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The Hidden Face of Terroris Continued from page 16 Omar bin Laden. Investigations may have _ turbing questions. demonstrated that Osama was not the "black What will he the results of this "onvern- Continued from page 16 Omar bin Laden. Investigations may have demonstrated that Osama was not the "black Bush's company, Arbusto. It was never _ sheep" of the family. Instead, they may have revealed whether he was investing his own _ shown that terrorism was actually the bin money or somebody else's. There was even Laden family business. This would have speculation that the money might have been associated the Bush family with terrorists, from Salem. In the same year, Mr Bath something the current President could not bought Houston Gulf Airport on behalf of allow to happen. the Saudi Arabian multimillionaire. For neo-conservatives, the portrait of the Three years ago, Mr Bush said the Bush family as a criminal syndicate with ties $50,000 investment in Arbusto was the only to questionable characters is reprehensible. financial dealing he had with Mr Bath. However, this contention can be based upon The connection between the bin Ladens a major precedent. and the Bush family does not end with Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin's Arbusto Energy. investigation into former President George On the BBC's Newsnight program, Greg Herbert Walker Bush's background led to a Palast stated (p. 5): startling discovery: that "The President's Young George also received fees as direc - family fortune was largely a result of the tor of a subsidiary of Carlyle Corporation, a _ Hitler project" (p. 28). little-known private company which has, in The Bush dynasty's connections with the just a few years of its founding, become one _ bin Ladens suggest that the family's collu- of America's biggest defence contractors. _ sion with enemies of the United States has His father, Bush Senior, is also a paid advis - never ceased. er. And what became embarrassing was the revelation that the bin Ladens held a stake in A State-sponsored Sociopolitical Project Carlyle, sold just after September 11. Re-examining Martin-Bard's previous These business connections may explain contention, that terrorism is part and parcel why the Bush Administration frustrated the of a "government-imposed sociopolitical FBI's efforts to investigate Abdullah and project", one is faced with some very dis- turbing questions. What will be the results of this "govern- ment-imposed sociopolitical project"? Where exactly is all of this state-sponsored terrorism leading? Quigley provides a fragmentary glimpse of the outcome in Tragedy and Hope. The Oxford professor reveals that a cognitive elite, arbitrarily dubbed "experts", "will replace the democratic voter in control of the political system" (p. 866). With representation for the masses removed from the e picture, what kind of life ake ne wee ae Uta can the common man expect to live? Quigley (p. 886) declares that this will be a system where the individual's: ... freedom and choice will be controlled within very narrow alternatives by the fact that he will be numbered from birth and fol - lowed, as a number, through his educational training, his required military or other pub - lic service, his tax contributions, his health and medical requirements, and his final retirement and death benefits. There you have it. George Orwell's 1984, built al-Qa'ida style! oo A State-sponsored Sociopolitical Project Re-examining Martin-Bard's previous contention, that terrorism is part and parcel of a "government-imposed sociopolitical project", one is faced with some very dis- 74 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com