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THE BEST ENEMIES MONEY CAN BUY

From Hitler To Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden -
Insider Connections and the Bush Family's Partnership
with Killers of Americans

Brown Brothers, Harriman - BNL- and the Carlyle Group

By

Michael C. Ruppert

[(c) Copyright 2001. All Rights Reserved, Michael C.
Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications,
www.copvcia.com. May be reprinted or distributed
for non-profit purposes only.]

Oct. 9, 2001 - Since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, major media powerhouses
and the increasingly influential alternative media
alike have begun to focus attention on Bush family
connections and a long history of arming and financing
America's attackers in the months and years prior to
the outbreak of war. Recent stories in the Wall Street
Journal (Sept. 27 & 28, 2001), ABC News (Oct. 1,
2001), as well as a host of reports from so-called
alternative news sources have begun to focus attention
on the Bush family's profit-making role in creating
and arming our enemies.The following is a more
comprehensive look at the documented history of these
relationships that will also open some new avenues of
inquiry for the press, Congress and the American
people.

In a world now filled with biowarfare agents, backpack
nuclear devices, and chemical weapons like Sarin gas -
where there are people in many countries with reasons
to oppose the United States -- the Bush Administration
is following predictable strategies in a way that
redefines the concept of brinksmanship. Human survival
may depend upon the will and the ability of both the
Congress and the press to focus on these relationships
and to take appropriate action. Moreover - and I am
not the first to say this - if a national security
priority is to seize the financial assets of those who
support terrorists, then perhaps we should start right
here at home.

Adolph Hitler

Meticulous research, including U.S. government records
from the era, along with contemporaneous news stories
from the New York Times and other papers are presented
in the 1992 book entitled, "George Bush, The
Unauthorized Biography" by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton
Chaitkin, Published by The Executive Intelligence
Review and located at:

http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm

The following is sourced entirely from Chapter II of
this essential work.

[Note: Although FTW does not always agree with
conclusions reached by the Executive Intelligence
Review, or its founder Lyndon La Rouche, we have never

found a single flaw in any of their factual research.
History is history, no matter who presents it. And
this history is essential to understanding our era.]

George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was the
Managing Director of the investment bank Brown
Brothers, Harriman from the 1920s through the
1940s. It was Brown Brothers, in conjunction with
Averell Harriman, the Rockefeller family, Standard
Oil, the DuPonts, the Morgans and the Fords which
served as the principal funding arm in helping to
finance Adolph Hitler's rise to power starting in
1923. This included direct funding for the SS and SA
channeled through a variety of German firms. Through
associations with the Hamburg-Amerika Steamship line,
Nazi Banker Fritz Thyssen (pronounced Tee-sen),
Standard Oil of Germany, The German Steel Trust
(founded by Dillon Read founder, Clarence Dillon), and
I.G. Farben, Prescott Bush used the Union Bank
Corporation to funnel vast quantities of money to the
Nazis and to manage their American interests. The
profits from those investments came back to Bush
allies on Wall Street. Thyssen is universally regarded
as having been Hitler's private banker and ultimate
owner of the Union Bank Corporation.Early support for
Hitler came from Prescott Bush through the
Hamburg-Amerika line -- also funded by Brown Bothers
-- that funneled large sums of money and weapons to
Hitler's storm troopers in the 1920s.

"In May 1933, just after the Hitler regime was
consolidated, an agreement was reached in Berlin for
the coordination of all Nazi commerce with the U.S.A.
The Harriman International Company... was to head a
syndicate of 150 firms and individuals, to conduct all
exports from Hitler Germany to the United States."

According to Tarpley and Chaitkin a 1942 U.S.
government investigative report that surfaced during
1945 Senate hearings found that the Union Bank, with
Prescott Bush on the board, was an "interlocking
concern" with the German Steel Trust that had
produced:- 50.8% of Nazi Germany's pig iron- 41.4% of
Nazi Germany's universal plate- 36% of Nazi Germany's
heavy plate- 38.5% of Nazi Germany's galvanized sheet-
45.5% of Nazi Germany's pipes and tubes- 22.1% of Nazi
Germany's wire- 35% of Nazi Germany's explosives.

The business relationships established by Bush in 1923
continued even after the war started until they became
so offensive and overt as to warrant seizure by the
U.S. government under the Trading with the Enemy Act
in 1942.

In 1942, "Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the
government took over Union Banking Corporation, in
which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property
Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.'s stock shares...

"... all of which shares are held for the benefit
of... members of the Thyssen family, [and] is property
of nationals... of a designated enemy country."

"On October 28, the government issued orders seizing
two Nazi front organizations run by the Bush-Harriman
bank: the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the
Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation."

"Nazi interests in the Silesian-American Corporation,
long managed by Prescott Bush and his father in law
George Herbert Walker, were seized under the Trading
with the Enemy Act on Nov. 17, 1942..."

These seizures of Bush businesses were reported in a
number of American papers including The New York Times
and The Wall Street Journal. Prescott Bush went on to
become an influential Republican Senator from
Connecticut who went on to be a regular golfing
partner of President Dwight Eisenhower. His attorneys
were the lawyers John Foster and Allen Dulles, the
later became the CIA Director under Eisenhower.

Saddam Hussein

After becoming President in January 1989, Prescott
Bush's son, George Herbert Walker Bush - father of our
current President - authorized a series of programs
which not only armed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein but
also provided him with technology that assisted in his
development of chemical weapons like Sarin gas, and
biological weapons, which he still possesses.

Apologists for Bush (the elder) say that, after the
Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s left the region unstable,
he was just trying to establish a new balance of
power. Not so. Bush directives and policies, including
relationships with the Bank of Credit and Commerce
International (BCCI), the Banca Nacional del Lavoro
(BNL) were directly and deliberately responsible
for creating the army the U.S. fought in 1991.

In its March/April issue the Colombia Journalism
Review (CJR), in a story by Russ W. Baker, published
the most compelling overview of Iraqgate.

"ABC News Nightline opened last June 9 with words to
make the heart stop 'It is becoming increasingly
clear,' said a grave Ted Koppel, 'that George Bush,
operating largely behind the scenes throughout the
1980s, initiated and supported much of the financing,
intelligence, and military help that built Saddam's
Iraq into the aggressive power that the United States
ultimately had to destroy..."

"Why, then, have some of our top papers provided so
little coverage?..."

" The result: readers who neither grasp nor care about
the facts behind facile imagery like The Butcher of
Baghdad and Operation Desert Storm. In particular,
readers who do not follow the story of the Banca
Nacional del Lavoro, which apparently served as a
paymaster for Saddam's arms buildup, and thus became a
player in the largest bank-fraud case in U.S. history.

"Complex, challenging, mind-boggling stories (from
Iran-Contra to the S&L crisis to BCCI) increasingly
define our times: yet we don't appear to be getting
any better at telling them..."

"Much of what Saddam received from the West was not
arms per se, but so-called dual-use technology --
ultra sophisticated computers, armored ambulances,
helicopters, chemicals, and the like, with potential
civilian uses as well as military applications. We've
learned that a vast network of companies, based in the
U.S. and abroad, eagerly fed the Iraqi war machine
right up until August 1990, when Saddam invaded
Kuwait."

And we've learned that the obscure Atlanta Branch of
Italy's largest bank, Banca Nacional del Lavoro,
relying partly on U.S. taxpayer-guaranteed loans,
funneled $5 billion to Iraq from 1985 to 1989. Some
government-backed loans were supposed to be for
agricultural purposes, but were used to facilitate
the purchase of stronger stuff than wheat. Federal
Reserve and Agriculture department memos warned of
suspected abuses by Iraq, which apparently took
advantage of the loans to free up funds for munitions.
U.S. taxpayers have been left holding the bag for what
looks like $2 billion in defaulted loans to Iraq."

"... In fact, we now know that in February 1990, then
Attorney General Dick Thornburgh [appointed by George
H.W. Bush] blocked U.S. investigators from traveling
to Rome and Istanbul to pursue the case..."

"... As New York Times columnist William Safire argued
last December 7, 'Iraqgate is uniquely horrendous: a
scandal about the Systematic abuse of power by
misguided leaders of three democratic nations [The
U.S., Britain, and Italy] to secretly finance the arms
buildup of a dictator.

"As Democrat Henry Gonzales, Chairman of the House
Banking Committee during the period, stood as the lone
voice from the wilderness in raising alarms about
Bush's obvious corruption, the rest of the Congress
sheepishly ignored all the signs demanding immediate
action. Gonzales' voice reportedly fell silent after
his empty car was machine-gunned in a Washington
suburb in what passed for a drive-by shooting. The
CJR continues:

"Meanwhile, The Village Voice published a major
investigation by free-lancer Murray Waas in its
December 18, 1990 issue..."

That American troops could be killed or maimed because
of a covert decision to arm Iraq,' Waas wrote, "is the
most serious consequence of a U.S. foreign policy
formulated and executed in secret, without the advice
and consent of the American public..."

The L.A. Times, on Feb 23, 1992, dug deep enough to
find secret National Security Decision Directives by
the Bush Administration in 1989 ordering closer ties
with Baghdad and paving the way for $1 billion in new
aid. The Times' series, co-authored with Waas,
emphasized that, "buried deep in a 1991 Washington
Press piece - that Secretary of State James Baker,
after meeting with Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz
in October 1989, intervened personally to support U.S.
government loans guarantees to Iraq."

The CJR report also noted, "On October 3, the [Wall
Street] Journal reported [BNL official Christopher]
Drogoul's assertion that the director general of
Iraq's Ministry of Industry and Military Production
had told him, 'We are all in this together. The
intelligence service of the U.S. government works
very closely with the intelligence service of the
Iraqi government.' Three weeks later, the Journal
reported that [Henry] Gonzales 'produced a
phone-book-sized packet of documents' showing the
involvement of U.S. exporting firms... The documents
mentioned one... which designed parts for Iraq's
howitzers and was financed through BNL..."

In the wake of highly suspicious anthrax outbreaks in
Florida, just miles form where several of the WTC
suicides pilots trained, we add one final note. In his
1998 book "Bringing the War Home" author William
Thomas writes, " Under that same [weapons transfer]
program, 19 containers of Anthrax bacteria were
supplied to Iraq in 1988 by the American Type Culture
Collection company, located near Fort Detrick, MD, the
site of the US Army's high security germ warfare
labs."

The Carlyle Group, the Bushes and bin Laden

The warnings about the Carlyle Group, the nation's
11th largest defense contractor, and the Bushes came
long before the World Trade Center attacks. The
Carlyle Group is a closely held corporation, exempt
from reporting its affairs to the Securities and
Exchange Commission. Little is known of what it
actually does except that it buys and sells defense
contractors. As of October 4, 2001, it has removed its
corporate web site from the World Wide Web making
further investigation through that channel impossible.
Its Directors include Frank Carlucci, former Reagan
Secretary of Defense; James Baker, former Bush
Secretary of State; and Richard Darman, a former White
House aide to Ronald Reagan and Republican Party
operative.

On March 3, 2001, just weeks after George W Bush's
inauguration, the conservative Washington lobbying
group Judicial Watch issued a press release. It
said:(Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the public
interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes
government abuse and corruption, called on former
President George Herbert Walker Bush to resign
immediately from the Carlyle Group, a private
investment firm, while his son President George W.
Bush is in office. Today's New York Times reported
that the elder Bush is an
"ambassador" for the $12 billion private investment
firm and last year traveled to the Middle East on its
behalf. The former president also helped the firm in
South Korea.

The New York Times reported that as compensation, the
elder Bush is allowed to buy a stake in the Carlyle
Group's investments, which include ownership in at
least 164 companies throughout the world (thereby by
giving the current president an indirect benefit).
James Baker, the former Secretary of State who served
as President George W. Bush's point man in Florida's
election dispute, is a partner in the firm. The firm
also gave George W. Bush help in the early 1990's when
it placed him on one of its subsidiary's board of
directors.

"This is simply inappropriate. Former President Bush
should immediately resign from the Carlyle Group
because it is an obvious conflict of interest. Any
foreign government or foreign investor trying to curry
favor with the current Bush Administration is sure to
throw business to the Carlyle Group. And with the
former President Bush promoting the firm's investments
abroad, foreign nationals could understandably confuse
the Carlyle Group's interests with the interests of
the United States government," stated Larry Klayman,
Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel.

"Questions are now bound to be raised if the recent
Bush Administration change in policy towards Iraq has
the fingerprints of the Carlyle Group, which is trying
to gain investments from other Arab countries who
[sic]
would presumably benefit from the new policy," stated
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

Judicial Watch noted that "even the Clinton
Administration called on the Rodham brothers to stop
their business dealings in [The former Soviet Republic
of] Georgia because those dealings started to
destabilize that country."

Since the WTC attacks the Wall Street Journal has
reported (Sept. 28, 2001) that, "George H.W. Bush, the
father of President Bush, works for the bin Laden
family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle
Group, an international consulting firm." The senior
Bush had met with the bin Laden family at least twice
in the last three years - 1998 and 2000 -- as a
representative of Carlyle, seeking to expand business
dealings with one of the wealthiest Saudi families,
which some experts argue, has never fully severed its
ties with black sheep Osama in spite of current
reports in a mainstream press that is afraid of
offending the current administration.

The Nation, on March 27, 2000 - in a story co-authored
by David Corn and Paul Lashmar - wrote, "In January
former President George Bush and former British Prime
Minister John Major paid a social call on Saudi
Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah..." This story confirms
at least one meeting between the elder Bush and Saudi
leaders, including the bin Ladens. That the bin Ladens
attended this meeting was confirmed in a subsequent
September 27, 2001 Wall Street Journal (WSJ) story.
The January 2000 meeting with the bin Ladens was
also later confirmed by Bush (the elder's) Chief of
Staff Jean Becker, only after the WSJ presented her
with a thank you note sent by Bush to the bin Ladens
after that meeting.

James Baker visited the bin Ladens in 1998 and 1999
with Carlyle CEO Frank Carlucci. The WSJ story went
on to note, "A Carlyle executive said that the bin
Laden family committed $2 million through a London
investment arm in 1995 in Carlyle Partners II Fund,
which raised $1.3 billion overall. The fund has
purchased several aerospace companies among 29 deals.
So far, the family has received $1.3 million back in
completed investments and should ultimately realize a
40% annualized rate of return, the Carlyle executive
said."

But a foreign financier with ties to the bin Laden
family says the family's overall investment with
Carlyle is considerably larger...In other words, Osama
bin Laden's attacks on the WTC and Pentagon, with the
resulting massive increase in the U.S. defense budget
have just made his family a great big pile of money.

More Bush connections appear in relation to the bin
Ladens. The WSJ story notes that, "During the past
several years, the [bin Laden] family's close ties to
the Saudi royal family prompted executives and staff
from closely held New York publisher Forbes, Inc. to
make two trips to the family headquarters, according
to Forbes Chairman Caspar Weinberger, a former U.S.
Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration. 'We
would call on them to get their view of the country
and what would be of interest to investors.' President
G.H.W. Bush pardoned Weinberger for his criminal
conduct in the Iran-Contra scandal in 1989.

Our current President, George W. Bush has also had --
at minimum -- indirect dealings with Carlyle and the
bin Ladens. In 1976 his firm Arbusto Energy was funded
with $50,000 from Texas investment banker James R.
Bath who was also the U.S. investment counselor for
the bin Laden family. In his watershed 1992 book, "The
Mafia, The CIA and George Bush," award winning
Texas investigative journalist Pete Brewton dug deeply
into Bath's background, revealing connections with the
CIA and major fraudulent activities connected with the
Savings & Loan scandal that took $500 billion out of
the pockets of American taxpayers. A long-time friend
of George W. Bush, Bath was connected to a number of
covert financing operations in the Iran-Contra
scandal, which also linked to bin Laden friend Adnan
Khashoggi, one of the richest men in the world and the
arms merchant who was at the center of the whole
Iran-Contra scandal. Khashoggi, whose connections to
the bin Ladens is more than superficial, got his first
business break by acting as middle-man for a large
truck purchase by Osama bin Laden's older brother,
Salem.

Another key player in the Bush Administration, Deputy
Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage, left his post
as an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the
Reagan Administration after a series of scandals
connected to CIA operatives Ed Wilson, Ted Shackley,
Richard Secord and Tom Clines placed him at the
brink of criminal indictment and jail. Shackley and
Secord are veterans of Vietnam operations and have
long been linked to opium/heroin smuggling. The
Armitage scandals all focused on the illegal provision
of weapons and war materiel to potential or actual
enemies of the U.S. and to the Contras in Central
America.

Armitage, a former Navy SEAL, who reportedly enjoyed
combat missions and killing during covert operations
in Laos during the Vietnam War, has never been far
from the Bush family's side. Throughout his career,
both in and out of government, he has been perpetually
connected to CIA drug smuggling operations. Secretary
of State Colin Powell, in a 1995 Washington Post
story, called Armitage, "my white son." In 1990, then
President Bush dispatched Armitage to Russia to aid in
its "transition" to capitalism. Armitage's Russian
work for Bush has been frequently connected to the
explosion of drug trafficking under the Russian
Mafias, which became virtual rulers of the nation
afterwards. In the early 1990s Armitage had extensive
involvement in Albania at the same time that the
Albanian ally, Kosovo Liberation Army was coming to
power and consolidating its grip, according to The
Christian Science Monitor, on 70% of the world's opium
trade.

[See FTW Vol. II, No 2 - April 24, 1999]

Armitage and Carlucci are both Board Members of the
influential Washington think tank, the Middle East
Policy Council. The connections continue with
Vice President Dick Cheney. Amongst the multitude of
oil pipelines construction running through the new
war zone is one project - according to a Sept. 19,
2001 Wall Street Journal story - a joint venture in
which the bin Laden family joined with the
construction firm H.C. Price. Price subsequently
changed its name to Bredero Shaw, Inc. and is now
owned by a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation,
Dresser Industries. It was Dresser industries that
gave George H.W. Bush his first post war job in 1948.

Vice President Dick Cheney, who served as Secretary of
Defense during Desert Storm, directing the campaign
against Saddam Hussein, was Halliburton's CEO until
last year's election. And, according to a 2000 story
from Harper's Magazine, in 1990 our current President,
through a position as a corporate director of
Caterair, owned by the Carlyle Group - at a time when
the bin Laden's were invested in Carlyle - had
additional connections to the bin Laden family. In
addition, on March 1, 1995, when George W. Bush was
Texas governor and a senior Trustee of the university,
the University of Texas Endowment voted to place $10
million in investments with the Carlyle Group. As to
how much of that money went to the bin Ladens we can
only guess. But we do know that there is a long
tradition in the Bush family of giving money to those
who kill Americans.

Now, as the people of America are beginning to awaken
to what is really being unleashed upon them, as a few
brave souls are asking who's going to get all the
money the Bush Administration is "borrowing" from
government coffers and who's going to pay for it - the
above history is more than ominous.Considering that
during the 1980s, under the pretext of fighting a
Sandinista regime in Nicaragua that never once
launched an attack on the U.S., these same people
oversaw an explosion in U.S. cocaine consumption
that went from 80 metric tons in 1979 to 600 metric
tons in 1989 - considering that the CIA trained and
equipped death squads that tortured and murdered
hundreds of thousands of people from Guatemala to
Panama - considering that these same people have
brutalized Iraq, leaving portions of it radioactively
contaminated by depleted uranium for the next 4
billion years and causing a fivefold increase in the number of
childhood leukemia cases amidst a starving population,
one can only wonder what they will produce for the
world now given the context of the World Trade Center
attacks.

Thanks, Paul, for passing this on. Very intriguing!! How much is true
is difficult to say. Unfortunately the author lost some of his
credibility with me in the last paragraph:

considering that these same people have brutalized Iraq, leaving
portions of it radioactively contaminated by depleted uranium for the
next 4 billion years

Er, depleted uranium is the kind _without_ significant radioactivity.
And even U-235 decays to nothingness in a small fraction of 4 billion
years, I'm pretty sure.

JdL