[Reactionary]

You may be interested to know that the French have uranium mines in Gabon. COGEMA is partly owned by the French government. Also, COMUF - a subsidary of COGEMA - was involved with dumping tons of uranium filings in local rivers.

[Reactionary]

http://www.wise-uranium.org/udec.html#GA

[ravingnutter]

Yes, I am aware of that and was actually doing some research on it today, they ceased operations in Gabon in 1999. Omar Bongo was also into money laundering with Citibank:

The report said Citigroup has moved more than $130m through Mr Bongo's accounts since 1985, and some of the funds may have come from Gabon's public treasury.

BBC

Nice people Joey hangs around with...