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Thanks. There's lots of interesting stuff here I will need to follow up on in order to digest. It's hard to know what to make of that Arabic site without a translation, but of the names mentioned there, Biden (along with Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, and Carl Levin) played a key role in trying to obstruct a Senate resolution against Iraq; Beers, Berger, and Holbrooke were on the Kerry campaign's foreign policy team; and a PAC associated with Hagel received a donation from one of Wilson's business partners at Rock Creek:

What Wilson Didn’t Say About Africa: Joseph Wilson's Silent Partners

Wilson ran his company out of the offices of an investment company called Rock Creek Corporation. Rock Creek was controlled by Mohammed Alamoudi, whom Wilson had met in 1997 at a reception organized for the World Bank by Westar Group. Alamoudi was a member of the Saudi-Ethiopian Alamoudi dynasty, which was heavily invested in the segments of the African economy Wilson was seeking to penetrate. The Alamoudi-affiliated company Delta Services--a Swiss subsidiary of the Saudi company Delta Oil--handled Iraqi oil export contracts in 2000 and 2001 and was revealed in 2003 as a recipient of Iraqi Oil-for-Food vouchers channeled through Abu Abbas, a Palestinian terrorist with Iraqi connections. Delta Services also cooperated with Afghanistan’s Taliban regime in a project to build an oil pipeline from Afghanistan to Pakistan, prior to this project’s suspension in 1998. In 1999, Alamoudi was accused by USA Today reporter Jack Kelley of heading a bank which was being investigated for financing Al Qaeda. USA Today printed retractions of several details in Kelley’s article in 2004, after another member of the Alamoudi family--Abdurahman Alamoudi, a prominent American Muslim lobbyist--was indicted on terror-related charges involving a Libyan-backed conspiracy to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah. Abdurahman was ultimately convicted in October 2004 and sentenced to 23 years in prison.12 Under Mohammed Alamoudi’s direction, Rock Creek was chaired by Elias Aburdene, an Arab-American international banking advisor and lobbyist who had previously advised banks linked to organized crime and intelligence community figures involved in the S&L Scam. In 2003 and 2004 Aburdene donated to the Sandhills Political Action Committee, which was affiliated with Senator Chuck Hagel, 13 a leading Republican critic of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy.14

Fedora, post all of your research again. With your 42 footnotes it makes it easy for verifying info. It would be easy to understand if Wilson had just been involved with a few shady characters. Unfortunately that seems to be all he ran around with. This really needs to get out. There are several blogs that have danced around with the idea that Wilson and the media and the CIA were in cahoots to influence the election. I think it may go farther. If the Dems can run around making up allegations against Rove, I think it is time to start throwing out some possible accusations against Wilson, the dems, and the media. They should be asking why someone like Wilson was sent to begin with. I have not seen the media this worked up since the National Guard story. I think they know there is something else there. They are trying to convict Rove/Bush in the minds of the public since they are afraid nothing will come of the special prosecuter.