BoA started in California as BankAmerica. It has since acquired a lot of small banks and later merged with NationsBank in the largest bank merger in history to become Bank of America. Ken Lewis is the current CEO. It does ~$119.19 billion in annual revenue and is a public company run by it's greedy shareholders.
None of its previously acquired banks have known ties with the Middle East.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America