A Mystery - Deep Capture, Osama bin Laden and the Russian Mafiya

[David Guyatt]

David - absolutely.

However, I'm also drawn to Peter Dale Scott's exploration of a meta-group based around drugs & resources - see for instance the article I linked to above.

I agree entirely. Put it down to poor explaining on my part. I'm not trying to elevate the Russian Mafiya beyond their pay grade, nor the US Mafia for that matter. I am in complete accord about the Meta group theory put forward by PDS.

You will recall that I stared this thread to pose the question why would a Russian mobster think that Osma bin Laden had the "juice" to get him amnesty from money-laundering and stock fraud charges? I also wanted to better understand Elgindy's "connections" in regard to those infamous 911 Puts that resulted in having a finger severed by the Russian mob in order to seal his lips.

I have been in contact with Peter Dale Scott about these matters and the "Deep Capture" story in general. Peter has sent me the following to post here that provide further insights into these questions.

http://www.thewebfairy.com/911/constantine/part3.htm

Adnan Khashoggi
Linked to 911 Terrorists

PART III: WE ROB BANKS

By Alex Constantine
--
"The theological-political order that is promoted by the Islamist ideology
is perfectly in tune with the requirements of American capitalism, [which]
heralds the unilateral reign of uncontrollable globalization in the hands of
business mafias and religious fanatics." - Richard Lebeviere, Dollars for
Terror


In a televised post-911 address, President Bush probed the soul of The
Terrorist: "By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions -- by
abandoning every value except the will to power -- they follow in the path
of fascism and Nazism and totalitarianism" - a reasonable description of his
business circle and its bomb-throwing enforcers (or a Nietzchian slip).

On a daily basis, the press, seemingly blind to the domestic financial
connections to terrorism, grips the Octopus, scrapes a nerve, and a tentacle
buried in the mud trembles and unfurls, as in this recent business wire
report on Citigroup: "... links traverse a curious variety of unexamined
threads in the U.S. financial community. Online Journal's Larry Chin
(2-1-2002) reminded that Citigroup has repeatedly been charged with money
laundering. This, as it's Board of Directors includes John Deutch, former
CIA Director, Robert Rubin, former Treasury Secretary and intimate friend of
Enron's Ken Lay, but also former CIA Executive Director Nora Slatkin...'"

Haunting, unexplained lapses on the part of government officials - "FBI
agents in the United States probing relatives [of] Osama Bin Laden before
September 11 were told to back off soon after George W Bush became
president, the BBC has reported ..." - aren't so anomalous to the eye once
it is open.

Not, as a reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Service shrilled in October
2003, so "incredible": "There are many business connections between the Bush
family and the elite of Saudi Arabia.... The powerful - and very rich - Bin
Laden family helped fund [W.'s] first venture into oil. The cozy friendship
continued for decades. After a terrorist attack at a barracks in Saudi
Arabia, which killed 19 Americans, the bin Laden family received a
multi-billion dollar contract to re-build. And incredibly, George Bush Sr.
was in a business meeting at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington on the
morning of September 11th with one of Osama Bin Laden's brothers..."1

Another "incredible" lapse amused liberal talk show hosts at the
newly-chrustened Air America network in the summer of 2004: the quizzing of
Condoleeza Rice by the 911 Commission revealed that Bush had received a
"detailed and lengthy presidential daily briefing from the CIA in which
Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda's aim of launching an attack against the U.S.
[was] discussed." The White House refused to release the report.2

Some things were simply no one's business - like the relationship of the
Bush clan to Adnan Khashoggi, who was beholden to and cherished by the bin
Ladens and Bush's Saudi business partners. Khashoggi surfaced most visibly
from the trenches of Iran-Contra affair; here, too, scraps of the
pre-history of 911 are scattered like bomb debris.

In 1985, Khashoggi turned to the Saudi National Commercial Bank, controlled
by Sheikh Mahfouz, to borrow $35-million dollars to buy military hardware
for shipment to Iran.

Was it such an anomaly, after all, that Mahfouz, the Saudi banker and
part-owner of BCCI - later a key suspect in the 911 plot - Adnan, and Bush
were tight? W. had been bailed out three times when his business ventures
went under. In 1988, the year his father won the presidency, a gaggle of
Saudis bought into Harken Oil. Later the same year, Harken drilled for oil
in the Persian Gulf, the company's first offshore contract. Two of the
investors in Harken were Mahfouz and Osama's brother, Salem bin Laden.3
But reporters continued to be shocked by the continuous stream of
"revelations." "In politics, truth is often stranger than fiction," wrote
Martin Rivers at the Center for Research on Globalization. "Sheikh Mahfouz's
sister is actually one of four wives of Osama bin Laden, making the two men
brothers-in-law, a fact that former CIA Director James Woolsey revealed in
1998 Senate testimony. Thus, Osama bin Laden is sleeping with the sister of
Bush's [and Khashoggi's] business partner. Really."

Absolutely, and reporters, tank-thinkers, even prosecutors were "shocked"
when they tripped on the miz-maze of illegal financial transactions
preceding 911.

On May 22, 2002, FBI agents Jeffrey A. Royer and Lynn Wingate were indicted
for engaging in securities fraud, racketeering and obstruction of justice.
An extortion charge was also filed against Royer.

The next morning, the Washington Post printed the remarks of prosecuting
U.S. attorney Alan Vinegard: "The allegations reveal a shocking partnership
between an experienced stock manipulator and law enforcement agents,
undertaken for their illicit personal financial gain." Seems Royer and
Wingate dipped into the FBI's case-file database to keep tabs on the
investigation and pass confidential information on to perpetrators in the
stock scheme.

Kenneth Breen, an assistant federal attorney assigned to the case, added
that one Amr Ibrahim "Anthony" Elgindy, a financial consultant and
co-conspirator named in the indictment, notified his Salomon Smith Barney
broker to to sell off $300,000 worth of stocks from his children's trust
funds. While chatting with his broker by phone, Anthony Elgindy predicted
that a stock market crash was imminent and the index would fall to 3000 (it
did).4 The broker contacted the FBI, but Elgindy explained away his apparent
foreknowledge of the 911 terrorist assaults with the alibi that he'd been
trying to unload the stock shares for several weeks (this explanation didn't
rule out the possiblility that Elgindy's foreknowkedge preceded 911 by the
same margin, however).

Elgindy had co-conspired lustily for shares in a communications company,
GenesisIntermedia (GENI). It was a stock pumping orgy. The proprietors of
GENI were Adnan Khashoggi and Ramy El-Batrawi (both career criminals lurking
behind their GENI blind would be instrumental in a wide-ranging
disinfomation campaign waged to confuse the public after 911).

In the sealed indictment, opened in November of the same year, a bit of
transcribed dialogue was included in the evidence file that referred to an
"Anthony" receiving "$1.8 million" to inflate the price of GENI stock.

Elgindy ... didn't that name surface during the Iran-contra investigation?
Gary Dobray, in his "Body Politic" Internet column, found another
Iran-contra link, this one to Anthony's brother, Khaled: "Recently the White
House made this Iran-Contra co-conspirator [Elliot Abrams] a new National
Security Council official.... [Abrams] chaired the US Commission on
International Religious Freedom and, as fate would have it, [sat] on the DC
Human Rights Committee chaired by Abrams was ... Anthony Elgindy's brother,
Khaled Elgindy. Khaled is a DC Arab activist who served as a policy analyst
on Elliot Abrams' Human Rights Committee. Anthony and Khaled's father,
Ibrahim Elgindy, was reported by the press to have founded an umbrella group
of Muslim organizations in Chicago and led a 1998 protest on behalf of
Muhammad Salah, a man the US government calls a designated global terrorist.
Salah confessed to Israeli authorities that he was raising money for Hamas'
suicide bombings and training cells in the US to make bombs and
explosives."5

There were more ties to Iran-Contra on the GENI payroll: The director of
GENI was Michael Roy Fugler. Fugler was a business front organizer for CIA
"informant" Barry Seal. Seal, of course, allegedly ran cocaine into the U.S.
until 1986, when he turned witness against his Colombian suppliers.

He's dead, of course.

All of which goes to say that once you map this underworld out, nothing
surprises you anymore.
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NOTES

1) CBC Broadcast, "CONSPIRACY OR COINCIDENCE?," October 29, 2003. See,
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/conspiracytheories/saudi.html

2) Ibid.

3) See Salon, November 19, 2001 and Intelligence Newsletter, March 2, 2000.

4) Anthony M. DeStefano, "Ex-Agent Had Key Data Stock scam charges have
eerie link," Newsday, May 29, 2002
http://prisonplanet.com/Ex_Agent_Had_Key_Data.htm.

5) Gary Dobray, http://www.onthecanvas.com/body_politic.htm