," are even larger,
with access for U.S. investigators limited by foreign bank
confidentiality, privacy laws, and the willingness of the foreign
jurisdictions to cooperate. "
"largest case of organized crime in history, spanning over some 72
nations, " "involving billions of dollars; money laundering in Europe,
Africa, Asia, and the America"
"BCCI's bribery of officials in most of those locations; its support
of terrorism, arms trafficking, and the sale of nuclear technologies;
ITS MANAGEMENT OF PROSTITUTION; its commission and facilitation of
income tax evasion, smuggling, and illegal immigration; its illicit
purchases of banks and real estate"
"shell corporations, bank confidentiality and secrecy havens, layering
of corporate structure, front-men and nominees"
""kick-backs and bribes, intimidation of witnesses, and retention of
well-placed insiders to discourage governmental action.
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"Senate investigator Jack Blum... it had 3,000 criminal customers."
"On December 18, 1991, in an agreement with the Justice Department and
New York District Attorney, BCCI's liquidators pled guilty to having
engaged in a criminal conspiracy through financial fraud, and thereby
constituting a Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization
(RICO), whose entire assets, legitimate and illegitimate, were subject
to confiscation by the government. " "Specific crimes admitted to by
BCCI's liquidators in the agreement included:
** Seeking deposits of drug proceeds and laundering drug money" AMONG
OTHER CRIMES.. see: Superseding Information, U.S. v. BCCI, Crim. No.
91-0655, U.S. District Court for the District of Colombia, December
19, 1991.
"its chief executive officer in the Americas, knowledge of money
laundering, drug trafficking, loans created in "bogus" names, and
advances of funds to non-existent companies in London, Luxembourg,
Cyprus, Malta, the Channel Islands, "
"BCCI's financial empire was built on the fiction that it was heavily
capitalized by oil-rich Arab leaders, when the reality was that most
of them -- and according to some credible information, all of them --
were acting as nominees, providing either their names to BCCI, or
their names plus their funds in the form of deposits to BCCI to get a
guaranteed no-risk return, rather than as actual investors at risk. "
"Not having the actual capital base, BCCI simply pretended it was
there, and enlisted the reputations of its shareholders to assist it
in so pretending, in order to lure others to deposit their funds with
BCCI."
"Manhattan prosecutor Robert Morgenthau[Hans Morgenthau's
cousin?]..BCCI's liquidators plead guilty as part of the December,
1991 plea agreement, "
"[BCCI's] scheme was premised on the fact that banks rely on credit.
The essence of the scheme was to convince depositors and other banking
and financial institutions, by means of false pretenses,
representations, and promises that the BCC Group was a safe financial
repository and institution for funds, and thereby defendants acted to
persuade depositors and banking and other financial institutions to
provide the BCC Group banks with deposits and credit" (People v. BCCI,
Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, July 29,
1991. )
"Employing the ruling families of a number of Middle Eastern states as
nominees for BCCI, who pretended to be at risk in BCCI but who were in
fact guaranteed to be held harmless by BCCI for any actual losses. "
"Using bank secrecy havens including Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands
to avoid regulation on a consolidated basis by any single regulator of
BCCI, and thereby to permit BCCI to transfer assets and liabilities
from bank to bank as needed to conceal BCCI's true economic status. "
People v. BCCI, Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New
York, July 29, 1991.
"BCCI's own auditors, PRICE WATERHOUSE" (now TD Waterhouse) June 22,
1991, the "Sandstorm Report," (provided to the Bank of England) was
the final evidence that lead to the shutdown of BCCI globally on July
5, 1991 (Price Waterhouse, Draft Report on Sandstorm SA Under S. 41 of
the Savings Act of 1987. )
"$600 million of BCCI deposits not recorded in BCCI's books"
"Other major losses related to BCCI accounts in related entities,
including ICIC in the Grand Caymans, sometimes know as BCCI's "bank-
within-a-bank," the Bank de Commerce et Placements, a BCCI subsidiary
in Switzerland, the Kuwaiti Investment Finance Company (KIFCO), a
secret BCCI subsidiary ostensibly owned by a BCCI nominee. "
"The Sandstorm report -- prepared by Price Waterhouse for the benefit
of BCCI's final group of managers, brought in for the purpose of
finding a way to help BCCI survive as a wholly-owned subsidiary of
"ABU DHABI" -- describes BCCI's fraud, rather kindly, as originating
in BCCI's sense of vulnerability in case of any losses because of its
lack of any lender of last resort and the hostile attitude of the
international banking community"
Price Waterhouse, Draft Report on Sandstorm SA Under S. 41 of the
Savings Act of 1987.
"BCCI's losses grew, so did its manipulation of accounts and its
frauds, as well as its use of affiliated and related entities such as
ICIC in the Grand Caymans, the Banque de Commerce et Placements in
Geneva, the National Bank of Oman, and the Kuwaiti Investment Finance
Corporation (KIFCO). " (Offshore Banks?)
Massihur Rahman, who was BCCI's chief financial officer (FOLLOWING
QUOTES ARE NOT FROM HIM)
"In its 1991 review, Price Waterhouse found that among the specific
techniques used by BCCI to hide its losses were:
** misappropriation of deposits without depositors knowledge to
provide funds to adjust non-performing and bogus loan accounts, and
Treasury losses.
** misappropriation of external funds deposited under trust with
Sandstorm [BCCI] and Fork [ICIC] to be managed on behalf of a few
prominent people who are also shareholders of [BCCI] Holdings.
** the creation of loans with no commercial substance in the names of
people without their knowledge.
** selling certificates of deposit placed with the Central Treasury
without informing the depositors, and using the proceeds to fund
adjustments.
** routing funds through [ICIC], LOANS, KIFCO, SDCC and other
affiliates and third parties to make adjustments prior to accounting
reference dates and audit confirmation dates, which were often
reversed at a later date.(29) "
Staff interviews, Akbar Bilgrami, July 13-14, 1992; Amjad Awan, July
20-21, 1992.
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"As BCCI liquidators in the Grand Caymans found, ICIC was not really a
bank at all, but a post-office box location to "book" transactions
that were initiated, organized, and approved in other parts of BCCI.
In essence, ICIC was a "conduit" or mechanism for BCCI's fraud" (also
used holding companies, "Big Brother and the Holding Company")
Report of Grand Caymans Liquidators to Grand Caymans Court, August 30,
1991, Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu, International Credit and I nvestment
Company (Overseas) Ltd.
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"ICIC lending included millions to major front-men for BCCI including
Ghaith and Wabel Pharoan, Faisal al Fulaij, Prince Turki, and Mohammed
Hammoud."
"Clark Clifford and Robert Altman in First American in 1988 with funds
lent him by BCCI" ????? (S&L) Price Waterhouse, Report to the Director
on ICIC Group, June 17, 1991, Sec. 1.
Money Laundering
"From the time of BCCI's indictment on drug money laundering charges
in Tampa, Florida in October, 1988, there was little doubt to anyone
looking at the facts that BCCI had been used to launder drug money. "
"The Customs agents working on the "C-Chase" case against BCCI, moved
millions of dollars in U.S. currency, representing the proceeds of
cocaine sales through BCCI Panama, BCCI Luxembourg, and LOANS
Switzerland as a result of the knowing participation of several BCCI
officials."
In regards to Panama and the Manuel Noriega CIA Cocaine connection to
BCCI see a book called "Divorcing the Dictator"
also see this quote available also further down the page:
"BCCI's clients for money laundering included Panamanian General
Manuel Noriega, [(CIA Link)] for whom it managed some $23 million of
criminal proceeds out of its London branches; Pablo Escobar, of the
Medellin cartel; Rodriguez Gacha, of the Medellin cartel; and several
members of the Ochoa family.(48) "
"As Robert Mazur, the Customs agent in Tampa who selected BCCI as the
target of the Customs money laundering sting testified, BCCI bank
executives volunteered methods to enhance and improve his techniques
for money laundering, and shortly before the sting ended the
operation, offered to introduce Mazur to other potential "cash"
customers for money laundering services from Bogota, Colombia.(38) "
Testimony of Robert Mazur, S. Hrg. 102-350, Pt. 3, p. 682.
"BCCI itself pled guilty to money laundering in January, 1990"
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Testimony of Grant Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, S. Hrg.
102-350, Pt. 3, p. 579. "Setting aside those instances where BCCI
managers knowingly promoted money laundering, BCCI seemed attracted to
traffickers for the same reasons that other banks have been found
attractive. First, traffickers seek international banks that are
sophisticated in wire transfers, that have branches in those parts of
the world where they operate, and which permit quick retrieval of
funds. Second, traffickers seek banks in those countries where
national banking laws afford maximum secrecy to depositors, permit
nominee accounts, and do not provide for close monitoring of cross
border transactions of currency movements"
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(search terms: Akbar Bilgrami, Colombia, Pakistan)
also see columbia cocaine, pakistan-afghanistan heroin, then MEXICALI
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"Abedi told him that he needed to increase BCCI's activity in Colombia
to $1 billion in local currency in deposits, and $1 billion in U.S.
denominated deposits -- funds which obviously could only be generated,
directly or indirectly, from the drug trade.(40) " Staff interviews,
Akbar Bilgrami, July 13-14, 1992.
US indictment of: Superseding Information, U.S. v. BCCI, Crim. No.
91-0655, U.S. District Court for the District of Colombia, December
19, 1991.
excerpts:
"1991 plea agreement with U.S. law enforcement outlines the systematic
nature of the money laundering as follows:
40. The BCCI Defendants and their affiliates . . . would and did
formulate and implement a corporate strategy for increasing BCCI's
deposits by encouraging placements of funds from the proceeds of drug
sales, in conscious disregard of the currency regulations, tax laws,
and anti-drug laws of the United States, and of other nations;
41. In furtherance of the BCCI Group's corporate strategy to pursue
deposits in disregard of United States and foreign law, the BCCI
Defendants . . . would knowingly offer a full range of services to
drug importers, suppliers and money launderers;
42. Co-conspirators would and did conduct . . . financial transactions
with narcotics drug proceeds including the wire transfer of said
proceeds from places in the United States to and through other places
outside the United States, with the intent to conceal and disguise the
nature, location, source and ownership of these drug proceeds.(41) "
""counter-balancing loan proceeds" its technique of crediting "counter-
balancing loan proceeds" to foreign corporate bank accounts designated
by drug traffickers; "
"Abdur Sakhia, formerly BCCI's chief officer in the United States
testified, it been obvious within BCCI as of 1983 that the bank had
adopted a conscious policy of soliciting drug funds when it decided to
purchase a bank in Colombia. It was obvious to Sakhia and other BCCI
officers then that BCCI's motivation for obtaining the Colombia bank
was its recognition that enormous amounts of U.S. currency were being
generated as a result of narcotics trafficking, and that Colombia
could become an extremely profitable operation for BCCI. "
Sakhia's Testimony:
We knew that the money that we would be getting in Colombia would be
drug money. We knew that all the dollar deposits we would be getting
would be drug money.(43) "
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BCCI was getting branches in: "getting branches in lawless areas like
Cartegena, Cali and Medellin."
"BCCI's clients for money laundering included Panamanian General
Manuel Noriega, for whom it managed some $23 million of criminal
proceeds out of its London branches; Pablo Escobar, of the Medellin
cartel; Rodriguez Gacha, of the Medellin cartel; and several members
of the Ochoa family.(48) " 48. BCCI Records and customer lists, LACRO,
Federal Reserve, Miami.
"When it came to General Noriega, bribes were unnecessary, as BCCI
provided the far more important service of laundering $23 million of
his money and keeping it safe from other governments and his eventual
successors in Panama by insuring its disappearance following his
indictments. But to demonstrate BCCI's hospitality, the bank still
made sure that it provided Noriega with an expensive gift -- a $25,000
persian carpet, hand delivered with Abedi's regards to Noriega by
Alauddin Sheikh.(52) ""
51. Staff interview, Nazir Chinoy, March 9-16, 1991; BCCI documents,
Andrew Young trip to Nicaragua.
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Support of Terrorism and Arms Trafficking
"First, as a principal financial institution for a number of Gulf
sheikhdoms, with branches all over the world, it was a logical choice
for terrorist organizations, who received payment at BCCI-London and
other branches directly from Gulf-state patrons, and then transferred
those funds wherever they wished without apparent scrutiny."
"Arms trafficking involving BCCI included the financing of Pakistan's
procurement of nuclear weapons[Abdul Khan, Iran, DPRK] through BCCI
Canada, as documented in the Parvez case, involving a Pakistani who
attempted to procure nuclear related materials financed by BCCI
through the United States. (61) " 61. Testimony of Alan Kreczo, Deputy
Legal Adviser, Department of State, S. Hrg. 102-350, Pt. 3, p. 599.
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Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal and his link to BCCI
67. Testimony of Laurence Pope, Associate Coordinator for Counter-
Terrorism, Department of State, S. Hrg. 102-350, Pt. 3, p 580.
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Training of Cartel Death Squads
ISRAEL ARMS SALES TO LATIN AMERICA (UZI's for LA street gangs? CIA,
Contras, LA Crack epidemic)
"The principals in the arms trafficking included Yair Klein, who had
previously been identified in Colombian drug enforcement documents as
involved in training paramilitary squads for the cocaine cartel in
Medellin; Pinchas Shahar, an Israeli intelligence operative, and
Maurice Sarfati, an Israeli "businessman" operating out of Miami and
Paris. "
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Prostitution
"BCCI's involvement in prostitution arose out of its creation of its
special protocol department in Pakistan (ISI, BCCI) to service the
personal requirements of the AL-NAHYAN family of ABU DHABI, and on an
as-needed basis, other BCCI VIPs, including the families of other
Middle Eastern rulers."
SEE: Abdur Sakhia and Nazir Chinoy TESTIMONY & see (Begum Asghari
Rahim (United Bank) <-the Pimp "The prostitution handled by BCCI was
carried over from practices originally instituted by Abedi at the
United Bank, when working with a woman, Begum Asghari Rahim, he
cemented his relationship with the Al-Nahyan family through providing
them with Pakistani prostitutes. " (Nazir Chinoy)
"Among BCCI bank officials in Pakistan, Begum Rahim was reputed to
have in United Bank first won the favors or attention of the royal
family by arranging to get virgin women from the villages from the
ages of 16 to 20. " (child prostitution, AL-NAHYAN family of ABU
DHABI?)
"According to one U.S. investigator with substantial knowledge of
BCCI's activities, some BCCI officials have acknowledged that some of
the females provided some members of the Al-Nahyan family were young
girls who had not yet reached puberty, and in certain cases, were
physically injured by the experience. The official said that former
BCCI officials had told him that BCCI also provided males to
homosexual VIPs.(74) " 74. Staff interviews, U.S. investigator,
February, 1992.
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"None of the BCCI officers interviewed by the Senate claimed to have
knowledge of a "black network" (sidenote: aka Louis Farrakhan,
hahaha... who killed Malcolm X, aw shit!) of intelligence operatives,
arms dealers, drug traffickers, burglars, or assassins employed by
BCCI, as described in a Time magazine cover-story on BCCI on August
15, 1991. " (Abedi)
websources: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/04crime.htm
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also see:
BCCI's Pakistani protocol department or its Pakistani BCCI Foundation.
(also see ISI, PAK secret Intelligence) Abedi
Tom Jigme Wheat
supported Contras even though they knew they were drug runners
funneling coke and crack to LA
see Gary Webb's book, "Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the
Crack Cocaine Explosion "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
1996 san jose mecury news article:
weblink: http://www.geocities.com/s011023/theciaandla.html
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
'CRACK' PLAGUE'S ROOTS ARE IN NICARAGUA WAR COLOMBIA-BAY AREA DRUG
PIPELINE HELPED FINANCE CIA-BACKED CONTRAS '80S EFFORT TO ASSIST
GUERRILLAS LEFT LEGACY OF DRUGS, GANGS IN BLACK L.A.
August 18, 1996
Section: Front
Edition: Morning Final Page: 1A
GARY WEBB, Mercury News Staff Writer
Memo: See related stories on pages 16A,17A
Additional reporting for this series in Nicaragua and Costa Rica was
done by Managua journalist Georg Hodel. Research assistance at the
Nicaraguan Supreme Court in Managua was done by journalist Leonore
Delgado.
Illustration: Map, Photos (5)
Caption: MAP: PAI - MERCURY NEWS
The Pipeline
How the Colombia cocaine cartels made the California connection
Land, sea and air: the smuggling routes [from mid 1970s to 1991]
[Map shows smuggling routes and means of transportation][960818 FR 16A
1; color]
PHOTO: 1984 MEETING: Contra political chief Adolfo Calero, center, and
Norwin Meneses, right, in San Francisco[960818 FR 17A 1]
PHOTO: Enrique Miranda
Told Meneses' deep secrets[960818 FR 17A 2]
PHOTO: DANILO BLANDON: The son of a wealthy Managua slumlord set up
the system.[960818 FR 1A 3]
PHOTO: NORWIN MENESES: A drug smuggler with ties to Somoza went to
work for the Contras.[960818 FR 1A 4; color]
PHOTO: RICK ROSS: The street connection in the partnership that
started a flood of cocaine into the United States.[960818 FR 1A 2;
color]
For the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of
cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and
funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army
run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News
investigation has found.
This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine
cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known
as the ''crack'' capital of the world. The cocaine that flooded in
helped spark a crack explosion in urban America - and provided the
cash and connections needed for L.A.'s gangs to buy automatic weapons.
It is one of the most bizarre alliances in modern history: the union
of a U.S.-backed army attempting to overthrow a revolutionary
socialist government and the Uzi-toting ''gangstas'' of Compton and
South-Central Los Angeles. The army's financiers - who met with CIA
agents both before and during the time they were selling the drugs in
L.A. - delivered cut-rate cocaine to the gangs through a young South-
Central crack dealer named Ricky Donnell Ross.
Unaware of his suppliers' military and political connections,
''Freeway Rick''' - a dope dealer of mythic proportions in the L.A.
drug world - turned the cocaine powder into crack and wholesaled it to
gangs across the country. The cash Ross paid for the cocaine, court
records show, was then used to buy weapons and equipment for a
guerrilla army named the Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense (Nicaraguan
Democratic Force) or FDN, the largest of several anti-communist groups
commonly called the Contras. While the FDN's war is barely a memory
today, black America is still dealing with its poisonous side effects.
Urban neighborhoods are grappling with legions of homeless crack
addicts. Thousands of young black men are serving long prison
sentences for selling cocaine - a drug that was virtually unobtainable
in black neighborhoods before members of the CIA's army brought it
into South-Central in the 1980s at bargain-basement prices. And the
L.A. gangs, which used their enormous cocaine profits to arm
themselves and spread crack across the country, are still thriving,
turning entire blocks of major cities into occasional war zones.
''There is a saying that the ends justify the means,'' former FDN
leader and drug dealer Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes testified during a
recent cocaine trafficking trial in San Diego. ''And that's what Mr.
Bermudez (the CIA agent who commanded the FDN) told us in Honduras,
OK? So we started raising money for the Contra revolution.''
Recently declassified reports, federal court testimony, undercover
tapes, court records here and abroad and hundreds of hours of
interviews over the past 12 months leave no doubt that Blandon was no
ordinary drug dealer. Shortly before Blandon - who had been the drug
ring's Southern California distributor - took the stand in San Diego
as a witness for the U.S. Department of Justice, federal prosecutors
obtained a court order preventing defense lawyers from delving into
his ties to the CIA. Blandon, one of the FDN's founders in California,
''will admit that he was a large-scale dealer in cocaine, and there is
no additional benefit to any defendant to inquire as to the Central
Intelligence Agency,'' Assistant U.S. Attorney L.J. O'Neale argued in
his motion shortly before Ross' trial on cocaine trafficking charges
in March. The most Blandon would say in court about who called the
shots when he sold cocaine for the FDN was that ''we received orders
from the - from other people.''
The 5,000-man FDN, records show, was created in mid-1981 when the CIA
combined several existing groups of anti-communist exiles into a
unified force it hoped would topple the new socialist government of
Nicaragua.
>From 1982 to 1988, the FDN - run by both American and Nicaraguan CIA
agents - waged a losing war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government,
the Cuban-supported socialists who'd overthrown U.S.-backed dictator
Anastasio Somoza in 1979.
Blandon, who began working for the FDN's drug operation in late 1981,
testified that the drug ring sold almost a ton of cocaine in the
United States that year - $54 million worth at prevailing wholesale
prices. It was not clear how much of the money found its way back to
the CIA's army, but Blandon testified that ''whatever we were running
in L.A., the profit was going for the Contra revolution.''
At the time of that testimony, Blandon was a full-time informant for
the Drug Enforcement Administration, a job the U.S. Department of
Justice got him after releasing him from prison in 1994. Though
Blandon admitted to crimes that have sent others away for life, the
Justice Department turned him loose on unsupervised probation after
only 28 months behind bars and has paid him more than $166,000 since,
court records show.
''He has been extraordinarily helpful,'' federal prosecutor O'Neale
told Blandon's judge in a plea for the trafficker's release in 1994.
Though O'Neale once described Blandon to a grand jury as ''the biggest
Nicaraguan cocaine dealer in the United States,'' the prosecutor would
not discuss him with the Mercury News.
A known dealer since '74has stayed out of U.S. jails Blandon's boss in
the FDN's cocaine operation, Juan Norwin Meneses Cantarero, has never
spent a day in a U.S. prison, even though the federal government has
been aware of his cocaine dealings since at least 1974, records show.
Meneses - who ran the drug ring from his homes in the Bay Area - is
listed in the DEA's computers as a major international drug smuggler
and was implicated in 45 separate federal investigations. Yet he and
his cocaine-dealing relatives lived quite openly in the Bay Area for
years, buying homes in Pacifica and Burlingame, along with bars,
restaurants, car lots and factories in San Francisco, Hayward and
Oakland. ''I even drove my own cars, registered in my name,'' Meneses
said during a recent interview in Nicaragua.
Meneses' organization was ''the target of unsuccessful investigative
attempts for many years,'' prosecutor O'Neale acknowledged in a 1994
affidavit. But records and interviews revealed that a number of those
probes were stymied not by the elusive Meneses but by agencies of the
U.S. government.
Agents from four organizations - the DEA, U.S. Customs, the Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the California Bureau of
Narcotic Enforcement - have complained that investigations were
hampered by the CIA or unnamed ''national security'' interests. 1988
investigationhit a wall of secrecy
One 1988 investigation by a U.S. Senate subcommittee ran into a wall
of official secrecy at the Justice Department. In that case,
congressional records show, Senate investigators were trying to
determine why the U.S. attorney in San Francisco, Joseph Russoniello,
had given $36,000 back to a Nicaraguan cocaine dealer arrested by the
FBI. The money was returned, court records show, after two Contra
leaders sent letters to the court swearing that the drug dealer had
been given the cash to buy weapons for guerrillas. Russoniello said it
was cheaper to give the money back than to disprove that claim.
''The Justice Department flipped out to prevent us from getting access
to people, records - finding anything out about it,'' recalled Jack
Blum, former chief counsel to the Senate subcommittee that
investigated allegations of Contra cocaine trafficking. ''It was one
of the most frustrating exercises that I can ever recall.''
It wasn't until 1989, a few months after the Contra-Sandinista war
ended and five years after Meneses moved from the Peninsula to a ranch
in Costa Rica, that the U.S. government took action against him - sort
of. Federal prosecutors in San Francisco charged Meneses with
conspiracy to distribute one kilo of cocaine in 1984, a year in which
he was working publicly with the FDN.
In S.F. photo, Menesesseen with CIA operative Meneses' work was so
public, in fact, that he posed for a picture in June 1984 in a kitchen
of a San Francisco home with the FDN's political boss, Adolfo Calero,
a longtime CIA operative who became the public face of the Contras in
the United States.
According to the indictment, Meneses was in the midst of his alleged
cocaine conspiracy at the time the picture was taken. But the
indictment was quickly locked away in the vaults of the San Francisco
federal courthouse, where it remains today - inexplicably secret for
more than seven years. Meneses was never arrested.
Reporters found a copy of the secret indictment in Nicaragua, along
with a federal arrest warrant issued Feb. 8, 1989. Records show the no-
bail warrant was never entered into the national law enforcement
database called NCIC, which police use to track down fugitives. The
former federal prosecutor who indicted him, Eric Swenson, declined to
be interviewed. After Nicaraguan police arrested Meneses on cocaine
charges in Managua in 1991, his judge expressed astonishment that the
infamous smuggler went unmolested by American drug agents during his
years in the United States. ''How do you explain the fact that Norwin
Meneses, implicated since 1974 in the trafficking of drugs . . . has
not been detained in the United States, a country in which he has
lived, entered and departed many times since 1974?'' Judge Martha
Quezada asked during a pretrial hearing.
''Well, that question needs to be asked to the authorities of the
United States,'' replied Roger Mayorga, then chief of Nicaragua's anti-
drug agency. U.S. officials amazedMeneses remained free
His seeming invulnerability amazed American authorities as well. A
Customs agent who investigated Meneses in 1980 before transferring
elsewhere said he was reassigned to San Francisco seven years later
''and I was sitting in some meetings and here's Meneses' name again.
And I can remember thinking, 'Holy cow, is this guy still around?' ''
Blandon led an equally charmed life. For at least five years he
brokered massive amounts of cocaine to the black gangs of Los Angeles
without being arrested. But his luck changed overnight.
On Oct. 27, 1986, agents from the FBI, the IRS, local police and the
Los Angeles County sheriff fanned out across Southern California and
raided more than a dozen locations connected to Blandon's cocaine
operation. Blandon and his wife, along with numerous Nicaraguan
associates, were arrested on drug and weapons charges.
The search warrant affidavit reveals that local drug agents knew
plenty about Blandon's involvement with cocaine and the CIA's army
nearly 10 years ago.
''Danilo Blandon is in charge of a sophisticated cocaine smuggling and
distribution organization operating in Southern California,'' L.A.
County sheriff's Sgt. Tom Gordon said in the 1986 affidavit. ''The
monies gained from the sales of cocaine are transported to Florida and
laundered through Orlando Murillo, who is a high-ranking officer of a
chain of banks in Florida named Government Securities Corporation.
>From this bank the monies are filtered to the Contra rebels to buy
arms in the war in Nicaragua.'' Corporate records show that Murillo -
a Nicaraguan banker and relative of Blandon's wife - was a vice-
president of Government Securities Corporation in Coral Gables, a
large brokerage firm that collapsed in 1987 amid allegations of fraud.
Murillo did not respond to an interview request. Despite their
intimate knowledge of Blandon's operations, the police raids were a
spectacular failure. Every location had been cleaned of anything
remotely incriminating. No one was ever prosecuted. Ron Spear, a
spokesman for Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block, said Blandon
somehow knew that he was under police surveillance. Others thought so,
too.
''The cops always believed that investigation had been compromised by
the CIA,'' Los Angeles federal public defender Barbara O'Connor said
in a recent interview. O'Connor knew of the raids because she later
defended the raids' leader, Sgt. Gordon, against federal charges of
police corruption. Gordon, convicted of tax evasion, declined to be
interviewed. Lawyer suggests aidwas at root of problem
FBI records show that soon after the raids, Blandon's defense
attorney, Bradley Brunon, called the sheriff's department to suggest
that his client's troubles stemmed from a most unlikely source: a
recent congressional vote authorizing $100 million in military aid to
the CIA's Contra army. According to a December 1986 FBI Teletype,
Brunon told the officers that the ''CIA winked at this sort of
thing. . . . (Brunon) indicated that now that U.S. Congress had voted
funds for the Nicaraguan Contra movement, U.S. government now appears
to be turning against organizations like this.'' That FBI report, part
of the files of former Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh,
was made public only last year, when it was released by the National
Archives at the Mercury News' request.
Blandon has also implied that his cocaine sales were, for a time, CIA-
approved. He told a San Francisco federal grand jury in 1994 that once
the FDN began receiving American taxpayer dollars, the CIA no longer
needed his kind of help.
''When Mr. Reagan get in the power, we start receiving a lot of
money,'' Blandon testified. ''And the people that was in charge, it
was the CIA, so they didn't want to raise any (drug) money because
they have, they had the money that they wanted.''
''From the government?'' asked Assistant U.S. Attorney David Hall.
''Yes, for the Contra revolution,'' Blandon said. ''So we started -
you know, the ambitious person - we started doing business by
ourselves.'' Asked about that, prosecutor Hall said, ''I don't know
what to tell you. The CIA won't tell me anything.''
None of the government agencies known to have been involved with
Meneses and Blandon over the years would provide the Mercury News with
any information about them.
A Freedom of Information Act request filed with the CIA was denied on
national security grounds. FOIA requests filed with the DEA were
denied on privacy grounds. Requests filed months ago with the FBI, the
State Department and the Immigration and Naturalization Service have
produced nothing so far.
None of the DEA officials known to have worked with the two men would
talk to a reporter. Questions submitted to the DEA's public affairs
office in Washington were never answered, despite repeated requests.
Blandon's lawyer, Brunon, said in an interview that his client never
told him directly that he was selling cocaine for the CIA, but the
prominent Los Angeles defense attorney drew his own conclusions from
the ''atmosphere of CIA and clandestine activities'' that surrounded
Blandon and his Nicaraguan friends.
'Was he involved with the CIA? Probably. Was he involved with drugs?
Most definitely,'' Brunon said. ''Were those two things involved with
each other? They've never said that, obviously. They've never admitted
that. But I don't know where these guys get these big
aircraft . . .''
That very topic arose during the sensational 1992 cocaine trafficking
trial of Meneses after Meneses was arrested in Nicaragua in connection
with a staggering 750-kilo shipment of cocaine. His chief accuser was
his friend Enrique Miranda, a relative and former Nicaraguan military
intelligence officer who had been Meneses' emissary to the cocaine
cartel of Bogota, Colombia. Miranda pleaded guilty to drug charges and
agreed to cooperate in exchange for a seven-year sentence.
In a long, handwritten statement he read to Meneses' jury, Miranda
revealed the deepest secrets of the Meneses drug ring, earning his old
boss a 30-year prison sentence in the process.
''He (Norwin) and his brother Luis Enrique had financed the Contra
revolution with the benefits of the cocaine they sold,'' Miranda
wrote. ''This operation, as Norwin told me, was executed with the
collaboration of high-ranking Salvadoran military personnel. They met
with officials of the Salvadoran air force, who flew (planes) to
Colombia and then left for the U.S., bound for an Air Force base in
Texas, as he told me.'' Meneses - who has close personal and business
ties to a Salvadoran air force commander and former CIA agent named
Marcos Aguado - declined to discuss Miranda's statements during an
interview at a prison outside Managua in January. He is scheduled to
be paroled this summer, after nearly five years in custody.
U.S. General Accounting Office records confirm that El Salvador's air
force was supplying the CIA's Nicaraguan guerrillas with aircraft and
flight support services throughout the mid-1980s. Miranda did not name
the Air Force base in Texas where the FDN's cocaine was purportedly
flown. The same day the Mercury News requested official permission to
interview Miranda, he disappeared.
While out on a routine weekend furlough, Miranda failed to return to
the Nicaraguan jail where he'd been living since 1992. Though his
jailers, who described him as a model prisoner, claimed Miranda had
escaped, they didn't call the police until a Mercury News
correspondent showed up and discovered he was gone.
He has not been seen in nearly a year.
On Jul 13, 12:41 pm, Tom Jigme Wheat <ThomasWheat1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tom Jigme Wheat
http://www.geocities.com/s011023/trueconspiracylinks.html
Did Fox news have a conflict of interest in calling the florida
election to early in favor of Bush? According to former Gallup
pollster David Moore author of "How to Steal An Election," this in
fact did occur.
According to Moore the conservative media outlet Fox News offered
partisan coverage of the florida 2000 election. Political pundits on
the program lambasted Gore as a "sore loser" who tried to "steal" the
election and that he was creating a "constitutional crisis." Equally
important to mention was that Fox news was the first to declare bush
the winner despite a completed tally of votes in the democratic voting
counties of palm beach, miami dade and broward counties. Robert Ellis
who is George W. Bush's cousin was Fox News's election result decision
maker. (9-10) This led the other networks to follow suit in their
predictions. Moore argues this also influenced the supreme court's
ruling.
. According to former Congressman Peter Deustch in delivering
testimony House committee on energy and commerce 2/14/2001 said that
"The supreme court's political decision of stopping the counting of
the votes was influenced by the missed [missed network] calls of
calling bush the president. If there was no winner after november 7th
the , I think the political decision very well might have been
different"(8)
It turns out that Fox news gets its stastical polling data from VNS.
However, Murray edelman VNS's editorial director sent a memo to Ellis
at fox news that he thought their interpretations of VNS data on the
election relied to much on exit polls and not actual vote count.
According to Edelman's statistical modeling scenarios this would
create a error variance of 30,000 votes even if 99% of the vote is
counted.(28) Both edelman and Warren Mitofsky of CBS voter research
and surveys had said exit polls are not reliable. Both voter survey
companies had conflicting data results and neither side had a uniform
ruling on the data. Fox in a hurry to be the first TV network to call
the elections chose the conservative estimate.
As I mentioned before Ellis was in charge of Fox's exit poll
projections. Moore argues he had little understanding of stastistical
models used in polling partial vote count. The method used was random
sampling which is not always representitive of larger populations.
(55) Also the statistical models were based on the probability that
election results would closely mirror the 1998 gubenatorial election
and not the 1996 presidential election. People's voting habits vary
widely in state and federal elections though common patterns can be
discerned when the sampling focuses on the same type of election.
Moore argues this would have narrowed the gap between Bush and gore.
(56)
Moore then argues that later on Ellis no longer relied on VNS (Voter
News Service) data and instead was relying on polling information from
Govenor Jeb Bush's office to arrive at need/get ratio vote prediction.
(58) Yet VNS did not provide evidence that Bush was going to win
florida at 2:15 am election night. VNS showed Gore trailing Bush by
50,000 votes yet outstanding ballots from broward and palm beach
counties had yet to be counted. These counties traditionaly vote
democrat. Murray edelman refused to call the election and tried to
dissuade NBC from calling the election. (67)
Yet according to Moore conflicts of interest abounded when Fox news
election pundit Ellis was in contact with Bush on the night of
election 2000. Moore says this violated Fox News's own rules regarding
confidentiality and that this influenced Ellis's vote projection. The
problem wasn't just with fox, all of the other major networks were
contacting politicians to get vote projection information. (68) Moore
argues that these partisan sources caused the networks to disregard
all of CBS voter News service and VNS's polling data. (72) By 2:30am
all the networks except the AP called the election for Bush. It should
be noted that VNS became the scapegoat for the bungled early call for
Gore and then later for bush because the VNS board of directors which
are comprised of all the major network executives imposed a gag order
on all employees. (98)
Furthermore Robert Ellis of Fox news Bush's cousin violated his
contract with Fox news by sharing information with both Jeb and george
bush on election night. (96) Fox's filthy internal memo found no
evidence of wrong doing. It should be noted that fox news is owned by
Rupert Murdoch a major contributor and ideological friend of Bush.
Fox's news corporation's internal investigation framed VNS for the
polling data errors when in fact there was a conflict of interest and
a desire to grab ratings as well as partisanship at that company.
The problems stemmed from the subjective nature of the caculation of
the standard Margin of error estimate which shows the probability that
a given projection will be wrong. Conservatives would like to argue
that VNS's early call for Gore affected voter decision making in fact
it had little impact because it was not widely covered in the media.
(103)
Once VNS became aware of the problem it hired an independent audit
firm From RTI a virginia based company. RTI did not find that the full
blame for the exit poll miscalls did not rest with VNI or Or Mitofsky
of CBS voter news service alone. Mitofsky the father of the exit poll
system got caught on the election race bandwagon directed by the
network executives.(102-104) RTI and VNS's editorial director did not
support Mitofsky's call on the data which then led to Fox's prediction
of the race. It should be noted Mitofsky died of 2 gunshot wounds to
the head allegedly reported to be self inflicted a couple of years
afterwards.
Furthermore Shortly before Ellis of fox news made his prediction
Bush's lead dropped in the polls according to the AP's exit polls and
vote count estimates. At approximately 1:02 am bush led by 112,000
votes. Then at 1:31 the lead was down to less than 60,000 votes as
democrat voting counties in florida began to cast their votes. At 2:16
am fox declares bush the winner despite final tallies in palm beach,
miami dade and broward counties. The Ap showed that Bush's lead was
down to 48,000 @ 2;12 am. 4 minutes later bush's lead dropped to
30,000 votes. Fox's call was premature and partisan since the
aforementioned counties had not finished their vote tallies. (108)
According to Greg Palast and Melanie Eversley of the Palm Beach post,
in the article, "Firm says florida was worned about voters being
denied, 4/9/2001" Jeb bush had Database technologies (choicepoint)
gerrymander the 2000 elections. This no doubt influenced fox news
executive Ellis's call since he was Bush's cousin. In all 57,700
eligible voters were barred form voting because they were erroneously
classified as felons when in fact they were not or they had their
civil rights restored in another state before coming to Florida. (109)
Moore and palast's analyisis show that 90% of those denied were
innocent.(109) The US Civil rights commission also found the same
pattern of discrimination by DBT's rigged scrub list for felons. DBT
also knew full well that the errors were occuring. According to palast
and moore the blame for this falls on James Lee of ChoicePoint a
Atlanta based vote tabulation firm. More to come....
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