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His own bio on his site contains the links to the Saudis, the Bushes. Also, Bush 41 has been shown to be associated with the Carlyle Group by plenty of non-"lefty" sources.

For crying out loud, if you start connecting the dots, you are approaching a fully connected graph.

http://www.snpartners.com/norris.html

To top it off, look at where he went to law school, hmm the name rings a bell but I can't quite place it, ryhmes with mail (and gull and scones?).
http://www.nndb.com/people/655/000168151/

Also, lame attempt at using the "but, but, but Clinton" diversionary tactic.

Check out the names on this page:
http://www.snpartners.com/norris.html

Team...

General Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army (Retired) Weird.

Pamela J. Newman extensive experience in working with major private equity groups, including The Blackstone Group,

I've heard that name somewhere recently..

• On February 1, 2008, Microsoft announced that it will be advised by the Blackstone Group in the unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, along with Morgan Stanley.[2]
• In May 2007, the government of the People's Republic of China through its China Investment Corporation agreed to buy $3 billion non-voting stock in Blackstone, which is slightly less than a 10% stake. As a result Blackstone has increased its initial public offering to $7.8 billion worth of stock, which includes the China stake.

Also Mr. Paperin has created $600 million of incremental value for the fund by managing its turnaround and liquidation of a portfolio of distressed investments in securities and private equity in Russia.

I'll admit that last sentence makes no sense to me. A wild guess is it might be saying..."selling out the fledgling Russia democracy to the oligarchs whilst losing vast chunks of other peoples money."

Team...

General Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army (Retired) Weird.

Pamela J. Newman extensive experience in working with major private equity groups, including The Blackstone Group,

I've heard that name somewhere recently..

• On February 1, 2008, Microsoft announced that it will be advised by the Blackstone Group in the unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, along with Morgan Stanley.[2]
• In May 2007, the government of the People's Republic of China through its China Investment Corporation agreed to buy $3 billion non-voting stock in Blackstone, which is slightly less than a 10% stake. As a result Blackstone has increased its initial public offering to $7.8 billion worth of stock, which includes the China stake.

Also Mr. Paperin has created $600 million of incremental value for the fund by managing its turnaround and liquidation of a portfolio of distressed investments in securities and private equity in Russia.

I'll admit that last sentence makes no sense to me. A wild guess is it might be saying..."selling out the fledgling Russia democracy to the oligarchs whilst losing vast chunks of other peoples money."

Team...

General Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army (Retired) Weird.

Pamela J. Newman extensive experience in working with major private equity groups, including The Blackstone Group,

I've heard that name somewhere recently..

• On February 1, 2008, Microsoft announced that it will be advised by the Blackstone Group in the unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, along with Morgan Stanley.[2]
• In May 2007, the government of the People's Republic of China through its China Investment Corporation agreed to buy $3 billion non-voting stock in Blackstone, which is slightly less than a 10% stake. As a result Blackstone has increased its initial public offering to $7.8 billion worth of stock, which includes the China stake.

Also Mr. Paperin has created $600 million of incremental value for the fund by managing its turnaround and liquidation of a portfolio of distressed investments in securities and private equity in Russia.

I'll admit that last sentence makes no sense to me. A wild guess is it might be saying..."selling out the fledgling Russia democracy to the oligarchs whilst losing vast chunks of other peoples money."

Not really "bin Laden" money, but SNP is rife with capital from the Saud family. From the SNP website, the Bio of Mr. Norris:

http://www.snpartners.com/norris.html

Details his experience with the Carlyle Group. Interestingly, immediately following that:

"Mr. Norris acted as a principal financial advisor to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud of Kingdom Holding Company, in structuring and negotiating the re-capitalization of Citibank, which returned over $15 billion in profits on about $590 million of equity invested. He also advised or played a key role in other Kingdom Holding Company investments. He was appointed by former president George H.W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as one of five governing members of the $100 billion Federal Retirement System Thrift Investment Board."

A quick check of the Stephen Norris Capital Partners Website elucidates their business model:
White men, models of conservative grooming and sartorial conventionality, sit around smoking crack and wearing propeller hats, while trying to concoct surrealistic investment strategies that will attract additional investors for their partnership. Or, perhaps they are holding patents for a way to convert millions in wasted litigation and the accompanying legal briefs into Green Energy.
http://www.snpartners.com/
Gosh, is anybody else ready for this to just stop? Did somebody play a mean trick and make the dead horse twitch so somebody would want to beat it some more? SCO=Silly Corporate Overindulgence? Shortage of Clues Obvious? Serious Conspiracy Overload?

Looks like one of their senior people is in with George Soros. So they have potentially some very serious money behind them now.

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Thanks to spacelifeform on GL:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/12/bloomberg/bxfour.php

NEW YORK: Four Seasons Hotels, the manager of 74 luxury hotels, said Monday that it had agreed to be taken private by Bill Gates, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and the chief executive for $3.8 billion, including debt.

Coincedence?
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Who is Stephen Norris,

http://www.snpartners.com/norris.html

Looks like there could very easily be some behind the curtain financing of this through foreign nationals.

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Mr. Norris acted as a principal financial advisor to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud of Kingdom Holding Company, in structuring and negotiating the re-capitalization of Citibank, which returned over $15 billion in profits on about $590 million of equity invested. He also advised or played a key role in other Kingdom Holding Company investments. He was appointed by former president George H.W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as one of five governing members of the $100 billion Federal Retirement System Thrift Investment Board.

Since 1997, Mr. Norris, and certain members of his team, have worked on a number of investments including real estate investments in Europe and the United States. They were involved in amongst others the privatization of Thompson CSF, the recapitalization of Suez, the acquisition of portions of Credit Foncier's real estate portfolio in Paris by the German firm of IVG, the formation of Nomura's (London) bid for a Dutch mortgage bank, the offer by a major Saudia Arabian investment firm for Lamborgini in Italy, and the formation of a bid by Leucadia International's for the Labouchere Bank in Holland. He also negotiated and structured investments in Synxis Corporation, which was backed by George Soros and Mr. Norris, and MARC Global Holdings.
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