Posted on 11/09/2007 11:53:53 AM PST by BGHater
How much exactly would it cost to get Rudy Giuliani to holster his overdone 9/11 sanctimony? The government for the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Qatar might have a good idea.
Following earlier reports that Giuliani was still getting paid by the consulting firm he created, Mary Jacoby of the Wall Street Journal sheds light on some potentially problematic sources of Giuliani's private income. Chief among them is Qatar, the U.S. ally that paid Giuliani Partners for "security advice" regarding their petroleum facilities. The article uncovers a "potential political pitfall" for Giuliani's candidacy and image given Qatar's spotty record in fighting Al Qaeda, but it stops short of explicitly addressing an aspect of the business arrangement that could dog Giuliani during his quest for the presidency.
Specifically, the ostensible chief consumer of Giuliani's security advice in this case would be Qatar's internal security ministry—currently headed by a known Al Qaeda associate.
As Radar reported earlier this year, Qatar Interior Minister Abdullah bin Khalid Al-Thani has long had ties to top Al Qaeda operatives including Osama Bin Laden, and is believed by many U.S. officials to have personally arranged the narrow escape of Al Qaeda big-wig Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from U.S. agents in 1996, thereby ensuring his freedom to mastermind the 9/11 attacks.
Qatar's stability and the petroleum facilities Giuliani's firm helped protect are vital to American interests. But Giuliani's incessant 9/11 know-it-all-ism, his refusal to release specifics of the case, and his decision to remain on the firm's payroll while running for president make the whole deal fair game for speculation. -Snip-
(Excerpt) Read more at radaronline.com ...
>What anti-terror creds?
>The Giuliani I know dodged the draft, did everything he could to avoid serving the country, and spent most of his time protesting U.S. wars until 9/11.
Maybe the master stroke of placing his emergency command center at the World Trade Center a few years after the 1993 bombing attack there, against the wishes of top advisers?
Or maybe choking off the FDNY’s search for their fallen brethren in the rubble of the World Trade Center, so he could rescue the gold bricks instead? http://firefightingnews.com/article-US.cfm?articleID=27125
Rooty is amoral scum who would sell America to Bin Laden himself if there was enough profit for him.
Source?.."..old aide turned adversary Jerry Hauer who supported Mark Green"
You got to do better.
So wait, the only support you can give for his candidacy is “there have been plenty of bad Presidents”?
Don’t think that will look really good on a Giuliani ‘08 bumper sticker....
No, I don't.
Because he has documentation, catching Rudy in a lie.
But go on, try to keep spinning.
You need to let go of the love of the hate.
He might, but you don’t. Find it and post it.
You need to let go of the love of the hate.
"Hate"?
And now we see the last refuge of the Giuliani suppoter - the liberal's playbook.
Can't help but notice that you can't articulate any substantive reasons to vote for the guy....
He might, but you don’t. Find it and post it.
Already done, at great length. You must be new to this party.
Can you kindly provide a real reason to vote for the guy, now?
You don’t quite understand component to liberals and their use of hate, which is compelled affection for that which one doesn’t have. In other words, forced love.
Great, give me a link.
> You need to let go of the love of the hate.
You need to back up your arguments with those pesky facts before anyone will take you seriously here on FR.
If you don’t think what’s being said is true, go refute it or go pound sand.
Just trying to help. People will tend not to believe you unless you back yourself up with facts. Pointing that out is now hostile... hm, now I’ve heard everything! :-)
He was also a consultant to Mexico. I wonder how many deals he cut down there?
Giuliani-Bracewell also has offices in Kazhakstan.
Anyways, back to the well accepted theme that Qatar, that hosts the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, the Army, the Air Force and the Navy is to Rudy thus supports Al-Qaeda.
You accept this premise of this article as fact?
Rudy's support for amnesty and opposition to the fence reveals he is incompetent to handle WOT. And then there is Kerik whom he supported for Homeland Security. A bad move.
No...but he probably modeled her bras.
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