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COMMENT: In FTR #‘s 382, 415, 455, we relat­ed the rela­tion­ship of promi­nent real estate devel­op­er Mohamed Hadid to the SAAR Foun­da­tion. SAAR is at the epi­cen­ter of the com­plex web of insti­tu­tions bust­ed in the Oper­a­tion Green Quest raids of 3/20/2002.

Oper­a­tion Green Quest was thwart­ed, in con­sid­er­able mea­sure because the indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions involved with SAAR, the Safa Trust, the Bank al-Taqwa, the Islam­ic Free Mar­ket Insti­tute and the over­lap­ping PTech cor­po­ra­tion have too many ties to the GOP, Grover Norquist, Karl Rove and the Bush admin­is­tra­tion.

Fur­ther­more, had the fund­ing trail for Mus­lim Broth­er­hood cadres been inter­dict­ed, the con­tin­ued use of Islamists as proxy war­riors by the transna­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions and their asso­ci­at­ed intel­li­gence and nation­al secu­ri­ty elites would have been threat­ened.

Now oper­at­ing on the Left Coast, Hadid is the focal point of ire and scan­dal for his high-end con­struc­tion projects for for­eign high-rollers. It would be inter­est­ing to know if his real estate ven­tures are con­nect­ed with mon­ey-laun­der­ing. 

For more about Oper­a­tion Green Quest, Bank al-Taqwa and the SAAR net­work, see–among oth­er pro­grams–FTR #‘s 343, 356, 357, 454, 456, 462, 464, 467, 498, 513, 569.

“A Man­sion, a Shell Com­pa­ny and Resent­ment in Bel Air” by Louise Sto­ry; The New York Times; 12/14/2015.

. . . . Sil­ver-maned at 67, Mr. [Mohamed] Hadid, like many of his clients, is an immi­grant. Born in Israel, he moved to Vir­ginia as a teenag­er with his Pales­tin­ian fam­i­ly and spent his ear­ly busi­ness career in the Wash­ing­ton, D.C., area, devel­op­ing office build­ings and Ritz-Carl­ton hotels. Cen­tral to his suc­cess even then was his abil­i­ty to woo for­eign financiers — French and Ger­man back­ers, and in par­tic­u­lar the SAAR Foun­da­tion, a group of Sau­di investors. . . .