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.
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