Esos locos 80s...
US & Saudi Arabia pay $40 Billion to the Mujahedeens during the 80's. Most of the money is managed by Pakistani ISI.
La conexión que comentamos ayer, ahora ya específicamente citando EEUU cómo fuente de financiación, cosa por otra parte normal dado el hermanamiento norteamericano-saudí.
Michael Springmann, the head US consular official in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, claims that he is "repeatedly told to issue visas to unqualified applicants." He turns them down, but is repeatedly overruled by superiors. He claims the visas were issued for recruits fighting for bin Laden against Russia in Afghanistan. He eventually is fired and the files he has kept on these applicants are destroyed. Springman speculates the issuing of visas to radical Islamic fighters continued until 9/11. 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers getting their visas through his former Jeddah office. A government report later concludes that all of the known hijacker visa applications should have been rejected, and numerous experts say its improbable that more than a few should have been accepted through luck or incompetence.
La conexión visados, en Jeddah.
Salem bin Laden, Osama's oldest half-brother, is allegedly involved in the Iran-Contra affair. During the 80's, when the Reagan Administration secretly arranged for an estimated 34 million dollars to be funneled through Saudi Arabia to the Contras, in Nicaragua, Salem bin Laden aided in this cause, according to French intelligence.
La conexión Casa Blanca-Arabia Saudí-Bin Laden, expuesta.
The US decides to escalate the war in Afghanistan. The CIA, British MI6 and the ISI agree to launch guerrilla attacks from Afghanistan into then Soviet-controlled Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The CIA also begins supporting the ISI in recruiting radical Muslims from around the world to come to Pakistan and fight with the Afghan mujaheddin.
CIA, MI6 e ISI metidos en Afghanistán. De momento todo cuadra, y cómo veremos, no hay tantos jugadores en esta operación.
George Bush Jr. is a failed oil man. His father becomes President, some Saudis buy a portion of his small company, Harken. Harken wins a contract in the Persian Gulf and starts doing well financially. Wall Street Journal in 1991 states it "raises the question of ... an effort to cozy up to a presidential son". Two major investors in Bush's company during this time are Salem bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's half-brother, and Khaled bin Mahfouz (his sister is married to Osama bin Laden).
Salem bin Laden was, through James R. Bath, an investor in Arbusto Energy, a small 1970s oil company run by Bath's close friend, George W. Bush.
Hoy nos quedamos con la indudable, bien docuemntada y estrecha relación CIA-Bush-Bin Ladens-ISI-Mujaidínes. Los Bin-Laden, ayudan financieramente a dos petroleras del presidente actual, Arbusto (Bush en español) en los 70s y Harken en los 80s.
Todo hechos consumados...
Sources:
Nation,2/15/99 |
BBC,11/6/01 |
New Yorker,11/5/01 |
WashingtonPost,7/19/92 |
AP, 2/19/03 |
Salon, 11/19/01 |
AP, 7/17/02 |
Frontline,2001 |
PittsburghPost-Gazette,9/23/01 |
Intelligence Newsletter, 3/2/00 |