Posted on 01/23/2003 7:34:52 AM PST by conservativecorner
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's household income for 2002 included $750,000 in payments from three Arab nations with ties to the 9/11 hijackers, including a $267,000 speaking fee from a group funded by the family of Osama bin Laden, NewsMax.com has learned.
In late Jan. 2002, ex-president Bill Clinton traveled to bin Laden's hometown of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to address a group of Saudi businessmen. He was paid $267,000 for a 40-minute speech, according to a Jan. 25, 2002 report in The Middle East Newsfile, a British-based news service specializing in coverage of the region's business developments.
Contemporaneous reports in London's Financial Times revealed that the audience included representatives of the BinLadin Group, which helped fund the Jeddah forum. The BinLadin Group is a leading Saudi construction company run by relatives of the 9/11 terrorist mastermind. Osama bin Laden grew up in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah.
"The conference was dominated by the Saudis' desire to overcome the pressures of September 11 and strengthen U.S.-Saudi ties," the Times said. "The BinLadin Group, one of the forum's backers, has been battered by its association with Osama."
The Times also noted that the forum's "pro-western businessmen are also some of the kingdom's biggest donors and they give generously to Muslim charities out of religious duty. The U.S. believes some of the contributions were siphoned off by some charities to finance terrorism and it wants better control over donations."
During his January 2002 visit to the region, Clinton also collected nearly a half-million dollars for speeches in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, the Middle East Newsfile said. Investigators probing the backgrounds of several of the 9/11 plotters have uncovered links to both countries.
Some members of the Jeddah forum were mystified over the payments to Mr. Clinton. "How could we invite him to get $750,000 from us and for what? This is a strange situation," Prince Talal ibn Abdul Aziz said in an interview with Al-Jazeera television station. "What use does Clinton have now?" he added.
But it's not clear whether the Saudi royal realized that Mrs. Clinton, who had just been elected to the Senate, was planning her own run for president of the United States before the decade is out.
Throughout their years in the White House, the Clintons filed joint income tax returns, which, if still the case, would mean the bin Laden-Saudi cash was co-mingled with Mrs. Clinton's other income, such as the $8 million book advance she collected to write her memoirs. The former first couple has refused to release their tax returns since leaving the White House.
A call to Sen. Clinton's office inquiring about the bin Laden-tainted payment was not immediately returned.
Another speaker at the Jeddah forum was first brother Neil Bush, but coverage of the event makes no mention of him being paid.
While the Saudi royal family had reportedly donated $1 million to former President Bush's presidential library in College Station, Texas in the early 1990's, there is no report of any Saudi payment to a Bush family member in the period since the 9/11 attacks.
In March 2002, columnist Robert Novak, citing "high-ranking" Saudi sources, reported that, in addition to the $750,000 in speaking fees he collected last January, Mr. Clinton obtained a pledge from the Saudi royal family to bankroll his own presidential library with donations estimated to range from "less than $1 million to $20 million."
Former White House advisor Dick Morris has alleged that monies collected by the Clinton Library will be used to help fund Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.
But I view this site via a web browser, and have not noticed any particular impact on message threads related to the number of responses. Maybe it works if you are viewing the site via a news reader instead of a web browser.
© 1996, American Spectator
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
Document Dated: Nov-01-1996
A former employee of one of the firms exonerated by the Justice Department report now tells The American Spectator that the inquiry may have been papered over for an unsuspected reason. "It wasn't just a Republican scandal, " says Marianne Gasior, a lawyer who worker for Kennametal Inc., a machine-tool-manufacturer located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. "Hillary Rodham Clinton was directly linked to the network that was involved in a clandestine CIA arms export ring."
Sound incredible? Certainly, the White House thinks so. When we suggested that it sounded a bit odd for an Arkansas governor's wife to be invited in 1990 to join the board of a company that had ties to an alleged arms export network, spokesman Neel Lattimore retorted: "Everything The American Spectator says about Mrs. Clinton is a bit odd, but I'll see if I can get an answer for you." He never did.
Marianne Gasior maintains that the Lafarge Corporation, the U.S. Subsidiary of a French multinational chemicals concern, provided key services for the covert arms export network that supplied Saddam Hussein. To prevent exposure of that secret supply line, and collateral damage to Hillary Clinton-who joined Lafarge board in 1990, just as the arms pipeline was being shut down-Gasior alleges that the justice department was told to bury the investigation.
John Hogan hotly denies this. But investigators from other U.S. government agencies who worked on the case say they were "waved off" whenever they got too close to exposing the direct involvement of the intelligence community in the arms export scheme.
I really could have done without THAT photo this AM (yes, I donated).
No, the Clinton's are "equal opportunity" when it comes their source of bribes.
No, the Clinton's are "equal opportunity" when it comes (to) their source of bribes.
(pardon the need for correction)
Unfortunately, Enterprise is right.
The denials, the spin, the lies which will eminate from the "despicable duo" will resonate with their supportors, be ignored by the media alphabets, and finally will be considerd as part of the "VRWC". All of which indicate that the Democrats are hapless and unwilling to clean house.
I have said it before and will say it again:
The reason the Clintons can get away with what they do is because of information contained in the 900+ FBI files they stole while in the WH.
The dirt they have on both R's and D's allows them to act with virtual impunity.
The ends justify the means - Chomsky, Clinton et al
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