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The title of the broad­cast refers to Alvin Mal­nik — asso­ciate of, lawyer for, and pos­si­ble heir to, Meyer Lan­sky, the man cred­ited with forg­ing “The Syn­di­cate,” in Amer­i­can orga­nized crime. Mal­nik con­verted to Islam and adopted an Ara­bic name. In addi­tion, his son Mark Mal­nik mar­ried a princess of the Saudi royal fam­ily and changed his name to Sha­reef. The broad­cast exam­ines this rela­tion­ship, and that dis­cus­sion serves as a gate­way to analy­sis of the con­nec­tion between ele­ments of orga­nized crime, Saudi Ara­bia, and—by extension–terrorism. Under­ly­ing that is one of the com­pli­cat­ing aspects of the inves­ti­ga­tion into the events of 9/11. The milieu of the 9/11 hijack­ers runs through pro­tected drug net­works involved with ele­ments of our intel­li­gence sys­tem. These net­works have been used by those inside and out­side the Amer­i­can intel­li­gence appa­ra­tus, includ­ing many who are any­thing but loyal to the United States. As we have seen in our dis­cus­sions with Daniel Hop­sicker in con­nec­tion with his book Wel­come to Ter­ror­land, Mohammed Atta and many of the 9/11 fig­ures in Florida uti­lized some of these con­trolled drug net­works, which were linked to the bogus flight schools in south Florida and elsewhere.

Those con­trolled drug net­works became the vehi­cle for the 9/11 hijack­ers’ infil­tra­tion. As we con­tem­plate 9/11 and other aspects of Amer­i­can life, some of these crim­i­nal ele­ments are so deeply embed­ded in the fab­ric of Amer­i­can life that they are (to a cer­tain extent) beyond the con­trol even of the gov­ern­ment. Mr. Emory’s own feel­ing is that the epi­cen­ter of 9/11 was not the U.S., but there are ele­ments within the U.S., a “fifth col­umn,” that were deeply com­plicit with the activ­i­ties of 9/11. One of the things that it will be dif­fi­cult or impos­si­ble for this coun­try to cor­rect are these terror-related orga­nized crime net­works, both because they are trans-national and because many pow­er­ful fig­ures would be com­pro­mised if the truth were to come out. In addi­tion, the eco­nomic clout wielded by some of these ele­ments (the Saudis in par­tic­u­lar) that their polit­i­cal influ­ence within the U.S. is prov­ing refrac­tory to seri­ous reform. So against the strange tail of “Alvin of Ara­bia” stands the very ques­tion of whether the US will sur­vive. Mr. Emory is pes­simistic about America’s chances .

Pro­gram High­lights Include: Malnik’s rela­tion­ship with the world of the late CIA drug smug­gler Barry Seal; Malnik’s rela­tion­ship with Seal attor­ney Richard Ben-Veniste (a mem­ber of the Kean Com­mis­sion charged with inves­ti­gat­ing 9/11); the Saudi royal family’s inter­ces­sion on behalf of Malnik’s in-laws when their crim­i­nal activ­i­ties came to light; a Saudi prince’s mas­sive drug smug­gling (two tons of cocaine in one ship­ment); that prince’s use of his largesse to finance ter­ror­ism; accounts of Saudi spon­sor­ship of white slavery—the kid­nap­ping of young Amer­i­can girls (women) and their enroll­ment in forced pros­ti­tu­tion in Arabia.

1. Begin­ning with an overview of the career of Alvin (“of Ara­bia”) Mal­nik, the show high­lights his pro­found links to the crim­i­nal empire of the late Meyer Lan­sky. “It’s Bugsy Siegel who’s cred­ited with first envi­sion­ing Las Vegas as a gam­bling Mecca. But Meyer Lan­sky was the money behind the dream. Bespec­ta­cled and known for oper­at­ing qui­etly behind the scenes, Lan­sky took on leg­endary sta­tus in under­world lore, earn­ing a place in books and movies, and even a cita­tion in the Ency­clo­pe­dia Bri­tan­nica.”
(Barry and the Boys: The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret His­tory; by Daniel Hop­sicker; Copy­right 2001 by Daniel Hop­sicker; Mad Cow Press LLC [HC]; ISBN 0–9706591; p. 347.)

2. “Described in news­pa­per head­lines as ‘Chair­man of the Board’ and ‘Finan­cial Wiz­ard of the Under­world,’ Lan­sky opened gam­bling oper­a­tions in South Florida after World War II, con­trol­ling casi­nos from Cuba to Vegas. He was even in ‘The God­fa­ther.’ Remem­ber ‘Hyman Roth?’” (Idem.)

3. Mal­nik was very close to Richard Ben-Veniste, the late Barry Seal’s lawyer and a mem­ber of the Kean Com­mis­sion appointed to “inves­ti­gate” 9/11. “Richard Ben-Veniste’s ‘close asso­ciate,’ Alvin Mal­nik, was Meyer Lansky’s attor­ney. When Lan­sky died in 1983 at age 81, Reader’s Digest named Mal­nik his ‘heir appar­ent,’ and the moniker stuck. Mal­nik has by now been called Meyer Lansky’s ‘heir appar­ent’ so often in print that it must feel like part of his job title.” (Idem.)

4. “ ‘It was a known fact among the crim­i­nal under­world that deal­ing with Al Mal­nik was the same as deal­ing with Meyer Lan­sky,’ said Vin­cent Teresa, con­victed crim­i­nal and gov­ern­ment wit­ness, to inves­ti­ga­tors for the New Jer­sey Gam­bling Com­mis­sion. Alvin Malnik’s cir­cle of acquain­tances is per­fectly illus­trated in his role of direc­tor of Bank of World Com­merce, a Bahamas-based insti­tu­tion involv­ing ‘some of the nations’ top gang­sters,’ the New Jer­sey report said. ‘Mil­lions of dol­lars passed through the door and were rein­vested in Syndicate-controlled projects in the United States.’” (Ibid.; pp. 347–348.)

5. Relat­ing a Lansky/Malnik oper­a­tion to the milieu of CIA-related crim­i­nal activ­ity, the pro­gram dis­cusses the Bank of World Com­merce and its rela­tion­ship to CIA finan­cial whiz Paul Hel­li­well. Mal­nik moved in the same cir­cles as Barry Seal. “But gang­sters weren’t all the bank was about . . . The Bank of World Com­merce was the brain­child of CIA agent Colonel Paul Hel­li­well. Mob money flowed into its secret num­bered accounts by the hun­dreds of millions—Lansky money, most of it—and then out again to the Inter­na­tional Credit Bank of Switzer­land before return­ing to the U.S. for rein­vest­ment. Paul Hel­li­well, the ‘CIA’s pay­mas­ter at the Bay of Pigs,’ was also, we were soon to learn, the true owner of Barry Seal’s Lear jet.” (Ibid.; p. 348.)

6. “Mal­nik had, in the early 1970s, invested in the Cricket Club, a Miami high-rise with 220 con­dos, and a fre­quent hang­out of Barry Seal’s while in Miami, where he also ate often at the Malnik-owned Forge restau­rant. The Club’s devel­oper, no doubt by coin­ci­dence, had been con­victed with Team­ster Jimmy Hoffa on fraud and con­spir­acy charges in 1964.” (Idem.)

7. More about the links between the world of CIA drug smug­gler Barry Seal and Alvin Mal­nik: “Blackie had told us one of the Seal orga­ni­za­tions’ ‘investors’ was a Cen­tral State Team­sters Pen­sion Fund. But then, many of the Team­ster Fund’s bor­row­ers are asso­ciates of orga­nized crime… $5.4 mil­lion, for exam­ple was loaned to Alvin Mal­nik.” (Idem.)

8. Mal­nik was also tied to the world of the elder George Bush, through (among oth­ers) the late Don Aronow. (For more about Arnonow’s links to the world of the elder Bush, as well as Aronow’s mur­der, see FTR#516.) “Mal­nik had con­nec­tions to George Bush (Sr.) as well. Acord­ing to the book “Blue Thun­der,” Bush even bought, from Mal­nik ‘asso­ciate’ Don Aronow, one of his sig­na­ture ‘cig­a­rette’ boats, the top choice of off­shore smug­glers.’” (Idem.)

9. “After Aronow was mur­dered, pub­lished accounts stated he had been a drug smug­gler and money laun­derer, linked to the Gen­ovese Pur­ple Gang of New York City, within the frame­work of the Meyer Lan­sky orga­nized crime syn­di­cate.” (Idem.)

10. “Aronow num­bered among his friends pub­lic fig­ures and celebri­ties, like the head of the “smug­glers’ air­line”, East­ern Chair­man Frank Bor­mann, sav­ings and loan scan­dal poster boy Charles Keat­ing… and Alvin Mal­nik, all exalted acquain­tances sug­ges­tive of intel­li­gence con­nec­tions as well.” (Ibid.; pp. 348–349.)

11. More about the Miami world of Mal­nik, Richard Ben-Veniste, Barry Seal and the late Meyer Lan­sky. “Because Seal’s lawer Richard Ben-Veniste was such a “close asso­ciate” of Alvin Malnik’s, we wanted to get an idea of what he’d been up to the past sev­eral decades. And we didn’t have to look very far in news­pa­per archives to find evi­dence of his enor­mous influ­ence” (Ibid.; p. 349.)

12. “The club’s loca­tion inside the ven­er­a­ble Forge restau­rant was meant to recall “old Cuba”, and in that it suc­ceeded beyond anyone’s wildest dreams,” said a Miami New Times pro­file Sep­tem­ber 16, 1999.” (Idem.)

13. “After all, the Forge is owned by Alvin Mal­nik, a man con­sid­ered by fed­eral law enforce­ment offi­cials to be a major organized-crime fig­ure and, as for­mer Miami Beach Rocky Pomer­ance put it: Meyer Lansky’s ‘fair-haired boy.’” (Idem.)

14. Alvin Malnik’s involve­ment in loan shark­ing in, among other places, Ten­nessee: “Richard Ben-Veniste’s chum Al Mal­nik, we dis­cov­ered is so pow­er­ful that he found a way to legal­ize loan-sharking. He is ‘Mr. Pay Day Loan.’ Accord­ing to the Nashville Ten­nessean, April 18, 1999…. ‘The shadow of orga­nized crime has descended on Tennessee’s polit­i­cal land­scape, via cam­paign con­tri­bu­tions from the oper­a­tor of a string of Georgia-based “auto title” loan com­pa­nies, The Ten­nessean has learned.’” (Idem.)

15. “ ‘The own­ers of Ten­nessee com­pa­nies that loan money at almost 800% annual inter­est are kept secret from the pub­lic under the con­tro­ver­sial pay­day loan” law passed here ear­lier this year. In Florida, fed­eral inves­ti­ga­tors have found orga­nized crime fig­ures infected one such Miami-area busi­ness, threat­en­ing to harm bor­row­ers if they did not repay loans and inter­est.’” (Idem.)

16. “The ‘shadow of orga­nized crime” referred to is Alvin Mal­nik. And mak­ing money off the poor, as any­one who watched ‘The Sopra­nos’ knows, is what Mob­sters do…’ Accord­ing to a fed­eral court indict­ment, mem­bers of the New York-based Gam­bino crime fam­ily found such an oppor­tu­nity in Deer­field Beach, Fla. At E-Z Check Cash­ing, a store­front busi­ness that extended large short-term loans sim­i­lar to those made by “pay­day loan” com­pa­nies in Ten­nessee”, the Ten­nessean arti­cle said, adding, ‘The last thing needed by con­sumers who have exhausted all avenues to credit is to turn to busi­nesses that offer loans at triple-digit inter­est,’ bank­ruptcy offi­cials said. ‘These are preda­tors’, stated one offi­cial.” (Ibid.; pp. 349–50.)

17. “Nine men includ­ing John Gotti’s suc­ces­sor, were charged with extor­tion for their E-Z loans, as well as con­spir­acy to kid­nap, mur­der and com­mit arson. ‘Nei­ther the pub­lic nor Ten­nessee law enforce­ment author­i­ties have the right to learn who oper­ates sim­i­lar cash advance com­pa­nies here’ the arti­cle con­cluded. ‘By law, those records are kept secret at the state Depart­ment of Finan­cial Insti­tu­tions.’ ‘I’m just shocked,’ said state Sen. Roscoe Dixon, D-Memphis.” (Ibid.; p. 350.)

18. “Sen­a­tor Roscoe’s being ‘shocked’ reminds us of the bid in the movie Casablanca where Lt. Renaud pock­ets his roulette win­nings, while simul­ta­ne­ously telling Bogey’s Rick that he’s ‘schocked, shocked!’ that gam­bling is tak­ing place on the premises.” (Idem.)

19. Malnik’s wed­ding to a 25-year-old model drew the atten­tion of soci­ety colum­nists. Among the noted guests at the wed­ding was the son of Gen­eroso Pope, the pub­lisher of The National Enquirer and a for­mer CIA psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare offi­cer. “Sev­eral years ago, at the ripe age of 61, Mal­nik found it nec­es­sary to marry a young model 36 years his junior. Theirs became one of the lav­ish wed­dings that soci­ety colum­nists like the Miami Herald’s Joan Fle­ich­mann love to gush about… ‘Wed­ding bells for Alvin Mal­nik, attor­ney, mil­lion­aire, restau­ra­teur, long divorced world trav­eler, wine con­nois­seur, car col­lec­tor, fancier of Ara­bian horses, sur­vivor of assorted fed­eral mob inves­ti­ga­tions – a guy who really knows his way around. Mal­nik, 61, will marry Nancy Gre­sham, 25, a one­time model from Atlanta, in a black-tie bash Sat­ur­day night at the pri­vate Mal­nik com­pound at Boca Raton,’ she wrote.” (Idem.)

20. “The nup­tials took place at the Mal­nik fam­ily ‘ranch’ in Boca Raton, which was, Ms. Fleish­mann noted glee­fully, ‘more Hefner man­sion than Lit­tle House on the Prairie.’ The 288 guests had cock­tails, nib­bled on salmon and bel­uga and ‘com­pared wed­ding notes in the sprawl­ing patio area, which fea­tured a mean­der­ing swim­ming pool, grill cen­ter and kitchen, plus cute lit­tle fully stocked town­houses for overnight guests.’” (Idem.)

21. “The guest list reads like a Who’s Who of a cer­tain stra­tum of Amer­i­can life. Among the invi­tees were – but of course – Richard Ben-Veniste, as well as F. Lee Bai­ley, Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger, Debra Winger, designer Nicole Miller; Man­hat­tan real-estate mogul Hank Sopher: LA restau­ra­teur Nicky Blair; gangsta rap (natch) record pro­ducer Rus­sell Sim­mons; Rebecca Gay­heart, cohost of a Steven Spiel­berg TV show, Carol Con­nors (who wrote ‘Gonna Fly Now’ the theme song from Rocky); Dar­ian Iacocca, wife No. 3 of for­mer Chrysler chair­man Lee Iacocca; Paul Pope, who’s dad, the late Gen­eroso Pope, owned The National Enquirer; and Mob ‘asso­ciate’ and casino czar Clif­ford Perl­man…” (Ibid.; p. 351.)

22. The dis­cus­sion pro­ceeds into the sub­ject of father and son Malnik’s “1001 Ara­bian Nights.” “The list goes on… Worth not­ing was actor Gianni Russo, who in a bit of unin­tended irony which the Miami Her­ald reported straight-faced had played Al Pacino’s bookie brother-in law Carlo Rizzi, in the God­fa­ther. Alvin the groom pre­sented his bride with that ulti­mate wed­ding gift of choice, we learned, the 50-carat emer­ald and dia­mond neck­lace. Then we were sur­prised to read that there had been a table at the Malnick’s nup­tials reserved for Saudi Ara­bian sheiks…that the St. Louis born Alvin, who’s Jew­ish, had a son who had changed his name to Sha­reef and mar­ried a woman from the Saudi royal fam­ily, not pre­vi­ously known, by us at least, as being cozy with Jew­ish Mob­sters.” (Idem.)

23. “ ‘They met two years ago at a party and fell in love’ said Sha­reef Mal­nik 37, the groom’s son and best man. ‘She is very beau­ti­ful.’ The story, as we pieced it together, was incred­i­ble. Incred­i­ble but true.” (Idem.)

24. “Mal­nik had befriended a Saudi fam­ily in the early ‘80s, the Al-Fassi Tarik fam­ily from Saudi Ara­bia, var­i­ous news­pa­per accounts reported. This set off a dim mem­ory for us, since this fam­ily, the Al-Fassi’s, had scan­dal­ized the blasé Bev­erly Hills while we lived nearby. After arriv­ing with an entourage of body­guards, cooks and other ser­vants, the fam­ily had pur­chased a highly-visible $2.4 mil­lion estate right on Sun­set Boule­vard in Bev­erly Hills. They then began ‘ren­o­vat­ing,’ plac­ing anatomically-correct flesh-colored Roman stat­ues on the walls, com­plete with painted-on black pubic hair. Gawk­ers were lin­ing up all day.” (Ibid.; pp. 351–352.)

25. Note that the Prince Turki referred to here is not the Prince Turki who, for many years, headed Saudi intel­li­gence and “ran” Osama bin Laden. “The house quickly became the talk of the town. Some in the clan­nish enclave were clearly not amused. The man­sion was, in short order, burned down by arson­ists. For those of us liv­ing in L.A. at the time, as far as we knew that had been the end of the Saudi scan­dal. But, there was, we now learned with mount­ing excite­ment, much more to the story… When the Al-Fassi’s left L.A., they had con­tin­ued roam­ing the world, spend­ing spec­tac­u­lar sums of brother-in-law Saudi Royal Prince Turki’s money on lav­ish par­ties, char­tered jets, hotel suites by the floor, auto­mo­biles by the fleet, cloth­ing by the rack and jew­elry by the tray.” (Ibid.; p. 352.)

26. Grad­u­ally, the senior Mal­nik became the finan­cial adviser to Prince Turki. Again, con­tem­plat­ing the impli­ca­tions of such rela­tion­ships for the “War on Ter­ror” is as depress­ing as it is nec­es­sary. How are such rela­tion­ships to be inter­dicted? “They soon joined the Prince in Europe, where they became involved with the increasingly-ubiquitous Alvin Mal­nik, set­tling down for six months at the Inter­con­ti­nen­tal Hotel in Geneva, where the Prince dis­trib­uted bun­dles of cash to his insa­tiable entourage. Mal­nik and Prince Turki, the son of the founder of mod­ern Saudi Ara­bia, King Abdul Aziz, had grown chummy. As a friend of the Prince told Peo­ple Mag­a­zine, ‘The Prince trusted and respected Al so much, that slowly the power shifted to Al. It was Al who con­trolled the cash, who told the Prince to put money in this busi­ness or that busi­ness.’” (Idem.)

27. “Then – as if the idea of a Jew­ish Mob­ster from Miami con­trol­ling the cash of a Saudi Royal Prince isn’t bizarre enough – Malnik’s son Mark, a 23 year-old stu­dent, ‘fell in love’ with Sheik Al-Fassi’s sis­ter. It hardly mat­tered that a ‘Mrs. Mark Mal­nik’ waited for him in Florida,’ sniffed Peo­ple Mag­a­zine. ‘It cer­tainly didn’t mat­ter to the Al-Fassi’s, whose roman­tic per­mu­ta­tions were already com­pli­cated enough to befud­dle even the most atten­tive score­keeper.’” (Ibid.; pp. 352–353.)

28. “So Alvin Maknik’s son Mark, a young Jew­ish, mar­ried man, was now in full pur­suit of Saudi Prince Turki’s sister-in-law… In his new role as adviser and con­fi­dante to the Prince, Mal­nik devised a solu­tion. ‘Al came up with a good idea,’ said Peo­ple Mag’s anony­mous source. ‘Come to the U.S.,’ he said. ‘I’ll take care of every­thing.’” (Ibid.; p. 353.)

29. The Mal­niks’ Ara­bian in-laws became deeply involved in “Miami Vice!” “Once in Miami, Mal­nik soon assumed con­trol over the Prince’s sched­ule and con­tacts. Prince Turki cre­ated a two-story apart­ment in Malnik’s North Miami con­do­minium, the Cricket Club, directly below Alvin’s pent­house. Soon the entourage was engag­ing the pro­tec­tive ser­vices of half the off-duty police force of nearby Hol­ly­wood, Florida. Under Malnik’s tute­lage, Prince Turki paid $3 mil­lion in cash for the Woodsworth estate, one of the grace­ful water­front homes on Florida’s Gold Coast. The al Fassi clan also paid an inflated $1.5 mil­lion for two water­front homes between Miami Beach and the city of Miami. Then, show­ing that their taste had not improved since leav­ing Bev­erly Hills, they demol­ished the houses to erect what Peo­ple called ‘the Xanadu of kitsch,’ and which one of the con­trac­tors described as ‘the biggest hunk of crap ever built on the face of the earth.’” (Idem.)

30. “In all, the Al-Fassis would pay $17 mil­lion for houses and other prop­er­ties… and the Mal­niks, father and son were now begin­ning to study Ara­bic. Young Mark took to car­ry­ing the Koran around with him. Then a dev­as­tat­ing blow struck the Saudi Prince and his entourage. Miami police, act­ing on a com­plaint that ser­vants were being held as slaves, stormed the Cricket Club sanc­tu­ary.” (Idem.)

31. “But the cops never got a chance to carry out their search. One of the Princesses began shout­ing very unroyal obscen­i­ties at them, bit­ing a police­woman deep enough to leave tooth­marks for days. Fam­ily body­guards quickly came to her res­cue. A stand-off ensued, and star­tled police were forced to retreat.” (Ibid.; pp. 353–354.)

32. “As suits and counter-suits began to fly between Saudi Prince Turki and out­raged Florida State Attor­ney, the U.S. State Depart­ment rushed in a for­mer ambas­sador to Saudi Ara­bia to serve as inter­me­di­ary. He secured a face-saving diplo­matic immu­nity for the Prince. Then the Prince’s brother-in-law Al Fassi offered to sell a stolen $1.2 mil­lion emerald-and-diamond ring to an under­cover FBI agent. He did not have diplo­matic immu­nity, and was charged with inter­state and inter­na­tional trans­porta­tion of stolen goods, as a felony pun­ish­able by a max­i­mum of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.” (Ibid.; p. 354.)

33. Richard Ben-Veniste (a mem­ber of the Kean Com­mis­sion charged with inves­ti­gat­ing 9/11) rep­re­sented the Sheik. “The lucky Sheik had, at least, a well con­nected lawyer: Richard Ben-Veniste. When all this bad news reached the ear of the Saudi King back in Riyadh, he ordered the Prince to end his long exile and return home. Once at home, the Prince’s fam­ily cir­cle broad­ened to include their friends for­merly named Mal­nik. Both father and son were said to have taken Ara­bic names and con­verted to Islam.” (Idem.)

34. “What per­ti­nence does the story of Attor­ney Alvin Mal­nik, heir to Meyer Lan­sky, con­vert­ing to Islam and liv­ing in Saudi Ara­bia as an adviser to a mem­ber of the Saudi royal fam­ily have to do with the saga of ‘Barry and the Boys?’ In 1982 Barry Seal began fly­ing weapons to the Con­tras from Mena, Arkansas, which had been paid for with Saudi Royal Fam­ily money.” (Idem.)

35. Exem­pli­fy­ing the Saudi/organized crime con­nec­tion, a Saudi prince was busted for fly­ing two tons of cocaine into Paris. As will be seen below, the rest of the Saudi royal fam­ily cov­ered for him when the French attempted to bring him to jus­tice. Of par­tic­u­lar note is the fact that the prince was appar­ently using his eco­nomic largesse to finance ter­ror­ism. Two tons of cocaine will fetch a lot of money, which, in turn, would finance a con­sid­er­able amount of ter­ror­ist activ­ity. “A Saudi prince moved roughly two tons of cocaine from Colom­bia to an air­port out­side Paris, using his diplo­matic sta­tus and a royal fam­ily 727 jet, U.S. and French law enforce­ment author­i­ties told ABC News. ‘It doesn’t hap­pen with­out him,’ said Tom Raf­fanello of the Drug Enforce­ment Agency in Miami. ‘He is the key co-conspirator. He’s the straw that stirs the drink, he made it hap­pen. No plane, no dope. Dope stays in Colom­bia.’”
(“Secrets of the Saudi Royal Fam­ily, Crit­ics Call Saudi Rule Hyp­o­crit­i­cal and Cor­rupt” by Brian Ross and Jill Rack­mill; 10/18/2004; p. 1.)

36. “Prince Nayef bin Fawwaz Al Sha­laan is under indict­ment by U.S. and French author­i­ties, but liv­ing out­side the reach of Amer­i­can law in Saudi Ara­bia, accord­ing to Raf­fanello. The United States and Saudi Ara­bia have no extra­di­tion treaty. A trial for the prince’s alleged co-conspirators is sched­uled to begin next month in a fed­eral court in Miami. He’s a fugi­tive in the United States. He’s a fugi­tive in vio­la­tion of fed­eral nar­cotics law,’ Raf­fanello said.” (Idem.)

37. “Prince Nayef bin Fawwaz Al Sha­laan claimed in an Arab news­pa­per that he was cleared of any wrong­do­ing by the Saudi gov­ern­ment, stat­ing he was seek­ing investors in a deal for plas­tic pipe, not smug­gling cocaine. ‘That’s an alibi, he moved dope,’ said Rafanello.” (Idem.)

38. “The DEA spec­u­lated that ter­ror­ism was a pos­si­ble motive, but there is no for­mal ter­ror­ism charge in the indict­ment. ‘Later on in the inves­ti­ga­tion, we came to find out that he would use some or all of the profit to fund ter­ror­ism, through what­ever indices he was using to do it,’ Raf­fanello said. The prince has an ear­lier drug charge — he was indicted in Mis­sis­sippi on nar­cotics charges in 1984, and remains a fugi­tive in that case as well, accord­ing to the DEA.” (Idem.)

39. “… But the influ­ence of the royal fam­ily can be for­mi­da­ble. Fab­rice Monti, a for­mer French police inves­ti­ga­tor, said the pow­er­ful Saudi inte­rior min­is­ter, Prince Nayef bin Abdel Aziz, actu­ally threat­ened to can­cel cer­tain busi­ness deals with the French gov­ern­ment if the nar­cotics inves­ti­ga­tion of a fel­low prince con­tin­ued. . . .” (Idem.)

40. One of the most star­tling and dis­turb­ing Saudi Ara­bian con­nec­tions to Amer­i­can orga­nized crime con­cerns Saudi involve­ment with white slavery—specifically, the kid­nap­ping of young women on the cusp of puberty and their sale to Saudi Ara­bia to serve as slave pros­ti­tutes. The fol­low­ing sur­faced in the after­math of the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of Polly Klass (whose slay­ing led to the pas­sage of California’s “Three Strikes” law.) One can only imag­ine the extent to which con­nec­tions like this bear on the Saudi spon­sor­ship of ter­ror­ism and the United States’ reluc­tance (or inabil­ity) to do any­thing about it. What might sur­face if the U.S. were to truly crack down on the Saudis? “…To reit­er­ate Ernie Allen’s state­ment, three hun­dred girls, Polly’s and Katie’s age, are dis­ap­pear­ing yearly through­out the United States. It is a grow­ing epi­demic, a con­spir­acy that threat­ens every fam­ily in Amer­ica. No lit­tle girl is safe. The worst part was told to the author by a wit­ness named Jill Mur­ray, who had vis­ited Saudi Ara­bia. Jill’s father, since deceased, was there on a covert mil­i­tary oper­a­tion. She said she could not men­tion the actual towns as she still has friends liv­ing there and ‘they would be killed.’ I asked her, who would kill them? She answered ‘The Saudis.’”
(Who Killed Polly?; by Frank Spier­ing; Copy­right 1995 [SC]; Mon­terey Bay Press; ISBN 0–964761-2–0-3; p. 215.)

41. “Jill saw broth­els where chil­dren were kept. The broth­els were plain look­ing build­ings in the cen­ter of the town, with yel­low doors. Men con­stantly came in and out, mostly Arabs from the oil fields, but men from other busi­nesses as well. Jill peeked past the yel­low door into one of the broth­els and saw a room filled young girls, white-skinned, about twelve-years old. She learned later that many of them were Amer­i­can, abducted and shipped from the United States. The lit­tle girls were wear­ing small, skimpy, see-through skirts. A cus­tomer would pick one of them, and take whomever he wanted upstairs.” (Idem.)

42. “Later, Jill saw some of the lit­tle girls get­ting air in the back of the brothel, She could tell they were drugged by the way they walked. Although she never learned who ran the broth­els, she found out that in two or three years the lit­tle girls were turned into the streets where they were left to die. I asked Jill if she ever reported what she saw, lit­tle girls who were drugged and forced into sex­ual slav­ery. She admit­ted that she had – to some­one in the diplo­matic corps. He said he would see what could be done about the abducted Amer­i­can girls – but to her knowl­edge, noth­ing was ever done.” (Ibid.; p. 316.)

43. “Why weren’t the ques­tions sur­round­ing Polly’s kid­nap­ping answered? One has the feel­ing there is a dev­as­tat­ing secret behind all of the them. . . .” (Idem.)