BCCI was expressly designed to finance the nuclear bomb project, aka “the Islamic bomb”.
There are a couple excellent books on the topic, and Congress produced a reasonably detailed (but censored) report on BCCI, unfortunately under the chairmanship of John F’n Kerry in the one and only good thing he’s ever accomplished in his entire life.
The Congressional report is floating around, easy enough to Google for it.
> There are a couple excellent books on the topic,
I’ve got one really good book on it called “The Outlaw Bank”. I must dig it out and give it another read, as it has been a while.
> BCCI was expressly designed to finance the nuclear bomb project, aka “the Islamic bomb”.
Yes. They were also active in arms-trading and money laundering. All of these things the precise skills that a terrorist organization like al Qaeda would find handy.