The Bushes and the Bin Ladens

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/15/Steve_Coll_on_the_Bin_Laden_Family

Author Steve Coll examines the history of financial ties between the Bin Laden and Bush families, as well as other Bin Laden family investments in the United States prior to September 11, 2001.

-----

Author Steve Coll discusses his most recent book The Bin Ladens.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestseller Ghost Wars, Steve Coll presents the story of the Bin Laden family's rise to power and privilege. Cole shows how the family navigated around and through the economic and cultural hurdles, and he presents an authentic humanizing story of Saudi Arabia, America and those caught in the crossfire.

Revealing new information, Coll shows how American influence changed a family's fortune and how one family member's rebellion changed the world - The Commonwealth Club of California

Steve Coll is President and CEO of New America Foundation, and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post, serving as the paper's managing editor from 1998 to 2004.

He is author six books, including The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of AT&T (1986); The Taking of Getty Oil (1987); Eagle on the Street, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the SEC's battle with Wall Street (with David A. Vise, 1991); On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia (1994), Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004); and forthcoming in 2008, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century.

Andrew Ross is executive foreign and national editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, and reporting from the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Central America. Previously, he was an assignment editor for KPIX-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, and news director for public television station KQED.

He has also reported for National Public Radio and written for the London Times, Manchester Guardian, Redbook and Good Housekeeping.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• qaeda
• osama
• bin
• laden
• george
• bush
• senior
• president
• family
• families
• oil
• business
• war
• terrorism
• terrorists
• foratv
• fora.tv
• fora
• tv

[Rickdeckard2020]

"LMAO. Oh God."

You almost made a full sentence, you must be proud of your contribution. You can laugh at the fact the Taliban were in the US negociating with Unocal for the CantGas pipeline prior to 911, or giggle about the Opium production rizing several hundred percent since the US and Brits invaded Afghanistan, or wonder with a blank stare and a smile why Uzbekistan as US allies makes the motives for the Afghan invasion transparent.

Thanks for your thought provoking insights

[annikee59]

Why haven't more people watched this?

[tuataradin0saw]

@narcopadrote this whole issue is GAGA

[LaMouleQuiCoule]

And then the Republicans turn around and say Obama pals around with terrorists...

Its all about projection

[abbadabbadolittle]

@sagequan Holy crap. Bush was the most evil of Presidents in my lifetime.He did what he felt was right for the corporate sector. Murdering and torturing innocent people for oil and the privatization of Iraq's natural resources. Where does your certainty come from...Fox News. Please do not ever vote.

[zeineguy]

almost believed this guy was sincere until he mentioned that Bin Laden ordered the planes into washington/ NYC. There is no proof of that and actually has been debunked. I hope over the next 10 years there is a new investigation opened up for the 9 11 truthers.

[mogatsamasego]

I am curious as to what George Bush's 'auto'biography says about this relationship. Anybody know?