Catherine Arnie
9-11 - H.W. BUSH, JAMES BAKER, G. W. BUSH CONNECTION
Sat May 31 15:44:26 2003
208.152.73.92

WITHOUT JUSTICE THEIR IS JUST_US!

9-11 - H.W. BUSH, JAMES BAKER, G. W. BUSH CONNECTION

But it gets worse...

The name of the "prestigious Houston Law firm" that is representing
this suspected supporter of terrorism?

Why that would be none other than Baker Botts of Houston - as in
JAMES Baker, as in THE James Baker: George Herbert Walker Bush's
former Secretary of State and George W. Bush's counsel during the
2000 election recounts (you know, "Mr. the votes have been counted
and recounted and counted again and even though we still lost we're
taking the crown"?)

It seems that in spite of the fact that Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz
and his government have been accused of funding charities linked to
Al Qaeda, James Baker's firm still feels the need to defend the
Prince against those "evil" trial lawyers representing the orphaned
families of the 9-11 victims.

Bush devotees would probably claim that this is not a conflict of
interest, that all powerful mover and shaker types in the private
sector cross paths with "our friends" the Saudis - but what is little
known is the fact that James Baker is not actually, wholly, in the
private sector, since Mr. Baker is also serving as Counsel for
Intelligence Policy to the Justice Department's Office for
Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR).

For those who are not familiar with OIPR, I am going to copy and
paste right from the horse's mouth:8


The Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, under the direction of
the Counsel for Intelligence Policy, is responsible for advising the
Attorney General on all matters relating to the national security
activities of the United States. The Office prepares and files all
applications for electronic surveillance and physical search under
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, assists Government
agencies by providing legal advice on matters of national security
law and policy, and represents the Department of Justice on variety
of interagency committees such as the National Counterintelligence
Policy Board. The Office also comments on and coordinates other
agencies' views regarding proposed legislation affecting intelligence
matters.
The Office serves as adviser to the Attorney General and various
client agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Defense and State
Departments, concerning questions of law, regulation, and guidelines
as well as the legality of domestic and overseas intelligence
operations.

So Baker Botts, a law firm whose senior partner advises the nation on
all matters of national security as well as a host of other spooky
activities, is defending an individual and a kingdom that have been
accused of being complicit in the funding of the attacks of the
September 11th against the United States.
But perhaps what is just as shocking to me is the allegation that the
son of this SAME Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz was reportedly flown
out of the United States when all other planes were grounded
following the special orders of Bush's own father!

Moreover, the entire 9-13 mission of the Lear jet is shrouded in
mystery. That mission began in Ft. Lauderdale, stopped in Tampa and
Lexington, and returned to Tampa to bring Grossi and Perez home. But
then the jet flew to New Orleans "to pick up someone who needed a
ride to New York." So this plane made AT LEAST 5 flights on 9-13, but
the FAA told the Tampa Tribune, "it's not in our logs... it didn't
occur." The White House, the State Department, and the National
Security Council all refused to answer the Tribune's questions.

Now the Bush administration is refusing to make public an 800-page
Congressional report on the attacks of 9-11. In fact, this
administration is so hell-bent on keeping the report from the public
that they are even "re-classifying" information that was already a
part of the public record!

According to a new Newsweek bombshell by Michael Isikoff,9


Among the portions of the report the administration refuses to
declassify, sources say, are chapters dealing with two politically
and diplomatically sensitive issues: the details of daily
intelligence briefings given to Bush in the summer of 2001 and
evidence pointing to Saudi government ties to Al Qaeda. Bush
officials have taken such a hard line, sources say, that they are
refusing to permit the release of matters already in the public
domain -- including the existence of intelligence documents referred
to on the CIA Web site.
As average citizens struggle to carry on their daily business and
keep their blood pressure in check in the midst of a new "orange
alert," Mr. Bush & Co. are still busy protecting their buddies in
Saudi Arabia and lying to the American public.

Why can't we know the truth about who our enemies are, Mr. Bush?

One has to wonder when George W. said, "You're either with us or
against us" - just exactly who he meant by "us." "Us" is beginning to
look like a Bush-Saudi-Al Qaeda conspiracy, especially when one
includes the well-known business ties between George H. W. Bush,
James Baker, and the Bin Laden family through the infamous Carlyle
Group.10

In a scandal this potentially huge - one implicating the President's
close family and family lawyer - shouldn't a Special Prosecutor be
appointed? If the President was Bill Clinton, the family member was
Hillary Clinton, and the family lawyer was Webster Hubbell, the
media - not to mention the Republican Party - would be demanding a
Special Prosecutor at the top of their lungs 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week. Even though the post-Watergate Special Prosecutor law was
repealed after Ken Starr's legal lynching of President Clinton, pre-
Watergate-style Special Prosecutors can still be appointed by the
Attorney General.

But the Attorney General's lawyer on such sensitive matters is none
other than James Baker. And with the media entirely "in-bed with" the
Bush organized crime family, the term "Special Prosecutor" has been
scrubbed from the media lexicon - and with it, the last hope for
fighting corruption and deadly conspiracy at the very top of our
government.

http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=14289

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The Secret Saudi Flight on 9-13 Could be the Key to the Bush-Saudi-Al
Qaeda Connection
By Catherine Arnie

About a month after the September 11th attacks, I read an article in
the Tampa Tribune by Kathy Steele entitled "Phantom Flight From
Florida."1 The intriguing report told the tale of a flight out of
Florida that allegedly took place on September 13 - a day when ALL
civilian air traffic in the United States was grounded.

"This was out of a Tom Clancy movie," according to a retired homicide
detective who was hired for the flight. Its mission was to spirit the
son of a Saudi prince, the son of a Saudi army commander, and another
unidentified Saudi from Florida to Kentucky, because "there was a
perceived threat, and the family of the person wanted him home right
away."

The "person" in danger was the son of Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz,
who is no minor figure in the Saudi Royal family. Rather, Prince
Sultan is the kingdom's minister of defense, the third-ranking
position in the Saudi Government, whose powers exceed those of even
America's super-powerful Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Dan Grossi and Manuel Perez were the two Floridians who were hired to
serve as private bodyguards on the flight.

According to the article in the Tampa Tribune, Dan Grossi is a
retired Tampa cop who worked in internal affairs and homicide. Perez
is a retired FBI man whose experience was in counter-terrorism and
bomb-making. Perez now runs a detective agency and the two men
provided security for the National Football League at Raymond James
Stadium in September of 2001.

The article reported that shortly after the September 11 attack,
Lexington police Lt. Mark Barnard received a request from a prominent
Saudi Kingdom official for the protection of three young Saudi men in
Florida, at least one of whom - Prince Sultan's son - had been
studying English at the University of Tampa for three weeks. (Tampa
police records listed Sultan Bin Fahad as the individual who
specifically requested protection for the three men. That is probably
Prince Sultan Bin Fahad, head of the Saudi General Presidency of
Youth Welfare. In family-run Saudi Arabia, there is apparently a
whole Ministry devoted to keeping Royal youth out of trouble -
something the Bush family elders no doubt dream of copying.)

Apparently Barnard then contacted the Tampa police department and
two "off-duty" Tampa intelligence detectives were assigned to watch
the three Saudis for their protection. At around 11:00 AM on
September 13, Dan Grossi received a phone call from the Tampa police
detectives who needed help with a problem: escorting the Saudi men
they were protecting on a flight to Kentucky.

Grossi and Perez evidently felt they were up to the task, and at 2:30
PM Grossi was contacted by the Tampa Police Department with specific
instructions. And by 4:35 PM a plane carrying Grossi, Perez, Prince
Sultan's son, the son of an unidentified Saudi military commander,
and third unidentified Saudi, was in the air and en route to
Kentucky. The private Lear jet flew from Ft. Lauderdale to Tampa,
where it parked at Raytheon Airport Services, which owns a private
hangar on the outskirts of the Tampa International airport.

(Tampa, of course, is home to General Tommy Franks and the Pentagon's
Central Command (CentCom)2, which now rules Afghanistan and Iraq
directly, and indirectly rules the entire oil-rich Middle East and
Central Asia through its growing network of Halliburton-supplied
military bases. Raytheon, of course, is the massive arms manufacturer
that supplied many of the high-tech weapons3 used in Afghanistan and
Iraq. Tampa is also near Venice FL, where Mad Cow Morning News4 has
exposed numerous secrets about the training of 9-11 pilots Mohamed
Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi at shadowy local flight schools. And Tampa
is in Florida, where Gov. Jeb Bush stole the 2000 election for his
brother George, and where Jeb issued Executive Order 2001-261 to
prepare the FL National Guard for a terrorist attack on 9-7-01.)

Their destination, according to the two bodyguards, was the Blue
Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, where the three Saudis were to
link up with relatives who were in Kentucky to purchase race horses.

Grossi and Perez further stated that upon landing they saw several
747's parked on the tarmac with Arabic writing. The article suggests
that at least one of these 747's flew back to Saudi Arabia with the
boys, although their Floridian chaperones appear to have left the
airport before that occurred. If true, the flight of these 747's
would validate at least part of the Michael Moore story about
powerful Saudis being allowed to fly out of the U.S. on the second
day of the prohibition of all civilian flights.

Perez stated that he was unaware of who their charges were until they
landed. Both men told of what a strange feeling it was to fly in an
almost empty sky, and Perez recalls asking the pilot, "We're not
going to get shot down are we?" - a legitimate fear, given the fact
that fighter jets were urgently patrolling the skies looking for any
more terrorists.

Regarding the curious fact that the flight had taken place when all
other air traffic was still grounded, Dan Grossi said "he was told
that clearance for the flight had come from the White House after the
Prince's family pulled a favor from former President Bush."

If so, this was no ordinary ex-Presidential favor. In debunking a
Michael Moore-inspired Internet rumor about a secret flight of
relatives of Osama Bin Laden, Snopes.com describes exactly how
restricted the skies were that day:5

The Federal Aviation Administration ordered all flights in the United
States grounded immediately following the terrorist attacks, and that
ban stayed in effect until September 13. (Even then, for that first
day commercial carriers were either completing the interrupted
flights of September 11 or were repositioning empty aircraft in
anticipation of the resumption of full service. New passenger flights
did not resume until the 14th.) During that two-day period of full
lock-down, only the military and specially FAA-authorized flights
that delivered life-saving medical necessities were in the air. The
enforcement of the empty skies directive was so stringent that even
after the United Network for Organ Sharing sought and gained FAA
clearance to use charter aircraft on September 12 to effect time-
critical deliveries of organs for transplant, one of its flights
carrying a human heart was forced to the ground in Bellingham,
Washington, 80 miles short of its Seattle destination, by two Navy
F/A-18 fighters. (The organ completed its journey after being
transferred to a helicopter.)
After reading the Tampa Tribune article, I distinctly remember
blinking and checking the URL to see if I had accidentally clicked on
a link to one of those "publications" that spots Elvis, or reports
that ninety year old women have just given birth to Bigfoot's baby.
But no, this was indeed the Tampa Tribune.

I remember wondering how on earth our government could have
authorized a flight out of the country before they even knew who the
perpetrators of the attacks were?

And further, why did the families of the young men "perceive a
threat" when it wasn't yet clear on the 13th of September exactly WHO
had attacked America or where they were from?

According to a transcript on the State Departments website of a
statement given by a "Senior White House Official"6 on September 13
at 5:22 PM it had not yet been announced that Bin Laden was behind
the attacks when protection was requested for the three young men.

When this "Senior White House official" was asked if Osama Bin Laden
had perpetrated the attacks against the US at 5:22 PM on September
13th, to which he replied: "I think that right now what we need to do
is -- as I said, again, this happened 60 hours ago. We don't want to
be premature, not because we don't want to name or finger someone,
but because we want to make sure that we understand all the
connections, not just a connection."

Was Prince Sultan a psychic who somehow mysteriously predicted that
15 of the 19 hijackers would turn out to be Saudi nationals? Or did
he perhaps know who was behind the attacks since he was funding
charities linked to Al Qaeda?

Now fast forward about a year and a half and imagine my surprise last
week when I read a "Newsweek web exclusive"7 that reported that
Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz - THE VERY SAME defense minister of
Saudi Arabia - is being sued on the behalf of the victims of 9-11 for
his alleged role in the financing of groups suspected to have links
to the terrorist attacks of 9-11!

"Wow," I thought, "wasn't this the SAME Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz
who had the kid on the Phantom flight?"

After further checking, I discovered that - yes, my friends - they
are one and the same!

According to the Newsweek article, when three attorneys from
the "prestigious Houston firm" that represents Sultan bin Abdul Aziz
filed a motion in court in the Prince's defense, they also
inadvertently provided evidence in the form of "stacks of affidavits
and canceled checks" that indicated that the Prince had personally
authorized the funneling of millions of dollars on the behalf of
Saudi Arabian government to organizations that the US has identified
and raided as terrorist front operations sympathetic to Osama Bin
Laden.
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Footnotes:

1.http://web.archive.org/web/20011108145853/http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA3F78EFSC.html    
or:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y10215943

2. http://www.centcom.mil/

3. http://raytheon.com/products/

4. http://madcowprod.com/

5. http://www.snopes.com/rumors/flight.htm

6. http://usinfo.state.gov/topi 

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