Fahrenheit 9/11 | 2004

After the Harken debacle, the friends of Bush's dad got him a seat...

...on another board, of a company owned by the Carlyle Group.

We looked at which companies gained from September 11 th.

We turned up this company, Carlyle Group, a multinational conglomerate...

...that invests in heavily government-regulated industries...

...like telecommunications, health care and particularly, defense.

Both George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush...

...worked for the Carlyle Group, the same company that counted...

...the bin Laden family among its investors.

The Carlyle Group was holding its annual investor conference...

...on the morning of September 11 th...

...in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington D.C.

At that meeting were all of the Carlyle regulars...

...James Baker, likely John Major, definitely George H.W. Bush...

...though he left the morning of September 11 th.

Shafiq bin Laden, who is Osama bin Laden's half brother...

...was in town to look after his family's investments in the Carlyle Group.

All of them together in one room, watching...

...as the planes hit the towers.

In fact, the bin Laden family was invested...

...in one of their defense funds, which ironically meant...

...that as the U.S. increased defense spending, the bin Laden family...

...stood to gain from those investments through the Carlyle Group.

Our commander in chief, President George W. Bush.

With all the weapons companies it owned...

...the Carlyle Group was, in essence, the 11 th largest...

...defense contractor in the United States.