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Byron pulls the usual leftist spin: One of Bush’s original partners in his oil company - which initially bore the name Arbusto Corp. — had been a fellow named James Bath. Bath in turn had contacts in the Middle East and was actually named in a 1976 trust document as the Houston business representative for none other than Salem M. bin Laden, a half-brother of the infamous Osama bin Laden, who is accused of masterminding the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

without outlining that what bin Laden had dozens of brothers, and must have had 100's of half-brothers. Sheesh. Kinda remote on the surface.

But further misses the significance of the connection to
Jackson Stephens
and X42.

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Byron pulls the usual leftist spin: One of Bush’s original partners in his oil company - which initially bore the name Arbusto Corp. — had been a fellow named James Bath.

James Bath was up to his eyeballs in the S&L shakedown.

BATH, JAMES: Houston airplane company owner; CIA asset; associated with Reza Pahlavi, son of the late Shah of Iran; business partner of LAN BENTSEN, son of former Texas Senator LLOYD BENTSEN; business partner of GEORGE W. BUSH; borrowed from looted LAMAR SAVINGS and MAINLAND SAVINGS.

More on Bath from THE MAFIA, THE CIA, AND GEORGE BUSH by Pete Brewton, concerning the S&L scandal:

BATH was born in 1936 in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He joined the Air Force, where he was a fighter pilot for five years. His service included three years stationed ay Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base south of Kansas City. When he left the Air Force, BATH moved to Houston, Texas, where he immediately began flying almost full time for the Air National Guard. While in the Air National Guard, BATH met GEORGE W. BUSH, and they became good friends. BATH also met LLOYD BENTSEN III, a son of the Democratic Senator from Texas while serving in the Air Guard.

After the Air Guard, BATH sold aircraft for BROWN AERO CORPORATION in Houston for three years, then took a position with ATLANTIC AVIATION CORPORATION to help open a Houston office for them. ATLANTIC AVIATION is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, and is reportedly the largest business-aircraft sales and service company in the world. It is owned by EDWARD DUPONT, the richest of the DUPONT family, active in Republican Party politics in Delaware and cousin of PIERRE ("PETE") DUPONT, former Delaware Governor. RICHARD C. DUPONT was on the board of ATLANTIC AVIATION and also owned the CIA-connected SUMMIT AVIATION.

While working with ATLANTIC AVIATION, BATH negotiated a distribution deal with ISRAEL AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES (IAI), founded by ADOLF SCHWIMMER, and American-born Israeli arms dealer and special advisor to Israeli Prime Minister SHIMON PERES. SCHWIMMER and YAACOV NIMRODI, former Israeli Defense Attache to Tehran), ADNAN KHASHOGGI and others began devising ways to gain release of hostages being held in Lebanon and open dialogue with Iran. Through this group came the TOW missile shipments in the Fall of 1985.

In 1973, BATH quit ATLANTIC AVIATION, forming BATH/BENTSEN interests with LLOYD ("LAN") BENTSEN III. BATH/BENTSEN developed an apartment complex outside Houston, some airport hangars, and other real estate ventures. BENTSEN and BATH supposedly parted company in 1976, but BATH continued to use BATH/BENTSEN letterheads for correspondence up to 1990.

In 1976, BATH formed JIM BATH & ASSOCIATES, and was named trustee for SHEIKH SALEM BIN LADEN of Saudi Arabia, a member of the family that owns the largest construction company in the Middle East. BATH's job was to handle all of BIN LADEN's North American investments and operations. SALEM BIN LADEN is OSAMA BIN LADEN's half brother. SALEM BIN LADEN's father, MUHAMMED BIN LADEN, was a patient of the physician father of CIA-connected arms merchant ADNAN KHASHOGGI. MUHAMMED BIN LADEN got ADNAN KHASHOGGI involved in his first deal as a middle man. This was a truck sale that Khashoggi engineereed in the 1950s just as he returned from college in America. KHASHOGGI returned the $25,000 commission to MUHAMMED BIN LADEN, who returned it to KHASHOGGI.

Arab business started pouring into JIM BATH & ASSOCIATES. BATH became trustee for SHEIKH ABDULLAH BAROOM, the owner of a large Saudi cement and steel company. Then came the business of SHEIKH KHALID BIN MAHFOUTZ, the former CEO of National Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabia's biggest bank. SHEIKH KAHLID was CEO of National Commercial Bank until one week after he and HAROON KAHLOON were indicted in New York on charges they had schemed to defraud depositors, regulators, and auditors of the insolvent BANK OF CREDIT AND COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL (BCCI). The Federal Reserve Board than found that SHEIKH KAHLID had violated American banking laws in his attempt to acquire FIRST AMERICAN BANCSHARES, an affair that involved CLARK CLIFFORD) in concert with BCCI. SHEIKH KAHLID's assets in the United States were frozen.

CHARLES W. "BILL" WHITE, who graduated from the US NAVAL ACADEMY in the same class as OLIVER NORTH, became one of BATH's closest business associates. WHITE stated that BATH had told him that BATH was working for the CIA. BATH had been recruited in 1976 by GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH when BUSH was CIA Director. BATH's job was to monitor Arab investments in the United States.

That's all for now.