Posted on 04/01/2002 9:37:01 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:38:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Clinton administration shut down a 1995 investigation of Islamic charities, concerned that a public probe would expose Saudi Arabia's suspected ties to a global money-laundering operation that raised millions for anti-Israel terrorists, federal officials told The Washington Times.
Law enforcement authorities and others close to the aborted investigation said the State Department pressed federal officials to pull agents off the previously undisclosed probe after the charities were targeted in the diversion of cash to groups that fund terrorism.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
BUMP!!
"Yemeni tycoon Khalid bin Mahfouz established the Middle East Capital Group (MECG) on the tax-haven island in 1996, only to be placed under house arrest in Saudi Arabia three years later.
In the wake of the US Embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told Saudi defence minister Prince Sultan that Mahfouz had channelled tens of millions into terrorist accounts in London and New York.
The maverick financier was no stranger to intrigue—he was the principal shareholder in BCCI ("the Bank of Criminals and Cocaine International")—when it perpetrated the biggest fraud in financial history."
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BCCI(Bank of Commerce and Credit International)--The Kerry/Brown Senate report 'buried' during the 'lame duck' Bush 41 session, with last rites by the Clinton Democrats in the Spring of '93.
'I see Dumb people. All the time. They're liberals, they're democrats and many of them work in the press.'
I suggest we all write a note, email or call the White House to tell the President how proud we are of his courage, his resolve and acknowledging the burden he carrys everyday and express our gratitude.
The answer is really not that important, because the 'owned' politicians make you and I pay, rather than their 'moneyed masters'.
I think there needs to be an investigation done on Congress
Freepers are the best researchers there are....!!!!!!
"The suit's main target is Sami Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida professor who created or was associated with several Florida charities or think tanks, including the International Committee for Palestine, Islamic Concern Project and the now-defunct World and Islam Studies Enterprise.
Warrants served by agents in the Virginia raids last week targeted, among others, the International Institute of Islamic Thought in Herndon, a major source of funding for Mr. Al-Arian's World and Islam Studies Institute.
"The warrants sought information on Islamic Jihad, Hamas, the Islamic Concern Project, the World and Islam Studies Enterprise, and Mr. Al-Arian. They also sought information on the SAAR Foundation, an educational and health charity founded by the Al-Rajihi family of Saudi Arabia.
..Mr. Al-Arian and Mazen Al-Najjar, director of the Islamic Concern Project, have been the focus of federal investigations since the mid-1990s."
I'll bet Rush forgot to mention this.
I thought China bought the whole freakin' Dimocratic Party 10 years ago!?!
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