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Eastern nations? Since Iraq was implicated in the 1993 WTC Bin Laden is a made-to-order enemy, the man reportedly attack, why are we not bombing that "rogue" nation? behind the 1993 WTC attack and a fugitive from United States * Why does the heavy drinking and searching for hookers by justice for more than a decade. It has been noted that the govern- some of the hijackers in Boston, as reported by Reuters news ser- ment apparently has spent more time and money chasing vice, sound more like mercenaries carousing before a mission Microsoft's Bill Gates than in capturing bin Laden. This may be than pious religious fundamentalists about to meet their maker? due to the business connections between our new terrorist enemy * How did the terrorists obtain top-secret White House and Air and wealthy American companies. Force One codes and signals—the excuse for hustling President According to several reports, including Jonathan Beaty and S. Bush all across the country on September 11? Was this evidence — C. Gwynne's book The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret of an inside job, or was it, as reported by Fox News, evidence that Heart of the BCCI (Random House, NY, 1993) and American former FBI employee and double agent Robert Hanssen had Free Press (October 15, 2001) (the reincarnation of the delivered an updated version of the purloined Promis computer Washington newspaper The Spotlight), Bush family friend James software to his Russian handlers who passed it along to bin R. Bath used money from Osama bin Laden's older brother, Laden? Does this software, which was stolen from a US company Salem, to open a partnership with George W. Bush in Arbusto during the Reagan administration by Justice Department officials Energy, a West Texas drilling company. Bush believed the under Attorney-General Ed Meese, allow outsiders carte blanche Spanish word arbusto to mean "bush", although it generally refers entrée to our top-security computers? to "shrub". (Hanssen's last job before being arrested as According to the Houston Chronicle, a spy was to upgrade the FBI's intelligence Salem bin Laden named Bath his business computer systems.) representative in Texas shortly after the + If United Airlines Flight 93 crashed as Another close connection senior Bush was named CIA Director by Senge and the hjacker, why dd wines. | Petween bin Laden and the | in pach amily, particularly eb and es tell of a second plane which followed it Bush family is the US$1 2- Neil, who were involved in the 1989-93 down, falling burning debris, no deep crater billion private international Savings and Loan debacle that cost taxpay- and crash wreckage spread over a six-mile investment firm known as ers more than $500 billion. ; ; area, indicative of an aerial explosion? Through a tangled web of Texas oilmen, « Why did news outlets describe the The Carlyle Group. wealthy Saudi sheiks and unscrupulous throat-cutting and mutilation of passengers bankers connected to BCCI, the younger on Flight 93 with box cutters, when Time Carlyle directors include George Bush eventually gained a sizeable magazine on September 24 reported that one of the passengers called home on a cellphone to report, "We have been hijacked; they are being kind"? As Internet pundit Gary North wrote: "We need a theory of the coordinated hijackings that rests on a plausible cause-and-effect sequence that does not assume the complete failure of both check-in procedures and the on-board seating procedures on four separate flights on two sepa- rate airlines. I don't see how anyone can make an accurate judgment about who was behind the attacks until he has a plausible explanation of how interest in a new oil company called Harken Energy. Two months before Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi troops into Kuwait, Bush sold two-thirds of his Harken stock, netting himself nearly a one- million-dollar profit. The stock dropped when the Iraqi invasion began. The BCCI was closed by federa investigators in 1991 after suffering some $10 billion in losses. It was a Pakistani-run institution with front companies in the Cayman Islands that used secret accounts for globa money-laundering and it was used by US intelligence to funnel money to former Reagan Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, former Bush Secretary of State James Baker, and former Reagan aide and GOP operative Richard Darman. hijackers got onto the planes and were not removed." bin Laden and the Mujahedin in Afghanistan who were fighting But the Federal government, aided by a sycophantic mass against the Soviet-backed government. media, did not allow such rational thinking to interfere with a rush Salem bin Laden, incidentally, was killed in the strange crash of to judgement that Osama bin Laden was the culprit behind the an ultralight aircraft in 1988. The single-passenger craft suddenly attacks. and inexplicably veered into high-voltage electric powerlines near San Antonio, Texas. OSAMA BIN LADEN AND HIS FRIENDS It should be noted that during the Persian Gulf War it was As in the JFK assassination, authorities had a suspect even Binladen Brothers Construction (now the Saudi Binladen Group) before anyone knew for certain what had happened. Osama bin __ that helped build airfields for US aircraft. The bin Laden brothers Laden, born into a wealthy Saudi oil/construction family, received were then described as "a good friend of the US Government". arms and financing from the US Government during the Later, the bin Laden firm continued to be hired to construct an Russo-Afghan War of the 1980s. Despite the fact that bin Laden American air base in Saudi Arabia, despite the fact that Osama has denied any knowledge of the September 11 attacks, he is pre- had already been blamed for terrorist acts such as the truck bomb- sumed guilty by both the government and the press. No other ing of the Khobar Towers at the Dhahran base, which killed 19 interpretation of the attacks has been allowed in the corporate Americans. A WorldNetDaily writer commented: "So let's get mass media. this straight. Osama blows up our facilities and his family gets Another close connection between bin Laden and the Bush family is the US$12- billion private international investment firm known as The Carlyle Group. Carlyle directors include former Reagan Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, former Bush Secretary of State James Baker, and former Reagan aide and GOP operative Richard Darman. OSAMA BIN LADEN AND HIS FRIENDS As in the JFK assassination, authorities had a suspect even before anyone knew for certain what had happened. Osama bin Laden, born into a wealthy Saudi oil/construction family, received arms and financing from the US Government during the Russo—Afghan War of the 1980s. Despite the fact that bin Laden has denied any knowledge of the September 11 attacks, he is pre- sumed guilty by both the government and the press. No other interpretation of the attacks has been allowed in the corporate mass media. NEXUS + 17 DECEMBER 2001 — JANUARY 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com