Carlyle Empire
[Le Monde-TruthOut, Eric Leser, 05/10/04: Carlyle manages eighteen billion dollars today, invested in defense and high tech (notably biotech), space, security-linked information technology, nanotechnologies, and telecommunications. Carlyle, especially, benefits from missile-defense spending, as well as the move towards a private, for-profit military] Carlyle is a unique [private & secret corporate] model, assembled at the planetary level on the capitalism of relationships or "capitalism of access"....
Carlyle emerged from the shadows in spite of itself on September 11, 2001. That day, the group had organized a meeting at Washington's Ritz Carlton Hotel with five hundred of its largest investors. Frank Carlucci and James Baker III played masters of ceremony. George Bush senior made a lightning appearance at the beginning of the day. The presentation was quickly interrupted, but one detail escaped no one. One of the guests wore the name bin Laden on his badge. It was Shafiq bin Laden, one of Osama's many brothers.