This takes a bit of reading to really understand, but at least,
there is a common thread that seems to link both of these to
Sept 11 2001...
and that thead is the DATE of Sept 11 2001

As we already know the BUSH's are linked to the Bin Ladens,
but it goes a bit deeper than just one or 2 oil companies.
The Saudi Bin Laden Group bought into Iridium satellite systems.

The DATE the documents were signed was ...
September 11 1998

Iridium had also launched a satellite on
September 11 1997

AND the Saudi Bin Laden WEbSITE was launched on
September 11 2000 and expired on
September 11 2001




Anyone see a pattern ?
So i started looking into Iridium...

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I did a little research on the people involved with the Iridium satellite system


if you click the link (of each name), it comes up with a seperate page for each person, i only pasted some of the info here...

I think this is an excellent area open to NEW research !
Phil, maybe you and your group can help !!!


thanks
Brad
http://911review.org/

heres what i have so far...

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Anatoly Ivanovich Kiselev Anatoly Ivanovich Kiselev, CEO of GKNPTs named after M.V.Khrunichev,
HSL, co-author of "Proton" space craft, many orbiters and ICBMs, was born.
Anatoly I. KIselev
Deputy Operation Director of the Khrunichev Plant (196
Production of UR-100 ICBMs

Space Agency Heads Panel on 21 July, Wednesday:
Dr. D. James Baker, Administrator, NOAA (U.S.)
Prof. Sergio De Julio, President, ASI (Italy)
Mr. Mac Evans, President, CSA (Canada)
Dr. K. Kasturirangan, Chairman, ISRO (India)
Prof. Dr. Walter Kröll, Chairman, DLR (Germany)
Prof. Antonio Rodotà, Director-General, ESA
Mr. Isao Uchida, President, NASDA (Japan)
Space Agency and Industry Heads Panel on 22 July,
Thursday:
Mr. Jim Albaugh, President, Boeing Space & Communications
Group (U.S.)
Dr. Gérard Brachet, Director-General, CNES (France)
Mr. Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, NASA (U.S.)
Dr. Anatoly I. Kiselev, Khrunichev State Research & Production
Space Centre (Russian Federation)
Mr. Yuri N. Koptev, Director-General, Russian Space Agency
(Russian Federation)
Mr. J. G. Vaz, President, Brazsat (Brazil)
Coordinator:
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

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Leo Mondale

Leo Mondale joined Inmarsat in September 2004 and is based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Mondale is a lawyer, and was most recently a partner in Thaler Associates, a firm providing consulting and transactional services to enterprises engaged in transatlantic business. Mr. Mondale served as president of the Washington, D.C. office of Arianespace Inc. from March to December 2000, and was responsible for sales, marketing and governmental affairs in the United States. Prior to that role, he was involved in the Iridium project initiation programme at Motorola Satellite Communications, and spent the following nine years at Iridium in a range of posts, including senior vice president and chief financial officer. Mr. Mondale has a BA from the University of Minnesota and a JD from George Washington University, Washington D.C.


previously served as vice president of Fairchild Space & Defense Corporation,
He came to Fairchild after serving as legal counsel to Matra Espace in France and as vice president of Matra Aerospace Inc. in the U.S.

* The newly appointed president of Arianespace said recently that the company's launch schedule will be on schedule for the rest of the year. "The Ariane 5 will go off September 15th and there will be two more launches the rest of the year," said Leo Mondale in a recent interview.
Minnesota-born Mondale is the nephew of former Vice President Walter Mondale.
He came on board to manage the French launch company's U.S. sales, marketing and customer relations last month.
-Arianespace/Space.com link

Created by Motorola in 1987, Iridium has direct ties to Ron Brown and the Democratic Party. Leo Mondale, a nephew of the former vice president, was vice president of strategic planning for Iridium. Mondale and Motorola executive Edward Staino hired four of Brown's former employees to run Iridium. All of them were former DNC fund-raisers, and all of them newly armed with high-level security clearances.

Motorola also hired former White House National Security Council member Dr. Richard Barth. Dr. Barth, according to now CIA Director George Tenet, was very important to the Clinton-Gore satellite export policy. Tenet served in the 1993 White House as a national security advisor to Clinton and Gore.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=20585

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Mark Gercenstein

Mark Gercenstein

President and CEO
Tachyon, Inc.

In the 11/13/2003 edition of ExecutiveBiz we had a chance to catch up with Mark Gercenstein,
President and CEO of Tachyon, Inc..


Tachyon Makes Missile Defense A Broadband Experience

San Diego - Jan 28, 2002
Tachyon Inc., a provider of two-way, enterprise-grade broadband data networking services via satellite,
today announced it has entered into a development partnership with the Space Directorate, space and Missile Defense Battle Lab (SMDBL),
United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC).

The first products resulting from the alliance will be unveiled at the Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC02),
which is a major tactical exercise that assesses how the United States Armed Forces can deploy for a rapid,
decisive operation this decade. Run by the U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM), MC02
will take place in July and August 2002 in the military's Western U.S. training ranges.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/bmdo-02c.html

Tachyon’s partners include General Dynamics Corp. of Falls Church, Va., and Northrop Grumman Corp.


Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) for a terrorist first response readiness exercise: “Tachyon’s connection was excellent. We were able to have people all over the country view the simulated disaster scene over the Web. The command Post was able to watch the exercise unfold live, as well as the response effort. We transmitted large files via FTP, and we published streaming video onto a Web site. We believe that Tachyon’s services will fill several of our needs.”
U.S. Department of the Navy, NCIS.


As Director of International Programs at Motorola during the 1980s, Mr. Gercenstein focused on the aerospace and military markets.
He led an international team that developed and marketed new defense products, securing multi-million dollar contracts in Europe and Asia.
He also served as Director of Marketing and Advanced Systems at Spar Aerospace, Ltd., Canada's only aerospace prime contractor, securing $150 million in contracts on the U.S. Space Station program. He began his career in 1975 at Bendix Aerospace, where he served in engineering and marketing assignments.L-3 Communications SPAR Aerospace Limited
Spar Aerospace - Wikipedia
Spar receives $5 million Engineering Contract
April 17, 2001
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=4522

SPAR
New York-based maker of military-communications systems and flight-data recorders

L3 SPAR
There is significant opportunity for pull-through sales of L-3's high-end avionics products, including aviation recorders,
displays and Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS) and transponders, L-3 officials say.
L-3 is offering to buy Members of Spar's board of directors are unanimously recommending
The transaction to Spar shareholders, L-3 officials say. The offer is expected to close by the end of 2001.
Of Spar's total revenues, approximately 75 percent are derived from military customers, L-3 officials say.

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Edward F. Staiano




Staiano, Edward F Mr. (Self-Employed), (Zip code: 16827)
$1500 to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE on 03/29/04

Staiano, EdwardF. Mr. (Retired), (Zip code: 16827)
$1000 to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE on 04/22/03

STAIANO, EDWARD F MR. (VORRENTO INVESTMENT GROUP/CHAIRMAN),
(Zip code: 16827) $2000 to BUSH-CHENEY '04 (PRIMARY) INC. on 07/16/04

Quickfilter Board member Dr. Ed Staiano (pictured) has been named as company Chairman and co-CEO. Currently serving as Chairman and CEO of the Sorrento Investment Group, LLC, he shares the Quickfilter CEO role with company founder Bob Silco.

Dr. Staiano is currently on the Board of Trustees for Bucknell University; Chairman of Apriva; and Chairman of the Business Development Committee for Acoustic Technologies. He spent 23 years working with Motorola, followed by a period as Chairman and CEO of Iridium World Communications Limited.

Dr. Staiano has bachelor's and master's degrees from Bucknell University, PA, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of New Mexico. He is also a graduate of Stanford University's Institute of Rocket Propulsion.

Quickfilter Technologies, Inc. is a mixed-signal IC company.

http://www.acoustictechnologies.com/.../bofdbody.html


Apriva ISS | Government Solutions
http://iss.apriva.com/policy.aspx
DoD-wide
Purchasing Contract:
DoD Wireless BPA#W91RUS-06-A-0010

DOD reserves gateway to Iridium's global satellite service; other agencies mayfollow

The Defense Department is the largest single customer for Iridium LLC’s financially troubled global satellite communications service.

DOD has reserved one of the consortium’s 12 ground gateways capable of serving up to 120,000 users and 1,000 simultaneous calls. The Army, Navy and Air Force are testing ways to integrate the Iridium satellite network into their communications plans.

At a recent briefing at Iridium’s Washington headquarters, officials said the federal government ranks second on their marketing list, behind the maritime industry and ahead of the energy and construction industries.

Civilian agencies that have expressed interest include NASA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration. FAA plans to use the consortium’s airplane communications equipment for Alaska-to-Siberia air routes.

Also, capacity is limited. Chief executive officer Edward F. Staiano said the satellites handle only about 1.5 billion minutes of calls a year. Iridium is developing products and services for markets such as the government, which already use satellite communications.

Iridium expects to ship its AirSat 1 single-channel aircraft transceiver in April. A five- or eight-channel model for commercial aircraft will be ready early next year. The products will leverage Iridium’s acquisition last year of in-flight telephone service provider Claircom Communications Group Inc. from AT&T Corp. By rebranding in-flight phone sets, Iridium can make its service available on about 1,500 commercial aircraft and 400 business jets. The in-flight service will cost less than other satellite communications and less than Iridium’s own ground service, Staiano said.

FAA’s plan for using Iridium on Siberian routes is a small deal, Meehan said, but talks are under way about using Iridium as a communications element in broader air traffic control systems.

NASA is testing Iridium for its ER-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, the civilian version of the military’s U2-S spy plane, he said.

FEMA has shown interest in Iridium telephones for disaster response, said John R. “Ted” O’Brien, vice president of vertical market sales for Iridium.

Dr. Edward F Staiano Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Iridium LLC and Chairman, Iridium World Communications, Ltd. before joining Iridium LLC was a 23-year veteran of Motorola credited with growing Motorola's General Systems Sector to record levels. The sector is composed of cellular infrastructure, cellular equipment, computer, and network management businesses.


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back to the Saudi Bin Laden Group + WEBSITE

One of the former directors of the Bin Ladin Group.
Philip Lumsden
Registrant:
Saudi Binladin Group (SAUDI-BINLADIN-GROUP2-DOM)
Prince Abdullah Street Jeddah, 21492 SA
Domain Name: SAUDI-BINLADIN-GROUP.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact: *Lumsden, Philip* (PLP239) philip@ARQ.CO.UK
Arq Limited
The Old Post Office George Street Bath, BA1 2EB
UK 01224 312 391
Record last updated on 11-Sep-2000.
Record expires on 11-Sep-2001.
Record created on 11-Sep-2000.
NS0-S.DNS.PIPEX.NET 158.43.129.83

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Now, it gets interesting.

This was no accident, according to a VeriSign technician in Mountainview, Calif.
"This was timed so it would expire on that date," says the technician, who identified herself only by
her first name, Antonette, and by her employee number, 001. Antonette also verified that the information
listed in the whois search was accurate and not tampered with by an outside party. Antonette added that
VeriSign had already been contacted by law enforcement about other attack-related domain names the
company had registered.
"I had a call from the L.A. police," she said. "He was also asking about a domain name that expired on
Sept. 11. I can’t remember the name of it, but it had something to do with the WTC."

he Binladin website was created by a company called Arq Limited, a U.K. web design firm. The
administrative, technical and billing contact listed on the whois search is a man named Philip Lumsden.
After several calls to the U.K., I learned that Arq Limited went out of business, replaced by a company
called *Active 8 Solutions*, which shares the same Bath, England, mailing address and a telephone number
that is only one digit off from Arq Limited’s old number.
I learned one more interesting thing.
"*Mr. Lumsden* left a week ago," said a man who answered the phone at Active 8 Solutions. "I am not aware
of why he left."
The man, who would not give his name, added that he had "no clue" about the saudi-binladin-group.com site.

OK, so what ?
Well,i found the original contact name...
Lumsden, Philip (PLP239) philip@ARQ.CO.UK

It is now....
Philip Lumsden
CyberSol
pcybersol@onetel.net.uk
ph - + 44 (0) 7968 019 205
www.cybersol-ltd.co.uk

TeleMedic Systems Ltd
4, Dunkleys Way
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 2LX, UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 8701 417330
Fax: + 44 (0) 8701 417425
Email: info@telemedicsystems.com
Web: www.telemedicsystems.com

and look at what he is up too ???
http://www.telemedicsystems.com/corpsite/main/tms/press_releases.htm

TeleMedic Systems signs up CyberSol Ltd to deal with business in the Middle East.
CyberSol Ltd and TeleMedic Systems recently signed an agreement for CyberSol to be a distributor of VitalLink to the Middle East.
CyberSol bring together the skills of their technology partners in order to deliver and integrate computer and communications solutions for harsh and extreme conditions. CyberSol are the leading provider of rugged solutions for remote areas and as part of their portfolio wanted to present their customers with the perfect remote medical monitoring solution.
**Philip Lumsden**, Managing Director, CyberSol said, "VitalLink is the perfect tool to have on the CyberSol product list as it is rugged, robust and gives customers peace of mind when they are in remote areas that they are close to medical help, any time, anywhere." With customers covering all areas including military, law enforcement and national security agencies, emergency services, utilities, industrial, oil and gas exploration and processing, and healthcare CyberSol have the contacts for the remote medical solution
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suggested reading, theres more here...
http://citypaper.net/articles/101801/sl.howcol.shtml

Charles Boncelet, a University of Delaware computer and information sciences professor, is an expert on steganography.
Does Boncelet think that happened with saudi-binladin-group.com, which was created by a U.K. web-design firm called Arq Limited?

At first blush, he said no.

"My guess is that it is a coincidence," said Boncelet. Then, later in our conversation, he acknowledged that not only would that have been
"a hell of a coincidence," but "it may be more.
The date suggests that they would know a year in advance what they would do, if that is how they were trying to communicate."



There are a lot of strange coincidences when it comes to saudi-binladin-group.com.

Which brings us to the mysterious case of Paul Gabelia.
According to a police report, on Sun., September 1, 1996, Fairfax County, Va., police discovered human remains in the trunk of a 1991 silver Mercury Sable sedan that had been on fire.
The body’s feet and knees were bound with wire, and jumper cables were wrapped around its neck. Its hands appeared to be free.
A search of motor-vehicle records showed that the car belonged to an Alexandria, Va., attorney named Paul Gabelia and his wife, Nam Dong Kim. At 2 a.m., Sept. 2, Detective R.J. Murphy arrived at the couple’s home, knocked on the door and was greeted by an Asian female wearing blue shorts and a white T-shirt who appeared to have just woken up.
The woman walked past the front door, into the kitchen, shut off the garage light and opened the front door.
"You’re here about my husband," said the woman, Gabelia’s wife Nam Dong Kim. She opened the door and let the officers in. Kim told the police that her husband had left home about 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 1 to attend a business meeting "with some Syrian businessmen," according to the police report. Kim "did not know where this meeting would take place, but stated that Gabelia would frequently meet international businessmen at hotels near National or Dulles airports … [she] stated that Gabelia told her about the Syrians recently and had expressed his suspicion that the source of their money was not legitimate and that he planned to confront them about that."
Kim consented to a search of her house, but she wouldn’t let police examine Gabelia’s computer or a number of life insurance policies.
Kim also told police that she and her husband were experiencing "marital difficulties, but, nothing serious and they would argue occasionally." She added that she and her two children had gone to bed about 11:30 p.m. and that she was worried.
Kim "was cooperative and appeared truthful," Murphy noted in his report.The next day, medical examiner Frances Field found the cause of death to be strangulation.
MORE>>>
http://citypaper.net/articles/102501/sl.howcol.shtml


Middle East with news crews and
also military forces. On a more
positive note Cybersol’s efforts
have resulted in the LiveLink
being purchased for oil company
emergency vehicles.
Now management can communicate
visually with field workers
directing operations based on the
best possible visual information.
For further information or to
discuss your remote inspection
requirements
please contact Phil Lumsden
at:-
pcybersol@onetel.net.uk



OK, besides that, when i started, i did a search for
http://www.arq.co.uk/

The June2001 editition comes up OK....
http://web.archive.org/web/20010616080655/http://www.arq.co.uk/

NOW, when i did that, i got a security warning from Zone alarm.
This is where the warning came from....

http://www.us-saudi-business.org/

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This is about the guy who bought the old domain name
www.saudi-binladin-group.com
(check what he put up there now)
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Last week, Curry bought saudi-binladin-group.com, the domain registered on Sept. 11, 2000, with a preset
expiration date of September. 11, 2001."I was tracking the Internet to get some information about the
Bin-ladin firm when I realized the names were about to expire," Curry says via an early morning phone
call from his home in Los Angeles
Dr. Neil Livingstone, CEO of Global Options, a Washington, D.C.-based counterterrorism and
investigations company, has looked into a number of potentially attack-related domain names registered
well before September 11, 2001.

He had not heard of the domain name Curry now owns and, initially, was intrigued.
http://citypaper.net/articles/110101/sl.howcol.shtml
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So i did a lookup on him...

http://www.shrimpo.com/
Registrant:
shrimpo LLC
11271 Ventura Boulevard #236
Studio City, California 91604
Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: SHRIMPO.COM
Created on: 10-May-99
Expires on: 10-May-07
Last Updated on: 25-Oct-04
Curry, Christopher domains@shrimpo.com
Georgia - Atlanta - Big Pipe Inc
NS1.WEBCORELABS.COM NS2.WEBCORELABS.COM
ICANN Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.

66.244.238.73
OrgName: Big Pipe Inc.
OrgID: BGPP
Address: Suite 400
Address: 630 - 3rd Ave. SW
City: Calgary
StateProv: AB
PostalCode: T2P-4L4
Country: CA
Created: 10-may-1999
Expires: 10-may-2007
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
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Here is some FYI, old archives from the site before it went down...

First, on one of the old pages i found some comapny names (partners)
CATALYST TECHNOLOGY INC.
which (i THINK ?) has to do with palladium in cadalityic converters, and other things.
its quite expensive
That brought me to these people...
http://www.stillwatermining.com/

Another name was...
H.C. Price Company
WHAT'S AHEAD IN 2000
Contractor expects a pretty good year ahead
H. Charles Price, Chairman of the Board of H.C. Price Company, Dallas, Texas, and President of the Pipe
Line Contractors Association H. Charles Price is chairman of the board of H.C. Price Co., Dallas, Texas. He was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and has spent his entire professional career in the pipeline construction business, beginning in 1975 when he worked on Section No. 3 of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System.
http://www.pipe-line.com/archive/archive_00-01/00-01_what-staff_A8.htm

Rense already has some of this info here...
http://www.rense.com/general14/willsomedare.htm

more here...

CHENEY'S GAS PLANT IN TURKMENISTAN
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=20739

if interested, more here possibally linking the whole thing to anthrax...
http://citypaper.net/articles/2002-06-06/pretzel.shtml
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Binladin Telecommunications Company
Jan2001
http://web.archive.org/web/20010124032300/http://www.saudi-binladin-group.com/btc-a.htm
Operating through the Inmarsat satellite network, ensures the international voice, fax and data networks are never out of range
Digital Telecommunications and Switching Systems - the world's leading supplier, providing products and services to telephone operating companies, corporations, governments, universities and other institutions in more than 90 countries world-wide


United Transport Company
Overland transportation and customs clearance based on Jeddah.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010303111919/www.saudi-binladin-group.com/dir-serv.htm

(one big questin about 911, was if the saudi group had anything to do with irridium satellites)
I have a technical background, and irridium never made sense to me. it was a TON of money, and looked like a white elephant coming.
It never made money.
They were made to give cell phone users ability to make calls ANYWHERE, in the jungle, or IN THE SKY ?

http://web.archive.org/web/20010119072400/www.saudi-binladin-group.com/btc.htm
Saudi Binladin Group is also a partner in the Iridium Project which will ultimately provide mobile phone users with a global communication facility.
See the companies they represent. Saudi Binladin Group is also a partner in the Iridium Project which will ultimately provide mobile phone users with a global communication
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current...

www.active8solutions.com = [ 65.61.216.123 ] Registrant:
Active 8 Solutions
3193 Wexford Walk Dr.
Box 123
Smyrna Georgia 30080
US
Domain name: ACTIVE8SOLUTIONS.COM
Administrative Contact:
Schnyder Aaron aschnyder@charter.net
In2net Network Inc. IN2NETWORK (NET-65-61-192-0-1)
65.61.192.0 - 65.61.255.255
Doteasy Technology Inc. IN2NET-65-61-216-0 (NET-65-61-216-0-1)
65.61.216.0 - 65.61.216.255

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LINKS...

Saudi Binladin Group Website


. Business as usual for Bin Laden group after September 11
BIG business that is...


911review.org +IRIDIUM

Saudi Binladin Group

VHJ: Transcript of BBC Expose on Bush, bin Laden and the Carlyle Group


Khashoggi- COHEN + DEAN and 9-11


tpmcafe.com blog 911 + sept_11_date_the_saudi_bin_laden_group


The Bin Laden Galaxy

• Bin Laden Group at Sourcewatch

Adnan Khashoggi Linked to 9/11 Terrorists, Part 37:
Mercenaries

By Alex Constantine

PRELUDE: THE COHEN GROUP AND HOWARD DEAN

October 30, 2003

howard Dean: A Hawk in a Dove's Cloak
By SEAN DONAHUE

"Soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionary, I
don't want my people to be tricked by mercenaries." *
Bob Marley

"howard Dean wants the peace movement to believe that
he is its best hope for bringing change in Washington.
In television ads and presidential debates, Dean has
emphasized his opposition to Bush's decision to launch
a unilateral invasion of Iraq. ... Dean's earliest
statements on foreign policy in the presidential
campaign were written with the help of one of the
architects of the war in Afghanistan, Danny Sebright,
who held the Orwellian title of Director of the
Executive Secretariat for Enduring Freedom at the
Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld. ... When Sebright left
the Pentagon in February of 2002 he went to work for
his old boss, former Secretary of Defense William
Cohen, at the Cohen group, a Washingon-based
consulting company. The firm uses its political
connections to help companies obtain contracts with
the Pentagon and with foreign governments. ..."
http://www.counterpunch.org/donahue10302003.html
--------------------------

>From the moment the towers erupted in flames, the
press has made a willful mess of it. The reporting on
accused 9/11 co-conspirator Omar Sheikh, a radical
Islamist from England, and the Pakistani court
decision to hang him for the 2002 murder of Daniel
Pearl, for example.

The Guardian reported in July 2002: "Both the US
government and Pearl's wife have since acknowledged
that Sheikh was not responsible."

But the Pakistani authorities refused to release Omar
Sheikh "for fear the evidence they produce in court
might acquit Sheikh and reveal too much.... Sheikh is
also the man who, on the instructions of General
Mahmoud Ahmed, the then head of Pakistan's
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), wired $100,000
before the 9/11 attacks to Mohammed Atta, the lead
hijacker."1 The story was more than a prejudicial shot
at Pakistan by the Indian government. Agence France
Press confirmed that a "highly-placed government
source" the "damning link" between "the General and
the transfer of funds to Atta was part of evidence
which India has officially sent to the US. `The
evidence we have supplied to the US is of a much wider
range and depth than just one piece of paper linking a
rogue general to some misplaced act of terrorism,' the
source said." The French report was quoted liberally
in the Wall Street Journal, and Mahmoud was forced to
step down as a result. The French report sank from
view with the resignation of Mahmoud. Of course - as
head of the ISI, he had standing covert ties to Al
Qaeda and the Taliban. Of course ...

His closed conference with Mark Grossman has received
little mention, while attention has been slathered on
others who met with the general on or about September
11, because he lacks name recognition. The ISI
director's meetings with Tenet, Armitage, killer pimp
in the State Department, and other ranking
administration officials have lit up the DarpaNet, but
Grossman's name is scarcely mentioned.

FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds "whispered
cryptically" to AntiWar.com reporter Christopher
Deliso concerning Grossman's little-known role in the
Valerie Plame affair. Grossman, she said, "has not
been as high profile in the press" but "don't overlook
him – he is very important."2


No John Dean

His importance is multilateral. Mark Grossman is
considered a key figure in the Plame investigation,
but prosecutor Fitzgerald has his own hidden
conflict-of-interests, and is not likely to make
substantive progress in the case against any ranking
official. A Wikipedia entry explains his appointment,
and when considered in context, why the investigation
has no legs: " ... Fitzgerald was named by Deputy
Attorney General James B. Comey after then-Attorney
General John Ashcroft recused himself from the case
due to conflicts of interest. ..." Corney "appointed
the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, close friend and former
colleague Patrick Fitzgerald, as Special Counsel to
head the CIA leak grand jury investigation. ... In
August 2005, Corney left the DOJ and he is now General
Counsel and Senior Vice President of LOCKHEED
MARTIN."3 The deputy AG has been richly rewarded.
Fitzgerald can expect the same if he plays ball. Off
duty, Mark Grossman sits on the Cohen Group board of
directors - and Cohen interlocks neatly with
Lockheed's board. As mentioned, James M. Loy, senior
counselor at the Cohen Group, directs Lockheed, and so
does Joseph W. Ralston, vice chairman the Cohen Group
- a Lockheed Martin sub-contractor.

Lockheed influence on the prosecution ... Lockheed
influence on the defense ... it wasn't Ashcroft who
should have recused himself, but Fitzgerald, the
moment James Corney went to work for the aerospace
company, because Grossman represents the defense firm
and lobbies contractually on its behalf.

He entered the Plame picture when a memo written on
June 10, 2003 turned up in the files, written by a
staffer in the State Department's Bureau of
Intelligence and Research (INR) on behalf of
Undersecretary of State Grossman. In the memo, he
requested a briefing on INR's opposition to the
administration's contention that Saddam Hussein had
sent out feelers toward securing uranium from Niger.
The Washington Post reported that Grossman - in the
role of acting secretary of state, "since Secretary of
State Colin L. Powell and Deputy Secretary Richard L.
Armitage were out of the country." - wanted the letter
marked "secret" preceding "a meeting at the White
House where the discussion was focused on then growing
criticism of Bush's inclusion in his January State of
the Union speech of the allegation that Hussein had
been seeking uranium. ... Grossman has refused to
answer questions about the letter."4

And he doesn't own up about his meeting with General
Mahmoud, either. Michel Chossudovsky, a professor of
economics at the University of Ottawa, studied the
question and concludes: "In assessing the alleged
links between the terrorists and the ISI, it should be
understood that Lt. General Ahmed as head of the ISI
was a 'US approved appointee.' As head of the ISI
since 1999, he was in liaison with his US counterparts
in the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and
the Pentagon. Also bear in mind that Pakistan's ISI
remained throughout the entire post Cold War era until
the present, the launch-pad for CIA covert operations
in the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Balkans. ... The
Bush Administration had sought the 'cooperation' of
those who were directly supporting and abetting the
terrorists. Absurd, but at the same time consistent
with Washington's broader STRATEGIC and ECONOMIC
objectives in Central Asia."5

It is certain that those objectives were all that
preoccupied Grossman as he gazed across his polished
desk at Atta's generous benefactor. But were these the
objectives of the State Department ... or the Cohen
Group?

"Access, Insight and Intelligence" is the motto of the
Cohen Group.

Access: "In December 2000, shortly before Cohen left
office, the Pentagon awarded Iridium Satellite LLC a
$72 million contract , without competitive bidding,
that helped save the company's communications
satellites from destruction. David R. Oliver Jr.
[current director of business development and
technology for Naval Systems, Northrop Grumann
Electronic Sensors and Systems Division], who was a
senior procurement official at the time, said that he
and Cohen were the Pentagon's principal advocates for
the Iridium deal. Over the past two years, Iridium has
paid the Cohen Group about $400,000 to lobby the
House, Senate and Department of Defense, according to
lobbying disclosure statements."6

Insight: "At the hub of the Cohen network, the former
secretary makes frequent appearances on CNN, where he
is a commentator on world affairs. He has served as a
director of several corporations, some of which made
arrangements to pay the Cohen Group for bringing in
business, according to documents filed with the SEC.7

Intelligence: "Nowadays, most of Cohen's mornings
begin with an 8:30 staff meeting in the "Pentagon."
That's the Cohen Group's name for the conference room
where the daily meeting is held. On any given day, the
gathering may include Joseph W. Ralston, a retired Air
Force general and former vice chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff; James M. Loy, who finished a long
public career as deputy secretary of homeland
security; and Marc Grossman, a former undersecretary
of state. Another prominent member of the firm, former
NATO secretary general and British minister of defense
George Robertson, is based overseas.
They form an elaborate network."8


Postscript: "WASHINGTON -- A top Clinton
administration official, former Defense Secretary
William Cohen, sits on the board of Global Crossing.
This is the telecom giant that went belly up Jan. 28
in the fourth largest bankruptcy in U.S. history,
leaving a trail of inflated revenues, top executives
enriching themselves, employees and shareholders
holding the bag, and Arthur Andersen acting as both
consultant and auditor."9 GHW Bush addressed the
directors of Global Crossing start-up, and as payment
he received stock worth $13 million when the company
went public. Global Crossing employees contributed
another million for GW's campaign.10

[TO BE CONTINUED]

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NOTES

1) Michael Meacher, "The Pakistan connection,"
Guardian, July 23, 2002.
http://911review.org/inn.globalfreep...onnection.html

2) Christopher Deliso, "Lesser Neocons of L'Affaire
Plame," AntiWar.com, November 24, 2005.
http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=8137

3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Comey

4) Deliso.

5) Michel Chossudovsky, "Cover-up or Complicity of the
Bush Administration?" Centre for Research on
Globalisation, November 2, 2001.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html

6) See
http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/20...way-whore.html

7) Ibid.

Ibid.

9) Wes Vernon, "Global Crossing Tied to Clinton
Defense Secretary,"
NewsMax.com, February 16, 2002.
http://www.the-catbird-seat.net/GlobalCrossing.htm

10) Greg Palast, "Poppy Strikes Gold," UTNE Reader,
April 8, 2003.
http://gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=207&row=1

In December 2000, shortly before Cohen left office, the Pentagon awarded Iridium Satellite LLC a $72 million contract , without competitive bidding, that helped save the company's communications satellites from destruction. David R. Oliver Jr., who was a senior procurement official at the time, said that he and Cohen were the Pentagon's principal advocates for the Iridium deal.


Over the past two years, Iridium has paid the Cohen Group about $400,000 to lobby the House, Senate and Department of Defense, according to lobbying disclosure statements.


"Several months after Secretary Cohen left office, The Cohen Group was contacted by the Chairman of Iridium to assist with marketing to several government agencies including DoD, as well as foreign governments," Tyrer said in writing. "Obviously, we had no such discussions while in office."

Alex Constantine

911review

One of the signitories of the Iridium deal was
Hasan Bin Laden (Saudi Bin Laden group)


Blair Buys New Home Next to Bin Laden Property in Arab Area in London
Oct 21, 2004
Many of the Arabs that live in the area talk about the 50-year-old Hasan Bin Laden, who is only a year younger than his brother Osama. He lives with his British wife and childrenin an apartment not far from Blair's new home. In summer he and his family from Saudi Arabia stay in the apartment.

One of Blair's new neighbors, who sells newspapers and cigarettes, said,
"I remember him very will; he was always smiling; there is a great difference between him and his brother"

A British Lebanese who owns a commercial place only 40 feet away from Blair's new home, said Hasan can see Blair's new home through his window.
He said he was a friend of Hasan and sometimes the two of them would go out to restaurants.
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html

Brad,

Wow, this is really some outstanding information. I will read through it today, as it is a vast amount of information but some truly remarkable stuff in this Brad! Great work! Did you compile all this research yourself?

Cheers-
phil

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"In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend." --Alexander Hamilton

Connect the Dot-coms

by Howard Altman
The trail of the saudi-binladin-group.com website that I began following two weeks ago has taken me to a couple of very strange places — including a five-year-old mysterious death that may be al-Qaeda’s first hit on U.S. soil — and a very nervous British businessman who thought he was getting the bargain of a lifetime when he purchased the assets of a british web-design firm that created the domain.
First, a little background.
Last week, I reported that a domain created for the Saudi Binladin Group, the construction conglomerate owned by the family of reputed terrorist Osama bin Laden, was registered on Sept. 11, 2000, and had a preset expiration date of Sept. 11, 2001. The date’s significance and the 1-in-365 odds of the website’s expiration date raise questions about the sincerity of the bin Laden family’s disavowal of its notorious 17th son. Especially when you consider that investigators are looking into what role the Internet played in helping the masterminds of the Sept. 11 attacks carry out their plan. Representatives of the Saudi Binladin Group failed to return phone calls and two e-mails seeking comment.
Investigators are examining whether the attackers utilized the science of steganography, the hiding of data (in these cases, audio or visual files transmitted over the Internet), as a method of communicating when and where attacks should be carried out. Using a website’s expiration date would be a technically simplified version of steganography, providing planning information for the attacks not on the website itself, but in information available to anyone conducting a "whois" search of companies that register web domain names.
Charles Boncelet, a University of Delaware computer and information sciences professor, is an expert on steganography. Does Boncelet think that happened with saudi-binladin-group.com, which was created by a U.K. web-design firm called Arq Limited?
At first blush, he said no.
"My guess is that it is a coincidence," said Boncelet. Then, later in our conversation, he acknowledged that not only would that have been "a hell of a coincidence," but "it may be more. The date suggests that they would know a year in advance what they would do, if that is how they were trying to communicate."

There are a lot of strange coincidences when it comes to saudi-binladin-group.com.
Which brings us to the mysterious case of Paul Gabelia.
According to a police report, on Sun., Sept. 1, 1996, Fairfax County, Va., police discovered human remains in the trunk of a 1991 silver Mercury Sable sedan that had been on fire. The body’s feet and knees were bound with wire, and jumper cables were wrapped around its neck. Its hands appeared to be free.
A search of motor-vehicle records showed that the car belonged to an Alexandria, Va., attorney named Paul Gabelia and his wife, Nam Dong Kim. At 2 a.m., Sept. 2, Detective R.J. Murphy arrived at the couple’s home, knocked on the door and was greeted by an Asian female wearing blue shorts and a white T-shirt who appeared to have just woken up.
The woman walked past the front door, into the kitchen, shut off the garage light and opened the front door.
"You’re here about my husband," said the woman, Gabelia’s wife Nam Dong Kim. She opened the door and let the officers in. Kim told the police that her husband had left home about 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 1 to attend a business meeting "with some Syrian businessmen," according to the police report. Kim "did not know where this meeting would take place, but stated that Gabelia would frequently meet international businessmen at hotels near National or Dulles airports … [she] stated that Gabelia told her about the Syrians recently and had expressed his suspicion that the source of their money was not legitimate and that he planned to confront them about that."
Kim consented to a search of her house, but she wouldn’t let police examine Gabelia’s computer or a number of life insurance policies. Kim also told police that she and her husband were experiencing "marital difficulties, but, nothing serious and they would argue occasionally." She added that she and her two children had gone to bed about 11:30 p.m. and that she was worried.
Kim "was cooperative and appeared truthful," Murphy noted in his report.
The next day, medical examiner Frances Field found the cause of death to be strangulation.

On Sept. 4, 1996, Murphy conducted another interview with Kim, this time at police headquarters. What she told him next may bring us back to the saudi-binladin-group.com, or so says the family attorney, Walter Diercks.
Kim told police her husband had printed out a draft of a complex limited-partnership agreement to take with him to his meeting. (A Gabelia friend later provided police with copies of these drafts, which he obtained from Gabelia’s computer. The deals Gabelia had outlined, if completed, would enable a company to hide its assets overseas, primarily in the Netherlands Antilles or the Cayman Islands.)
At police headquarters, the report states that Kim repeated that her husband "was concerned about the origin of the money for this proposed business deal with ‘ARC Limited.’ One subject that Gabelia was going to meet with was supposedly from Syria, while the second subject’s nationality was unknown, but he spoke with a middle eastern accent. Gabelia was also concerned with how the subjects obtained his name and phone number." Kim also told police that for Gabelia, this was a "million dollar deal" and a "deal of a lifetime." Police interviews with Gabelia’s sister revealed that she too was told by Gabelia that he was concerned about this pending business deal.
As police continued their investigation, however, they found that Kim had underplayed their marital difficulties. Things were so bad that Gabelia was drinking heavily and living in the basement. Police also learned that Gabelia had been out of work, had run up more than $100,000 in credit card debt and had taken out more than $1 million worth of insurance policies with Kim as the beneficiary. Those factors, combined with matches found in the car that seemed similar to Boy Scout matches from the Gabelia house and forensic evidence that seemed to indicate that the fire originated in the trunk while it was closed, led the police to conclude that Gabelia’s death was most likely a suicide, not a murder; it is recorded as "suspicious" because no suicide note was ever found.
And there was one more factor cited by police.
They could never find a company called ARC Limited.

But that was not the end of the Paul Gabelia story.
Kim sued one of the insurance companies, which eventually settled the case for $450,000. But it was still not over.
On Oct. 3, 2001, Diercks was reading a Wall Street Journal story that depicted the letterhead of the ARC, the Advice and Reformation Committee, which was signed by Osama bin Laden. The letter appointed a now-jailed terrorist, Khalid al-Fawwaz, as head of ARC’s London office.
Remembering ARC Limited, Diercks seized on the acronym and asked Fairfax Police and the FBI to reopen the Gabelia investigation. Last week, someone who read my piece about saudi-binladin-group.com, which was posted on the WorldNetDaily website (www.worldnetdaily.com), tipped me off that on Oct. 12, the Washington Post reported that local police and the FBI were reexamining the Gabelia case.
A quick Internet search led me to Diercks, who said he was "shocked" to hear about Arq Limited, the web-design firm that registered the saudi-binladin-group.com domain.
"This is too much of a coincidence," said Diercks. "What is really ironic here is that sure, they told him it was ARC Limited, but Gabelia took the information down phonetically. Maybe it was Arq Limited, with a ‘q.’ This guy spent a great deal of time in Saudi Arabia, working in construction. No way he would not have crossed paths with the bin Ladens."
Diercks disputed the police contention that Gabelia killed himself. He offered a statement from a Korean construction company stating that Gabelia was about to sign a deal to provide legal services for about $100,000. Diercks also questioned how anyone could examine a body, find a jumper cable wrapped so tightly around a person’s neck that it left deep furrows in the skin, and say it was a suicide.
Gabelia’s family, he said, is not seeking money. The insurance case is over.
"They just want the truth," he said, adding that he will ask the FBI to investigate Arq Limited.
Julie Hersey, a master police officer with the Fairfax County Police Department, said that contrary to what was reported in the Washington Post, the department was not reopening the Gabelia investigation.
"We said we are always interested in new information, but this case was definitely not reopened," Hersey said.
When I told her about Arq Limited, saudi-binladin-group.com and its Sept. 11, 2001, expiration date, Hersey paused.
"We definitely should know this information," she said.
FBI spokesperson Cindy McCraw said the case was closed as far as the FBI was concerned. "We didn’t find any link, any reason to reopen it," she said, adding that the Washington Post story was "inaccurate." As for saudi-binladin-group.com, she said I should contact the FBI tip line.
Diercks is not surprised that law enforcement has closed this case.
"They don’t want to admit the mistakes they made years ago," Diercks said of law enforcement. "They would just look stupid."

"Hell’s teeth."
Those were the first words out of the mouth of a British gentleman named Peter Wordley when I told him about Arq Limited’s connection to saudi-binladin-group.com and Walter Diercks’ contention that perhaps Arq Limited may be the ARC Limited connected with the death of Paul Gabelia.
Last week, Wordley’s company, JPC Internet, purchased the physical remains of Active8 Solutions, which used to be Arq Limited. When I asked Wordley for a translation, he told me "hell’s teeth" is roughly the equivalent of the U.S. expression "holy shit."
Arq Limited and, later, Active8 Solutions, were both competitors and business partners with JPC Internet, Wordley said. Recently it became clear that the company was in deep financial trouble, so Wordley worked out a deal to buy the company’s desks, computers and its one viable website, www.bath.co.uk, a local guide. Wordley said after I had called the company last week looking for comment, people there began looking around and found out about the Saudi Binladin Group domain.
Then, earlier this week, I called him about Gabelia.
"I am beginning to wonder," said Wordley, who’s considering contacting Scotland Yard or the FBI. "We thought we were getting the bargain of the century. We bought the computers and the desks and the website that, on the open market, would have cost us a lot of money, but it cost us an absolute snit [another British term, meaning very little]. I am beginning to think, ‘Hell, I should move.’ But I have nothing to hide. I am flabbergasted."
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/10...l.howcol.shtml

some of this,actually,MOST of it was written by someone trying to attack Bill Clinton.
Since 9/11research should not be biased, i just wanted people to know that whomever wrote it, probably did not include stuff that would make the republicans look bad, so it might be usefull to go back and re-research this stuff !!
Brad
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IRIDIUM
8/28/98 DAWN (Pakistan) Masood Haider "The brother of Osama bin Laden is a director of a US telecom giant, Irridium LLC, according to reports.


Although the Clinton administration has made Osama the world's most wanted man, the rest of the family does millions of dollars in business with the US, reports say. Sheikh Hasan bin Laden, one of Osama's many brothers in a Saudi family of immense wealth and far- flung enterprises, is listed by the Securities and Exchange Commission as a director of Iridium LLC, the New York newspaper Daily News said. Irridium, which plans to put the first global network of cell phones and pagers into operation next month, has launched satellites four times aboard China's Long March rockets. The launches by Irridium, Hughes Electronics and Loral Space and Communications triggered a furore in Congress this summer amid allegations that China picked up missile targeting know-how from its arrangements with the US firms.


Irridium confirmed that Hasan bin Laden is a director of the Irridium Middle East Corp subsidiary and that the Saudi bin Laden Group, the family's investment arm, has put money into the global phone link firm.."

Mr. Mondale, nephew of the former vice president, was the first employee of Iridium and is the Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning for Iridium LLC. Before joining Motorola, he was a Vice President at Fairchild Space and Defense Corporation where he was responsible for the international and commercial activities of Fairchild Space from 1989 to 1990. Prior to joining Fairchild, Mr. Mondale was Legal Counsel to the then Space Division of Matra, S.A. (now Matra-Marconi Space, N.V.), based in Paris, France, following several years of private legal practice in Washington, D.C. Mondale has guided the marketing, strategic planning, and government affairs disciplines within the company since its inception.

DR. EDWARD F. STAIANO Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Iridium LLC and Chairman, Iridium World Communications, Ltd. before joining Iridium LLC was a 23-year veteran of Motorola credited with growing Motorola's General Systems Sector to record levels. The sector is composed of cellular infrastructure, cellular equipment, computer, and network management businesses.

Iridium has ties to late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and the Democratic party. Leo Mondale and Motorola executive Edward Staino hired four of Brown's former employees with high level security clearances to help run Iridium's project on worldwide telecommunications. In May of 1995 a former assistant secretary of Commerce, Lauri Fitz-Pegado, a long-time friend of Brown and special adviser to the chairman of the DNC, became vice president of the Iridium division called Global Gateway Management. Her responsibilities at Iridium include coordinating meetings and trips with international investors. She was joined there by her former Commerce assistants Pilar Martinez, Charlotte Kea and Andrew Balfour, who was a director under the executive secretary for Commerce.

ROBERT W. KINZIE Chairman, Iridium LLC before joining Iridium was the Director of Strategic Planning for the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) - the 121 member-country international organization, which owns and operates the global commercial communications satellite system. Mr. Kinzie also has over 20 years experience in the satellite communications industry with the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT).

From 1962 to 1965, Mr. Kinzie was an economist at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. He also held positions at the U.S. Bureau of the Census and was on the staff of a United States Congressman.

While at Commerce, Sockowitz, a 1992 Clinton/Gore fundraiser, held a top-secret clearance and kept classified files in a safe. After being transferred to the SBA (without a debriefing) he came back to Commerce and remove 136 files. After he left the SBA he was not debriefed. He now works for the Strategic Planning Group in Bethesda, Md., an international business consulting firm. Justice stopped looking into the security breach matter in December '96 without ever talking to Sockowitz, or his boss whom he followed to SBA, Ms. Lew. Nolanda Hill told Judge Lamberth in March of 1998 that Brown worried that Sockowitz might have ''funneled information to others.'' Documents include satellite encryptions from Hoyt Zia, chief counsel for Commerce's Bureau of Export Administration. Zia is a former Democratic National Committee fund-raiser and close friend of Huang. Also in the Sockowitz files were memos, notes, and file folders from Commerce and the National Security Council on encryption or decoding software, exports and policy options; Satellite-project information; "Space Launch;" "Uranium from Russia;" A CIA report on Russian economic development; and Biographies on foreign political leaders in Bosnia, Croatia, India, Turkey, and Russia.

Insight 9/1/97 Tim Maier concerning Sockowitz ". "He knew what he was doing," says one congressional investigator. "He had to. He held one of the highest level of clearance - top secret with code word." . "He is another Craig Livingstone," says one congressional investigator, referring to the bouncer and political operative who became White House security chief and resigned after supervising the illegal acquisition of 900 FBI files on Reagan and Bush appointees. Congressional investigators believe Sockowitz zeroed in on these files because they were a hot commodity in an explosive high-tech market. So hot were they that in November the CIA "blocked access" and prevented House investigators from viewing the documents taken by Sockowitz even though the investigators had all the proper clearances. "
Motorola took part in Brown trade-mission trips.

The Iridium system is backed by nineteen strategic investors from around the world. Seventeen of the investor partners also participate in the operation and maintenance of 12 ground station "gateways" that link the Iridium system to the public switched telephone networks:

Iridium Africa Corporation Iridium Africa is associated with Mawarid Overseas Company Limited.
Iridium Andes-Caribe is a consortium of private Venezuelan investors
Iridium Brasil is a diversified Brazilian corporation
Iridium Middle East Corporation is owned by Mawarid Overseas Company Limited (see Iridium Africa), and Triniford Investments S.A., which is affiliated with the Saudi Binladin Group. Binladin is among the largest industrial groups in Saudi Arabia.
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center A leading aerospace engineering and manufacturing company in the Russian Federation
Lockheed Martin Corporation A world leader in defense and space systems technology
Iridium Canada, Inc. BCE Mobile Communications, Inc. and BCE Telecom International, Inc. - both of which are affiliated with BCE Inc., Canada's largest telecommunications company
Iridium China (Hong Kong) Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Aerospace, a major diversified industrial group in China and also the parent company of China Great Wall Industries Corporation.
Iridium India Telecom Limited is a consortium of Indian financial institutions that initially invested in Iridium LLC through infrastructure Leasing & Financing Services, Ltd..
Iridium italia S.P.A. is an affiliate of Telecom Italia,
Raytheon Company is one of the world's leading companies in the conception, development, manufacture, and sale of electronic systems, equipment, and components for government and commercial use.
SK Telecom Affiliated with Korea Telecommunications Corporation
South Pacific Iridium Holdings Limited is a subsidiary of PT Bakrie & Brothers, an Indonesia-based diversified holding company.
Sprint Iridium, Inc. is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Sprint Corporation, which is a diversified telecommunications company.
Thai Satellite Telecommunications Co., Ltd. is affiliated with United Communications Industry Co., Ltd., which is the second-largest cellular telecommunications provider in Thailand
Motorola, Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of wireless communications and electronic equipment, systems, components, and services.
Nippon Iridium (Bermuda) Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nippon Iridium Corporation, which is a consortium formed in Bermuda by DDI Corporation
o.tel.o A subsidiary of VEBA AG and RWE AG, two of the largest corporations in Germany
Pacific Iridium Telecommunications Corporation (PITC) is a subsidiary of Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd., a diversified international corporation.

Repeat: Iridium Middle East Corporation is owned by Mawarid Overseas Company Limited (see Iridium Africa), and Triniford Investments S.A., which is affiliated with the Saudi Binladin Group. Binladin is among the largest industrial groups in Saudi Arabia
In 1993, Lockheed Martin (an investor) made one political contribution. In 1995-96, the company made 576 contributions - both to Republicans and Democrats, including $1.6 million in political action committee, or PAC, gifts. Sockowitz walked out with the classified information on the billion-dollar satellite deal that Lockheed entered into with the Khrunichev Space Center in Russia - which is part of the Iridium deal.

Russia's ministry of Atomics (an investor) was allowed to obtain supercomputers capable of designing nuclear weapons. A Russian organized crime figure, Clinton White House guest Grigor Loutchansky, is a player in Iridium's telecommunication plan. Loutchansky is suspected of trafficking in nuclear materials. Sockowitz had a folder called "Uranium from Russia," which may have contained details on US efforts to purchase left over weapons-grade uranium from Russia and revealed where 1,000 tons of such uranium may be stored.

Beijing (an investor) obtained special export waivers. In 1994, AT&T was allowed to send video-conferencing and sophisticated remote command and control systems to a Beijing based company HUA MEI, whose board of directors are members of the People's Liberation Army, or PLA. In 1996 RSA Data Security signed a distribution and development agreement with China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate School Laboratory of Information Security, which trains Chinese intelligence agents. RSA had been courting a relationship with China ever since the company attended an encryption conference in Beijing in 1995. The company toyed with selling its encryption patent to the federal government but never did. Indeed, it obtained a special waiver for sales to Beijing at a time when competitors were being prosecuted for selling similar encryption technology overseas. Sockowitz had the files on RSA and its patented encryption technology. Iridium's Chinese partner, Iridium China (Hong Kong) Ltd., is managed by mainland-born Wang Mei Yue. Wang Mei Yue also happens to be head of China Aerospace International Holdings Ltd. (CASIL) in Hong Kong. CASIL is part of China's defense industrial complex, and is also where Liu Chaoying, the daughter of a top Chinese military official, was employed as a vice president; she is the figure who allegedly funneled money to the Democratic Party. According to the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong, three officials from CASIL sit on the board of Iridium China. China did not have MIRV capability before the Iridium launch.

9/1/97 Tim Maier Insight Nation "… Congressional investigators believe Sockowitz zeroed in on these files because they were a hot commodity in an explosive high-tech market. So hot were they that in November the CIA "blocked access" and prevented House investigators from viewing the documents taken by Sockowitz even though the investigators had all the proper clearances…..Upon first impression the inventory list appears to be a collection of intelligence documents with no apparent common thread connecting them. But there may be. Insight has discovered a trail that leads from Commerce to a Washington based multi-billion dollar satellite company called Iridium. The bulk of the Sockowitz files contain information that could be greatly beneficial to Iridium or its competitors - especially in terms of contracts, customers, and international assessment of foreign countries. Iridium is working with an international team of leading aerospace and electronic leaders in Russia and Red China to construct a worldwide telecommunications network…..Created by Motorola in 1987, Iridium has direct ties to late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and the Democratic party; Leo Mondale, a nephew of the former vice president, is vice president of strategic planning for Iridium. This year Mondale and Motorola executive Edward Staino hired four of Brown's former employees with high level security clearances to help run Iridium's project on worldwide telecommunications. Motorola also took part in Brown trade-mission trips. Lauri Fitz-Pegado, former assistant secretary of Commerce - and a long-time friend of Brown - and special adviser to the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, now is vice president of the Iridium division called Global Gateway Management. She went on board May 5, 1997. Her responsibilities at Iridium include coordinating meetings and trips with international investors. She is joined there by her former Commerce assistants Pilar Martinez, Charlotte Kea and Andrew Balfour, who was a director under the executive secretary for Commerce…"

The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...TAS has learned of a separate joint venture between the Riadys and China Aerospace International (CASIL), known as the Shanghai Commercial Investment Fund. Until now, U.S. government investigators were not able to tie the Riadys to CASIL, a key player in several satellite ventures involving U.S. companies. A CASIL vice president, Liu Chaoying, set up a joint venture with Johnny Chung in California known as Marswell Investment that was financed through a $300,000 wire transfer (some of which Chung donated to the DNC) from the head of Chinese military intelligence. TAS first revealed the Chung- Liu connection two years ago ("While America Sleeps," June 1997). Liu's Hong Kong company, Marswell Investment Ltd., was created in 1995 using subscriber shares from two PLA front companies, Chearfit and Timeway Ltd., which operate out of the same office as a third front company, Silver Faith Holdings, which U.S. government investigators have tied back to the Chinese Triads. Liu Chaoying controls numerous other Hong Kong front companies as well, including Cheung Tai Hong Holdings Ltd., Giant Enterprises, and CASIL Import & Export Company Ltd.

The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...The Lippo-CASIL connection provides new insight into what the Chinese were hoping to get from the Clinton-Gore White House: waivers of U.S. sanctions to give them access to U.S. missile and satellite technology. In April 1993 Clinton waived the Tiananmen sanctions to allow Motorola to launch up to 12 satellites in China for its Iridium global wireless communications network. As part of that deal, the Chinese got help from U.S. companies in designing a "smart dispenser" that enabled them for the first time to launch multiple satellites from a single rocket. According to a December 1996 report from the Air Force National Air Intelligence Center, first revealed by Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz, the Iridium smart dispenser "could be developed into a credible PBV (post-boost vehicle) with a few relatively minor changes." Post-boost vehicles are used to deliver multiple nuclear warheads to separate orbits, so they can strike different targets independently. Multiple warhead technology was a key priority for the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND) collectors, and was a capability the Chinese had previously lacked.
The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...In October 1997, CASIL acquired a 14.71-percent interest in Asia Pacific Telecommunications Satellite Holdings Ltd., a listed company in Hong Kong and New York. APT was founded in 1992, with investors from Hong Kong and Thailand, to own and operate a network of telecommunications satellites. The company now operates two Hughes HS 376 satellites (Apstar-1 and Apstar-1A), and one Space Systems Loral FS-1300 satellite (Apstar IIR), launched between 1994 and October 1997. "The powerful APT...has the largest synchronous satellite transponder capacity available in the Asia-Pacific region," according to a U. S. government cable from Hong Kong obtained by TAS.

The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...But APT served another purpose, according to a recent Pentagon report first revealed in these pages ("Red Star Over Washington," May 1999). Following the failure of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) own network of military communications satellites in 1996, "the Chinese were desperate to find a substitute for military communications. They had no choice but to resort to the use of previously purchased U.S. satellites for their encrypted communications," the report states. Those satellites were owned and operated by APT. "This decision was just a step in the continuing process to integrate Hughes equipment for its military--a decision which goes back to at least 1992. Various munitions license applications during 1995 and 1996 reveal an export pattern of Hughes satellite-related equipment through PLA front companies. They include SCL, CESEC (China Electronic Systems Engineering Company), and Huaying," the DOD memo states. "Ironically, many of these exports did not identify these front companies as being associated with the PLA. From what we now know, Hughes employees in China were knowledgeable that they were PLA-associated entities." None of the licenses were vetted for the PLA association, the memo went on, since a military end-user would have been grounds for denying exports. ...Hughes's failure to disclose the PLA involvement in APT, and in a related cell-phone venture known as APMT, may have violated U.S. export control laws. "In seeking approval of APMT," the Pentagon report states, "Hughes provided only the Singapore address of the APMT joint venture between China and Singapore. This had the deceptive effect of attempting to disassociate the APMT project from the Chinese military and make it look benign, even though the Chinese sought configurations on the APMT satellite that would allow for eavesdropping." The Pentagon discovered that many of the Chinese technicians being trained by Hughes in California were in fact members of the PLA...."

Infoworld / Network World 8/13/99 David Rohde "...Satellite telephony provider Iridium declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday, culminating its struggle to recover from marketing and distribution mistakes dating from last fall's service launch. The company is not ending operations, but rather seeking a court-approved workout plan. Chief investor Motorola said it thinks Iridium can come up with a bankruptcy restructuring plan within 30 days...."

8/13/99 Ilaina Jonas Reuters "…Stocks of two of the three leading satellite telephone companies plummeted Thursday under the weight of major financing woes that cloud their future. Shares of Iridium World Communications LLC dropped more than 28 percent, or 1-11/16, to bottom out at an all-time low of 4-1/4 on the day after the struggling operator of a $5 billion satellite network defaulted on $1.5 billion in loans. The plunge landed the stock -- which 15 months ago was trading at a lofty 72-3/8 -- as the No. 1 percentage loser on the Nasdaq market Thursday….. Late Wednesday Washington, D.C.-based Iridium said it had defaulted on a $800 million loan and another $750 million loan after it failed to meet customer and revenue growth targets required under the larger of the two loans. Iridium, London-based ICO and Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd (Nasdaq:GSTRF - news)., an international group led by Loral Space & Communications Ltd (NYSE:LOR - news)., are scrambling to launch hand-held satellite phone services to allow customers to stay in touch any time from anyplace on the globe. Shares of Globalstar closed down 1/4 to 28. Iridium, the only company to launch service so far, has repeatedly stumbled, and its principal backer, telecommunications equipment maker Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT - news), has raised the possibility that it may have to liquidate….``At this time, banks may feel that Iridium's future is significantly enhanced by a restructuring that includes a significant Motorola cash infusion,'' C.E. Unterberg analyst William Kidd wrote in a research report. But Kidd warned an Iridium bankruptcy ``may be awfully close.'' …."

I haven't read all of this, but the connection to the Iridium satellites is interesting. They were highly publicized for a while, then the worldwide wireless phone service that was offered failed. Since then no one mentions that there are still a large number of satellites out there that cost an enormous amount to put up. Surely someone is using them.