Posted on 10/16/2006 3:22:36 PM PDT by veronica
The anti-Bush billionaire supported lawyer who aided terrorists.
Billionaire financier George Soros, whose opposition to President Bush's conduct of the war on terror caused him to pour millions of dollars into the effort to defeat the president, made a substantial donation to the defense fund for radical lawyer Lynne Stewart, who last week was found guilty of giving aid to Islamic terrorists.
According to records filed with the Internal Revenue Service, Soros's foundation, the Open Society Institute, or OSI, gave $20,000 in September 2002 to the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee.
In filings with the IRS, foundation officials wrote that the purpose of the contribution was "to conduct a public education campaign around the broad civil rights implications of Lynne Stewart's indictment."
Answering questions by e-mail, Amy Weil, a spokeswoman for the Open Society Institute, said the foundation contributed to Stewart's fund because "it appeared to us at that time that there was a right-to-counsel issue worthy of our support."
Stewart's legal troubles stemmed from her defense of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, sometimes known as the Blind Sheikh. Rahman led an Egyptian-based terrorist organization known as the Islamic Group.
In 1996, Rahman was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the first attack on the World Trade Center, in 1993, and for his part in failed plots to blow up the United Nations building and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels in New York.
After his conviction, Rahman's followers threatened a series of terrorist attacks against American targets unless he were released. In 1998, the U.S. government reportedly had intelligence that Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were plotting to hijack aircraft in the United States in order to demand freedom for Rahman and other convicted terrorists.
Because of those threats, the government issued a special order that the imprisoned Rahman not be allowed to communicate with his followers, to prevent his inciting them to further violence. He was allowed to communicate only with his wife and with his lawyers, who were not allowed to relay his wishes to his followers.
Stewart promised to abide by those rules. But at her trial, the government produced evidence showing that Stewart and two codefendants on a number of occasions used their privileged access to Rahman to help transmit Rahman's orders to his followers in the Islamic Group.
On February 10, Stewart was convicted on two counts of providing material aid to terrorists and three counts of lying to federal investigators. She is planning to appeal.
Before the verdict, officials of the Open Society Institute characterized Stewart's work as that of a "human rights defender." In an October 2004 speech in Norway, Gara LaMarche, head of OSI programs in the United States, said, "The right to counsel, and its erosion in the United States since September 11, strikes with particular force at the role of human rights defenders. One troubling trend has been the arrest and prosecution of lawyers and other defenders as 'material witnesses' to terrorism. These include Lynne Stewart, attorney for Sheik Abdel Rahman..."
At one point, Stewart's Defense Committee website, lynnestewart.org, bore the notation, "This website is made possible by the generous support of the Open Society Institute."
Amy Weil told National Review that while the Institute initially underwrote Stewart's defense, the foundation's commitment was not open-ended. "More recently, OSI was asked for additional funding and we turned down that request," she said.
It really is coming to that. I'm all for it!
Soros shoulod be locked up in the same cell with Stewart , both naked and hopped up on Viagra.
I keep a stock watch running on Soros.
HALLIBURTON CO 252,500 SH (Iraq)
INTEL CORP 1,065,000 SH
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES 5,229,200 SH (Iraq)
Arel Communications and Software Ltd (Iraq)
AMPAL-AMERICAN ISRAEL CORPORATION
Most recent transactions....
Integra Lifesciences Holdings Corp [ formerly Integra Lifesciences Corp ] 11/22/2005
Perseuspur LLC, et al. - 4 - Adams Respiratory Therapeutics/Inc [ formerly Adams Laboratories/Inc ]12/15/05
Soros George - SC 13G/A - Allos Therapeutics Inc
2/14/06
Bluefly Inc [ formerly Pivot Rules Inc ]
2/17/06
Jetblue Airways Corp 4/13/06
Wellcare Health Plans/Inc [ formerly Wellcare Group Inc ]
8/11/06
Barrier Therapeutics Inc
Soros George
Pearl Frank H
Perseus Biotech Fund Partners LLC
Perseus Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund LP
Perseus Soros Partners LLC
9/22/06
http://www.secinfo.com (Register and do search)
http://www.secinfo.com/dS3tw.zKg.htm
Full holdings in the Soros Hedge Fund
Soros has also taken care that none of the 99 individual investors who form his various funds, is an American national. By U.S. securities law, a hedge fund is limited to no more than 99 investors of highly wealthy individuals, so-called "sophisticated investors." By structuring his investment company as an offshore hedge fund, Soros avoids public scrutiny. Soros himself is not even on the board of Quantum Fund. Instead, for legal reasons, he serves as official "Investment Advisor" to Quantum Fund N.V. through his company, Soros Fund Management, of 888 Seventh Avenue, New York City. If any demand be made of Soros to reveal the details of Quantum Fund, he can claim he is "merely its investment adviser."
Soros's Quantum Fund is registered in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, the Caribbean tax haven - so he avoids paying taxes, and also hides the nature of his investors, and what he does with their money. By moving his legal headquarters to Curacao. Soros was able to avoid the kind of U.S. government supervision of his financial activities, that any U.S.-based investment fund must agree to, in order to operate. The Netherland Antilles, a possession of the Kingdom of Holland, has repeatedly been cited by the International Task Force on Money Laundering of the OECD as one of the world's most important centers for laundering the illegal proceeds of the Latin American cocaine and other drug traffic.
http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/soros.html
Byron York always has the most credible of reports on things like this.
I've about had my fill of soros. I think it's time to find a way to repatriate him back to Hungary. Permanently.
Fascinating. Look at all those pharm stocks. If you do any updates and post them--please to ping me.
So Soros is not anti-Bush, apparently he's pro-terrorist.
Funny how those two POV's seem to go together these days.
Besides being guilty of mopery with intent to gawk.
Is Soros an American?
One traitor supporting another traitor.
Soros is pure evil. Lynn Stewart is a dupe for pure evil. Unfortunately the sentence for being a dupe for pure evil is less than what you get for using pot(really bad idea and illegal but...) 28 months for aiding and abetting terrorists GOD help us all.
Allos was a good investment: see below
2/14/06 Soros George
and 8 group members
filed as of Tuesday, 2/14/06, with respect to
Allos Therapeutics Inc
http://www.allos.com/
10|03|06 Allos Therapeutics Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for PDX for the Treatment of T-cell Lymphoma
I am not sure how to make a ping list so will just add you to my Soros file. The SEC info site above allows one to keep a watch ("Send me notifications of all future filings involving Soros Fund Management LLC")
and then receive e-mails whenever there is movement. I keep a file. There are about 12 pages of investments, I have just added those filed year. Allos Therapeutics above is on the FDA Fast Track now as you can see.
bttt
"JetBlue Airways moved out of the dark during the second quarter of 2006, beating Wall Street expectations by announcing a net profit of $14 million. Future plans call for expansion across the United States and into Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. Flights to Aruba started September 15, 2006. JetBlue has recently received authority to serve Cancún, Mexico, beginning November 30, after having competed for the route against Delta Air Lines and USA 3000. They entered four new domestic markets in the fall of 2006 - Houston, Sarasota, Columbus, and Tucson. August 17, 2006, service between New York JFK and Washington-Dulles commenced, finalizing JetBlue's plan to connect the 3 major Northeast cities of Boston, New York, and Washington DC. In October 2006, JetBlue applied to the FAA for landing rights at Chicago's O'Hare Airport for 8 flights per day. [2] Almost immediately, United Airlines filed an objection, claiming JetBlue "did not follow proper procedures and should be denied".[3] On October 16, 2006, JetBlue received approval from the FAA to land at Ohare, wikipedia
Soros George - 4 - Jetblue Airways Corp filed 4/17/06
I ran this story recently. A clue on why Soros is anti-Bush found at the end of my comment.
Combat Investing - When Bombs Fall, Buy the Survivors
Before the verdict, officials of the Open Society Institute characterized Stewart's work as that of a "human rights defender."
We've come to expect the same.
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