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The first recorded use of "New World Order" was uttered by then president William McKinley on 1898 when addressing congress about the troubles that would eventually become the Spanish American War.
These individuals resigned their memberships in the Bohemian Club when notoriously conservative members had hysterically charged that William Randolph Hearst's fiery rhetoric in his hateful journals had, in 1901, led directly to the assassination of President William McKinley.
The offices of the Carlyle Group are on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, midway between the White House and the Capitol building, and within a stone's throw of the headquarters of the FBI and numerous government departments. The address reflects Carlyle's position at the very centre of the Washington establishment
But since the start of the "war on terrorism", the firm - unofficially valued at $3.5bn - has taken on an added significance. Carlyle has become the thread which indirectly links American military policy in Afghanistan to the personal financial fortunes of its celebrity employees, not least the current president's father. And, until earlier this month, Carlyle provided another curious link to the Afghan crisis: among the firm's multi-million-dollar investors were members of the family of Osama bin Laden.