[ RadSafe ] Re: Sarkozy pushes nuclear energy in Mideast

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

BCCI was The Bank of Credit and Commerce International, was one of the more successful examples of what can be done with drive, determination, large amounts of capital, and freedom from regulatory restrictions achieved through fancy footwork, well placed corruption, and a lack of personal involvement with the truth.  The people behind BCCI bought banks in many countries, often using the assets of the bank to pay the loans they had made to themselves for its purchase.  Money and debt were moved between banks in different countries in order to hide irregularities from the haphazard auditing and regulating that couldn't be bribed away.  Banking for criminal activities were a secondary profit center, but pursued with an amazing lack of discrimination.  Although the true 'take' from BCCI will probably never be known (in part because many of the records needed to figure it out were moved to a country owned by one of the principles), but on the order of $20 billion stolen from millions of depositors and shareholders is about right.

To the extent that BCCI was a company and not a country, and that the headquarters and record were located physically in London, and the looted banks were in a number of countries, there is a compelling case that under international law regulators should have access to them.  However, there is no reason to believe that the owners/operators of Abu Dhabi will ever let them, and that eventually enough money will be 'donated' to enough policy makers that the regulators will have other priorities. 

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Franz Schönhofer
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:17 PM
To: 'Clayton J Bradt'; radsafe at radlab.nl; Marcel Schouwenburg
Subject: AW: [ RadSafe ] Re: Sarkozy pushes nuclear energy in Mideast 

I severely protest the distribution of clear US-military propaganda distributed at RADSAFE again. This is not even a forwarding of some propaganda, because no source is given. 

I do not know, what BCCI means. No independent country in this world is obliged to give any whatever information to the USA until it has been established by international law to be provided to international bodies. The further comments that Abu Dhabi has "failed" to "provide the USA with information" is therefore absolutely unacceptable. 

Would anybody on RADSAFE please stop this US propaganda. 

Franz

Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
MinRat i.R.
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Wien/Vienna
AUSTRIA


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag von Clayton J Bradt
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Jänner 2008 18:06
An: radsafe at radlab.nl
Betreff: [ RadSafe ] Re: Sarkozy pushes nuclear energy in Mideast 



"U.A.E. Foreign Affairs Minister Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan responded to similar criticism this past week after the emirates signed a deal with France to build two third-generation nuclear reactors."

The al-Nahyan family-owned country of Abu Dhabi should be compelled to give up the records it has on BCCI before being allowed to purchase nuclear technology. BCCI was neck-deep in the A. Q. Khan network along with other black market nuclear technology and conventional arms dealers, drug traffickers and money launderers. After BCCI's collapse, its international headquarters, records and remaining officers where removed from London to Abu Dhabi to prevent US and other investigators from gaining access.

According to the Executive Summary of the Report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations by Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown,December
1992  (http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/):

"From November, 1990 through the present, Abu Dhabi has failed to provide documents and witnesses to U.S. law enforcement authorities and to the Congress, despite repeated commitments to do so. Instead, it has actively prevented U.S. investigators from having access to vital information necessary to investigate BCCI's global wrongdoing."

Neither Abu Dhabi, nor the al-Nahyan family should be trusted with nuclear technology if they aren't willing to come clean on what it knows about BCCI's operations.

Clayton J. Bradt
dutchbradt at hughes.net


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