I've known about this for a long time, and I've posted about it in the
past,
but I had never seen this story. Lots of good stuff here. The original
article is worth going to for the pictures. It's like a who's who of the
supposed 9/11 terrorists and the Bush Mob, all working together.

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26/4/06

CIA links to ?Venezuelan? plane seized in Mexico with 5.5 tonnes of
cocaine


Published: Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Bylined to: Wayne Madsen

www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=55262

The Wayne Madsen Report: Porter Goss?s Cocaine Import Agency (CIA) has
links to ?Al Qaeda? and Saudis. Last year, WMR reported on links between
the Saudi Royal Family and CIA proprietary airline companies involved in
cocaine smuggling.

On April 10, Mexican police, acting on a tip from INTERPOL, seized a DC-9
aircraft carrying 5.5 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of
$100 million.

* The US-registered plane was en route from Caracas (Venezuela) which,
according to French intelligence, is a known hub for cocaine shipments
from
Colombia to Saudi Arabia.

The DC-9 (registration number N900SA) made an emergency landing at Ciudad
del Carmen in Campeche state. A Falcon aircraft that arrived at Ciudad del
Carmen from Toluca airport in Mexico state in advance of the arrival of
the
DC-9 was also seized. The cocaine was contained in 128 suitcases. The
Mexican police later claimed the unidentified DC-9's pilot managed to
escape ? however, the police did arrest the co-pilot.

The DC-9 was painted in the familiar blue and white colors of the US
Transportation Security Administration with am official-looking seal with
an American eagle bearing the inscription: ?Sky Way Aircraft ? Protection
of America?s Skies.?

* The registered owner of the aircraft is: Royal Sons Inc., 15875
Fairchild Drive, Clearwater, Florida.

On April 5, 2006, the plane flew from St. Petersburg/Clearwater
International to Simon Bolivar International in Caracas. ?Sky Ways? has
also been linked to the Saudi government and Bush family/CIA activities.
Royal Sons, the name of which may indicate the involvement of Saudi
princes, such as the cocaine-transporting Prince Nayif, also maintained an
office at 224 East Airport Ave., Venice (Florida), at the same time lead
hijacker Mohammad Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi were training at Huffman
Aviation, which was located near by at 400 East Airport Avenue.

* Two years before 9/11, Venice was also the subject of intensive
intelligence operations by Israeli intelligence agents masquerading as
?art
students.?

Not surprisingly in light of Saudi involvement with cocaine smuggling, the
activities of the Israelis drew the particular attention of the US Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA), which had Venice airport under
surveillance and later prepared a lengthy report on the activities of the
Israelis.

* Atta and al Shehhi also used Clearwater airport for practice take-off
and landings during off-peak hours.

Official-looking TSA plane busted for hauling cocaine in Mexico.

In 2004, a Sky Way Aircraft Beechcraft BE-200, registration N391SA, flying
under the false registration of N168D, was confiscated by the Venezuelan
government after flying from Caracas Charallave airport to Santiago Marino
airport on Margarita island.

FAA records indicate that Sky Way?s office of record was 341 8th Ave. SE #
3C, St. Petersburg, Florida. The FAA registration database also
states, ?N391SA has multiple records? in addition to its status as
being ?exported? to Venezuela and, thus, ?de-registered? with the FAA.

After the revelations about CIA rendition flights and proprietary
companies,
it was discovered that N168D was the tail number for a Casa CN-235-300
registered to Devon Holding and Leasing of Lexington, North Carolina.

Sky Way Beechcraft that was held by Venezuela after it used a false
registration

number N168D, the same tail number used by one of the CIA?s rendition
planes.

The DC-9 seized by Mexico was previously owned by a partnership of Royal
Sons and Skyway Communications Holding Corp. (Symbol: SWYCQ) of 6021,
142nd
Avenue North Clearwater, Florida. SWYCQ?s web site states, ?SWYC was
founded in 2000 by Mr. Brent Kovar. SWYC?s focus includes in-flight
wireless Homeland Security and In-flight Entertainment (IFE) service.?

In 2003, then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay appointed Kovar as Honorary
Chairman of the Business Advisory Council of the National Republican
Congressional Committee. According to the Securities & Exchange
Commission?s EDGAR database, ?Kovar has been President and Director of Sky
Way Aircraft since inception.

In addition, as president and director of research and development and
engineering, Mr. Kovar founded Sky Way Global in 2000, a high speed
broadband wireless service company. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Kovar served as
the executive vice president and director of research and development for
Satellite Access Systems, a satellite services company. In 1990, Mr. Kovar
founded PC, Ltd., a company that produced specialty-designed remote
controlled arm and RF/communications related products, and until 1996, he
served as president and director of new product engineering.

From 1987 to 1989, he was associated with Jacobs Engineering, an national
engineering company in Pasadena, California. From 1986 to 1987, Mr. Kovar
worked with Falcon Communications as a wireless communications engineer.

Also, EDGAR provides details on SWYCQ?s CEO and CFO Jim Kent, ?Mr. Kent
has
been CEO and Director of Sky Way Aircraft since July 2002 and its CFO
since
February 2003. He has been director of business operations for Sky Way
Global since 2000.

From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Kent served as director of operations for Satellite
Access Systems, Inc., a satellite services company where he was
responsible
for the day-to-day operations. From 1997 to 1998 he served as a senior
management consultant for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, a government contractor
and national/international business consulting firm providing program and
financial management services to the US Government.

From 1980 to 1997, Mr. Kent served in various government contract
management
positions providing financial and program management services supporting
national communications and intelligence projects for the Department of
Defense, National Security Agency, and Department of the Navy.? Also,
according to the SEC, Kovar is affiliated with Net Command Tech Inc. (a
St.
Petersburg, Florida-based corporation formerly known as Acunet
Corporation
and Corsaire, Inc.). The company primarily markets video surveillance
systems. According to SEC records, Banque Francaise De L?Orient has a
significant financial stake in Net Command Tech.

According to SEC filings, one of the significant shareholders is Fever
Holdings Limited, c/o Banque Francaise de L?Orient, with an office listed
at 50 Curzon Street, London (England). Satellite Access Systems of Nevada
is a Net Command Tech subsidiary.

Banque Francaise de l?Orient was originally Banque Al Saoudi, which was
under the financial control of the Bin Laden family and other top Saudi
royals and businessmen. In 1989, Banque Indosuez partly assumed control of
the near bankrupt Bank Al Saoudi and it became Banque Francaise de
l?Orient. The bank then merged with the late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik
Hariri?s Mediterranee Group. Banque Francaise de L?Orient maintains an
office in Geneva. Bank Indosuez (now Credit Agricole Suez) maintains an
address in Sana?a, Yemen.

Bank Indosuez was used by the CIA for the establishment of secret accounts
held by top Kazakhstan officials in return for lucrative Tengiz oil field
contracts for Amoco, Mobil, Phillips Petroleum, Texaco, and Halliburton
(scandal that became known as ?Kazakhgate?).

* Previously, WMR also reported on the use of Christian missionary
aircraft linked to the CIA to smuggle high-grade heroin out of
Afghanistan.

Intelligence insiders report that CIA Director Porter Goss has authorized
the CIA to resume Iran-contra-era networks that is permitting former
agency
contractors to renew their illicit trade in drugs.

The sudden inflow of cocaine and heroin into the United States is an early
warning sign that covert operators are attempting to earn large amounts of
cash for one or more ?special projects.?

On April 20, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that security guards at
the Beaver Valley Power Station in Pennsylvania stopped a truck containing
$504,230 in cash wrapped in ten bundles with clear plastic and duct tape.
The bundles were locked in a duffel bag. A drug-sniffing dog reacted
positively to the bag. The driver of the truck and a passenger came from
Texas and said they were en route from Chicago and were to deliver tools
from the power plant to Youngstown, Ohio.

Police in Shippingport, Beaver County stopped the truck after the power
plant security guards notified them. The guards grew suspicious when they
cut the lock off the duffel bag and saw the cash. The truck occupants said
the cash belonged to their boss in Houston. The trucking company was
reportedly a contractor for San Francisco-based Bechtel Corporation, which
was doing construction work at the power plant. When the guards called the
boss in Houston he denied the cash was his.

The truck quickly left the power plant, which is owned by First Energy
Nuclear Operating Company. Shippingport Police and Pennsylvania state
troopers later stopped the truck near the Shippingport Bridge and
confiscated the cash. The passenger in the truck claimed his
identification
had been stolen from the truck the previous night.

Shippingport Police Sgt. R. N. Davis, Jr., scoffed at that explanation in
remarks to the Post-Gazette. ?Your ID is stolen but not that bag of cash?
Red flags were popping up all over,? Davis said. The incident is highly
reminiscent of cases involving Israeli ?movers? picked up around the
United
States after 9/11 who had similarly unconvincing stories. The FBI?s Joint
Terrorism Task Force was notified about the Pennsylvania incident and are
said to be ?investigating.?

In 1999, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) broke open a major
conspiracy involving a Saudi prince?s Colombian cocaine smuggling from
Venezuela to support some ?future intention? involving Koranic prophecy.

The DEA operations were contained in a ?Declassification of a Secret DEA 6
Paris Country Office? memorandum dated June 26, 2000, a date which
coincided with the height of Israeli art student and 9/11 hijacker
activity
in the United States.

* In June 1999, 808 kilograms of cocaine were seized in Paris ? at the
same time, the DEA was conducting a major investigation of the Medellin
drug cartel called Operation Millennium.

Through an intercepted fax, the Bogota Country Office of the DEA learned
of
the Paris cocaine seizure and linked the drug smuggling operation to the
Saudis. The DEA investigation centered around Saudi Prince Nayif al Saud,
whose alias was El Principe (the Prince). Nayif?s full name is Nayif (or
Nayef) bin Fawwaz al-Shaalan al-Saud. In pursuit of his international drug
deals, Nayif traveled in his own Boeing 727 and used his diplomatic status
to avoid customs checks. The DEA report stated Nayif studied at the
University of Miami, Florida, owned a bank in Switzerland, speaks eight
languages, was heavily invested in Venezuela?s petroleum industry,
regularly visited the United States, and traveled with millions of dollars
of US currency. Nayif is also invested in Colombia?s petroleum industry.

Nayif was also reported to have met with drug cartel members in Marbella
(Spain), where the late Saudi King Fahd and the Saudi royal family
maintained a huge palatial residence.

The report states that when a group of cartel members traveled to Riyadh
to
meet Nayif, ?they were picked up in a Rolls Royce automobile belonging to
Nayif, and driven to the Riyadh Holiday Inn hotel. The next day they were
met by Nayif and his brother [believed to be named Saul [sic] [His twin
brother is Prince Saud. Nayif?s older brother, Prince Nawaf, is married to
King Abdullah?s daughter].)? The second day they all traveled to the
desert
in terrain vehicles [hummers]. During this desert trip they discussed
narcotics trafficking.

The DEA informant (named only as UN) and Nayif agreed to conduct the 2,000
kilogram cocaine shipment, which would be delivered to Caracas, by UN?s
people, where Nayif would facilitate the cocaine?s transport to Paris,
France. Nayif explained he would utilize his 727 jet airliner, under
Diplomatic cover, to transport the cocaine. The Boeing 727 was operated by
Skyways International, a Saudi-owned airline with past connections to the
mysterious James Bath, George W. Bush?s Texas Air National Guard friend
and
later Arbusto and Harken Energy investment pass-through between the Saudis
and Bush.

* These investors included Salem Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden?s late
older
brother who was killed in a 1988 plane crash in Texas. Bath was the
registered agent for Salem Bin Laden.

Nayif told UN that he could transport up to 20,000 kilograms of cocaine in
his jet airliner, and propositioned UN ?to conduct 10-20,000 kilogram
shipments in the future.? UN wondered why Nayif, supposedly a devout
Muslim, would be involved with drugs. Nayif?s response in light of what is
now known about Saudi funding of terrorism, is worth a close perusal.
During the Riyadh meeting, Nayif responded to UN?s question by stating
that ?he is a strict advocate of the Muslim Corran.? UN stated, ?Nayif
does
not drink, smoke, or violate any of the Corran?s teachings. UN asked Nayif
why he [Nayif] wanted to sell cocaine and Nayif stated that the world is
already doomed and that he has been authorized by God to sell drugs. Nayif
stated that UN would later learn of Nayif?s true intentions for
trafficking
narcotics although Nayif would not comment further.?

The Saudi prince?s drug smuggling operation was smashed by the DEA and
French police in October 1999 (Drug Enforcement Administration,
Memorandum,
Declassification of Secret DEA 6 for Paris Country Office, June 26, 2000).

On May 16, 1999, Prince Nayif?s Skyways Boeing 727 touched down at
LeBourget
Airport outside of Paris ( this is the same airport that received the Bin
Laden family flight from the United States following the 9/11 attacks).

Also on board the plane were a number of Saudi princes and princesses. Two
tons of cocaine, smuggled on to the aircraft in Caracas, were transported
as one large diplomatic pouch by two waiting Saudi vans. The cocaine was
transported to Noissy-le-Sec, a Paris suburb. A French-US law enforcement
case against Nayif and his entourage, complete with evidence and
confidential informants soon collapsed.

Wayne Madsen Report.com has come into possession of a ?Confidential
Diplomatic? cable from the French embassy in Saudi Arabia to Paris warning
that Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef had warned that if France
pursued the case against the Saudi prince, a lucrative $7 billion radar
defense contract, Project SBGDP (Garde Frontiere), with the French firm
Thales would be canceled.

The embassy cable sought pressure against the French Interior Ministry

to drop its investigation of Nayif.

The cable also indicated that Saudi Interior Minister Nayef?s irritation
at
the French investigation was shared by his brothers Abdullah (then-Crown
Prince) and Sultan (Defense Minister) as well as the Governor of Riyadh
Province Prince Salman. Saudi informers have revealed that Al Qaeda
members
routinely traveled through Riyadh on their way to Pakistan and then to
Taliban Afghanistan.

These insiders report that Salman?s office arranged for cash payments,
hotels, and air fares for the Al Qaeda members.

The French cable also states that the Saudis reiterated that it was
merciless to drug traffickers for which Saudi youth were often the
victims.
The Saudis also told the French that unlike Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt,
Syria, and Lebanon, Saudi Arabia was not a base for drug trafficking. The
reaction by the Saudi government?s key principals to the French drug
investigation indicates they had something to hide. Perhaps similar to the
Bush family, they had an off-the-books operation to generate hundreds of
millions of dollars for their Wahhabi compatriots in Afghanistan and
Pakistan, including the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

The French cable draws attention to intelligence rumors that the cocaine
transported by Nayif from Venezuela originated in Colombia ? the same
country where George H. W. Bush and his Iran-contra co-conspirators
arranged for cocaine-for-cash-for-weapons transfers involving Panamanian
dictator Manuel Noriega as a middleman.

CIA sources have recently reported that lead hijacker Mohammed Atta was
known to US, British, and Saudi intelligence as a heroin courier from
Mujaheddin-controlled Afghanistan as early as 1991. Atta was also
identified as a cocaine user. Hence, what the French and US law
enforcement
investigators discovered in 1999 may have been a major financial source
for
Al Qaeda?s terrorist attacks.

Recent revelations that a Top Secret US Special Operations Command/Defense
Intelligence Agency unit code named Able Danger was shadowing Al Qaeda
operatives in 1999, the same year that Nayif and his courier activities
were discovered, indicates high level collusion inside the United States
Defense and Justice Departments with elements that did not want to
embarrass the Saudis.

* As with the DEA investigation of Nayif, Able Danger was shut down on
orders by Pentagon lawyers.

It is quite possible that the massive amounts of Able Danger data reported
to have been destroyed on the Atta team may have included gigabytes of
financial data on Prince Nayif?s drug money laundering activities.

Wayne Madsen Report.com has obtained a European intelligence agency flow
chart titled ?Operation Palme,? illustrating the connections of Nayif?s
brother Nawwaf?s financial operations to a myriad of other entities, a
large number of them based in Geneva, a city where Wayne Madsen Report.com
has previously reported the presence of a number of Bush-connected
entities
tied to the 9/11 attacks, including a money transfer to at least one of
the
hijackers.

According to the Operation Palme chart, Nawwaf bin Fawwaz al-Shaalan is
Vice
President of Kanz Bank located at 65 rue du Rhone in Geneva. This bank is
linked to Bammer Financial Trade Organization at 7 rue Versonnex in
Geneva,
Virgin Corporation LLC in Vessy (Geneva Canton), Maison Virgin Corporation
also in Vessy, Degroof Luxembourg SA of Genf, Geneva Canton, and Capital
Trust SA, 640 Avenida Diagonal, Barcelona, Spain.

The most interesting document passed to Wayne Madsen Report is a business
card that shows a clear link between Skyways International, the firm tied
to the Bush family and the Saudis, and the National Commercial Bank of
Saudi Arabia.

The business card for a flight engineer named Keith Monroe indicates that
Skyways

International is a subsidiary of the National Commercial Bank

In 1992, according to The Houston Chronicle, George W. Bush?s friend James
Bath was investigated by the Treasury Department?s Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network (FINCEN) and the FBI. Investigators suspected Saudi
investors who worked with Bath of illegally trying to influence US policy
during the Reagan and Bush I administrations. Bath invested Saudi money in
Arbusto ?70 Ltd., Arbusto ?80 Ltd., and Bush Exploration Co. (which later
morphed into Harken Energy Corp., which included George W. Bush as its
director).

After Desert Storm, Harken was granted lucrative off-shore drilling rights
by Bahrain, a Desert Storm coalition partner. One of the other
shareholders
of Harken, along with Bush, was Saudi businessman Abdullah Taha Bakhsh.
According to the Chronicle, Bath, who was a sole agent of Salem Bin Laden,
was also the sole director of Skyway Aircraft Leasing Corp., one of the
affiliates of Skyways International. Bath established four corporate
entities with the name ?Skyway? and the firm that incorporated the
corporate contrivances in the Cayman Islands for Bath was the same one
that
established a Cayman-based money laundering front company for Oliver North
in the Iran-contra scandal.

In 1977, Bath bought Houston Gulf Airport on behalf of Salem Bin Laden.
Skyway Aircraft Leasing Corporation was, according to the Chronicle, owned
by Khalid Bin Mahfouz, a major shareholder in the defunct Bank of Credit
and Commerce International (BCCI), a major money laundering activity for
George H. W. Bush?s Iran-contra caper. Bin Mahfouz was also the owner of
the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia.

* There has never been any explanation by the Saudis of what Prince
Nayif?s ultimate intentions were and what he was planning to do with the
cash from the illegal cocaine shipments.

In light of the funding for 9/11 and other terrorist incidents, the DEA
report on Operation Millenium takes on greater significance.

* Did Saudi drug smuggling proceeds help pay for the 9/11 attack?
* Why was this possible connection overlooked by the 9/11 Commission?
* What did the Able Danger team stumble across while Nayif was
smuggling
drugs?
* Was Atta a part of this Saudi drug network?
* If so, why was Atta, a drug courier, permitted to enter the United
States on numerous occasions?

It would appear that the Saudis, in connection with people closely
associated with George W. Bush (perhaps including Bush himself as well as
his father), have been giving a ?wink and a nod? to illicit airline
smuggling businesses involving drugs and money laundering for a number of
years.

There are American citizens currently sitting in prisons under mandatory
harsh drug-related sentences for doing much less than what the Bush crime
family, their Saudi partners, and their network of drug mules and couriers
(including Mohammed Atta and Saudi Prince Nayif) have been getting away
with for decades.

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) statutes cry out
for an accounting by these individuals before a court of law.

www.waynemadsenreport.com/
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Virtus Tutissima Cassis

I've known about this for a long time, and I've posted about it in the
past,
but I had never seen this story. Lots of good stuff here. The original
article is worth going to for the pictures. It's like a who's who of the
supposed 9/11 terrorists and the Bush Mob, all working together.

<quote>
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News and opinions on the situation in Venezuela

26/4/06

CIA links to ?Venezuelan? plane seized in Mexico with 5.5 tonnes of
cocaine


Published: Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Bylined to: Wayne Madsen

www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=55262

The Wayne Madsen Report: Porter Goss?s Cocaine Import Agency (CIA) has
links to ?Al Qaeda? and Saudis. Last year, WMR reported on links between
the Saudi Royal Family and CIA proprietary airline companies involved in
cocaine smuggling.

On April 10, Mexican police, acting on a tip from INTERPOL, seized a DC-9
aircraft carrying 5.5 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of
$100 million.

* The US-registered plane was en route from Caracas (Venezuela) which,
according to French intelligence, is a known hub for cocaine shipments
from Colombia to Saudi Arabia.

The DC-9 (registration number N900SA) made an emergency landing at Ciudad
del Carmen in Campeche state. A Falcon aircraft that arrived at Ciudad del
Carmen from Toluca airport in Mexico state in advance of the arrival of
the DC-9 was also seized. The cocaine was contained in 128 suitcases. The
Mexican police later claimed the unidentified DC-9's pilot managed to
escape ? however, the police did arrest the co-pilot.

The DC-9 was painted in the familiar blue and white colors of the US
Transportation Security Administration with am official-looking seal with
an American eagle bearing the inscription: ?Sky Way Aircraft ? Protection
of America?s Skies.?

* The registered owner of the aircraft is: Royal Sons Inc., 15875
Fairchild Drive, Clearwater, Florida.

On April 5, 2006, the plane flew from St. Petersburg/Clearwater
International to Simon Bolivar International in Caracas. ?Sky Ways? has
also been linked to the Saudi government and Bush family/CIA activities.
Royal Sons, the name of which may indicate the involvement of Saudi
princes, such as the cocaine-transporting Prince Nayif, also maintained an
office at 224 East Airport Ave., Venice (Florida), at the same time lead
hijacker Mohammad Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi were training at Huffman
Aviation, which was located near by at 400 East Airport Avenue.

* Two years before 9/11, Venice was also the subject of intensive
intelligence operations by Israeli intelligence agents masquerading as
?art students.?

Not surprisingly in light of Saudi involvement with cocaine smuggling, the
activities of the Israelis drew the particular attention of the US Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA), which had Venice airport under
surveillance and later prepared a lengthy report on the activities of the
Israelis.

* Atta and al Shehhi also used Clearwater airport for practice
take-off
and landings during off-peak hours.

Official-looking TSA plane busted for hauling cocaine in Mexico.

In 2004, a Sky Way Aircraft Beechcraft BE-200, registration N391SA, flying
under the false registration of N168D, was confiscated by the Venezuelan
government after flying from Caracas Charallave airport to Santiago Marino
airport on Margarita island.

FAA records indicate that Sky Way?s office of record was 341 8th Ave. SE #
3C, St. Petersburg, Florida. The FAA registration database also
states, ?N391SA has multiple records? in addition to its status as
being ?exported? to Venezuela and, thus, ?de-registered? with the FAA.

After the revelations about CIA rendition flights and proprietary
companies, it was discovered that N168D was the tail number for a Casa
CN-235-300 registered to Devon Holding and Leasing of Lexington, North
Carolina.

Sky Way Beechcraft that was held by Venezuela after it used a false
registration

number N168D, the same tail number used by one of the CIA?s rendition
planes.

The DC-9 seized by Mexico was previously owned by a partnership of Royal
Sons and Skyway Communications Holding Corp. (Symbol: SWYCQ) of 6021,
142nd
Avenue North Clearwater, Florida. SWYCQ?s web site states, ?SWYC was
founded in 2000 by Mr. Brent Kovar. SWYC?s focus includes in-flight
wireless Homeland Security and In-flight Entertainment (IFE) service.?

In 2003, then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay appointed Kovar as Honorary
Chairman of the Business Advisory Council of the National Republican
Congressional Committee. According to the Securities & Exchange
Commission?s EDGAR database, ?Kovar has been President and Director of Sky
Way Aircraft since inception.

In addition, as president and director of research and development and
engineering, Mr. Kovar founded Sky Way Global in 2000, a high speed
broadband wireless service company. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Kovar served as
the executive vice president and director of research and development for
Satellite Access Systems, a satellite services company. In 1990, Mr. Kovar
founded PC, Ltd., a company that produced specialty-designed remote
controlled arm and RF/communications related products, and until 1996, he
served as president and director of new product engineering.

From 1987 to 1989, he was associated with Jacobs Engineering, an national
engineering company in Pasadena, California. From 1986 to 1987, Mr. Kovar
worked with Falcon Communications as a wireless communications engineer.

Also, EDGAR provides details on SWYCQ?s CEO and CFO Jim Kent, ?Mr. Kent
has been CEO and Director of Sky Way Aircraft since July 2002 and its CFO
since February 2003. He has been director of business operations for Sky
Way Global since 2000.

From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Kent served as director of operations for Satellite
Access Systems, Inc., a satellite services company where he was
responsible for the day-to-day operations. From 1997 to 1998 he served as
a senior management consultant for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, a government
contractor and national/international business consulting firm providing
program and financial management services to the US Government.

From 1980 to 1997, Mr. Kent served in various government contract
management positions providing financial and program management services
supporting national communications and intelligence projects for the
Department of Defense, National Security Agency, and Department of the
Navy.? Also, according to the SEC, Kovar is affiliated with Net Command
Tech Inc. (a St.
Petersburg, Florida-based corporation formerly known as Acunet
Corporation and Corsaire, Inc.). The company primarily markets video
surveillance
systems. According to SEC records, Banque Francaise De L?Orient has a
significant financial stake in Net Command Tech.

According to SEC filings, one of the significant shareholders is Fever
Holdings Limited, c/o Banque Francaise de L?Orient, with an office listed
at 50 Curzon Street, London (England). Satellite Access Systems of Nevada
is a Net Command Tech subsidiary.

Banque Francaise de l?Orient was originally Banque Al Saoudi, which was
under the financial control of the Bin Laden family and other top Saudi
royals and businessmen. In 1989, Banque Indosuez partly assumed control of
the near bankrupt Bank Al Saoudi and it became Banque Francaise de
l?Orient. The bank then merged with the late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik
Hariri?s Mediterranee Group. Banque Francaise de L?Orient maintains an
office in Geneva. Bank Indosuez (now Credit Agricole Suez) maintains an
address in Sana?a, Yemen.

Bank Indosuez was used by the CIA for the establishment of secret accounts
held by top Kazakhstan officials in return for lucrative Tengiz oil field
contracts for Amoco, Mobil, Phillips Petroleum, Texaco, and Halliburton
(scandal that became known as ?Kazakhgate?).

* Previously, WMR also reported on the use of Christian missionary
aircraft linked to the CIA to smuggle high-grade heroin out of
Afghanistan.

Intelligence insiders report that CIA Director Porter Goss has authorized
the CIA to resume Iran-contra-era networks that is permitting former
agency contractors to renew their illicit trade in drugs.

The sudden inflow of cocaine and heroin into the United States is an early
warning sign that covert operators are attempting to earn large amounts of
cash for one or more ?special projects.?

On April 20, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that security guards at
the Beaver Valley Power Station in Pennsylvania stopped a truck containing
$504,230 in cash wrapped in ten bundles with clear plastic and duct tape.
The bundles were locked in a duffel bag. A drug-sniffing dog reacted
positively to the bag. The driver of the truck and a passenger came from
Texas and said they were en route from Chicago and were to deliver tools
from the power plant to Youngstown, Ohio.

Police in Shippingport, Beaver County stopped the truck after the power
plant security guards notified them. The guards grew suspicious when they
cut the lock off the duffel bag and saw the cash. The truck occupants said
the cash belonged to their boss in Houston. The trucking company was
reportedly a contractor for San Francisco-based Bechtel Corporation, which
was doing construction work at the power plant. When the guards called the
boss in Houston he denied the cash was his.

The truck quickly left the power plant, which is owned by First Energy
Nuclear Operating Company. Shippingport Police and Pennsylvania state
troopers later stopped the truck near the Shippingport Bridge and
confiscated the cash. The passenger in the truck claimed his
identification had been stolen from the truck the previous night.

Shippingport Police Sgt. R. N. Davis, Jr., scoffed at that explanation in
remarks to the Post-Gazette. ?Your ID is stolen but not that bag of cash?
Red flags were popping up all over,? Davis said. The incident is highly
reminiscent of cases involving Israeli ?movers? picked up around the
United States after 9/11 who had similarly unconvincing stories. The FBI?s
Joint Terrorism Task Force was notified about the Pennsylvania incident
and are said to be ?investigating.?

In 1999, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) broke open a major
conspiracy involving a Saudi prince?s Colombian cocaine smuggling from
Venezuela to support some ?future intention? involving Koranic prophecy.

The DEA operations were contained in a ?Declassification of a Secret DEA 6
Paris Country Office? memorandum dated June 26, 2000, a date which
coincided with the height of Israeli art student and 9/11 hijacker
activity in the United States.

* In June 1999, 808 kilograms of cocaine were seized in Paris ? at the
same time, the DEA was conducting a major investigation of the Medellin
drug cartel called Operation Millennium.

Through an intercepted fax, the Bogota Country Office of the DEA learned
of the Paris cocaine seizure and linked the drug smuggling operation to
the Saudis. The DEA investigation centered around Saudi Prince Nayif al
Saud, whose alias was El Principe (the Prince). Nayif?s full name is Nayif
(or Nayef) bin Fawwaz al-Shaalan al-Saud. In pursuit of his international
drug deals, Nayif traveled in his own Boeing 727 and used his diplomatic
status to avoid customs checks. The DEA report stated Nayif studied at the
University of Miami, Florida, owned a bank in Switzerland, speaks eight
languages, was heavily invested in Venezuela?s petroleum industry,
regularly visited the United States, and traveled with millions of dollars
of US currency. Nayif is also invested in Colombia?s petroleum industry.

Nayif was also reported to have met with drug cartel members in Marbella
(Spain), where the late Saudi King Fahd and the Saudi royal family
maintained a huge palatial residence.

The report states that when a group of cartel members traveled to Riyadh
to meet Nayif, ?they were picked up in a Rolls Royce automobile belonging
to Nayif, and driven to the Riyadh Holiday Inn hotel. The next day they
were met by Nayif and his brother [believed to be named Saul [sic] [His
twin brother is Prince Saud. Nayif?s older brother, Prince Nawaf, is
married to King Abdullah?s daughter].)? The second day they all traveled
to the desert in terrain vehicles [hummers]. During this desert trip they
discussed narcotics trafficking.

The DEA informant (named only as UN) and Nayif agreed to conduct the 2,000
kilogram cocaine shipment, which would be delivered to Caracas, by UN?s
people, where Nayif would facilitate the cocaine?s transport to Paris,
France. Nayif explained he would utilize his 727 jet airliner, under
Diplomatic cover, to transport the cocaine. The Boeing 727 was operated by
Skyways International, a Saudi-owned airline with past connections to the
mysterious James Bath, George W. Bush?s Texas Air National Guard friend
and later Arbusto and Harken Energy investment pass-through between the
Saudis and Bush.

* These investors included Salem Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden?s late
older
brother who was killed in a 1988 plane crash in Texas. Bath was the
registered agent for Salem Bin Laden.

Nayif told UN that he could transport up to 20,000 kilograms of cocaine in
his jet airliner, and propositioned UN ?to conduct 10-20,000 kilogram
shipments in the future.? UN wondered why Nayif, supposedly a devout
Muslim, would be involved with drugs. Nayif?s response in light of what is
now known about Saudi funding of terrorism, is worth a close perusal.
During the Riyadh meeting, Nayif responded to UN?s question by stating
that ?he is a strict advocate of the Muslim Corran.? UN stated, ?Nayif
does not drink, smoke, or violate any of the Corran?s teachings. UN asked
Nayif why he [Nayif] wanted to sell cocaine and Nayif stated that the
world is already doomed and that he has been authorized by God to sell
drugs. Nayif stated that UN would later learn of Nayif?s true intentions
for trafficking narcotics although Nayif would not comment further.?

The Saudi prince?s drug smuggling operation was smashed by the DEA and
French police in October 1999 (Drug Enforcement Administration,
Memorandum, Declassification of Secret DEA 6 for Paris Country Office,
June 26, 2000).

On May 16, 1999, Prince Nayif?s Skyways Boeing 727 touched down at
LeBourget Airport outside of Paris ( this is the same airport that
received the Bin Laden family flight from the United States following the
9/11 attacks).

Also on board the plane were a number of Saudi princes and princesses. Two
tons of cocaine, smuggled on to the aircraft in Caracas, were transported
as one large diplomatic pouch by two waiting Saudi vans. The cocaine was
transported to Noissy-le-Sec, a Paris suburb. A French-US law enforcement
case against Nayif and his entourage, complete with evidence and
confidential informants soon collapsed.

Wayne Madsen Report.com has come into possession of a ?Confidential
Diplomatic? cable from the French embassy in Saudi Arabia to Paris warning
that Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef had warned that if France
pursued the case against the Saudi prince, a lucrative $7 billion radar
defense contract, Project SBGDP (Garde Frontiere), with the French firm
Thales would be canceled.

The embassy cable sought pressure against the French Interior Ministry

to drop its investigation of Nayif.

The cable also indicated that Saudi Interior Minister Nayef?s irritation
at the French investigation was shared by his brothers Abdullah
(then-Crown Prince) and Sultan (Defense Minister) as well as the Governor
of Riyadh Province Prince Salman. Saudi informers have revealed that Al
Qaeda members routinely traveled through Riyadh on their way to Pakistan
and then to Taliban Afghanistan.

These insiders report that Salman?s office arranged for cash payments,
hotels, and air fares for the Al Qaeda members.

The French cable also states that the Saudis reiterated that it was
merciless to drug traffickers for which Saudi youth were often the
victims. The Saudis also told the French that unlike Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon, Saudi Arabia was not a base for drug
trafficking. The reaction by the Saudi government?s key principals to the
French drug investigation indicates they had something to hide. Perhaps
similar to the Bush family, they had an off-the-books operation to
generate hundreds of millions of dollars for their Wahhabi compatriots in
Afghanistan and Pakistan, including the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

The French cable draws attention to intelligence rumors that the cocaine
transported by Nayif from Venezuela originated in Colombia ? the same
country where George H. W. Bush and his Iran-contra co-conspirators
arranged for cocaine-for-cash-for-weapons transfers involving Panamanian
dictator Manuel Noriega as a middleman.

CIA sources have recently reported that lead hijacker Mohammed Atta was
known to US, British, and Saudi intelligence as a heroin courier from
Mujaheddin-controlled Afghanistan as early as 1991. Atta was also
identified as a cocaine user. Hence, what the French and US law
enforcement investigators discovered in 1999 may have been a major
financial source for Al Qaeda?s terrorist attacks.

Recent revelations that a Top Secret US Special Operations Command/Defense
Intelligence Agency unit code named Able Danger was shadowing Al Qaeda
operatives in 1999, the same year that Nayif and his courier activities
were discovered, indicates high level collusion inside the United States
Defense and Justice Departments with elements that did not want to
embarrass the Saudis.

* As with the DEA investigation of Nayif, Able Danger was shut down on
orders by Pentagon lawyers.

It is quite possible that the massive amounts of Able Danger data reported
to have been destroyed on the Atta team may have included gigabytes of
financial data on Prince Nayif?s drug money laundering activities.

Wayne Madsen Report.com has obtained a European intelligence agency flow
chart titled ?Operation Palme,? illustrating the connections of Nayif?s
brother Nawwaf?s financial operations to a myriad of other entities, a
large number of them based in Geneva, a city where Wayne Madsen Report.com
has previously reported the presence of a number of Bush-connected
entities tied to the 9/11 attacks, including a money transfer to at least
one of the hijackers.

According to the Operation Palme chart, Nawwaf bin Fawwaz al-Shaalan is
Vice President of Kanz Bank located at 65 rue du Rhone in Geneva. This
bank is linked to Bammer Financial Trade Organization at 7 rue Versonnex
in Geneva, Virgin Corporation LLC in Vessy (Geneva Canton), Maison Virgin
Corporation also in Vessy, Degroof Luxembourg SA of Genf, Geneva Canton,
and Capital Trust SA, 640 Avenida Diagonal, Barcelona, Spain.

The most interesting document passed to Wayne Madsen Report is a business
card that shows a clear link between Skyways International, the firm tied
to the Bush family and the Saudis, and the National Commercial Bank of
Saudi Arabia.

The business card for a flight engineer named Keith Monroe indicates that
Skyways

International is a subsidiary of the National Commercial Bank

In 1992, according to The Houston Chronicle, George W. Bush?s friend James
Bath was investigated by the Treasury Department?s Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network (FINCEN) and the FBI. Investigators suspected Saudi
investors who worked with Bath of illegally trying to influence US policy
during the Reagan and Bush I administrations. Bath invested Saudi money in
Arbusto ?70 Ltd., Arbusto ?80 Ltd., and Bush Exploration Co. (which later
morphed into Harken Energy Corp., which included George W. Bush as its
director).

After Desert Storm, Harken was granted lucrative off-shore drilling rights
by Bahrain, a Desert Storm coalition partner. One of the other
shareholders of Harken, along with Bush, was Saudi businessman Abdullah
Taha Bakhsh. According to the Chronicle, Bath, who was a sole agent of
Salem Bin Laden, was also the sole director of Skyway Aircraft Leasing
Corp., one of the affiliates of Skyways International. Bath established
four corporate entities with the name ?Skyway? and the firm that
incorporated the corporate contrivances in the Cayman Islands for Bath was
the same one that established a Cayman-based money laundering front
company for Oliver North in the Iran-contra scandal.

In 1977, Bath bought Houston Gulf Airport on behalf of Salem Bin Laden.
Skyway Aircraft Leasing Corporation was, according to the Chronicle, owned
by Khalid Bin Mahfouz, a major shareholder in the defunct Bank of Credit
and Commerce International (BCCI), a major money laundering activity for
George H. W. Bush?s Iran-contra caper. Bin Mahfouz was also the owner of
the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia.

* There has never been any explanation by the Saudis of what Prince
Nayif?s ultimate intentions were and what he was planning to do with the
cash from the illegal cocaine shipments.

In light of the funding for 9/11 and other terrorist incidents, the DEA
report on Operation Millenium takes on greater significance.

* Did Saudi drug smuggling proceeds help pay for the 9/11 attack?
* Why was this possible connection overlooked by the 9/11 Commission?
* What did the Able Danger team stumble across while Nayif was
smuggling
drugs?
* Was Atta a part of this Saudi drug network?
* If so, why was Atta, a drug courier, permitted to enter the United
States on numerous occasions?

It would appear that the Saudis, in connection with people closely
associated with George W. Bush (perhaps including Bush himself as well as
his father), have been giving a ?wink and a nod? to illicit airline
smuggling businesses involving drugs and money laundering for a number of
years.

There are American citizens currently sitting in prisons under mandatory
harsh drug-related sentences for doing much less than what the Bush crime
family, their Saudi partners, and their network of drug mules and couriers
(including Mohammed Atta and Saudi Prince Nayif) have been getting away
with for decades.

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) statutes cry out
for an accounting by these individuals before a court of law.

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