The Saudi Arabia seminar that was addressed by former Vice President Al Gore over the weekend in a speech that criticized the U.S. for being too tough on Arabs was sponsored, in part, by Osama bin Laden’s family.
On Saturday, the state-run Saudi news outlet Arab News reported that the Jeddah Economic Forum, where Gore spoke, was funded by “Saudi Arabian Airlines, the Saudi Binladin Group, Gulf One Investment Bank, Saudi Basic Industries Corp.” and an array of other big companies with ties to the Middle East.
The Saudi BinLadin Group – which is Saudi Arabia’s largest construction company – is run by Osama bin Laden’s brothers and cousins. Jeddah, the site of the forum attended by Gore, is Osama bin Laden’s hometown.
Although family members claim they’ve disowned bin Laden, his mother told reporters after the 9/11 attacks that she received advanced warning from him that something big was about to happen.
A wealthy bin Laden niece also reportedly abandoned her lower Manhattan apartment three weeks before the 9/11 attacks.
The BinLadin Group’s longtime involvement in the Jeddah forum has been widely reported in the Mideast and European press.
In January 2002, ex-President Clinton addressed the JEF, which paid him $267,000 for his speech. According to London’s Financial Times:
“The conference was dominated by the Saudis’ desire to overcome the pressures of September 11 and strengthen U.S.-Saudi ties . . . The BinLadin Group, one of the forum’s backers, has been battered by its association with Osama.”
And this from Arab News
Today, the JEF, which was conceived in 2000, and the Jeddah International Exhibition & Convention Center are units of the Jeddah Marketing Board, which was established in 1999 and is presently headed by businessman and former JCCI Chairman Ghassan Al-Sulaiman.
The JEF 2006 sponsors include Emaar Properties as lead sponsor; Saudi Arabian Airlines, Saudi Binladin Group, Al-Khayala (NAS), Al Hilal Group, National Commercial Bank and Xenel as diamond sponsors; Gulf One Investment Bank, Enany Group, Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC), Citigroup, Aal Taher Group, EFG-Hermes, Budget Car Rental and the Prince Sultan Foundation (Medunet) as gold sponsors; and Riyad Bank, Credit Suisse, Saudi Electricity Company, Savola Group, General Motors, Khaled Juffali and Sumitomo Chemical Asia as silver sponsors. Media sponsors include Saudi Research and Publishing Company, Al-Madina newspaper, Sky News and Al Arabiya.
The forum is organized by the Jeddah Marketing Board, which operates under the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
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Wild Thing’s comment……
Hmmmm, well they got their money’s worth! But he is such a traitor he would have done it for free.
Of course Bin Ladin’s family is going to love Gore and Clinton as they didn’t do a thing to stop their relative, Osama.
I shudder to think what the US would be like if Gore had gotten elected.
Some of the blogs are saying that Gore is insane, or just driven off the edge by the 2000 election. I don’t think so. This Gore is no different than the Gore of yore. The man is an animated lump of garbage.
Bob I think about that too. If Gore or Kerry were President we might as well give the enemy the keys to all our cities.
Rhod I agree with you!!!!
Gore is not insane at all. He knows he can get away with what he did and said even if it is treasonous. Carter gets away with stuff all the time and so does Clinton.
OH man the world is upside down!!
The Congress and the Judiciary are so corrupt they’ll stand by and let our sworn leaders and our media get away with treason. We have Iran, North Korea and Palestine as sworn enemies and all those Eunuchs in Congress can do is sit on their empty sacks or go abroad to aid the enemy. Roll them out in November.
I’ll bet that within a week Gore will be wrapping a striped towel around his face, attacking a plastic Ronald McDonald with a Pepperoni, and screaming “Death to Denmark”! The lab mice at Bowel-Movement-On.Org will love it.
And BTW, Wild Thing. I love the photo.
Hi Jack your right and none of them speak out against it. Their not saying anything about it shows it is ok with them or they do not want to make waves. I would flunk being a politician because I would do a rant about this stuff in a press conference.
Thanks for commenting Jack.
Rhod hahahahahaha
I am visualizing the scene you just described.
Thank you for liking the graphic.
Gore is just ‘stuck on stupid’, the man has no sense at least not so much as a piss ant does.
But even if he is an Ex vice pres, does not give him the right to run to another country and put knives the back of first his own country and then his own Military that he is so wont to do.
He is a piece of crap, and should be treated as such, the state department should cancel his Visa
or send him to Cuba where these morons belong because they sure as hell don’t deserve the freedom our Military is providing for pukes like Algore.
Hi Mark, I agree he should not be allowed back into this country. I would love to know why this country does not execute any more for treason. The list of those in line would be long, starting with Hanoi Jane, John Kerry etc.
Thank you so much for commenting.
Do we or do we not have treason on the books in this country?
The irony is that the left has made a big thing about how close Bush is to the Saudis and now they are suckin’ up to them. The hypocrisy of the socialist left knows no borders and they will do whatever they think they need to do to bring this country down and install their brand of socialism. But what they can’t seem to understand is that the Muslims would just as soon cut off Gore’s head as Bush’s.
Hi Rosemary, I don’t think so, if we do it is hidden under a lot of PC touchie feelie stuff.
Thank you for commenting.
GUY you are so right that is exactly what it is and how the Muslims feel about either Gore or Bush or any of us.
Thank you so much for commenting.
If being a jerk was a crime Algore would be at the head of the list followed by kennedy, murtha, biden ad neuseum, ad infinitum.
Rosemary mentioned treason, the way i understand it the founding fathers had a real problem with it and made it extremely difficult to prove, because of the situation they were in, hence our freedom of speech.
This kind of USA bashing used to stop at the waters’ edge but no longer, it is sickening pukes like Algore and his ‘ilk’, like the ‘felon’ and his bride, Hillary, who fly around the world, at someone elses expense, apologizing for the United States… defending it self.
What is really ashame is algore still has body gurads paid for by the people of the United States.
Mark wow that is infurating. Man what a mess things are. Thank you so much for commenting.