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BACKGROUND.LONGISH.The Best Enemies Money Can Buy
by Michael C. Ruppert 3:25am Wed Dec 19 '01
From Hitler To Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden Insider Connections and
the Bush Familys Partnership with Killers of Americans
The article is very well researched and highly recommended, although a
little too long in my opinion. I've read the book referred to in the
article below, George Bush, The Unauthorized Biography by Webster G.
Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, and recommend it for anybody who wants to know
the truth about George Bush senior.
Please read my published article about the cancer indu$try
"The Cancer Racket"
Thank you and merry Christmas. Gavin Phillips.
The Best Enemies Money Can Buy
From Hitler To Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden Insider Connections and
the Bush Familys Partnership with Killers of Americans
Brown Brothers, Harriman - BNL- and the Carlyle Group
By
Michael C. Ruppert
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[) Copyright 2001. All Rights Reserved, Michael C. Ruppert and From The
Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com. May be reprinted or distributed
for non-profit purposes only.]
FTW, Oct. 9, 2001 - Since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon, major media powerhouses and the increasingly influential
alternative media alike have begun to focus attention on Bush family
connections and a long history of arming and financing Americas attackers
in the months and years prior to the outbreak of war. Recent stories in the
Wall Street Journal (Sept. 27 & 28, 2001), ABC News (Oct. 1, 2001), as well
as a host of reports from so-called alternative news sources have begun to
focus attention on the Bush familys proffr-making role in creating and
arming our enemies.
The following is a more comprehensive look at the documented history of
these relationships that will also open some new avenues of inquiry for the
press, Congress and the American people.
In a world now filled with biowarfare agents, backpack nuclear devices, and
chemical weapons like Sarin gas -- where there are people in many countries
with reasons to oppose the United States -- the Bush Administration is
following predictable strategies in a way that redefines the concept of
brinksmanship. Human survival may depend upon the will and the ability of
both the Congress and the press to focus on these relationships and to take
appropriate action. Moreover and I am not the first to say this if a
national security priority is to seize the financial assets of those who
support terrorists, then perhaps we should start right here at home.
--- Adolph Hitler Meticulous research, including U.S. government records
from the era, along with contemporaneous news stories from the New York
Times and other papers is presented in the 1992 book entitled, George
Bush, The Unauthorized Biography by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin,
Published by The Executive Intelligence Review and located at
http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm. The following is sourced entirely from
Chapter II of this essential work. [Note: Although FTW does not always
agree with conclusions reached by the Executive Intelligence Review, or its
founder Lyndon La Rouche, we have never found a single flaw in any of their
factual research. History is history, no matter who presents it. And this
history is essential to understanding our era.]
George W. Bushs grandfather, Prescott Bush, was the Managing Director of
the investment bank Brown Brothers, Harriman from the 1920s through the
1940s. It was Brown Brothers, in conjunction with Averell Harriman, the
Rockefeller family, Standard Oil, the DuPonts, the Morgans and the Fords
who served as the principal funding arm in helping to finance Adolph
Hitlers rise to power starting in 1923. This included direct funding for
the SS and SA channeled through a variety of German firms. Prescott Bush,
through associations with the Hamburg-Amerika Steamship line, Nazi banker
Fritz Thyssen (pronounced Tee-sen), Standard Oil of Germany, The German
Steel Trust (founded by Dillon Read founder, Clarence Dillon), and I.G.
Farben, used the Union Bank Corporation to funnel vast quantities of money
to the Nazis and to manage their American interests. The profits from those
investments came back to Bush allies on Wall Street. Thyssen is universally
regarded as having been Hitlers private banker and ultimate owner of the
Union Bank Corporation.
Early support for Hitler came from Prescott Bush through the
Hamburg-Amerika Steamship line -- also funded by Brown Bothers -- that
funneled large sums of money and weapons to Hitlers storm troopers in the
1920s.
According to Tarpley and Chaitkin, In May 1933, just after the Hitler
regime was consolidated, an agreement was reached in Berlin for the
coordination of all Nazi commerce with the U.S.A. The Harriman
International Company was to head a syndicate of 150 firms and
individuals, to conduct all exports from Hitler Germany to the United States.
Furthermore, a 1942 U.S. government investigative report that surfaced
during 1945 Senate hearings found that the Union Bank, with Prescott Bush
on the board, was an interlocking concern with the German Steel Trust
that had produced:
- 50.8% of Nazi Germanys pig iron
- 41.4% of Nazi Germanys universal plate
- 36% of Nazi Germanys heavy plate
- 38.5% of Nazi Germanys galvanized sheet
- 45.5% of Nazi Germanys pipes and tubes
- 22.1% of Nazi Germanys wire
- 35% of Nazi Germanys explosives
The business relationships established by Bush in 1923 continued even after
the war started until they became so offensive and overt as to warrant
seizure by the U.S. government under the Trading with the Enemy Act in 1942.
In 1942, Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over
Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien
Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.s stock shares
all of which shares are held for the benefit of members of the Thyssen
family, [and] is property of nationals of a designated enemy country.
On October 28, the government issued orders seizing two Nazi front
organizations run by the Bush-Harriman bank: the Holland-American Trading
Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation.
Nazi interests in the Silesian-American Corporation, long managed by
Prescott Bush and his father in law George Herbert Walker, were seized
under the Trading with the Enemy Act on Nov. 17, 1942 These seizures of
Bush businesses were reported in a number of American papers including The
New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Prescott Bush went on to become an influential Republican Senator from
Connecticut who went on to be a regular golfing partner of President Dwight
Eisenhower. His attorneys were the lawyers John Foster and Allen Dulles,
the later became the CIA Director under Eisenhower.
Saddam Hussein
After becoming President in January 1989, Prescott Bushs son, George
Herbert Walker Bush father of our current President authorized a series
of programs that not only armed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein but also
provided him with technology that assisted in his development of chemical
weapons like Sarin gas, and biological weapons, which he still possesses.
Apologists for Bush (the elder) say that, after the Iran-Iraq War of the
1980s left the region unstable, he was just trying to establish a new
balance of power. Not so. Bush directives and policies, including
relationships with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI),
and the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) were directly and deliberately
responsible for creating the army the U.S. fought in 1991.
A story by Russ W. Baker, in the March/April issue the Colombia Journalism
Review (CJR), provided the most compelling overview of Iraqgate that I have
seen.
ABC News Nightline opened last June 9 with words to make the heart stop
It is becoming increasingly clear, said a grave Ted Koppel, that George
Bush, operating largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980s, initiated
and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that
built Saddams Iraq into the aggressive power that the United States
ultimately had to destroy
Why, then, have some of our top papers provided so little coverage? Baker
poignantly asks.
The result: readers who neither grasp nor care about the facts behind
facile imagery like The Butcher of Baghdad and Operation Desert Storm. In
particular, readers who do not follow the story of the Banca Nazionale del
Lavoro, which apparently served as a paymaster for Saddams arms buildup,
and thus became a player in the largest bank-fraud case in U.S. history.
Complex, challenging, mind-boggling stories (from Iran-Contra to the S&L
crisis to BCCI) increasingly define our times: yet we dont appear to be
getting any better at telling them
Much of what Saddam received from the West was not arms per se, but
so-called dual-use technology -- ultra sophisticated computers, armored
ambulances, helicopters, chemicals, and the like, with potential civilian
uses as well as military applications. Weve learned that a vast network of
companies, based in the U.S. and abroad, eagerly fed the Iraqi war machine
right up until August 1990, when Saddam invaded Kuwait.
And weve learned that the obscure Atlanta Branch of Italys largest bank,
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, relying partly on U.S. taxpayer-guaranteed
loans, funneled $5 billion to Iraq from 1985 to 1989. Some
government-backed loans were supposed to be for agricultural purposes, but
were used to facilitate the purchase of stronger stuff than wheat. Federal
Reserve and Agriculture department memos warned of suspected abuses by
Iraq, which apparently took advantage of the loans to free up funds for
munitions. U.S. taxpayers have been left holding the bag for what looks
like $2 billion in defaulted loans to Iraq.
In fact, we now know that in February 1990, then Attorney General Dick
Thornburgh [appointed by George H.W. Bush] blocked U.S. investigators from
traveling to Rome and Istanbul to pursue the case
As New York Times columnist William Safire argued last December 7,
Iraqgate is uniquely horrendous: a scandal about the Systematic abuse of
power by misguided leaders of three democratic nations [The U.S., Britain,
and Italy] to secretly finance the arms buildup of a dictator.
While Democrat Henry Gonzales, Chairman of the House Banking Committee
during the period, stood as the lone voice from the wilderness in raising
alarms about Bushs obvious corruption, the rest of the Congress sheepishly
ignored all the signs demanding immediate action. Gonzales voice
reportedly fell silent after his empty car was machine-gunned in a
Washington suburb in what passed for a drive-by shooting.
The CJR continues: Meanwhile, The Village Voice published a major
investigation by free-lancer Murray Waas in its December 18, 1990 issue
That American troops could be killed or maimed because of a covert
decision to arm Iraq, Waas wrote, is the most serious consequence of a
U.S. foreign policy formulated and executed in secret, without the advice
and consent of the American public
The L.A. Times, on Feb 23, 1992, dug deep enough to find secret National
Security Decision Directives by the Bush Administration in 1989 ordering
closer ties with Baghdad and paving the way for $1 billion in new aid. The
Times series, co-authored with Waas, emphasized that, buried deep in a
1991 Washington Press piece that Secretary of State James Baker, after
meeting with Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz in October 1989, intervened
personally to support U.S. government loans guarantees to Iraq.
Bakers CJR report also noted, On October 3, the [Wall Street] Journal
reported [BNL official Christopher] Drogouls assertion that the director
general of Iraqs Ministry of Industry and Military Production had told
him, We are all in this together. The intelligence service of the U.S.
government works very closely with the intelligence service of the Iraqi
government. Three weeks later, the Journal reported that [Henry] Gonzales
produced a phone-book-sized packet of documents showing the involvement
of U.S. exporting firms The documents mentioned one which designed parts
for Iraqs howitzers and was financed through BNL
In the wake of highly suspicious anthrax outbreaks in Florida, just miles
from where several of the WTC suicides pilots trained, we add one final
note. In his 1998 book "Bringing the War Home" author William Thomas
writes, Under that same [weapons transfer] program, 19 containers of
Anthrax bacteria were supplied to Iraq in 1988 by the American Type Culture
Collection company, located near Fort Detrick, MD, the site of the US
Army's high security germ warfare labs.
The Carlyle Group, the Bushes and bin Laden
The warnings about the Carlyle Group, the nations 11th largest defense
contractor, and the Bushes came long before the World Trade Center attacks.
The Carlyle Group is a closely held corporation, exempt, for that reason,
from reporting its affairs to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Little is known of what it actually does except that it buys and sells
defense contractors. As of October 4, 2001, it has removed its corporate
web site from the World Wide Web making further investigation through that
channel impossible. Its Directors include Frank Carlucci, former Reagan
Secretary of Defense; James Baker, former Bush Secretary of State; and
Richard Darman, a former White House aide to Ronald Reagan and Republican
Party operative.
On March 3, 2001, just weeks after George W Bushs inauguration, the
conservative Washington lobbying group Judicial Watch issued a press
release. It said:
(Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that
investigates and prosecutes government abuse and corruption, called on
former President George Herbert Walker Bush to resign immediately from the
Carlyle Group, a private investment firm, while his son President George W.
Bush is in office. Today's New York Times reported that the elder Bush is
an "ambassador" for the $12 billion private investment firm and last year
traveled to the Middle East on its behalf. The former president also helped
the firm in South Korea.
The New York Times reported that as compensation, the elder Bush is
allowed to buy a stake in the Carlyle Group's investments, which include
ownership in at least 164 companies throughout the world (thereby by giving
the current president an indirect benefit). James Baker, the former
Secretary of State who served as President George W. Bush's point man in
Florida's election dispute, is a partner in the firm. The firm also gave
George W. Bush help in the early 1990's when it placed him on one of its
subsidiary's board of directors.
"This is simply inappropriate. Former President Bush should immediately
resign from the Carlyle Group because it is an obvious conflict of
interest. Any foreign government or foreign investor trying to curry favor
with the current Bush Administration is sure to throw business to the
Carlyle Group. And with the former President Bush promoting the firm's
investments abroad, foreign nationals could understandably confuse the
Carlyle Group's interests with the interests of the United States
government," stated Larry Klayman, Judicial Watch Chairman and General
Counsel.
"Questions are now bound to be raised if the recent Bush Administration
change in policy towards Iraq has the fingerprints of the Carlyle Group,
which is trying to gain investments from other Arab countries who [sic]
would presumably benefit from the new policy," stated Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton.
Judicial Watch noted that even the Clinton Administration called on the
Rodham brothers to stop their business dealings in [The former Soviet
Republic of] Georgia because those dealings started to destabilize that
country.
Since the WTC attacks the Wall Street Journal has reported (Sept. 28, 2001)
that, George H.W. Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin
Laden family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group, an
international consulting firm. The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden
family at least twice in the last three years 1998 and 2000 -- as a
representative of Carlyle, seeking to expand business dealings with one of
the wealthiest Saudi families, which some experts argue, has never fully
severed its ties with black sheep Osama in spite of current reports in a
mainstream press that is afraid of offending the current administration.
The Nation, on March 27, 2000 in a story co-authored by David Corn and
Paul Lashmar wrote, In January former President George Bush and former
British Prime Minister John Major paid a social call on Saudi Arabian Crown
Prince Abdullah This story confirms at least one meeting between the
elder Bush and Saudi leaders, including the bin Ladens. That the bin Ladens
attended this meeting was confirmed in a subsequent September 27, 2001 Wall
Street Journal (WSJ) story. The January 2000 meeting with the bin Ladens
was also later confirmed by Bush (the elders) Chief of Staff Jean Becker,
only after the WSJ presented her with a thank you note sent by Bush to the
bin Ladens after that meeting.
James Baker visited the bin Ladens in 1998 and 1999 with Carlyle CEO Frank
Carlucci.
The WSJ story went on to note, A Carlyle executive said that the bin Laden
family committed $2 million through a London investment arm in 1995 in
Carlyle Partners II Fund, which raised $1.3 billion overall. The fund has
purchased several aerospace companies among 29 deals. So far, the family
has received $1.3 million back in completed investments and should
ultimately realize a 40% annualized rate of return, the Carlyle executive
said.
But a foreign financier with ties to the bin Laden family says the
familys overall investment with Carlyle is considerably larger
In other words, Osama bin Ladens attacks on the WTC and Pentagon, with the
resulting massive increase in the U.S. defense budget have just made his
family a great big pile of money.
More Bush connections appear in relation to the bin Ladens. The WSJ story
also notes that, During the past several years, the [bin Laden] familys
close ties to the Saudi royal family prompted executives and staff from
closely held New York publisher Forbes, Inc. to make two trips to the
family headquarters, according to Forbes Chairman Caspar Weinberger, a
former U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration. We would
call on them to get their view of the country and what would be of interest
to investors.
President G.H.W. Bush pardoned Weinberger for his criminal conduct in the
Iran-Contra scandal in 1989.
Our current President, George W. Bush has also had -- at minimum --
indirect dealings with Carlyle and the bin Ladens. In 1976 his firm Arbusto
Energy was funded with $50,000 from Texas investment banker James R. Bath
who was also the U.S. investment counselor for the bin Laden family. In his
watershed 1992 book, The Mafia, The CIA and George Bush, award winning
Texas investigative journalist Pete Brewton dug deeply into Baths
background, revealing connections with the CIA and major fraudulent
activities connected with the Savings & Loan scandal that took $500 billion
out of the pockets of American taxpayers. A long-time friend of George W.
Bush, Bath was connected to a number of covert financing operations in the
Iran-Contra scandal, which also linked to bin Laden friend Adnan Khashoggi.
One of the richest men in the world, Khashoggi was the arms merchant at the
center of the whole Iran-Contra scandal. Khashoggi, whose connections to
the bin Ladens is more than superficial, got his first business break by
acting as middle-man for a large truck purchase by Osama bin Ladens older
brother, Salem.
Another key player in the Bush Administration, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Richard Armitage, left his post as an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the
Reagan Administration after a series of scandals connected to CIA
operatives Ed Wilson, Ted Shackley, Richard Secord and Tom Clines placed
him at the brink of criminal indictment and jail. Shackley and Secord are
veterans of Vietnam operations and have long been linked to opium/heroin
smuggling. The Armitage scandals all focused on the illegal provision of
weapons and war materiel to potential or actual enemies of the U.S. and to
the Contras in Central America.
Armitage, a former Navy SEAL, who reportedly enjoyed combat missions and
killing during covert operations in Laos during the Vietnam War, has never
been far from the Bush familys side. Throughout his career, both in and
out of government, he has been perpetually connected to CIA drug smuggling
operations. Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a 1995 Washington Post
story, called Armitage, my white son. In 1990, then President Bush
dispatched Armitage to Russia to aid in its transition to capitalism.
Armitages Russian work for Bush has been frequently connected to the
explosion of drug trafficking under the Russian Mafias, which became
virtual rulers of the nation afterwards. In the early 1990s Armitage had
extensive involvement in Albania at the same time that the Albanian ally,
Kosovo Liberation Army was coming to power and consolidating its grip,
according to The Christian Science Monitor, on 70% of the heroin entering
western Europe. [See FTW Vol. II, No 2 April 24, 1999]
Armitage and Carlucci are both Board Members of the influential Washington
think tank, the Middle East Policy Council.
The connections continue with Vice President Dick Cheney. Amongst the
multitude of oil pipeline construction running through the new war zone is
one project according to a Sept. 19, 2001 Wall Street Journal story a
joint venture in which the bin Laden family joined with the construction
firm H.C. Price. A researcher named Phoenix, writing for the Internet
news site Rumor Mills News Agency located at www.rumormillnews.com,
reported that Price subsequently changed its name to Bredero Shaw, Inc. and
is now owned by a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation, Dresser
Industries. It was Dresser industries that gave George H.W. Bush his first
post war job in 1948. A check of the relevant corporate web sites has
confirmed this.
Vice President Dick Cheney, who served as Secretary of Defense during
Desert Storm, directing the campaign against Saddam Hussein, was
Halliburtons CEO until last years election.
And, according to a 2000 story from Harpers Magazine, in 1990 our current
President, through a position as a corporate director of Caterair, owned by
the Carlyle Group at a time when the bin Ladens were invested in Carlyle
had additional connections to the bin Laden family. In addition, on March
1, 1995, when George W. Bush was Texas governor and a senior Trustee of the
university, the University of Texas Endowment voted to place $10 million in
investments with the Carlyle Group. As to how much of that money went to
the bin Ladens we can only guess. But we do know that there is a long
tradition in the Bush family of giving money to those who kill Americans.
Now, as the people of America are beginning to awaken to what is really
being unleashed upon them, as a few brave souls are asking whos going to
get all the money the Bush Administration is borrowing from government
coffers and whos going to pay for it - the above history is more than
ominous.
Considering that during the 1980s, under the pretext of fighting a
Sandinista regime in Nicaragua that never once launched an attack on the
U.S., these same people oversaw an explosion in U.S. cocaine consumption
that went from 80 metric tons in 1979 to 600 metric tons in 1989 -
considering that the CIA trained and equipped death squads that tortured
and murdered hundreds of thousands of people from Guatemala to Panama
considering that these same people have brutalized Iraq, leaving portions
of it radioactively contaminated by depleted uranium for the next 4 billion
years and causing a fivefold increase in the number of childhood leukemia
cases amidst a starving population, one can only wonder what they will
produce for the world now given the context of the World Trade Center attacks.
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