Conservatives suspected this from day one. But we were vilified in the media, as per usual, no thanks to the Bush Admin who obviously entered into a back room deal to sweep this (along with our national security) under the carpet. At this point, I don't know who to hold more responsible, Clinton or Bush.
agreed
Bush's AG for being a gutless puke.
Viva La Raza
1993 to 1996 : (SUDAN : ABDEL QADIR MAMOUR MEETS OSAMA BIN LADEN THREE TIMES IN THIS TIME PERIOD - See ITALY, DIAMONDS, GEMSTONE TRADE) A SENEGALESE Muslim cleric deported from Italy as a danger to state security was quoted today as telling a pan-Arab newspaper that he had met three times with Osama bin Laden, leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network. The cleric, Abdel Qadir Mamour, told the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat in an interview by telephone from Dakar, Senegal, that he had the meetings with bin Laden in Sudan from 1993 to 1996. Mamour said bin Laden had provided money to finance his trading in diamonds between Africa and Belgium, but did not say how much money was involved or if bin Laden was involved in the business. ---- "Italy: Deported cleric 'met bin Laden'," The Sunday Times, December 01 2003
1995 : (PORTLAND GROUP : EL HAGE CALLS ZAIDAN ABOUT GEMSTONE VENTURE : ZAIDAN DIRECTS HIM TO ADLOUNI-- see GEMSTONE TRADE) In 1995, El Hage called Zaidan to tell him about the launching of a profit making venture: the sales of an African gemstone called tanzanite. According to El-Hage's attorney, Sam Schmidt, Zaidan told El-Hage he wasn't interested in the business, but he knew someone from Portland who was - Adlouni. Records show that El-Hage had extensive dealings with Adlouni. El-Hage enlisted Adlouni to sell gems in the United States, used his bank account to pay a debt and asked for his help in raising money for an African charity that has been tied to the 1998 embassy bombings. - "Al-Quaida phone trail leads to Portland"
1995 : (HOPE, ARKANSAS : THE MINING COMPANY "AMERICAN MINERAL FIELDS" IS CREATED - See COBALT, GEMSTONE TRADE, MINERALS, URANIUM, CONGO, SIERRA LEONE, JEAN-RAYMOND BOULLE, ADASTRA) The obscure AMF was created just two years ago [1995?], according to its prospectus, for "the acquisition and development of world-class mineral deposits." ------ "US suspects terror African diamond link : Firm From Clinton's Home Town Has Deal With Zaire Rebel Chief Christopher Ruddy, May 16, 1997, http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1997/05/16/151128 via 8 posted on 07/01/2004 7:55:17 AM PDT by hoot2
APRIL 1997 mid : (ZAIRE/CONGO - GEMSTONE TRADE, ARKANSAS, AMERICAN MINERAL FIELDS, COBALT, ZINC) In mid-April [1997], Zairian [Congolese] rebel leader and one-time Maoist guerrilla [Laurent] Kabila signed a $1 billion agreement with AMF, giving the firm exclusive rights to explore and develop an area the size of Switzerland in southeastern Zaire. As part of the agreement, AMF has promised to invest $885 million to develop two mining operations. Nearly $600 million will be spent at Kupishi to restore a zinc mining operation there and another $305 million will be allocated to a Kolwezi cobalt mining project.
Not bad for an Arkansas company still not listed in the local phone directory and headquartered in a small community whose main employer is a local chicken-processing plant.
"It's going to take a billion dollars ... to bring the Kupishi mine and Kolwezi tailings and our exploration area into proper production," Earl Young, a spokesman for AMF, told the Tribune-Review. The expenditures are judicious, Young explained, because AMF estimates that the Kupishi mine has $4.5 billion in mineral deposits, dwarfed by Kolwezi with a $16 billion worth. These figures don't include the untold wealth under the chunk of Zaire over which AMF has exclusive exploration rights. ------ "US suspects terror African diamond link : Firm From Clinton's Home Town Has Deal With Zaire Rebel Chief Christopher Ruddy, May 16, 1997, http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1997/05/16/151128 via 8 posted on 07/01/2004 7:55:17 AM PDT by hoot2
[* My note: Is there a connection between American Mineral Fields and former ambassador Joe Wilson or his associates? To Alamoudi? ]
MAY 16, 1997 : (REPORT : ZAIRE GOVERNMENT LED BY MOBUTU SESE SEKO IN DANGER OF FALLING TO MAOIST REBEL LEADER LAURENT KABILA - See ARKANSAS, AMERICAN MINERAL FIELDS, GEMSTONE TRADE, COBALT, ZINC) NEW YORK - American Mineral Fields, a small Arkansas mining company headquartered in Bill Clinton's hometown of Hope, is the first major beneficiary of the imminent fall of the Zaire government headed by Mobutu Sese Seko. With rebel troops closing in on Kinshasa, Zaire's capital city, huge international companies such as South Africa's Anglo-America, DeBeers, BHP and Phelps Dodge have been scrambling to gain favor with the insurgents headed by Laurent Kabila.
Kabila's forces have seized two-thirds of Zaire, including the mineral-rich and diamond-producing areas. But America Mineral Fields has already beat the major companies to the finish line, snagging large contracts for mineral development and diamond trading from the rebel Zairian government.
The obscure AMF was created just two years ago [1995?], according to its prospectus, for "the acquisition and development of world-class mineral deposits." ----- ------ "US suspects terror African diamond link : Firm From Clinton's Home Town Has Deal With Zaire Rebel Chief Christopher Ruddy, May 16, 1997, http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1997/05/16/151128 via 8 posted on 07/01/2004 7:55:17 AM PDT by hoot2
1998 : (CONGO : 4 MONTH CIVIL WAR )
MARCH 1999 : (FAZUL ABDULLAH MOHAMMED TRAVELS TO LIBERIA & SIERRA LEONE TO TOUR DIAMOND FIELDS AS PART OF A PLAN TO FUNNEL DIAMONDS THROUGH WEST AFRICA TO FUND AL QAIDA --- See GEMSTONE TRADE) Fazul Abdullah Mohammed went on to Liberia and Sierra Leone, touring the Sierra Leone diamond fields in March 1999 as part of a plan to funnel diamonds through West Africa, according to a European investigation into al-Qaida financing. - "U.S. and British troops comb borders in nervous Kenya : Fears of terror attacks heightened ," By EMILY WAX, Washington Post via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 5/16/03
DECEMBER 1, 2003 : (ABDEL QADIR MAMOUR TELLS NEWSPAPER THAT HE HAD THREE MEETINGS WITH OSAMA BIN LADEN AND THAT BIN LADEN HAD PROVIDED FINANCING FOR MAMOUR'S TRADE IN DIAMONDS) A SENEGALESE Muslim cleric deported from Italy as a danger to state security was quoted today as telling a pan-Arab newspaper that he had met three times with Osama bin Laden, leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network. The cleric, Abdel Qadir Mamour, told the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat in an interview by telephone from Dakar, Senegal, that he had the meetings with bin Laden in Sudan from 1993 to 1996.
Mamour said bin Laden had provided money to finance his trading in diamonds between Africa and Belgium, but did not say how much money was involved or if bin Laden was involved in the business.
...In his interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, Mamour said Italian authorities deported him because they found at his home some CD-ROMs contained the wills of four suicide attackers in a bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in May. Mamour was quoted as saying he got the tapes from a fundamentalist Muslim in London so they could be distributed in Europe, but did not name the man who sent the tapes.
Mamour said he also met in Sudan with bin Laden's top aides including Mohammed Atef, also known as Abu Hafs al-Masri, who was killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan in November 2001.
[Abdel Qadir ] Mamour said his Italian wife and five children saved him from being sent to the US base in Guantanamo, Cuba. He said the Senegalese authorities kept him under house arrest and interrogated him for four days. - Asharq Al-Awsat said that when Mamour was asked by the interviewer to name his religious leader, he answered without hesitation: "Osama bin Laden."---- "Italy: Deported cleric 'met bin Laden'," The Sunday Times, December 01 2003
What Berger was hiding was the after action report regarding the Millinium arrest.
It was the Canadians who caught the terrorist trying to get into the USA so he could blow up LAX on New Year's Eve. I believe there were notes on the Clinton admin pages which joked about the admin's great job in catching that guy. And .. I think it also contained a lot of other stuff about how great they were at stopping any terrorist attacks in the year 2000 .. when actually, they had done NOTHING.
Supposedly Berger's job was to get rid of all those copies of the draft's of the after action report. Who knows whether he did or not.