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The Bush Bin Laden Connection Part 1 TRUST OR HUSTLE: The Bush Record Recommended reading Wilmsen, Steven K., Silverado: Neil Bush and the Savings and
Loan Scandal, Washington, DC: National Press Books, 1991.
9/28/2001 WALL STREET JOURNAL: BUSH SR.
IN BUSINESS WITH BIN LADEN FAMILY CONGLOMERATE THROUGH CARLYLE GROUP
FAMILY HAD RENOUNCED TIES
TO TERRORIST SON BUT FAMILY STILL UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION FATHER OF PRESIDENT SHOULD
PULL OUT OF INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING FIRM (Washington, DC) Judicial
Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes
government corruption and abuse, reacted with disbelief to The Wall Street
Journal report of yesterday that George H.W. Bush, the father of President
Bush, works for the bin Laden family business in Saudi Arabia through the
Carlyle Group, an international consulting firm. The senior Bush had met with
the bin Laden family at least twice. (Other top Republicans are also
associated with the Carlyle group, such as former Secretary of State James A.
Baker.) The terrorist leader Osama bin Laden had supposedly been “disowned”
by his family, which runs a multi-billion dollar business in Saudi Arabia and
is a major investor in the senior Bush’s firm. Other reports have questioned,
though, whether members of his Saudi family have truly cut off Osama bin
Laden. Indeed, the Journal also reported yesterday that the FBI has subpoenaed
the bin Laden family business’s bank records. Judicial Watch earlier this
year had strongly criticized President Bush’s father’s association with the
Carlyle Group, pointing out in a March 5 statement that it was a “conflict of
interest (which) could cause problems for America’s foreign policy in Middle
East and Asia.” Judicial Watch called for the senior Bush to resign from the
firm then. “This conflict of interest
has now turned into a scandal. The idea of the President’s father, an
ex-president himself, doing business with a company under investigation by
the FBI in the terror attacks of September 11 is horrible. President Bush
should not ask, but demand, that his father pull out of the Carlyle Group,”
stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. “This has the potential of
making ‘Billygate’ (Jimmy Carter’s brother’s dealings with Libya) look like
small potatoes,” added Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. See "Bin Laden Family Could
Profit From a Jump In Defense Spending Due to Ties to U.S. Bank," by
Daniel Golden, James Bandler, and Marcus Walker, The Wall Street Journal,
9/28/01 (www.wsj.com, subscription required). http://www.campaignwatch.org/more1.htm http://www.campaignwatch.org/refs2.htm#ws092899 |
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