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FAHRENHEIT 9/11 -- WHAT WAS I THINKING? VIGNETTE |
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[UDI Spokesman] Our commander in chief, President George W. Bush. [Moore] With all the weapons companies it owned, the Carlyle Group was, in essence, the 11th largest defense contractor in the United States. [George Bush] Thanks a lot.
[Moore] It owned United Defense, makers of the Bradley armored fighting vehicle
September 11th guaranteed that United Defense was going to have a very good year. Just six weeks after 9/11 Carlyle filed to take United Defense public and in December made a one-day profit of $237 million.
But sadly, with so much attention focused on the bin Laden family being important Carlyle investors the bin Ladens eventually had to withdraw.
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