Posted on 01/27/2005 6:46:34 PM PST by RWR8189
FYI OFF ping :)
Thanks- hadn’t seen this yet.
Not only were they in Baghdad when Wilson and the arms buyer were visiting with Tariq Aziz, ...but this all occured about the time we intercepted a shipment of tubes- some say aluminum, others a type of steel linked to the late supergun maker who was dealing with Sadddam.
That's interesting in that Wilson's wife Valerie Plame was supposedly the point gal for checking into aluminum tubing smuggling.
Michael Saba's more recently associated with a group called "Friends of Saudi Arabia" now - don't know if they are really friends or not, though. Seems like he's fond of people friendlier to baathist Iraq.
Saba was an official in the group NAAA; as it happens, so was a fellow named Elias Aburdene, an "international banking advisor" for Franklin National Bank in DC, and a big Chuck Hagel supporter.
Elias was chairman of Alamoudi's Rock Creek Investments, where Joe Wilson [see Niger, Plame leak] maintained his office.
Anyway, Saba apparently got a book deal and produced a conspiratorial one; he seems to not be too fond of congresswoman Harman or AIPAC ...
Makes me wonder just who all we are bailing out in the bank world...
APRIL 1999 : (AUDIT OF THE NCB AND ITS FOUNDER AND FORMER CHAIRMAN KHALID BIN MAHFOUZ REVEALS "PROTECTION MONEY" TRANSFERS TO BIN LADEN VIA "CHARITIES" SUCH AS ISLAMIC RELIEF AND BLESSED RELIEF - THE NCB'S CURRENT CHAIRMAN IS MOHAMMAD HUSSEIN AL AMOUDI, WHO IS ALSO HEAD OF THE CAPITAL TRUST BANK IN NY AND LONDON - - See VERNON JORDAN, MOHAMMAD AL AMOUDI'S LAWYER) "…."The businessmen, who are worth more than $5 billion, are paying bin Laden "protection money" to stave off attacks on their businesses in Saudi Arabia, intelligence officials said. Bin Laden, whose family runs the largest Saudi construction firm, has called for the overthrow of the Saudi government. The money transfers were discovered in April after the royal family ordered an audit of NCB and its founder and former chairman, Khalid bin Mahfouz, U.S. officials say. Mahfouz is now under "house arrest" at a military hospital in the Saudi city of Taif, intelligence officials said. His successor, Mohammad Hussein Al-Amoudi, also heads the Capitol Trust Bank in New York and London, which U.S. and British officials are investigating for allegedly transferring money to bin Laden. [Mohammad Hussein ] Amoudi's Washington lawyer, Vernon Jordan, could not be reached for comment……" -------USA Today 10/28/99 Kelly
BTW, Is that Hillary's American Museum Council al-Alamoudi?
Hillary's Abdurahman Alamoudi is in jail over some payment from Libya to kill a Saudi royal, and for involvement with terror charities;
"One of the better known former members of the Fiqh Council of North America is Abdurahman Alamoudi, currently serving time in federal prison after pleading guilty to terrorism related crimes." ------ "CBS Duped by Tainted Fatwa," by Frank Salvato, Managing Editor, TheRant.us, 7/29/05
The Rock Creek Alamoudi is Mohammed Alamoudi:
Several companies controlled by the Saudi-Ethiopic billionaire Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi helped with the organisation of the voyage: Westar Group, which manages the interests dof [prsumably Mohamed] Al Amoudi in Washington and which is chaired by Derige Mekonen after being directed a long time by the banker Jeff Wilson; Sheraton of Addis-Abeba whose council of administration includes the ex - American ambassador in Ethiopia Irvin Hicks and group MIDROC Ethiopia; but also the Rock Creek Corporation, an investment company controlled by Al Amoudi and chaired since 1997 by a Lebanese businessman very connected into the power circles of Washington, Elias Aburdene.
Former adviser of the Franklin Bank National in Washington DC, Aburdene at the start of his accession to the head (position) of Rock Creek Corporation hired the ex - adviser to Bill Clinton for African affairs, Joseph Wilson IV.
The latter had already met Mohamed Al Amoudi in 1997 at the time of a reception organized for the World Bank by Westar Group (LAW n.794).
In addition to his responsibilities with the Rock Creek Corporation, Elias Aburdene is the executive chairman very influential National Association of Arab Americans. Alumnus of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, he is also very active in the old networks of the university, where teaches the ex-under-secretary of State for African Affairs Chester A. Crocker and the American mediator between Ethiopia and Eritrea, former National Security Advisor of Bill Clinton Anthony Lake.
------ 100 posted on 06/26/2004 6:42:46 PM PDT by Shermy
Both Alamoudis were donors to Nick Rahall if I recall correctly, and both are Ethiopian-Saudi, IIRC, perhaps related but I don't know if they are.
[Mohammed] Alamoudi investments in African telecommunications included a Pan-African telecommunications project launched in 2001 by Pan African Communications Network (PACONET) with financing from a fund chaired by former South African President Nelson Mandela and cofinanced by the International Finance Corporation (IFG), the American International Group (AIG, a group including the Houston-based company El Paso Energy Corporation), and the African Development Bank (ADB).
In his capacity as boss of Arapco, Al Amoudi travelled to Equatorial Guinea early last year [2002] and was received by president Teodoro Obiang Nguema. Al Amoudi already controls the Societe Marocaine d'Industrie de Raffinage (SAMIR) and holds a stake in AIG Infrastructure Fund, an investment fund controlled by the U.S. insurance firm AIG and IFC, the private investment arm of the World Bank. IFC helps to finance a number of oil projects in Africa, notably those of Pan African Energy and Vaalco in Gabon. ---- "Africa Energy Intelligence: Saudis Take a Look," May 7, 2003 104 posted on 06/26/2004 8:23:53 PM PDT by Shermy
Saba went under my radar. Nice catch.
For the record.....
There is a very good series of books on the oil for food business. The first is By Order Of the President by WEB Griffin.
Although fiction, they weave a tale like the Valarie Phlame saga and the oil for food machinations on a global tale of excitement and adventure. They are fun and exciting
The CIA scandal is prelude to the rest.
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