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	Craig Unger - A BuzzFlash Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In his book, "House of Bush, House of Saud," journalist Craig Unger lays out a compelling case that the Bush family is so inextricably bound up with the Saudi royal family that it could not hold them responsible for the role that many Saudi Arabians played in the 9/11 day of terror.
		So Bush failed to prevent the hijackings that led to planes being flown into buildings, because they didn’t do anything to try to prevent hijackings, even though they were warned of them.
		It’s the kind of basic problem that the Bush administration can’t seem to answer anywhere in some of the extremist Islamic countries, which is to say if you have a truly open election in Iraq, you’re going to end up with a fundamentalist majority, and perhaps a radical one.
	www.buzzflash.com /interviews/04/04/int04018.html (4411 words)

	Consortiumnews.com
		Bush has made this radical change in the American political system by combining what his legal advisers call the “plenary” — or unlimited — powers of the Commander in Chief with the concept of a “unitary executive” in control of all laws and regulations.
		Bush’s lawyers said the congressional authorization to use force against the perpetrators of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks “places the President at the zenith of his powers” and lets him use that authority domestically as well as overseas.
		Still, when the CIA warned George W. Bush on Aug. 6, 2001, that bin-Laden was determined “to strike in U.S.,” Bush went fishing and continued a month-long vacation, failing to rally the government to examine available clues and tighten security.
	www.consortiumnews.com /2006/012406.html (2404 words)

	House Of Bush, house of Saud... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The House of Bush is defined here as George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, James A. Baker III, Dick Cheney and the major institutions that they are tied to, including the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, the Carlyle Group and Halliburton.
		The House of Saud includes members of the Saudi royal family, companies controlled by them and members of the Saudi merchant elite such as the bin Laden and bin Mahfouz families, whose fortunes are closely tied to the royal family.
		When the convention ended on Aug. 3, after George W. Bush had formally been nominated for president, between his family's extended personal and financial ties to the House of Saud and his campaign's ties to Islamists, it could be said that he was truly the Arabian Candidate.
	blogs.it /0100206/stories/2004/03/15/houseOfBushHouseOfSaud.html (18503 words)

	House Of Bush, House Of Saud
		They included members of two families: One was the royal House of Saud, the family that ruled the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and which, thanks to the country's vast oil reserves, was without question the richest family in the world.
		The Bin Ladens and members of the House of Saud who spent time in the United States were mostly young professionals and students attending high school or college.
		All over the country, members of the extended Bin Laden family, the House of Saud, and their associates were assembling in various locations.
	www.rense.com /general54/houseofbush.htm (2498 words)

	Archived Entry - 06/06/2004: ""House of Bush, House of Saud" review"
		And the conclusion I carried away from "House of Bush, House of Saud" was oddly reassuring.
		The Bushes and the Sauds might not play cards — then again, I can imagine some high-stakes games between George II and Prince Bandar - but they vacation together; they fly around the world to celebrate their family anniversaries.
		Bush 1 and 2 are complete morons, thanks to them, their greed and unethical politics we are hated
	liheliso.com /buzz/archive/00000108.htm (759 words)

	Barbara's Bookstore - House of Bush, House of Saud
		House of Bush, House of Saud begins with a politically explosive question: How is it that two days after 9/11, when U.S. air traffic was tightly restricted, 140 Saudis, many immediate kin to Osama Bin Laden, were permitted to leave the country without being questioned by U.S. intelligence?
		The answer lies in a hidden relationship that began in the 1970s, when the oil-rich House of Saud began courting American politicians in a bid for military protection, influence, and investment opportunity.
		His access to major players is unparalleled and often exclusive -- including executives at the Carlyle Group, the giant investment firm where the House of Bush and the House of Saud each has a major stake.
	www.barbarasbookstore.com /Books/HouseOfBushHouseOfSaud.htm (242 words)

	Democracy Now! \| House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between The World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
		We speak with Craig Unger, author of the new book, "House of Bush, House of Saud" that details the complex negotiations on war, oil, illegal arms deals and murky banking deals conducted between the Bushes and the Saudis - connecting a US presidential dynasty to a foreign power.
		The answer lies in the long-term relationship between the Bush family and the Saudi royal family that dates back over two decades and the is the subject of a new book by Craig Unger entitled, "House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties."
		Craig Unger, author of "House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties." He was deputy editor of the New York Observer and editor in chief of Boston Magazine.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/03/18/157206 (479 words)

	House of Bush, House of Saud, Craig Unger, ThinkingPeace
		Widely known as the Arab Gatsby, with his trimmed goatee and tailored double-breasted suits, the 52-year-old Bandar was the very embodiment of the contradictions inherent in being a modern, jet-setting, Western-leaning member of the royal House of Saud.
		On the one hand, the House of Saud was an Islamic theocracy whose power grew out of the royal family's alliance with Wahhabi fundamentalism, a strident and puritanical Islamic sect that provided a fertile breeding ground for a global network of terrorists urging a violent jihad against the United States.
		They had received tips that one of the people in the house was Abu Zubaydah, the 30-year-old chief of operations for al-Qaida who had been head of field operations for the USS Cole bombing and who was a close confidant of Osama bin Laden's.
	www.thinkingpeace.com /Lib/lib006.html (4215 words)

	'House of Bush, House of Saud': The Kingdom and the Power - Council on Foreign Relations
		As he meticulously details, both George Bushes have made fortunes over the years by trading on their famous name to persuade rich backers to invest in their various (usually oil-related) businesses.
		The book claims that, as compensation for big bucks, both Bush presidents have actually given Saudi Arabia a ''pass'' -- that is, deliberately overlooked the kingdom's longtime support for Islamic radicalism and terror in return for personal profit.
		To suggest, as Unger does, that support for the Afghan rebels was the result of Bush family corruption -- especially when you remember that it originated in the Carter administration -- strains credulity.
	www.cfr.org /pub7102/jonathan_d_tepperman/house_of_bush_house_of_saud_the_kingdom_and_the_power.php (1402 words)

	frontline: house of saud: a chronology - the house of saud \| PBS
		frontline: house of saud: a chronology - the house of saud
		By the early 60s, King Saud is losing support everywhere and has brought the country to the brink of economic collapse.
		The senior Al Saud brothers realize something has to be done and arrive at a consensus to replace Saud with a more capable leader.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saud/cron (3741 words)

	House of Saud and U.S. Policy
		There are two important books, which illuminate the complex relationships of the house of Saud with the people they rule, their relationship with fundamentalism, the relationship to the house of Bush and to the
		Finally, and very troubling is how the house of Saud perceives the threat of foreign invasion and internal unrest and the steps they have taken to secure their rule.
		The house of Saud has set up a system of hidden explosives remotely controlled by which they could blow up all their major oil facilities and contaminate most with radiation, including their oil reserves in the ground.
	skeptically.org /oil/id13.html (1109 words)

	House of Bush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		James Baker’s law firm even defended the House of Saud in a lawsuit brought by relatives of victims of September 11.
		The Bush administration is in the dock for allegedly ignoring the threat of Islamic radicalism before Sept. 11 and then retaliating in the wrong place, Iraq.
		By invading Iraq, George W. Bush may have done a great service to Islamic radicalism, but the Sauds opposed the invasion as folly and are not to blame.
	dks.thing.net /House_of_Bush.html (1422 words)

	Bob's Links and Rants: House of Bush, House of Saud, ~~House of Representatives~~
		Lawmakers cheered as the House of Representatives voted on Thursday to strip financial assistance for Saudi Arabia from a foreign aid bill because of criticism that the country has not been sufficiently cooperative in the U.S. war on terror.
		The vote was a stinging defeat for the Bush Administration which had strongly opposed the measure saying it would "severely undermine" counterterrorism cooperation with Saudi Arabia and U.S. efforts for peace in the Middle East.
		The House voted 217-191 to remove $25,000 in the $19.4 billion 2005 foreign aid bill earmarked for Saudi Arabia.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~bgoodsel/post911/2004/07/house-of-bush-house-of-saud-house-of.htm (185 words)

	House of Bush House of Saud
		The Bush interests have received great largesse from a royal family notorious for using money to seduce and enlist elites in other countries, a classic tactic of imperialism through history.
		The beginnings of the hidden Bush-Saud relationship are found in the 1970s, when the oil-rich House of Saud began courting American politicians in a bid for military protection, influence, and investment opportunity -- and to spin their web of Wahabi jihad (holy war against "infidels) schools worldwide.
		His access to major players is unparalleled and often exclusive — including executives at the Carlyle Group, a giant investment-defence contracting firm where the House of Bush and the House of Saud each has a major stake.
	home1.gte.net /rogmios/id37.html (826 words)

	House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties - Craig Unger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		David Unger recounts the interests of the house of Saud in the oil business in Houston and tells how the Saudis were especially helpful to President George H.W. Bush during the first Iraq war, when they benefited militarily and economically from U.S. contracts.
		Unger questions whether the relationship between the two families might in any way have colored post-9/11 actions by the White House, and he looks into whether the House of Saud, followers of the Wahhabi sect, can be implicated in supporting and funding Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
		In addition, he examines the question of why members of the Saud and bin Laden families were granted special exits on jetliners from the US just after 9/11.
	www.biblio.com /books/42102296.html (625 words)

	The New York Times > Books > Books of the Times \| 'House of Bush, House of Saud': Saudi and American Elites ...
		His main claim is that the Bush family's close ties to Saudi Arabia prevented President George W. Bush from confronting the House of Saud about Islamic extremism and the threat posed by Al Qaeda.
		The House of Saud's connections to the Bush family surely mattered; Prince Bandar visited the president in the White House on Sept. 13.
		Bush's critics have plenty of ammunition and need not muddy the waters by mounting attacks based on loose innuendo rather than compelling evidence.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/04/12/books/12KUPC.html?ex=1397188800&en=16dfb47b477769ad&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (1131 words)

	The Fall of the House of Saud
		This is the fulcrum on which the global economy teeters, and the House of Saud knows what the West is only beginning to learn: that it presides over a kingdom dangerously at war with itself.
		But the House of Saud had been powerful in the region ever since the eighteenth century, when the radical cleric Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab, the founder of the puritanical Wahhabi movement, wandered into Dar'iya, near present-day Riyadh, and made a bargain with its ruler, Muhammad ibn Saud.
		If I had to pick a single moment when the House of Saud truly began to fall apart, it would be when Abdul Aziz ibn Saud's son Fahd, who has been king since 1982, suffered a near fatal stroke, in 1995.
	www.theatlantic.com /doc/200305/baer (2446 words)

	House of Bush, House of Saud Book Review - Associated Content
		George W. Bush's political outlook regarding that hotspot of the world was created when he was in Texas failing at being an oilman.
		Now, of course, for a Bush to fail at being an oilman is really quite amazing considering they had access to influence both in the worlds of politics and oil that really few other families in America have ever had.
		Bush's inability to lead Harken Oil - imagine if Harken back then was the US today and you'll get an idea of just how good a businessman Bush was - led to it being financially bailed out by some Saudi interests whose interests are not particularly America's interests.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/42337/house_of_bush_house_of_saud_book_review.html (685 words)

	‘Frauds-R-Us’ - The Bush Family Saga
		Marvin Bush was re-elected to the company's board this year for a term ending in 2005, and served on the board's critically important audit and compensation committees.
		In 1985, Jeb Bush acted as a conduit on behalf of supporters of the Nicaraguan contras with his father, then the vice-president, and helped arrange for IMC to provide free medical treatment for the contras.
		A final word; I’m all Bushed out as the saying goes, but if I’ve learned one thing in putting this testimony together (because that’s what it is), it’s the awesome power of US capitalism to corrupt and to corrupt totally.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3308.htm (5530 words)

	Socialism Today - Oil dynasties: House of Bush, House of Saud
		On one side is the Bush family — a dynasty of the elite of the US capitalist class, passing on power from generation to generation in both the public and private sectors.
		Bush built a business empire, profiting from the explosive growth in demand for oil in the post-war economic boom.
		George Bush senior was vice president from 1980 to 1988 and president from 1989 to 1992.
	www.socialismtoday.org /84/dynasties.html (1380 words)

	PIXELSURGEON \| Reviews \| Books \| House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most ...
		"House of Bush, House of Saud" charges that the GOP made use of unsavory characters like Sami Al-Arian (a man who was eventually arrested for financing terrorist attacks) to generate support in the pivotal Sunshine State.
		The most damning charge in "House of Bush, House of Saud" concerns what happened in the 48 hours after the attack on the Twin Towers.
		Many of those who departed on these flights were related to Osama bin Laden: the author purports that their hasty departure helped prevent questions that might have proven embarrassing to all parties concerned.
	www.pixelsurgeon.com /reviews/review.php?id=406 (656 words)

	Amazon.com: House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As the author of House of Bush, House of Saud, I am not sure if it is appropriate to respond here, but I did not want erroneous right wing criticism of my book to stand without a rebuttal.
		The first half of the book was enthralling in its description of how the Bush family and the House of Saud became entangled with each other, but the post 9/11 chapters degenerate into innuendoes found in conspiracy theory and idle speculation.
		This is an informative look at the Bush family's dealings with the Saudis, but the last half of the book needed to be as factual and straightforward as the first half.
	www.amazon.com /House-Bush-Saud-Relationship-Dynasties/dp/074325337X (2171 words)

	Amazon.com: American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush: Books: Kevin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		George Herbert Walker, Bush 41's maternal grandfather, is the Joseph Kennedy of the Walker/Bush clan.
		A historically accurate review of the Bush multi generational quest for both national and international financial and political power with evidence that politics were a means and wealth the ends; as we continue to see in current events concerning that family today.
		When President Bush said to a group of the richest Americans during his re-election that:"...some refer to you as the 'have mores'; I refer to you as My Base." He wasn't joking; that is his brotherhood, his extended family, the real and only Americans in his world view.
	www.amazon.com /American-Dynasty-Aristocracy-Fortune-Politics/dp/0670032646 (2702 words)

	'War President' Bush Has Always Been Soft On Terror His Campaign Says Vote Republican Or Die - But He Lets al-Qaida Off ...
		Nicknamed Bandar Bush, he drops by the Bush residences in Kennebunkport, Maine, and Crawford, Texas, not to mention the White House.
		President Bush was in the presence of the ambassador from the country that is the guardian of Wahhabi Islam, the fundamentalist sect which helped produce al-Qaida.
		According to Graham, the Bush administration may have censored the material because it did not want the public to be aware of Saudi support for the 9/11 terrorists.
	www.rense.com /general57/fot.htm (1224 words)

	House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties -- book review
		The current President Bush may go down in history as being the President who had the most books written about him, the majority of which are definitely not flattering.
		Unger lays out a truly shocking and compelling case that the Bush administration -- indeed, the entire Bush family -- is so closely aligned with our nation’s biggest enemies that they are allowing terrorism to occur without any retribution to the offenders.
		Bush pays lip service to the public, stating he will stop at nothing to put an end to the “evil-doers,” but this book proves that those evil-doers are in many cases best pals with Bush and his neo-con team.
	www.curledup.com /bushsaud.htm (632 words)

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