Hi~
This is pretty funny.
I do have the actual Wall Street Journal, (WSJ), article in Part 3 of SILK ROAD.
In fact, I still have the hard copy sitting right next to me circled in lime green so I wouldn't forget to put it in my article!
I'm one of those strange people who get the WSJ delivered to their house.
So I did see the WSJ article the same AM that I wrote my article & did include it.
However, in printed format it is on page 9; I do tend to overload people with information.
Think what it would look like if I didn't divide it up into a series!
And I've hardly begun.
What's also confusing is that Rense does not give a reference to the WSJ article so how are we to know what article Judical Watch is refering to?
The Judical Watch is also in my article on page 2 of printed format with an extremely important statement:
Any companies doing business with the Binladin Group "are disloyal to the interests of the United States and should be held accountable,"
SO, since, we've found ourselves here again let me suggest; not to put too fine a point on it, but wouldn't this association actually be considered TREASON?
There I've said it.
Now what will happen???
More mysterious white vans with magnetized signs parked outside my house. Just noting for the record, mind you.
Thanks for noting the fine points.
Made me go & check.
For all I knew I left out the danged article!!
Follows is the part about the WSJ article.
Phoenix
AN ARTICLE TODAY FROM THE WSJ DISCUSSES HOW BINLADEN WILL BENEFIT FROM INCREASED DEFENSE CONTRACT SPENDING.
September 27, 2001
Bin Laden Family Could Profit From a Jump
In Defense Spending Due to Ties to U.S. Bank
By DANIEL GOLDEN, JAMES BANDLER and MARCUS WALKER
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
If the U.S. boosts defense spending in its quest to stop Osama bin Laden's alleged terrorist activities, there may be one unexpected beneficiary: Mr. bin Laden's family.
Among its far-flung business interests, the well-heeled Saudi Arabian clan -- which says it is estranged from Osama -- is an investor in a fund established by Carlyle Group, a well-connected Washington merchant bank specializing in buyouts of defense and aerospace companies.
Through this investment and its ties to Saudi royalty, the bin Laden family has become acquainted with some of the biggest names in the Republican Party. In recent years, former President Bush, ex-Secretary of State James Baker and ex-Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci have made the pilgrimage to the bin Laden family's headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Mr. Bush makes speeches on behalf of Carlyle Group and is senior adviser to its Asian Partners fund, while Mr. Baker is its senior counselor. Mr. Carlucci is the group's chairman.
Osama is one of more than 50 children of Mohammed bin Laden, who built the family's $5 billion business, Saudi Binladin Group, largely with construction contracts from the Saudi government. Osama worked briefly in the business and is believed to have inherited as much as $50 million from his father in cash and stock, although he doesn't have access to the shares, a family spokesman says. Because his Saudi citizenship was revoked in 1994, Mr. bin Laden is ineligible to own assets in the kingdom, the spokesman added.
The bin Laden family has long disavowed Osama, and has cooperated fully with several federal investigations into his activities. The family business, headed by Osama's half-brother Bakr, epitomizes the U.S.-Saudi alliance that the suspected terrorist often rails against. After the 1996 truck bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, that killed 19 U.S. servicemen, Saudi Binladin Group built military barracks and airfields for U.S. troops.
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1001546348608890000.htm
Phoenix
: Stunning piece of research! Don't know if this one was missed
: or not but apparently the Wall Street Journal has been
: doing its own little investigation:
: http://www.rense.com/general14/WSJbushsenior.htm
: WSJ - Bush Sr. In Business
: With bin Ladin Family
: Via Carlyle Group
: Judicial Watch.org
: 9-28-1
: WASHINGTON, DC -Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm
: that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and
: abuse, reacted with disbelief to The Wall Street Journal
: report of yesterday that George H.W. Bush, the father of
: President Bush, works for the bin Laden family business in
: Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group, an international
: consulting firm. The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden
: family at least twice. (Other top Republicans are also
: associated with the Carlyle group, such as former Secretary
: of State James A. Baker.) The terrorist leader Osama bin
: Laden had supposedly been "disowned" by his
: family, which runs a multi-billion dollar business in Saudi
: Arabia and is a major investor in the senior Bush's firm.
: Other reports have questioned, though, whether members of
: his Saudi family have truly cut off Osama bin Laden.
: Indeed, the Journal also reported yesterday that the FBI
: has subpoenaed the bin Laden family business's bank
: records.
: Judicial Watch earlier this year had strongly criticized
: President Bush's father's association with the Carlyle
: Group, pointing out in a March 5 statement that it was a
: "conflict of interest (which) could cause problems for
: America's foreign policy in Middle East and Asia."
: Judicial Watch called for the senior Bush to resign from
: the firm then.
: "This conflict of interest has now turned into a scandal.
: The idea of the President's father, an ex-president
: himself, doing business with a company under investigation
: by the FBI in the terror attacks of September 11 is
: horrible. President Bush should not ask, but demand, that
: his father pull out of the Carlyle Group," stated
: Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
: "This has the potential of making 'Billygate' (Jimmy
: Carter's brother's dealings with Libya) look like small
: potatoes," added Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
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