September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

October 1980: Salem bin Laden, Osama’s eldest brother, is later described by a French secret
intelligence report as one of the two closest friends of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd. As such, he often
performs important missions for Saudi Arabia. The French report speculates that he is somehow
involved in secret Paris meetings between the US and Iranian emissaries this month. Frontline, which
published the French report, notes that such meetings have never been confirmed. Rumors of these
meetings have been called the October Surprise and some have speculated Bush Sr. negotiated in these
meetings a delay of the release of the US hostages in Iran…(PBS Frontline, 2001).” [Paul Thompson,
“The Complete 9/11 Timeline: Introduction, Credits and Links (v1.7,) October 28, 2002, from Michael
C Ruppert, Crossing the Rubicon, 2004, p133 New Society Publishers]
10.1 Iran-Contra Syndicate
The aspects of the Iran-Contra scandal and October Surprise which are relevant to the
WTC tragedy is that they demonstrate the origins of over 20 years relationships between
individuals that carried though the 1990s into the twenty-first century. However, it was
not just a matter of excessive political fervor as was often suggested by political
commentaries and editorials. Many of these same individuals would later be
demonstrated to have personal business relationships with each other, and would be
reported to be involved in other activities resulting in criminal charges and laws suits.
Table 8 constructs an overview of individuals who are involved in activities discussed in
this report, including the Harken Energy, the Marcos gold heist, the Barrick gold trading
operation, the October Surprise, Iran-Contra, BCCI, Kazakhstan-gate, Azerbaijan, and
Afghanistan. What stands out is the continued involvement of several individuals of
substantial notoriety, and a few banks:
Table 8
Iran-Contra/Azerbaijan
Individuals Banks
Adnan Khashoggi UBS Union Bank of Switzerland
George Bush Sr. & Jr . Deutschebank
Richard Secord Credit Suisse
Richard L Armitage BCCI ( later Indosuez)
Farhad Azima Bank of New York.
Richard Cheney Potomac Capital Inc.
Porter Goss
Khalid bin Mafhouz
All the reports seem to suggest this group represents the core of an organized, criminal
syndicate operating over a twenty year span, across the globe. As a syndicate, they
probably had a great deal to hide, and much benefit to be gained by the destruction of
evidence in the various investigative offices of the World Trade Center. In that respect
however, they had no more - and maybe even less - incentive than the Russian Mafia, the
Italian Mafia or the Columbian drug cartel. What all these syndicates had in common,
THE SEPTEMBER 11 COMMISSION REPORT Page 258