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Biography
Over a 20 year period, Hari Har Singh Khalsa spent most winters hunting Houbara Bustards with trained falcons, in company with ranking sheikhs and princes from the Arabian Gulf countries. As a guest of today's Middle East's political leaders, Mr. Khalsa who is a Sikh, grew to appreciate the weight of Arab cultural and tribal traditions that have developed over the past millennia, and especially so, in the context of Islamic doctrine.
Mr. Khalsa allocated another 10 years to the wild steppes of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and other former Soviet territories, often in the entourage of Arab royals.
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Session SP25: al Qaeda Falconry
February 19, 15:00 - 15:45
Abstract:
The Union For The Conservation of Raptors is a 501(c)3 wildlife conservation NGO (Non-Governmental Organization), established by Mr. Khalsa to oppose black market smuggling enterprises that are financed and directed by key Arab royals. Casting a wide net, U.C.R. principles interdicted the highest ranking political leaders of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia who unluckily, continue to use government aircraft and diplomats to violate the same United Nations treaties, to which their own countries are signatories.
After 15 years of investigations in the field, U.C.R.'s 'Evidentiary Exhibits' were responsible for the United Nations 'Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Flora and Fauna' (CITES) imposing comprehensive wildlife trade sanctions on the United Arab Emirates twice - first on November 20, 2001 and again on March 18, 2002.
U.C.R. has only recently surfaced publicly, to disclose the troubling details of today's Middle East smuggling cartels that transport banned weapons, cars, cash, and rare falcons into the royal falconry camps across ex-Soviet Asia. Internationally wanted terrorists and weapons merchants continue to arrive in these royal camps, hosted by U.S. allies from the Arabian Gulf. Al-Qaeda's 'training camps' are relatively insignificant, when compared to the 'royal falconry camps' that are al-Qaeda's de facto 'Board Room'.
Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri have a long history practicing falconry, as VIP guests during month-long visits with Saudi and U.A.E. hosts who sponsor today's royal falconry camps. The Clinton administration actually missed several opportunities to remove these terrorists and their radical hosts, as looming threats to U.S. security.
As a non-profit wildlife conservation organization that is singularly dedicated to raptor conservation, U.C.R. never intended or desired to investigate the tragic chain of events that will be publicly disclosed for the first time, at the Intelligence Summit.
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