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Spymaster on the Lam USA Gov't Worried

serf
 The USA Intelligence agencies  are  worried about its operations overseas? Maybe they can find where all that World Trade Center Gold went before blowing the building up? B)  When it rains it pours.
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Saad al Jabri was America’s closest antiterrorism contact in the Arab world for more than 15 years, beginning after the 9/11 attacks. The Saudi spymaster had informants, access to billions of government dollars, close relationships with key members of the royal family and an ability to get things done that Americans found rare among their connections in the Middle East.

Current and former U.S. and European intelligence officials said the investigation risks revealing sensitive secrets of U.S.-Saudi operations against Islamic extremists. They said one or both sides in the feud might leak such secrets to bolster their case.

“We don’t necessarily want counterterrorism operations exposed,” a U.S. official said.

By verifying details of the Saudi investigation and expanding on the findings through U.S. and European intelligence officials, The Wall Street Journal has pieced together a multibillion-dollar network that enriched high-ranking Saudi government officials while exerting the kingdom’s influence abroad.

Money was used for a variety of purposes including paying informants and foreign leaders like Sudan’s ex-dictator Omar al-Bashir and buying policing equipment and secure phones.

Investigators allege the network profited by overcharging the government for contracts with major Western companies such as International Business Machines Corp. and Oracle Corp. It used offshore accounts linked to big Western banks to move money, according to people familiar with the investigators’ work.



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  • chme
    "Investigators allege the network profited by overcharging the government "

    Preposterous!  Who ever heard of such a thing????    (and this is why we need GREEN font!)
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