AW: [ RadSafe ] Re: Sarkozy pushes nuclear energy in Mideast

Wed Jan 23 16:55:11 CST 2008

Mike,

Thank you for this explanation of BCCI activities. I still lack the
information on who owned the bank and what the connection to nuclear energy
should be, not to talk about Sarkozy's visit the Near East. At the moment
there is a case in an Austrian court, where one of the biggest banks lost
appr. 4 Billion US$ because the supervisory board allowed a speculator to
loose it. Austria has a population of 8 million inhabitants - so what about
BCCI's losses? It seems that in the Austrian case not even corruption and
bribing was involved.  Nevertheless I wonder again, what this has to do with
Nuclear Power and especially what this has to do with the French
involvement? If so many banks in so many countries were involved, why is
only the US mentioned? 

Best regards,

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 Brennan, Mike (DOH)
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Jänner 2008 23:18
An: radsafe at radlab.nl
Betreff: RE: [ RadSafe ] Re: Sarkozy pushes nuclear energy in Mideast 

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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