Reply #20: online docu about Carlyle: [View All]

[rman]

Documentary "The Iron Triangle" about the Carlyle Group, online viewing (realmedia)
Dutch subtitles, mostly english spoken.

Carlyle is a private investment bank specialized in all things related to war.

"...The entire top of Carlyle was there: Frank Carlucci, James Baker, David Rubenstein, and Shafiq bin Laden on behalf of the Bin Laden family. All of them were watching the events of 9-11.
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The Bin Laden family had ties with Carlyle long before president Bush started working for Carlyle.
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Carlyle didn't directly own the company. Vinnell was purchased by BDM, a company where Carlyle had a majority share. Vinnell advised and trained the Saudi national guard.
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The national guard has to protect the monarchy against internal threats... To the extent that the monarchy had reason to fear the Saudi population, this company aided in suppressing any rebellion."


"With its ability to discern the impact of government regulatory and spending changes, Carlyle has been successful in identifying investment opportunities before they become evident to other investors. This advantage provides Carlyle with proprietary deal flow and limited price competition....With detailed industry knowledge, transactions are often shown to Carlyle before entering the public domain and account for many of the Carlyle transactions executed on a negotiated, non-auction basis."

archive
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/11838857/

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tangent: Riyadh suicide bombings target Vinnell

"President Bush characterized the May 12 suicide bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as being carried out by "killers whose only faith is hate."; In fact, the devastating attack was a calculated, political act that was probably not orchestrated by al Qaeda and not directed primarily against the United States.
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Both the recent bombings and the 1995 attack were made against the same target. This was the Vinnell Corp., a Fairfax, Va., company recently acquired by Northrop-Grumman that trains the 80,000 member Saudi Arabian National Guard under the supervision of the U.S. Army."

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/weekly_2003/saudi_bombing_vinnell_corporation.html