Is Iraqgate Born of Iraqgate? -The Prince Turki-Kashoggi Ties

posted by ewing2001 on Wednesday June 18, @09:38AM

Is Iraqgate Born of Iraqgate?

By Guest Author Flori09

Monday Senator Carl Levin said if Americans had known that not all information about top weapons sites had been shared by the CIA with U.N. inspectors, "there could have been greater public demand that the inspection process continue." In other words, no pretext for war in Iraq.

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The Iraq-nuclear issue is underscored by looming questions from the Reagan-Bush years, where U.S. responsibility for providing nuclear support to Iraq would bubble up and just as quickly disappear. The same assets operating 1981 - 1992 are at the heart of the Iraq nuclear issue today.

Records culled up from the Securities & Exchange Commission submitted by Buttes Gas & Oil during this period (some stamped "Received by Bechtel Information Services") prove that the CIA's former #2 clandestine and Near and Middle East expert Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt was quite active under cover of Buttes. His corporation operated subsidiaries such as Buttes Resources International, that in turn controlled subsidiaries headed by Iraqi national Hamid Jafar, a graduate of Cambridge with a degree in petroleum engineering. Hamid served as president of Buttes subsidiaries Crescent Petroleum International, Crescent Holdings, and Sharjah Petroleum, a venture in which Getty Oil also had interests in Sharjah, UAE. The entire Buttes organization, consisting of hundreds of subsidiaries operating world-wide, would be the envy of Enron.

One corporation also holding ownership of Buttes-Hamid Jafar's Crescent in the 1980s was Panamanian-based Fusion Holdings which doesn't sound as though it would have much to do with gas or oil drilling, but a lot to do with something nuclear.

Kim Roosevelt, former OSS, CIA, arms dealer, and lobbyist for Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran whose side-kicks and understudies include Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki and a stable of Abdul Aziz and Al-Faisals, was buried deep in what Ollie North refers to as the shadow government. He created a number of corporations in Noriega's Panama, including Progress Drilling International that operated out of a post office box in Napa County, CA.

As news of British intelligence complicity in the illegal shipment of weapons to Iraq surfaced in England in the early 1990s, it became clear that Hamid's brother, Jafar Jafar headed Iraq's nuclear program from 1982 forward. Jafar Jafar left Baghdad days before the statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled last April, slipping off through Syria and to the UAE where his brother, Hamid, holds court in Dubai as head of Crescent Petroleum. Hamid had acquired the Sharjah and Crescent assets by 1992.

Jafar Jafar has insisted that Iraq fully dissembled its nuclear program in cooperation with and working with the United Nations such that nothing remained of the program by 1998.

Could it be, with assets like Hamid Jafar and Jafar Jafar long in the shadow government's stable, that the war against Iraq was also a war to seize records that might reveal U.S. covert illegal and double dealing 1981 - 1990 in Iraq? While our brilliant Senator Levin is questioning CIA director George Tenet, what can the Director tell us about White House knowledge of WMD?

After all, isn't it the White House that received Iraq's detailed report that was thousands of pages in length in order to edit it this past winter before it went to the U.N.? That being the case, it's a sure sign that Iraq retained records the White House wishes none to see, adding further unspoken pretext to attack Iraq.

Prince Turki al Faisal

from 911 Skeptics Unite -the encyclopedia

Prince Turki al Faisal Al Saud

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Former head of the Saudi Intelligence Service (->), who was replaced 10 days prior to Sep11th with Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, who accompanied Deputy Prime Minister and Commander of the National Guard Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz on his official trips overseas.

Al Faisal became then Minister of Foreign Affairs. Faisal is connected to Unocal (->) through the Saudi Arabian Delta oil company. On September 5th, 2001 he visited Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri, "to whom he also conveyed messages from the Saudi leadership concerning the latest developments in the Middle East".

On September 8th, 2001 al Faisal assigned to implement an "arab duty-free zone". The proposed duty-free zone covered Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. A final meeting was already scheduled for September 12-13th.

Source:

http://www.saudiembassy.net/press_release/archive/01_news5.htm

Turki al Faisal is primary target in one of many 911victim- lawsuits (->) to have been one of the sponsors and founders of the Sep11th attack.

On 8 November 2001, in a rare television interview with Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC), Prince Turki Al-Faisal described how "Crown Prince Abdullah sent a letter to President George W Bush before 11 September, in which he stated that relations between the two countries were at a crossroads."

Fifteen of the 19 suspects believed responsible for the attacks on the US are reported to have come from Saudi Arabia.

Source:

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/560/re5.htm

Indeed, as the CIA confirmed on October 20th 2002, "Al Qaida is supported by 12 financiers, most of them Saudis"

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_7.html

As Ron Motley, one of the attorneys confirmed, Faisal participated in the facilitation of the funding of "Al Qaeda":

Motleys law company "spoke with senior Taliban officials who were in the room when he indeed did facilitate the transfer of large sums of money directly to al Qaeda in Afghanistan. And the people who gave us these sworn statements were in the room when it occurred. And these were senior Taliban, former Taliban officials."

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/25/cct.00.html

On December 11th, 2002, while mentioning the lawsuit, Sen. Bob Graham (->), D-Miami Lakes, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the vice chairman, said the information on Saudi Arabia should be made public to inform citizens about a continued source of support for anti-American terror groups.

Source:

http://tampatrib.com/nationworldnews/MGA10NT9M9D.html

Prince Saudi Turki al Faisal has a long tradition of friendship with the US government and US Congress members.

One of his friends, Bin Laden’s cousin Sheikh Suhail Ibn Mustahil Ibn Salim , by 1979, together with James R. Bath (->) and Khaled bin Mafhuz (->), had become a business partner of former Texas Governor George W. Bush, in the family's Zapata Oil and Arbusto Ltd.

Bin Laden's family had invested in the Carlyle Group (->Blackstone), specializing in buyouts of defense and aerospace companies, in which George Bush Sr. holds the position of Consultant. According to business magazine Forbes, the father of Khaled bin Mafhuz (->BCCI, ->Harken), who has the 251 fortune of the world, estimated in thousand 900 million dollars, had founded the main Saudi bank, the Commercial National Bank, that created diverse companies in collaboration with the Sico, Swiss society of the Bin Laden Group. The sister of Mahfouz was married to Osama bin Laden.

In December 2002, it was revealed, that Mahfouz' main business partner Yassin al-Kadi (->) was the secret owner of US-computer company Ptech (->), among their customers are Applied Materials, Booz Allen Hamilton (->), which is run by former CIA director James Woolsey (->), FAA (->), FBI, IBM Global Services, IRS, The MITRE Corporation (->), MetLife, Motorola, NATO, NAVAIR, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sprint or the US Air Force.

Kadi was accused by the FBI to be a financial supporter of Bin Laden, but put their knowledge on Ptech on hold since October 2001. The same policy happened to Bin Laden Inc.

Immediately after the US Election in 2000, the intelligence agencies were told to "back off" from investigating the bin Laden family, who was in connection with Saudi Arabia.

The Bin Laden Group, together with Carlyle, held stocks in the BioPharmacy company Bioport (->), which was co-founded by former Bin Laden's business partner Fuad-el Hibri from Intervac LLC (ex-Porton Down, ->DynPort) and Admiral William Crowe (ex-CIA).

El-Hibri once worked as a merger and acquisitions manager for the Rockefeller-linked Citigroup in New York and arranged various deals for the Bin Laden Family, at that time close friends to Saudi Arabia. Bioport is distributing Anthrax-vaccines with the help of Avant Immunootherapeutics Inc., a contractor of Dynport Vaccine Company LLC, a joint venture between Dyncorp(->) and Porton Down.

Prince Turki Al Faisal had confirmed meetings with the Bin Laden Group and Osama bin Laden himself, several times in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan before he was stripped of his Saudi citizenship in 1994.

In July 1998, as the lawsuit said, Al Faisal met Taliban leaders in Kandahar, Afghanistan and reached agreement on fresh aid from Riyad.

"Prince Turki also promised to provide oil and generous financial assistance to both the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. After the meeting, 400 new pick-up trucks arrived in Kandahar for the Taliban, still bearing Saudi Arabia license plates.

IslamicSupreme Council (Cache)

The Saudi Intelligence is one of the contractors of British Aerospace (BAe), which is in business with Saleh Bin Laden.

In 2002, John Weston resigned from BAe Systems. There are speulations around, that this had to do with bribery.

In the meantime BAe is under control by Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. In April 2002, Insiders of BAe leaked a document to Cryptome (->), which proved that "there has been considerable reporting elsewhere alleging that the former Head of Saudi Intelligence, Turqi Al Faisal, was a major conduit of material and financial support to Osama, and that indeed that Osama was sent to Afghanistan essentially as an agent of Saudi Intelligence."

http://cryptome.org/soil/soiled-dove2.zip

Al-Faisal met Bin Laden in June 2001 in a hospital in Dubai, together with CIA agent Larry Mitchell, as reported by Radio France International 1, frenchintelligenceOnline.com and the Guardian UK.

Guardian

DetNews

During an increased crisis between Washington and Saudi Arabia on January 12th 2002, al-Faisal met with Senator and current democratic candidate for US president, John Kerry (->) and members of a delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives, headed by Congressman David Price.

On January 17th, 2002 he met with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs William Burns. In February 2002, Faisal visited Washington, DC, to attend a series of lectures and discussion groups on Saudi-U.S. relations. The eight-person delegation, which included three female university professors, attended events sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS ->), the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, the Middle East Institute and Middle East Insight magazine. http://www.saudiembassy.net/publications/newsletter2002/1-m.htm

When the Lawsuit against Saudi Arabia started in August 2002, George Bush decided to meet Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar Bin Sultan on his ranch. Not much was revealed on the content, officially it was described as a meeting on the "middle east crisis".

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