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.
Actually, they probably share some of the same body fluids.
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.
WOW...MUD
NewsMax..."Clintons BOTH Receive Terrorist Blood Money!!"
Where is the OUTRAGE?!
Keep up the great work, Rush...MUD
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When does he come back - some time in June? It's gonna seem like it...
and how YOU dealt with it is part of YOUR character.
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LEFT-WING TALK RADIO 2: "It's the terrorism, stupid."
NOTE: Program in two parts. Hear clinton stupidity, smallness, banality, fecklessness, ineptitude, prevarication, corruption, perfidy and utter failure directly from the rapist, himself. clinton provides the perfect foil for Bush, who makes a cameo appearance or two. Pay special attention to Dan Rather's little story about terrorism hitting the U.S. "bigtime" during clinton's tenure. In particular, connect the following dots: the '93 WTC bombing. a certain bin Laden protégé and clinton's admission that he passed up bin Laden. Note clinton's spurious argument for this monumental failure. To this day, clinton seems not to understand that bin Laden is -- and was in 1996 -- an enemy of the state, not a simple criminal. clinton still seems not to get it -- the same terrorist (the terrorist he couldn't bring himself to capture) hit the same building in '93. Notwithstanding this, to hear clinton tell it, his disastrous decision not to arrest bin Laden derived from his scrupulous avoidance of abusing power and trashing laws... Yeah, right.
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