(Dissident Voice) Assets of Reported CIA Front-Man Frozen in Turkey

[StrictlyRockers]

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb07/Buckley27.htm#1
Assets of Reported CIA Front-Man Frozen in Turkey
by Devlin Buckley
www.dissidentvoice.org
February 27, 2007

A court in Turkey has ruled to freeze the assets of Yasin al-Qadi <1>, a one-time acquaintance of Vice President Dick Cheney <2> and reported “chief money launderer” of Osama bin Laden. <3>

Al-Qadi, prior to being publicly identified as a key al-Qaeda financer, owned a prominent U.S. technology firm and reported CIA front known as Ptech. <4> He also escorted U.S. officials around during their visits to Saudi Arabia. <5>

“Council of State Administrative Cases Bureau on Thursday decided to annul a lower court's decision to rescind a cabinet order to freeze the assets of Saudi financier Yasin al-Qadi, who has been accused of financing terrorism,” the Turkish Daily News reported Saturday. <6>

As the Daily News summarizes, this is part of a long and ongoing political dispute in Turkey:

“The previous government in Turkey had ordered the assets of Qadi frozen after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, saying that he was suspected of channeling money to terrorist organizations. … The Council of State 10th Bureau overturned the order in July on technical grounds and ordered that the assets be returned, after a challenge made by Qadi.

Upon appeal by the government, the case was taken up to the Council of State Administrative Cases Bureau, which is the top court on such cases (and ultimately ruled to freeze Qadi’s assets).” <7>

Turkish investigations into al-Qaeda have been obstructed to protect conflicts of interest, financial and otherwise, among al-Qadi and high-ranking Turkish officials, according to dissenting investigators and government officials. <8>
<...>

This is a new article by Devlin Buckley. Buckley meticulously provides sourcing throughout. It sure looks credible to me. There is a very strong Sibel Edmonds tie in, too. She outlines the Turkey-Afghanistan heroin trade that is linked with the CIA.

The Cheney Connection
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,77682,00.html
Ptech workers tell the story behind the search
The Cheney connection comes from an article in ComputerWorld on the raid of Ptech on the night of Dec. 5, 2002. FBI agents showed up at Ptech in Quincy, Mass., and asked CEO Oussama Ziade for permission to look into his company's financial dealings with al-Qadi. Ziade explained his relationship with al-Qadi. "I don't know him well," Ziade said. "I met him a few times and talked to him a few times on the telephone. He never talked to me about violence. Instead, he talked very highly of his relationship with Jimmy Carter and Dick Cheney."

Here is further sourcing of the Cheney connection from this article:
http://www.saudia-online.com/newsoct01/news30.shtml
Treasury action smacks of arrogance, violates human rights, says Al-Qadi
'Al-Qadi has worked for Skidmore, an American consulting firm in Chicago, for three years. “I have also met with US Vice President and former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney in Jeddah when he came for a lecture organized by the Dallah Group. “I spoke to him for a long time and we still have cordial relations.”


I'm not sure why Cheney would have cordial relations with Bin Laden's chief money launderer. But I can't say I am all that surprised. Anyway, Sibel Edmonds is going to bring more light to this story soon.

SR

[Quantess]

1. Funny thread title, I must say.

I was half expecing to read about a frozen thanksgiving bird.

[StrictlyRockers]

2. Frozen IN Turkey...NOT frozen turkey.

Yeesh, go eat a sandwich before you get hypogycemic or something.

:)

SR

[aquart]

16. No, no. That's what I read, too.

Sometimes the brain acts like Microsoft products and over-anticipates based on prior usage.

[tanyev]

3. Here's what I saw: "Reported CIA Front-Man Frozen in Turkey"

That could have gone several ways.

[sweetheart]

4. or frozen kurds on high mountain passes nt.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. This dovetails quite neatly

with Sy Hersh's revelation that * has been funding al Qaeda. If Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi begin speaking out, the corporate media cannot ignore it for long...and they'll be hard-pressed to generate sufficient spin to counteract the inevitable public outrage that will ensue.

[StrictlyRockers]

6. Excellent point, Cirque. They like to cover things with tie-ins to current stories.

And welcome to DU!

:hi:

:grouphug:

:toast:

SR

[cascadiance]

7. Assets of Reported CIA Front-Man Frozen in Turkey (Shooter's AND Bin Laden's buddy!)

Whew... Still need to digest this, but this looks a bit volatile! Has relationship with Ptech too!

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb07/Buckley27.htm

Assets of Reported CIA Front-Man Frozen in Turkey
by Devlin Buckley
www.dissidentvoice.org
February 27, 2007

A court in Turkey has ruled to freeze the assets of Yasin al-Qadi (1), a one-time acquaintance of Vice President Dick Cheney (2) and reported “chief money launderer” of Osama bin Laden. (3)

Al-Qadi, prior to being publicly identified as a key al-Qaeda financer, owned a prominent U.S. technology firm and reported CIA front known as Ptech. (4) He also escorted U.S. officials around during their visits to Saudi Arabia. (5)

“Council of State Administrative Cases Bureau on Thursday decided to annul a lower court's decision to rescind a cabinet order to freeze the assets of Saudi financier Yasin al-Qadi, who has been accused of financing terrorism,” the Turkish Daily News reported Saturday. (6)

...


According to 9/11 whistleblower and former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, state-sponsored Turkish networks make up the “main players” in Afghanistan’s illicit opium trade. (20)

...

[magellan]

8. This is way over my head

...but it almost sounds as if the war on drugs and the war on terror are closely linked and being run for profit by our governments...?

[seafan]

9. Uh-oh. This might unleash a tsunami.

Indira Singh gave some scary interviews about Ptech.

And this might open up Sibel Edmonds' case.

Wonder what Denny Hastert is up to these days...


Going to get very interesting.

[hootinholler]

15. I hope no little Dutch boy happens along to plug the dike!

Seems like it connects a few dots, eh? Does Keith have it?

-Hoot

[Straight Shooter]

10. K&R

Too heavy material to peruse this now. I hope this gets a lot of good insightful responses.

[Mnemosyne]

11. Ptech = GoAgile

http://www.goagile.com/goagileMAP.htm

Knowledge Engine

At the heart of GoAgile MAP™ is the powerful intelligent repository engine. Based on a neural net and semantic network design, each element of information is defined by its characteristics and relationships to other objects. Every object, or node in the network, may "refer" to an infinite number of other information nodes. The Kinetic Information Engine, like a brain, is a powerful inference engine that verifies the applicability of all rules as new objects are created. As new rules are added, it ensures that existing objects do not violate these rules.

[UpInArms]

12. more info:

"Yes, I Know Bin Laden and U.S. Vice President is My Friend."

With Ptech's people still in the office, Indira called Roger Burlton, who runs Business Process Renewal in Vancouver. Roger told Indira, "Don't let them out of your sight and don't let them leave with anything."

This was coming from one of the men who recommended Ptech to Indira in December of 2001, and was using them himself. But a lot had transpired since then. This was now May of 2002; just two months earlier Yaqub Mirza, who was on the board of Ptech, was the target of a terror-financing raid. Indira tells this reporter that she felt Roger knew more at the time than he let on to.

Roger recommended Indira speak to Jeff Goins, a former Ptech employee. This is where Indira first heard of Saudi terror financier Yasin Al Qadi and that he had been (and may have continued to be) an investor in Ptech. Al Qadi said he met Dick Cheney in Jeddah before he became Vice President, and that they still maintain "cordial relations." Indira confirmed that Jeff had taken his concerns to the FBI. In short order, Indira was talking to the FBI agent Jeff had spoken with.

"If there is an ongoing investigation that is fine," Indira told the FBI, "but you have to give me something to hang my hat on to pass on to my superiors. Otherwise I'm just passing on propaganda and I won't be caught dead doing that." The FBI agent sent her a video produced by Joe Bergantino' for CBS in Boston, on Care International.

"The people in the video that the FBI were looking for right after 9/11 were Ptech employees." Muhammed Mubayyid and Suheil Laheir, who were both Ptech employees, formerly worked for Care International.

But this is not the Care everyone knows. This Care listed its corporate office in the same suite as Al Kifah's Boston office. Al Kifah was a Muslim organization whose Brooklyn office was named as the locus of the 1993 conspiracy to bomb the World Trade Center. Muhammed Mubayyid, who is still employed by Ptech and used to be the treasurer for Care, once made a donation to Al Kifah's Brooklyn office.

We should not forget the FBI had completely infiltrated the terrorist cell responsible for the '93 bombing with Egyptian informant Emad Salem. The FBI had dropped him from their payroll right when the informant himself was designing the bomb used in the WTC bombing.

[MadMaddie]

13. So in a nutshell one of Dick Cheney's acquaintances is or was

“chief money launderer” of Osama bin Laden.

You know when every pathetic path and lie continue to point to Cheney...it becomes more than coincidence.....Cheney is involved in Treason.

[aquart]

17. Yes. Habitually.

[StrictlyRockers]

14. This thread is a dup of one I previously posted.

here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2749084

[PhilipShore]

20. Interesting

I sort of felt that the - 9/11 Commission - had some "reason" to not follow the money.

[StrictlyRockers]

23. You bet. Powerful people have means to obstruct investigations.

Ya think?

SR

[Marie26]

18. Plame connection?

Valerie Plame was stationed in Turkey as a CIA agent, specializing in counterproliferation. This seems like something she might have learned about, or one possible reason why she was outed.

[StrictlyRockers]

21. This seems like a likely possible scenario to explain her outing.

A lot of powerful people make money from the drug trade through Turkey.

SR

[peacetalksforall]

19. one-time acquaintance of Cheney

"...Yasin al-Qadi <1>, a one-time acquaintance of Vice President Dick Cheney <2> and reported “chief money launderer” of Osama bin Laden. <3> "

[rman]

22. kick