Posted on 02/13/2006 4:06:05 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Monday, Feb. 13, 2006 6:27 p.m. EST
Al Gore Event Funded by Bin Laden's Family
The Saudi Arabia seminar that was addressed by former Vice President Al Gore over the weekend in a speech that criticized the U.S. for being too tough on Arabs was sponsored, in part, by Osama bin Laden's family.
On Saturday, the state-run Saudi news outlet Arab News reported that the Jeddah Economic Forum, where Gore spoke, was funded by "Saudi Arabian Airlines, the Saudi Binladin Group, Gulf One Investment Bank, Saudi Basic Industries Corp." and an array of other big companies with ties to the Middle East.
The Saudi BinLadin Group - which is Saudi Arabia's largest construction company - is run by Osama bin Laden's brothers and cousins. Jeddah, the site of the forum attended by Gore, is Osama bin Laden's hometown.
Although family members claim they've disowned bin Laden, his mother told reporters after the 9/11 attacks that she received advanced warning from him that something big was about to happen.
A wealthy bin Laden niece also reportedly abandoned her lower Manhattan apartment three weeks before the 9/11 attacks.
The BinLadin Group's longtime involvement in the Jeddah forum has been widely reported in the Mideast and European press.
In January 2002, ex-President Clinton addressed the JEF, which paid him $267,000 for his speech. According to London's Financial Times:
"The conference was dominated by the Saudis' desire to overcome the pressures of September 11 and strengthen U.S.-Saudi ties . . . The BinLadin Group, one of the forum's backers, has been battered by its association with Osama."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
I noticed the part about the $267,000...paid to Clinton...but, until your post, it didn't strike me the date!
January of 2002....just 4 months from 9/11!!!!!
He was giving a speech sponsored by USA public enemy #1's family only 4 months from America's worst attack, and first attack on the contintental US...
WHAT does that say??? And why wasn't this made a HUGH deal back then??
LOL, I'm turning in my guns, my RNC card and my Karl Rove Hurricane Generator!
I agree this is MAJOR. If AG had said something like this when he was VP he would have been removed from office. As a former VP, he still represents the USA to other people.
My problem is that his words will be used by the islamists to encourage further terrorism, & he SHOULD know this. Therefore, he is a terrorist agitator & a traitor to this country.
It is very scary to me that 49% of Americans voted for this Quisling!
bttt
**Let's focus on the treasonous words that albore spoke to the Saudi audience.**
It seriously made me sick to hear that moron was on foreign soil bashing this country. Guess the idiot wanted to drum up some more anti-American muslim hate. The creep.
Him and Carter shouldn't be allowed a passport. They are both so full of treason, it's running out of their ears.
Maybe there IS a God!
"Current President Bush has his own connections to Carlyle and the bin Laden family. Carlyle appointed W. in 1990 to the board of its Caterair subsidiary, an airline catering company. W. stepped down from this board in 1994, the year he was elected governor. With W. as governor, Carlyle landed at least two business deals involving Texas government funds. In the same month that Bush was elected president, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas selected Carlyle to invest $100 million of its pension funds. In 1996, the quasi-public University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) began awarding lucrative contracts to private firms to invest portions of UT’s $14 billion endowment. The Houston Chronicle reported that UTIMCO’s board (which is appointed by the governor’s handpicked UT System Regents) awarded many of these contracts to firms close to W.–including Carlyle. As of May 2001, Carlyle controlled more than $15 million of University of Texas public endowment funds. This includes $10.5 million that is commingled in the same Carlyle Partners II Fund where the bin Ladens parked their money......read more at this site.
http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=480
And Gore knows it. At least the part about his political career.
(Ok, no I'm really not.)
Pic of the year
and you are giving me this link, why?
F-I-G-U-R-E-S
I like that,
and it fits.
No real reason except showing that Clinton & Gore are not the only ones that benefited from bin laden family money. Not defending them in any manner whatsoever, but Bush is not completely innocent when it comes to connections with the bin laden group.
Nothing personal, honest.
The Mosh Pit opens up for one more Dive! The guy has the worst timing, no wonder the Loonies Love him!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
One station, WOAI 1200, a Clear Channel station in San Antonio, was so far off base as to speculate about whether charges would be filed. Someone must have given them a clue, because it was only repeated in about 3 of their half hour casts by the newsreader babe.
Yeah someone needs to use a little "psycholory" to make him well.
Interesting, but since his family disowned him officially (despite Newsmax trying to prove otherwise), it really isn't news.
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