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

Original FReeper research | 10/25/2004 | Fedora

[Diddle E. Squat]

Time for another bump.

[Tunehead54]

Only 42 footnotes - I never make up my mind til I have at least 60 footnotes! Hard work bump and for reading tomorrow! ;-)

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[Freedom of Speech Wins]

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[angelsonmyside]

DANG... thanks for all the work you put into this.

[PilloryHillary]

DANG! Good work! Bump and a bookmark!

[Eva]

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[Fedora]

Now, read the rest of it. Then come back and tell me that the real target of the investigation isn't someone inside the CIA, close to Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson.

I agree the investigation points in that direction, towards someone I'll call "A. F.riend" of Plame and Wilson's. From there I think it points towards a whole group from CIA, State, and other departments that need to be investigated. There is a pretty strong correlation between personnel involved in the Clinton CIA's Near Eastern Division Iraq operations and current opposition to Bush's Iraq policy, IMO.

I had some help from a few other FReepers on the research.

[Fedora]

Only 42 footnotes - I never make up my mind til I have at least 60 footnotes!

I admit, I got lazy :-)

[arasina]

Impressive research, Fedora. It's like one big incestuous family tree of intrigue. Whenever there's this much power and money involved, you can always do an easy 6 degrees of separation from (not Kevin Bacon) the Clintons.

It Takes A World (to satisfy both of their lusts)

[Shaka]

Great stuff.

[MamaLucci]

Bump your #67. Good analysis, you two.

[michaelt]

Awesome job bump.

[Eva]

Do you know if there is a connection between Al Amoudi or his buddies and that Muslim organization was warned by Miller and her friend that Homeland Security was going to raid the?

[Shaka]

Ping.

[Lx]

That was a good read. Great research. Wilson sure has a lot of friends in interesting places.

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[Eva]

I have been doing a little research on Hagel and what I am finding out is that Elias Aburdene, Alamoudi's guy at Rock Creek is the money behind both Wilson and Hagel. Hagel is every bit as dirty as Wilson.

[Fedora]

Whenever there's this much power and money involved, you can always do an easy 6 degrees of separation from (not Kevin Bacon) the Clintons.

If were to focus on degrees of separation from Clinton, I'd probably start with Marc Rich's tie to Oil-for-Food and see where that leads.

[Eva]

Just one Minute (a blog)
Posted by: The Kid | October 10, 2004 09:07 PM

Is it possible that Fitzgerald has moved past the Plame outing into something more serious?

Everyone assumes that Plame nominated her husband for the non-paying Niger trip out of dull domestic motives. It is further assumed that he misrepresented his findings because he's a politically motivated horse's ass. What if those assumptions are wrong?

The Niger documents found in Italy were forgeries. The forger says he created them for French Intelligence, with the expectation that they would be exposed and thus damage the Saddam/yellowcake link. In other words, the French - possibly with the connivance of others - ran a counterintelligence operation against the United States.

Joe Wilson's credentials for the Niger trip were weak. He was not an investigator. But because he was sent, a professional investigator was not. When his findings were ignored, he went public via the New York Times - with a claim that is now known to be false. Just as false as those Italian forgeries, in a distinctly similar way, with distinctly similar intent.

Wilson was not paid for the Niger trip but he does receive a paycheck from Arab sources. It would be easy to hide a payoff in plain sight. Has Fitzgerald found something suspicious? Is it possible that Wilson and his wife were part of the same operation that created the Italian forgeries?

[Eva]

Another post on this same blog, Just One Minute (Who are these people, they are very informed.

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...Actually , the real target of New Republic is probably the money man behind Joe Wilson --
Elias Aburdene.

I posted the following over on Roger L Simon's blog back in Oct 2003 (See http://rogerlsimon.com/archives/00000404.htm
and scan for my name )

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1) If I understand him correctly, Roger has indicated that he thinks this is a war between the CIA and White House. I think it is a war between the Saudi advocates and the Neocon Likud advocates....
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On the other side:

1) The news media keeps listing Joseph C
Wilson as "CEO of JC Wilson International Ventures"

Their ignorance is hilarious. As of May 2003, Joseph Wilson's email address was
joewilson@rockcreekcorp.com
(See the May 2003 symposium on Africa at www.sahel-club.org/doc/conflict_sem0305_en.doc )

2) Mr Wilson's affiliation at several recent foreign policy conferences was listed as Rock Creek Corp. See ,e.g.,
http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/forums_chcs/30.asp
and
http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/forums_chcs/30.asp
(Search for "Wilson" --e.g Iraqi Town Hall seminar on April 2003

3) If you look at Saudi Net's list of firms doing business in Saudi Arabia, you see Rock Creek Corporation--
see http://www.the-saudi.net/business-center/links-usa.htm

4) According to the Center for Contempory Arab Studies, a member of their Board is the President of Rock Creek Corporation --Mr Elias Aburdene . see
http://www.ccasonline.org/events/Board.htm

5) Rock Creek Corporation is what is tactfully called a "private equity firm" See
http://www.cohengroup.net/team-amb.html

6) An October 1996 article in the Washington Business Journal notes re Mr Elias Aburdene:
"Franklin National Bank in Washington has hired the former head of Palmer National Bank's international private banking unit, in an effort to attract deposits from well-heeled foreign investors.

Since opening Sept. 1, Franklin's new international private banking division has garnered about 50 customers and $15 million in deposits. Elias Aburdene, advisor to the division, headed a similar department for five years at Palmer, which became a subsidiary of George Mason Bankshares in May.

Franklin, with $450 million in assets, has started a foreign exchange operation to accommodate the new business. But mostly, Aburdene said, international private banking means plain-vanilla services like checking, delivered with personal service.

"They [international clients] are looking for intangibles -- discretion, confidentiality, competence," Aburdene said. Clients also like to have access to top executives at the bank, giving smaller institutions like Franklin an edge, he added. "

Who the "well-heeled foreign investors" are and the nature of the "intangibles" they want is left as an exercise for the reader.

7) However, the name "Palmer National Bank" of Washington DC should make any spooks out there grin knowingly.
See http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/S&L_Scandal_CIA.html
and search for "Palmer".

It certainly seems as if
Mr Wilson's boss has ..er.. been around the track a few times. Certainly enough times to know how to poke the Likud Neocons in the butt with a very sharp stick.

Posted by Don Williams @ 10/01/2003 11:20 AM PST

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