FBI and DOJ Connivance Permeates, Interconnects Terror Attacks

Al-Hussaini

Spelling corrections:

Elohim City, not Eloheim City

Strassmeir, not Strassmeyer

Chevy Kehoe used Elohim City as a refuge. At his trial in Washington state, it was reveled that Kehoe had met McVeigh at Elohim City.

Daily Oklahoman

Florida Plant Reported Used to Export Cyanide
09/18/1990

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

DALLAS (AP) The Iraqi architect of a Libyan chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Florida cherry flavoring plant in an apparent bid to export cyanide to the Middle East, a newspaper reported in Sunday's editions.

Two former associates said deceased financier Dr. Ihsan Barbouti used the Boca Raton plant to establish a front through which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide and the technology to produce it in quantity, The Dallas Morning News reported.

The former associates said Barbouti sought to export the poison to Middle East countries identified by the U.S. government as supporters of terrorism. Barbouti acknowledged contracts with Iraq and Iran, they said.

Barbouti has been identified in Western news reports as the architect of Libyan Col. Moammar Gadhafi's chemical weapons plant in Rabta. He died July 1 in London on lung and heart complications, according to his death certificate. He was 63.

A federal lawsuit filed in Oklahoma City in 1989 claims that Barbouti schemed to take over TK-7 Corp., an Oklahoma City fuel additive manufacturer, so he could have a licensed source of chemicals for diversion the Rabta plant. The 1 lawsuit, filed by TK-7 president Moshe Tal, is still pending.

The president of the Florida flavoring plant said he had no role in the diversion of any toxic material, but acknowledged that at least 150 gallons of a cyanide compound was unaccounted for. The cyanide was a byproduct of a process used to extract bitter almond oil, a concentrate for cherry flavoring, from apricot pits.

The cyanide could have been taken from Product Ingredient Technology Inc. without his knowledge, Louis S. Champon said.

"My feeling is that it was his intention to ship out (cyanide) to overseas," Champon said.

Peter Kawaja, whose company installed a $1 million security system at the plant, said the cyanide was removed during "night trips" to another site in Florida he declined to identify.

"Shipments have left the U.S. and technology has left the U.S.," said Kawaja. "We're talking about the research and development of chemical weapons in the United States."

Kawaja declined to identify the final destination of the potentially lethal chemical.

The newspaper said U.S. Customs and the FBI have accelerated their investigation of Barbouti's role in the flavoring plant since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait last month. They are examining his vast holdings in Dallas, Houston, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Tennessee, New Jersey and New York.

The federal agencies declined comment.

"If there's an ongoing investigation, we're not going to comment on it. Those are attorney general's guidelines ... I'm not confirming that there is an investigation. I don't know if there is or there isn't," FBI spokesman Jeffrey W. Maynard told The Associated Press on Saturday.

The Central Intelligence Agency also refused to discuss the investigation.

"We decline to comment at this time. I would say, though, that if there is any indication or intelligence of hostile activities we would bring that to the attention of the appropriate law enforcement authorities," CIA spokesman Peter Earnest told the AP.

Customs Service spokesman Cliff Stallings in Miami said Saturday that he had been in Washington last week and was unaware of the case.

"You can quote me saying if it's under investigation, then we won't talk about it," he said.

Barbouti's holdings are 1 controlled by his son, Haidar Barbouti, who lives in New York City. The younger Barbouti has been president and director of 20 to 30 of his father's companies.

There was no answer at Barbouti's Manhattan residence or at the Barbouti holding company, IBI Industries Inc., Saturday.

Champon said he has filed a lawsuit to sever his business ties with the Barbouti family. Champon said he and Barbouti often quarreled about disposal of the waste cyanide and that Barbouti's funding "stopped when we flatly refused to send out any cyanide complex."

"Dr. Barbouti many, many times mentioned that he wanted this cyanide ... shipped to Germany," Champon said of the cyanide waste from the plant.

And according to Kawaja and Champon, the Barboutis asked the plant's architect to computerize the blueprints of the operation without Champon's knowledge.

"They were trying to steal the plans," Champon said.

From OKCSub's article:

And Al Hussaini appears to have been protected for a time in Houston after the OKC bombing by CIA asset, Heider Barbouti, whose father Ishan assisted President GHW Bush transfer technology for weapons of mass destruction (biological, chemical and nuclear) to Sadam Hussein and Iraq before the Gulf War

Daily Oklahoman

Iraqi Arms Deals Could Prove Embarrassing to U.S.
Don Ward
05/15/1991

BOCA RATON, Fla. An Iraqi arms dealer who bankrolled a Boca Raton manufacturer is among many who twisted a U.S. government export program to funnel arms to Saddam Hussein, congressional investigators believe.

The investigators are pushing for a probe on the scale of the Iran-Contra hearings. They say the evidence will raise embarrassing questions about an Iraq trade policy so confused that it contributed to causes of the Persian Gulf War.

"U.S. policy seemed to be assisting Iraq in any way possible. We just have to nail down the facts. This is a story they'd rather not have told," said a staffer with the House Government Operations subcommittee that is investigating exports to Iraq.

Israel last year became so disgusted with U.S. arms dealing with Iraq that it marked more than a dozen arms dealers for assassination, says a former Israeli intelligence officer who recently beat espionage charges in New York. Ari Ben-Menashe says among those assassinated was Gerald Bull, who was developing a "super cannon" that could strike into the heart of Israel from Iraq. Bull was shot in the throat on the doorstep of his Brussels apartment on March 24, 1990.

Menashe says Israeli agents also had a hand in last summer's death of Ihsan Barbouti, the arms dealer who bankrolled a cherry flavoring plant in Boca Raton. The official cause of Barbouti's death is a heart ailment, but Menashe says Barbouti was one of 14 arms dealers recommended to Israeli hit squads.

The Boca Raton plant produced a cyanide-based byproduct that could be used in making chemical weapons. It was raided and closed down last September.

Menashe is scheduled to meet with House Foreign Affairs subcommittee members this week to discuss his knowledge of Iraq's chemical arms ring.

Israeli officials in Washington would not confirm the allegations.

But Yuval Rotem, Israeli government spokesman in New York, did not seem surprised by the idea. "We warned the Americans that Iraq was a threat that must be met.

"Two weeks before the invasion (of Kuwait), Israel sent its newly appointed defense minister to Washington to talk with (U.S. Defense Secretary) Dick Cheney about our concerns with Iraq, to make sure they fully understood what was going on in the Middle East. But they refused to do anything about it," Rotem said.

Barbouti funded several plants in the United States that produced parts and technology that may have been used in Iraqi weapons. His dealings have been under investigation by the U.S. Customs Office for three years, but the American businessmen who were his partners say they are being made scapegoats. They contend the investigation has been dragged out to spare the government embarrassment.

"That's been the thesis all along that factions within the government want the issue buried as deep as possible, not as much as a matter of national security as it is about national embarrassment," said Oklahoma City attorney Michael Johnston, who represents two former Barbouti associates.

"Thank God U.S. Customs was on the trail and kept this thing alive, or it would have been swept under the rug and forgotten about," he said.

Barbouti operated internationally through his parent company, IBI Industries, with offices in Houston, New York City, Paris and Frankfurt. Federal officials say he used several front companies and clandestine foreign bank accounts to cloak his transactions.

"The miracle of the war was that Saddam Hussein invaded when he did, rather than wait five years later when he would have had nuclear weapons," Rotem said. "We have Saddam Hussein to thank, because by invading, he exposed his own ambitions. He was our best PR agent. " Saddam extracted arms from just about any U.S. company doing business with him, and that includes Barbouti. If congressional investigators can link Barbouti to this scam, they hope an Iran-Contra style hearing will bring these violators to justice and expose guilty parties within the U.S. government.

Several congressmen are trying to link Barbouti to the more than $4 billion in agricultural exports to Iraq that were approved by the U.S. government. Half of those exports involved illegal purchases of weapons and high-technology equipment instead of food, congressional investigators say.

When arranging to buy agricultural products from U.S. companies, the Iraqis would ask the companies to provide other "sales services," such as supplying spare parts, trucks and military and electronic equipment, federal officials say. Eager to please a large customer, most of the companies complied.

"The Iraqis have clearly extorted money from exporters," said Rep. Charlie Rose, D-N.C., chairman of a House Government Operations subcommittee. "It appears every single American company dealing with them was asked for extra sales services. What we don't know is how many companies came across. "

Rose contends the United States used the credit program to funnel aid to Iraq to avoid offending Israel, perhaps unaware Iraq would use the program to extort military hardware from U.S. companies.

Iraq borrowed the $4 billion from the Banca del Nazionale Lavoro (BNL), a U.S. branch of an Italian bank in Atlanta, before bank regulators found out. In an arrangement that Rose calls fraud, BNL officials were extending more than their legal limits in credits to Iraq without the knowledge of the U.S. government. Iraq is not likely to repay the government-guaranteed loans, so U.S. taxpayers will be left with the bill.

Two businessmen who received funding from Barbouti Bruce Munden of Dallas and Moshe Tal of Oklahoma City also have been hoping for a grand jury indictment against Barbouti's son, Haidar Barbouti, 23, and Arie David, the Barbouti family lawyer.

They, like Louis Champon, who operated the Boca Raton plant, are involved in civil litigation to disassociate themselves from Barbouti. All three are subjects of the federal investigation.

And Al Hussaini appears to have been protected for a time in Houston after the OKC bombing by CIA asset, Heider Barbouti, whose father Ishan assisted President GHW Bush transfer technology for weapons of mass destruction (biological, chemical and nuclear) to Sadam Hussein and Iraq before the Gulf War

Hmmmm. And another CIA asset is said to have assisted Andreas Strassmeir in getting out of America and back home to Europe....

Compartmentalized operations? Or seperate parts of the same overall *project*....

While political correctness has crippled the FBI, looniness has crippled its most fervent critics. Now, if we could just find a way to help both the institution and its critics to return to good health...

For reply #67;

The FBI has also been crippled by spies like Hansen and others who may still be operating today within the FBI. Congress determined that the Aldrich Ames spy debacle(CIA) was largely the fault of the FBI.

Is it policitcal correctness or foreign policy directives to the FBI or FBI connivance that has the FBI not moving against certain Hamas and ALQaeda and Abu Nidal cells that are still allowed to operate in the US even today?

Former FBI agent Gary Aldrich(I have talked with him several times about Joseph Rogoskey for example), Senator Grassley (I have talked to two of his legal counsels for four years), Senator Shelby (I have talked to his aide Bill Dunke for three years)and Deputy FBI Diredcctor Dan ny COulson (I read his book "No Heroes and visited with him at length two times)are still frequent critics of the FBI over a lot more than just political correctness (try lying to COngress). These men are not "looney" because they are "fervent" critics of the FBI. They know what they are talking about.

The FBI spends more time, energy and money promoting itself (a false self image) publicly with false propaganda and deception than any other agency in the Federal government.

Outstanding! Thanks for the thread. Bump.

Bump!!!!

From link in #65

Iraq borrowed the $4 billion from the Banca del Nazionale Lavoro (BNL), a U.S. branch of an Italian bank in Atlanta, before bank regulators found out. In an arrangement that Rose calls fraud, BNL officials were extending more than their legal limits in credits to Iraq without the knowledge of the U.S. government. Iraq is not likely to repay the government-guaranteed loans, so U.S. taxpayers will be left with the bill.

________________________________________________________

Pat, you have highlighted one of the biggest government scandals in my lifetime, and I didn't know a thing about it until you posted the most comprehensive original editorial in the history of Freerepublic.com. Consider it, the U.S. taxpayer provided Saddam Hussein $4 billion dollars to build his war machine, including weapons of mass destruction. I believe Saddam is responsible for the "trial run" anthrax attack on the U.S. and it is very possible U.S. tax dollars financed the Iraqi research and development that gave him the biological and chemical warfare capability and no one has been held accountable.

That $4 billion would have went a long way in enhancing our national security.

Has Banca del Nazionale Lavoro (BNL) come up in your research?

Pat, you have highlighted one of the biggest government scandals in my lifetime

In the past, I always thought the transfer of classified nuclear weapons technology to Communist China was the biggest scandal in my lifetime. If the story about the transfer of 4 billion U.S taxpayer dollars to Iraq is true, it will move to the top of the list, since we have not been in a direct conflict with China and have not announced any immediate plans to attack China.

I see no overwhelming evidence that China has carried out a major attack on U.S. soil. I can not say the same about Iraq.

Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro: Kissinger Associates, BNL and Iraq

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House,
the gentleman from Texas [Mr. GONZALEZ] is recognized for 60
minutes. Mr. GONZALEZ. Mr. Speaker, during a special order last
week, I revealed that Henry Kissinger was a paid member of the
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Consulting Board for International
Policy. Mr. Kissinger held this position during the height of the
biggest banking scandal in United States history-$4 billion in
unreported loans to Iraq by the Atlanta branch of BNL. This week I
will reveal some new information regarding Mr. Kissinger and his
relationship with BNL. I will also include in the RECORD a
detailed list of Mr. Brent Scowcroft's stock holdings.

MORE ON KISSINGER AND BNL

In order to learn more about Mr. Kissinger's role at BNL,
committee investigators contacted an attorney representing BNL in
the United States and asked him to contact BNL in Rome. The
BNL employee in Rome told BNL's attorney the following:

Mr. Kissinger has been a member of the BNL International
Advisory Board since 1985. Mr. Kissinger is paid $10,000 for
appearing at an Advisory Board meeting and he is paid extra for
speaking at BNL functions. It is important to bring these facts out
because BNL is owned by the Italian government. In effect, Mr.
Kissinger's fees are indirectly paid for with Italian taxpayer money.

Banking Committee investigators were also told that Mr. Kissinger
may still be a member of BNL Advisory Board. His term does not
expire until next month. This information conflicts with what Mr.
Kissinger was quoted as stating in a Financial Times article on
April 26. In that article Mr. Kissinger stated that he resigned from
BNL's advisory board on February 22, 1991. I will write BNL and
Mr. Kissinger in order to clear up this discrepancy.

Mr. Kissinger went on to state in the same Financial Times article:

I resigned earlier this year because I don't want to be connected, I
don't want to be asked about this sort of thing.

But it should be noted that Mr. Kissinger supposedly did not resign
his BNL post until over 18 months after the BNL scandal became
public in August 1989.

Another interesting point to note is the timing of Mr. Kissinger's
supposed resignation from BNL on February 22, 1991. That date is
just days before the Justice Department announced a 347 count
indictment against the former employees of BNL after an
exhaustive 18-month investigation. This is quite a coincidence.

BNL ACTUALLY A CLIENT OF KISSINGER ASSOCIATES

BNL was actually a client of Kissinger Associates at the same time
BNL's former employees in Atlanta were providing Iraq with
billions in unreported loans. This solidifies Mr. Kissinger's link to
BNL and raises the question of whether Mr. Kissinger had
knowledge of the BNL loans to Iraq.

As I stated last week, many Kissinger Associates clients were doing
business with the Iraqis as a direct result of the unreported $4
billion in BNL loans to Iraq. Volvo, whose chairman serves on the
Kissinger Associates board of directors, was doing big business in
Iraq and it was the beneficiary of BNL loans.

BNL was also the largest participant in the $5.5 billion CCC
program for Iraq. Between $800 and $900 million in BNL loans to
Iraq were guaranteed by the CCC. BNL was also the second largest
participant in the Export-Import [Eximbank] program for Iraq. Over
$50 million in BNL loans to Iraq were guaranteed by Eximbank.
Through these programs it became common knowledge in the
export community that BNL was Iraq's prime banker in the United
States.

I also reported last week that Mr. Lawrence Eagleburger had ties to
BNL. While he was serving as president of Kissinger Associates,
Eagleburger was a board member of a Yugoslavian bank that had a
substantial and even incestuous relationship with BNL. BNL was a
main factor in the growth of that Yugoslavian bank's operations in
the United States.

Despite the many linkages between Kissinger Associates and BNL,
Mr. Kissinger still maintains that he had no knowledge of the $4
billion in BNL loans to Iraq.

The fact that BNL was a client of Kissinger Associates also
solidifies the link between BNL and two very high ranking Bush
administration employees, NSC Director Brent Scowcroft and
Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. Mr. Lawrence
Eagleburger and Mr. Brent Scowcroft were both high ranking
employees of Kissinger Associates during the period BNL was a
client of Kissinger Associates. In other words, part of their
paychecks was derived from fees paid by BNL.

The fact that BNL was a client of Kissinger Associates also raises
the question of how Mr. Eagleburger and Mr. Scowcroft reacted to
the BNL scandal once it became known to them in the fall of 1989.
I wonder if either thought it necessary to recuse himself from
making decisions on Iraq once the BNL scandal was uncovered?

COMMITTEE ON BANKING,
FINANACE AND URBAN AFFAIRS,
Washington, DC, May 2,1991.

In today's New York Times(8-16-02)

Kissinger,Scowcroft, and Eagleburger were higlighted in the previous reply from the Congressional Record and the New York Times highlighted the same three in a front page story.......................................

Top Republicans Break With Bush on Iraq Strategy
By TODD S. PURDUM and PATRICK E. TYLER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 — Leading Republicans from Congress, the State Department and past administrations have begun to break ranks with President Bush over his administration's high-profile planning for war with Iraq, saying the administration has neither adequately prepared for military action nor made the case that it is needed.

These senior Republicans include former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft, the first President Bush's national security adviser. All say they favor the eventual removal of Saddam Hussein, but some say they are concerned that Mr. Bush is proceeding in a way that risks alienating allies, creating greater instability in the Middle East, and harming long-term American interests. They add that the administration has not shown that Iraq poses an urgent threat to the United States.

Also today, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, who was briefly secretary of state for Mr. Bush's father, told ABC News that unless Mr. Hussein "has his hand on a trigger that is for a weapon of mass destruction, and our intelligence is clear, I don't know why we have to do it now, when all our allies are opposed to it."

Last week, Representative Dick Armey, the House majority leader, raised similar concerns.

The comments by Mr. Scowcroft and others in the Republican foreign policy establishment appeared to be a loosely coordinated effort. Mr. Scowcroft first spoke out publicly 10 days ago on the CBS News program "Face the Nation."

Judicial Order in the BNL Case
Issued by Judge Marvin Shoob on
October 5, 1992.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA,
ATLANTA DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERlCA,
Plaintiff,

v.

CHRISTOPHER P. DROGOUL,
Defendant

CRIMINAL ACTION 1:91-cr-078-MHS

This case involves billions of dollars raised and loaned in
international finance. It involves allegations of an international
bank fraud that may have helped pay for Iraq's military build-up.
But the more important issue before this Court involves a man's
liberty and serious questions about the integrity of our justice
system and the almost unreviewable powers of prosecutorial
discretion. The Court's judgment and decisions throughout the
hearings and motions before it have been guided by its belief that
there is a moral component to the Court's involvement in this case
the responsibility to do the right thing.

This order will set forth the reasons the Court will grant the
Government's motion to recuse and why the Court, on October 1,
1992, orally granted defendant Christopher P. Drogoul's renewed
motion to withdraw his guilty plea.

I. BACKGROUND OF THE CASE

For almost three weeks, the Court has heard evidence relating to
the sentencing of Mr. Drogoul who entered a guilty plea to 60
counts of a 347-count indictment on June 2, 1992, and faced a life
sentence. The indictment centers on charges that Mr. Drogoul, the
manager of the Atlanta branch of one of Italy's largest banks,
defrauded the parent bank ("BNL") by making some $2 billion in
unauthorized loans to Iraq and other countries. A number of these
loans were backed by the Department of Agriculture's Commodity
Credit Corporation ("CCC"). The indictment also includes charges
of tax evasion, making false reports to government agencies and
money laundering. Mr. Drogoul is the highest ranking BNL official
indicted and the focus of the Government's prosecution.

http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1999/RepRecord95.htm

Republicans on the Record
SENATOR BURNS DECRIES U.S. DEPENDENCE ON OIL IMPORTS FROM ROGUE NATIONS

Last year (2001), the U.S. bought over $4 billion in oil from Iraq through the U.N. oil-for-food program. But the process of purchasing Iraqi oil is not transparent, and that's exactly where the mischief begins. The oil does not pass directly from seller to buyer, but through shady middlemen who are able to give fat kickbacks to Saddam

_________________________________________________________

Question. Is it too much to ask that we stop buying Iraqi oil and financing the Iraqi war machine before we send American men and women into battle and face the weapons that the dollars we are sending to Iraq are buying?

You must have me confused with many of the sub-Debs.

Thanks for the ping. This gets more interesting as it unfolds.

See replies #71 and #76:

As noted in my article, Henry Gonzales fingered former President GHW Bush in the Congressional Record for shipping technology for weapons of mass destruction to Iraq before the Gulf War USING BNL AND BCCI funding!!!

LINK: http://www.paranormalnews.com/textfiles/conspiracies/BNL_IraqGate_Scandal.txt

BNL - IRAQGATE SCANDAL

The Chicago Connection - Bush & Saddam Inc.

Key documents - sought by Gonzalez – withheld

1991-1992

With George Bush ready to take America into another war with Iraq to destroy the nuclear, chemical, biological and missiles weapons that Bush himself helped Saddam Hussein to build, Congressmen Henry Gonzalez, the courageous Texas Democrat who heads the House Banking Committee, continues, single-handedly, to peel back layer after layer of cover-up to reveal the monumental proportions of the Iraqgate-BNL (Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro)scandal that now threatens to bring down the Bush regime. But the most explosive documents have been withheld.

Over the past several months Gonzalez has shown the Iraqgate-BNL scandal to be bigger than anyone had imagined. He has uncovered and reported incontestable evidence that Bush and his associates secretly sold nuclear, biological, chemical and missile-related weapons materials to Saddam Hussein; blocked investigations into the use of such materials by Hussein; suppressed memos warning of the dangers of such sales;deliberately falsified documents on such sales submitted to Congress and interfered illegally to halt investigations into the criminal activities of the BNL bank in secretly diverting American agricultural loans to buy the weapons for Hussein.

BNL-BCCI Chicago Branches

Gonzalez has revealed a Bush policy disaster that lead to the first Gulf War and a blunder that is now costing the Americans $2 billion to pay off the loans Bush guaranteed with U.S. taxpayersU money . Bush repeatedly ignored warnings that Iraq would default on the loans. Now, certain key documents - perhaps the most revealing yet - are being withheld from the Gonzalez investigation. They are said to be the records of the Chicago branches of BNL and BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International),through which, some investigators say , George Bush and Saddam Hussein may have been involved in a joint, private enterprise to skim oil profits arising from Reagan-Bush policies toward Iraq. The documents have been impounded by a Chicago court and Congressman Gonzalez Banking Committee has been denied access.

LINK: http://www.copi.com/defrauding_america/chp_23.htm

BCCI and BNL both played a role in the Iraqi armament buildup, in which funds provided by U.S. taxpayers were forwarded by the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. There were numerous cross-dealings between the banks. BCCI used its international connections to fund loans to BNL, which funded the Iraqi weapon buildups, which then required the U.S. taxpayer to fund much of the Persian Gulf War.

Current FBI Director Robert Mueller was the Key man at DOJ under former President GHW Bush to cover up the BNL and BCCI investigations.

GWBush was business partners and received campaign contributions from a large backer of BCCI, Khalid Mahfouz, A Saudi who has been funding ALQaeda operations and Holy Land Foundation in Dallas (shutdown in Dec 2001)for a decade and was involved in the bombing of the USS Cole. ASk Betty Jo and Uncle Bill about this. Is GW Bush still blinded by his frienships with the Saudi BCCI backers or is GW Bush conniving with the Saudis even to this day??

You are to be commended for your investigative research talent and persistence in sorting through a very convoluted and continually evolving series of events. Your writing is a model of thoroughness, one which I will continue to be studying for some time. Please keep me updated on all of your findings. Thank you from all of us who have a genuine interest in truth and justice.