Harken, Bush and Bahrain entangled.

[happydreams]

This is still another business link between Bush and Mid-
East elites.


This is an incredible deal, unbelievable for this small company," energy analyst Charles Strain told Forbes magazine, describing the oil production sharing agreement the Harken Energy Corporation signed in January 1990 with Bahrain.

Under the terms of the deal, Harken was given the exclusive right to explore for gas and oil off the shores of the Gulf island nation. If gas or oil were found in waters near two of the world's largest gas and oil fields, Harken would have exclusive marketing and transportation rights for the energy resources. Truly an "incredible deal" for a company that had never drilled an offshore well......

....It was Stephens who suggested in the late 1970s that BCCI purchase what became First American Bankshares in Washington, D.C. BCCI later acquired First American's predecessor, Financial General Bankshares. At the time of the Harken investment, UBS was a joint-venture partner with BCCI in a bank in Geneva, Switzerland. Bakhsh has been an investment partner in Saudi Arabia with Gaith Pharoan, identified by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as a "front man" for BCCI's secret acquisitions of U.S. banks.

Stephens, Inc. played a role in the Harken deal with Bahrain as well. Former Stephens bankers David and Mike Edwards contacted Michael Ameen, the former chief of Mobil Oil's Middle East operations, when Bahrain broke off 1989 talks with Amoco for a gas and oil exploration contract. The Edwardses recommended Harken for the job and urged Ameen to get in touch with Bahrain, which he did.

"In the midst of Harken's talks with Bahrain, Ameen- simultaneously working as a State Department consultant-briefed the incoming U.S. ambassador in Bahrain, Charles Hostler," the Wall Street Journal noted, adding that Hostler, a San Diego real estate investor, was a $100,000 contributor to the Republican Party. Hostler claimed he never discussed Harken with the Bahrainis..... Lots more



http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/07/136245.php

[blm]

1. I always heard that Clinton closed books on BCCI because Greenspan told

him it would collapse the world economy if they were opened - now, with Stephens so deeply involved, did Clinton close the books to protect him?

[FlaNoKerry]

2. Yes...and more...Clinton also ended the investigation of Iran Contra

and Kerry was angry. Clinton is as much as part of the NWO as Poppy Bush. NAFTA, flying around for the Tsunami, and Katrina? He convoluted our message...by standing there, again with poppy Bush, so any one who cried out at the incompetence, was seen as a rude leftie. The guns went into Mena, without serial numbers when he was Gov.

Bush=Clinton=Clinton=Bush=Bush=Clinton?=Clinton? 36 yrs of this crap? I have had enough, I see them, (clinton's) for who they really are.

:puke:

[Jackpine Radical]

3. You're crazy, of course. Unfortunately, only the truly crazy

have a prayer of understanding the world.

[happydreams]

4. Thanks for this blm. I'd like to get the facts on that.