House Of Bush, House Of Saud

[indigobusiness]

Ties Between Bush Family And Saudi Royals

The biggest crime in American history and planes are grounded. Yet the House of Saud gets safe passage home
The ties between the Bush family and the Saudi royals are revealed in a hard-hitting new book by Craig Unger, a key source for Michael Moore's film 'Fahrenheit 9/11'. Here we print an exclusive extract

18 July 2004


It was the second Wednesday of September 2001. Terrorist attacks had grounded all commercial and private aviation throughout the entire United States for the first time in history. Former vice-president Al Gore was stranded in Austria because his flight to the United States was cancelled. Former president Bill Clinton was stuck in Australia. Major League Baseball games were postponed. American skies were nearly as empty as they had been when the Wright brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk. America was paralysed by terror, and for 48 hours, virtually no one could fly.

No one, that is, except for the Saudis. Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, was orchestrating the exodus of more than 140 Saudis scattered throughout the country. They included members of two families: One was the royal House of Saud, the family that ruled the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and which, thanks to the country's vast oil reserves, was without question the richest family in the world. The other family was the Sauds' close friends and allies, the Bin Ladens, who in addition to owning a multibillion-dollar construction conglomerate had spawned the notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden.

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To understand its scope and its meaning, one would have to search through tens of thousands of forgotten newspaper stories, read scores of books by journalists and historians, and study myriad "secret" classified documents and the records of barely remembered congressional probes of corporate intrigue and Byzantine government scandals. One would have to journey back in the time to the birth of al-Qa'ida at the terrorist training camps during the Afghanistan war. One would have to study the Iran-Iraq War of the Eighties, the 1991 Gulf War, and the Iraq War of 2003. One would have to try to deduce what had happened within the corporate suites of oil barons in Dallas and Houston, in the executive offices of the Carlyle Group, in the Situation Room of the White House, and in the grand royal palaces of Saudi billionaires. One would have to interview scores of politicians, oil executives, counterterrorism analysts, CIA operatives and businessmen from Washington and Saudi Arabia and Texas. One would have to decipher brilliantly hidden agendas and purposefully murky corporate relationships.

Finally, one would have to put all this information together to shape a continuum, a narrative in which the House of Bush and the House of Saud dominated the world stage together in one era after another. Having done so, one would come to a singular inescapable conclusion: namely, that, horrifying as it sounds, the secret relationship between these two great families helped to trigger the Age of Terror and give rise to the tragedy of 9/11.


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=542117

[fearnobush]

1. That about sums it up, I'm almost done with House of Bu$h House

$aud. It's pretty darned scary, especially just tonight seeing a X wife of a Bin Laden speak out against the family and swaring that that its a given that the extended family of OBL and the royal family have indeed not severed ties with one Osama Bin Laden.

Can't remember her 1st name but she has a book out on the subject.

[indigobusiness]

2. She is articulate and insightful and I applaud her guts

in speaking out. It takes courage to do what she is doing.

I couldn't believe she was being bashed in a DU thread, a night or two ago, after a CNN appearance. I was so shocked, I didn't even respond. Sometimes I wonder what my fellow DUers are thinking.