NIGERGATE:Connections between the UN Oil-for-food Inquiry, the Rockefeller Group and the French

http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=43214 ^ | november 16, 2005

[parnasokan]

NIGERGATE: Connections between members of the UN Inquiry Committee into the Oil-for-food program, the Rockefeller Group and the French.

As promised some elements that the “radar missed”. Once again the Italian newspaper Il Giornale offers some fascinating insight into the less discussed aspects of the Nigergate affair. In addition I’ve posted a HIGHLY SIMPLIFIED chart mapping A PART of the links between members of the UN Oil-for-food Inquiry, the Rockefeller Group AND THE FRENCH.

Is it perhaps because of these ties that France despite having been in possession of the false documents since the fall of 2000, despite only having revealed the truth to the USA on March 4 2003 and despite DGSE having been the employers of Rocco Martino, has never been named by Rockefeller or his media allies and have never been investigated?

It is worth re-reading the following two paragraphs from the Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: “On November 22, 2002, during a meeting with State Department officials, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for Nonproliferation said that France had information on an Iraqi attempt to buy uranium from Niger. He said that France had determined that no uranium had been shipped, but France believed the reporting was true that Iraq had made a procurement attempt for uranium from Niger.” “On March 4, 2003, the U.S. Government learned that the French had based their initial assessment that Iraq had attempted to procure uranium from Niger on the same documents that the U.S. had provided to the INVO.”

So as specifically stated in the Report the French were in possession of Rocco Martino’s false documents, that is “the same documents that the U.S. had provided to the INVO.”

I will continue to post articles on this front. The details of the whole affair are all slowly coming out.

--- Article begins --- The strange ties between Nigergate and Oil-for-food By Gian Marco Chiocci and Mario Sechi Rome, November 16, 2005

For some time behind the scenes of the Nigergate affair silent wars are taking place inside the intelligence agencies. An internal one at the CIA, another between the French DGSE and the British MI6. At the origins of the Anglo-French disaccord is the somewhat ambiguous behavior of Paris in regards to the supply of the self same documents regarding the traffic of uranium between Niger and Iraq that turned up in the hands of the freelance spy working for the French, Rocco Martino. The agreement that Paris insisted upon when supplying the documents to MI6, documents of which Paris garanteed the maximum attendability, was that the British could not reveal the source to anyone, including the USA. Looking back that was a heavy order, one which today puts all of the responsability for the invasion of Iraq on the British. When Bush spoke about Saddam he was basing his facts on British intelligence. This explains the blanked out parts of the Senate Report, the parts where “a foreign service” is reported to have given information regarding Saddam’s attempts to procure tons of yellow cake to the British (and thus to the USA).

This is what lead to the attempt to place the blame on SISMI, a blame and responsability that the Italian Military Intelligence Service has no part of. The British report on arms of mass destruction made reference to information supplied by the French and the telephone intercepts of Saddam’s officers. In the report there is no mention or trace of the false documents, even if some parties have tried to convince half of the world of the opposite. With the advantage of hindsight and after having been stung the analysts at Vauxhall Cross begun to re-wind the Nigergate tape. Having re-run the tape over and over again the analysts reached their conclusion: they were put in a trap. Organise by who? The French? The same French that as of fall 2000 knew of the false dossier and kept quiet about it until the eve of the war. The suspicion gains credibility when events over time are studied. In particular when considering how Rocco Martino on July 23 2003, well after Baghdad had fallen, presented himself at the British Embassy in Brussels – the city where he held his meetings with his DGSE handler – with the intention of “placing” the false documents, swearing that the were different from those that everyone was talking about.

Martino explained to Il Giornale that this wasn’t so, that in reality he was trying to earn some money by recounting his version of the story. At MI6 they don’t believe him, it is believed that his goal was to “place” the bogus documents. To what end? To put the fakes into British hands and then leak it to the press. A double or triple game seems to be impossible, but when the goal is to confuse an issue even an illogical move has a reason to exist. In fact at Downing Street the behavior of the French spies was not appreciated. In act Tony Blair’s Government gave the “green light” to MI6 and MI5 to conduct a 360° investigation into the affair. Pure counterespionage. At the cost of digging and digging into Nigergate the British either find uranium or find petrol. It’s either a link to Niger or to Iraq but in both cases the fingerprints are French. The French consortium Cogema has the monopoly on uranium mining in Niger, while Saddams oil leads to the Oil-for-food scandal where Paris (the BNP Paribas bank) has a leading role. When Saddam’s oil barrels are opened out it all comes, and it’s a mess. Even the hither to unknown comes out. Diverse intelligence agencies find themselves in front of the following picture: the French in Cogema are in business with the oil magnates, including the Rockefeller group. This name brings immediatley to mind the world’s second largest petrol company: Exxon, a company present in Niger through the activities of the Esso Exploration & Production Niger. Interesting indeed but there’s more, the other partner: the French Elf Aquitaine. The link, according to a number of observers on the banks of the Thames, is of particular interest, espeially due to the fact that a well known member of the Rockefeller family is currently vice president of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The very same adversory of the Bush administration: Senator Jay Rockefeller IV. The very same man who – after having approved the invasion of Iraq – is currently involved in a battle against the White House, the FBI and the Italian Military Intelligence Service SISMI. According to the Senator – and the blogs and newspapers who spread his ideas – Italy should be investigated, Rockefeller makes no mention of the role played by France however. Thus French and American petrol interests (Texaco, Chevron, Mobil, Elf Aquitaine etc.) in Iraq and transversal political ties end up capturing the attention of the analysts. Not only the analysts but also the magistrates.

Who investigated the Oil-for-food scandal alongside Paul Volcker? Miranda Duncan, the niece of David Rockefeller. Duncan resigned from the commission following the polemic brought about by the conflicts of interest between the United Nations and the commission. Duncan, David Rockefeller’s niece, was working in the front line of the investigation. A conspiracy? It’s still too early to say, Volcker (the president of the commission who has a CV full of ties to the Rockefellers) produced the Oil-for-food report on October 27 2005. Critiscism of the way in which the inquiry was conducted has been ferocious. The links between Iraq, petrol, uranium and the war are getting closer by the day but someone – not only in Paris – may well have hidden an important part of the story.

-- ARTICLE ENDS--

[ravingnutter]

See #18 on this thread for Volker's conflicts of interest.

[ravingnutter]

Oh good grief...look what the Dems have done now. I just found this in a search...they apparently just put it up yesterday, according to the moonbat site I unfortunately landed on:

Prepared at the direction of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Iraq on the Record is a searchable collection of 237 specific misleading statements made by Bush Administration officials about the threat posed by Iraq. It contains statements that were misleading based on what was known to the Administration at the time the statements were made.

I'm assuming this is going to be a full scale civil war?

[ravingnutter]

Speaking of the usual suspects...here's a ping to round up the research crew and other interested parties, LOL! Check this one out y'all!

[penelopesire]

From Your link:(thanks)

"Today Wilson claims to be a business agent for “African mining companies.” But Niger’s mines are owned by a French consortium, which operates cheek-by-jowl with the Quai d’Orsay. Niger itself is a semi-colony of France. No uranium sales go on there without the full knowledge and consent of the French government. Valerie Plame was quoted in a CIA memo as saying that “my husband has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts)...” Lots of French contacts, indeed."

Here is what I 'smell': FRANCE was selling Niger uranium to Iraq and Joe Wilson was part of it..knew about it..(probably profitted from it) and was sent there to bait and switch the intelligence community with the help of his wife. I have always believed this was more than a partisan political deal on Wilson's part. He looks like a run of the mill sleazy opportunist! After all, France was up to thier neck in the Oil For Food Fraud..why not the uranium we found all over Iraq as well?

[Peach]

Who investigated the Oil-for-food scandal alongside Paul Volcker? Miranda Duncan, the niece of David Rockefeller. Duncan resigned from the commission following the polemic brought about by the conflicts of interest between the United Nations and the commission. Duncan, David Rockefeller’s niece, was working in the front line of the investigation. A conspiracy?

No wonder Rockefeller was worried about war in Iraq and warned Syria and company.

[Alia]

the French investigation of Niger uranium smuggling was for the purpose of finding the leaks and plugging them.

I see it that way too.

[Ben Hecks]

Bump for later.

[marron]

I believe it was a Mark Huband article in the Financial Times some time back that charged that Libya's uranium had been smuggled off-the-books from Niger. That seems to have dropped down the memory hole.

[Fedora]

Thanks.

[penelopesire]

Sounds familar. France has been arming the enemies of the United States for years. If you locate a link to that article, let us know.

[Alia]

Ancillary data:

U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution Condemning Killing of Hamas Leader Yassin, 03/25/04

snip:

On Wednesday, the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva voted 31-2 to condemn Israel for Yassin's death, but the body has no power to punish countries. A resolution by the Security Council would have carried more international weight. The 11 Security Council members who voted for the measure on Thursday were: China, Russia, France, The Philippines, Angola, Chile, Pakistan, Spain, Algeria, Benin and Brazil. Britain, Germany and Romania abstained from the vote.--end snip

Link no longer found: www.adn.com/24hour/story/1245613p-8299749c.html, entitled: Russia boasts weapon to overcome U.S. Star Wars

snip:

MOSCOW (March 29, 5:17 am AST) - Russia has designed a "revolutionary" weapon that would make the prospective U.S. missile defense useless, Russian news agencies reported Monday, quoting a senior Defense Ministry official. The official, who was not identified by name, said tests conducted during last month's military maneuvers would dramatically change the philosophy behind development of Russia's nuclear forces, the Interfax and ITAR-Tass news agencies reported. If deployed, the new weapon would take the value of any U.S. missile shield to "zero," the news agencies quoted the official as saying.

The official said the new weapon would be inexpensive, providing an "asymmetric answer" to U.S. missile defenses, which are proving extremely costly to develop. Russia, meanwhile, also has continued research in prospective missile defenses and has an edge in some areas compared to other nations, the official said. EU slaps France in the face over lifting Chinese arms ban (China), 04/28/04

--snip:

He [ed: French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier] said the EU was treating China like Zimbabwe, Sudan or Myanmar while cooperating with it on satellite technology.

end snip

Claudia Rossett: Oil-for-Terror: U.N. Iraq money may have ended up in accounts tied to al Qaeda and the Taliban, 04/28/04

snip:

It's looking more and more as if one of the best reasons to get rid of Saddam Hussein was that it was probably the only way to get rid of Oil-for-Food. The problem wasn't simply that this huge United Nations relief program for Iraq became a gala of graft, theft, fraud, palace-building and global influence-peddling--though all that was quite bad enough. The picture now emerging is that under U.N. management the Oil-for-Food program, which ran from 1996-2003, served as a cover not only for Saddam's regime to cheat the Iraqi people, but to set up a vast and intricate global network of illicit finance. In Oil-for-Food, "Every contract tells a story," says John Fawcett, a financial investigator with the New York law firm of Kreindler & Kreindler LLP, which has sued the financial sponsors of Sept. 11 on behalf of the victims and their families. In an interview, Mr. Fawcett and his colleague, Christine Negroni, run down the lists of Oil-for-Food authorized oil buyers and relief suppliers, pointing out likely terrorist connections. One authorized oil buyer, they note, was a remnant of the defunct global criminal bank, BCCI. Another was close to the Taliban while Osama bin Laden was on the rise in Afghanistan; a third was linked to a bank in the Bahamas involved in al Qaeda's financial network; a fourth had a close connection to one of Saddam's would-be nuclear-bomb makers.

--end snip

Link no longer working at Insight.mag, article entitled: "Walker's World: Bush Blair to Talk China"

snip:

The Americans also want to talk about China, and the moves by the European Union to lift the embargo on arms sales to Beijing that was imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre nearly 15 years ago.

The push to lift the EU embargo is being led by French President Jacques Chirac, who sees a glittering opportunity, not just for French arms sales, but for a warm new relationship with Beijing that can lead to even more lucrative deals.

--end snip

Enuf for now.

[freema]

FINALLY!!!!

[freema]

Now, where do Bill & Hill, or Hill & Bill fit in??!!

[penelopesire]

Mark Rich.

[marron]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1161297/posts

Quoting:

The FT has now learnt that three European intelligence services were aware of possible illicit trade in uranium from Niger between 1999 and 2001. Human intelligence gathered in Italy and Africa more than three years before the Iraq war had shown Niger officials referring to possible illicit uranium deals with at least five countries, including Iraq.

This intelligence provided clues about plans by Libya and Iran to develop their undeclared nuclear programmes. Niger officials were also discussing sales to North Korea and China of uranium ore or the "yellow cake" refined from it: the raw materials that can be progressively enriched to make nuclear bombs.

The raw intelligence on the negotiations included indications that Libya was investing in Niger's uranium industry to prop it up at a time when demand had fallen, and that sales to Iraq were just a part of the clandestine export plan. These secret exports would allow countries with undeclared nuclear programmes to build up uranium stockpiles.

One nuclear counter-proliferation expert told the FT: "If I am going to make a bomb, I am not going to use the uranium that I have declared. I am going to use what I acquire clandestinely, if I am going to keep the programme hidden."

This may have been the method being used by Libya before it agreed last December to abandon its secret nuclear programme. According to the IAEA, there are 2,600 tonnes of refined uranium ore - "yellow cake" - in Libya. However, less than 1,500 tonnes of it is accounted for in Niger records, even though Niger was Libya's main supplier.

[bert]

bingo...

[penelopesire]

wow..FROM YOUR LINK:

"However, European intelligence officers have now revealed that three years before the fake documents became public, human and electronic intelligence sources from a number of countries picked up repeated discussion of an illicit trade in uranium from Niger. One of the customers discussed by the traders was Iraq.

These intelligence officials now say the forged documents appear to have been part of a "scam", and the actual intelligence showing discussion of uranium supply has been ignored."

LIKE I SAID..IT WAS A BAIT AND SWITCH DONE BY JOE WILSON! Get everyone looking at the 'forged' documents, while folks like Sandy Berger stuff the REAL ones down their pants...lol

[Fred Nerks]

with friends like these who needs enemies?

[Alia]

This one's from Frontpagemag.org:

Saddam Tried to Buy Uranium, 06/28/04

snips:

Illicit sales of uranium from Niger were being negotiated with five states including Iraq at least three years before the US-led invasion, senior European intelligence officials have told the Financial Times.

Intelligence officers learned between 1999 and 2001 that uranium smugglers planned to sell illicitly mined Nigerien uranium ore, or refined ore called yellow cake, to Iran, Libya, China, North Korea and Iraq.

Of course, there's also Christopher Hitchens: Rove Rage: The poverty of our current scandal, 07/18/05

snip:

The third bogus element in Wilson's boastful story is the claim that Niger's "yellowcake" uranium was never a subject of any interest to Saddam Hussein's agents. The British intelligence report on this, which does not lack criticism of the Blair government, finds the Niger connection to be among the most credible of the assertions made about Saddam's double-dealing. If you care to consult the Financial Times of June 28, 2004, and see the front-page report by its national security correspondent Mark Huband, you will be able to review the evidence that Niger—with whose ministers Mr. Wilson had such "good relations"—was trying to deal in yellowcake with North Korea and Libya as well as Iraq and Iran. This evidence is by no means refuted or contradicted by a forged or faked Italian document saying the same thing. It was a useful axiom of the late I.F. Stone that few people are so foolish as to counterfeit a bankrupt currency.

--end snip

[penelopesire]

Thanks for the links. Going in the Freeper Keeper file.