BUSH/HARKEN/BCCI/CIA/BIN LADEN/ENRON (amended to add, in italics, more evidence of easy corruption): George W. Bush (
Bush 43) made his first real money out of shares he acquired in
Harken Energy, a worthless oil exploration company that became valuable when it was granted oil exploration rights in Bahrain, rights it obtained because
Bush 43's father, then-President George Bush (
Bush 41) was pals with the Sheikh of Bahrain (
Bush 43 got the
Harken shares when
Harken acquired the worthless shares in
Bush 43's own company, an acquisition which was clearly made to get use of the
connections of
Bush 43, through his father,
Bush 41).
Harken was partially owned by Union Bank of Switzerland (USB)
(to which Enron Online trading operations have recently been sold), which, with the infamous
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (
BCCI), owned Banque de Commerce et de Placements, which invested $25 million in
Harken, a deal arranged through the auspices of infamous financier,
Jackson Stephens.
(Remarkably, the financing also involved a critical investment from Harvard Management Company which manages the investments of Harvard University, an extremely odd type of investment - and as it turned out, a very bad one - for such an endowment.) Khalid bin Mahfouz, currently under house arrest in Saudi Arabia at the behest of the U. S., was: 1) a big original investor in
BCCI; 2) involved in the Carlyle Group with the family of
bin Laden and
Bush 41; and 3) a big
funder of the projects of
bin Laden, sometimes through the use of
Islamic charities. USB and
BCCI sold their interest in
Harken to Saudi real estate developer Abdullah Bakhsh, who is linked to
bin Mahfouz and to Ghaith
Pharaon, a front man for
BCCI. James
Bath was: 1) a flying (or, perhaps
more accurately,
non-flying) pal of
Bush 43; 2) an original partner in
Harken; 3) a probable
CIA liason to Saudi Arabia (and
Bush 41 used to head the
CIA and probably worked for the
CIA prior to that); 4) a business representative for
bin Laden's half-brother, who was killed in a
mysterious airplane crash in 1988, and
possibly a representative of
bin Laden's father; 5) operator of Skyway Aircraft Leasing Limited, a company based in the Cayman Islands which may have obtained planes from the
CIA and which was owned by
bin Mahfouz; and 6) an investor in Main Bank of Houston with
Pharaon and
bin Mahfouz.
BCCI was in effect an early version of al-Qaida, intended to make money by committing fraud in Western countries and use some of the money to fund Islamic terrorist operations against the West. When
Harken started to fail,
Bush 43 sold his shares in violation of insider trading rules, violations that were
whitewashed by regulators appointed by
Bush 41. (Of course,
Bush 43 has appointed his own regulators who turned a blind eye to the depredations of
Enron.) We can see how
Bush 43 was financially tied to
Bath through
Harken, and
Bath was tied to the
CIA,
bin Laden's half-brother, and
bin Mahfouz, and
bin Mahfouz was in turn tied to
BCCI and to
bin Laden. The
bin Laden family is
closely tied to the Bush family
through their shared interest in Bush 41's company, Carlyle (a company in which Bush 43 still probably holds an interest), which is poised to make a fortune off the massively increased defence spending entailed by the new war on terror involving attacking countries who are said to have had some sort of relationship with bin Laden (I imagine that there is much laughter in the boardrooms that Carlyle will do so well by being involved in chasing bin Laden) .
Bin Laden was set up by the
CIA as a leader of the 'freedom fighters' in Afghanistan
, and is said to have met with a CIA representative as recently as the summer, probably betraying that bin Laden still has a relationship with the CIA. When the FBI started to get too close in their investigation of
bin Laden,
Bush 43 told them to back off, and
Bush 43 now uses his bogus world war against
bin Laden to advance U. S. oil/drug interests around the world, including those of
Enron (a company heavily involved in the proposed pipeline through Afghanistan, and generally in the
development of the Eurasian petrochemical deposits
, particularly with respect to transporting energy to India and beyond, an issue which raises the possibility that special efforts were made by the Bush 43 administration in an effort to stave off the bankruptcy of Enron), and to hide the
stench of his regime's dirty involvement in the
Enron debacle.
Bush 43's involvement with Enron, despite his assertions that he hardly knows Kenneth Lay, go back at least until 1986 or 1987, when Harken and Enron were involved in an oil development together. Enron helped to
finance the legal shenanigans that got
Bush 43 appointed President by the U. S. Supreme Court. And so it goes . . . .