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?