Posted on 09/16/2001 1:33:46 AM PDT by Uncle Bill
You mean that little podunk island we couldn't touch even as we sent thousands upon thousands to their deaths in Viet Nam?
Mr. bin Laden's group hasn't entirely skirted conventional channels. He or his close associates have had accounts in London, Vienna, Dubai, Malaysia, Hong Kong, the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and several other locations, according to a former financial aide. Nor does the basic infrastructure of his organization -- training camps stocked with weapons -- come cheap.
Before moving in 1996 to Afghanistan, where he is believed to be now, Mr. bin Laden ran his operation from Sudan and splashed out $430,000 to buy chunks of land, the first of many investments there, according to testimony in the African bombings trial in New York federal court. He sent the money to a bank in Khartoum. He spent a further $230,000 to buy a used American C-130 cargo carrier. (It later crashed into a sand dune.)"
CIA Now Focusing on Iraq Connection
Bomber met Iraqi chief of intelligence
U.S. intelligence investigating Iraqi connection
Focus on Bin Laden's Secret Swiss Accounts
U.S. investigators are working on getting access to secret Swiss bank accounts, as well as other shielded accounts, in their search for Osama bin Laden's terror money, sources said yesterday.
Investigators say the money search could be crucial to learning key details about bin Laden's terror network.
Investigators also are trying to determine if bin Laden made a fortune off last week's terror bombings by playing the market to profit from the selling of aircraft and insurance stocks.
Tracking the money from those transactions could help investigators identify bin Laden's accomplices, sources said.
Sources said investigators want to look at accounts held by banks in Gibraltar and the Isle of Man, along with accounts in other countries.
Experts say foreign governments will be under tremendous pressure from the United States to open up the books.
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Investing Off-shore in the Isle Of Man
Gibraltar Banks
Abbey National Treasury International Limited
PO Box 824
237 Main Street
Gibraltar
ABN AMRO NV
2-8 Main Street
Gibraltar
Banco Atlantico (Gibraltar) Limited
Eurolife Building
1 Corral Road
PO Box 561, PMB 6314
Gibraltar
Banco Central Hispano Americano S.A.
Suite 14, Abco Arcade
30/38 Main Street
Gibraltar
Barclays Bank Offshore Financial Services (Gibraltar)
Limited
PO Box 187
Regal House
3 Queensway
Gibraltar
Barclays Bank PLC
Regal House
3 Queensway
Gibraltar
BBV Privanza International (Gibraltar) Limited
260/262 Main Street
Gibraltar
Credit Agricole Indosuez
206/210 Main Street
Gibraltar
Credit Suisse (Gibraltar) Limited
PO Box 556
First Floor
Neptune House
Marina Bay
Gibraltar
Hispano Commerzbank (Gibraltar) Limited
Suite 14
Don House
30/38 Main Street
Gibraltar
Jyske Bank (Gibraltar) Limited
76 Main Street
PO Box 143
Gibraltar
Lloyds TSB Bank PLC
323 Main Street
Gibraltar
NatWest Offshore Limited
NatWest House
57 Line Wall Road
P O Box 707
Gibraltar
Newcastle Bank (Gibraltar) Limited
Hadfield House
Library Street
Gibraltar
Newcastle Building Society
Regal House
Queensway
Gibraltar
Norwich & Peterbourgh Building Society
198/200 Main Street
Gibraltar
SG Hambros Bank & Trust (Gibraltar) Limited
PO Box 375
Hambro House
32 Line Wall Road
Gibraltar
SG Hambros Bank & Trust Limited
Hambro House
Line Wall Road
PO Box 400
Gibraltar
The Gibraltar Private Bank Limited
Suite 921 Europort
P.O. Box 407
Gibraltar
The Royal Bank of Scotland (Gibraltar) Limited
1 Corral Road
Gibraltar
Turicum Private Bank Limited
Turicum House
PO Box 619
315 Main Street
Gibraltar
Investing Off-shore in Gibraltar
"Non-residents are taxable on their income received in Gibraltar, but not if it is channelled through a trust or an exempt or a qualifying company. Also bank interest is exempt from tax."
Financial Action Task Force on Money-Laundering - (Gibraltar, Guernsey, the Isle of Man and Jersey)
"Gibraltar, Guernsey, the Isle of Man and Jersey have in place a system for reporting suspicious transactions. Where the underlying criminal conduct is drug trafficking or terrorism, the obligation to report is a direct one."
Soros, Rothschild, and Evil Incarnate (Marc Rich's connections)
A STORY ABOUT THE WAR IN CROATIA (Marc Rich /Eagleburger/Kissinger/Snowcroft)
"Marc Rich is wanted in the U.S. to serve decades behind the bars on indictments for tax evasion, fraud, racketeering and trading with the enemy. Marc Rich traded with Iran during the hostage crisis, and with Iraq during the Desert Storm operation. Marc Rich, also, traded with South Africa, despite of U.N. embargo. His case is one of the largest tax-evasion cases in U.S. history."
Saudis see their kingdom as scapegoat in terror attacks investigations
GOLD AT THE END OF A TRAIL OF BLOOD
Bin Laden's Network in Philippines Still Intact: Police
The secret FBI files on the suicide bomber who changed his mind
IRAQ TEMPTS BIN LADEN TO ATTACK WEST
Contradicting Some U.S. Officials, 3 Scientists Call Anthrax Powder High-Grade
"The experts noted that turning anthrax into a weapon of mass destruction still required added steps, like making the powder in quantity and learning how to disseminate it effectively. One expert said that only the United States, the Soviet Union and Iraq were known to have developed the necessary technique. But the experts said some officials were playing down the powder's potency out of ignorance or an impulse to reassure a frightened public."
McVeigh's Ghost - Top Pentagon Officials Say Iraq Involved in OKC Bombing
Was Tim McVeigh an agent of Iraq?
Ex-CIA Microbiologist Reveals Iraqi Plot to Attack US With Biowarfare by 2002
Saddam's Bombmaker on Anthrax Attacks: 'This Is Iraq!'
Iraq's Plans to Target Media with Anthrax described in 1999 article "The poor man's atomic bomb"
Hijacker met with Iraqi official
Pentagon recommends nuclear retaliation
How Clinton Shielded Afghanistan
Clinton's Sympathy For Marxist Terrorists
Clinton's Clemency for Terrorists Is Unpardonable
FBI FOREKNOWLEDGE: Laden Suspect (Moussauoi) in OKC Bombings and WTC Attacks Identified &Jailed
CIA Reportedly Warned FBI About One Suspect (6 Stories of Prior Knowledge By FBI & Government)
What about a connection between Osama bin Laden and Iraq's Saddam Hussein? Because the Scowcroft set at the National Security Council is still in denial about its blunder a decade ago that permitted Saddam to stay in power, the C.I.A. professes to see no collaboration in Baghdad."
Whatever Happened to Iraqgate? Was it swept under the rug because of the CIA - - or Hillary?
The Family That Preys Together
What is your assessment as intelligence chairman of the potential role of Iraq in any of this?
GRAHAM: First, I'd like to say something about my friend and colleague, Bill Frist. As the only medical doctor in the Senate, he has played a very significant role in helping to explain, to educate and to keep down the level of anxiety of both on Capitol Hill and, through his web site, to the whole nation. And I think he deserves a great commendation for his personal service during this time.
As it relates to Iraq, yes, there's been a great deal of speculation about what has Iraq's role been both in the attacks of September 11 and subsequent events. While we are putting a great deal of intelligence effort on trying to make a determination, not only for this immediate instance but because this is not just a war against bin Laden, this is a war against global terrorism, and we know that Iraq has played a role in the past in supporting other groups of global terrorists, Iraq will continue to be in our crosshairs. But at this point we don't have the basis upon which to pull the trigger.
SNOW: You say in the crosshairs and that you don't think we have the basis to pull the trigger. You mean over anthrax or period?
GRAHAM: Period. That we there is not yet a...
SNOW: We don't think Iraq is involved in the international terror network?
GRAHAM: Oh, yes, we think Iraq is involved in the international terror network. Whether they were involved in the acts of terrorism from September 11 forward, we don't have the kind of compelling evidence that we've had against bin Laden and the Taliban.
SNOW: A lot of people argue that in a time of war you don't need precise legal standards. If somebody's hostile to you, that ought to be enough.
GRAHAM: Well, the standard that we're really using now is the standard of what it's going to take to hold this coalition together. It's very important that we keep all of the nations, particularly the Muslim nations that are now supporting us, engaged. And one of the keys to doing that is convincing evidence that we're going after a target that clearly is the culprit.
HUME: Well, Senator, doesn't that raise the prospect, or at least the concern, that the coalition becomes the objective, not the war on terrorism?
GRAHAM: They are very closely intertwined, because a successful pursuit of this peculiar type of war, which is not going to involve sending in 100,000 ground troops or thousands of tanks, but rather a very delicate combination of economic, political, diplomatic, covert action as well as military operations in order to achieve this goal, will require the sustained cooperation of a number of nations and particularly Muslim nations."
FRONTLINE: A Terrorist's Testimony - Ahmed Ressam
UNSEALED ALI MOHAMED CASE DOCUMENTS
McVeigh Cites Osama Bin Laden in Letter to Fox News
David Schippers tells Metcalf feds 'ignored' warnings of WTC attacks
Oklahoma City blast linked to bin Laden
McVeigh's Ghost - Top Pentagon Officials Say Iraq Involved in OKC Bombing
WND Poll:
October 21, 2001
Were Middle Eastern terrorists behind the Oklahoma City bombing?
IF SADDAM HUSSEIN IS BUILDING BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, IS THE UNITED STATES THE LIKELY TARGET? - April 11, 1995
"(Washington, D.C.): A report released yesterday appears to confirm the worst: Saddam Hussein has secreted away at least 17 tons of material that can be used to breed bacteria which can, in turn, be used in biological weapons (BW). If the sheer volume of this concealed activity is any guide to the size of the Iraqi BW program, it suggests that Saddam is contemplating the murder of large numbers -- perhaps millions -- of people.
...An analysis of that bombing performed by Dr. Laurie Mylroie -- a renowned Middle East expert, best-selling author and distinguished member of the Center's Board of Advisors -- indicates that the attack on the World Trade Center may have been perpetrated by Saddam Hussein as an act of revenge for his defeat in the Gulf war. Highlights of Dr. Mylroie's findings include the following:
Sometime in June 1992, Iraqi intelligence learned of a bush-league campaign of twelve pipe-bombings being plotted by followers of the New Jersey-based Islamic radical, Sheik Omar. Saddam's operatives took over, targeting the very symbol of U.S. capitalism and urban civilization -- New York's twin-towered, skyscraping World Trade Center (WTC) -- for a far more devastating attack.
The act was planned, moreover, in such a way as to deceive the American people and their government into holding the original plotters -- and their presumed sponsors in Iran -- responsible for the bombing, not Iraq. In this way, Saddam could satisfy his culture's tradition of exacting revenge against an enemy. Better still, from his point of view, that enemy would be induced to retaliate against Iraq's most dangerous regional foe, Iran.
The bomb used in the World Trade Center was intended to employ metal additives dramatically to boost its explosive power. Had it been properly positioned and detonated according to plan, it could have toppled one of the World Trade Center's towers into the other, killing tens of thousands of people and causing incalculable damage in lower Manhattan.
The bomb also apparently was designed to vaporize cyanide gas -- which, if distributed through the tower's ventilation system, would have assured massive casualties throughout the bombed structure."
FRONTLINE - Testimony of a Terrorist - Ahmed Ressam
Q. Why don't you tell the jury about the experiments that
you conducted on dogs, you personally, and start with the experiment where you put the dogs in a box.
A. We were just present there; it was actually our chief that was there carrying out the experiment.
Q. You watched as your chief put a dog in a box, correct?
A. Yes. We were all present there.
Q. I am talking about you.
A. Yes.
Q. Your chief put cyanide in the box, is that correct?
A. Yes.
Q. He added sulphuric acid to the cyanide, correct?
A. Yes.
Q. And the dog shortly thereafter died from that experiment, correct?
A. Correct.
Q. How long in general would you say that you watched these dogs suffer?
A. Not very long.
Q. How long?
A. Not very long, I don't remember precisely, maybe four minutes, because the dog was very small.
Q. In the four minutes you watched the dog suffer before the dog died did you do anything to stop your leader from killing the dogs?
A. No.
Q. You wore a mask over your face during these experiments, correct, so that you would not breathe in any of the poison?
A. Yes.
Q. You practiced these techniques on the dogs so that later on in one of your operations you would be able to perform such techniques on human beings, is that correct?
A. Yes. We wanted to know what is the effect of the gas, yes.
Q. Some of your potential targets while you were in the camp were American citizens, is that correct?
A. In regard to targets in general, yes. Yes, we were speaking about America as an enemy of Islam. ...
Q. The reason you were trained in the use of cyanide at the camps in Afghanistan was because you were going to use cyanide in your urban warfare, correct?
A. We don't know. Possibly if I needed it, I would use it. Yes, because it is very difficult to use gases in the field.
Q. You were trained to use cyanide by placing the cyanide near the air intake of a building, correct?
A. They gave us some examples, but we did not try them out actually.
Q. The reason one of the examples was to put the cyanide right near the air intake of a building such as a government building, correct?
A. Yes, that's right.
Q. And the reason that you would put the cyanide, you were trained, near the air intake would be to kill the most amount of people without endangering yourself and without being detected, correct?
A. Yes, that's how gas is used in killing. ...
Q. Other experiments that you conducted at the Deronta camp included experiments with other poisons, correct?
A. Yes.
Q. One of the things you learned at the Deronta camp was how to mix poisons with other substances, put them together and smear them on doorknobs; do you remember that?
A. Yes, I did say that.
Q. Any person who would touch that doorknob would soon have poison running through their bloodstream, correct?
A. Yes, that's true; the poison will infiltrate his body.
Q. And kill him or her, correct?
A. Yes.
[End of Partial Transcript]
Nuke em'
Building the case against Iraq
Czechs confirm Atta met with Prague-based Iraqi diplomat
Physics of anthrax is beyond al-Qaida, Sandia Labs expert says
Cooking the Books
"The CIA has become a government unto itself and, as such, is a threat to our very system and to our liberties. I know this is not fashionable to say these days, but we have to face facts:
1) They did a horrible job of predicting/preventing Sept. 11.
2) They have lashed out at Congress the members of which are elected directly by the people and tried to limit what information is shared with the 'people's representatives.' True, some congressmen are jerks and reveal top secret information. But CIA then uses that breach to justify keeping everyone in the dark.
3) They were just given an extra $1 billion by the president for the hunt for Osama bin Laden. And yet now Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tells USA Today that we "may never find Osama bin Laden." What, then, are we paying all that money to the CIA for?
4) Iraq: clearly the CIA through leaks from "government intelligence sources" is trying to ignore/dismiss Iraq's role in both Sept. 11 and the ongoing anthrax attacks. The CIA is deliberately trying to steer American public opinion away from Saddam. In other words, instead of a straight assessment of gathered facts, they are 'cooking the books' to result in a pre-ordained conclusion.
For example, the CIA very clearly leaked to Murray Weiss of the New York Post on Thursday's front page that "ultra right wing organizations have become the key focus of the massive federal investigation into the murderous anthrax attacks."
Furthermore, the CIA has carefully leaked that of the three nations that manufacture this particular form of anthrax Russia, Iraq and the United States the federal authorities have "ruled out Russia and Iraq as sources of this strain of anthrax."
Oh, really?
Why are they ignoring the fact that Israeli intelligence now knows that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta picked up Iraqi-produced anthrax spores in Prague when he met with Iraqi intelligence official Achmed Al'ami on June 2, 2000, in a Prague café?
And that Atta was frequently known to have tried to learn all about cropdusting planes in Florida?
And that Atta once went to a Florida pharmacy for treatment of 'damaged hands'? Perhaps a case of cutaneous anthrax from handling the master supply he brought over with him from the Iraqis?"
[End of Partial Transcript]
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U.S. gave antrhax to Iraq to use on Iran
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