Ties between Christian fundamentalists, Texas oil interests, etc...
Por Wayne Madsen 12/12/2005 às 21:07


Additional ties between southern Christian fundamentalists, Texas oil
interests, and Russian-Israeli mobsters and weapons smugglers uncovered.
According to informed Washington insiders, there is increasing evidence of
financial links between key "Christian Right" GOP notables and an
international ring of Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli mobsters.


 http://milfuegos.blogspot.com/2005/12/additional-ties-between-southern.html

December 11, 2005 -- SPECIAL REPORT. Additional ties between southern
Christian fundamentalists, Texas oil interests, and Russian-Israeli
mobsters and weapons smugglers uncovered. According to informed Washington
insiders, there is increasing evidence of financial links between key
"Christian Right" GOP notables and an international ring of
Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli mobsters tied to notorious Russian weapons
smuggler Viktor Vasilevich (aka Anatoliyevich) Bout.

Bout, whose U.S. assets were frozen by the Treasury Department, continues
to provide various contractor services in Iraq and is considered by
Condoleezza Rice to be out-of-bounds for U.S. law enforcement authorities.
When she was National Security Adviser, Rice pre-empted an attempt by
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates authorities to arrest Bout. To U.S. law
enforcement and intelligence agencies, Rice was very clear when it comes
to Bout: "Look, but don't touch" was her direct order to the CIA and FBI.
It appears that Bout has gone from arms smuggler for Al Qaeda and the
Taliban to arms runner for the Bush administration. Bout's British Gulf
International Airline, registered in Sao Tome and Principe and Kyrgyzstan
and based in Sharjah, is a regular visitor to Baghdad International and
airports in the north of Iraq. Bout also made a financial windfall from
contracts let to his airline companies by the former Iraqi Coalition
Provisional Authority led by L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer. Bout also benefited
from contracts let to his Dubai-based Falcon Express Cargo by Kellogg,
Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton.

Bout's British Gulf International contracted to U.S. occupation forces in
Iraq. Bout once provided arms to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Federal prosecutors are already examining links between indicted GOP
lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Italian Mafia hit men who have been charged with
murdering Florida businessman Gus Boulis, former Christian Coalition
director and Georgia Republican Lt. Governor candidate Ralph Reed, and
indicted Texas GOP Representative Tom DeLay. Abramoff associate Adam Kidan
has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in their investigation of
Abramoff, especially deals involving the shake down of various Indian
tribes in shady casino deals.

There is also now interest in the activities of Richard T. Hines, the head
of the powerful Republican lobbying firm RTH Consulting, Inc. Hines, a
South Carolina native and a protege of the late GOP dirty trickmeister Lee
Atwater, was one of the architects of the dirty tricks campaign by Bush
against John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina primary. A confederate of
Abramoff in the 1980s Reagan administration's covert support network for
the Nicaraguan contras, Angolan UNITA guerrillas, and Afghan mujaheddin,
Hines is active in various Confederacy resurgence organizations, many of
which have clear racist agendas. However, that has not prevented Hines
from becoming the lobbyist for Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh, a military
officer who overthrew Gambia's democratically-elected President Sir Dawda
K. Jawara in a 1994 military coup supported by the United States Navy.

Hines inherited the lobbying contract for Gambia from the eclectic
Washington lobbyist Edward von Kloberg III, an individual who represented
Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, Liberia's Samuel K. Doe, Nicolae Ceausescu of
Romania, Congolese leader Laurent Kabila, the exiled King Kigeli V of
Rwanda, and Saddam Hussein. Last May, von Kloberg took a swan dive off of
a castle in Rome, allegedly committing suicide after a spat with a gay
partner.

The connections between Hines and Gambia are important since the small
narrow West African country is also a major base of operations for
notorious Russian international arms smuggler Viktor Bout. The Gambia is
the headquarters for one of many of Bout's front companies -- companies
that are used to smuggle everything from weapons to diamonds and
mercenaries to international relief supplies. In fact, Bout was the
character on whom fictional arms smuggler Yuri Orlov, played by Nicolas
Cage in the movie Lord of War, was largely based.
Bout's connections with the Christian Right do not end with Gambia. Bout
was Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's primary arms and diamond smuggler.
Bout and his associates were given Liberian diplomatic passports and, with
Taylor's blessing and protection, they registered a number of their front
companies in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. Taylor, who is now in exile
in Nigeria, was a business partner with Christian Coalition founder Pat
Robertson. Robertson's organization mentored both Ralph Reed and Richard
Hines. According to British and Israeli intelligence sources, Taylor also
enabled Al Qaeda to launder blood diamonds for cash through Liberia.
Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone were where Israeli mobsters engaged
in business with Israeli gangsters who operated under the full protection
of the Israeli Likud government.
Before Likud began purging Mossad of experienced intelligence officers
with ties to the Israeli Labor Party, the Israeli-Al Qaeda diamond
financial connection in West Africa was being pointed out by those
officers as suicidal for Israeli interests. However, Taylor and Bout had
powerful interests in the United States: a combination of the Christian
Right and pro-Likud organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC), both of which ignored and continue to ignore Israeli
organized crime connections to Al Qaeda and terrorism.
Robertson and Taylor were business partners in a Cayman Islands front
company called Freedom Gold, Ltd. In fact, Freedom Gold bas headquartered
at Robertson's CBN offices in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Robertson's
African interests also crossed paths with Bout's in another country -- the
former Zaire. Robertson's African Development Company used the cover of
Robertson's tax-exempt "Operation Blessing" to ferry conflict diamonds out
of civil war-ravaged Zaire (now Congo).

*

A rare photo of Viktor Bout, aka Butt, Bont, Butte, Boutov, and Vitali
Sergitov, born January 13, 1967 and January 13, 1970. Passports: various
Liberian diplomatic, two Russian, one Ukrainian.

A UN Security Council report dated November 30, 2005, lists Bout's Gambia
New Millennium Air Company as having its address at the residence of
Hines' client Jammeh: State House, Banjul, Gambia. The UN report states,
"The Director of this firm is Baba Jobe, who is already listed on the
Liberia Sanctions Committee’s assets freeze list. According to a
commercial aviation database, the firm acted as a cover for Victor Bout’s
operations. Its one aircraft, a Russian-made passenger jet, was acquired
from Centrafrican Airlines."

It is noteworthy that Hines's client, President Jammeh, just took
possession of the Russian-made VIP presidential passenger jet, an Ilyushin
IL-62 (C5-GNM) [Gambia] (formerly CCCP-86511 [USSR], RA-86511 [Russia],
3D-RTI [Swaziland], TL-ACL [Central African Republic]). And also of
interest is the owner of the presidential aircraft: it is none other than
Gambia New Millennium Air, the Bout-owned company listed on the UN
Security Council freeze list and which is headquartered at Jammeh's State
House in Banjul, the Gambian capital. In fact, the plane had been
previously registered to Bout front companies in Swaziland and the Central
African Republic.

The Gambia: Joins Gabon and Swaziland as another African playground for
the GOP Mafia

Bout, who flew arms and passengers from Dubai and other locations to
Taliban-controlled Afghanistan prior to 9-11, is now providing air
services in post-Taliban Afghanistan as well as U.S.-occupied Iraq. Bout's
transactions with the Taliban were handled by Vial, Inc., a firm based in
Delaware. One of Bout's closest associates is the Russian-Israeli
Odessa-born crime boss Leonid Minin, an Israeli national who, according to
the UN Security Council, travels on forged German passports as well as
legal Israeli, Russian, Greek, and Bolivian passports under at least ten
aliases.
It is also noteworthy that many of Bout's operations are based in Eastern
European countries that have been mentioned in association with the
rendition and transporting of CIA prisoners. Bout's numerous Russian-built
cargo and passenger planes have been seen at the same airports used by CIA
flights. For example, Bright Aviation, a suspected Bout front, is based at
Sofia Airport in Bulgaria. Bulgaria is believed to be one of the countries
used by the CIA to house secret prisoners. Another Bout front,
Moldtransavia SRL, is based in Chisinau, Moldova, another suspected
stopover point for CIA flights.

One Chisinau, Moldova-based Bout front company, Aerocom, which also does
business as Air Mero, is contracted to fly for Kellogg, Brown & Root in
Iraq and elsewhere. Aerocom has also been cited in UN and DEA reports for
being involved in drug smuggling in Belize. Some law enforcement officials
in the United States and Europe believe that the covert flights being
operated by CIA contractors and Bout's companies in support of secret
prisoner movement are also involved in smuggling drugs. After being
subjected to news reports, Aerocom quickly changed its name last year.

*

More ties that bind Bush cartel to Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli Mafia: Bush
with Yahya Jammeh, dictator of the Gambia, the client of both GOP lobbyist
and neo-Confederate Richard Hines and international arms smuggler Viktor
Bout.

Bright's Antonov AN-12 planes were also sighted in Western European
airports frequented by CIA aircraft suspected of transporting prisoners.
One of the most interesting connections was the presence of Bright
Aviation's AN-12V (LZ-BRP) on October 5, 2004 at Helsinki's Vantaa
Airport. Just two days before, U.S. private military contractor
Blackwater's CASA C212-CC Aviocar (N960BW) also landed at Vantaa.

Bright's LZ-BRP was also spotted at Budapest Ferihegy on October 26, April
30, and March 30, 2005; Marseilles on October 27, 2005; Toulouse in April
2005; Vigo, Spain on October 16, 2005; Amsterdam Schipol on September 17,
2005; Zurich on June 3, 2005; Plovdiv, Bulgaria on June 11, 2005; Lyons on
January 24, 2005; Madrid on January 27, 2005 and July 16, 2004; Recife,
Brazil on November 20, 2004, Zagreb, Croatia on September 9, 2004;
Tenerife (Canary Islands) on June 13, 2004; Ostend, Belgium on June 2,
2004; and Geneva on May 11 and 12, 2004 (first visit for this aircraft to
Geneva). Another Bright AN-12 (LZ-BRC) was spotted in Glasgow Prestwick on
October 14, 2004; Tenerife (Canary Islands), where AN-12 visits are
extremely rare; Maastricht/Aachen on December 22, 2003; Lisbon on June 7,
2004; Ostend on September 6, 2002; Stockholm Arlanda on November 5, 2002;
Helsinki Vantaa (with the name Heli Air painted on its fuselage) on
October 18, 2005; Budapest Ferihagy on November 19, 2005 (as Heli Air);
and St. John's, Newfoundland on November 15, 2005 (as Heli Air). Bright's
LZ-BRV AN12 was seen at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion on May 25, 2005; Zurich, May
24, 2005; and Palma de Mallorca on February 18, 2005.

Bout's Air Bas and Irbis Air Russian-made transport aircraft were spotted
throughout 2004 at Bilad airbase in northern Iraq. Bilad is the airfield
near Camp Anaconda, one of the first detention camps set up by U.S. forces
and the site of the first reported cases of U.S. prisoner torture. A
Belgrade-based airline, Kosmas Air, also linked to Bout, is reportedly
transporting weapons from Serbia to both Iraq and Afghanistan.

*Bright Aviation AN-12 at Zurich airport in May 2005. Bout's aircraft
crossed paths at numerous airports with CIA prisoner flights.

The firm and documented connections between Bout (the smuggler for Al
Qaeda and the Taliban) and Christian fundamentalists and Russian-Israeli
mob interests provide yet more proof that the forces behind 9-11 and other
terrorist attacks represented far more than a bunch of cave dwelling
Islamist insurgents in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. As 9-11
co-chair Thomas Kean recently said, if there was a wider conspiracy behind
9-11 it would be a "monstrous" act. Other than Wahhabi mosques and
madrassas around the world, the monsters behind 9-11 and other attacks can
also be found in mega-churches in the South, oil company board rooms in
Houston, airfields in the emirates of the Persian Gulf, Hasidic-run "blood
diamond" centers in Europe and New York, GOP lobbying firms on K Street,
and dank and dark arms warehouses in Ukraine and Moldova.

The Wayne Madsen Report
 http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

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