Subject: Does the BBC Lie?

From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
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Date: Wed, Nov 7, 2001 7:28 PM
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/08/world/world4.html

FBI 'was told to back off bin Laden family'

London: United States special agents were told to back
off the bin Laden family and the Saudi royals soon after
George Bush became president, although that has all
changed since September 11, a BBC television program
has claimed

BBC2's Newsnight also said on Tuesday night that it had
secret documents from the FBI investigation into the
terrorist attacks which showed that despite claims that
Osama bin Laden is the black sheep of the family, at
least two other US-based members are suspected of
links with a possible terrorist organisation.

The program said it had obtained evidence that the FBI
was on the trail of bin Laden family members living in
the US before September 11. A document showed that
special agents from the Washington field office were
investigating Abdullah, a close relative of Osama,
because of his relationship with the World Assembly
of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a suspected terrorist
organisation, it said.

The US Treasury has not frozen WAMY's assets, and
insists it is a charity, the program said, yet
Pakistan had expelled WAMY "operatives" and India
claimed WAMY was funding an organisation linked to
bombings in Kashmir. The FBI did look into WAMY but
for some reason agents were pulled off the trail, it
said.

The former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah
from 1987 to 1989, Michael Springman, told the program:
"In Saudi Arabia I was repeatedly ordered by high-level
State Department officials to issue visas to unqualified
applicants - people who had no ties either to Saudi
Arabia or to their own country. I complained there. I
complained here in Washington ... and I was ignored."
He added: "What I was doing was giving visas to
terrorists, recruited by the CIA and Osama bin Laden
to come back to the United States for training to be
used in the war in Afghanistan against the then Soviets."

The program said it had been told by a highly placed
source in a US intelligence agency there had always
been "constraints" on investigating Saudis, but under
President George Bush it had become much worse.

After the elections, the intelligence agencies were
told to "back off" from investigating the bin Laden
family and the Saudi royals. The policy was reversed
after September 11, it reported.

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Subject: Re: Does the BBC Lie?
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2001 11:33 AM
Message-ID: <081120011133299121%stang@subgenius.com>

In article <3BE9D1AC.5B9A@succeeds.com>, nu-monet
<nothing@succeeds.com> wrote:

> http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/08/world/world4.html
>
> FBI 'was told to back off bin Laden family'
>
>

Just a coincidence... BUSINESS. Busines is business... you know, that's
different from all that POLITICAL stuff.

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