reads off a part of Clarke's book about a 1999 targeting of AQ, Says Berger steps in and said no.
Wasn't that one of times they had to abort because of the high ranking UAE/Saudis (one was even an associate of Neil Bush) that were there to go falcon hunting with Bin Laden?
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I bookmarked it from the Dubai ports deal fiasco time period-
here it is from Paul Thompson:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=526548Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is currently the Prime Minister and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates, as well as the leader of Dubai.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_bin_Rashid_Al_Mak...In fact, he just became ruler of the emirate of Dubai a month ago.
As I pointed out in one of my 9/11 Timeline entries, this same al Maktoum liked to go falcon hunting with bin Laden in Afghanistan:
"For years, Persian Gulf state elites hunted rare birds of prey, houbara bustards, in the bleak hills surrounding Kandahar. In the late 1990s, according to former U.S. and Afghan officials, a number of prominent Persian Gulf state officials and businessmen flew into Kandahar on state and private jets for secret hunting expeditions.
"For days at a time, the hunters would roam the hills, releasing falcons trained to catch the bustards. Some satisfied hunters heaped donations on their Taliban hosts, officials said--and on Al Qaeda leaders who occasionally joined them.
"Among the reported visitors were high-ranking UAE and Saudi government ministers. According to U.S. and former Afghan civil air officials, the hunters included Prince Turki al Faisal, son of the late Saudi King Faisal. He headed that nation's intelligence service until late August, maintaining close ties with Bin Laden and the Taliban. Another visitor, officials said, was Sheik Mohammed ibn Rashid al Maktum, the Dubai crown prince and Emirates defense minister."
(I made a slight error in my timeline entry, the source is the Los Angeles Times instead of MSNBC)
http://web.archive.org/web/20030618094400/http://www.la...As a recent Washington Post article points out, the emirate of Dubai owns Dubai Ports World, the company in the center of this controversy, which means that al Maktum, as the royal ruler of the emirate, is the owner of the company. The article even has a picture of him with Kofi Annan:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...It turns out that in early 1999, after the August 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Africa that made bin Laden the most well known and wanted terrorist in the world, UAE royals were still falcon hunting with bin Laden. Here's my timeline entry on the matter:
February 1999: Bin Laden Missile Strike Called Off for Fear of Hitting Persian Gulf Royalty-------------------------------------------------
That smary little asshat slipped in that little tidbit when Clinton isn't around to rebut.
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