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"Texas governor George W. Bush's campaign to become the Republican candidate
in this November's presidential ballot could shortly run into turbulence
because of new information about his past. Indeed, among the figures Bush
dealt with indirectly when he ran oil companies was Saudi banker Khaled Bin
Mahfouz who, Intelligence Newsletter has learned, is currently under house
arrest in a hospital in Taef at the behest of the American authorities. The
latter are looking into contributions Mahfouz is said to have made to
welfare associations close to terrorist Ussama Bin Laden.
...In 1987 Mahfouz's representative in the U.S., Abdullah Taha Bakhsh,
acquired an 11.5% stake in a company in which the Bush was a shareholder,
director and adviser, Harken Energy.
...An American banker named Jacksen Stephens who was to also be deeply
involved in the BCCI affair moved in 1987 to invest $25 million in Harken.
The transaction took place in Geneva with the money was paid through a joint
venture set up between the Union des Banques Suisses and the Geneva branch
of the BCCI; the financial accord was signed by both Stephens and Bakksh.
Other links between Bush and Mahfouz can be found through investments in the
Carlyle Group, an American investment firm managed by a board on which
former president George Bush himself sat. The younger Bush personally held
shares in one of the components of the Carlyle group, the Caterair company,
between 1990-94. And Carlyle today ranks as a leading contributor to Bush's
electoral campaign. On Carlyle's advisory board figures the name of Sami
Baarma, director of the Pakistani financial establishment Prime Commercial
Bank that is based in Lahore and owned by Mafouz."
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