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In the News (Thu 17 Dec 09)

  
  Chairman Kean's Link To bin Laden's Brother-in-law
According to Fortune, one of Delta Oil’s backers is Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law Khalid bin Mahfouz, founder and chairman of the Saudi National Commercial Bank (NCB).
Mahfouz transferred personal funds and $3 million diverted from a Saudi pension fund to New York and London bank accounts linked to terrorism.
Mahfouz has much of his assets interlocked with another Saudi billionaire, Mohammed Hussein al- Amoudi, who runs the bank that Mahfouz founded, servicing much of the Saudi royal family.
www.propagandamatrix.com /articles/april2004/010404chairmankean.htm   (1851 words)

  
  Science Fair Projects - Khalid bin Mahfouz
Khalid bin Mahfouz is the eldest son of Salim Ahmed bin Mahfouz, a Saudi entrepreneur who rose from being an illiterate moneychanger to the founder of the first bank in his country, the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia (NCB).
Bin Mahfouz does not deny this, but his lawyer stated: "This donation was to assist the US-sponsored resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and was never intended nor, to the best of Sheikh Khalid's knowledge, ever used to fund any 'extension' of that resistance movement in other countries."[5]
Bin Mahfouz states that he could not have been aware of every wire transfer moving through the bank, and that he would not have allowed such transactions had he known they were taking place.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Khalid_bin_Mahfouz   (1276 words)

  
 Removefiannafail | end corruption,stroke politics, &incompetent administration
Khalid bin Mahfouz is the second eldest son of Salim Ahmed bin Mahfouz, a Saudi entrepreneur who rose from being an illiterate moneychanger to the founder of the first bank in his country, the national Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia (NCB).
Khalid bin Mahfouz first came to public notice in Ireland in the summer of 1994 when the Sunday Independent revealed exclusively that he and an associate had received 11 passports for themselves and their family members in 1990.
Sheikh Mahfouz was subsequently indicted by a grand jury in New York in relation to defrauding investors of the failed banking giant BCCI.
www.soldiersofdestiny.org /cjscrewsthesheiks.htm   (1992 words)

  
 The Raw Story | Despite Saudi ties, 9/11 chair Thomas Kean is remarkbly clean
Bin Mahfouz was listed as one of seven “Main individual Saudi sponsors of al Qaeda”; in a report prepared by JCB Consulting, the self-proclaimed “world expert on terrorism financing,” for the President of the Security Council of the United Nations in December of 2002.
The adamant denials of the bin Mahfouz family are an interesting read, as are the aggressive attacks against bin Mahfouz himself, and all those associated with him.
Increasingly, the answer seems to be no. Of at least four lawsuits filed by bin Mahfouz in which libel is alleged, two have already been settled in his favor (the other two are in process).
www.rawstory.com /exclusives/moon/thomas_kean_record.htm   (1355 words)

  
 SEDCO - Saudi Economic and Development Company
Bin Mahfouz worked with his brothers Saleh, Abdelelah and Ahmed to build SEDCO into a leading global investment management company.
Bin Mahfouz serves on the boards of EIMAR Real Estate Development Co., Elaf Hotels Co., Alnumu Real Estate Co., Yanbu Cement Co., and Aljazira Equipment Co. He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from King Fahd Petroleum University in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Khalid Jamjoom is a Senior Vice President of the Real Estate Investments until his appointment as President, Real Estate Services Sector.Mr.Jamjoom began his career in a short hydrological documentary assignment with the DAA Company and went on to gain substantial experience in a number of diverse fields in the building and engineering fields.
www.sedco.com /about/profiles.html   (3038 words)

  
 publish.nyc.indymedia.org | Khalid Bin Mahfouz: The Banker of Terror
Khalid Bin Mahfouz is not one of those stylish British bankers some find irreproachable that we cross in the streets with a mundane allure, so proud of the success.
One of the sons of Khalid, Abdul Rahman Bin Mahfouz, is a member of the direction of the Sudanese organization Blessed Relief which is suspected by the American authorities of helping to organize the attack against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Ethiopia in 1995.
Khalid Bin Mahfouz is one of the principal stockholders (25%) of the International Bank of Yemen along with stockholder Bank of America (20%).
nyc.indymedia.org /es/2005/08/55986.html   (6372 words)

  
 The Press on the BCCI-bin Mahfouz-bin Laden Intelligence Nexus
Khalid Bin Mahfouz, the former president of the National Commercial Bank in Saudi Arabia, is believed to be under investigation in Saudi Arabia after allegations that he channelled money to Bin Laden.
Khalid bin Mahfouz is a controversial, Yemeni-born tycoon worth an estimated $2.5 billion U.S. He founded and ran the world's largest private bank until 1999, when the Saudi royal family quietly arranged for a government investment fund to buy out his 50-per-cent stake in the National Commercial Bank, then forced his dismissal.
Mahfouz's son was on the board of Blessed Relief in Sudan, a group reportedly linked to the 1995 attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Ethiopia.
ist-socrates.berkeley.edu /~pdscott/q4c.html   (4436 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Khalid bin Mahfouz
Bin Mahfouz was the director of BCCI, a huge financial conglomerate later convicted of money laundering, bribery, support of terrorism, Forbes Magazine reports,
Bin Mahfouz does not deny this, but his lawyer stated: "This donation was to assist the US-sponsored resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and was never intended nor, to the best of Sheikh Khalid's knowledge, ever used to fund any 'extension' of that resistance movement in other countries."
Neither Khalid or Abdulrahman have been accused of funding terrorism by the United States; however Saudi Binladen Group when the group's director, Salem bin Laden, died in a plane crash in 1988.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/K/h/Khalid_bin_Mahfouz.html   (913 words)

  
 Joel Mowbray on Saudi Arabia on National Review Online
Khalid bin Mahfouz (banker): Bin Mahfouz was the CEO of the National Commercial Bank (the first commercial bank in Saudi Arabia) until 1999 — when it was discovered in an audit that he had funneled around $100 million to his brother-in-law, Osama bin Laden.
Mohammed Hussein al Amoudi (businessman): Al Amoudi is the chairman of one of the largest conglomerates in the Kingdom, and he has partnered with bin Mahfouz on a number of oil-related ventures.
He was the president of the Al Haramain Foundation in Sudan, which was shut down for its suspected involvement in the U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa.
www.nationalreview.com /mowbray/mowbray122002.asp   (787 words)

  
 Apology to Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz - Forums powered by Reason and Principle
Khalid bin Salim bin Mahfouz was dismissed from the NCB in 1999 soon after the release of the bank’s audit report and placed under arrest in Taif.
Bin Mahfouz, Kadi [Qadi], and/or the Blessed Relief have a long history with the US intelligence community for two decades.
In 1995, Abdulrahman and Sultan bin Mahfouz "invested 'in the neighborhood of $30 million' in the Carlyle Group, according to family attorney Cherif Sedky." This was a reminder to Bin Mahfouz's American business partners that they also have a stake in the outcome of what happens to Bin Mahfouz.
www.libertyforum.org /showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_news&Number=292851099&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1&t=1   (4159 words)

  
 rediff.com: UK assets of Islamic charity frozen
Kahlid bin Mahfouz, who was granted Irish nationality in 1999, is believed to be under investigation by the Saudi authorities for alleged links to al-Qaeda.
The four bin Mahfouz brothers who run the IDF are based in Saudi Arabia and have registered addresses at Sedco, the Saudi Economic and Development Company that controls the IDF and which also has offices in Curzon Street in London.
The bin Mahfouz family is one of the most powerful in Saudi Arabia, with an estimated fortune of £2.5 billion, the report said.
www.rediff.com /money/2002/jan/16freeze.htm   (486 words)

  
 A Wolf in Sheikhs Clothing: Bush Business Deals with 9 Partners of bin Laden’s Banker by Martin J. Rivers
With the “Saudi King’s banker", Khalid bin Mahfouz, as CEO, the Jeddah-based advertising agency, Tihama, was cited in 1999 as being an intermediary in the sponsoring of Al Qaeda.
The family patriarchs of both the bin Laden and the bin Mahfouz clans emigrated into Saudi Arabia from the same ancestral valley in Yemen in the earlier part of the 20th century.
It turns out that the Bin Mahfouz Group and the Port of Singapore Authority comprise an entity called Yeminvest, that is under contract with the Yemen government to run the facilities and operations of the Port of Aden, critically located at the mouth of the Persian Gulf.
www.whale.to /b/rivers.html   (5992 words)

  
 Bin Mahfouz Information
A: Contrary to the testimony of James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, to a congressional sub-committee, Khalid Bin Mahfouz is not a brother-in-law of Osama Bin Laden.
Wall Street Journal Europe, Woolsey stated that Khalid Bin Mahfouz had been 'misindentified' in his evidence to the congressional sub-committee and that the individual he was referring to 'was not Mr (Khalid Bin) Mahfouz'.
The article referred to Khalid Bin Mahfouz and stated that he is a brother-in-law of Osama Bin Laden.
www.binmahfouz.info /faqs_1.html   (775 words)

  
 INVESTIGATING INVESTCORP ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The bin Mahfouz empire is a vast one, covering the major sectors in Saudi Arabia and abroad, most notably banking, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications.
Khalid bin Mahfouz’s problems began in 1992 with the BCCI scandal, in which he was accused of having precipitated the collapse.
Khalid bin Mahfouz, then, temporarily personified for the kingdom the official instrument of its own contradictions in regard to the world and in special regard to Osama bin Laden, who became the terrorist it should have disowned....
www.the-catbird-seat.net /Investcorp.htm   (5986 words)

  
 Bin Mahfouz Libel Rulings Boost Saudi Confidence
Khalid Bin Mahfouz received an unqualified apology and substantial damages from Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie who alleged in their book, “The Forbidden Truth,” that he had funded Al-Qaeda.
Khalid Bin Mahfouz was formerly the chairman of the National Commercial Bank (NCB), which his father, Salem Bin Mahfouz, founded in the 1950s.
Salem Bin Mahfouz was a Saudi entrepreneur who rose from being a smalltime moneychanger to becoming the founder of the leading Saudi bank.
www.arabnews.com /?page=1§ion=0&article=87404&d=29&m=10&y=2006   (709 words)

  
 Khalid bin Mahfouz
Salem bin Laden is Osama’s oldest brother; Khalid bin Mahfouz is a Saudi banker with a 20 percent stake in BCCI.
Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz’s legal team will later state that bin Mahfouz “was the principal donor to the foundation at its inception in 1991 but was not involved in the running of the charity.”; They also will state that the foundation was purely humanitarian and had no terrorist ties.
The dominant trait of bin Laden’s operations is that of a terrorist network backed up by a vast financial structure.” The BCCI was the largest Islamic bank in the world before it collapsed in July 1991 (see July 5, 1991).
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=khalid_bin_mahfouz   (2604 words)

  
 PARANOIA - Follow the Money: The Bush-bin Laden Connection
In connection with BCCI, bin Mahfouz was fined $212 million and was barred from involvement in any American banking activity.
In spite of this apparent "hand slap," bin Mahfouz is now believed to have provided financing to a "charitable front" that raises money for Osama bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden has supposedly been "disowned" by his family, but there is some indication that these reports are false.
www.paranoiamagazine.com /followmoney.html   (929 words)

  
 New Chairman Of 911 Commission Had Business Ties With Osama's Brother-In-Law
According to a 1998 Senate testimony of former CIA director James Woolsey, powerful financier Khalid bin Mahfouz' younger sister is married to Osama bin Laden,.
Bin Mahfouz is suspected to have funnelled millions of dollars to the Al Qaeda network.(See Tom Flocco, Scoop.co.nz 28 Aug. 2002)
One rich Saudi patriarch under suspicion is Khaled bin Mahfouz, owner of the National Commercial Bank, banker to the Saudi royal family, US and British authorities have also investigated Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi, another billionaire Saudi, for possible financial ties to Bin Laden.
www.rense.com /general33/chair.htm   (1358 words)

  
 Scoop: UQ Wire: Connecting The Dots Bush..Bath..Bin Laden
Mahfouz's past also includes business dealings with George W. Bush, having invested $50,000 in the younger Bush's first company, Arbusto Energy, through his U.S. representative James R. Bath, an aircraft broker and friend of Mr.
Osama bin Laden`s brother-in-law, Sheikh Khalid, "remained at NCB until he was indicted in 1992 on charges that he had schemed to defraud depositors, regulators and auditors of the insolvent BCCI," according to Brewton in The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush.
That Khalid bin Mahfouz and other Saudis have been financially linked to terrorist Osama bin Laden has been verified by U.S. Intelligence; but that notwithstanding, the seriousness of current events compels an additional awareness and understanding of the bin Laden benefactor's strangely extensive financial associations with Houston, Texas entities (and powerful public persons.
www.ratical.org /ratville/CAH/Mahfouz.html   (3390 words)

  
 TP: Der falsche Schwager
BCCI-Direktor Khalid Bin Mahfouz entging 1993 einer Verurteilung gegen Zahlung eines kleinen Bußgelds:
Khalid stimmte einer Zahlung von 225 Millionen $ zu, einschließlich einer Strafe von 37 Millionen.
Khalid Bin Mahfouz ist aber 1949 geboren -und war, wie gesagt, nie mit Osama Bin Ladin verschwägert.
www.heise.de /tp/r4/artikel/18/18115/1.html   (844 words)

  
 AIM Report: Saudi Billionaire Threatens U.S. Author - July A
But Bin Mahfouz and his lawyers have been busy going after writers and authors who claim to have documented that some of these humanitarian activities have turned out to be terrorist-related.
Bin Mahfouz, whose wealth is estimated by Forbes magazine at $2.8 billion, has yet to lose a case in the London courts.
Ehrenfeld says her reporting on Bin Mahfouz was based largely on public and other authoritative sources and included footnoted references to documents or information from the CIA, Department of Defense, Treasury Department, and Congress.
www.aim.org /aim_report/3790_0_4_0_C   (2705 words)

  
 FrontPage Magazine
The reporter based her account of bin Mahfouz' alleged miscreance on a variety of reports from reputable journals and magazines, lawsuits, government documents, and data from public and anonymous government officials, among other sources.
Bin Mahfouz and other wealthy Saudis had previously attacked other reporters and news agencies, all of which chose to apologize publicly, or settle the cases—or in the cases of some book publishers, to back off publication all together.
U.K. But apparently none of bin Mahfouz' British cases have been tried on their merits; rather, the wealthy sheik has won by default—hardly proof that reporters' allegations against him were actually false.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18781   (1580 words)

  
 In These Times * Questionable Ties
At the time, Bath was the sole U.S. business representative for Salem bin Laden, head of the wealthy Saudi Arabian family and a brother (one of 17) to Osama bin Laden.
When Salem bin Laden died in 1988, powerful Saudi Arabian banker and BCCI principal Khalid bin Mahfouz inherited his interests in Houston.
According to USA Today, bin Mahfouz and other Saudis attempted to transfer $3 million to various bin Laden front operations in Saudi Arabia in 1999.
www.inthesetimes.com /issue/25/25/feature3.shtml   (707 words)

  
 Bush, the Saudi billionaire and the Islamists: the story a British firm is afraid to publish | The Guardian | Guardian ...
Mr Bin Mahfouz's UK lawyers, Kendall Freeman, said yesterday that their client "has had no choice in the past but to issue libel proceedings to protect his reputation in this country".
Mr Bin Mahfouz, who inherited his vast wealth from his banker father, has issued a sheaf of UK libel writs to successfully obtain retractions and damages for them.
Mr Bin Mahfouz's response is: "The Clinton administration initially claimed that the plant was financed by Bin Laden based upon the mistaken assumption that it was owned by a Sudanese government corporation.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1182377,00.html   (1312 words)

  
 FINANCE: Questions Linger About Bushes and BCCI
BCCI was founded in 1972 by a Pakistani banker, Agha Hasan Abedi, with the support of Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and head of the United Arab Emirates.
The family of Khalid Salem bin Mahfouz, owner of the National Commercial Bank, the largest bank in Saudi Arabia, banker to King Fahd and other members of the ruling family, bought 20 to 30 percent of the stock for nearly one billion dollars.
Bin Mahfouz was put on the board of directors.
www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=37213   (1238 words)

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