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   New ambassador to Saudi Arabia is another Bush/Carlyle Group crony.
   October 9, 2001, Tuesday

   By Jonathan Ashley, Eyes On America
   

   Dallas attorney Robert Jordan was confirmed Wednesday by the United
States Senate to serve as ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

   Jordan has no diplomatic experience. However, his connections leave
no doubt as to why he was named to the post. He defended George W. Bush
in a probe of insider trading allegations in 1990. The allegations
involved the sale by Bush of 60% of his Harken Energy Corp. stocks two
months before a 25% drop in the stock's price. According to a 7 Sep 2000
article by the Associated Press, "At the time of the investigation,
Bush's father was president of the United States and the SEC was run by
one of his biggest political supporters, Richard Breeden. The SEC's
then-general counsel, James R. Doty, was another staunch presidential
supporter who as a private attorney was George W. Bush's lawyer when he
purchased his share of the Texas Rangers baseball team."

   This is not Jordan's only connection to the Bush family. Jordan is a
corporate lawyer in the Dallas office of Houston-based Baker Botts.
Baker Botts has an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The client list at
Baker Botts includes "more than half of the Fortune 100 companies". The
client list also includes The Carlyle Group. On the board of directors
for Carlyle is former President George Herbert Walker Bush.

   James A. Baker III is the current Baker in Baker Botts. Baker was
Secretary of State under the first President Bush. He is currently
senior counsel to The Carlyle Group. Baker was a classmate of Donald H.
Rumsfeld at Yale University. Rumsfeld, the current Secretary of Defense,
was the roommate of Frank C. Carlucci at Yale.

   Carlucci, who was head of the National Security Counsel under
President Ronald Reagan, is currently chairman of The Carlyle Group.

   The current President Bush was a director of Caterair during the
years 1990-1994. Caterair is owned by The Carlyle Group.

   The board of directors of The Carlyle Group also includes: former
Phillipines President, Fidel V. Ramos; former director of the U.S.
Office of Management & Budget, Richard Darman; former Assistant to the
President (Bush I), Robert Grady; former Prime Minister of South Korea,
Park Tae Joon; former SEC chairman, Arthur Levitt; former Prime Minister
of Great Britain, John Major; former general director of the World
Health Organization, Michael Orloff; retired U.S. Army General, J. H.
Binford Peay; former president of Deutsche Bundesbank, Karl Otto Pohl;
and former chairman of the Joint Chief's of Staff, John Shalikashvili.

   Two-thirds of Carlyle's holdings are in defense and
telecommunications companies.

   At least $2 million of Carlyle funding has come from the bin Laden
family of Saudi Arabia.


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