The traditions of the Arabian peninsula are that you allow another to stay
at your home as long as they want. If a guest sees something they like it
is customary for the host to give that object as a gift. Obviously this
can be straining if the host is a Saud family prince and the guest is a
lowly Bedouin. The Saud family uphold this practice but only among those
of comparable wealth. To circumvent this problem the Saud family build high
walls around their palaces. It is no wonder Ambassador Prince Bandar bin
Sultan bin Abdul Aziz has built his palaces with difficult accessibility.
One need just drive to the entrance of his palace on Chain Bridge Road just
down from the CIA headquarters in McLean. The Saud family are very courteous
and accommodating to those who are wealthy and/or powerful while disdaining
the poor and powerless. This is one of the reasons they frequently run afoul
of US middle class citizens and need the State Department to bail them out
with such ruses as retroactive diplomatic immunity. Ambassador Prince Bandar
bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz has been infinitely more tactful than many other
members of his family. For instance, on many occasions he has given substantial
donations to various charities or civic organizations within the Aspen area
where he spends much of his time hosting Washington insiders at his local
palace. This has endeared him to the locals. He is allowed to live in his
Aspen palace unhampered by the conflicts of the world beyond the mountains.
More to the point, he is allowed to summon his Washington retainers away
from raised eyebrows and prying media.
A Prince Faisal tore down an estate previously belonging to an old River
Oaks family to build a marble palace. It has been nicknamed "the pleasure
mausoleum" because of the Prince's extensive use of marble. The property
is constantly guarded even though the Prince left Houston when his behavior
became notorious. Prince Faisal is said to have designed a swimming pool
up against his neighbors border contrary to local ordinances. When told,
he promptly went to the neighbor and told him he wanted to buy his estate
and to name a price. The neighbor is said to have tripled the actual value
whereupon the Prince cut a check providing the neighbor move out of the
estate within a week. The Prince now uses this abutting estate as a guest
house for his palace. During Prince Faisal's brief time at his River Oaks
palace, he had many parties night after night featuring deviant sexual behavior.
He had a bevy of impressionable young US girls for whom he leased BMWs,
Mercedes, etc. The girls were allowed to keep clothes and jewelry purchased
on the Prince's account when they were allowed to go shopping. A bodyguard
was assigned each girl so the Prince could control their movements. They
had to abide by the Princes wishes, especially during his parties. The recorded
owner of the palace is a realty firm. There are several Saud family palaces
most probably under corporate names around the River Oaks section of Houston.
The Saud family continue to make plans for their asylum within the US when
they are deposed. This palace most probably will again be actively used
by the Saud family when they are kicked out of the Arabian peninsula. US
citizens must keep a vigil against the chosen Washington politicians, public
relations firms, lobbyists, lawyers, consultants and special interests securing
this future mass asylum for a family who have enslaved and tortured US citizens.
The Arab citizenry under the control of the Saud family must not
let the Saud family run to the palaces they are now building within the
US. These Arab citizens must stop illicit Saud family asylum seekers just
as the Iranians put up a fuss when David Rockefeller tried to influence
President Carter to grant asylum to the Shah. The Saud family must not be
allowed to collect on their hidden IOU's. If the Saud family's Washington
retainers are successful with asylum requests and a good part of the Saud
family are firmly ensconced within the US, as seems to be the plan, they
must realize they will be legally impotent having lost the Washington "special
relationship" they now have. They may be in for a rude awakening. A
group of corrupt Houston lawyers and judges have been looting the estates
of wealthy naturalized citizens. It seems these unwitting foreign born are
set upon through nebulous business schemes or staged legal conflicts and
soon find themselves a lot less wealthy. We have heard this group are just
waiting for the day the Saud family settles down in their Houston area palaces
without the State Department "freedom from prosecution card" they
have become so accustomed to utilizing.
A Prince Faisal was arrested in England for possession of drugs, allegedly heroin and cocaine. Prince Faisal has had several internationally noted criminal brushes with the police. This time his extended family did not put any bail up for him. Obviously the Saud family have decided to allow the vagaries of the common folk rule Prince Faisal's destiny.
Vietnam Veterans enslaved and tortured by the Saud family were approached
by a CNN producer who said he was investigating the abuse of US citizens
in Saudi Arabia. The Vietnam Veterans worked with him for approximately
two years giving him documentation and leads to other Vietnam Veterans enslaved
and/or tortured by the Saud family. Approximately 200 hours of video were
taken of US citizens discussing their traumatic tortures at the hands of
the Saud family. The producer aired a small segment on CNN in the Washington
area. Shortly thereafter the producer was no longer with CNN and ended up
working for a small trade magazine. After waiting a reasonable time for
an airing of the planned documentary, the Vietnam Veterans asked for their
documents and photographs back from CNN. These documents included a photograph
of a Saud family torture chamber similar to that allegedly used by the Iraqis
in Kuwait as well as one depicting a palace prison for sex slaves. Turner
Broadcasting Assistant General Counsel reports; "we are looking through
the files in the CNN Washington Bureau, also in an effort to determine whether
CNN has in its possession any of Mr. Mallard's materials."C19 CNN Assistant
General Counsel later reports: "Although I have not heard from you
concerning particulars of any documents and/or photographs which Mr. Mallard
believes are still in CNN's possession, CNN has expended a great deal of
effort in looking through its materials and has been unable to find anything
which belonged to Mr. Mallard. ... it is our understanding that all materials
of Mr. Mallard's were returned to him quite some time ago."C20 Peter
Truell and Larry Gurwin in their book False Profits say: "Through this
long-secret relationship, the Saudis have even brought themselves close
to - perhaps directly into - an ownership position in Ted Turner's Cable
News Network (CNN). At the center of this scheme was a group of Saudi intelligence
operatives with intimate ties to both BCCI and the CIA."C21 Several
pages later they go on to say: "In the mid-1980s, Turner was desperately
short of capital and on the verge of bankruptcy. In 1987 ... [there was]
a $560,000,000 rescue of Turner's company. ...Were BCCI and its friends
in Saudi intelligence behind the bailout of Turner Broadcasting? If so,
were they seeking to influence public opinion in the United States and other
countries where CNN operates?"C22 The Vietnam Veterans also incurred
another case of missing documents when slides depicting Saud family atrocities
against US citizens disappeared from The Boston Globe. An Associate Editor
of the Boston Globe reports; "I wish to inform you repeated efforts
have been made to locate the slides ... without success."C23 Soon after
disappearance of slides, photographs and documents from CNN and the Globe,
the Saud family government severely restricted visas for foreign photographers.
This policy continues to this day.
Ron Brown should be considered the typical Washington insider. Ron Brown
had many titles in Washington. He was at one time Chairman of the National
Democratic Party appointed to that position by others who saw nothing wrong
with his behavior. He ended his career by being Secretary of Commerce constantly
looking for side deals that were personally rewarding. Again, by virtue
of being appointed to these prestigious positions, the Democratic Party
and the Clinton Administration saw nothing wrong with his behavior. New
York Times reports: "Mr Ly Thanh Binh ... [has been] telling reporters,
Congressional staff members and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation
... that Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown had sought a bribe from the Vietnamese
Government in return for his help in lifting the trade embargo against Vietnam."C24
Mr Binh who reported the alleged solicitation said; 'My motive purely is
that I do not believe in unethical government conduct.' ... Mr. Brown seem
to contradict statements put out earlier by his aids. ... Mr. Brown flew
to South Florida on a private jet, met with Mr. Hoa and told him he wanted
to be 'the exclusive lobbyist' for Vietnam ... Mr. Brown wanted $700,000
and other economic concessions. Mr. Binh said the money was to be placed
in a Singapore bank account controlled by a friend of Mr. Brown."C25
Through the Freedom of Information Act we have found Secretary of Commerce
Ron Brown in his trip to Saudi Arabia met with a number of Saud family members
and their associates. The Summary Schedule says Secretary Brown also met
in a country team briefing with CEO of AT&T Network Systems International
and the Managing Director of AT&T Saudi Arabia. The New Yorker says:
"Fahd had agreed to give a four-billion-dollar telephone contract to
A.T.&T.. European competitors complained that the American bid had been
far higher than theirs - twice as high, in fact. Fahd was prepared to pay
dearly for his relationship with the United States."C26 For more on
the Brown/ATT relationship please contact this newsletter. ATT gave $765,763,
to the Democratic Party between 1993 and 1995. King Fahd also placed a $3.6
billion order with Boeing. Boeing gave $65,000 to the Democratic National
Committee. Clinton is forcing a pliant King Fahd to accept the US corporations
over their European competitors. What could be the reasoning? Assistant
Secretary of Defense/Secretary of Navy James Webb reports in a New York
Times article: "The President appears to follow the constitutionally
questionable (albeit effective ) approach used by the Bush Administration
in the Persian Gulf war: putting troops in an area where no American forces
have been threatened and no treaties demand their presence, then gaining
international agreement before placing issue before Congress."C27 The
Europeans persist on backing a "questionable" Presidential policy
while continuing to lose out on the resulting Saud family contracts. During
Secretary Ron Brown's first months in office he was responsive to the plight
of the Vietnam Veterans enslaved and tortured by the Saud family, that is
until he returned from a trade mission to Saudi Arabia. Upon returning Secretary
Brown called the plight of the Vietnam Veterans a negative and refused to
aid in the negotiations to settle this dispute. At this same time he was
actively and successfully pursuing negotiations between large US corporations
and the Saud family. The Washington Post reports: "Clinton yielded
to 'resurgent mercantilism' and allowed Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown
to become the U.S. government's human rights spokesman, Human Rights Watch
Executive Director Kenneth Roth said: ... 'So thoroughly did the quest for
foreign markets eclipse human rights that Secretary Brown made the audacious
claim, without presidential contradiction, that ... the public stigmatization
of repressive regimes - for decades indispensable to the defense of human
rights - is a mere 'feel-good policy' that accomplishes nothing,"C28
The Washington Post reports: "A Brazilian businessman arranged a large
loan to a friend of Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown, which was used to
buy a Washington town house now occupied by the friend and owned by Brown,
according to U.S. News & World Report. ... [The businessman] is an adviser
to Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. ... [The businessman]
held a dinner party at his home in Sao Paolo for Brown when he headed a
trade mission to Brazil"C29. It has been learned that Secretary of
Commerce Ron Brown left an estate which is said to include a sizable cache
of monies in a Grand Cayman off shore account. This off shore account is
said to be in his own name. He did not make any effort to hide it under
a number, shell corporation or one of his associates names. The behavior
of Secretary of Commerce Ronald H Brown should be considered the rule and
not the exception in Washington. Usually Washington types do not meet with
an untimely death and are able to pass their hidden accounts to others without
notice during their retirement years. At this time it is not known whence
these Cayman monies could have come or how much if any came from foreign
countries, US corporations or the Saud family. It is believed that Ron Brown
never registered as an agent of a foreign country or a lobbyist for corporations
either before of after he became Secretary of Commerce. This is better left
to the world media to track.
The Committee Against the Sauduction of Washington has been told the
Treasury Department keeps records of the more substantial foreign investments
made within the United States. Through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
we hope to obtain a list of Saudi Arabian investments within the United
States.Treasury reports:"The Department of Treasury regulations ...
require that before a FOIA request can be processed, requesters must state
how the records released will be used. This information is used to determine
the requester's category for fee purposes, not to determine the releasability
of any records."C30 We hope to determine the official amount of monies
invested within the United States so that we may then find any monies secreted
by the Saud family covertly under shell companies. We believe this will
facilitate the repatriation of these monies by the new government when the
Saud family are deposed.
Dear Reader:
Again, we do not believe any US military personnel should be in Saudi Arabia
to aid the perpetuation of the Saud family regime at the expense of the
Arabs they control. These are internal matters better left to the citizens.
The only ones to benefit from preserving the power of the corrupt repressive
Saud family are the favored Washington politicians, lawyers, lobbyists,
consultants and special interests who have a vested interest in perpetuating
the Saud family regime. Washington insiders seek out any loose money. We
have seen in this news letter insight into what a corrupting force the Saud
family can be with vast wealth skimmed from the oil reserves they control.
If allowed asylum within the US they would most probably be a morally and
ethically destabilizing force to the entire US society, more so than they
are now.
We thank those who have contributed documentation.
Herb Mallard
National Press Club member
Co-Chairman
"If I can do this to Americans I can do it to you.
What chance do you think you have? I have power. I have connections."
King Fahd's prior business partner publicly torturing Vietnam Veterans in
front of other foreign workers.
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