What's this mean? Vockler and Rockafella coverup?
I read today the only UN official fired because of the Oil for Food scandal was re-hired.
It is plain to me that the French investigation of Niger uranium smuggling was for the purpose of finding the leaks and plugging them.
Looks to me as though Jay has some 'splainin to do about all this stuff !! Let's watch him have a meltdown like he did with C. Wallace last Sunday on the t.v.
Where does Wilson fit in that matrix? He's gotta be there somewhere.
Of course they did...they initiated the investigation that ultimately led to the forgeries. From a recent post of mine:
The Niger forgery caper began as the result of an investigation by the French into illicit uranium mining and smuggling in 1999 - 2001. Not to defend that scumbag Wilson, but the people he spoke to may not have known about that and probably wouldn't tell him if they did:
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.Once the forgeries were discovered, everything else was discounted even if it was true.Information gathered in 1999-2001 suggested that the uranium sold illicitly would be extracted from mines in Niger that had been abandoned as uneconomic by the two French-owned mining companies-Cominak and Somair, both of which are owned by the mining giant Cogema-operating in Niger.
"Mines can be abandoned by Cogema when they become unproductive. This doesn't mean that people near the mines can't keep on extracting," a senior European counter-proliferation official said.
Good stuff - don't you hate it when apps won't let you spell stuff the way you want and give you the red squigglies?
Lest we forget, the Canadian PM's relative (son-in-law I think) sat on the board of directors for Total Fina Elf, the largest French-owned oil producer in Iraq.
Who investigated the Oil-for-food scandal alongside Paul Volcker? Miranda Duncan, the niece of David Rockefeller.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.
U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution Condemning Killing of Hamas Leader Yassin, 03/25/04
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Link no longer working at Insight.mag, article entitled: "Walker's World: Bush Blair to Talk China"
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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.
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Enuf for now.
with friends like these who needs enemies?
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Great thread!! Bookmarked. Thanks.
How apropos is the word apropos :)
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