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From the Village Voice, via Steve Benen’s Carpetbagger Report:

Contracts awarded to Rudy Giuliani’s private security firm in the Gulf state of Qatar were overseen by a government minister suspected of harboring the al Qaeda terrorist who planned the 9/ll attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, according to security consultants in the region.

New revelations about the extent of the contracts could pose a problem for a presidential contender who says he is the most qualified candidate to combat Islamic terrorism.

Since 2005, Giuliani Partners and its Giuliani Security & Safety (GS&S) unit has provided security consulting and advice in Qatar through contracts overseen by the country’s Interior Ministry, which is currently run by a member of the royal family who has long been accused of supporting al Qaeda, according to security consultants familiar with the area.

The current interior minister, Sheik Abdullah Bin Khalid al-Thani, was suspected of sheltering Mohammed at his farm and tipping him off to the arrival of CIA and FBI teams coming to arrest the al Qaeda strategist back in 1996, according to the National Security Council’s former chief counterterrorism adviser and ABC News consultant Richard A. Clarke, former CIA agent Robert Baer and a 2004 Congressional Research Service report.

It gets worse. Read this line from Steve Benen:

Worse, Giuliani’s client is “also believed to have welcomed Osama bin Laden on two visits to the farm, according to an Oct. 10, 2007 CRS study.”

Yes, that’s right. Rudy Giuliani–”America’s Mayor” and “The Hero of 9/11,” according to the right wing–had business dealings with a supporter of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Osama Bin Laden. Nearly 3,000 New Yorkers and Americans were killed on September 11th, and Giuliani sold all of them out for the sake of cold, hard cash.

To Rudy Giuliani, nothing matters more than greed–apparently not even American lives.