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The corrupt banking systems of the world & the fake war on terror By William
Benway About 60 countries have a worldwide reputation as offshore tax havens for the rich, the corrupt, and the truly dangerous breed of human known as the international terrorist. They all open accounts without real names or identification. These “shell banks,” as they are known, commonly bundle all the transfers that come in and go out without saying where they are coming from. For example, the Al-Shamal Islamic Bank, set up by Osama bin Laden himself in the Sudan, has correspondent accounts at Citibank and American Express Bank. |
It is also an interesting side note that on Sept. 11, the bin Laden family was flown out of Oklahoma City on a U.S. government airplane even though the Federal Aviation Administration had issued a no-fly order. Citibank lobbied but failed to derail legislation passed after Sept. 11 to ban such shell accounts from having correspondent accounts that let them move money into the U.S. banking system. Terrorists and drug traffickers still can go through “legitimate” banks in Liechtenstein, the Sudan, the Cayman Islands, or another offshore haven. Hijacker Mohammed Atta had a Citibank account in the branch at Dubai. Before the attack, he received $100,000 from an unidentified account in Dubai. Jack Blum, a Washington lawyer who co-wrote a 1998 report to the United Nations on the offshore phenomenon, says, “U.S. policy is influenced by the fact that the hot money from the rest of the world fueled one of the greatest booms in the stock market and that brokerage firms find it profitable to run private banking operations for rich people who don’t want to pay taxes. Seventy billion dollars in U.S. taxes are evaded every year through offshore accounts.” The offshore system started with the Swiss, who in the 1930s opened numbered bank accounts to hide the looted money of victims of the Nazis. The looters would deposit their wealth, gold, cash and artwork in accounts identified by number, not name, so the Germans could not trace and seize the funds. Berlin One of the worst examples of money laundering of Nazi gold is by the private Vatican Bank in Vatican City. The Pope, as the sole shareholder of the Vatican Bank, is one of the richest men in the world and, by definition, one of the least moral. A well-known attorney who specializes in Holocaust restitution has documented transfers of gold from Nazi SS accounts to the Vatican Bank in 1943 just as the Allies were closing in. The Vatican Bank claims to have no records from the World War II period. How convenient. Before Sept. 11, the Bush White House flatly refused to freeze accounts of so-called “terrorists” such as Osama bin Laden in ABN-AMRO, the Dutch bank operating in 15 major U.S. cities. Why? Simply put, because the secret accounts implicated the Bush family along with the so-called “terrorists.” Freezing those accounts in the billions of dollars inevitably would lead to disclosures of the huge financial tie-in between the Bush family and the worldwide bin Laden Group business cartel and its relative, Osama bin Laden. Although demonized as the head “terrorist” of the world, Osama bin Laden reportedly does get huge sums, clandestinely transferred, through members of the Saudi Royal Family, which is secretly, sometimes openly, anti-American. The reputed transit point? ABN-AMRO, also known as Algemene Bank Nederland. And, not everyone accepts as a fact that Osama has been cut off from heavy funding of his family members, 24 top ones having resided in the United States until a few days after the Sept. 11, 2001, violence. The Bush family is tied financially to the Carlyle Group which, in turn, has had the former President Bush as a heavily paid consultant to the bin Laden Group, and ultimately, to Osama, once described by former President Bush and the CIA as a “freedom fighter” when Osama bin Laden carried out the Bush/CIA agenda to drive the Soviets into humiliation by stalemating them in the Afghan-Soviet War, 1979-1989. That led, in part, to the downfall of the Soviet Union into breakaway provinces, also by way of the CIA-orchestrated attack on the Soviet Ruble currency. The oil cartel, headed by Unocal and others tied to the Bush family, has instigated the whole war with Afghanistan because the Taliban/Kabul government interfered with letting the natural gas/oil pipeline through Afghanistan and then, as planned, on to Pakistan as a link to energy-hungry India, Red China and Japan. In its simplest form, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban wanted a bigger cut than the oil consortium offered them. Some of the huge joint secret accounts at ABN-AMRO linking the Bush family to the bin Laden Group and Osama bin Laden reportedly are tied to the Unocal oil consortium. Key Taliban officials, now demonized, were honored guests in Texas by Unocal when George W. Bush was governor. Details are tucked away in a Chicago Tribune story on Oct. 21, 2001, “University helped U.S. Reach Out to Taliban.” The Bush White House flatly refusing to freeze up so-called "terrorist" accounts at ABN-AMRO, touched off a furor by being replicated on other Web sites worldwide. The more independent-minded Internal Affairs unit of the U.S. Treasury Department, finally ordered a freeze of those accounts, leading to an analysis of who and what and where. The same unit investigated the 25 worldwide secret accounts of the Bush family, used for laundering billions of dollars of illicit funds from dope trafficking and such. There are secret Federal Reserve wire transfer records, transfers authorized by a secret code that Fed chairman Alan Greenspan has. It is clear that the so called “war on terrorism” is a sham and that many U.S. banks are complicit in helping to launder the dirty money of the terrorists, most of it generated by the illicit drug trade, chiefly the opium trade out of Afghanistan. So much for the “war on drugs,” too, I suppose. In Part Two of this piece, I will go into more detail on just how the World Bank, the Federal Reserve and the Bush/bin Laden alliance are undermining the safety of U.S. citizens and what should but will not be done to truly stop the terrorist threat worldwide. Email This Article |