Posted on 03/04/2009 3:09:45 PM PST by patriotmediaa
Obama intel chief violating Iran sanctions? Board member of Chinese government-owned company in deal with Tehran Charles "Chas" Freeman JERUSALEM – President Obama's nominee for a top intelligence post sits on the board of a major oil company owned by the Chinese government that is in the midst of a multibillion dollar deal with Iran which may violate U.S. sanctions,
WND has learned. The oil company is widely seen as conducting business deals meant to expand China's influence worldwide. One of its recent attempts to purchase a large U.S. oil firm drew bipartisan congressional opposition amid fears the deal would harm American national security interests.
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if you don’t have a conflict, you ain’t qualified.
NOoooooooooooo.........another crooked appointee? I can’t believe it.
Baker, Mohammad's second son, succeeded Salem at the head of the firm, which has since extended its reach to several Arab countries and employs tens of thousands of people. The Bin Laden family disowned Osama after he was stripped of his Saudi citizenship in 1994 for suspected terrorist activities and criticism of the Al Saud ruling family.
One sign of the Saudi authorities' confidence in the Bin Laden group came in 1998 when it built a $150 million facility in al- Kharj, south of Riyadh, for some 4,300 American troops based in the kingdom.
"We have nothing to do with him (Osama)," a family member recently told AFP, requesting anonymity.
In an attempt to avoid any association with the suspected terror mastermind, one of the Bin Laden group's subsidiaries changed its name in 1999, from Bin Laden Telecommunications to Baud Telecommunications Company (BTC). Source
Always saddled with the name Bin Laden.
President Barack Hussein Obama..once the name Hussein was off limits.
The Chinese will continue to be strange bedfellows.
31 C.F.R. Part 560 (Iranian Transactions Regulations)...Our company just pulled out of a diesel contract (Monday of this week) because one of the priciples has an office in Tehran (Product was Russian and the principle seller was Japanese but has a iranian partner.) The US State Department, US Commerce Department and the US Treasury all stated the transaction would be illegal and subject to prosecution with both civil and criminal charges. 20 years in federal prison didn’t sound too appealing.
This bozo has more than a financial conflict of interest. When he sits on the board of a foreign owned company, especially when it is a company owned by the Chinese government, he has a national loyalty conflict of interest.
I do not want this puke anywhere near national security information.
Missiles sold to China and Iran
WASHINGTON TIMES | April 6, 2005
By Bill Gertz
Members of Ukraine’s intelligence service and two Russians took part in an elaborate plan to sell 20 long-range cruise missiles to China and Iran, according to a Ukrainian government official.
Details of the transfer are outlined in a letter from Hrihory Omelchenko, deputy chairman of the Ukrainian parliamentary committee on organized crime and corruption, to the country’s new president, Viktor Yushchenko.
The Jan. 28 letter states that an investigation into the transfer of the Kh-55 air-launched cruise missiles is being thwarted by former officials of the government of former President Leonid Kuchma.
“These cruise missiles were hidden on military depots of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry under the control of [the Defense Ministry] and under documentation signed by senior officials of the ministry, saying they were in fact designated as destroyed,” stated the letter, which was first reported on by the Associated Press in February.
Mr. Yushchenko, who will address a joint session of the U.S. Congress today, promised to investigate the sales. Ukraine’s prosecutor-general last month said missiles were smuggled out of the country, which has led to indictments.
According to the letter, the Kh-55 missile deal began in 2000, when the two Russians connected to a foreign trade company known as Progress provided a false contract for the Russian state arms-export company Rosvoorouzhenie to buy 20 cruise missiles.
One of the Russians gave the false contract to the Ukrainian export company UkrSpetzExport .
Six missiles were sent by aircraft to China in April 2000 with the help of the two Russians and a reserve officer of the Ukrainian intelligence service who headed the Ukrazviazakaz company in Kiev.
The Russians were paid $600,000 to transport the missiles through several front companies, including firms in the United States, Cyprus and Hungary.
The Iranian side of the missile deal took place from May to June 2001, when six Kh-55 missiles were sent by aircraft to Iran.
Mr. Omelchenko did not say in the letter where the remaining eight missiles were sent.
The Iranians paid $49.5 million for the missiles and the shipment was disguised using forged documents that identified the shipments as oil-pipeline material.
Three persons involved in the missile deal died in automobile accidents, according to the letter.
One of the Russians involved in the deal, O.H. Orlov, is being detained in the Czech Republic and the second Russian, E.V. Shelenko, is being sought, the letter said.
I would not be a bit surprised if the IDF was making plans to take out the president of the united states in an untraceable way
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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