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9-11 Cover Up Man Tom Kean's Saudi-Oil Connection
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9-11 Cover Up Man Tom Kean's Saudi-Oil Connection
by Conspiracy Planet.com

Since unindicted war criminal Henry Kissinger has bowed out, former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean has been named to head the 9-11 Coverup Commission.

Not surprisingly, however, Kean's so-called "business" background has not come under any Mainstream Media Cartel scrutiny.

New York Newsday's Thomas Frank, in his December 17 article, mentioned that Kean is a director of Aramark, a food-services corporation with "business interests" in Saudi Arabia. There was no more information and no more context.

It should be noted that Kean is also a director at petroleum company Amerada Hess.

The Hess family is a partner in Hess-Delta, an oil exploration and development joint venture incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

Hess-Delta is also involved in investments in the Caspian Sea region,namely Azerbaijan and other former Soviet republics.

Hess's partner in this joint venture is Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia

It just so happness that the new 9-11 Commission chair Tom Kean's business partners in Hess-Delta are Mohammed Hussein al Amoudi and Khalid bin Mahfouz, both of whom have been under investigation as far back as 1999 for suspected ties to Al Qaeda (Boston Herald, 12/11/2001).

Al Amoudi and bin Mahfouz have many other oil interests in Saudi Arabia, one of which is Delta. Both men have been accused by name in a $1 trillion lawsuit, filed on behalf of families of the victims of September 11, as alleged financiers of Al Qaeda.

Where have we heard that name before?

Khalid bin Mahfouz, head of Saudi Arabia's powerful National Commercial Bank, was implicated in the BCCI banking scandal during the early 1990s, when the Bank of Commerce and Credit International robbed depositors of $10 billion. Eventually bin Mahfouz paid a $225 million settlement in the BCCI case.

Then it seems that bin Mahfouz moved from international scamster to bankrolling "terrorists" under the guise of funding "charitable organizations."

In 1999, bin Mahfouz was reportedly placed under house arrest by the Saudi government on suspicion of supporting terrorism. An audit of his National Commerce Bank discovered $2 billion dollars missing, and US and Saudi officials feared it was funneled to Al Qaeda via numerous charity fronts.

One of the "charities" to which bin Mahfouz may have "contributed" heavily, the Advice and Reformation Committee, was founded by Osama bin Laden himself and financed the 1998 African embassy bombings.

US officials also suspect bin Mahfouz to be financially linked to the USS Cole attack, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and numerous failed terrorist actions.

Bin Mahfouz's son was on the board of the Sudanese chapter of Blessed Relief, a charity whose assets were frozen by the Treasury Department in October 2001 for suspected terrorist links. (Ottawa Citizen, 9/29/2001)

Not to be forgotten is the fact that bin Mahfouz is Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law.

According to Senate testimony given by former CIA director James Woolsey, bin Mahfouz's younger sister is one of bin Laden's many brides. (New York Times, 11/12/2001)

And Tom Kean, as head of the 9-11 Coverup Commission, is supposed to reveal all this -- including his own Oily-Saudi Connections? Don't bet on it.

Of course George Bush Jr. has a role in this sordid history as well.

When Bush started up the Houston-based Arbusto Energy in 1979, one of his investors was James Bath, the US business representative of Salem bin Laden—brother of Osama. Many suspect Bath's $50,000 investment came directly from Salem.

Following Salem bin Laden's very suspicious death in 1988, his Houston-based interests were absorbed by Khalid bin Mahfouz.

Bush became embroiled in the BCCI scandal, when investigations into the bank's finances revealed that many of the indicted BCCI executives also invested heavily in Harken Energy, a successor corporation to Bush's Arbusto.

Lying as always, Bush denied any knowledge of the BCCI investment.

Bin Mahfouz, a BCCI principal, was implicated in the fraud, though not directly connected to Bush's company.

Then in December 1997, the London Telegraph reported that Taliban representatives were about to sign a deal with Unocal, the California-based oil company, to construct a pipeline across Afghanistan.

Bin Mahfouz's Delta Oil was also heavily involved in the negotiations, and acted as a liaison between the Taliban and Unocal.

At the same time, Ken Lay, the founder and former chairman of Enron and a major Bush campaign contributor, was contracted to conduct feasibility studies for the Unocal-Delta joint venture.

Unocal publicly urged the Clinton administration to recognize the Taliban, despite Osama bin Laden's presence in the country it controlled.

Clinton never agreed to the deal and the Afghan pipeline project stayed in limbo for many years.

Then as recently as January 2001, the Bush administration was still meeting with Taliban representatives to work out an oil deal. They even invited the Taliban to Texas for a Texas-style BBQ. But evidently the Bush Cabal didn't want to offer enough cash for the Taliban's offshore accounts and no deal was made.

There is no evidence that Delta (and bin Mahfouz) had relinquished its interest in the Afghan pipeline by this time.

Shortly after the fall of the Taliban, Bush installed Hamid Karzai, a former Unocal "consultant" (read "bagman") as president of Afghanistan.

Zalmay Khalilzad, late of Unocal and a former Taliban supporter, was appointed as the US special envoy to the country.

Assuming the Unocal-Delta joint venture still exists, Bush has as much of a link to terrorism, as the man he appointed to head the 9-11 Coverup Commission.

Rest assured, however, Thomas Kean will do the Bush Cabal's bidding and keep it all covered up.

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