The tag 'BCCI' is associated with 67 posts.

Repost: FTR #248 Bushed — The Political Heritage of George W.

A prophetic rebroad­cast: the polit­i­cal her­itage to which George W. is heir. The Bush fam­ily has a long, exten­sive, influ­en­tial, and largely sin­is­ter history.

FTR #656 The Obama File, Part III: Badjacketing Obama, Part 2, The Headscarf Incident

Exam­in­ing the “head­scarf inci­dent” and Mus­lim Broth­er­hood ele­ments in the United States.

FTR #655 The Obama File, Part II: Badjacketing Obama

We should be mind­ful of the polit­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare strat­a­gems that were used to smear Obama.

Repost: FTR #531 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Offshore

Insur­ance giant AIG’s pro­lific use of off­shore scams, cap­tive rein­sur­ance, ille­gal gam­bits and oper­a­tions, aided by high-level gov’t offi­cials and legislators.

FTR #603 I Told You So Part III Update on the Subversion of Operation Green Quest

Sup­pressed infor­ma­tion about the 9/11 money trail.

FTR #589 Interview with Lucy Komisar About the BCCI

Inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Lucy Komisar’s chap­ter on BCCI in a new book “A Game as Old as Empire.”

Bush, al-Qaeda and Saddam

by Lucy Komisar
From A Game as Old as EmpireSum­mary high­lights from Chap­ter 4: “The BCCI Game: Bank­ing on Amer­ica, Bank­ing on Jihad”
BCCI: How the Reagan-Bush-CIA team used an off­shore bank to run guns, finance Islamic jihadists, and laun­der money.
BCCI enriched the entourage of the Bushes and other Wash­ing­ton influ­en­tials. Its biggest share­hold­ers were Saudi and United Arab [...]

A Game as Old as Empire

Edited by Steven Hiatt; How First World coun­tries have used “eco­nomic hit men,” insti­tu­tions like the World Bank and IMF, coer­cion and even out­right strong-arm tac­tics to steal from the devel­op­ing coun­tries — often in col­lu­sion with the elites of those coun­tries who are happy to hide their ill-gotten gain in off­shore accounts.

FTR #569 The Triumph of Treason

Recorded Sep­tem­ber 10, 2006
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Observ­ing the fifth anniver­sary of the 9/11 attacks; this pro­gram high­lights the heroic work of Rita Katz, a pri­vate cit­i­zen whose ground-breaking research on the terrorist-funding appa­ra­tus was first sub­verted, and then ignored. The tar­gets of Katz’s research are con­nected to both the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood ter­ror­ist milieu of al-Qaeda, Hamas and Palestinian [...]

FTR #556 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Recorded June 11, 2006
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This pro­gram sup­ple­ments pre­vi­ous pro­grams about the 9/11 inves­ti­ga­tions. Of pri­mary sig­nif­i­cance is the fail­ure of the United States to pro­vide Swiss author­i­ties with infor­ma­tion about the A.Q. Khan nuclear smug­gling net­work, as well as the fail­ure of the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity to suc­cess­fully inter­dict the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s [...]

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