Sunday, March 04, 2007

Cheney linked to Osama's money man

I'm still not up for regular posting -- soon, soon -- but for right now, you gotta read this (which comes to us by way of lukery and covert history):
A court in Turkey has ruled to freeze the assets of Yasin al-Qadi [1], a one-time acquaintance of Vice President Dick Cheney [2] and reported “chief money launderer” of Osama bin Laden. [3]

Al-Qadi, prior to being publicly identified as a key al-Qaeda financer, owned a prominent U.S. technology firm and reported CIA front known as Ptech. [4] He also escorted U.S. officials around during their visits to Saudi Arabia. [5]

“Council of State Administrative Cases Bureau on Thursday decided to annul a lower court's decision to rescind a cabinet order to freeze the assets of Saudi financier Yasin al-Qadi, who has been accused of financing terrorism,” the Turkish Daily News reported Saturday. [6]
And:
Similar allegations of obstruction of justice and dereliction of duty have been reported here in the United States, where following the 9/11 attacks FBI agent Robert Wright and other members of his unit claimed that their investigation into Yasin al-Qadi had been repeatedly blocked by higher ups at the FBI. [13]

As Agent Wright told ABC News in 2002, “the supervisor who was there from [FBI] headquarters was right straight across from me and started yelling at me: 'You will not open criminal investigations. I forbid any of you. You will not open criminal investigations against any of these intelligence subjects.'" [14]

According to Agent Wright, who seized $1.4 million directly linked to al-Qadi in 1998 [15], it is very likely that 9/11 would have been prevented if he had simply been allowed to do his job. [16]

Over the course of Wright’s investigation, however, al-Qadi was apparently assisting the CIA in Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia, and the United States itself. [17]

Al-Qadi owned a Massachusetts-based technology firm and defense contractor known as Ptech, which, according to U.S. intelligence officials who spoke to 9/11 whistleblower Indira Singh, was a "CIA clandestine op on the level of Iran-Contra." [18]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

see what i mean, joe? you pull this stuff out of the ether, even when you're in various types of extremis.

no one like you; you canNOT give this up!!!!

Anonymous said...

There are more links here: (1 2 3 4 5). And an interview with Indira Singh (6 7)

lukery said...

i'm with dr e - don't give up, joe.

dr e, you might be interested in my interview
about sibel's case from last week

Anonymous said...

PTech is an interesting company. See what Indira Singh has to say about it. Also Mike Ruppert. Look at PTech's client base. I hope you'll have a lot more to say about this, Joseph.