bttt and bookmarking for future reference.
I don't think Sandy Berger was just after the Millennium Plot after-action report to get rid of a few notes. I think there's more to it.
I have a feeling this late 1990s diamond trading / terrorist funding has a lot to do with what Berger was helping to cover up or plant or both and may explain why the Africa uranium thing ] was such a big hairy deal to Kerry's OTHER staffer Joe Wilson, who as it happens is also involved in mine consulting and who is associated with the alAmoudi clan.
[Don't forget, Sandy Berger was also a Kerry campaign staffer.] Wilson and the press made the issue all about "Niger" when the administration had only said "Africa." I suspect it may be that these diamond traders were also pursuing cobalt-rich Zaire/Congo's uranium... diamonds can be found in the tailings of these mines and Iraq did send an entourage to Congo.
I wonder why this company AMF- and its founder- Frenchman? Belgian? - set up shop out of Hope, Arkansas? Remember this trip from Wilson's resume? I think it's the one Louisiana's icebox cash congressman was on:
MARCH 1998 : (JESSE JACKSON SPEARHEADS CLINTON'S AFRICA TRIP - [SEE JOE WILSON/PLAME/NIGERFLAP]) As special envoy for democracy and human rights in Africa, starting in October 1997, Jackson was President Bill Clinton's point man for Africa. It was Jackson who spearheaded Clinton's 10-day African safari in March 1998, at a cost to taxpayers of $42.8 million. And it was Jackson who legitimated Liberian strongman Charles Taylor and his protégé, the machete-wielding militia leader in neighboring Sierra Leone, Cpl. Foday Sankoh. Without Jackson's active intervention, both leaders were headed toward international isolation and sanction. Thanks to Jackson, both retained power to murder another day. At Jackson's prompting, Clinton made an unprecedented phone call to Taylor from Air Force One while flying over Africa. Until then the United States had shunned Taylor because of his grisly past. Among Taylor's many "accomplishments" were the murder of American Catholic nuns in Liberia and the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia. The mainstream media has resolutely ignored Jackson's involvement in the diamond wars of Liberia and Sierra Leone, and he never has been hauled before a congressional committee to account for this behavior [see Kenneth R. Timmerman's New York Times best seller, Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson (Regnery Publishing, March 2002)]. -----"Jesse, Liberia and Blood Diamonds," By Kenneth R. Timmerman, Insight Magazine | July 25, 2003
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Timmerman also describes the blood on Jackson’s hands from his forays into the bloodbaths of Liberia and Sierra Leone in the late 1990s. Betraying startling naiveté, Jackson befriended Liberian strongman Charles Taylor, who provoked a civil war that claimed more than 200,000 lives and who encouraged his armed thugs to murder and mutilate at random. Foday Sankoh, unspeakable butcher and friend of Taylor, benefited from Jackson’s brazen interference in Sierra Leone—that country’s finance minister accused Jackson of "kidnapping" President Kabbah to force him to negotiate with Sankoh—and became head of Sierra Leone’s lucrative diamond industry. Taylor and Sankoh were soon killing again—their victims included U.N. peacekeepers—and reaping nine-figure diamond windfalls. Assessing Jackson’s record in West Africa, African journalist Tom Kamara wrote that "Jackson is considered a civil rights leader in America, but in Africa he is a killers’ rights leader." Predictably, Jackson only feigned accepting responsibility for his errors and faced little U.S. criticism for his part in another African tale of woe.-------- "Jesse Jackson Exposed," by Chris Arabia, FrontPageMagazine.com | December 9, 2002