Hands off the fat guy in the chicken suit, Mr. Mogul

By Greg Palast
Online Journal Guest Writer

May 10, 2004—When the fattened cats at Disney put the kibosh on
Michael Moore's new film, "Fahrenheit 9-11," they did more than
censor an artist. Gagging Moore is only the latest maneuver in
suppressing some most uncomfortable facts: the Bush
administration's killing off investigations of Saudi Arabian funding of
terror, including evidence involving a few members of the bin Laden
family in the USA.

I know, because, with my investigative team at BBC television and
The Guardian of Britain, I wrote and filmed the original reports on
which Moore's new documentary are based.

On November 11, 2001, just two months after the attack, BBC
television's Newsnight displayed documents indicating that FBI
agents were held back from investigating two members of the bin
Laden family who were fronting for a "suspected terrorist
organization" out of Falls Church, Virginia—that is, until September
13, 2001. By that time, these birds had flown.

We further reported that upper level agents in the US government
informed BBC that the Bush administration had hobbled the
investigation of Pakistan's Khan Laboratories, which ran a flea
market in atomic bomb blueprints. Why were investigators
stymied? Because the money trail led back to the Saudis.

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Why the heck can't agents follow the money, even when it takes
them to Arabia? Because, as we heard repeatedly from those
muzzled inside the agencies, Saudi money trails lead back to
George H.W. Bush and his very fortunate sons and retainers. We
at BBC reported that too, at the top of the nightly news, everywhere
but America.

Palast nails it again

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he said he went after Clinton during his presidency, but that is what an even-handed mucracker does. And now he is on the side of justice and I say "GOOD FOR MR. PALAST" I read his book... but it was difficult because it was painful to see the crimes in black and white.