Clearstream Network Sued for Trafficking Iranian Terror Money

COMMENT: Sur­vivors of the 241 Marines killed in the 1983 Beirut bar­racks bomb­ing have sued Clearstream, a sub­sidiary of Deutsche Borse (itself owned by the major Ger­man com­mer­cial banks and, by exten­sion, the Bor­mann cap­i­tal net­work.)
Chan­nel­ing mil­lions of dol­lars back to the Iran­ian regime, Clearstream is alleged to have sub­stan­tively aided that government’s terrorist [...]

“Mine is Bigger than Yours Is!”–Prince Alwaleed Hires Saudi Bin Laden Group to Build World’s Tallest Tower

COMMENT: With the destruc­tion of the World Trade Cen­ter on 9/11, one of the world’s tallest build­ings dis­ap­peared. Now comes the news that Prince Alwaleed–supporter of Hamas (Pales­tin­ian branch of the Islam­o­fas­cist Mus­lim Broth­er­hood), apol­o­gist for the 9/11 attacks that destroyed the tow­ers, sec­ond largest stock­holder in Rup­pert Murdoch’s tar­nished media empire) has hired Saudi [...]

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 #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.”

FTR #531 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Offshore

Analy­sis and dis­cus­sion of insur­ance giant AIG and its pro­lific use of “off­shore” scams, AIG’s pio­neer­ing devel­op­ment of “cap­tive” rein­sur­ance com­pa­nies to laun­der prof­its and evade taxes, AIG’s Coral Rein­sur­ance, ille­gal gam­bits and oper­a­tions have been aided by pow­er­ful and influ­en­tial people.

FTR #498 & 499: 9/11 Update (The SICO File) & The SICO Spring of 2001

SICO, the European-based hold­ing com­pany for many of the Bin Laden family’s assets.

FTR #495 Follow the Money, an Update on 9/11

Michael Chertoff, one-time attor­ney for bin-Laden sup­porter Dr. Magdy el-Amir, did not inves­ti­gate his for­mer client.

FTR #492 Musings on the End of One Year and the Beginning of Another

William Arm­sted Robin­son, reclu­sive mag­nate and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s finan­cial backer; Mohammed Atta’s Ger­man asso­ciates in Florida.

FTR #485 Interview with Robert Parry and Lucy Komisar

Recorded Novem­ber 11, 2004
REALAUDIO
This broad­cast cov­ers a range of top­ics. Fea­tur­ing the work of pre­mier jour­nal­ists Robert Parry and Lucy Komisar, the pro­gram begins with Robert’s dis­cus­sion of the gross irreg­u­lar­i­ties in the 2004 elec­tion process. A sharp dis­crep­ancy between the exit polls (gen­er­ally viewed as very reli­able) and the ulti­mate elec­tion results is among [...]

FTR #463 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Saddam’s Money Network

Recorded June 6, 2004
REALAUDIO

Sup­ple­ment­ing infor­ma­tion set forth in FTR#’s 413, 417, 423, this pro­gram doc­u­ments Sad­dam Hussein’s finan­cial machi­na­tions and high­lights the insti­tu­tions and indi­vid­u­als involved in secret­ing his ill-gotten gains out of Iraq. In addi­tion to lucra­tive arms deals with major muni­tions mak­ers (with kick­backs to the man­u­fac­tur­ers), Sad­dam uti­lized the petro­leum trade to [...]