1979 Is the year that G.W. Bush formed "Arbusto" (Spanish for shrub or bush) Energy company. James Bath financed it with $50,000 in return for 5% of the company. Bath was the only US business rep for Osama Bin Laden's brother Salim Bin Laden. After 9-11, Bush denied even knowing Bath but later admitted the business arrangement. Bath was also connected to the BCCI, which had defrauded investors of over $10 billion through the 1980's. BCCI funded Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistanâs fight against the Soviet Union, and helped fund operations in the Iran-Contra, guns for drugs affair which also tied in with Central America during the elder Bush's Vice Presidency.
1981-1989 Bush Sr. was US Vice President. In 1986 G.W. Bush, son of then Vice president G.H.W. Bush, merged his Arbusto Energy company with Harken Energy Corp. Saudi Sheik Abdullah Taha Bakhsh then bought into the company, buying 17.6%. The Saudi Sheik was associated with Khalid bin Mahfouz, who inherited Salim Bin Ladin's interest when He died in 1988. From several different angles, the bush family was tied to the Bin Laden family, passing finances back and forth, making G.W. Bush an indirect financier of Osama Bin Ladin. Mahfouz reportedly attempted in 1999 to transfer $3 million to Osama.
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