Posted on 06/02/2006 4:41:37 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
BTTT
one way to ensure that a story never gets mainstream is to have WND feature it.
Fox News to Report on Ties Between Bin Laden Family & JIMMY CARTER! (5-31-06)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641410/posts
Maybe this will get me flamed... but didn't OBL's family disown him some years back? I heard OBL isn't even in his parents' will.
Might even be true but coming from the "Censure Carter" committee, who would take it seriously.
Yeah - I thought the same thing; something to do with Osama not bathing regularly.
For public consumption, yes. There is ample evidence, however, that he still has ties to at least some members of his family.
I gave the Bin Laden family more credit then getting involved with Jimmy Carter. I guess I will have to revaluate my opinion of them.
I know I heard that also, but I was thinking it was after 911. Maybe I am wrong, been known to be occasionaly!!
I think it was more of a PR move to insure that the family business didn't suffer because it was being used to fund terrorism. OBL has dozens of siblings, some of them sincerely hate him, but not all.
How would ANY ONE know that?
Funny how this WND piece fails to mention that the bin Laden family long ago disowned their psycho black sheep Osama. When "the bin Laden family" gives money to US political figures, it is in the interest of undermining, not advancing, Osama's aims. Osama, as people who live in the real world (i.e. not people who rely on WND for their news) may recall, is bitterly opposed to any sort of friendly relations with the US.
He has a colossal extended family, so it would be unlikely that not a single one of them has any sympathy with him. However, there tends to be pretty central control of money in families like that, and I don't think anyone with any access to the bin Laden family's financial mother lode is supporting Osama -- if for no other reason than that most of them are far too self-interested to risk getting themselves cut off from the mother lode. Most of them are far more interested in money than in advancing any wacko religious agenda, and few if any fancy the idea of ending up living in an ever-changing series of caves. They do palatial mansions, not caves.
Huta and Iman bin Laden (Osama's sisters) are both implicated in the Al Taqwa bank scandal.
Since the source is the "Censure Carter Committee" and WND, I take it all with a grain of salt. OTOH, if there is some objective evidence (receipts, scans of correspondence, etc.), I'd be more than happy to look at it for myself. Otherwise, sounds like more conspiracy to me.
You comments are correct. However, I think the larger point to be made is that if the bin laden family had somehow given money to President Bush it would be splashed all over the media as some sort of major indictment and scandal. There is the usual MSM double standard at work here.
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