Calling all DU researchers! Neil Bush and Dubai/UAE connection?

[BlueEyedSon]

[phoebe]

1. off topic a bit - how about Oil for Food scandal connection?

which includes Carlyle and Koch Industries (Bush sister) to name a few..

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/27792?comments=view&cID=53472&pID=53444

and

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=234185

snip

The U.S. Treasury Department, in its hunt for Saddam's assets, is not looking specifically at Oil-for-Food, but has provided some of the most telling snippets of information. In April of this year, Treasury released a list of Saddam front companies its investigation has so far uncovered, including a major Oil-for-Food contractor in the UAE, Dubai-based Al Wasel & Babel. Along with trying to procure a sophisticated surface-to-air missile system for Saddam, Al Wasel & Babel did hundreds of millions' worth of business with Baghdad under Oil-for-Food, and was just one of some 75 contractors authorized by the U.N. to deal with Saddam out of the UAE. (As it happens, the 9/11 Commission found that some of the hijackers' funding flowed through the UAE, but working backward from the al Qaeda end, the trail eventually vanishes.)

Nothing so far on Neil..

[JCMach1]

2. Neil Bush was dissed by the Education Minister

They didn't buy software from his company Ignite!

[BlueEyedSon]

3. The Minister may have thought it was not a good investment.