The Four Reasons News
9/11: The BCCI Connection
by Chaim Kupferberg
Excerpted from: Truth,
Lies, and The Legend of 9/11 by Chaim Kupferberg
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In his
landmark article, Chaim Kupferberg
uses mostly mainstream sources to reconstruct the making of the Official 9/11
Legend. Here, Kupferberg hypothesizes a covert
global infrastructure behind the events of 9/11 - and lifts the veil to catch
the lingering scent of BCCI.
With the
above-stated hypothesis in mind, one should perhaps cast a discerning eye
toward those manning the counter-terror posts in
It is, in
fact, security firms like Kroll Associates, Burns Security, Teg,
Wackenhut, and their ilk that should garner our
interest at least as much as the web of conservative think tanks that have
welded in place the parameters of "mainstream" debate - for it is
through these very firms that the former stars of law enforcement have gone through
the revolving door into the lucrative private sector. It is a world where
former military types mix with various operatives of the CIA, FBI, DEA and any
number of alphabet soup agencies charged with the security of our
nation.
Moreover,
the top people in the private security sector have the authority, prestige,
and, most importantly, the skill to carry out - successfully and below
the radar - the kinds of domestic operations that have been pegged as the province of shaggy al-Qaida operatives.
Who, after all, could best ensure that 19 terrorists would be
able to make it aboard four separate flights without any real danger of
detection? And who, after all, would be best placed to ensure a complete
and successful implosion of not just the two Twin Towers, but the neighboring building - 7 World Trade Center - which housed
a bio-warfare "command and control bunker" under the direction of
Jerry Hauer?
With that
in mind, we get a bit closer to the "how" of 9/11 - an important
consideration in analyzing the Legend of 9/11. A good part of the
early work on that legend had been accomplished through the offices of Michael Cherkasky, the managing director of Kroll Associates - in
his capacity as a prosecutor working in the
Yet there
is a curious continuity here - one that highlights the global infrastructure
that has made 9/11 such a successful worldwide "op", with a legend whose global parameters defy the perceptions of
even the most dogged investigators. As Peter Dale Scott has argued in
great and persuasive detail, the "deep political structure" of
American society - and I would argue that this now applies globally - is
permeated by an interwoven nexus between political/corporate elites and an
organized criminal subculture, whereby certain political or business
arrangements are made in an extra-legal sphere, beyond the reach of sanction or
salience. Although this dual-purpose netherworld has been with us for
over a century - and roughly parallels the rise of an American industrial
"Establishment" of which the Bushes and Rockefellers are most
representative - for our purposes, we will date the true globalization of this
"deep political structure" with the creation of the Bank of Credit
and Commerce International, better known as BCCI.
The story
goes that BCCI was founded by Pakistani financier Aga
Hassan Abedi. In
truth, it was mostly a British intelligence operation using
In short,
BCCI was
Could it,
then, perhaps have been nothing more than a coincidence that a brother-in-law
of Osama bin Laden, Khalid bin Mahfouz,
was reported in the early 90's to own a 20% stake in BCCI - and that bin
Mahfouz, as reported by the Houston Chronicle on
June 4, 1992, had intimate business dealings with James Bath,
the personal representative of bin Laden brother Salim who had invested
$50,000 in George W. Bush's company, Arbusto?
Bin Mahfouz, incidentally, had taken over Salim
bin Laden's interest in the Houston Gulf Airport after Salim met his demise in
an airplane crash over Houston in 1988 (the same year that Iran-Contra witness,
and Israeli counter-terror coordinator, Amiram Nir met his own fortuitous
demise by airplane over Mexico, thus denying Congress one witness who could
testify to Vice-President Bush's personal involvement in the scandal).
In the
decadent 80's, Bush friend and C.I.A. asset Manuel Noriega served as a critical
conduit for the drug transit through
As
history has shown, being a friend and/or C.I.A. asset of George H. W. Bush can
be an uncertain proposition. One by one, once these psychopathic proxies
had served their purpose, they were "taken out". In the
case of Noriega and Gotti, they were silenced through
the capable tools of the American justice system. And overseeing the
prosecutions - Noriega, Gotti, and BCCI - happened to be a man who would, years later,
be entrusted with overseeing the investigation into the causes of 9/11 - Robert
S. Mueller III.
In the
case of BCCI,
Mueller had steered the case along the manageable
"official" contours, away from the seamier aspects of American
foreign policy, ensuring that the domestic aspect of this worldwide fraud would
only singe the toes of two well-connected, designated patsies - Clark Clifford
and Robert Altman. And while Morgenthau's New
York office had indeed pushed the envelope in investigating BCCI, as
always, the essential integrity - the goodness - of the American political/intelligence
apparatus was left intact.
The real
scandal of BCCI, however, was not simply that it was a worldwide Ponzi scheme defrauding its investors of billions - for
that is the "limited", official version - but that, in the context of
9/11, it provides a glaring spotlight on the very networks most intimately
connected with the corruption. BCCI, the brainchild of British
intelligence, was the ideal tool by which a supra-national network of
compromised politicians and corrupt officials would "play ball",
fattened up with a stream of capital furnished through the fruits of drugs,
arms, and terrorism.
As Oliver
North had pioneered the use of the counter-terrorism office in dealing with narco-terrorists like Monzer al-Kassar (connected to the Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie),
would it be such a stretch to posit that the counter-terror apparatus - this
time under Richard Clarke and John O'Neill - was once again being employed to
"work" the corrupt networks wrought by BCCI? Can it be a
mere coincidence that the arteries of the bin Laden strain of terrorism were
fed not by Iran or Syria - the "traditional" sponsors of the more
low-key types of terrorism in the '80's - but rather by those very countries
that have long served as agents and proxies of their American-Anglo cohorts in
crime: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates (i.e. the
principal countries fronting for BCCI)? Could it be that the
mutually corrupt global relationships wrought by BCCI persist to this
day, with a bevy of compromised political officials standing ready to make
their contribution to the New World Order - and perhaps scam some extra pocket
change on the side?
As they
say - follow the money. And where are the big movers and shakers of 9/11
- those who are interpreting the threat for you - putting their money? In vaccines, pharmaceuticals, bio-tech, utilities, security
consulting, and surveillance technologies. In other words, they
are shifting their money toward those burgeoning industries
where they can simply legislate the market need - the favored modus operandi of the "Establishment"
captains of industry who had formerly used their clout in the political sector
to secure their all-important interests in the oil and banking sectors.
And what of FBI Director Robert Mueller? Was it a coincidence
that he was consistently chosen to oversee cases
in which the whole bloody mess - Gotti, BCCI, Noriega
et al - had threatened to spill over the "officially" designated
sides? Was it a result of happenstance that Mueller officially had taken
up his job as FBI Director only one week before
September 11? Is it Mueller's job to cover the paper trails - or just
cover them up?
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