Thread: Clinton Campaign Pals Linked to Banks With Terror Ties & Saudi PR Work

Clintons’ Close Campaign Pals Are On Some Very SUSPICIOUS Payrolls… Banks With Terror Ties?

"Banking issues" is a nice way of putting it.

Joe Saunders June 10, 2016 at 1:19pm

With the Clintons and their friends, it’s always wise to follow the money.

And when it comes John and Tony Podesta — two politically connected brothers who have known and operated closely with the Clintons for more than 20 years — that’s doubly true.

But even the most cynical of Clinton critics might be surprised at how close the couple that could return to the White House has come to major money with international terrorist ties.

When the brothers aren’t acting as Hillary’s 2016 campaign chairman (John) or one of her major big-bucks bundlers (Tony), they run the Podesta Group lobbying firm, which enjoyed a lucrative relationship with a Bengali Bank linked to terrorism, the Daily Caller reported this week.

The Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd. (IBB), paid the Podesta Group $390,000 to lobby on Capitol Hill on “international banking issues,” the Daily Caller reported.

“International banking issues” is a nice way to put it when your company is trying to avoid permanent damage from being linked to bombings by Islamic terror groups, as Islami Bank Bangladesh was in a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report in 2012.

That report found the bank “provided an account to a Bangladeshi accused of involvement with a terrorist bombing, and had been fined three times…in connection with providing bank services to ‘militants.’”
And according to the Daily Caller, this wasn’t just a case of a customer stashing his money somewhere while he engaged in international terrorism.

As the Daily Caller put it:

Several of the bank’s top officials are members of Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamic fundamentalist group that fought against Bengali independence in 1971. One of the bank’s directors is Mir Quasem Ali. He was sentenced to death in Bangladesh in 2014 after being convicted on war crimes charges for his role in the 1971 independence fight.

IBB also has ties to Jamaat-ul-Mujahedin Bangladesh, a fundamentalist group which has carried out scores of bombings in Bangladesh.

One of the bank’s main shareholders is Al Rajhi Bank, a sharia-compliant bank that also has alleged terror ties …
The name of one of Al Rajhi Bank’s co-founders and top officials, Sulaiman Al-Rajhi, was found on a list that has been dubbed “The Golden Chain.” Discovered in Bosnia in 2002, the list purportedly contains the names of 20 top al Qaeda financiers.

According to a November, 2012, report from the journal Eurasia Review cited by the Daily Caller, IBB is also believed to be linked to a series of terrorist bombings in Bangladesh in 2005.

The bank’s contract with the Clintons’ pals the Podestas ended in May, according to the Daily Caller, but that wasn’t the only time the Podesta Group had been called into service to grease the way on Capitol Hill for an outfit in a Muslim country with suspected ties to terrorism.

Tony Podesta, that big-money bundler for Hillary Clinton, was also a lobbyist for the Center for Studies and Media Affairs at the Saudi Royal Court, according to the Daily Caller.
As the website reported:

The Saudis have pressured the Obama administration to oppose legislation that would allow family members of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government over the attacks. The Saudi group has paid the Podesta Group $140,000 a month for its public relations services.

That could turn out to be an investment well-made if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency in November, and the Saudi government — as well as Muslim bankers tied to international terrorism — have a prepaid friendship already established with some of Bill and Hillary’s closest cronies.

With the Clintons, it’s always wise to follow the money.

http://www.tpnn.com/2016/06/10/clint...s-terror-ties/