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The fact that Saudi Arabia pours large sums into lobbying firms and public relations companies with close ties to congress does not come as a big surprise. The FARA database under the DOJ website lists Qorvis Communications as one of Saudi Arabia’s registered foreign agents. In 2003, for only a six months period, Qorvis received more than $11 million from the Saudi government. Another firm, Loeffler Tuggey Pauerstein Rosenthal LLP, another registered foreign agent, received more than $840,000 for the same six-month period, and the list goes on. Just for this six month period the government of Saudi Arabia paid a total of more than $14 million to 13 lobbying and public relations companies; all registered as foreign agents.

Who did the CIA memo dated August 2, 2002 say gave support for some of the September 11 hijackers while they were in the United States?

The Saudi government with its members of the Saudi Royal Family and members of the Bin Laden family with close ties to the royal family!

Who has direct financial ties to an oil, energy and weapons investment group which has raked in $Billions as a result of this War?

The Bin Laden family!

The bin Laden family has very strong ties in the Carlyle Group, a Washington-based investment company focused primarily in the arms, security, and energy industries.

Who was sued by the 9/11 victims family members for complicity in the attacks?

The Saudi Royal Family!

The Saudi Royal Family also has very strong ties to the Carlyle Group, which invests heavily in defense companies and is the nation’s 10th largest defense contractor with ties to Enron, Global Crossing, among others.

Who helped arange the evacuation of members of the Bin Laden Family after 9/11 and defended the Saudis against a lawsuit brought by the 9/11 victims family members?

A man who happens to be the senior counsel for the Carlyle Group!

Carlyle has profited immensely from the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars. Its legal matters are handled by Baker, Botts—James Baker’s law firm in Texas. Mr. Baker also has a personal interest in Carlyle, amounting to some $180 million. Another client of Baker, Botts is Exxon-Mobil.

Who on the morning of September 11th had a investor conference with members of the familys incontrovertibly tied to 9/11?

The Carlyle Group held an investor conference in the Ritz Carlton in Washington DC on the morning of September 11th, 2001 with members of the Bin Laden family and ect, tied to 9/11.

The Carlyle Group, a Washington, DC based private equity firm that employs numerous former high-ranking government officials with ties to both political parties, was the ninth largest Pentagon contractor between 1998 and 2003, an ongoing Center for Public Integrity investigation into Department of Defense contracts found. According to this report, overall, six private investment firms, including Carlyle, received nearly $14 billion in Pentagon deals between 1998 and 2003. Considering the fact that Saudi Arabia is the top buyer of the U.S. weapons industry, Carlyle’s investment and its stake, and of course Jimmy Baker’s far reaching influence within the Pentagon and congress, everything seems to come together and fit perfectly to shield this foreign interest no matter the price to be paid by the American public.

That might be why were giving a free pass to the Saudis who are supplying money and weaponry to those doing the most killing of Americans.

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Maj. Gen. Jim Simmons, deputy commander of Multinational Corps-Iraq, told reporters there was no indication Iranian weapons were behind the latest spate of helicopter crashes.

Simmons said investigators suspected that at least two of the recent shoot-downs, on Jan. 20 and Feb. 2, were linked because in “BOTH” cases “MULTIPLE” firearms were used in the attacks and “ROADS LEADING TO THE CRASH SITES WERE LINED WITH EXPLOSIVES TO DETER RESCUERS”. Fourteen troops died in those incidents.

It has been confirmed that the attack on Jan. 20 was pre planned and that they were given their intelligence from at least one Iraqi general. We also know that they used multiple SA-16s/SA-18s rockets and that a large sale of those man-portable short-range rockets were sold to Saudi from Russia.

The same Sunni group claimed responsibility for the four other helicopter crashes in recent weeks. U.S. officials have acknowledged that enemy fire brought down all those copters, which included a civilian one owned by the private security firm Blackwater USA.

U.S. intelligence reports and the U.S. Iraq Study Group report as well as Iraqi intelligence reports said Saudis are funding Sunni Arab insurgents and the money is used to buy weapons, including Strelas, Russian shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles.

We also know why the highly sophisticated state sponsored attack took place in karbala. The reason for the expensive and precise raid to abduct U.S. soldiers just to kill them shortly thereafter in a location away from the facility was to gain public support from the American people into invading Iran! It was a false flag operation sponsored by Saudi Arabia with nothing to gain but to draw America into a war with Iran!

Pierre Legrand for some reason I have had trouble posting on here but I have never recieved any notification that you do not want me to so if this posts, I assume it was a problem with my computer. With your permission I would like to finish my other posts for I feel that the information is of vast importance for educated people like yourself. If you have any questions I would be glad to answer them.

The Saudi’s have been setting “US” up!!!!

The man in Saudi Makram Chams whose convenience store in Venice Florida was used by Mohamed Atta and his cadre of terrorist hijackers to receive overseas wire transfers, and from whose apartment Atta and Marwan took taxis to Orlando Airport to pick up visiting Saudis has suit in Saudi Arabia, for a whopping $21 million, against Titan Corporation of San Diego for not paying him the agreed amount for work he did before and up to 9/11!

In addition to owning a convenience store, the peripatetic Chams’ recent resume includes having been a partner in a Jack Abramoff-style gambling boat which operated for two years in Venice without permits, working for the FBI in San Diego, and pulling down multi-million dollar contracts in Saudi Arabia, one of which suspected of being with the Saudi Bin Laden Group, for controversial U.S. defense firm Titan Corp.

Strangely (or not) the FBI apparently never bothered to mention anything at all to the 9/11 Commission about Makram Chams. Even though “numerous local witnesses have stated that several of the terrorists basically hung out at (Chams’) Kwik Check.”

The FBI’s testimony before the 9/11 Commission revealed that the largest overseas money transfer the terrorists received had come from the UAE, for $70,000.

A copy of the money transfer was projected overhead.

What the FBI didn’t point out to the Commission was the significance of the address where the money was wired to: 201 Nokomis in Venice, the address of the Kwik-Check owned by Makram Chams, the man who shortly thereafter would be in Saudi Arabia procuring multi-million dollar contracts from the Saudi Bin Laden Group.

Atta and his fellow terrorists also availed themselves of a second floor apartment Chams rented in a building across the street from the convenience store. The apartment was occupied by his sister, May Chams, and her husband, an Indian Muslim named “Khal” who disappeared from Venice in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack.

Local Venice Yellow Cab driver Bob Simpson (whose testimony about Atta’s local associates was used by the FBI to apprehend a half-dozen Saudi nationals in Venice after the attack) says he picked up Mohamed Atta and his bodyguard Marwan at the apartment in his cab on several occasions, and taken them to the Orlando Airport.

Even Zacharias Moussaoui, whose presence in Venice, was confirmed was seen at Chams’ apartment.

“The FBI was especially interested in a rich Saudi guy, dressed in Armani, shades, manicure, and a gold Rolex, that I was sent to pick up at the Orlando Executive Airport,” said Simpson.

“They (the FBI) knew he’d ridden in my cab because they’d gotten my cab number from a surveillance camera there.”

Six weeks later, when Simpson received a call to go to the apartment to pick up the “rich Saudi in Armani and shades” and return him to the Orlando Airport,(Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi) the cabbie was asked to help carry a chest, the kind kept at the bottom of a bed, down from the apartment and load it into the trunk of the cab.

“It was so heavy it took two people to carry it. I could not believe anything that small could weigh that much! It must have weighed at least 150 pounds.”

Carrying the other end of the chest was someone Simpson recognized much later. “A big bald guy who I later identified as Zacharias Moussaoui helped me carry it down to the cab.”

At some point after the attack Chams abandoned the mini-market (it has stood vacant since) and left Venice.

A story in the Sarasota Herald Tribune called the abandoned convenience store, “A pocket of urban blight in the otherwise smartly tailored suit of downtown Venice.

Chams went to San Diego, said his sister, who worked at Barclay’s Pharmacy in Venice (the same pharmacy visited by Mohamed Atta and his Cairo lawyer father two weeks before the 9/1 attack.

Asked what he was doing in San Diego, she’d replied, “Helping out the FBI.”

Then recently we learned Chams had been working as a contractor in Saudi Arabia for controversial San Diego defense firm Titan Corp a 23-year old company which sells information and communication services to military and spy agencies, and has about 12,000 employees and revenues of about $2 billion a year.

An SEC filing last year Titan reported that Makram Chams had filed a $21 million lawsuit against them in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Apparently Titan didn’t hold the lawsuit against Chams, because he recently received a six-figure payout from Surebeam, a bankrupt Titan subsidiary which, in the aftermath of the anthrax scare had been the lucky recipient of a big windfall from the U.S. Post Office.

Surebeam announced in a press release that the post office “would use Surebeam’s electron beam systems to eliminate the threat of anthrax in the U.S. mail system.”

Despite there being not the slightest hint of scientific evidence that the company could perform as advertised, the firm was awarded a $40 million contract to set up machines to detect and kill anthrax spores,

Makram Chams had apparently landed a $5 million contract in Riyadh for Surebeam with the Saudi Bin Laden Group.

Surebeam, in a curious press release, had boasted of winning a $5 million contract in Saudi Arabia, “to build a network of Surebeam facilities within the Kingdom for pathogen and environmental pest control.”

Oddly, the company which gave Surebeam the $5 million contract went unnamed in the press release, identified only as “a private Saudi Arabian conglomerate headquartered in Riyadh;” and as “a leading Saudi company whose business dealings involve high rise construction, large living compound construction, hotel design and construction, oil and gas projects, defense and security contracts.”

Only one company fits this description, while at the same time being a firm Surebeam would have wanted to keep quiet about having as a business partner…The Saudi Bin Laden Group.

Makram Chams curious curriculum vitae includes having been a partner in a gambling boat called Vegas-in-Venice, owned by a Philadelphia man alleged to have ties to organized crime. The gambling vessel somehow managed to operate for almost two years in Venice, despite having no approval to do so from the city of Venice, County of Sarasota, or State of Florida.

The only other local partner in the gambling venture, Max Burge, also did business with Skyway Aircraft/Royal Son principal Frederick Geffon.

In addition the well-connected Burge owned the light planes used by the terrorists in their flight training at Huffman Aviation, Burge once owned the Sandpiper Apartments across the street the airport where Mohamed Atta spent several months living with Amanda Keller and where the DEA had been conducting their surveillance out of.

The DEA were secretly conducting their investigation of the drug smuggling from the same apartment building that Atta was staying at which was located right by the flight school.

Terror flight school owner Wally Hilliard’s company’s Lear (N351WB) had been busted by DEA agents armed with machine guns, who, during the same month Atta arrived at his school, found 43 pounds of Al Qaeda heroin onboard.

The same month Mohamed Atta arrived to attend his flight school in Venice, Huffman Aviation, the owner of that flight school, Wallace J. Hilliard, had his Lear jet confiscated on a runway at Orlando Executive Airport by DEA agents who found 43 pound of Bin Laden’s best uncut Al Qaeda heroin onboard.

It was, said the Orlando Sentinel, the “biggest drug bust in Central Florida history,”

How did a convenience store owner with unexplained links to Abramoff-style gambling boat interests connected with organized crime, and unexplained links with the terrorists in Venice, end up working for a well-connected defense contractor embroiled in numerous major controversies?

Woops!, “helicopter” not “helocopter”

How can a government that’s been intent upon using the terrorist attacks to carry out the invasion of Iraq, prevent bringing to justice those who’ve been established as being directly responsible for it?

Not to mention the Saudi drug cartels and crime syndicate that stole and shiped the the vehicles used in the Karbala attack from the “US”!

They have been tracked to Iraq and verified by the VIN of those vehicles. Late model vehicle types of those used by the US overseas have been the target for theft from the Gulf Coast and LA Basin areas. It is apparent that these are not chop-shop specials, but whole vehicles that are exiting through crime cartels, and then shifted to the Middle East.

Though it is not a high priority amongst law enforcement… or they are very quiet about it.

Foreign Agents by Default
Although when it comes to our complex diplomatic threading with Saudi Arabia the easiest answer appears to be the “oil factor,” upon further inspection the Saudi’s influence and role extends into other areas, such as the Military Industrial Complex and the too familiar Lobbying Games.

According to the report published by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Saudi Arabia is America’s top customer. Since 1990 the U.S. government, through the Pentagon’s arms export program, has arranged for the delivery of more than $39.6 billion in foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia, and an additional $394 million worth of arms were delivered to the Saudi regime through the State Department’s direct commercial sales program. Oil rich Saudi Arabia is a cash-paying customer; a compulsive buyer of our weaponry. The list of U.S. sellers includes almost all the major players such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing.

The report by FAS establishes that despite the show of U.S. support demonstrated by this astounding quantity of arms sales, Saudi Arabia’s human rights record is extremely poor; see the U.S. State Department’s 2000 Human Rights Report. Saudi Arabia’s position as a strategic Gulf ally has blinded U.S. officials into approving a level and quality of arms exports that should never have been allowed to a non-democratic country with such a poor human rights record.

Saudi’s have an active role as a player in the nuclear black-market. According to Mohammed Khilewi, first secretary at the Saudi mission to the United Nations until July 1994, the Saudis have sought a bomb since 1975; they sought to buy nuclear reactors from China, supported Pakistan’s nuclear program, and contributed $5 billion to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program between 1985 and 1990. While the U.S. government vocally opposes the development or procurement of ballistic missiles by non-allies, it has been very quiet in Saudi Arabia’s case, considering the fact that it possesses the longest-range ballistic missiles of any developing country.

THE BIG PICTURE!

Understand that Iran and Saudi Arabia are pulling the strings.

What we have here is a proxy war between Iran and the Saudis.

Iran is backing the Shias in the south, Saudi Arabia is backing the Sunnis.

Saudi’s “OPEN” support includes financial backing for minority Sunnis because of the civil war between them and Iraq’s Shiite majority. Before that the Sunnis were geting the money from private donations such as extremist Wahhabi mosques and the Bin Laden family wich is an immensely wealthy family intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family.

Pierre Legrand said:
“How can we continue to fight if the very government we are fighting to protect is aiding and abetting attacks on us?”

Sunni Al-Qaeda has a serious enemy close at hand: Shi’ite Iran. Al-Qaeda’s primary foes have always been Arab regimes not in accordance with extreme fundamentalist Wahhabist theology. But that theology is also full of contempt for those regarded by Al-Qaeda and most Sunnis as heretics: the Shi’ites of Iran.

So what are these two talking about?

Cheney said:
Remember what bin Laden’s strategy is. He doesn’t think he can beat us in the stand-up fight. He thinks he can force us to quit. He believes that, after Lebanon in ’83 and Somalia in ’93, that the United States doesn’t have the stomach for a long war.

And Iraq is the current central battlefield in that war, and we must win there. It’s absolutely essential that we win there, and we will win there

SEN. LIEBERMAN said:
I do, because there is so much on the line in Iraq. We overthrew Saddam Hussein. We, we have been working, and, as the president said the other night, a lot of mistakes, terrible mistakes, have been made, but we’ve been working in the larger context of the war on terrorism, the war against the Islamic radicals who attacked us on 9/11, the threat that Iran represents, to create in Iraq an alternative path to the future which is democratic, small D, self-governing, self-protecting.

According to them we are actually fighting bin Laden in Iraq.

But we should be fighting the terrorist in Saudi Arabia!

Remember Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar’s US visas. [Source: FBI] Hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi, Salem Alhazmi, and Khalid Almihdhar obtain US visas through the US Consulate in Jeddah, “SAUDI ARABIA”. [US Congress, 7/24/2003] All three are already “al-Qaeda veterans” and battle-hardened killers. Almihdhar’s visa is issued on April 7, and he thereafter leaves and returns to the US multiple times until April 6, 2000. [Stern, 8/13/2003] Nawaf Alhazmi gets the same kind of visa; details about Salem are unknown. The CIA claims the hijackers then travel to Afghanistan to participate in “special training” with at least one other suicide bomber on a different mission. The training is led by Khallad bin Attash. The US learns about Almihdhar’s visa in January 2000. The Jeddah Consulate keeps in its records the fact that Nawaf and Alhazmi obtain US visas several days before Almihdhar, but apparently these records are never searched before 9/11. [US Congress, 7/24/2003]

Abdulla Noman, a former employee of the US consulate in Jeddah, “SAUDI ARABIA”, where “15″ of the 19 9/11 hijackers got their visas, says that he took money and gifts to provide fraudulent visas to foreigners. He pleads guilty and is convicted. About 50 to 100 visas were improperly issued by Noman from September 1996 until November 2001, when he was arrested. However, a former visa officer in Jeddah, Michael Springmann, has claimed in the past that the Jeddah office was notorious for purposefully giving visas to terrorists to train in the US (see September 1987-March 1989). [Associated Press, 5/21/2002]

Hijacker Khalid Almihdhar reenters the US. The CIA and FBI have recently been showing interest in him, but have still failed to place him on a watch list of US-designated terrorists. Had he been placed on a watch list by this date, he would have been stopped and possibly detained as he tried to enter the US. He enters on a new US visa obtained in Jeddah, “SAUDI ARABIA”, on June 13, 2001. [US Congress, 7/24/2003 ] The FBI notes that he returns just days after the last of the hijacker “muscle” has entered the US, and speculates that he returns because his job in bringing them over is finished. [US Congress, 7/24/2003]

Visa applications for the 15 “SAUDI ARABIAN HIJACKERS” are made public, and six separate experts agree: “All of them should have been denied entry [into the US].” Joel Mowbray, who first breaks the story for the conservative National Review, says he is shocked by what he saw: “I really was expecting al-Qaeda to have trained their operatives well, to beat the system. They didn’t have to beat the system, the system was rigged in their favor from the get-go.” A former US consular officer says the visas show a pattern of criminal negligence. Some examples: “Abdulaziz Alomari claimed to be a student but didn’t name a school; claimed to be married but didn’t name a spouse; under nationality and gender, he didn’t list anything.” “Khalid Almihdhar … simply listed ‘Hotel’ as his US destination—no name, no city, no state but no problem getting a visa.” Only one actually gave a US destination, and one stated his destination as “no.” Only Hani Hanjour had a slight delay in acquiring his visa. His first application was flagged because he wrote he wanted to visit for three years when the legal limit is two. When he returned two weeks later, he simply changed the form to read “one year” and was accepted. The experts agree that even allowing for chance, incompetence, and human error, the odds were that only a few should have been approved. [New York Post, 10/9/2002; ABC News, 10/23/2002]

I suppose Sunni bin Laden and Sunni al Qaeda could declare a jihad against Iran….It would take us out of the gunsights….

bin Laden v. the Ayatollah

If America withdrew from Iraq and a Sunni-Shi’ite war took off, the narrative of the long war would inevitably change. It would go from Islam versus the West to Islam versus itself and we would reap dividends in the long run.

Redefining the war on terror as essentially the product of ancient feuds within Islam immediately shifts the argument onto terrain favourable to the West. As it stands now our being in Iraq unites the Muslim world against “US”.

Both sides are using “US” our children and our resources!

News on Fox reports Sadr and his lieutenants have gone to Iran at Maliki’s urging. The mahdi army weapons are under the control of the Ministry of the Interior so that they will not be consfiscated. Maliki was making the right moves and now has once again protected Sadr who will no doubt reclaim his weapons when the US leaves.