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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 02:55 PM
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Florida al-Qaeda fugitive Esam Ghazzawi linked to BCCI and two dead Saudi Princes
This follows up my posting yesterday, which examined the Miami Herald report Wednesday that the FBI had covered up the escape of a Saudi financier living in Florida who had hosted Mohamed Atta at his Sarasota villa in the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks. See, http://journals.democraticunderground.com/leveymg/595

Esam Ghazzawi, his daughter, Anoud, and her husband, Abdulazzi al-Hiijjii suddenly disappeared on August 30, 2001, leaving behind a million dollar, fully furnished Sarasota home, several automobiles, and their personal belongings. For ten years, the FBI withheld information from Congressional investigators and the public that Ghazzami has been visited by Atta and another hijacker, and phone records showed numerous calls to other figures involved in the 9/11 attack. Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/07/2395698/link-to-9...

Ghazzawi linked to BCCI and two dead Saudi Princes

Background checking since yesterday’s news account reveals evidence that Ghazzawi, who was on US government watch-lists along with his daughter and son-in-law, has a long history of association with Saudi financiers linked to terrorism and major global bank frauds in the 1980s and 1990s. He now lives openly in Jeddah and owns the posh Orient Restaurant in Khobar, KSA. Most intriguingly, he is mentioned in a 1997 London court document as having held funds for Prince Fahd bin Salman, a member of the Saudi Royal family who died suddenly at the age of 46 on July 24, 2001.

Prince Fahd's father Salman is the governor of Riyadh and brother of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. The eldest of four brothers, and born in 1955, Prince Fahd acted as deputy governor of Riyadh's Eastern Region during the Gulf War of 1991. Little has ever been written about the death of Fahd, but his involvement with BCCI was noted several years earlier in connection with a law suit in London. Reprinted at: http://www.sauduction.com/issues/11

PRINCE FAHD BIN SALMAN'S DUBIOUS BANKING PRACTICES

Private Eye reports: "Prince Fahd bin Salman, eldest son of ... Prince Salman, the governor of Riyadh ... a court case brought by the BCCI liquidators over the little matter of $397,000 owed to the rogue bank. Since 1994 the liquidators had been seeking repayment of this money under a guarantee given by the prince for the overdraft of an offshore company, Colchest Corporation N.V. In an unusual response, Prince Fahd sought to offset against this debt money held at another BCCI branch in the name of one Esam Ghazzawi, claiming that this was his money. The court of appeal rejected this suggestion on the basis that it was unclear who owned what in the Ghazzawi accounts."


Prince Fahd’s death five weeks before Ghazzami suddenly fled his Sarasota home, barely 6 weeks before 9/11 might not in itself be more than coincidence. However, the unfolding story takes a particularly sinister turn when one realizes that Faud’s older brother, Prince Ahmed bin Salman died almost exactly a year later (November 17, 1958 – July 22, 2002), and his death has been labeled the first of a series of post-9/11 U.S. targeted killings of prominent figures identified as having had leading roles in the attacks.

In his 2003 book Why America Slept, author Gerald Posner writes that Prince Ahmed bin Salman had had ties to al-Qaeda and had advance knowledge of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. When 9/11 figure Abu Zubaydeh was captured, Posner claims that he revealed to American interrogators the identity of a number of top al-Qaeda backers, including Prince Ahmed, and the head of the Pakistani Air Force, who died with his family and closest aides in a February 2003 mid-air transport plane explosion.

To the timeline of events leading up to 9/11, including the 08/30/2001 flight of Ghazzawi and his family, we must now add the death five weeks earlier of Prince Faud and the death almost a year to the day of his older brother, Prince Ahmed. Their father is a co-director of the Saudi intelligence service along with Prince Turki bin Faisal, who suddenly resigned his 25 year commission as the Director of the Saudi General Intelligence agency and departed his long-time post in Washington suddenly on September 4, 2001. That is another important date that should put on anyone’s 9/11 timeline.

It is now past time for the redacted material in the 9/11 Report about Saudi al-Qaeda finance to be released, and the case reopened to examine new evidence.

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  - Every single member of the Bush Admin (& the entire Bush family) should stand for treason&war crimes  Roland99   Sep-09-11 02:57 PM   #1 
  - Not to mention the Butterfly Madam  sce56   Sep-09-11 03:10 PM   #4 
     - Kust a coincidence. Right? I mean, this stuff happens all the time in occult Republicon circles  SpiralHawk   Sep-09-11 03:16 PM   #5 
     - Americans did their part.  vets74   Sep-09-11 07:24 PM   #11 
     - I hadn't heard that tidbit before. n/t  hootinholler   Sep-09-11 03:24 PM   #6 
  - I know people who lost their life savings when BCCI collapsed.  closeupready   Sep-09-11 03:06 PM   #2 
  - Freaking Saudi RepubliCronies, Inc. (R)  SpiralHawk   Sep-09-11 03:09 PM   #3 
  - That didn't take long!  Old and In the Way   Sep-09-11 03:38 PM   #7 
  - As the Kerry Commission documented, Saudi Intel were BCCI partners with Bush's CIA  leveymg   Sep-09-11 04:03 PM   #8 
     - Why was this moved here?  BeFree   Sep-09-11 04:11 PM   #9 
        - Those are all good questions.  leveymg   Sep-10-11 07:59 AM   #15 
  - WTF? BCCI=TINFOIL?  robertpaulsen   Sep-09-11 04:30 PM   #10 
  - even though this ended up in the dungeon...  Sancho   Sep-10-11 04:02 AM   #13 
  - Ghazzawi rabbit hole  guru uhuru   Sep-09-11 11:48 PM   #12 
     - Thnx for the roadmap. I knew about Adel, but didn't have time to check him out  leveymg   Sep-10-11 07:50 AM   #14 
 
Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 02:57 PM
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1. Every single member of the Bush Admin (& the entire Bush family) should stand for treason&war crimes
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sce56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 03:10 PM
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4. Not to mention the Butterfly Madam
'Madame Butterfly' Theresa Le Pore wasn't always an embattled Palm Beach ballots chief. In the 1980s she moonlighted as a flight attendant on private planes owned by Saudi weapons dealer Adnan Khashoggi, a middleman in Reagan administration arms sales to Iran." and the BCCI Scandal, Theresa Le Pore designed the infamous Butterfly Ballot in Palm Beach Florida.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 03:16 PM
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5. Kust a coincidence. Right? I mean, this stuff happens all the time in occult Republicon circles
Edited on Fri Sep-09-11 03:17 PM by SpiralHawk
Doesn't it? I am sure RepubliCon spokes-entities have an, um, explanation...

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vets74 Donating Member (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 07:24 PM
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11. Americans did their part.
M. Anthony Feinberg

Chaired the F.A.A. committee that blocked ICAO airliner protection standards after al-Qaeda's 1994 Air France Flight 8969 suicide-hijacking attempt.

Card-carrying mid-level NeoCon. Promoted to head all U.S. National Laboratories by Bush43 after 9/11.
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 03:24 PM
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6. I hadn't heard that tidbit before. n/t
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closeupready Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 03:06 PM
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2. I know people who lost their life savings when BCCI collapsed.
Most of them could be using that money now.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 03:09 PM
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3. Freaking Saudi RepubliCronies, Inc. (R)
Edited on Fri Sep-09-11 03:11 PM by SpiralHawk
Steenkin SkullDuggery (R)

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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 03:38 PM
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7. That didn't take long!
Edited on Fri Sep-09-11 03:45 PM by Old and In the Way
Interesting how those loose ends get terminated. A result of our WOT...or the War to Hide the Truth? It's pretty obvious that SA had a big role in financing the 9/11 terrorists...the real question is why our government doesn't want to expose the connections and tell us why we didn't go after Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq as it was the real state actor directly linked to the 9/11 terrorists. 17 of 19 hijackers were Sauds....what did the Bush administration do to punish Saudi Arabia?

(1) Exited our military presence from the country
(2) Took out Saudi Arabia's #1 secular threat on their eastern border.
(3) Took Iraqi oil production down so as to make Saudi Arabia's resource even more lucrative.
(4) Offered the bin Laden and various members of the Royal family safe passage out of the country while the rest of this country was grounded.

Just how compromised was the Bush administration in their relationships with Saudi Arabia?
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 04:03 PM
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8. As the Kerry Commission documented, Saudi Intel were BCCI partners with Bush's CIA
They're all part of the two oil well and bank looting gangs -- sometimes competing sometimes cooperating -- always ruthless. But, they are messy and can be blunt in their business methods. Witness 9/11.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 04:11 PM
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9. Why was this moved here?
I just don't get it. It is a news story.

The investigation of the people involved has not been undertaken. And having read a lot about 9/11 I do not remember ever having heard this news before.

What do the readers here who say there is nothing new after ten years have to say now?
How about they are wrong, again?

And why has this news been moved here to this forum? WHY?
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-11 07:59 AM
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15. Those are all good questions.
Probably as unanswerable until there's a Grand Jury. Just kidding. B-) ;)
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robertpaulsen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 04:30 PM
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10. WTF? BCCI=TINFOIL?
I bookmarked this thread for future reading. Two hours later, it's not considered appropriate for GD?

For shame! :spank:
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Sancho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-11 04:02 AM
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13. even though this ended up in the dungeon...
and I'm not sure either when some things are considered a CT.... here's a link to Daily Kos and the Bush/BCCI connection:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/01/09/433439/-Chris-...

to me, some things have evidence that make them news and not just wild speculation, but everyone has to decide how much evidence is convincing...
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guru uhuru Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 11:48 PM
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12. Ghazzawi rabbit hole
Edited on Fri Sep-09-11 11:49 PM by guru uhuru
The next level down you will find Ghazzawi's son Adel and the Tricon entities of Roseburg Oregon- check those individuals closely, also history and locations of Tricon. Also you will find Adel with Ross Perot Jr East West group and closely linked to the Bahamdan family (NCB).

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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-11 07:50 AM
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14. Thnx for the roadmap. I knew about Adel, but didn't have time to check him out
:hi:
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