MARVIN BUSH WAS PRINCIPAL IN WTC SECURITY FIRM

CRAIG COX, UTNE - Margie Burns reports in The American Reporter, an
electronic daily newspaper, Marvin P. Bush, the president's younger
brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided
security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles
International Airport. The company, Burns noted, was backed by Kuwam, a
Kuwaiti-American investment firm on whose board Marvin Burns also
served.

Securacom has since changed its name to Stratesec, but is still backed
by Kuwam. Marvin Bush, who did not respond to repeated interview
requests from The American Reporter, is no longer on the board of either
company and has not been linked with any terrorist activities.

According to Wayne Black, head of a Florida-based security firm, it is
somewhat unusual for a single firm to handle security for both an
airline and a airport. It's also unusual for a firm linked so closely
with a foreign-owned company to handle security on such a "sensitive"
international airport as Dulles. "When you have a security contract, you
know the inner workings of everything," he said. "Somebody knew
somebody," he added, or the contract would have been scrutinized more
carefully.

Marvin Bush's alleged connections to these companies may shed new light
on the Bush administration's determination in the days after 9/11 to
push legislation protecting foreign-owned security companies in the
Homeland Security bill. These and other issues will be taken up this
week, when Roemer and his colleagues convene the commission's first
meeting.

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