with Bush's Iraq spending veto upheld, Congress should review the very real Saddam/Osama link

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And that link would be BCCI, the Saudi-backed criminal bank used by Reagan and Bush Sr to arm Saddam in the 80's as well as move move Osama's. It's one reason "BCCI" is a four letter world in Washington DC. Independent investigative journalist Lucky Komisar had a recent article on the http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/04/04/questions-linger-about-bushes-and-bcci/">Saddam/Bush/Bin Laden/BCCI historical nexus:

Questions Linger About Bushes and BCCI

Analysis by Lucy Komisar

Inter Press Service (IPS) - April 4, 2007

Now that the U.S. Congress is investigating the truth of President George W. Bush’s statements about the Iraq war, they might look into one of his most startling assertions: that there was a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

Critics dismissed that as an invention. They were wrong. There was a link, but not the one Bush was selling. The link between Hussein and Bin Laden was their banker, BCCI. But the link went beyond the dictator and the jihadist — it passed through Saudi Arabia and stretched all the way to George W. Bush and his father.

BCCI was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a dirty offshore bank that then-president Ronald Reagan’s Central Intelligence Agency used to run guns to Hussein, finance Osama bin Laden, move money in the illegal Iran-Contra operation and carry out other “agency” black ops. The Bushes also benefited privately; one of the bank’s largest Saudi investors helped bail out George W. Bush’s troubled oil investments.

BCCI was founded in 1972 by a Pakistani banker, Agha Hasan Abedi, with the support of Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and head of the United Arab Emirates. Its corporate strategy was money laundering. It became the banker for drug and arms traffickers, corrupt officials, financial fraudsters, dictators and terrorists.

The CIA used BCCI Islamabad and other branches in Pakistan to funnel some of the two billion dollars that Washington sent to Osama bin Laden’s Mujahadeen Osama bin Ladento help fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. It moved the cash the Pakistani military and government officials skimmed from U.S. aid to the Mujahadeen. It also moved money as required by the Saudi intelligence services.

At the same time, BCCI helped Saddam Hussein, funneling millions of dollars to the Atlanta branch of the Italian government-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL), Baghdad’s U.S. banker, so that from 1985 to 1989 it could make four billion dollars in secret loans to Iraq to help it buy arms.
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There's more more interesting info on BCCI in the rest of http://thekomisarscoop.com/2007/04/04/questions-linger-about-bushes-and-bcci/">Lucy's article, and if that doesn't scratch your BCCI-itch, here's a recent http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=22698&archive=34451">radio interview Lucy did all about BCCI.

Enjoy! :-)