[Diogenesis]

"Hybridon, a small Massachusetts biomedical company engaged in advanced DNA research."

Has anything happened since this was revealed a month ago?

[Anochka]

Very interesting, but incomplete. Where is the info on the Bush family's and the Carlyle Group's connections to these people and these banks?

[independentmind]

bttt

[truthandlife]

"You are either with us or you are with the terrorists." GW Bush.

[Nachum]

It is now abundantly clear that the Saudi people hate the west and that they are a major supplier of the "talent-pool" for Al Queada.

[Ranger]

bump. Note a common thread in Bin Laden's financial dealings is that they all seem to be tied to an extended family member or in-law. This is in stark contrast to his political and military maneuverings. I would note that this may provide a means of tracking his actions and intentions. Also note the pattern of his investments and terrorist activities; USS Cole/Yemen, construction, aviation training, telecommunications, biotechnology.

The $24 million supposedly seized is a fraction of the money we are talking about here. It was bait, left to satisfy the western media when the western goverments had to take action. Note every time we go after real money in say, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Pakistan, there is an inexplicable delay as the local government seeks clarification. During that period, I'll bet the money is being wired around the globe to protect it from seizure.

[Lion's Cub]

Hybridon, a small Massachusetts biomedical company engaged in advanced DNA research. Yahia M. A. bin Laden is a major stockholder in the firm, as is Abdela bin Mahfouz. Abdulrahman bin Mahfouz is a former shareholder.

It's been pointed out before, and there is at least one whole thread on this, but it bears repeating. Bin Laden has connections to a Massachusetts biomedical lab

[Bosco]

Wahhabi

Research this sect of Islam, it will help to put together the pieces of this whole mess.

Bin Laden is a Wahhabi, ibn Saud is Wahhabi. Bin Laden's problem with ibn Saud is that they allowed Western forces to desecrate Islam's homeland during the Gulf War.

As a result, bin Laden wants to overthrow the ibn Saud family, and so do many others in Saudi Arabia - albeit for different reasons. That's why so much Saudi money is going to bin Laden. It's a case of "who's a better (read: strict) Muslim" than who, with power and $$$ mixed in for good measure.

[Wallaby]

Kill dot net German businessmen and convicted hacker, Kim Schmitz, who has placed a $ 10 million bounty on Osama bin Ladens head has started www.kill.net to recruit talent to get at terrorist accounts and websites. The Young Intelligent Hackers Against Terror group which he hopes to raise, is to track terrorist organisations accounts, transactions and financial supporters and supply the data to the US authorities. Schmitz claims he has already handed over Al-Qaida account details in Sudans Al Shamal Islamic Bank to the FBI.

The Statesman (India); October 11, 2001

[boycott]

Drill for our own oil and freeze Saudi assets.

[SauronOfMordor]

This might explain why we haven't heard that much coverage lately about suspicious stock and option trading the Friday before the attacks that probably netted tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars to people with advance knowledge

I strongly suspect the reason that this hasn't been more prominent is that the money trail leads directly into the bowels of the Saudi royal family

[stripes1776]

A friend of mine has done a great deal of business in Saudi Arabia over the past 25 years. He has lived there months at a time in compounds as dictated by the Saudi government. He knows many so called Westernized Saudis.

He talked to many of his Saudi business contacts after 911. Without exception, they all said they were happy that the US has now been punished. The Saudis are not our friends.

[ZULU]

They probably waited until yestday so the Islamic nutcases had time to withdraw their cash and close their accounts.

The Saudis are not our friends, never were. They just want our petrodollars.

[Magician]

The Saudis have so far been uncooperative in requests for them to either provide information or to freeze suspicious accounts.

Most of the threads of the present crisis come back to Saudi Arabia: bin Laden himself, most of the terrorists, the Al Qida network, and the financing.

We're wasting out time bombing Afghanistan. It probably won't produce bin Laden. Our first step should have been to take back the Saudi oil fields (they belonged to Aramco before nationalization). It would take the wind out of the terrorists' sails, and tell the Muslim world that they bit off more than they can chew.