Cruelty to animals - will the circle be unbroken? : Melbourne Indymedia

It's reliably reported that before he went on to sign death warrants by the bushell and start ilegal and aggressive wars, George W Bush was torturer of small animals. Specifically the harmless frogs that he and his little sadistic south Texas buddies would blow to bits at daddys farm.

One of the most famous torturers of animals for profit today is Huntingtons labs. A 10-foot-high fence topped by razor wire surrounds the headquarters of Huntingdon Life Sciences, 70 miles north of London, and the front gate is protected by a brick compound a long way from Crawford Texas.

Huntingdon’s fund manager, Phillips & Drew, sold its 11 percent stake in February 2000 after its London offices were evacuated following a bomb threat and the disclosure on a Web site of home phone numbers of the fund’s directors.

The Royal Bank of Scotland dropped out a year later, calling in its $35 million loan. And when no other British bank would agree to assume the loan, the Bank of England stepped in to avert bankruptcy. The accounting firm Deloitte and Touche resigned as the company’s auditor in February 2003. The company’s insurance broker also quit, forcing the government to provide emergency coverage.

Huntingdon eventually found new financing with Stephens Inc., an Arkansas investment bank, and reincorporated in the United States as Life Sciences Research Inc. The American company’s share price, which fell to less than $1 in 2002, has risen to more than $11, and it recently reported its 15th consecutive quarter of revenue growth.

So who are the ' white knight ' with the red right hand, Stephens Inc?

Jackson Stephens is the Little Rock billionaire who has held substantial interest in Worthen National Bank as well as in Stephens Inc., one of the largest privately owned investment banks outside Wall Street. Stephens helped bring BCCI (the Bank of Credit and Commerce International) to America. In November 1977, Stephens introduced Lance (Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's Director of the Office of Management and Budget. ) to BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi, and Abedi in turn introduced Lance to investor Gaith Pharaon. Pharaon, acting on behalf of Abedi, proceeded to acquire the stock of Bert Lance's National Bank of Georgia, a deal consummated on January 5, 1978, a day after Lance's $3.4 million loan from the First National Bank of Chicago was repaid by BCCI London.

Lance then joined with Jackson Stephens to help BCCI take over Financial General. A Financial General lawsuit filed on February 17 named "Bert Lance, Bank of Credit & Commerce International, Agha Hasan Abedi, Eugene J. Metzger, Jackson Stephens, Stephens Inc., Systematics Inc. and John Does numbers 1 through 25." BCCI was the center of a global laundry and a conduit for transactions involving arms, drugs, and nuclear technology.

BCCI founder Abedi was committed to the development of an Islamic atomic bomb, even donating 500 million rupees for the creation of Pakistan's Gulam Ishaq Research Institute for nuclear development. (BCCI paid the lawyer for Dr. Abdul Qader Khan, head of Pakistan's nuclear program, who a Dutch court convicted in 1983 of stealing the blueprints for a uranium enrichment factory. Three Pakistanis indicted in Houston in 1984 had tried to buy nuclear triggers using BCCI gold. A Pakistani-born Canadian, indicted in Philadelphia in 1987 for conspiracy to export restricted specialty steel and metal to enhance nuclear explosions, paid for the materials through BCCI Toronto. Etc.)

BCCI had the right political connections. BCCI-founder Abedi got Jimmy Carter to publicize BCCI to heads of state around the world. Abedi made his personal 727 jet available to Carter, and accompanied the former President to Thailand, Tibet, Hong Kong, and the Soviet Union, among other places. Carter introduced Abedi to many heads of state, from Deng Xiaoping in China to James Callahan in the U.K. Abedi donated a half million dollars to establish the Carter presidential library, and a public policy institute at Emory university.

BCCI had the right intelligence connections. Kamal Adham, who became the lead frontman in BCCI's takeover of First American, had also been the CIA's principal liaison for the entire Middle East from the mid- 1960's through 1979. The CIA utilized BCCI for its own payments. For example, Manuel Noriega, who was recruited by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in 1959, who went on the CIA payroll in 1967, and who became head of Panamanian military intelligence in 1968, was paid through the Panamanian branch of BCCI. The CIA also used BCCI branches in Pakistan to launder payments to the Afghan rebels, and Pakistani officials used the same bank to launder heroin profits.

BCCI had the right U.S. financial connections. Jackson Stephens would later capitalize on the $100,000 donation he made to the 1988 campaign of George Bush (thereby becoming a member of Bush's "Team 100"), as well as his friendship with George Bush, Jr., to to get BCCI involved in funding a lucrative Harken Energy offshore project in Bahrain. The money apparently came through the Swiss BCCI subsidiary.

It's a small world for those who love to torture and kill small animals isn't it, oh and by the way...if your wondering about how all this BCCI era stuff never came out at the time of the Iran - contra hearings then just ask the present head of the FBI. He managed the cover up.
BCCI replaced the Nugan- Hand scheme as the CIA's favorite bank and was in turn replaced by the Riggs bank.

The Stephens tentacles are as close as our next door neighbor's cash register after all the greatest thieves that ever lived have been Marcos and Suharto... In 1983 the Stephens brothers had acquired controlling interest in Arkansas' largest bank holding company, Worthen Banking Corp. Another major shareholder in Worthen would be Mochtar Riady, an Indonesian banker closely connected to President Suharto. Jackson Stephens met Riady in 1976, when Riady wanted to buy into an American bank. Two years later Riady and Stephens Inc. set up a joint venture, Stephens Finance Ltd., in Hong Kong to write letters of credit. Later, in 1983, Stephens and Riady bought Seng Heng Bank in Macao, and in 1984 they bought the Hong Kong Chinese Bank. Riady also controlled the Bank of Trade in San Francisco.

A Stephens employee was once fired on a Friday the 13th (Nov. 1987). He had been asked, they said, about an unidentified, out-of-state brokerage account he controlled, and its relationship to a Stephens corporate account. Rumors would circulate saying maybe he was putting profitable trades in the secret account, and sticking Stephens with the unprofitable ones. But that's all they were, rumors. For the man concerned wasn't talking.

Three days after he was fired, there was a furious thunderstorm in Little Rock, during which, it is said, he killed his wife, his two young daughters, and then himself. And to do the job, he used three different handguns. That's what they said.

Curious deaths, those. But this was Stephens country, and no one wanted to ask very many questions. They found it much safer to talk about the violent weather.

Nice weather for shooting frogs.

George Bush tortured frogs as a child?! Is there no end to this man's cruelty?!

I was all set to forgive him for this whole Iraq thing -- but FROGS?! No WAY!

Some of those frogs could have grown up to be princes!

I was standing by my windows 98,
On one cold and cloudy day
When I saw that hearse come rolling
For to carry my mothership UK IMC away

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, troll, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, troll, in the sky

I said to that undertaker's lawyer
Undertaker please drive slow
For this UK IMC you are carrying
troll, I hate to see here go

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, troll, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, troll, in the sky

Oh, I followed close behind her
Tried to hold up and be brave
But I could not hide my sorrow
When they laid her in the grave

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, troll, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, troll, in the sky

I went back home, my home was lonesome
Missed my UK Indy, she was gone
All of my brothers, sisters crying
What a home so sad and lone

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, troll, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, troll, in the sky

We sang the songs of childhood
Hymns of faith that made us strong
Ones that mother Indymedia taught us
Hear the angels sing along

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, troll, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, troll, in the sky

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, troll, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, troll, in the sky

http://cryptome.org/imcuk/imcuk-edo.htm

Poor ol' Rick - our supposedly great stalwart anti-terrorism warrior - has run away at the first sign that the war he's bravely fighting from his keyboard, just maybe isn't his. Instead of dealing with the substance of pr's post, he chooses to babble about frogs.

If he can't handle BCCI, the following may kill him.

Various extracts from http://www.madcowprod.com/10292004issue.html
Go there for further info and hyperlinked references.

Though well known as a terrorist since 1996, one month before 9/11 President George W. Bush thanked Sami Al-Arian's family for a book they sent him and expressed "regret" about how their son was treated by the Secret Service.

October 29, 2004-Venice,FL.
by Grant Noah.

Bush Administration officials repeatedly met with terrorists linked to 9/11 such as Sami al-Arian and Abdurahman al- Amoudi even after the attack, The MadCowMorningNews has learned.

For example:

From the Congressional Testimony of Steve Emerson on March 19, 1996:

"Held in the Washington area from June 19 to 21, 1991, the conference included… leaders representing nearly every radical fundamentalist group in the world attended, making the gathering the all-time All-Star terrorist conference in U.S. history… those present also decided to support one another in their respective Islamic confrontations with their non-Islamic hosts."

"In attendance at this spectacular meeting wasHamas chieftain Musa Abu Marzuk, Islamic Jihad leaders Ramadan Abdullah [Shallah] and Sami Al-Arian (the latter is still ensconced as a professor at the University of South Florida while the former now runs Islamic Jihad from Damascus), Al-Amoudi, now head of the American Muslim Council and a chief spokesperson for imprisoned Hamas chief Marzuk."
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Wall Street Journal contributor and terrorism expert Steve Emerson commented again in February 1997:

"In late October, 1995, a man named Ramadan Abdullah Shallah declared in Damascus, Syria that he was the new head of Islamic Jihad… Since 1991, Shallah had lived in the United States where he served as a professor at the University of South Florida at Tampa and also directed a "research centre"- affiliated with the University of South Florida-called the the World Islamic Studies Enterprise."

"He worked closely with Sami Al-Arian, another professor who was not only the corporate founder of Mr. Shallah's research facility but also the head of a non-profit charitable organization called the Islamic Concern Project. Together, both men secretly built and operated a clandestine command-and-control headquarters for Islamic Jihad"...
"From the safety of their Tampa offices, Mr. Shallah and Mr. Al-Arian operated a terrorist organization, raising funds, recruiting terrorists and bringing them into the country, devising terrorist strategies, and actually directing specific terrorist attacks -- all the while being invited to the U.S. military's intelligence headquarters at nearby McDlll Air Force Base to give assessments on the Middle East."
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From the Congressional Testimony of Richard Clarke, October 22, 2003:

"From his home and office in Tampa Florida, Sami al-Arian, the indicted North American leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, allegedly coordinated the movement of fund from the government of Iran to suicide bombers in West Bank and Gaza… In Tampa, Florida, Sami al-Arian established the Islamic Academy of Florida. The February 2003 indictment against al-Arian says the school was used as a base of support for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad"…

"On October 9 2003, Soliman Biheiri was convicted on federal immigration charges in the Eastern District of Virginia… Biheiri was the President and founder of BMI, Inc., an investment bank specializing in Islamically permissible investments. In the 1980's and 90's, BMI offered a series of financial services to Muslims in America…BMI allegedly received a $500,000 investment from Baraka Group. Baraka Group, headed by Saleh Kamel, is reportedly a founder of a Sudanese Islamic bank which housed several accounts for senior al-Qaida operatives… Biheiri's computer reportedly contained contact information for Sami al- Arian, the indicted North American leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad."
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The busy Mr. al-Arian had contacts not only with Mohamed Atta and al-Qaeda, but also with Karl Rove and the Bush Administration.

From The St. Petersburg Times (Florida) March 11, 2003:

"The rumpled, balding figure was spotted darting into the offices of Republican power broker Grover Norquist last July... Sami Al-Arian emerged more than two hours later... Al-Arian was visiting the Islamic Institute, a Muslim outreach group cofounded by Norquist and housed within his office suite."

"In June 2001, Al-Arian was among members of the American Muslim Council invited to the White House complex for abriefing by Bush political adviser Karl Rove. The next month, the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom - a civil liberties group headed by Al-Arian - gave Norquist an award for his work to abolish the use of secret intelligence evidence in terrorism cases, a position Bush had adopted in the 2000 campaign."
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From The Washington Post February 22, 2003:
"Al-Arian's appearance at the White House came… as part of the administration's outreach to Muslims, officials said... The group that included Al-Arian was scheduled to be briefed by Vice President Cheney, but Cheney canceled. That morning, the Jerusalem Post had run a front-page article headlined, "Cheney to host pro-terrorist Muslim group."

"Rove, according to Al-Arian and other attendees, used the meeting to talk of White House efforts to embrace the Muslim community. Al-Arian said he sat in the front row. A White House official was unable to say who else spoke to the group. Records showed that Al-Arian was admitted to the White House at least once during the Clinton administration, the officialsaid"…

"The [al-Arian] family said that Bush gave their lanky son, Abdullah, the nickname "Big Dude."'…

"Six days after Al-Arian's meeting with Rove, a delegation of Muslim community activists stormed out of the White House complex after the Secret Service ejected Al-Arian's son, an intern for then- Rep. David E. Bonior (D-Mich.). The Secret Service sent the son an apology on Aug. 13, 2001"...

"Bush signed an Aug. 2, 2001, letter to Al-Arian's wife, thanking her for a book she sent him and expressing "regret" about how her son was treated. "I have been assured that everything possible is being done to ensure that nothing like this happens again," Bush wrote."
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From MSNBC October 23, 2003:

"John Loftus, ex-DOJ official: About a year-and-a-half ago, people in the intelligence community came and said-guys like Alamoudi and Sami al-Arian and other terrorists weren’t being touched because they’d been ordered not to investigate the cases, not to prosecute them."

"But, who was it that fixed the cases?... the answer is coming out in a very strange place. What Alamoudi and al-Arian have in common is a guy named Grover Norquist… He is the guy that was hired by Alamoudi to head up the Islamic institute and he’s the registered agent for Alamoudi, personally, and for the Islamic Institute. Grover Norquist’s best friend is Karl Rove, the White House chief of staff, and apparently Norquist was able to fix things."...

"Think of the Muslim chaplain’s program that he set up as a spy service for al-Qaeda."
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The Bush administration in bed with the terrorists. Who would have thunk it?

http://www.madcowprod.com/10292004issue.html

Oh I dunno... Maybe the Russians when the US set up and financed the Mujahadeen to fuck them up in Afghanistan? Maybe the Saudis when Osama was offering to help invade Iraq for them in 1992? Maybe the Palestinians when they found Israel trying to set up Al Qaeda cells in Palestine?