BCCI--your friendly neighborhood bank?

August 22, 2004 11:58 AM

A little tale of 2 men, and one bank, with special guest stars Osama bin Ladin, Saddam Hussein, Abu Nidal, and Jackie O. more here, including passages deleted from the final report.
posted by amberglow (14 comments total)

Didn't Kerry also blow the lid off of Iran Contra?
posted by delmoi at 12:12 PM on August 22, 2004

yup. This is related to that whole thing, i believe.
posted by amberglow at 12:16 PM on August 22, 2004

Great links, amberglow. Thanks.

delmoi, he did indeed.
posted by homunculus at 12:17 PM on August 22, 2004

(Same article.)
posted by homunculus at 12:19 PM on August 22, 2004

yours is better--no login needed : >
posted by amberglow at 12:37 PM on August 22, 2004

BCCI: Why conservatives should drop their "Kerry is focusing on his four months in Vietnam since he can't run on 20 years of doing nothing in the Senate" talking point before it bites them in the collective ass.
posted by jbrjake at 12:46 PM on August 22, 2004

John Kerry: busts terrorists' financiers
George Bush: does business with terrorists' financiers
posted by caddis at 1:58 PM on August 22, 2004

BCCI: Why conservatives should drop their "Kerry is focusing on his four months in Vietnam since he can't run on 20 years of doing nothing in the Senate" talking point before it bites them in the collective ass.

Not if most people never hear about it. Since the candidates are obsessed with history anyway, the Kerry campaign should at least make an ad pointing out that he was going after terrorist finances this far back. This piece of history is more relevant to the threat of terrorism today than the debate over who did what in Vietnam is.
posted by homunculus at 7:40 PM on August 22, 2004

caddis: How about "While John O'neill was serving with Kerry, George W. Bush was banking with Osama."
posted by bashos_frog at 8:54 PM on August 22, 2004

Bush was passed out in a no-tell motel with hookers and blow somewhere in Alabama while Kerry was in Vietnam, I think.
posted by amberglow at 9:14 PM on August 22, 2004

George W. Bush borrowed $25 million from Osama Bin Laden's bank, and blew it all on hookers, booze and blow. And during the hangover, he traded away Sammy Sosa.

Now there's a message for the heartland.
posted by bashos_frog at 9:18 PM on August 22, 2004

Now, where'd I leave that copy of Final Cut Pro....
posted by bashos_frog at 9:19 PM on August 22, 2004

Mark Lombardi on BCCI. And here's the thread in which we discussed him - double thanks amberglow.

Also, BCCI was one of Britain's lower moments as we struggled to wash our hands of the whole sordid affair and fob the regulatory burden off onto Luxembourg.
posted by dmt at 8:28 AM on August 23, 2004

And not surprisingly, I've still not heard anything about this from any of the journalists-turned-historians in the media who are all totally fixated on Vietnam at the moment.
posted by homunculus at 10:47 AM on August 24, 2004