Greg Palast Answers a Question

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Greg Palast answers the question, "Was the Iraq War a Bush Cartel Effort to Divert Attention from Saudi Arabia, the Home and Chief Financier of bin Laden?"

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/08/29_palast.html

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That’s just one of the connections. Now it gets a little bit deeper. It turns out that in 1999 and 2000, Bill Clinton sent two delegations to Saudi Arabia -- this I just reported on BBC -- quietly saying: Here’s a list of royal family members and others around the royals who are giving money to al-Qaeda fronts and people who are trying to kill us. Clinton said, "Knock it off."

Clinton basically got, you know, a fake Lewinsky from the Saudis, but no satisfaction. The Saudi’s response was to hire Vernon Jordan to keep Clinton at bay.

Bush W. comes in -- and the demands on the Saudis come to a dead halt. Further, Bush W. disbands the intelligence unit tracking the Saudi money connection to al-Qaeda. And third, and ugliest, is that Bush –- in particular, his ambassador Barbie Bodine -– pulled the visas of the FBI al-Qaeda investigation team in Yemen, so they’d have to go home. I mean, our own embassy pulled the visas of our own FBI investigators, headed by agent John O’Neill, who was in charge of al-Qaeda prosecutions for the Justice Department.

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Maybe the Saudis had the idea that they would like George Bush and James Baker, Frank Carlucci and the rest of that crew to suddenly have a few million showered upon them. The average partner of Carlyle has $25 million in equity. And the amount they put up, in most cases, is about zero. So it’s the ultimate money for nothing.
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