http://www.politrix.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1419Bush's criminal ties include:
BCCI
In 1991, then New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau described BCCI as "one of the biggest criminal enterprises in world history." <2> Journalists David Sirota and Jonathan Baskin, writing for Washington Monthly, published an article titled 'Follow the Money', which chronicled Kerry's work against BCCI. In their article, Sirota and Baskin state, "As Kerry's subcommittee discovered, BCCI catered to many of the most notorious tyrants and thugs of the late 20th century, including Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the heads of the Medellin cocaine cartel, and Abu Nidal, the notorious Palestinian terrorist. According to the CIA, it also did business with those who went on to lead al Qaeda. And BCCI went beyond merely offering financial assistance to dictators and terrorists: According to Time, the operation itself was an elaborate fraud, replete with a 'global intelligence operation and a Mafia-like enforcement squad.'" "BCCI handled the banking transactions relating to the Pakistani nuclear programme and the Iran-contra illegal arms deals." source
HARKEN ENERGY
In 1986, Bush borrowed approximately $96,000 from Harken to purchase 80,000 shares of Harken stock. This loan was part of a generous stock option program that was available only to the corporate brass. Harken did not require repayment on the principal for eight years and charged Bush only five percent annual interest, well below the then-prevailing prime rate of 7.5 percent. You probably could never secure such terms for your home mortgage or any other loan. To secure the loan, Bush pledged the 212,000 shares of Harken he already owned, in addition to the 80,000 shares he purchased. In 1988, Bush borrowed another $84,000 from Harken to purchase an additional 25,000 shares of Harken stock on similarly favorable terms. In 1989, according to the New York Times, Harken released the original 212,000 shares as collateral from the 1986 loan and removed "any personal liability to
" on that loan. So if the value of the 80,000 shares dropped to less than the amount of the loan, Bush would not lose a dime, since all he had to do was return the collateral — the 80,000 Harken shares he had purchased. Indeed, Bush later returned the stock he had acquired through the insider loans, whereupon Harken cancelled the indebtedness. (The Truth About George http://www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com/special/harken.html)
BIN MAHFOUZ KHALID
"Bin Mahfouz is suspected to have funnelled millions of dollars to the Al Qaeda network.(See Tom Flocco, Scoop.co.nz 28 Aug. 2002. http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00148.htm)
Laundered money for terrorists and criminals (http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/js1754.htm
KHALIFA KHALIFA BIN-SULMAN AL- SHEIK
James Bath--who made his fortune by investing money for Mahfouz and another BCCI-connected Saudi, Sheikh bin-Laden--...was an original investor in George Bush Jr.'s oil exploration company..." from The Outlaw Bank, page 229.
More ties . . .
Mathematicians Offer Help in Terror Fight
By MATT CRENSON, AP National Writer
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=753&e=2&u=/ap/20041010/ap_on_sc/math_against_terror