THE BIN LADEN CONNECTION (Barclays Bank)

Member Name: Aang

Product:	Barclays Bank
Date:	20/01/02 (468 review reads)
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I am leaving Barclays. Barclays has 'links to the bin Ladens' and to the selling of military equipment to the Third World. Over the years that I was a customer of Barclays, they provided often lousy, could-not-care-less service.

I was living in Asia. I had lots of money invested with Barclays and I had a Barclays Visa card. I used the Visas card in a hotel which, I later discovered, charged me twice for my stay. I sent full details of the fraud to Barclays who then, having refunded my money, took away my Visa card. I needed that cancelled card! Barclays did not reply to my letters.

When I lived in London, they closed my local Barclays branch. At the new branch, a longer journey from my home, I found the staff casual and unhelpful.

I moved branches again, and there was no improvement in the service.

Where does bin Laden come into all this? Barclays plc is a 'core investor' in a merchant bank, Middle East Capital Group, set up in the Channel Islands by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law, Khalid bin Mahfouz. (Source: www.onlinejournal.com)

Mahfouz was the principal shareholder in BCCI ('Bank of Criminals and Cocaine International') when it carried out the biggest fraud in financial history. BCCI had links to the Iran-Contra business. Mahfouz owned the National Commercial bank, the world's largest private bank, from which money went missing. Sami Baarama helps represent the Mahfoud family interest on Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

Intelligence sources (according to Kevin Dowling in an article in www.onlinejournal.com)
state that Mahfouz's man Sami Baarama is a member of one of the Carlyle Group's advisory boards. Carlyle is one of the USA's biggest defence contractors. Former members of the Bush and Reagan governments 'who were linked to the BCCI story', including George Bush senior, have built Carlyle into the world's biggest private equity company. The
Wall Street Journal reported that the Bin Ladin family has investments in Carlyle.

Khalid bin Mahfouz is directly linked to Osama bin Laden through banks, holding companies, and foundations.

Le Monde reported on 26 September 2001 that bin Laden's half-brother Yeslam's company, Avcon Business Jets SA, had offered training courses for pilots at a certain Florida flying school involved in the events of 9/11.

So what are the links? Bin Laden - Bush - BCCI - Mahfouz - Barclays?

Then, take the story of Barclays and the starving people of Tanzania.

The Guardian's front page headline was excellent :

"JUST WHAT THEY NEED - A £28 MILLION AIR DEFENCE SYSTEM."

Herr Tony Blair has given the go-ahead for our government to sell a MILITARY air traffic control system to Tanzania. (This was opposed by Gordon Brown, Clare Short and Patricia Hewitt, but supported by fascist Pinochet's pal Jack Straw).

The deal is being financed by a £40 million LOAN FROM BARCLAYS. Tanzania has vast debts, half the people have no access to clean water, and the annual average income is £170.

The International Civil Aviation Authority, in a report to the World Bank, said the military air traffic control system was 4 times too expensive and was not adequate to improve the safety of civilian aircraft.

So, I am fed up with Barclay's poor service and I am not happy with their links to A. People who linked to BCCI and B. people making their money from selling armaments to poor people.

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