September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

It was this “better legislation, better regulation, better enforcement and better
international cooperation” that indirectly brought about the destruction of the World
Trade Center.
The Pakistani-Deutschebank money-laundering story was indicative of a broader,
ongoing investigation of money laundering involving weapons and drugs being
undertaken by US agencies, which named the Deutsche Bank in at least three indictments
across separate crimes. Initially, the US Department of Justice indicted two American
executives of the Bank of New York in September 1999 for laundering money for the
Russian Mafiya– an investigation started in 1998 at the request of the Russians. The
investigation was dropped prematurely (which was then picked up by European
investigators), the Deutsche Bank connection to the laundering was not publicized in the
US press, and the only person punished for a multi-billion dollar fraud was a bank
secretary who went to jail for two weeks. The investigation was initially associated with
nothing more than illegal money transfers. After the Swiss investigators revitalized the
investigation a couple years later, the involvement of Marc Rich, an international arms
merchant was identified, as were other associates of the Yeltsin Family. The extensive
connections between Jonathon Bush, the Riggs Bank and the Russian money-laundering
scandal were totally ignored by the U.S, press.
Subsequent investigations produced an unrelated, but second money-laundering
conviction in July of 2001 (that of General Imtiaz), and was still generating leads. A few
weeks after convicting Imtiaz the Deutsche Bank was named in a third indictment of
money laundering and weapons sales:
“In the trial of a former Deutschebank executive Kevin Ingram, who pled guilty to laundering drug
money to finance terrorist operations linked to Al Qaeda just two weeks before the 9-11 attacks,
indications surfaced that the Justice Department had penetrated the terrorists’ financial network. A
Nov. 16 Associated Press story by Catherine Wilson stated, "Numerous promised wire transfers never
arrived, but there were discussions of foreign bankers taking payoffs to move the money to purchase
weapons into the United States, said prosecutor Rolando Garcia." [The Case for Bush Administration
Advance Knowledge of 9-11 Attacks, Michael C. Ruppert, FTW Publications © COPYRIGHT 2002]
“On August 28, 2001, 14 days before the Trade Center attacks, former Deutschebank senior bond
investment trader Kevin Ingram, pled guilty in a $2.2 million dollar money laundering conspiracy,
resulting from a government sting operation investigating the illegal sale of night vision goggles,
Beretta machine pistols, M-16 machine guns with silencers, rocket-propelled grenade launchers,
mortars, surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), TOW anti-tank missiles, and Stinger missiles, according to
court papers examined by the New York Post.” [Profits of Death (A Special FTW Series) Part II --
Trading with the Enemy, Tom Flocco - Edited by Michael C. Ruppert, Copyright 2001. From The
Wilderness Publications]
“Interesting confirmation of the U.S. government's familiarity with banking operations connected to
terrorist activities was revealed in an 11/16/01 AP story by Catherine Wilson. In describing events in a
Florida prosecution of Egyptians connected to Ingram's case she wrote, "Numerous promised wire
transfers never arrived, but there were discussions of foreign bankers taking payoffs to move the money
to purchase weapons into the United States, said [federal] prosecutor Rolando Garcia." This is yet
another clear indication that intelligence agencies routinely monitor banking transactions in terroristrelated
cases. It has not been disclosed whether Ingram's plea bargain produced testimony in this case.”
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