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In reply to the discussion: Charlie Hebdo suspect said Abu Ghraib torture pics drove him to enlist in Jihad against USA in 2008 [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)74. How about the 'Safari Club' that drove CIA around Jimmy Carter?
That was how much of the illegal got institutionalized.
The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld
By Prof Peter Dale Scott
Global Research, March 10, 2014
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 12, Issue 10, No. 5
EXCERPT...
The Safari Club Milieu: George H.W. Bush, Theodore Shackley, and BCCI
The usual account of this super-agencys origin is that it was
the brainchild of Count Alexandre de Marenches, the debonair and mustachioed chief of Frances CIA. The SDECE (Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage) . Worried by Soviet and Cuban advances in postcolonial Africa, and by Americas post-Watergate paralysis in the field of undercover activity, the swashbuckling Marenches had come to Turkis father, King Faisal, with a proposition . [By 1979] Somali president Siad Barre had been bribed out of Soviet embrace by $75 million worth of Egyptian arms (paid for by Saudi Arabia) .95
Joseph Trento adds that The Safari Club needed a network of banks to finance its intelligence operations, With the official blessing of George Bush as the head of the CIA, Adham transformed the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), into a worldwide money-laundering machine..96
Trento claims also that the Safari Club then was able to work with some of the controversial CIA operators who were then forced out of the CIA by Turner, and that this was coordinated by perhaps the most controversial of them all: Theodore Shackley.
Shackley, who still had ambitions to become DCI, believed that without his many sources and operatives like [Edwin] Wilson, the Safari Cluboperating with [former DCI Richard] Helms in charge in Tehranwould be ineffective. Unless Shackley took direct action to complete the privatization of intelligence operations soon, the Safari Club would not have a conduit to [CIA] resources. The solution: create a totally private intelligence network using CIA assets until President Carter could be replaced.97
Kevin Phillips has suggested that Bush on leaving the CIA had dealings with the bank most closely allied with Safari Club operations: the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). In Phillips words,
After leaving the CIA in January 1977, Bush became chairman of the executive committee of First International Bancshares and its British subsidiary, where, according to journalists Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin in their 1992 book False Profits [p. 345], Bush traveled on the banks behalf and sometimes marketed to international banks in London, including several Middle Eastern institutions.98
Joseph Trento adds that through the London branch of this bank, which Bush chaired, Adhams petrodollars and BCCI money flowed for a variety of intelligence operations99
It is clear moreover that BCCI operations, like Khashoggis before them, were marked by the ability to deal behind the scenes with both the Arab countries and also Israel.100
It is clear that for years the American deep state in Washington was both involved with and protected BCCI. Acting CIA director Richard Kerr acknowledged to a Senate Committee that the CIA had also used BCCI for certain intelligence-gathering operations.101
Later, a congressional inquiry showed that for more than ten years preceding the BCCI collapse in the summer of 1991, the FBI, the DEA, the CIA, the Customs Service, and the Department of Justice all failed to act on hundreds of tips about the illegalities of BCCIs international activities.102
Far less clear is the attitude taken by Wall Street banks towards the miscreant BCCI. The Senate report on BCCI charged however that the Bank of England had withheld information about BCCIs frauds from public knowledge for 15 months before closing the bank.103
CONTINUED...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-state-the-deep-state-and-the-wall-street-overworld/5372843
Then how about the time in Dallas, when the President said we weren't going to go into Vietnam?
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Charlie Hebdo suspect said Abu Ghraib torture pics drove him to enlist in Jihad against USA in 2008 [View all]
Octafish
Jan 2015
OP
And we believe mass murderers now? Look...some people just like to kill, and like to find
msanthrope
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Like the US leadership gives a rats ass about the millions of civilians they've killed either.
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Well, shit.....people never lie in court, or come up with excuses for their anti-social behavior! nt
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Agreed. Like how Dennis MILLER and his ilk claim they turned wingnut over 9-11. n/t
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Without the invasion of Iraq, those determined to kill would have to find another excuse.
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So you don't think anyone was motivated by the Abu Ghraib tortures and murders?
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I think plenty of people take tragedy and murder and use it as motivator to do the really
msanthrope
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That's fine but the State department has specifically said there's been blowback
riderinthestorm
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The comment was made in 2008 to explain why he wanted to become a jihadist
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george w bush made it to iraq though, with divisions. speaking of mass murderers.
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I'm in full agreement with your post. (And with this OP in general as well)
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I totally see how you could mistake French cartoonists for US Army reserves. nt
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"starting with April Glaspie" -- actually, I think you need to go back a bit farther in time, at
KingCharlemagne
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Just think if the BFEE would have stuck to the Afghanistan war and left Iraq alone.
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Does anyone bring up the CONNECTIONS between the House of Bush and House of Bin Laden anymore?
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I suspect they are defending the status quo, meaning the Military Industrial Complex.
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Why do alleged progressives think that right wing homophobes, anti-Semites and racists are credible?
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Why do alleged progressives laugh about the BFEE and try to pretend it doesn't exist?
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You're just going to ignore the promotion of blatant homophobe shitbag Wayne Madsen?...
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Beside giving your word, you have failed to show where he is any of those things.
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Interesting, that same asshole was instrumental if fucking up the BOG when it first started
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The source was ''In These Times.'' You really don't contribute a thing, do you, SidDithers?
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Because you have an agenda? What do you think about Bush, Bin Laden and HARKEN?
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No. I was not shocked because you never give a shit how loony or disgusting your source is.
zappaman
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Wayne Madsen is a homophobic, anti-Semite who writes for a Holocaust denial site.
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Is that the same rense your Tag Team buddy SidDithers of DU quoted in post 75?
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Why are you deflecting from your support of a writer who is a homophobic, anti-semite?
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You are acting desperate, zappaman. As the facts aren't on your side, understandable.
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Never. That's why I post on the BFEE and the crimes of the national security state.
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No. Our difference is that I don't give legitimacy to homophobes, racists and anti-Semites...
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You could wipe out my entire state and I still wouldn't travel to another country and kill people.
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If it was me, I would have self deleted when shown I was using turds as sources.
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I never knew the staff at Charlie Hebdo worked at Abut Ghraib... N.T.
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Poor sociopath needs a map of the world. He's got the 2 sides of the Atlantic ocean mixed up
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Yes, out corporations and their stockholders are making bundles off of endless war and they finally
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