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Article: www.UnansweredQuestions.org
Date: Sunday, 29 December 2002
Time: 4:18 pm NZT9/11 Inquiry Chair Tied To Osama's Brother In Law
Unanswered Questions: Thinking For Ourselves
Presented by... http://www.unansweredquestions.org/New Chairman Of 9/11 Commission
Had Business Ties With Osama's Brother In LawNow you would think that being a business partner of the brother
in law and alleged financier of 'Enemy No. 1' would be considered
a bona fide 'conflict of interest', particularly when your mandate
--as part of the 9/11 Commission's work-- is to investigate 'Enemy
No. 1'.by Michel Chossudovsky
globalresearch.ca
From: http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO212A.html
27 december 2002********
Unknown to most, UNOCAL's partner in the Cent-Gas trans-Afghan
pipeline consortium, the Saudi Company Delta Oil is owned by
the bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi clans which allegedly have ties
to bin Laden's Al Qaeda.According to a 1998 Senate testimony of former CIA director James
Woolsey, powerful financier Khalid bin Mahfouz' younger sister
is married to Osama bin Laden,. (US Senate, Senate Judiciary
Committee, Federal News Service, 3 Sept. 1998, See also Wayne
Madsen, Questionable Ties, In These Times,12 Nov. 2001 )Bin Mahfouz is suspected to have funnelled millions of dollars
to the Al Qaeda network.(See Tom Flocco, Scoop.co.nz 28 Aug.
2002)Now, 'by sheer coincidence', former New Jersey governor Thomas
Kean, the man chosen by President Bush to lead the 9/11 commission
also has business ties with bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi.Thomas Kean is a director (and shareholder) of Amerada Hess Corporation
, which is involved in the Hess-Delta joint venture with Delta
Oil of Saudi Arabia (owned by the bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi clans).
Delta-Hess 'was established in 1998 for the development and
exploration of oil fields in the Caspian region...In Azerbaijan
Delta Hess is involved in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli PSA (2.72%)
and the Garabaghli-Kursangi PSA (20%). It is also an equity
holder in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline':'An air of mystery hangs over Delta- Hess, which... is registered
in the Cayman Islands. Hess is in no hurry to reveal the terms
of the alliance, which it says are subject to confidentiality
clauses. 'There's no reason why this should be public information,'
a Hess spokesman says.'
-(Energy Compass, 15 Nov. 2002)
Coincidentally, the former Governor of New Jersey is also a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations, together with another prominent
member of the board of directors of Amerada Hess, former Secretary
of the Treasury Nicholas Brady:In other words, Delta Oil Ltd. of Saudi Arabia --which is a
partner in the Hess-Delta Alliance--is in part controlled by
Khalid bin Mafhouz, Osama's brother in law.And former Governor Thomas Kean not only sits on the board of
directors of a company which has business dealings with Khalid
bin Mahfouz, he also heads the 9/11 Commission, which has a mandate
to investigate Khalid's brother in law, Osama bin Laden.Dr. Kissinger had a conflict of interest and resigned! The vice
chairman of the Commission, former Sen. George Mitchell of Maine,
resigned for the same reason. (See Xymphora, 19 Dec 2002 )Now you would think that being a business partner of the brother
in law and alleged financier of 'Enemy No. 1' would also be considered
a bona fide 'conflict of interest', particularly when your mandate
--as part of the 9/11 Commission's work-- is to investigate 'Enemy
No. 1'.And the corporate media applauds. Without acknowledging his Saudi
business connections, Thomas Kean is heralded as 'a man of extraordinary
integrity, decency and intellect.' In the words of the Baltimore
Sun: 'he lacks obvious conflicts of interest' (26 Dec.2002).
To which I respond: 'how more obvious can you get'!It is also worth mentioning that Thomas Kean also sits as co-chairman
of the Homeland Security Project (HSP) under the auspices of
the Century Foundation. In this capacity, Kean has played a key
role in the draft recommendations of the Century Foundation,
which laid the groundwork of the Office of Homeland Security
legislation.********
The Saudi Connection
Thomas Kean, described as a 'moderate Republican' is not alone
in this Saudi business relationship.Extensively documented, other prominent members of the Republican
party including the Bush family have had business dealings with
the bin Laden family. (See George W. Bush Financial Scams: CRG
selection of articles)Moreover, it would appear that Delta officials (involved in the
UNOCAL trans-Afghan pipeline consortium) played a key role in
negotiations with the Taliban. In turn, Enron, the infamous energy
giant � whose former CEO, Ken Lay, had close connections to the
Bush family � had been contracted in a cozy relationship to undertake
feasibility studies for the Unocal-Delta consortium. Enron Corporation
had also been entrusted --in liaison with Delta-- with pipeline
negotiations with the Taliban government.Carefully documented by Wayne Madsen, George W. Bush also had
dealings with Osama's brother in law Khalid bin Mafhouz, when
he was in the Texas oil business. Both George W. Bush and Khalid
bin-Mahfouz were implicated in the Bank of Commerce International
(BCCI) scandal:'Other links between Bush and Mahfouz can be found through investments
in the Carlyle Group, an American investment firm managed by
a board on which former president George Bush himself sat. The
younger [George W.] Bush personally held shares in one of the
components of the Carlyle group, the Caterair company, between
1990-94. And Carlyle today ranks as a leading contributor to
Bush's electoral campaign. On Carlyle's advisory board is found
the name of Sami Baarma, director of the Pakistani financial
establishment Prime Commercial Bank that is based in Lahore and
owned by Mahfouz.
- (See Maggie Mulvihill, Jonathan Wells and Jack Meyers: Slick
deals; the White House connection; Saudi �agents' close Bush
Friends,Boston Herald, 11 December 2001).
********
In the wake of 9/11
In the wake of 9/11, Khalid bin Mahfouz (Osama's brother in
law) was carefully exempted from the Treasury investigations
(another 'sheer coincidence') which led to the freezing of the
financial assets of some 150 Saudi businesses, charities and
individuals:'The US Treasury has frozen the assets of 150 Saudi individuals,
companies and charities suspected of financing terrorism. It
has named Blessed Relief, a Saudi 'charity' as a front organisation
providing funds to Osama bin Laden. 'Saudi businessmen have been
transferring millions of dollars to Bin Laden through Blessed
Relief,' the agency said.One rich Saudi patriarch under suspicion is Khaled bin Mahfouz,
owner of the National Commercial Bank, banker to the Saudi royal
family, US and British authorities have also investigated Mohammed
Hussein Al-Amoudi, another billionaire Saudi, for possible financial
ties to Bin Laden. Al -Amoudi, who oversees a vast network of
companies involved in construction, mining, banking and oil,
has also denied any involvement with Bin Laden. His Washington
lawyers said he 'was unalterably opposed to terrorism and had
no knowledge of any money transfers by Saudi businesses to Bin
Laden.Both Al-Amoudi and Bin Mahfouz have been left untouched by the
US Treasury Department. The case against them, let alone against
the government itself, is unproven. But the post-September 11
spotlight on Saudi Arabia has brought into sharp focus the fundamental
question facing the country's rulers.'
- (Scotland on Sunday, 11 August 2002)********
The 9/11 Victims Families Law Suit
According to one press report, Thomas Kean --in contrast to Dr.
Henry Kissinger-- was selected to head the 9/11 Commission because
he was 'close to the families of the 9/11 victims, an important
credential to the White House, which was coming under increasing
criticism from those families' (Scripps Howard News Service,
17 December 2002)Yet in a cruel irony, the $1 trillion lawsuit filed last August
by the families of the victims of the September 11 attacks ,
lists two of Thomas Kean's business partners in the Hess-Delta
joint-venture, among the accused: Khalid Bin Mahfouz (Osama's
brother in law), and Mohammed Hussein al Amoudi. Both individuals
have been tagged in the lawsuit as alleged 'financiers' of Al
Qaeda. Now, how will Thomas Kean deal with that in the context
of the 9/11 Commission?********
Mystery Surrounding the 1998 Embassy Bombings
Former CIA director James Woolsey's testimony confirms that the
Sudan pharmaceutical company bombed in 1998 on the orders of
President Clinton was owned by Salah Idris, a business associate
and protegé of Khalid bin Mahfouz, The bombing was in retribution
for the alleged Al Qaeda African Embassy bombings.The Mahfouz conglomerate, which owns the largest bank in Saudi
Arabia, the National Commercial Bank, was preparing to pump money
into the trans-Afghan pipeline deal. (For further details, see
Michel Chossudovsky, 2002, Chapter VI) Delta-Hess was also set
up in 1998 to explore and develop oil and gas resources in the
Caspian Sea basin.Now why would the Clinton administration order the bombing of
a factory which was controlled by a business crony of Unocal
Corporation and Amerada-Hess?© Copyright Michel Chossudovsky CRG 2002. For fair use only/
pour usage équitable seulement .********
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