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SOMETHING SMELLS IN DC

Written by: Richard Shaffer

Possibly the only private airplane flying in US air space after the 9/11 crimes against humanity, was a Saudi Arabian private jet picking up members of the bin Laden family who were scattered around the country. It flew from Los Angeles,to Orlando, to Washington, and finally to Boston. When the FAA permitted overseas flights, the jet flew to Europe.

This raises a question. What is the relationship between the bin Laden family and the Bush family?  George Bush senior has been a houseguest of the bin Ladens when he visited Saudi Arabia. Not only that, the bin Laden family was heavily invested in the Washington based Carlisle Group with huge interests in defense contracting. The names that crop up in connection with the Carlisle Group are George Bush senior, James Baker, and former British Prime Minister John Major. The chairman of the Carlisle Group is Frank Carlucci, a former Secretary of Defense, and associate of Donald Rumsfeld. There are too many connections to be overlooked.

It is odd that the Bin Laden family should be profiting in the war that is allegedly being waged against Osama. The Bush family is reaping millions in profits through the Carlisle Group, in direct relationship to the alleged War on Terror, which has been initiated by Bush the Younger? There are some obvious conflicts of interest.

The Unocal Pipeline, a 1,005 mile oil pipeline through Afghanistan and Pakistan. As late as August of 2001, just prior to the 9/11 crimes against humanity, the Bush administration was negotiating with the Taliban, trying to establish stability that would allow American oil ventures to proceed safely. At the receiving end of the pipeline is Ken Lay and the ubiquitous Enron. At the other end is the Taliban, whom the Bush Administration had given $43 Million supposedly to eradicate opium-poppy cultivation. In the book Bin Laden: the Forbidden Truth by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasique it is claimed that the threat "we'll either carpet you with gold or carpet you with bombs." was bantered about. If this is true, doesn't it illuminate why the US attacked Afghanistan rather than Saudi Arabia, where most of the alleged terrorists came from? The Unocal pipeline brings up more names. Halliburton, the pipeline construction firm would be a huge benefactor. Halliburton was   once headed by Dick Cheney, and was also a generous contributor to the Bush-Cheney campaign. Lawrence Lindsey, a Bush economic adviser, has been an Enron consultant. Bush has appointed Zalmay Khalilzad as his special envoy to Afghanistan is a former Unocal consultant, and Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's interim leader was also a Unocal consultant. There are too many connections to be coincidental.

Now we hear that the Bush administration was forewarned of a terrorist attack prior to 9/11 and did nothing. If the allegations of a threat to carpet Afghanistan with either gold or with bombs is true, is it unreasonable to assume that people who would be willing to sacrifice the lives of innocent Afghans in order to promote their commercial enterprise would also be willing to sacrifice American lives in order to justify an attack on Afghanistan? What were those records that Arthur Andersen destroyed relating to Enron? Why is Dick Cheney resisting turning over records of meetings with Ken Lay and other Enron officials?

The connections between the Bush Administration, Enron, Unocal, the Taliban, and Afghanistan need to be illuminated. There are too many connections to be ignored. The possibility that the Bush Administration is promoting commercial enterprise behind a cloak of patriotism and fear mongering is not unthinkable. There are too many unanswered questions.

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