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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 09 Num. 07
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 07
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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IRAQ'S SADDAM HUSSEIN, GEORGE BUSH, AND THE OIL KICK-BACKS
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By Sherman H. Skolnick
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What do the press fakers really tell us about Iraq? For example,
in October, 1990, at the time of the Persian Gulf conflict, there
was an unpublicized case in the Chicago Federal District Court
(No. 90 C 6863). The Illinois Bank Commissioner sought an
injunction against the Federal Reserve Board to stop them from
turning over certain bank records to the House Banking Committee.
The records were those of the Chicago branch of Italy's largest
[bank], Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, owned in part by the Vatican.
Called BNL, it had records of Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein and
his secret private joint business dealings with his partner, an
American. A close crony of the Federal Reserve, Chicago Federal
District Judge Brian Barnett Duff, ordered the return of any
records from the Banking Committee, then headed by a Democrat,
Rep. Henry Gonzalez (D., Texas).
The House Banking Committee was an intervening party-litigant in
the controversy. Judge Duff so opposed the House Banking
Committee's efforts to get those records, that the Judge would
not listen to the Committee's attorney; did not want the attorney
in the Judge's courtroom, the Judge calling him an 800 pound
gorilla showing no respect for the court.
In May, 1991, right after the War ended in the Persian Gulf, the
case ended up in the Federal Appeals Court in Chicago; a court
dominated by Judges tied to the major banks and cronies of the
Federal Reserve. I was the only journalist at the hearing.
Afterwards, in the back of the courtroom, two hearing
participants confirmed to me that the records were about George
Bush being Saddam Hussein's secret private business partner.
Later, only one sizeable newspaper dared publish my report
("Spotlight," August 19, 1991).
The appeals court decision was to be made several months later.
In the meantime, President Bush got his crooked Justice
Department to circulate blackmail whispers that one of the
3-judge panel of that appeal, Judge Richard Posner (now Chief
Judge) took bribes in 8 other cases -- which we already knew to
be true! Strange, but later the blackmail apparently succeeded.
The federal appeals panel ordered the case entirely removed, so
to speak, from the courthouse. We have one of the few copies of
the court record.
The hearing participants, in May, 1991, had told me that
revealing the records would tend to undermine the bank
regulator's supervision of banks and would cause an international
incident and possibly a run on banks, and the banking system.
Confirmed to me was what the records were all about. Saddam
Hussein was considered the Bully Boy of the Persian Gulf from
1980 to 1990. (Saddam had been created as the dictator of Iraq
in the late 1970s, right about or after the time Bush was
Director of Central Intelligence -- Bush and the CIA created
Saddam.) All the Persian Gulf oil producers secretly gave
kick-backs to Saddam of 25 percent of the one trillion dollars of
oil shipped to the West in that decade. For the 1980s, that came
out to about 25 billion dollars per year, or 250 billion dollars
for ten years, Saddam shared with his secret partner George Bush
and Bush's cronies.
With that loot, Saddam Hussein became one of the richest men on
the planet. He has been one of the largest owners of the French
company, Matra, which owns the People Mover system at O'Hare
International Airport, Chicago -- moving people and baggage to
the airplanes. U.S. officials mouth off about airport security.
What a joke! The Iraqi is also the owner of Hachette, owners of
several U.S. magazines. (Do they propagandize for Iraq?)
Saddam's half-brother in Switzerland said if CIA murders Saddam,
the records will be released putting Bush in prison for treason.
With his share of the oil kick-back loot, Bush owns reportedly
most of the real estate in or near Silicon Valley, California,
home of high tech (reportedly through a company front called
Hidalgo -- Bush likes Hispanic names). Bush is also a major
owner of Pennzoil that corrupted the Texas Supreme Court to put a
competitor, Texaco, into false bankruptcy, largest of its kind,
12 billion dollars. And Bush as Vice President, later President,
corrupted the U.S. Supreme Court to favor his firm, Pennzoil,
when the Texaco case got there. Texaco, dominated thus by
Pennzoil, has been tied to oil shipped from Iraq.
On behalf of the Jackson Stephens bond house, largest outside of
Wall Street, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vincent W. Foster, Jr.,
arranged for BNL and its companion/twin, Bank of Credit and
Commerce International [BCCI], to spread out in the U.S. with
several branches. (One sizeable paper, "Spotlight," Oct. 1991,
published my report of BCCI bribing both houses of Congress, 108
Representatives and some 28 U.S. Senators.)
Also, Foster and Mrs. Clinton secretly arranged, with George Bush
and others {1}, to have weapons shipments from U.S. firms to
Iraq. Some were disguised as Agriculture Department loans
through BNL-Atlanta (the role of Bush/Foster/Hillary was
concealed.) Mrs. Clinton was either a director and/or lawyer
arranging strategy of some of the weapons makers. And there is a
tie-in reportedly through a shadowy character called Barbouti of
Houston and Cardoen {2}, Miami and Chile, with
Bush/Foster/Hillary, with secret shipments to Iraq of U.S.
chemicals to make poison gas to use against U.S. troops.
Notice these dates: July 17, 1993, there was a plot, believed to
be genuine, by CIA and others in the U.S., to assassinate Saddam
Hussein. Major papers in the U.S. did not publish the same until
on or about 11/1/93. The plot was aborted, apparently by high
White House officials {3}, apparently Clinton himself. Result:
several Iraqi officials, secretly co-operating with CIA, were
murdered by Saaddam. Then on July 19, 1993, FBI Director William
Sessions was sacked by President Clinton because Sessions had an
elite unit investigating high crimes by Clinton and Bush. The
next day, Foster, involved in various espionage projects, was
apparently murdered.
No wonder President Clinton and the First Lady have been covering
up the strange death of Vincent W. Foster, Jr.
We, as ordinary Americans, are in a season of treachery in high
places. WHAT IS THE REASON, NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON?
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{1} Regarding the Clinton-Bush connection, see *Boy Clinton*, by
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., which documents a meeting between Bill
Clinton and George Bush in Portland, Maine and at Bush's
Kennebunkport home.
{2} Regarding Cardoen, recall the following from CN 8.75:
BOB IRVIN:
Carlos Cardoen? Did you ever run across him?
GENE TATUM:
No.
BOB IRVIN:
He was from Chile. But he came up and had meetings in the
States, private little meetings. I think one was with
[then-CIA Director] Gates in southern Florida.
ANDREW DUNN:
Chilean arms dealer. [Cardoen]
BOB IRVIN:
He sold the cluster bombs to Saddam [Hussein]. Which we
gave him the technology for.
ANDREW DUNN:
That was the "Third World shuffle" you were talking about:
you know, get stuff down to a friendly country where we
don't have export restrictions.
{3} "The plot was aborted, apparently by high White House
officials..." The phrase, "high White House officials," has
taken on a whole new meaning of late.
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