September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

with the entry to the U.S. by two of the 9/11 hijackers in the early 1990s. Lyon is a
major Republican fund raiser in Orange County, associate of Karl Rove, major
financial backer of the Swift Boat Veterans, and keynote speaker at the Republican
national convention.
Khashoggi is also of interest due to his relationship with Yaslem Bin Laden, a known
business partner of his on a limited number of investments. In this case, Yaslem
admits to have recruited young Arabs from across the world for Huffman Aviation, a
school owned by his former and ongoing business partner, Adnan Khashoggi.
Similary, Khashoggi has banks in Azerbaijan, where he easily could have coordinated
the recruitment of hijackers with the assistance of his other business associates
Richard Secord and David Kimche (Mossad).
• Sheik Kamal Adham The last and least mentioned investor in Oryx was Sheik
Kamal Adham, director of Saudi intelligence (1963-79), brother-in-law of King Faisal
and the CIA's key liaison in the Arab world, a relationship established with George
HW Bush when he was Director of the CIA.
"In the 1980s, the Sheik Kamal Adham and Abdul Khalil (Adham's successor as Saudi
intelligence director), became officers of BCCI, and were implicated in a hostile bid for FIB, and
became embroiled in the BCCI bank scandal. In a related venture, Majority shares in Capcom, a
BCCI subsidiary, were held by Adham and Khalil. Capcom activities included money laundering
and drug trafficking. Adham was eventually prosecuted for fraud in the BCCI case and paid a
$100 million fine." [Saudi Entrepeneur Adnan Khashoggi Linked to 9/11 Terrorists, Alex
Constantine]
Also of interest is the report that two of the 19 reported hijackers were actually from
Saudi Intelligence:
"Two of the hijackers—part of the team that flew a plane into the Pentagon—had very visible
connections to Saudi intelligence and the CIA. Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar were well
known to the CIA and FBI. The claim that an FBI informant in San Diego who knew the men and
assisted them but never mentioned any of this to his FBI handlers has another, darker explanation.
A former CIA officer who worked in Saudi Arabia described what he says happened: "We had
been unable to penetrate Al Qaeda. The Saudi's claimed that they had done it successfully. Both
al-Hazimi and al-Mihdhar were Saudi agents. We thought they had been screened. It turned out
the man responsible for recruiting them had been loyal to Osama bin Laden. The truth is bin Laden
himself was a Saudi agent at one time. He successfully penetrated Saudi intelligence and created
his own operation inside. The CIA relied on the Saudis vetting their own agents. It was a huge
mistake. The reason the FBI was not given any information about either man is because they were
Saudi assets operating with CIA knowledge in the United States." [The Real Intelligence Cover-
Up: America's Unholy Alliance, Joe Trento's Column, 8/6/2003 ]
It is possible that like the Israelis, the Saudis’ with interest in global gold movements
decided to place two of their own team with the hijackers to ensure success of the
mission.
• Prince Nawaf bin Abdul Aziz was an initial investor in Barrick, and had remained
primarily a investor through the 1980s and 1990s. However, two weeks before
September 11, 2001, he is appointed as the new head of Saudi Intelligence.
“August 31, 2001: Turki al-Faisal, head of Saudi Arabia's intelligence service for 24 years, is
replaced. No explanation is given. He is replaced by Nawaf bin Abdul Aziz, his nephew and the
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