The incest just get's weirder....who has Bechtel NOT been in bed with? http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/05/news/companies/war_bechtel/index.htm
I don't know how big a deal this is. The bin Laden family is very powerful and influential in Arabia, having a construction company that has contracts worth something like $5 billion a year. With their royal connections, anyone having dealings in Saudi Arabia will have to deal with them, and with their money they would certainly want to cultivate friendships among like-minded Americans like the Bush family. They were investors in the Carlyle Group, and likely have had financial dealings with Bush the Younger going back decades to his original Arbusto startup.
What about the gray sheep that haven't been (apochryphally) 'disowned'? FBI Document 199I What we did discover was serious enough. To begin with, from less-than-happy FBI agents we obtained an interesting document, some 30 pages long, marked "SECRET." I've reproduced a couple of pages here (figure 2.1). Note the designation "199I" -- that's FBI-speak for "national security matter." According to insiders, FBI agents had wanted to check into two members of the bin Laden family, Abdullah and Omar, but were told to stay away by superiors -- until September 13, 2001. By then, Abdullah and Omar were long gone from the United States. Why no investigation of the brothers bin Laden? The Bush administration's line is the Binladdins (a more common spelling of the Arabic name) are good folk. Osama's the Black Sheep, supposedly cut off from his Saudi kin. But the official line notwithstanding, some FBI agents believed the family had some gray sheep worth questioning -- especially these two working with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), which the file labels "a suspected terrorist organization." Let's be careful here: WAMY may be completely innocent. The FBI targets lots of innocents, too many in fact, but there were plenty of signs that the WAMY crew deserved the organization's scrutiny. WAMY, funded from Riyadh by royal charities, sponsors soccer teams and educational seminars. But in their Florida summer camp, besides the usual arts and crafts for the kiddies, youngsters received a pep talk on what were presented as the good Islamic practices of hostage-taking and suicide killings. (We at BBC obtained a video tape of one of these rap sessions.) WAMY literature was found in the apartment of one of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, praising "heroes" who killed unarmed Jews at worship. *** And so on...there's a lot in that piece, but I'm too tired to cut and paste any more of it now. Even Alex should enjoy it, as Clinton gets it almost as bad as Bushes I and II.