Is Bush's strong support for the UAE take-over of American ports related..

[FormerRepublican]

...to the old BCCI scandal?

I found this interesting info:

"There was no relationship more central to BCCI's existence from its inception than that between BCCI and Sheikh Zayed and the ruling family of Abu Dhabi.

Abu Dhabi was present at BCCI's creation as one of two providers of BCCI's capital. It was BCCI's largest depositor, and its largest borrower, and for most of BCCI's existence, its largest shareholder. The relationship between the two entities was, as Price Waterhouse told the Bank of England days before BCCI's closure, "very close," with BCCI providing services to the ruling family of Abu Dhabi far beyond the ordinary relationship of a bank to either its shareholders or depositors.(1)

There are numerous examples of the centrality of the Abu Dhabi relationship to BCCI, and its unusual nature.

In 1972, when BCCI was created, Abu Dhabi shareholders purchased 20 percent of its stock with an investment of $500,000, and then generously agreed to have that interest drop to just over one percent of BCCI just three years later."

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/14abudhabi.htm

This whole deal stinks to high heaven.

[Auntie Bush]

1. I don't really understand that...but I do know that ANYTHING bush*

wants to do STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN and is rotten to the core and someone he knows will benefit financially. That's a fact!

[FormerRepublican]

3. Simple - payback for $$$ loses. Recall that Bush Sr was involved...

...as was the CIA. BCCI absolutely reeked, and Bush was neck deep in it. I found it interesting that the UAE was neck deep as well. It looks suspicious on it's face.

Alternately, the port deal could be BCCI #2 - another way to launder $$$, drugs, illegal stuff, etc. for Bush and his UAE cronies.

[aquart]

2. smells ever so sweet to me.

all they had was national security. and they just fucked it.

[AntiFascist]

4. From the "Forbidden Truth"....

...America's support for Bin Ladin was in large part an involuntary consequence of its own ambitions in the region <with respect to the Soviet Union>. Saudi Arabia's support, on the other hand, was a calculated policy, clear and unambiguous, concerning its brand of Islam in the world. In light of these revelations, Osama bin Laden appears, above all, to be a product of Wahhabism and instrument of the Saudi kingdom. And both contained converging elements that linked them permanently.

<snip>

Osama bin Laden is only an emblematic figure in the major religious and financial issues and interests that underlie the future of even the Saudi regime. The networks that support him are well established--whether the BCCI, the Islamic banks, or the so-called humanitarian organizations--and it is quite unlikely that they will disappear with bin Laden.

The real issue now, and depends on our capacity to call into question Saudi Arabia's political and financial support of the world's fundamentalist movements.

So is it really wise to allow Saudi Arabia and the UAE, with its close financial ties to SA, to establish globalist monopolies? Isn't this the potential start of the Islamo-fascism we have been warned about?

[cosmicdot]

5. good question

Harken Energy-BCCI connected?

the Octopus rears its ugly ahead again

Yes, there were BCCI Senate investigations ... but, did anyone big get busted?

The criminals are still at large and in action.


I suspect there are a couple of individuals scurrying around in the background who could shed some insight on matters ...

Jackson Stephens (Mr. Acxiom data miner, Arkansas good ol'boy ...probably the biggest contributor to Sen. Blanche Lincoln...is it a wonder she's such a disappointment in dealing with the BFEE?) ...

Pug Winokur ... where's he at? Former Enron and Harvard Management Corporation director ... and Dyncorp director ... surely he may have some BCCI info and the Harken Energy deal ...
http://www.onlinejournal.com/archive/02-17-02_Chin.pdf

James Bath who was used to funnel money from Osama bin Laden's brother, Salem bin Laden (dead, you know-another coincidental plane 'accident'), to set up George W. Bush in the oil business

http://www.buzzflash.com/perspectives/bush_harken.html
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0210/S00178.htm


Makes Rep. McKinney's comment about the country being run by a crime syndicate more apropos.