Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: ARAMCO

ARAMCO
Arabian American Oil Company
According to an April 29, 2002 report in Britain's Guardian, ARAMCO
constitutes 12% of the world's total oil production; a figure which
has certainly increased as other countries have progressed deeper into
irreversible decline.
ARAMCO is the largest oil group in the world, a state-owned Saudi
company  in partnership with four major US oil companies.
Another one of Aramco's partners is Chevron-Texaco which gave up one
of its board members, Condoleezza Rice, when she became the National
Security Advisor to George Bush.
All of ARAMCO's key decisions are made by the Saudi royal family while
US oil expertise, personnel and technology keeps the cash coming in
and the oil going out. ARAMCO operates, manages, and maintains
virtually all Saudi oil fields - 25% of all the oil on the planet.
It gets better.
According to a New York Times report on March 8th of this year, ARAMCO
is planning to make a 25% investment in a new and badly needed
refinery to produce gasoline. The remaining 75% ownership of the
refinery will go to the only nation that is quickly becoming America's
major world competitor for ever-diminishing supplies of oil: China.
Almost the entire Bush administration has an interest in ARAMCO.
The Boston Globe reported that in 2001 ARAMCO had signed a $140
million multi-year contract with Halliburton, then chaired by Dick
Cheney, to develop a new oil field. Halliburton does a lot of business
in Saudi Arabia.
Current estimates of Halliburton contracts or joint ventures in the
country run into the tens of billions of dollars.
So do the fortunes of some shady figures from the Bush family's past.
As recently as 1991 ARAMCO had Khalid bin Mahfouz sitting on its
Supreme Council or board of directors. Mahfouz, Saudi Arabia's former
treasurer and the nation's largest banker, has been reported in
several places to be Osama bin Laden's brother in law. However, he has
denied this and brought intense legal pressure to bear demanding
retractions of these allegations. He has major partnership investments
with the multi-billion dollar Binladin Group of companies and he is a
former director of BCCI, the infamous criminal drug-money laundering
bank which performed a number of very useful services for the CIA
before its 1991 collapse under criminal investigation by a whole lot
of countries.
As Saudi Arabia's largest banker he handles the accounts of the royal
family and - no doubt - ARAMCO, while at the same time he is a named
defendant in a
$1 trillion lawsuit filed by 9/11 victim families against the Saudi
government and prominent Saudi officials who, the suit alleges, were
complicit in the 9/11 attacks.
Both BCCI and Mahfouz have historical connections to the Bush family
dating back to the 1980s.
Another bank (one of many) connected to Mahfouz - the InterMaritime
Bank - bailed out a cash-starved Harken Energy in 1987 with $25
million.
After the rejuvenated Harken got a no-bid oil lease in 1991, CEO
George W.
Bush promptly sold his shares in a pump-and-dump scheme and made a
whole lot of money.
Tanto per rifrescare le idee sui cento dollari a barile.
Chi incassa?
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 Chi incassa?
so che i cittadini yankee se la passano molto peggio di noi per il 
petrolio, i potenti al solito ci guadagnano sempre


Guarda e impara vecchia spugna.
Nelle campagne del west europa non siete messi meglio.
Io me ne sto nelle colline del sud est asiatico.
Saluti


Si da il caso che abbiamo interessi molto vari.
Certe cose e' bene saperle ovunque tu sia.
Saluti