- LONDON - America was itself
to blame for the events of September 11 because the US administration was
using "kid gloves" in tracking down Osama bin Laden and
"other
fanatics linked to Saudi Arabia", a special BBC investigation has
alleged in a damning indictment of the two presidents Bush and American
foreign policy.
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- The report, which the BBC claimed was based on a secret
FBI document, numbered 199I WF213589 and emanating out of the FBI's
Washington
field office, alleged that the cynicism of the American establishment and
"connections between the CIA and Saudi Arabia and the Bush men and
bin Ladens" may have been the real cause of the deaths of thousands
in the World Trade Centre attacks.
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- The investigation, which featured in the BBC's leading
current affairs programme, Newsnight, said the FBI was told to "back
off" investigating one of Osama bin Laden's brothers, Abdullah, who
was linked to "the Saudi-funded World Association of Muslim Youth
(WAMY), a suspected terrorist organisation," whose accounts have still
not been frozen by the US treasury despite "being banned by Pakistan
some weeks ago and India claiming it was linked to an organisation involved
in bombing in Kashmir".
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- Newsnight said there was a long history of
"shadowy"
American connections with Saudi Arabia, not least the two presidents Bush's
"business dealings" with the bin Ladens and another more
insidious
link revealed by the former head of the American visa section in
Jeddah.
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- The official said he had been concerned about visas
issued
to large numbers of "unqualified" men "with no family links
or any links with America or Saudi Arabia", only to find out later
that it "was not visa fraud" but part of a scheme in which young
men "recruited by Osama bin Laden" were being sent for
"terrorist
training by the CIA" after which they were sent on to
Afghanistan.
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- In a reiteration of a now well-known claim by one of
George W Bush's former business partners, the BBC said he made his first
million 20 years ago on the back of a company financed by Osama's elder
brother, Salem. But it added the more disturbing assertion that both
presidents
Bush had lucrative stakes along with the bin Ladens in Carlyle Corporation,
a small private company which has gone on to become one of America's
biggest
defence contractors. The bin Ladens sold their stake in Carlyle soon after
September 11, it said.
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- American politicians later told the BBC programme that
they rejected the accusation that the establishment had called the dogs
of the intelligence agencies off the bin Ladens and the royal House of
Saud because of a strategic interest in Saudi Arabia, which has the world's
biggest oil reserve.
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