Fw: Bush Thwarted FBI Probe Of Bin Ladens

["Nello Margiotta" <animarg at tin.it>]

 From: Kim Scipes <sscipe1 at ICARUS.CC.UIC.EDU>
 Subject:      Bush Thwarted FBI Probe Of Bin Ladens
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 http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/071101/dlame43.asp
 
 
 
 Hindustan Times
 Wednesday, November 7, 2001
 
 Bush thwarted FBI probe against bin Ladens
 AFP
 (London, November 7)
 
 
 FBI agents in the United States probing relatives of
 Saudi-born terror suspect Osama Bin Laden before
 September 11 were told to back off soon after George W
 Bush became president, the BBC has reported.
 The BBC's Newsnight current affairs programme on
 Tuesday said that Bush at one point had a number of
 connections with Saudi Arabia's prominent Bin Laden
 family.
 
 It added there was a suspicion that the US strategic
 interest in Saudi Arabia, which has the world's
 biggest oil reserve, blunted its inquiries into
 individuals with suspected terrorist connections -- so
 long as the US was safe.

 Newsnight reported it had seen secret documents from
 an FBI probe into the September 11 terror attacks that
 showed that at least two other US-based members of the
 Bin Laden family are suspected to have links with a
 possible terrorist organisation.
 
The programme said it had obtained evidence that the
 FBI was on the trail of Bin Laden family members
 living in United States before, as well as after, the
terrorist attacks.
 
 Newsnight said Bush made his first million 20 years
 ago with an oil company partly funded by the chief US
 representative of Salem Bin Laden, Osama's brother.
 
Bush also received fees as director of a subsidiary of
 Carlyle Corporation, a little-known private company
 which in just a few years since its founding has
 become one of America's biggest defence contractors,
 and his father, George Bush Sr, is also a paid
 advisor, the programme said.
 
 The connection became embarrassing when it was
 revealed that the Bin Ladens held a stake in Carlyle,
 sold just after September 11, it added.