BCCI trial heats up in England. BushInc. will work overtime to get Kerry.

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This case is SERIOUS, folks. It related to EVERYTHING corrupt that the BFEE has done and is doing today.



The Pakistani government is examining records of the failed Bank of Credit and Commerce International in its investigation into the role Pakistani scientists may have played in selling nuclear knowhow to Iran, North Korea and Libya.

According to bankers, some of whom worked with BCCI before it collapsed in 1991, Pakistani investigators have sought the help of former BCCI employees to try to uncover payments made to scientists connected with Pakistan's nuclear programme.

BCCI's role in financing Pakistan's own nuclear efforts has long been the subject of scrutiny. In 1992, a report into BCCI from a US Congressional sub-committee headed by Senator John Kerry, now a leading Democratic presidential contender, said "there is good reason to conclude that BCCI did finance Pakistan's nuclear programme". Though it said the issue deserved further investigation, there was little public follow-through.

This year, however, as evidence has mounted that Pakistani scientists helped the uranium enrichment programmes of Iran, North Korea and Libya, the Pakistani government has launched an investigation. A government spokesman in Islamabad said that anybody found to have passed on secrets would be punished, but denied that the government approved any transfers.
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http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullS...

(note -- knowing the FT, this story will go 'pay-per-view' in about 24 hours, so save it to disk if you want to keep it for reference)

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for the serious opponents of the BFEE.

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2. What I want to know

What organizaton(s) have replaced BCCI as the bank of choice for the BFEE

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3. UBS, no doubt. UBS bought Enron, remember?

Phil Gramm went to work for UBS.

This is serious. This is why BushInc needed Kerry muted and off the national stage. See how the British press picked up on the fact it was Kerry's investigation? The more press focus Kerry gets as a presidential candidate, the more likely this story will get national attention.

BushInc. will do whatever it takes to stop him, and unfortunately, some knuckleheads from other campaigns who can't put two and two together will be doing their best to stop Kerry for Bush.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

5. I'd also add Al Taqwa bank &

would keen a keen eye on where the Parmalat scandal goes in relation to Italian banks (especially after Banco Ambrosiana & BNL whose history dovetails with BCCI).

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6. Berlusconi and his goons are part of BCCI, too.

That Parmalat story is just one other small part of the bigger picture.

BNL was a big factor in Iraqgate and the BILLIONS of our tax dollars that Bush1 funnelled to Saddam Hussein.

[Octafish]

20. P-2 Lodge 'n' GLADIO 'n' Mussolini types. Oh my.

Europe's "Stay Behind" Units

Italy was not alone in having covert "stay behind" units in operation. The operation encompassed all of western Europe. In France the unit was called "Glaive" - again named after a Gladiatorial sword. Austria's unit was named "Schwert," also meaning sword. In Turkey the unit was named "Red Sheepskin" and in Greece "Sheepskin." Sweden's unit was called "Sveaborg." In Switzerland it went by the title P26. Other units in Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Norway, Luxembourg, Denmark and Holland remain unnamed. Not least, the United Kingdom's unit was simply known as "Stay Behind."

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Those who reached safety in this manner read like a "Who's Who" of the most wanted Nazi war criminals. Klaus Barbie, the cruel Gestapo officer known as the "Butcher of Lyons;" Franz Stangl, Commandant of the notorious Treblinka extermination camp; Gustav Wagner Commandant of Sorbibor extermination camp; Alois Brunner, a brutal official in the Jewish deportation programme. Of the most famous to escape along the ratlines were Adolf Eichmann, the chief architect of the "Holoucast" and Dr Joseph Mengele, the "White Angel" of Auschwitz concentration camp. Not least was Deputy Fuhrer Martin Bormann. Incredibly, an entire Waffen SS division - the notorious "Galician Division" - consisting of 8000 men were smuggled to England and given "free settler" status.

Origins of the Stay Behind Network

Information that surfaced in recent years suggests that the "Stay Behind" concept first arose in Britain. Senior military sources told the Guardian newspaper in December 1990, that a British guerrilla network was already in place following the fall of France in 1940. Numerous arm "caches" were buried for later use by a special forces ski battalion of the Scots Guards under the leadership of Brigadier "Mad Mike" Calvert. After the war, the decision was taken to create new units throughout Europe. The plan was conceived by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and spearheaded by the newly formed CIA.

Secretly granted immunity these and thousands of other battle hardened Nazi soldiers were to form the fighting nucleus of a top secret Allied contingency group conceived by the first Director of the CIA, Allen Dulles. Loosely known as operation "Stay Behind," the idea was to build a Europe wide secret network of anti communist guerrillas who would fight behind the lines in the event of a Soviet invasion. The plan was later codified under the umbrella of the Clandestine Co-ordinating Committee of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), the military arm of NATO.

US planners worried over the growing influence of Italy's large and popular communist party, established Operation "Gladio" in 1956. The name derived from the short sword used by Roman legionnaires 2000 years earlier, and was almost certainly drawn from the crest of SHAPE which features two swords arranged in an "A" shape. The Gladio network was operated by the secret services and initially funded by the US Central Intelligence Agency. 622 people were recruited and trained by US and British specialists in Sardinia. It is believed that up to 15,000 members were ultimately recruited to the Gladio network.

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http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/gladio.html

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[WarNoMore]

8. kick!

[Octafish]

16. BFEE - BCCI Treasure Trove

Doubt the BFEE exists? Doubt Osama and Bush go waaay back? Doubt that the BCCI affair doesn't have relevance this election? Well, here's a virtual gold mine of Truth:

Bush, Harken Energy and links to Saudis, (Osama) bin ladin, BCCI. and drug money laundering
In 1979, Bush’s first business, Arbusto Energy, obtained financing from James Bath, a Houstonian and close family friend. One of many investors, Bath gave Bush $50,000 for a 5 percent stake in Arbusto. At the time, Bath was the sole U.S. business representative for Salem bin Laden, head of the wealthy Saudi Arabian family and a brother (one of 17) to Osama bin Laden. It has long been suspected, but never proven, that the Arbusto money came directly from Salem bin Laden.

Philip Uzielli, a wealthy investor and the owner of Executive Resources, a company based first in the Dutch West Indies and later in Panama. Uzielli put $50,000 into one of the early Arbusto partnerships. In January 1982, his company bought ten percent of Arbusto's stock for a cool $1 million. The investment made Uzielli Arbusto's largest benefactor. The million-dollar purchase price was at least three times more than the stock he bought was worth.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=431&L1=10&L2...

Harken Energy was a Persian Gulf oil company which was formed in 1973. In September 1986, Harken Energy Corp. was a medium-sized, diversified corporation founded by Phil Kendrickthat, had been purchased in 1983 by a New York lawyer, Alan Quasha. Quasha seemed interested in acquiring not just an oil company, but the son of the Vice President. Harken agreed to acquire Spectrum 7 in a deal that handed over one share of publicly traded stock for five shares of Spectrum, which at the time were practically worthless.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/081500a2.html

Alan Quasha's father is William Quasha and is a Filipino banker, who had been at strong supporter of President Ferdinand Marcos. William Quasha owned 21 percent of Harken's stock. He also had advised top officials in Australia's Nugan Hand Bank, a CIA operation, which was involved in drug trafficking operations which originated in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/report.aspReportID=431&L1=10&L2=...

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http://www.fourwinds10.com/news/01-business/C-corporate-fraud/2003/01C...

The link immediately above goes to the main article. It is FULL of the "Who" and "How" for those interested in stopping the BFEE. Heck, most anyone would get a real DemoDonkey kick in GOOGLING those names. Some real scary people are occupying the White House, folks. The only thing they fear is the Truth. — Octafish

PS: A hearty welcome to DU, klutz! Any relation to the great artist Don Martin?

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9. Please absorb this folks.

This is why I back Kerry. The BFEE cannot get away with their crap much longer.

[Octafish]

10. BCCI is why Bush FEARS Kerry.

Kerry knows the BFEE helped spread nukes globally, through the money laundered at BCCI. Using the BCCI cash-cow, the Pakistanis built their bomb, then they sold it to those with the means to pay for it. Iran and North Korea, for starters.

For those who've followed this story, it's no stretch to think the BFEE is capable of doing this stuff. Tell you what, it's going to take every good guy and every good guylina to beat these BFEE bastids.

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11. amen....

the BFEE has to go down.

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12. has Kerry said anything yet?

We're waiting....

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13. Is the trial going on right now in England?

Does Kerry have the focus of the American people? Wouldn't THAT be the best timing?

Isn't there a BCCI/Bank of America trial coming up in June?

It would be STUPID to say anything now just to satisfy those who have no sense of timing or strategy.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

18. yeah, we have to wait 10 MORE years for Kerry...

we've heard this song and dance before...

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22. Timing is everything.

Kerry has mentioned BCCI several times during the campaign, the first time I heard was in the televised debate at the Childrens Defense Fund forum a ways back. You can go to their home page and get a PDF transcript.

http://childrensdefense.org.master.com/texis/master/search/?q=candidates%27+forum&s=SS

The question remains: Why drop a bombshell tying the Little Turd from Crawford to BCCI in jolly old England when most reporters have no intention of covering anything other than the horserace? Kerry, unlike certain of his opponents, controls his utterances and emotions. He'll let the salvo fly when he can see the whites of their eyes, the one-on-one debate with Bushler.

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14. If kerry is such a target

why no opponent at all in 2002?

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15. Because he beat the best they had in 1996.

Weld was the popular GOP guv of Mass. The so-and-so had all the money and the Bush Organized Crime Family behind him. He almost won, but Kerry beat him. Fair and square.

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17. Cost of War

Look at this website. www.costofwar.com the cost of the war in Iraq is fast approaching 100 billion. now that is money me you and the rest of the American tax payers will have to pay for. we need to get this guy out of office be for he dose this country in. now who is with me. email me if your with me with your feed back.

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19. Yeah, They're Really Going After Him Big Time

and Clark is having a walk in the park.

By the way, BCCI was 20 years ago. The American People don't give a crap. Kerry's recent record is not undone by whatever he did two decades ago.

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21. Wrong. The BCCI trial in England JUST started

and BCCI investigations went on till 1992. Are you not familiar with it? There is another trial that starts in June - BCCI/Bank of America.

People will come to get it post 9-11.

Surely it must matter to you that the events are linked? Why would you NOT want it to be important?