Posted on 06/02/2006 4:41:37 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
Bin Laden family gave $1 million to Carter Ex-president reportedly met with terror leader's brothers in 2000
Posted: June 2, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Jimmy Carter speaking in Tokyo in 2003 (photo: United Nations University) Former President Jimmy Carter's center in Atlanta received more than $1 million from the family of Osama bin Laden, according to an investigative report.
A brother of the al-Qaida terrorist leader, Bakr M. bin Laden, funneled the money to the Carter Center in Atlanta through the Saudi Bin Laden Group, according to Melanie Morgan, chairman of a group opposing the Georgia Democrat called the Censure Carter Committee.
Morgan, a WorldNetDaily columnist, based her claim on papers she acquired from the Carter Center.
She points to a report showing Carter met with 10 of Osama bin Laden's brothers early in 2000. The former president and his wife, Rosalyn, followed up the meeting with a breakfast with Bakr bin Laden in September 2000 and secured the first $200,000 towards the more than $1 million that has gone to the Carter Center.
Morgan says the connection between Carter and the bin Laden family is exactly the kind of charge leveled by Michael Moore against President Bush in the film "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Morgan's group commented in a statement: "If you think this news troubles Michael Moore and his friends in the liberal, anti-war crowd, think again. You see, they’re not interested in the truth – they only seem interested in advancing their defeatist political message: America is almost always wrong–America is the source of many of the world’s problems."
There's some hypocrisy at work here, Morgan contends.
"Michael Moore used his film to viciously attack George W. Bush and undermine support for the war on terror," she told John Gibson on the Fox News Channel.
It turns out it was Carter, not Bush, hanging out with the bin Ladens, she said.
The Carters hosted Moore in the presidential viewing box at the 2004 Democratic National Convention while former President Bill Clinton addressed the delegates.
Gibson said the Carter Center declined the opportunity to respond to the charges.
Censure Carter is about to launch a second wave of national television ads urging Americans to rebuke Carter's efforts in North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and elsewhere.
"The mainstream media is pretending that the Carter-bin Laden story is a non-issue, so the Censure Carter Campaign is out raising the money to air the facts in TV ads," the group says.
As WND reported last year, Morgan's Move America Forward said Carter was linked with a key figure in the U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal, Samir Vincent, who pleaded guilty to participating in numerous illegal activities.
Vincent admitted to receiving allocations for more than 9 million barrels of oil between 1996 and 2003 in return for serving as an agent of Saddam Hussein's regime. He worked at Hussein's direction, lobbying U.S. and U.N. officials to end sanctions and to instead implement the oil-for-food scam.
The first documented contact between Carter and Vincent was in September 1999. Vincent had organized a tour of Iraqi religious leaders to meet with individuals in the United States who might be persuaded to speak out against the sanctions against Iraq. The trip also included discussions of ways to oppose U.S. and British air strikes against Iraqi missile batteries in southern Iraq, which had fired on American and British aircraft engaged in enforcing the southern "No Fly Zone."
DING DING DING! Thank you, we have a winner :)
This is precisely the point Melanie Morgan made in her appearance on Fox News Channel - watch it here.
Thanks!
That's all I was asking for!
Wasn't George H.W. Bush at a meeting attended by some of the bin Ladens on the morning of 9/11?
Bin Laden family gave $1 million to Carter Ex-president reportedly met with terror leader's brothers in 2000
No one can claim that the enemies of Israel are underpaid.
A younger brother, Abdullah M. bin Laden, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1993. That same year the Saudi Bin Laden Group gave $1 million to Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and another $1 million in 1994 to Harvard Law School, for visiting professors to study subjects pegged to Islam, school spokesman Andy Tiedemann said.
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See post #25.
Columnist Julia Gorin says an arms dealer is another questionable supporter of the Carter Center. We'll have to look into this as we continue the investigation!
You will probably find a treasure trove.
Carter has shamelessly associated himself with every world tyrant, Iraqi spies in the US, and anybody else who he thinks will undermine US foreign policy in his demented effort to resurrect his horrible record as President -- which goes right along with his despicable conduct since he was President.
To give him credit, he has helped build houses for Habitat for Humanity. Maybe that just means he should have been a carpenter instead of President. It might have been his true calling.
After UBL's other Americanized brother, Salem, died in May of 1988. In Texas.
I appreciate the link. When it comes to Saudi palace intrigue, us outsiders will always remain completely in the dark.
. . . and vacationed with the BUSH family, - so what?
Thanks for the ping!
Bookmarked
I recently saw one of the "pigboy's" books at a local "Dollar Tree" store with a discount price of $0.50. They couldn't even sell the load of them for a dollar. (I'm talking new, hardback books.)
Considering the shreaded paper into cat litter value, that's a good deal.
It turns out it was Carter, not Bush, hanging out with the bin Ladens, she said.
Liberals use projection -- they accuse others of doing what they're doing.
During the Clinton years they would accuse conservatives of just wanting a "book deal" then they would go after the book deal. Then dems said we were trying to "steal" the election, when they were the one's doing the hanky panky. Carter being in bed with Osama's family is no surprise...
Oh, and the MSM will not be interested in this story...
There's a million reasons to despise Carter.
This isn't one of them.
Honestly, making a big deal out of this makes us look as silly and conspiratorial as the Michael Moore's of the world.
I mean, is it POSSIBLE that the bin Laden's in question are up to no good? Sure. But there isn't a scintilla of evidence for it, and this amounts to no more than trying to cast guilt by association. That's the Left's stock in trade, we should be better than that.
Qwinn
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I don't like Jimmy Carter anymore than anyone else does, but hasn't bin Laden's family disowned him?
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