NP? Snake Bites Own Tail
Doug Millison
millison at online-journalist.com
Thu Feb 21 21:46:16 CST 2002
"Worst of all, bin Mahfouz allegedly has been financing the bin Laden
terrorist network-making Bush a U.S. citizen who has done business with
those who finance and support terrorists. According to USA Today, bin
Mahfouz and other Saudis attempted to transfer $3 million to various bin
Laden front operations in Saudi Arabia in 1999. ABC News reported the same
year that Saudi officials stopped bin Mahfouz from contributing money
directly to bin Laden. (Bin Mahfouz's sister is also a wife of Osama bin
Laden, a fact that former CIA Director James Woolsey revealed in 1998
Senate testimony.)
When President Bush announced he is hot on the trail of the money used over
the years to finance terrorism, he must realize that trail ultimately leads
not only to Saudi Arabia, but to some of the same financiers who originally
helped propel him into the oil business and later the White House. The ties
between bin Laden and the White House may be much closer than he is willing
to acknowledge."
http://inthesetimes.com/issue/25/25/feature3.shtml
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