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Whatever Happened To Iraqgate
American Spectator | Nov. 1, 1996 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

Posted on 12/29/2001 12:15:34 AM PST by rubbertramp

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1 posted on 12/29/2001 12:15:34 AM PST by rubbertramp
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To: Uncle Bill; Black Jade; thinden; rdavis84
I am struck by the fact that Marianne Gasior's initial article appeared in Time on June 21, 1993, a month before Vince Foster's death.

This evidence jibes with Peter Kawaja's evidence of the cyanide plant in Boca Raton.

2 posted on 12/29/2001 12:15:34 AM PST by rubbertramp
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To: thinden
Madam LaFarge and her seven layer anthrax cake....(cookies are too "bourgeois").
3 posted on 12/29/2001 12:15:35 AM PST by rubbertramp
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Interesting .I believe our troubles started when the US warmed up to Iraq ,to keep Iran in check. The old "The enemy of my enemy is my friend " mentality.

If Iraq had never attacked Kuwait ,we would never hear of the arms buildup or muclear program overthere.

4 posted on 12/29/2001 12:15:35 AM PST by Captain Shady
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To: rubbertramp
madam lafarge indeed.
5 posted on 12/29/2001 12:16:10 AM PST by thinden
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To: Black Jade; Wallaby
Take a look at Hillary's role with a Jackson Stephens company, Van Roll AG, headquartered in Switzerland. She was the lawyer who fixed the big pollution scandal with WTI.

Van Roll is a big chemical producer that is reputed to use organized crime to get rid of its noxious waste. Van Roll took on Kennematal in a settlement engineered by Hillary.

There is also the question of just what, exactly, Von Roll AG was exporting to Saddam Hussein's Iraq on the eve of the Gulf War. Von Roll claims the shipments seized in Frankfurt and Bern were forging presses; the Swiss police and German armaments experts say that they could have been used as recoil mechanisms for Saddam's uncompleted superguns.

7 posted on 01/01/2002 4:44:44 AM PST by rubbertramp
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To: Black Jade; OKC Submariner; thinden
From Candy Lovett's site:.....

Chemical & Biological (germ) warfare weapons of mass destruction were made in Boca Raton, Florida and Houston, Texas by "international terrorists" working with U.S. intelligence. It was called the PIT (Product Ingredient Technology) Plan. The PIT plan was financed/constructed by Dr. Barbouti/IBI (Ishan Barbouti International), builder of the Pharma-150 chemical/biological Complex, at Rabta, LIBYA.

· Former President George Bush, James Baker III, John Deutch (now CIA Director, had financial interests in some of the companies which developed/sold/transferred these weapons to IRAQ. YES -while being Commander - in - Chief, President Bush was arming Saddam Hussein with these weapons of MASS DESTRUCTION, and two years later "knowing" that (but the American Public did NOT) - placed American Forces in HARMS WAY.

· Introducing Peter Kawaja, a security specialist, who was awarded a Million Dollar security contract to provide a computer based system for PIT and was prime security contractor to IBI providing bodyguards and other physical services. Kawaja was asked to install a hydrogen cyanide detection system. Kawaja became suspicious and took his concerns to the CIA/FBI/CUSTOMS and operated for the Government under a code name because he was told that these people (IBI) were "International Terrorists" and the government was going to prosecute them. This was in 1989, prior to any war or anyone losing their life.

· Kawaja soon found, however, that U.S. Intelligence and the U.S, Government were acting in a joint venture with these same terrorists, federal agents and politicians (calls to/from the U.S., London, Baghdad), along with paper documents and intercepted fax transmissions (originating from Switzerland) regarding the Commodity Credit Corp. - Banco Nationale del Lavorro(CCC-BNL), the letters of credit of the BNL, as well as a lot of other communications regarding the Gulf War that was to come. Wanting to believe the entire government was not involved in this conspiracy, Kawaja sent a Federal Express package to code name M323CF at the National Security Agency, on July 16, 1990. Kawaja issued a WARNING of Iraqi Intelligence operating inside the U.S., and in close proximity to a U.S. Classified Military Facility and then asked these fatal questions: "Is our military in joint venture with IBI to develop chemical/biological weapons FOR the U.S.?" And then the big one, "Does the President know?" (As George Bush had prior used the excuse: "I was left out of the loop." when he was accused of being involved in other heinous crimes).

· The war was planned and it went forward , however, 8 Federal Agents armed with automatic weapons RAIDED Mr. Kawaja's offices of the International Security Group (ISG) in 1990, sequestered him under armed guard for 4-hours and removed boxes of documents and tapes, evidence against, not only foreign terrorists, but more importantly, against federal agents and numerous persons and politicians all the way to the President of the United States. The Search Warrant and Affidavit for Search was not shown to Kawaja and he was threatened not to speak with the media. The evidence was taken "somewhere" for SEVEN DAYS "before" being presented to the Magistrate and was then SEALED and made SECRET from the American Public, as National Security.

· This illegal search was conducted through a Warrant approved by President Bush obtained under the International Emergency Economic WAR POWERS ACT. When Mr. Kawaja tried to do an expose to tell America about these crimes, as Gulf Veterans started getting sick and dying, he received a phone call, which was recorded, from John Scheibel (Subcommittee on International Economic Policy & Trade: re-ARMING OF IRAQ) who said "Who are you more afraid of, George Bush, or Saddam Hussein?" Kawaja replied, "George Bush". Scheibel immediately said 'DO NOT TRY HIM IN THE MEDIA' and hung up. Within 3 months, Eileen Kawaja, wife of Peter Kawaja DIED. One of the Agents later called Kawaja to deliver a message. Mr. Kawaja's life AND freedom was threatened numerous times, all documented in various manners including Police Reports, however, the FBI, who was informed, NEVER investigated.

· The Affidavit for Search was (4 years later) unsealed finally by Mr. Kawaja after much effort. No one thought he would live to survive to get it unsealed. That Affidavit and other Government Documents, sworn to (under penalty of Perjury) by Federal; Agents PROVES, the U.S. Government KNEW what was going to take place in the war with Iraq. Federal Agents provided their evidence: (excerpt from a letter to a U.S. Senator from Louis Champon, partner to Haidar Barbouti in the PIT project) "I can assure you, if drums of cyanide left our plant, Dr. Barbouti had his reasons. EITHER TO BE USED AGAINST AMERICAN TROOPS (written in 1990, we were at war with Iraq, but no deaths yet) OR FOR U.S. TERRORIST ACTS AGAINST US HERE AT HOME."

· Federal Agents provided their evidence that, Barbouti owned "specialty chemical companies" and a company in Europe identified as CROSS LINK, in Belgium.

· Federal Agents provided their evidence that Islam Barbouti was supplying military items to IRAQ!

· All of this and MORE was sworn to by FEDERAL AGENTS in 1990, yet all of it and ALL evidence taken under an illegal Search Warrant from Peter Kawaja was sealed and made SECRET FROM ALL AMERICA and the President and Commander-in-Chief went ahead with the War with Iraq and KNOWINGLY PLACED your sons, daughters, wives, husbands IN HARMS WAY!

· Peter Kawaja went on to give the Resnick Interview and many others. He was subpoenaed to appear as the star witness for the Government, supposedly against Barbouti and the terrorists. Kawaja was not even allowed to answer pertinent questions that the jurors wanted to ask him. And when Peter Kawaja attempted to tell the truth to the jurors, the Assistant United States Attorney, Thomas O'Malley, shut down the grand jury and dismissed them, and he dismissed Peter Kawaja, and [he has] now motioned, in a federal court, to drop all of the lawsuits and all of this information. In addition, all of the documents that were not returned to Peter Kawaja were sent to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

· ABC-Television went down to interview Mr. Peter Kawaja. After the interview was over, he asked them when they were going to air it. They said:

"We can't air this. It would topple the Government of the United States."

8 posted on 01/01/2002 5:04:08 AM PST by rubbertramp
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To: Uncle Bill; rdavis84; thinden
Hillary did her legal number with the Von Roll company in 1990. Could Van Roll be the infamous Cross Link?

Dubya is going after terrorists in a stealthy manner. Could this be why we haven't heard from Hillary publicly since 9/11?;o)

9 posted on 01/01/2002 5:07:23 AM PST by rubbertramp
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To: rubbertramp
This is too bizarre, I'm really laughing here.

I've been doing searches to find out why Bush would have a Really Good Reason to sign The Executive Orders and came up with this article along with others. I was going to Post, now I don't have to! ;-)

Ooooh what a terrible web we weave for Truth always rears it's ugly head for those who deceive!!

Bump

10 posted on 01/01/2002 7:15:53 AM PST by horsewhispersc
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To: horsewhispersc
BTW,

Happy New Year to All!

11 posted on 01/01/2002 7:41:05 AM PST by horsewhispersc
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To: rubbertramp
The same thing that happened to George mitchells promise to find out who leaked in the Clarence Thomas hearings.

Nukem

12 posted on 01/01/2002 7:43:34 AM PST by Alas
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To: Alas
And the Leach Banking Committee Report on Money Laundering from Mena.
13 posted on 01/01/2002 7:56:20 AM PST by rdavis84
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To: rubbertramp,Uncle Bill,ratcat,Wallaby,BlueDogDemo,golitely,roughrider,Fred Mertz,Plummz,aristeide
Thanks for the flag for the Timmerman article-a defintie keeper from the past.

There is another company associated with Barbouti's acquisitions for Saddam and Iraq that was right here in OKC and believed to have had a connection to the OKC bombing investigation. The company produced a rocket fuel booster called TK7 and the company was owned by Moshe Tahl (sp?) a prominent real estate developer still active in OKC. Tahl is an Israeli closely connected to the US and Isreal inteligence community as well as William Northrop, a man with the same pedigree who also lived in OKC.

Barbouti met with Tal to acquire the booster additive. Some have even speculated that the booster may have been used in the OKC bombing-I do not know but given McVeigh's ties to Iraq it is very possible. And I know that Tal provided a tour for visiting Isreali experts hosted by the USG who wrote a report stating the OKC bomb was ME in design -this is in Stephen Jones book, "Others Unknown", along with references to Northrop's involvement in the case for Jones and Tahl.

My opinion is that Barbouti was an asset of the CIA and Bush Sr during the late 1980s and was THE MAN used by Bush to funnel US technology for weapons of mass destruction to IRaq. Former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee once even stated that Barbouti was a valuable resource for the intelligence community. Barbouti had direct ties to Wackenhut (CIA front company in US) who also seemed to protect him. Spy magazine wrote a long article on this and produced copies of checks to prove its case.

The son of Barbouti, Heider Barbouti, runs a company in Houston (close to Bush Sr)IBI . Heider has been directly linked to the Lockerbie bombing by OKC attorney Mike Johnston who has copies of the actual receipts of the luggage purchased by Heider and which carried the explosives that blew up the plane. I know Johnston and this is a real story. Johnston represented several groups suing Barbouti and recovered the receipts through legal action and his evidence is known to USG officials.

In addition, the Iraqi suspect in the OKC bombing, AL Hussain Hussaini, was brought to the US after the Gulf War first by Bush Sr and then by CLinton. Hussaini worked for a man in OKC , Khalil, that appears to be protected by the USG intell community but who allegedly arranged the meeting with McVeigh and Iraqi intell officials in LasVegas and in OKC.

It is believed by some reporters and investigators that Hussaini was protected by Heider Barbouti after the OKC bombing and traveled to Houston shortly after the bombing. I also wonder if Moshe Tal knows Khalil-my guess is that he does since both live in OKC and have had contact with the USG intell community and Barbouti types.

14 posted on 01/01/2002 9:24:12 AM PST by OKCSubmariner
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I understand Jamie Gorelick, Hillary's choice to be the first DOD General Counsel in the Clinton administration (and later the real power, as Deputy AG, in the Reno Justice Department after Hubbell left,) was and is CIA-connected.
15 posted on 01/01/2002 9:59:14 AM PST by aristeides
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To: aristeides; OKCSubmariner; Alas; rdavis84; Black Jade; horsewhispersc
The nice part about a new year is that you can look back and connect the dots.....Iraq blockade, metals profiteering, Marc Rich, Hillary payoffs...

soc.culture.yugoslavia, soc.culture.swiss,alt.conspiracy,soc.culture.usa

But, what has never been identified in a single major Western press investigation, was that the Rothschild-group was at the heart of the vast illegal web of BCCI. The key figure was Dr. Alfred Hartmann, the managing director of the BCCI Swiss subsidiary, Banque de Commerce et de Placement SA; at the same time, he ran the Zurich Rothschild Bank AG, and sat in London as a member of the board of N.M. Rothschild and Sons, Hartmann was also a business partner of Helmut Raiser, friend of de Picciotto, and linked to Nordex.

Hartmann was also chairman of the Swiss affiliate of the Italian BNL bank, which was implicated in the Bush administration illegal transfers to Iraq prior to the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Atlanta branch of BNL, with the knowledge of George Bush when he was vice-president, conduited funds to Helmut Raiser's Zug, Switzerland company, Consen, for development of the CondorII missile program by Iraq, Egypt, and Argentina, during the Iran-Iraq War. Hartmann was vice-chairman of another secretive private Geneva bank, the Bank of NY-Inter-Maritime Bank, a bank whose chairman, Bruce Rappaport, was one of the illegal financial conduits for Col. Oliver North's Contra drugs-for-weapons network during the late 1980. North also used the BCCI as one of his preferred banks to hide his illegal funds.

Rich's, Reichmann's, and Soros's Israeli links

According to reports of former U.S. State Department intelligence familiar with the Soros-case, Soros's Quantum Fund amassed a war chest of well over $10 billion, with the help of a powerful group of "silent" investors who let Soros deploy the capital to demolish European monetary stability in September 1992. Among Soros's silent investors, these sources say, are the fugitive metals and oil trader Marc Rich, based in Zug, Switzerland; and Shaul Eisenberg, a decades-long member of Israeli Mossad intelligence, who functions as a major arms merchant throughout Asia and the Near East. Eisenberg was recently banned from doing business in Uzbekistan, where he had been accused by the government of massive fraud and corruption. A third Soros partner is Israel's "Dirty Rafi" Eytan, who served in London previously as Mossad liaison to British intelligence.

Rich was one of the most active western traders in oil, aluminum, and other commodities in the Soviet Union and Russia between 1989 and 1993. This, not coincidentally, is just the period when Grigori Luchansky's Nordex Group became a multibillion-dollar company selling Russian oil, aluminum, and other commodities. Canadian real estate entrepreneur Paul Reichmann, formerly of Olympia and York notoriety, born in Hungary, Jew like Soros, is a business partner in Soros's Quantum Realty, a $525-million real estate investment fund.

The Reichmann tie links Soros as well with Henry Kissinger and former Tory Foreign Minister Lord Carrington (who is also a member of Kissinger Associates, Inc. of New York). Reichmann sits with both Kissinger and Carrington on the board of the influential British-Canadian publishing group, Hollinger, Inc. Hollinger owns a large number of newspapers in Canada and the United States, the London Daily Telegraph, and the largest English-language daily in Israel, the Jerusalem Post. Hollinger has been attacking President Clinton and the Middle East peace process ever since Clinton's election in November 1992.

> Since Jan. 2, 1992, shock therapy has introduced chaos and > hyperinflation into Russia. Irreplaceable groups from advanced > scientific research institutes have fled in pursuit of jobs in the > West. Yegor Gaidar and the Yeltsin government imposed draconian > cuts in state spending to industry and agriculture, even though the > entire economy was state-owned. A goal of a zero deficit budget > within three months was announced. Credit to industry was ended, > and enterprises piled up astronomical debts, as inflation of the > ruble went out of control. > > The friends of Soros lost no time in capitalizing on this situation. > Marc Rich began buying Russian aluminum at absurdly cheap > prices, with his hard currency. Rich then dumped the aluminum > onto western industrial markets last year, causing a 30% collapse > in the price of the metal, as western industry had no way to > compete. There was such an outflow of aluminum last year from > Russia, that there were shortages of aluminum for Russian fish > canneries. At the same time, Rich reportedly moved in to secure > export control over the supply of most West Siberian crude oil to > western markets. Rich's companies have been under investigation > for fraud in Russia, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal > of May 13, 1993.

> > Another Soros silent partner who has moved in to exploit the chaos > in the former Soviet Union, is Shaul Eisenberg. Eisenberg, > reportedly with a letter of introduction from then-European Bank chief Jacques Attali, managed to secure an exclusive concession for textiles and other trade in Uzbekistan. When Uzbek officials confirmed defrauding of the government by Eisenberg, his concessions were summarily abrogated. The incident has reportedly caused a major loss for Israeli Mossad strategic interests throughout the Central Asian republics. Soros has extensive influence in Hungary. When nationalist opposition parliamentarian Istvan Csurka tried to protest what was being done to ruin the Hungarian economy, under the policies of Soros and friends, Csurka was labeled an "anti-Semite," and in June 1993, he was forced out of the governing Democratic Forum, as a result of pressure from Soros-linked circles in Hungary and abroad, including Soros's close friend, U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos.

Lighting the Balkan Fuse

In early 1990, in what was then still Yugoslavia, Soros's intervention with shock therapy, in cooperation with the IMF, helped light the economic fuse that led to the outbreak of war in June 1991. Soros boasted at that time, "Yugoslavia is a particularly interesting case. Even as national rivalries have brought the country to the verge of a breakup, a radical monetary stabilization program, which was introduced on the same date as in Poland---January 1, 1990-----has begun to change the political landscape. The program is very much along the Polish lines, and it had greater initial success. By the middle of the year, people were beginning to think Yugoslav again." Soros is friends with former Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, the former U.S. ambassador to Belgrade and the patron of Serbian Communist leader Slobodan Milosevic. Eagleburger is a past president of Kissinger Associates, on whose board sits Lord Carrington, whose Balkan mediations supported Serbian aggression into Croatia and Bosnia. Today, Soros has established his Foundation centers in Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, and a Soros Yugoslavia Foundation in Belgrade, Serbia. In Croatia, he has tried to use his foundation monies to woo influential journalists or to slander opponents of his shock therapy, by labeling them variously "anti-Semitic" or "neo-Nazi." The head of Soros's Open Society Fund---Croatia, Prof. Zarko Puhovski, is a man who has reportedly made a recent dramatic conversion from orthodox Marxism to Soros's radical free market. Only seven years ago, according to one of his former students, as professor of philosophy at the University of Zagreb, Puhovski attacked students trying to articulate a critique of communism, by insisting, "It is unprincipled to criticize Marxism from a liberal standpoint." His work for the Soros Foundation in Zagreb has promoted an anti-nationalist "global culture," hiring a network of anti-Croatian journalists to propagandize, in effect, for the Serbian cause.

These examples can be elaborated for each of the other 19 locations across eastern Europe where George Soros operates. The political agenda of Soros and this group of financial "globalists" will create the conditions for a new outbreak of war, even world war, if it continues to be tolerated.

16 posted on 01/01/2002 1:47:09 PM PST by rubbertramp
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To: OKCSubmariner; rubbertramp
"My opinion is that Barbouti was an asset of the CIA and Bush Sr during the late 1980s and was THE MAN used by Bush to funnel US technology for weapons of mass destruction to IRaq. Former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee once even stated that Barbouti was a valuable resource for the intelligence community."

"“ABC News Nightline opened last June 9 with words to make the heart stop ‘It is becoming increasingly clear,’ said a grave Ted Koppel, ‘that George Bush, operating largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980s, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that built Saddam’s Iraq into the aggressive power that the United States ultimately had to destroy…"

17 posted on 01/01/2002 2:08:11 PM PST by rdavis84
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To: Black Jade;OKCSubmariner; rubbertramp
Seems I posted a very easy to grasp history of the Bush Family involvement in war profiteering in three parts and when I checked for the comments on it, they were deleted. Rec'd a note about not posting "garbage".

Here's the link to that garbage ---- Garbage.

But don't post it, it's forbidden.

18 posted on 01/01/2002 2:17:37 PM PST by rdavis84
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To: aristeides
"In his 1998 book "Bringing the War Home" author William Thomas writes, “ Under that same [weapons transfer] program, 19 containers of Anthrax bacteria were supplied to Iraq in 1988 by the American Type Culture Collection company, located near Fort Detrick, MD, the site of the US Army's high security germ warfare labs.”
19 posted on 01/01/2002 2:27:37 PM PST by rdavis84
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To: OKCSubmariner
Bookmarked for later reading.
20 posted on 01/01/2002 6:06:23 PM PST by Marianne
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