Bin Laden connections to top people

Reportedly, Former President Jimmy Carter met with 10 of Osama bin Laden's brothers early in 2000.

"The former president and his wife, Rosalyn, followed up the meeting with a breakfast with Bakr bin Laden in September 2000 and secured the first $200,000 towards the more than $1 million that has gone to the Carter Center." Bin Laden family gave $1 million to Carter

Salem bin Laden (born 1946) attended Millfield, the English boarding school.

He took over the family empire in 1967; he married an English art student, Caroline Carey, whose half brother Ambrose Douglas is the son of the Marquess of Queensberry in Scotland.

According to French intelligence, during the 1980's, Salem helped the Reagan Administration when it secretly arranged for an estimated thirty-four million dollars to be funnelled through Saudi Arabia to the Contras, in Nicaragua.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, George W. Bush's father, George H. W. Bush, was meeting with Osama bin Laden's brother, Shafig bin Laden, in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, on Carlyle Group business.

The Carlyle Group is a company closely associated with officials of the Bush and Reagan administrations, and has considerable ties to Saudi oil money, including ties to the bin Laden family.

Reportedly, in 1979, Osama bin Laden's tutor, Prince Turki al Fayçal al Saud (director of Saudi Arabia secret services from 1977 to August 2001), asked Osama to direct and financially manage the CIA secret operations in Afghanistan. The Hidden Financial Ties between the Bush and the Bin Laden ...

From the Daily Telegraph, 20 July 2004:

Telegraph Entertainment The acceptable face of the bin Ladens

"...The bin Ladens have dealings with Citigroup, General Electric, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and the Fremont Group, as well as Microsoft and Boeing.

"The family is reported to have given $2 million to Harvard and $300,000 to Tufts University, as well as owning massive amounts of real estate in Florida and Massachusetts.

"Far from denying these investments, Yeslam is quietly proud of them as evidence of the family's friendly involvement with the US."

According to Le Figaro newspaper, 11 October 2001, a CIA agent met Osama bin Laden in July 2001, while Osama was getting treatment for kidney problems at an American hospital in Dubai. Guardian Unlimited Special reports CIA agent alleged to have ...

Bin Laden checked into the American Hospital Dubai, a 100-bed, acute-care general hospital, July 4 and stayed until July 14.

He arrived from Quetta, Pakistan, accompanied by his personal doctor and a close aide - possibly Ayman el Zawahiri, a leader of Egypt's Islamic Jihad, now bin Laden's right hand man, the newspaper said.

Le Figaro cited a "professional partner" linked to the hospital's management as its source.

Besides a stream of local dignitaries and family members, bin Laden's visitors included a local CIA agent, the newspaper reported. The agent was widely recognized locally, Le Figaro said, and later told several friends of the meeting.

The alleged American spy was called back to the CIA's McLean, Va., headquarters July 15 - a day after bin Laden checked out, Le Figaro reported, citing "authorized sources."

Sources include : Bin Laden family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CRG -- The CIA met Bin Laden while undergoing treatment at an ...


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