Countdown - Rudy’s ties to terror
Keith Olbermann picks up on a story that was in the Village Voice about Rudy Giuliani’s ties to major terrorists suspects. The fact that Rudy has ties to anyone in the corrupt nation of Qatar is somewhat troubling. The fact that a close business partner may have harbored KSM is yet another piece of evidence that Rudy really has poor judgment on who he associates with.
Add this to the fact that Rudy billed the city of New York for security while he was having an affair with Judith Nathan in the Hamptons. Someone is out for Rudy because it is weird how government documents just suddenly turn up. I’m not saying that Rudy isn’t a weasel because I really think that he is. I’m just saying that he was really pissed off the wrong folks along the way.
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From the Village Voice:
Three weeks after 9/11, when the roar of fighter jets still haunted the city’s skyline, the emir of gas-rich Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani, toured Ground Zero. Although a member of the emir’s own royal family had harbored the man who would later be identified as the mastermind of the attack—a man named Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, often referred to in intelligence circles by his initials, KSM—al-Thani rushed to New York in its aftermath, offering to make a $3 million donation, principally to the families of its victims. Rudy Giuliani, apparently unaware of what the FBI and CIA had long known about Qatari links to Al Qaeda, appeared on CNN with al-Thani that night and vouched for the emir when Larry King asked the mayor: “You are a friend of his, are you not?” (more…)
[...] Countdown - Rudy’s ties to terror Kieth Olbermann picks up on a story that was in the Village Voice about Rudy Giuliani’s ties to major terrorists suspects. The fact that Rudy has ties to anyone in the corrupt nation of Qatar is somewhat troubling. The fact that a close business partner may have harbored KSM is yet another pie… [...]