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U.S. BUSINESS AND BUSH FAMILY TIES TO OSAMA BIN LADEN REVEALED |
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from The Wayne Madsen Report
Entered into the database on Monday, August 22nd, 2005 @ 16:00:28 MST |
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One of the top U.S. contractors in Iraq was also intimately involved
in the Bin Laden global financial empire. The U.S. construction and
engineering firm Fluor Corp. has raked in handsome profits from reconstruction
contracts awarded by the Pentagon in Iraq. Fluor, which received the lucrative
contracts because it was included by the Pentagon on an "invitation only"
short list of eligible contractors, has contributed over $500,000 to Republican
candidates since 2000. Kenneth Oscar, a Fluor Vice President, was the Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Procurement and was conveniently in charge of a $60
billion budget. One of Fluor's board members is retired Admiral Bobby Ray Inman,
a former deputy director of the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) director. What is not known about Fluor is its long standing ties to the Bin Laden family's
worldwide financial interests. WMR has recently obtained the copy of a French
intelligence report on the Saudi Investment Company Organization (SICO), an
operation controlled by the Bin Ladens. The report reveals that Fluor was an
integral part of the Bin Laden financial empire through a network of interlocking
off-shore companies and directorships registered in such locations as Curacao,
the Cayman Islands, London, the Netherlands, and Virginia. The Bin Laden banking organization is difficult to track -- but it
is centered around the "nebulous" SICO (Saudi Investment Co. Organization),
centered in Geneva and Jeddah with operations in Rotterdam, Bristol, London,
Panama, Curacao, Cayman Islands and USA. SICO primarily engages in mergers and
acquisitions. SICO also "talent spots" competent associates in new
jurisdictions and off-shore locations. SICO-Geneva was founded in 1980 and was headquartered in the law firm
Lens & Shlup. In 1985, SICO Geneva changed its location to the domicile
of Yaslem BINLADEN, at 2 de la rue FRANCOIS-LEFORT, Geneva. SICO-Geneva started
with capital of 1 million FS. It was formed by YASLEM BIN LADEN (chairman),
BEATRICE DUFOUR (member), BAUDOUIN DUNAND (member, attorney and signature authority),
KJELL CARLSSON (member), BRUNO WYSS (member), and FRANK WARREN (member). DUNAND is a prominent attorney in Geneva with the WILLIAM KAZAN financial
group. KJELL CARLSSON is Swedish. FRANK WARREN is CEO of OMNISPORT, a sporting
goods firm and President of PROTEUS, a maritime transport firm.BRUNO WYSS is
from an important Swiss financial family and is linked to CHAKARJI family of
Geneva (not to be confused with CHAKARJI family of Zurich, which is linked to
drug money. SICO-Geneva is represented in London by SAMI KHOURY, a Lebanese. In 1987, SICO Geneva acquired a 75 percent stake in RUSSELL WOOD &
CO. of London, a financial group. Two directors were named by SICO-Geneva: AKBAR
MOAWALA and MOHAMMAD CHAKARJI, the latter linked to BRUNO WYSS of Geneva. In
1988, SICO-Geneva acquired 14.9 percent of SI GROUP, a machinery and engineering
group. The two mastermind heads are in Jeddah and Geneva. Two affiliated companies
are FALKEN Ltd. of Georgetown and SICO of Curacao. The links between FALKEN
and SICO-Curacao are clear. SICO-Curacao's network is mainly engaged in real estate businesses
in the EU and Great Britain. For those in the EU, the affiliate of SICO-Curacao
is DANIEL US PROPERTIES LT. (DUSPIC). For Great Britain, the affiliate of SICO
is ALLIANCE GENERAL MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL, INC., and we have found a relationship
between SICO-Oman and TRAFALGAR HOUSE of Great Britain, which has a 65 percent
holding in SICO-Cementation (Oman). FLUOR is a partner of SICO-Curacao, which
is in London under the name FLUOR DANIEL. SICO-Curacao was founded 13/04/84 at 62 Ruyterkade, Curacao, Netherlands
Antilles. The directors are YASLEM BINLADEN, SALEH BINLADEN, BEATRICE DUFOUR
(Swiss), and T. CHARLES TICKLE (American). SICO-Curacao is a partner of DANIEL
REALTY CORP. SICO-Curacao is a partner of DANIEL REALTY CORP., the network of
which, DUSPIC, was registered 12/01/84 (a few months before the establishment
of SICO-Curacao) in the state of Virginia, US. DANIEL REALTY CORP., apparently,
is, itself DANIEL INTERNATIONAL CORP., which has since 1977 been part of the
large global construction and engineering firms FLUOR CORP. Up the chain, SICO-Curacao has a relationship with SICO-Jeddah and
the financial links of the network and this affiliate is like such: SICO-Jeddah
takes capital from the Saudis and other Arabs and invests it in SICO-Curacao
which has authority over the financial affairs. Down the network, SICO-Curacao
invests the capital in DUSPIC, which is in charge of real estate investments
in the EU. The management of these investments is in charge of the partnership
with SICO-Curacao, that is to say, DANIEL REALTY CORP. In reference to BEATRICE DUFOUR, she is like a figurehead whereas T.
CHARLES TICKLE, who is another director of SICO-Curacao, where he certainly
represents DANIEL REALTY and FLUOR CORP., since he is found also as a director
of DUSPIC and similarly as a vice president of DANIEL REALTY. It is also elsewhere interesting to note that FLUOR, in partnership
with SICO through the DUSPIC net, is very active in North Yemen, a country where
the BINLADEN Group is not totally absent. We are continuing to research the real estate investments in the EU
and eventually, the SICO-FLUOR cooperation on construction projects in North
Yemen. In Great Britain, and the other link between SICO-Curacao and its ALLIANCE
(on which we continue to investigate in Great Britain, to wit, SICO and the
management role filled by DANIEL REALTY in the EU). we have detected the presence
of FLUOR, the partner of SICO-Curacao, in the EU, from the base in London. Herewith,
find the report on the activities of FLUOR DANIEL LTD. (UK). Elsewhere, we have found a relation between SICO-Oman, which is involved
in cement, and the big British firm TRAFALGAR HOUSE. Find herewith a report
on TRAFALGAR HOUSE, which shows that it has a 65 percent holding in SICO-Cementation
(Oman). The second affiliate in this is FALKEN LTD., which is headquartered
in the Cayman Islands. FALKEN LTD. is not assessed as an actual firm and does
not seem active. We have detected the presence of a company named FALKEN LTD.,
with the following address in London: 1st Floor Offices, 8-10 Stamford Hill,
London N16 6XZ. This company was registered 19/09/89, FALKEN LTD., of the Cayman Islands, of which we continue to investigate,
is a holding company that is controlled by SICO-London, which itself is controlled
by SICO-UK. SICO-London, a financial company, was founded 15/11/84 and its directors
are Beatrice DUFOUR (Swiss), and AKBAR MOAWALLA (Tanzanian). The two are figureheads,
MOAWALLA having replaced SALEH BINLADEN a few months after the formation of
the company. SICO-London is controlled by holding company FALKEN LTD., and much
of its business is conducted through TROPIVILLE BV of the Netherlands. Find
herein a report on the activities of SICO-London. FALKEN LTD. also controls SICO-UK, another financial company founded
in Bristol 02/08/85 and whose directors are BAUDUIN DUNAND, JAMES R. G. LANYON,
and JOAN K. LANYON. The LANYONS are figureheads. DUNAND is a specialist in financial
setups and a lawyer. Most of the revenues (98 percent) are returned to FALKEN
LTD. On 02/01/86, SICO-UK was acquired by SICO-Panama, which acted as an agent
of SICO-UK. Find herein a report on the activities of SICO-UK. Regard how the affiliates are passed by SICO-Curacao to FALKEN LTD.
We did not find hard evidence that SICO-Curacao and FALKEN LTD are linked, but
there are indications that those links have been created. The indication is
the existence of TROPIVILLE BV in the Netherlands, which is in the network of
FALKEN LTD. As we mentioned above, one finds TROPIVILLE as the principal shareholder
of SICO-London, which is controlled by FALKEN LTD. Also, TROPIVILLE is headquartered
in the Netherlands and SICO-Curacao is an off-shore company in the Netherlands
Antilles, which is generally used for off-shore activities in Europe. The recurring
Dutch connections with the two affiliates (SICO-Curacao and FALKEN LTD.) is
another indication of the relations between SICO-Curacao and FALKEN There is a stinking air of treason and involvement with terrorism surrounding
the Bush family. Additional European intelligence provided to WMR confirms
that Osama bin Laden has been a major kingpin in drug shipments to Europe and
North America since 1991, when he established a major drug smuggling network
in Sudan and Saudi Arabia. When Bin Laden moved to Afghanistan in 1996, he re-established
the drug smuggling networks initially set up by the CIA during the Mujaheddin
war against the Soviets. The drug baron who headed up the Afghan heroin supply
network for Bin Laden was code named "Kandahar." The drug smuggling
operations were based alongside Bin Laden's terrorist training and weapons of
mass destruction procurement activities in Osama Bin Laden's "Arab enclave"
located at Khalden in Paktia province. According to a French intelligence report
marked "CONFIDENTIEL DEFENSE/USAGE STRICTEMENT NATIONAL" (Defense
confidential, "French Eyes Only"), U.S. and British intelligence elements
continued to control Osama Bin Laden and his Khalden-based terrorist corps as
of 1995, fully two years after "Al Qaeda" was found to be involved
in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and one year prior to the Khobar Tower
bombings in Saudi Arabia, the point at which the late FBI counter-terrorism
agent John O'Neill began linking Al Qaeda to the Saudi royal family and certain
American "interests." The Al Qaeda drug supply network remains in operation and continues to generate
hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Bin Laden's global operations.
All during the rule of the Taliban, Afghan drug mules hauling heroin abroad received
a standard request for assistance letter from Mullah Mohammad Omar, the one-eyed
Taliban leader. Mullah Omar dispatched a number of envoys to Washington, DC to
have talks with senior Bush administration officials prior to 911. They all carried
the same assistance request letter. The Mullah Omar assistance request letter
is below: The Bin Laden drug network also intersects with Geneva-based financial entities
established by George H. W. Bush while he was CIA director and Vice President
and President of the United States. Bin Laden and Bush money are held in some
of the same financial tranches in Switzerland, the Isle of Man, and the Bahamas
(see following story). The Bush family off-shore money tranches originated with
gold bars and jewels spirited out of the Philippines upon the overthrow of Ferdinand
Marcos in 1986. The Marcos fortune was the price exacted by Vice President Bush
for his being granted asylum in Hawaii. The gold bars were transported from the
Philippines to the International Diamond Exchange Vaults near Rockefeller Center.
A CIA proprietary firm called Oceaneering International of Houston procured barges
to move some of the gold from secured warehouses to a specially-configured Boeing
747 which then flew the cargo to New York. Oceaneering sealifted the remaining
gold to Oregon. After George W. Bush’s victory in 2000, the last of the
gold and jewels stored in New York was moved to UBS Bank in Zurich. Marcos and
Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi set about to create Five Star Trust in 1983
as a means to create a vehicle to use the Philippine wealth to create and funnel
fungible assets abroad. In 1989, Five Star Trust was officially established in
the Isle of Man by a Houston-based attorney who was a close friend of the Bush
family. WMR is now in possession of a UBS letter to the Swiss Federal Police, dated
October 30, 2001, which was in response to an October 2, 2001 request by the
police to look for Bin Laden family "terrorist funds" (Terroristengeldern).The
UBS letter states that two terrorist-related financial activities were detected
with regard to the movement by Osama Bin Laden of suspicious funds in 1990 and
1991. [This was shortly after Bush's Philippine tranche of gold and jewels was
established at UBS]. On 20/08/90, there was a $450,000 transfer of funds into
Osama Bin Laden's account. The deposit included "jewels." On 28/10/91,
there was a $482,000 transfer of funds into Osama Bin Laden's account from the
Saudi American Bank in Jeddah, the same bank Israeli intelligence directly tied
into Saudi terrorist funding in the West Bank. (See "Intelligence Whispers"). As reported in "Intelligence Whispers," on August 21, 2001, just
a few weeks before the 911 attacks, a UBS Warburg/Paine Webber broker named
Chung Wu advised his investors to sell their Enron stock, whereafter UBS quickly
fired the broker. In addition, the "Intelligence Whispers" report
regarding the mysterious Bush-connected Geneva and Zurich money mover who transferred
$10 million and $10 billion in Saudi and other funds to Texas in 1995 and 1996,
respectively, has been positively linked to Al Taqwa, a Swiss entity tied to
"Al Qaeda." A $50,000 check drawn on the 1995 funds was written to
Fayyaz Ahmed, one of the 911 hijackers. The 1996 $10 billion transfer was for
Enron's fraudulent LJM Cayman Islands front and was to finance a deal with the
Taliban to build the trans-Afghan CentGas pipeline. (Enron, Halliburton, Unocal,
Zalmay Khalilzad, Hamid Karzai, and Mullah Omar were all involved in the 1996
CentGas negotiations, which were held in Tashkent and Houston). WMR is also
in possession of an audit letter from Ernst & Young giving a clean bill
of health to an "Al Qaeda"-affiliated "charity" based in
Kuwait, Lajnat al Dawa al Islamiya, which, in reality, supplied Taliban and
Al Qaeda forces with assistance in Afghanistan and Pakistan. WMR can also confirm that the Bush administration's cozying up to the Sudanese
government (which once provided Osama Bin Laden safe haven) is another indication
that the Bush family continues to engage in joint financial activities with
Osama Bin Laden. It is likely that Sudan's southern Christian rebel leader John
Garang was encouraged to enter into a peace agreement with Khartoum in a ploy
for him to let down his guard. Just days after Garang became Sudan's Vice President,
he was killed in a suspicious helicopter crash along the Ugandan-Sudanese border,
an area where Pentagon Special Operations forces are present. As Vice President,
Garang was in a position to discover Bin Laden's past and present activities
in Sudan, including those that involve Bush family interests. While Sudan claims
it no longer has any relations with Osama Bin Laden, it can now be revealed
that Osama Bin Laden continues to operate the Al Shamal Islamic Bank in Sudan
that was identified by the State Department in 1996 as being linked to Al Qaeda
and Bin Laden. The "Al Qaeda" leader invested $50 million in the bank.
The bank was used in 1993 to transfer $210,000 to a bank in Tucson, Arizona
to finance the purchase of a plane to fly Stinger missiles from Pakistan to
Sudan. The plane was flown to Khartoum. (According to the French intelligence
report, Bin Laden was still under U.S. and British intelligence control at the
time of the plane purchase and in 1993 Sudan was on the State Department's state
sponsors of terrorism list). It is significant that Al Shamal's assets were
never frozen by the United States nor was it designated a terrorist-related
organization. The Sudanese claim that Al Shamal is no longer in operation and
the Bush administration has not countered these claims. However, in October
2004 this photo (below) was taken in Khartoum (the bank was open for business
and very busy): |