After the Paris attacks, the question is being reopened about how the Obama administration and his hand-chosen lackeys in the intelligence community along with British MI6 and other secret services were arming the al-Qaeda, ISIS and other jihadi forces in Syria.  Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters at the G20 meeting that he possesses evidence of involvement of people in 40 different countries—including some G20 countries—that were funding and supporting IS and the Sunni extremists.  Friday, intelligence sources in Italy raised the question to EIR about whether the Belgian terrorists involved in the Nov. 13th attack were “protected” and allowed to move freely through EU to Syria.

EIR and LaRouche PAC have issued special reports and a Benghazi Fact Sheet issued in May 2013 and repeatedly updated, that document Obama’s ties to the British, Saudis, and the installing of al-Qaeda terrorists in power in Libya as part of the regime change war against Libya and murder of Qaddafi.

In the last week a June 2015 article in the Guardian has been reposted that indicates specific proof of British MI6’s role in financing and building up the Sunni terrorists in Syria. Journalist Seumas Milne reported on June 3rd that during that week, British prosecutors dropped a criminal case against Bherlin Gildo who was accused of terrorism in Syria.  The case “collapsed after it became clear British intelligence had been arming the same rebel groups” that Gildo was fighting with in 2012. “The British state was itself providing extensive support to the armed Syrian opposition,” including “the secret supply of arms on a massive scale.”

Then, linking his article to a 2014 exposé by U.S. reporter Seymour Hersh called “The Red Line and the Rat Line: Obama, Erdogan and the Syrian Rebels,” Milne says, “Reports were cited that MI6 had cooperated with the CIA on a rat line of arms transfers from Libyan stockpiles to the Syrian rebels in 2012 after the fall of the Qaddafi regime.”

There are no excuses for delay—Obama must be removed from office now.

Citibank’s Banamex USA subsidiary has been caught laundering drug money for the notorious Zetas and the Gulf Cartel in Mexico, and, once again, the Obama Administration has given top Citibank officials a free pass.  Bloomberg Business News gave a detailed account on Nov. 20 of Citibank’s repeated and long-running non-compliance with bank regulations about reporting suspicious activities.  In one instance, Antonio Pena Ageuelles, a drug money launderer for the Zetas, opened an account in 2005, claiming to run a small business with a projected $50 a month fund flow through the account.  All told, Pena Arguelles laundered $59.4 million through the account.  The bank failed to file any suspicious activity reports—even after Pena Arguelles’ brother was assassinated by the Zetas and accused of stealing some of the laundered cash in 2011, and even after Pena Arguelles was indicted by U.S. authorities for drug money laundering.

The Bloomberg article cited several other, equally egregious cases where Citibank, through Banamex USA, laundered drug money, failed to comply with compliance or due diligence laws, and only received slap-on-the-wrist cash fines. In one instance unrelated to drug money laundering, a unit of Citigroup had to plead guilty to a felony count of price manipulation of dollars and euros—but no official was sent to prison.  In the Banamex U.S.A cases, Citibank is expected to pay in the range of $100 million in fines—a small percentage of the profits the bank made through drug money laundering.

Citibank bought Banamex, Mexico’s third largest bank, in 2001 and soon opened Banamex USA branches all along the Texas-Mexico border.  It was through one of those branches in Laredo, Texas, that Sonia de Pau, a “Mexican housewife” opened a small account and soon laundered $1.44 million.  Her husband had been already indicted on drug money laundering charges, and once again, the bank failed to file any reports on the account. De Pau was laundering money for both the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, and had actually been arrested a year before she opened the Texas account for money laundering in Mexico.

Bloomberg pointed out that “Citigroup’s money-laundering issues, and the regulatory rancor they bring, go back decades. The bank helped Raul Salinas, the brother of Mexico’s President at the time, move as much as $100 million into Swiss and U.K. accounts in the mid-1990s.” Other cases of money laundering by Citibank were cited in Argentina and Japan.