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| “The Alireza family has been developing real estate near Disney World, Governor Jeb Bush and the White House interceded on behalf of the Alireza family and Xentury City. It is worth noting that the time frame in which the message from the White House and Jeb Bush was delivered to the county commissioners is the same time frame in which the sequence of events leading up to Paul O’Neill’s resignation. | | Submitted by fedup | 2006-01-06 19:00:35 | .) “At a packed meeting late Monday in Kissimme, commissioners listened to impassioned pleas from opponents, replete with patriotic references to Septmeber11. and the victims of the terrorist attack. Paul Owen, the county commission chairman, says he received a call in recent days from the office of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with a message from the governor and the White House asking commission members to dismiss geopolitical concerns from the their debate. [Italics are Mr. Emory’s] But the September 11 issue couldn’t be ignored.” (Idem.)
14. Tying the DMI and Al Shamal bank to the controversy surrounding a Saudi Princess’s channeling of funds to a man connected to the September 11 hijackers, a recent article by the remarkable Lucy Komisar further delineated the links of the Saudi elite to the Al Qaeda milieu. “. . .The links between [ Saudi ambassador’s wife Haifa] bint Faisal’s powerful Saudi family and the financing of terrorism are even more extensive, however. The trails of both Omar al-Bayoumi, the man who aided the hijackers, and that of the financial network of bint Faisal’s family each led to Osama bin Laden. According to a 1996 U.S. State Department report, al-Shamal Islamic Bank in Khartoum (Sudan) was capitalized by bin Laden and wealthy members of Sudan’s National Islamic Front. Bin Laden invested millions in the bank. Mohammed al-Faisal, bint Faisal’s brother, is an investor and board member at Al Shamal.” (“Funding Terror: Investigating the Role of Saudi Banks” by Lucy Komisar; In These Times; 12/20/2002; p. 2 of 3; accessed at www.inthesetimes.com/issue/27/04/news1.shtml .)
15. “Al Shamal appears to have been a bin Laden bank of choice. Al-Qaeda members had accounts in Al Shamal, according to testimony during U.S. trials surrounding the 1998 attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. One Al-Qaeda collaborator, Essam al-Ridi, recounted how bin Laden transferred $230 million from Al-Shamal to a bank in Arizona to buy a plane to fly Stinger missiles from Pakistan to Sudan.” (Idem.)
16. “One of the bank’s three founding members and major shareholders is Saleh Abdullah Kamel. A major financial and media power in the Arab world, he is, in addition, the chairman of the Dallah al-Baraka (DBG). Al-Bayoumi was assistant to the Director of Finance for Dallah Avco, a DBG company that worked with the Saudi aviation authority. The Wall Street Journal has reported that the United States believed Dallah al-Baraka Bank, another DBG company, was also used by al-Qaeda.” (Idem.)
17. The aforementioned Bush business associate Khalid bin Mahfouz is connected to Mohammad Al-Faisal and the milieu described here. “Mohammed Al-Faisal is president of Dar al-Mal-Islami (DMI), the House of Finance of Islam. The Geneva-based bank is charged with distributing subsidies of the royal family in the Muslim world. DMI, founded in 1981 and with assets of an estimated $3.5 billion, also has connections to the bin Laden family. Its 12-member board of directors includes Hayda Mohamed bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s half-brother and Khalid bin Mahfouz, whose sister Kaleda is one of Osama bin Laden’s wives. (bin Mahfouz was indicted by the United States in the notorious BCCI banking scandal, which defrauded depositors of billions, and in 1995 paid a $225-million fine.)” (Idem.)
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