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 ...
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Al Goron is a well paid lying whore of the Eco Jihadists and Jihadist funders of the middle east.
I think it's true; O'Reilly was reporting on it this evening.
There's nowhere for Gore to go but down. And down hard.
Thanks for the info.
I missed the first segment of O'Reilly.
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...and the CLINTONS' refusing 3 free offers from the Sudan during the 1990's to give us OSAMA bin LADEN on a silver platter before he could hit us real hard here at home after they had already left the White House, gave us:
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"NO CONTROLLING LEGAL AUTHORITY" comes to mind.....
A big fat so what. The fact the event was funded by his family is irrevelant except to the Michael Moore crowd who paints with stupid broad strokes like that.
I don't typically watch him, but I was wrapping my husband's Valentine's Day gifts and turned it on.
We're right to be cautious about NewsMax though :-)
Al Jazeera Gore?
:) Absolutely. It's always necessary to verify NM reports.
Is there something wrong with Gore? Maybe he should see a good doctor.
This sort of reporting is no different then what Michael Moore tried to do. It is pure propoganda.
From a review of Fahrenheit 9/11:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/farenheight_911.htm
Also left out of the documentary are the facts regarding the relationship Osama had to his family. Instead of flashing photographs of Republican officials shaking hands with various Bin Ladens, Moore could have told us that Osama was the 17th of 51 siblings, expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1994, and publicly denounced by his family on at least three different occasions. According to ABCnews:
"When asked once by a reporter to list their names, he could barely recall a dozen before giving up amid his own laughter. But members of the bin Laden clan living in the United States weren't laughing in the days following the attacks. They were fearing for their lives — and fleeing the country." (11)
"Osama's father was an illiterate laborer who turned a construction business into a worldwide conglomerate. Now, the family members are "kind of like the Rockefellers or the Forbeses of Saudi Arabia," explains ABCNEWS consultant Jonathan Winer."(11)
"The second richest family in Saudi Arabia, The bin Laden family business employs 32,000 people in 30 countries, has a revenue of $5 billion a year and is invested everywhere from construction to manufacturing to financial services to insurance to biological research." (11)
"And some of the bin Ladens carry out their business ventures in the United States, based primarily on the East Coast, from as far south as Florida to as far north as Boston, and with offices in Rockville, Md., in between." (11)
"The Boston bin Ladens, for instance, own several units in a luxury condo and 16 percent of Hybridon, a Boston, Mass.,-based biotech company engaged in cancer research — and technology that someday could be used to defend against biological attacks." (11)
"The rupture with his family came in 1991 when Osama denounced the presence of America in Saudi Arabia to fight the Gulf War while other bin Ladens were making millions building airstrips and military housing for U.S. troops." (11)
"1994 [The family expressed] their "regret, denunciation and condemnation of all acts that Osama bin Laden may have committed, which we do not condone and we reject."" (12)
"His relatives also denounced him after the 1998 terrorist attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa — attacks for which Osama bin Laden has been indicted in U.S. federal court." (13)
""All the family members condemn all violent and terrorist acts, even if Osama is behind them," the uncle [current family patriarch] told reporters [after September 11th]." (13)
Contrary to almost every reported news story and biography of Bin Laden, the 9/11 commission found:
"Bin Ladin never received a $300 million inheritance. From about 1970 until approximately 1994, he received about $1 million per year—a significant sum, but hardly a $300 million fortune that could be used to fund a global jihad." (19)
The Bin Laden's were involved in wide ranging philanthropies including:
"Last year, former President Carter met with 10 bin Ladens who donated $200,000 to the Carter Center in Atlanta, Ga." (11)
"They donated $1 million to Harvard Law school, and another $1 million for the study of Islamic art and architecture at Harvard's School of Design." (13)
"Harvard officials say they have no reason to believe that the donations were in any way linked to Osama bin Laden. Still, Harvard officials have spent the week explaining to angry alumni and radio talk show hosts that the bin Laden family group, who represent about 20 of Osama bin Laden's siblings, disavowed his politics and actions a long time ago." (13)
The preceding paragraph is especially interesting as Moore tries to get the same reaction out of his audience, playing the Bin Laden name throughout the film as if it were unconscionable that any government official or business man would have anything to do with such a villainous family. Although Moore doesn't cover this in his documentary, it is illuminating to note the connection between his smear of the Bin Laden family and the outrage on the left over alleged racial profiling and the detention of Muslims on immigration violations in the period after September 11th. This is not to suggest that the Bin Ladens should not have been investigated in an appropriate matter [which apparently they were even before 9/11], but to link the Bush family and other Republican officials to them in such a suggestive way demonstrates ignorance at best.
No different than when his Pres accepted thousands from the Commie Chinese for his re-election!!
Lol! The MSM is pitiful, aren't they? Charlie Gibson-girl was on this morning, calling it a potential *Whitehouse Scandal* and pondering the future of this administration, will Cheney resign, and what does this say about *secrets* the Whitehouse attempts to keep...{{{{shiver}}}}I'll hardly be able to sleep toninght...scared....SCARED I tell ya'...I just hope the Bradys will be able to slap some sense into the American Face. Slapped straight. That's what we need. I don't know about you, but I'm turning in my guns AND my Republican voting card. lol!
That would be an easy book to wright!
Carter caves on Iran.
Clinton goes soft on terror and supports China with technology and energy benefits. Also, supports Russia with unaccountable $10B military to commercial industry shift.
What goes around comes around - ha ha
Good thing he didn't give his speech at Bob Jones University; his career would have been ruined.
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