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Special Re****t
Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
November 25, 2004—According to informed sources in Wa****ngton and
Houston, the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place
operatives around the country to rig the election for Bush. The
operatives were posing as Homeland Security and FBI agents but were
actually technicians familiar with Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad,
Unilect, and Danaher Controls voting machines. These technicians
re****tedly hacked the systems to skew the results in favor of Bush.
The leak about the money and the rigged election apparently came from
technicians who were promised to be paid a certain amount for their work
but the Bush campaign interlocutors reneged and some of the technicians
are revealing the nature of the vote rigging program.
There have been media re****ts from around the country concerning the
locking down of precincts while votes were being tallied. In one
unprecedented action in Warren County, Ohio, election officials locked
down the facility where votes were being counted. The officials said
this was in response to a Level 10 high-threat terrorist warning being
issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI for Warren
County. George Bush won 72 percent of the vote in Warren County, much
larger than his percentage of victory statewide.
The money to rig the election in favor of Bush re****tedly came from an
entity called Five Star Trust, largely based in Houston but a worldwide
entity that is directly tied to the Saudi Royal Family. Five Star Trust
was termed "a well-protected vehicle" that has been used to sup****t both
Bush and Osama bin Laden in the US and around the world.
Other money used to fund the election rigging was from siphoned Enron
money stored away in accounts in the Cook Islands, which was once the
base of one of the more questionable and Saudi-linked BCCI subsidiaries.
Cook Islands banks also handled some of the weapons smuggling financing
of the Iran-Contra scandal. A former Justice Department attorney who
helped prosecute the BCCI case said the use of the Cook Islands by the
Bush reelection team indicates they wanted the bank arrangements to be a
"quick folding tent" operation that would cease to exist when the
election was over. He said the Cook Islands was notorious for not
requiring any do***entation for such operations.
In fact, the Cook Islands has been a favorite location for various
covert intelligence activities. This most recent use of the islands is a
continuation of a scandal discovered in New Zealand in the early '90s
called the "Winebox Affair." In 1992, a computer dealer named Paul White
bought some secondhand computers and floppy disks from the Citibank
office in Auckland, New Zealand, that had earlier sold them to a scrap
dealer.
White later discovered the floppies (and 10 paper files) detailed a
scheme to use the European Pacific Bank in the Cook Islands to bilk
foreign governments and banks for a phony 15 percent tax bill *****sed
on various transactions by the Cook Islands government (at the time run
by Tom Davis, a former US Army and NASA research scientist who was
allegedly on the payroll of the CIA). European Pacific reaped millions
of illegal dollars from the New Zealand Treasury and a number of
Japanese banks, including Mitsubi**** Bank. Paul White later died in a
suspicious auto accident.
As detailed in the book "The Paradise Conspiracy" by New Zealand
journalist Ian Wishart, the Cook Islands scheme also involved several
CIA operatives, including Lawrence John Fahey, who had an interest in
InterAir of Nevada, one of the airlines used by Ollie North to funnel
arms to Iran. It also involved William Raupe, a CIA officer stationed
under cover as a USAID employee at the US embassy in Suva. Raupe had
once worked for Air America in South East Asia. Another CIA agent active
in the Cooks was Robert C. Allen, known to New Zealand authorities as a
US agent who was formerly with the CIA proprietary firm Bishop, Baldwin,
Dillingham, Wong Ltd. In addition, along with the late former Treasury
Secretary William Simon, Gerald Parsky was also involved in the European
Pacific Bank's Cook Islands operations. Parsky is George W. Bush's chief
fundraiser and adviser in California (he led Bush's 2000 California
campaign) and sup****ted Simon's son's unsuccessful bid for the
governor****p of California against Gray Davis and then again in the
recall of Davis. Enron was involved early on with Arnold Schwarzenegger
at a meeting in 2001 at the Beverly Hills Hotel at the same time Enron
was bilking California utility customers with increases as high as 1000
percent This scheme eventually led to Davis's recall and his replacement
by Schwarzenegger.
The Cook Islands-Citibank-European Pacific fraud appeared to have been
cooked up to take the place of other "outed" CIA banking activities,
including Nugan Hand Bank in Australia. European Pacific also involved
assets of BCCI, in particular the Commercial Bank of Commerce in
Rarotonga, Cook Islands, a BCCI subsidiary. MIchael Hand, a former Green
Beret who re****tedly served with Deputy Secretary of State Richard
Armitage in Laos (and whose partner, Frank Nugan, was found shot to
death in 1980 in Australia) later turned up associated with Euromac
(European Manufacturing Center) Ltd., a British company that tried to
sell nuclear trigger krytrons to Saddam Hussein before the first Gulf
War. Nugan Hand's chief counsel, William Colby, a former CIA Director,
was found floating in the Chesapeake in 1996.
The sale of nuclear material to Iraq was funded through Saudi operations
in Houston, including those associated with George H. W. Bush, George W.
Bush, James R. Bath, and Saudis Abdullah Taha Baksh, and Kamal Adham, as
well as Lebanese businessman Ghaith Pharaon (who was also involved in
the collapse of Miami's CenTrust S&L, a bank that had ties to Jeb Bush).
This gang, along with Salem Bin Laden, the older brother of Osama,
funneled over $1 million into failed Bush ventures, including Arbusto,
Spectrum 7, and Harken Energy. Some of the Saudi money also financed
Enron Oil and Gas Resources (later EOG Resources) in the Belspec
Fusselman Field in Midland, Texas, a deal in which George W. Bush had a
financial stake. In fact, Saudi planes in the 1980s landed in Houston
with mountains of cash used to buy nuclear material for Saddam to
possibly use against the Iranians. The money was laundered through
Houston's Main Bank, a bank close to the Bush family. Skyway Aircraft of
Houston, owned by Bath, was invested in by Abu Dhabi's ruler (the main
owner of BCCI) and whose parent company in the Cayman Islands was used
by Ollie North to collect foreign money for his Iran-contra enterprise.
Another person involved in the Cook Islands bank defrauding scheme was a
Lebanese-American named Samir Bashout (alias Dr. Khalaf B. Bashout) who
set up Midland International Bank and Trust Ltd in the Cook Islands with
no real capital. Bashout's Midland had nothing to do with Midland Bank
of the UK but may have been named for Midland, Texas, of George W. Bush
fame. Bashout was later convicted of beating his wife in Rancho Park,
Calif., amid a nasty divorce. She claimed he secreted away much of his
money. Bashout's Metro Bank (Philippines) account in Los Angeles was
found to contain only $10,000, not the $10 million he claimed to Cook
Islands' authorities. US Treasury agent John Shockey alerted the Cook
Islands internal auditor to Bashout's repeated attempts to bounce a
check for $5 million. In January 2002, Hamilton Bank failed after it
lost $500 million due to loan scandals and money laundering charges. The
recipient of a $5.5 million loan was Metro Bank International,
headquartered in Vanuatu, an offshore banking location similar to the
Cook Islands. Metro Bank was thought to contain some of the billions of
dollars laundered by the CIA and the Cook Islands International Trust
Corp. on behalf of Ferdinand Marcos. Marcos's CIA intermediaries in the
Cooks were Eldon William Morris, James Centers, and Dante Dominigo
Agdeppa. Morris was under investigation by the Queensland Special Branch
and the FBI in Hawaii and California.
Bashout was also involved in the defunct World Arabic Television News
(WATN), an Arabic television network that attracted the attention of the
Houston-based Arab Times newspaper as not delivering on its promises and
defrauding investors.
Wayne Madsen is a Wa****ngton, DC-based investigative re****ter. He was
also the Operations Officer at Naval Facility Coos Head, Oregon from
1980 to 1982 and assisted the FBI and NIS in the investigation as a
tem****ary special agent.
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