Rudy has business ties to 9/11 facilitator

[katty]

more: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Rudy_Giuliani_and_his_connections_to_1129.html

Report: Rudy has business ties to 9/11 facilitator
Mike Aivaz and Jason Rhyne
Published: Thursday November 29, 2007


GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, who has made tough talk about combating Islamic terror a staple of his campaign, has had extensive business dealings with a foreign ministry helmed by a man with ties to the 9/11 attacks, according to a new report.

Giuliani Partners, a consulting firm which the former New York mayor founded after leaving in office in 2002, maintains a "cozy business relationship," with the "terrorist-tolerant" nation of Qatar, writes the Village Voice's Wayne Barrett. Barret reports that the firm's business partners in Qatar have included that country's former minister of Islamic affairs, Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani (above right), who has been accused of helping suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad evade an an FBI arrest attempt in 1996.

"In other words," writes Barrett, "as incredible as it might seem, Rudy Giuliani -- whose presidential candidacy is steeped in 9/11 iconography -- has been doing business with a government agency run by the very man who made the attacks on 9/11 possible."

Appearing on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Barrett said Giuliani should have known about Qatar's ties to terrorism in 2005, when he made the country one of his "principal clients."

[polichick]

1. Saw this on Olbermann's show...

Has Rudy no shame at all???

[katty]

2. apparently not - never did - he just creeps me out

[polichick]

3. Me too...

He makes my skin crawl ~ just like GW did when he was running. I'm always completely amazed that guys like that are admired by so many Americans.

I hope this week's stories about him are Rudy's undoing!

[katty]

4. me too, let's just get it over with!

[balantz]

5. He gives me that skin crawling, shuddering sensation too.