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In an article for the London Daily Mail, Peter Allen points out a connection between George W. Bush and Osama’s brother, Salem bin Laden (pp. 1-2):
Incredibly, Salem went on to become a business partner of the man who is leading the hunt for his brother. In the 1970s, he and George W. Bush were founders of the Arbusto Energy oil company in Mr Bush’s home state of Texas.
As he built his own business empire, Salem bin Laden had an intriguing relationship with the President-to-be. In 1978, he appointed James Bath, a close friend of Mr Bush who served with him in the Air National Guard, as his representative in Houston, Texas. It was in that year that Mr Bath invested $50,000 … in Mr Bush’s company, Arbusto. It was never revealed whether he was investing his own money or somebody else’s. There was even speculation that the money might have been from Salem. In the same year, Mr Bath bought Houston Gulf Airport on behalf of the Saudi Arabian multimillionaire.
Three years ago, Mr Bush said the $50,000 investment in Arbusto was the only financial dealing he had with Mr Bath.
The connection between the bin Ladens and the Bush family does not end with Arbusto Energy.
On the BBC’s Newsnight program, Greg Palast stated (p. 5):
Young George also received fees as director of a subsidiary of Carlyle Corporation, a little-known private company which has, in just a few years of its founding, become one of America’s biggest defence contractors. His father, Bush Senior, is also a paid adviser. And what became embarrassing was the revelation that the bin Ladens held a stake in Carlyle, sold just after September 11.
These business connections may explain why the Bush Administration frustrated the FBI’s efforts to investigate Abdullah and Omar bin Laden. Investigations may have demonstrated that Osama was not the “black sheep” of the family. Instead, they may have shown that terrorism was actually the bin Laden family business. This would have associated the Bush family with terrorists, something the current President could not allow to happen.
For neo-conservatives, the portrait of the Bush family as a criminal syndicate with ties to questionable characters is reprehensible. However, this contention can be based upon a major precedent.
Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin’s investigation into former President George Herbert Walker Bush’s background led to a startling discovery: that “The President’s family fortune was largely a result of the Hitler project” (p. 28).
The Bush dynasty’s connections with the bin Ladens suggest that the family’s collusion with enemies of the United States has never ceased.
A State-sponsored Sociopolitical Project
Re-examining Martín-Baró’s previous contention, that terrorism is part and parcel of a “government-imposed sociopolitical project”, one is faced with some very disturbing questions.
What will be the results of this “government-imposed sociopolitical project”? Where exactly is all of this state-sponsored terrorism leading?
Quigley provides a fragmentary glimpse of the outcome in Tragedy and Hope. The Oxford professor reveals that a cognitive elite, arbitrarily dubbed “experts”, “will replace the democratic voter in control of the political system” (p. 866).
With representation for the masses removed from the picture, what kind of life can the common man expect to live? Quigley (p. 886) declares that this will be a system where the individual’s:
… freedom and choice will be controlled within very narrow alternatives by the fact that he will be numbered from birth and followed, as a number, through his educational training, his required military or other public service, his tax contributions, his health and medical requirements, and his final retirement and death benefits.
There you have it. George Orwell’s 1984, built al-Qa’ida style!