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Bad Deeds for 11-28-2007 (Add-On to Earlier Post)
Giuliani’s Business Contracts Tie Him to the Man Who Let 9/11’s =20
Mastermind Escape the FBI
Three weeks after 9/11, when the roar of fighter jets still haunted =20
the city’s skyline, the emir of gas-rich Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin =20
Khalifah al-Thani, toured Ground Zero. Although a member of the =20
emir’s own royal family had harbored the man who would later be =20
identified as the mastermind of the attack=97a man named Khalid Sheikh =20=
Muhammad, often referred to in intelligence circles by his initials, =20
KSM=97al-Thani rushed to New York in its aftermath, offering to make a =20=
$3 million donation, principally to the families of its victims. =20
“We had a very good meeting yesterday. Very good,” said Giuliani, =20
adding that he was “very, very grateful” for al-Thani’s generosity. =20
Giuliani Partners, the consulting company that has made Giuliani =20
rich, feasts at the Qatar trough, doing business with the ministry =20
run by the very member of the royal family identified in news and =20
government reports as having concealed KSM=97the terrorist mastermind =20=
who wired funds from Qatar to his nephew Ramzi Yousef prior to the =20
1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and who also sold the idea of =20=
a plane attack on the towers to Osama bin Laden=97on his Qatar farm in =20=
the mid-1990s. This royal family member is Abdallah bin Khalid al-=20
Thani, Qatar’s minister of Islamic affairs at the time, who was later =20=
installed at the interior ministry in January 2001 and reappointed by =20=
the emir during a government shake-up earlier this year. Abdallah al-=20
Thani is also said to have welcomed Osama bin Laden on two visits to =20
the farm. What’s most shocking is that Abdallah al-Thani has been =20
widely accused of helping to spirit KSM out of Qatar in 1996, just as =20=
the FBI was closing in on him. In other words, as incredible as it =20
might seem, Rudy Giuliani=97whose presidential candidacy is steeped in =20=
9/11 iconography=97has been doing business with a government agency run =20=
by the very man who made the attacks on 9/11 possible.
Much, much more…
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0748,barrett,78478,6.html
Regards,
Jim=
Andy Hailey