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There was a flurry of unusual
stock trading right before the September 11
attacks. Who knew which stocks to bet against, and
why don't they talk about it in the news anymore? |
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George Bush, Sr., is
Senior advisor to The Carlyle Group, a private
investment firm that is also the government's 10th
largest contractor. The Carlyle Group has state
and private pension funds invested in companies that
profit from the war. Meet
The Carlyle Group |
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The family of Osama Bin
Laden had money invested in The Carlyle Group. In
fact, one of the Bin Ladens was meeting with The Carlyle
Group at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC at the
moment of the September 11 attacks. The Bin Ladens
and the Bush Family have been doing business together
for decades. See Meet
The Carlyle Group. |
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John Poindexter, from the
Iran-Contra scandal, now has a new job in the Pentagon,
keeping an eye on the internet. Meet
our Big Brother. |
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The head of security at
the World Trade Center, John O'Neill, was killed on
September 11. Two weeks earlier he had quit his
job as a Deputy Director of the FBI, complaining that Big
Oil interests were hampering his investigation of
Islamic terrorism. |
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Nancy Dorn, a Texas
lobbyist and registered Chinese Foreign Agent, lobbied
Congress to give Li Ka-shing control of the Panama
Canal. Now, she's the Deputy Director of the
Office of Management and Budget. |
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Why did it take the F-16s
so long to get to the Pentagon, when the military knew
there were hijacked planes in the air making
attacks? Why were fighters called in from over a
hundred miles away when Andrews Air Force Base is only
10 miles from the Pentagon? Watch
this 5-minute video on your Real Player, and read
the transcripts that follow. |
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