From: inigo@montoya.net (D. P. Roberts)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Nov 7, 2001 10:35 PM
http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/071101/dlame43.asp
Bush thwarted FBI probe against bin Ladens
AFP
(London, November 7)
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FBI agents in the United States probing relatives of
Saudi-born terror
suspect Osama Bin Laden before September 11 were told
to back off soon
after George W Bush became president, the BBC has reported.
The BBC's Newsnight current affairs programme on Tuesday
said that
Bush at one point had a number of connections with Saudi
Arabia's
prominent Bin Laden family.
It added there was a suspicion that the US strategic
interest in Saudi
Arabia, which has the world's biggest oil reserve, blunted
its
inquiries into individuals with suspected terrorist
connections -- so
long as the US was safe.
Newsnight reported it had seen secret documents from
an FBI probe into
the September 11 terror attacks that showed that at
least two other
US-based members of the Bin Laden family are suspected
to have links
with a possible terrorist organisation.
The programme said it had obtained evidence that the
FBI was on the
trail of Bin Laden family members living in United States
before, as
well as after, the terrorist attacks.
Newsnight said Bush made his first million 20 years
ago with an oil
company partly funded by the chief US representative
of Salem Bin
Laden, Osama's brother.
Bush also received fees as director of a subsidiary
of Carlyle
Corporation, a little-known private company which in
just a few years
since its founding has become one of America's biggest
defence
contractors, and his father, George Bush Sr, is also
a paid advisor,
the programme said.
The connection became embarrassing when it was revealed
that the Bin
Ladens held a stake in Carlyle, sold just after September
11, it
added.
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