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>From Outlaw Bank by Beatty and Gwynne.
They include this statement from Sheikh Kamal Adham, former head of Saudi
intelligence, bro-in-law of late King Faisal, and shareholder in BCCI and
First American Bank, who was speaking to an Arabic audience when admitted,
in 1992, that "Pakistan had their own atomic bomb and that Abedi/BCCI had
helped them get it.
....Kamal Adham was anticipating...indictment in the U.S. over BCCI fraud.
"So why would he want to call attention to all of this? The Western press
aside, the wily old spy master certainly knew the intelligence agencies of
the U.S. would pick up his remarks...He may have been sending a message
directly to George Bush, reminding the president that Kamal Adham knew far
too much to be trifled with.
in perspective...9-91. Morganthau was going after the powerful Saudi as one
of the main culprits of the BCCI scandal. Morganthau kept quiet about his
intentions to indict Adham AND SHEIKH KHALID BIN MAHFOUZ (in hopes to avoid
state department inverventions.)
but when Kamal found out what was happening, he hired the former executive
assistant of then White House Chief of Staff John Sununu...who had just
(surprise...not) quit to go "private."
This publically brought the Bush administration into the BCCI scandal for
the first time.
Beatty and Gwynne learned that Bush's White House was closely monitoring the
BCCI investigation, insisting that a administration official sit in on
congressional and justice dept. interviews with BCCI witnesses (does this
sound familiar to anyone else?? ...the investigation into whistleblowing
with Dubya).
some in the FBI complained the FBI probe was spinning its wheels because it
was "too political" (again, sound familiar as an excuse to investigate the
Bush lies to go to war with Iraq???)...and decisions were being held up in
Washington.
A justice dept official complained Washington didn't really want the Atty
Gen.'s office to actually return indictments. Washington (Bush) wanted to do
an overall package deal, "'where we cut off the hands of a few Pakistanis
and paint it as if they were really all the big folks.'"
Beatty and Gwynne go on to note that Bush Sr, lied and claimed he didn't
know Adham. (who had been director of the CIA in 1976, WHEN GEORGE BUSH
HEADED THE CIA).
The American agency had been "helping to modernize Saudi intelligence during
Bush's tenure (oh, no conflict of interest there, huh, Zapata Oil?)
The authors also note that Bush was known as "the Saudi vice president"
throughout the middle east. State dept said it was impossible for Bush not
to have known Adham because he was the main man in S.A. when you making BIZ
DEALS, as well as policy.
when asked about Bush's statement, Adham did not directly deny it, though
Saudi's knew Adham's newphew, Sultan bin-Bandar was ambassador to the U.S.
and was a frequent guest of Bush.
....but what about the nuclear weapons issue? Reagan, "intent on continuing
military aid to Pakistan during the Afghanistan (mujahadeen/Osama bin Laden
as Reagan's allies) war, turned a blind eye b/c U.S. law prohibited military
aid or sale to nonnuclear countries known to be developing nuclear weapons.
In 88 and 89, Bush danced on the edge of truth about Pakistan, saying it did
not "possess a nuclear explosive device" to justify continuing MASSIVE
support for Pakistan, b/c Pak, bush said, only had "unassembled components."
As soon as Russia pulled out of Afghanistan, Bush said unassembled
components violated the rules and cut off aid.
Beatty and Gwynne, in Time Magazine, were "the first to assert that BCCI was
instrumental in Pakistan achieving unofficial Nuclear Club membership.
Via BCCI, Pakistan had received sophisticated American military technology
that Congress NEVER AUTHORIZED. Adham's remarks re: an atmomic bomb may have
been suggesting that it wouldn't be in the Bush administration's
self-interest to probe too deeply into how Pakistan, and BCCI, came to
possess such military capacity.
The Sheikh knew that BCCI was "the creation of a real life Dr. No, whose
empire brokered ballistic missiles, illicit pharmaceuticals, stolen military
secrets, heroin, and hot money, leaving a trail of corruption across two
decades and seventy countries. And of all people, Adham had reason to know
that the (Bush) White House knew it too, and had known about it for years."
pp 272-77
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